Word Finder - cooking

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To prepare (food) for eating by heating it, often by combining it with other ingredients.

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I'm cooking bangers and mash.

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To prepare (unspecified) food for eating by heating it, often by combining it with other ingredients.

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He's in the kitchen, cooking.

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To be cooked.

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The dinner is cooking on the stove.

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To be uncomfortably hot.

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Look at that poor dog shut up in that car on a day like today - it must be cooking in there.

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To execute by electric chair.

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To hold onto (a grenade) briefly after igniting the fuse, so that it explodes almost immediately after being thrown.

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To concoct or prepare.

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To tamper with or alter; to cook up.

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To play or improvise in an inspired and rhythmically exciting way. (From 1930s jive talk.)

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Crank up the Coltrane and start cooking!

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To play music vigorously.

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On the Wagner piece, the orchestra was cooking!

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To make the noise of the cuckoo.

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To throw.

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The process of preparing food by using heat.

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An instance of preparing food by using heat.

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The result of preparing food by using heat.

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In progress, happening.

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The project took a few days to gain momentum, but by the end of the week, things were really cooking.

I enjoy your cooking, sweetheart.

It was going to be delightful cooking in this kitchen.

I do not have much cooking experience.

They could do their own cooking, even though it wouldn't be as nice.

Cynthia gave them both a cautious look but after explaining in detail what needed to be done, she agreed to let the surrogate cooking team give it a try.

Are you cooking supper?

The "potash" finds a ready sale among the Yorubas, being largely used for cooking purposes.

If he had his way, cooking meat would have been a crime.

There are still too many shit heads out there that think a woman is only for cooking and you-know-what.

The scents of fresh bread and some sort of meat cooking nearly nailed her to the ground as she rounded the corner.

From what I read, the cooking show was an accident.

In small stoves for warming and for cooking, petroleum presents some advantages over other fuels, in that there is no chimney to sweep, and if well managed no unpleasant fumes, and the stoves are easily portable.

Cooking schools and night schools are carried on by the institute in the town of Tuskegee.

He has a cooking show, too.

And I'll start cooking lean and mean Dean specials.

Camping equipment would be fine for her meager cooking needs.

By the time she finished cooking supper for them, it was later than she had planned.

They are bold and skilful sailors and fishermen; other trades, as boat and house building, carving, cooking, net and mat making, are usually hereditary.

It is found that in reducing the juice of these two qualities to syrup, fit to pass to the vacuum pans for cooking to crystals, the total amount of evaporation from the degraded j uice is about half that required from the normal juice produced by double crushing.

It is of course presupposed that the juice has been properly defecated, because without this no amount of skill and knowledge in cooking in the pan will avail; the sugar resulting must be bad, either in colour or grain, or both, and certainly in polarizing power.

There is as much secrecy about the cooking as if he had a design to poison you.

Well, if my cooking is that bad...

As he began to ramble on about Mrs. Langstrom's cooking, Mrs. Lincoln jumped down and stood on hind legs, stretching up the young man's pant leg.

Deidre rolled her eyes without answering and went back to cooking her breakfast.

The term "herb" is also used of those herbaceous plants, which possess certain properties, and are used for medicinal purposes, for flavouring or garnishing in cooking, and also for perfumes.

Owing to the slender resources of the Confederacy, the prison was frequently short of food, and even when this was sufficient in quantity it was of a poor quality and poorly prepared on account of the lack of cooking utensils.

The child establishes his identity by recognizing the cooking utensils, &c., of the late Dharm raja; he is then trained in a monastery, and on attaining his majority is recognized as raja, though he exercises no more real authority in his majority than he did in his infancy.

I guess because I like cooking.

Maybe Pete didn't like your cooking.

Thanks for the help, guys, but I agreed to take care of my team and the cooking when I signed on.

I miss her cooking.

You should have seen us out here cooking steaks in our mit­tens.

Drawing water from a well and cooking on a wood stove would be inconvenient, but how complicated could it be?

Don't you miss home cooking?

Cottolene (with beef stearin, cooking oil).

Having no metal or other vessels in which to boil water, all cooking is done by baking, generally in holes in the ground.

Pottery is made in almost every village, from the small vessels required in cooking to the large jars used for storing grain and occasionally as floats to ferry persons across a swollen stream.

Reverend Humphries called me a cab after an early pancake breakfast he insisted on cooking.

I gave him a general overview and he picked the times, unless something hot was cooking.

Alex, I enjoy cooking.

The first of the three fires laid down is the garhapatya, or householder's fire, so called because, though not taken from his ordinary house-fire, but as a rule specially produced by friction, it serves for cooking the sacrificial food, and thus, as it were, represents the domestic fire.

A common conversion while cooking is deciding how many ounces are in a cup.

But there is no doubt that, whatever may be the view taken as to the extreme theory of vegetarianism, it has had considerable effect in modifying the excessive meat-consuming regime of previous days, and in introducing new varieties of vegetable cooking into the service of the table.

The syrup is used chiefly as a substitute for jam or preserved fruits, and the sugar is used in country homes for sweetening, for cooking purposes and for the making of confectionery.

The native dwellings are constructed of wood, or occasionally are huts thatched with grass at the sides and top. What little cooking is undertaken among the poorer natives is usually done outside.

The oven consists of a hole in the ground in which a fire is lighted and stones made hot; and the fire having been removed, the food is wrapped up in leaves and placed in the hole beside the hot stones and covered up until ready; or else, as is now more common, the cooking is done in an old kerosene-oil can over a fire.

To the general public it appeals most strongly as a material for constructing cooking utensils.

The shea-butter tree supplies an excellent oil for lamps, and also for cooking, though it is only used by the poorer classes.

From railroad making to cooking he has proved his abilities and trustworthiness.

Previous to this (in 1629) Parkinson, the friend and associate of Johnson, had published his Paradisus, in which (p. 517) he gives an indifferent figure of the potato under the name of Papas seu Battatas Virginianorum, and adds details as to the method of cooking the tubers which seem to indicate that they were still luxuries.