THE ABC’S OF FoodTHE ABC’S OF Food

A: Apple

• The usually round red or yellow edible fruit.

• I ate a red apple for lunch.

• A apple is healthy, it has different colors, apples grow from trees.

B: Banana

• A tropical plant of the genus musa.

• I found a banana at the grocery store.

• Monkeys love bananas, they are yellow, they sometimes can be small.

C: Carrot

• The nutritious orange or yellow root of this plant , eaten raw or cooked.

• My neighbor grows carrots and sales them.

• Carrots are orange, it can be made in a stew, carrots are also healthy.

D: Dumplings

• A rounded mass of steamed and seasoned dough often served in a soup or with meat in a stew

• They had chicken and dumplings at the restaurant.

• Dumplings are cooked balls of dough, they are based on flour potatoes and matzoh meal, may include meat fish or sweets.

E: Eggs

• The roundish reproductive body produced by a female of a certain animals.

• I bought some eggs at the store.

• Eggs takes 79 days to hatch, A fresh egg will sink in water a stale one will float, If you spin a egg and it wobbles its raw.

F: Fish

• The flesh of fishes used as food.

• We ate trout last night and it was very good fish.

• Fish are a highly diverse group of vertebrates, the earliest known fish were the ostracoderms, fish have been on the earth for about 450 million years.

G: Green Beans

• The immature green pod of the kidney bean, eaten as a vegetable.

• You should eat your green beans because they are healthy for you.

• Green beans originated from north and south America, the most popular type of green bean is the string bean, green beans are the easiest vegetable to grow.

H: Ham

• A cut of meat from a hogs rear or the hogs hind leg.

• Ham is good in salad and with other food.

• Ham comes from the old English hamm, caned hams came to America in 1926, country ham came into print in 1944.

I: Ice cream

• A frozen food containing cream or milk and butterfat, sugar, flavoring, and sometimes eggs.

• Ice cream is good in the summer.

• It takes about 50 licks to lick away a scoop of ice cream, of all the days of the week the most ice cream is bought on Sunday, kids aged 2-12 and adults over 45 eat the most ice cream.

J: Jalapeno

• A hot green or orange pepper used in Mexican cooking.

• My mom made food that had jalapeno peppers in it.

• Jalapenos were the first pepper taken into space, jalapenos originated in central America, in Mexico jalapenos are called cuaresmenos.

K: Kabobs

• Small pieces of food on a short or long stick.

• Kabobs are good when chefs makes them.

• There are 176 calories in one kabob, the word kabob comes from the turkish word kebob, kabobs originated from turkey.

L: Lime

• The yellowish acid fruit of a subtropical citrus tree.

• I put a lime in my tea.

• Limes are frequently used in perfumes, limes are also used in several beer brands, limes have smooth skins,.

M: Meatballs

• A small ball of ground meat

• We had meatballs.

• They are typically made of ground beef, meatballs are made with spices, meatballs are a stable food around the world.

N: Nachos

• Tortilla chips topped with meat, cheese, tomatoes, and peppers.

• Nachos are good when there are certain stuff on them.

• Nachos are loved by 98% of people around the world, they are always served at sport games, nachos were invented in 1943.

O: Orange

• A bitter sweet , edible citrus fruit.

• I like oranges.

• Oranges were found in Wakashimba, oranges comes from the Latin word Orangakdierkl, oranges are good and healthy.

P: Pancake

• A thin flat cake of batter fried on both sides, usually served with syrup.

• I had pancakes this morning.

• Pancakes have been around longer than you and I have, the biggest pancake weighed 3 tons and had 2 million calories, some people make a wish when the pancake is flipped.

Q: Quail

• A small migratory game bird.

• Quail is easy to hunt when you got the right gun.

• Quail live in North A, some quails have a feather on there head called a bobble, quails nest in weedy areas.

R: Raita

• An Indian dish of finely chopped cucumber, peppers, mint, etc.

• Raita is a weird name for a dish.

• Raita can be used as a dip, it can also be used as a side dish, it is seasoned with herbs and spices.

S: Spaghetti

• A white, starchy pasta of the Italian origin.

• I like my moms spaghetti.

• The etruscants made spaghetti as early as 400 B.C. , Christopher Columbus was born during national pasta month, the first pasta factory was in Brooklyn, New York.

T: Taco

• An often crisply fried tortilla folded over and filled with meat, lettuce, tomatoes, etc.

• I like tacos with certain things on them.

• The word taco describes a typical mexican dish of maize, the first taco was eaten during a european feast, bernal diaz del castillo made the taco.

U: Ugli

• A large , sweet variety of tangelo of Jamaican origin.

• I want to try a ugli.

• Despite the weird skin the ugli is easy to peel, some eating places order the fruit as a ingredient, the fruit also has good juice.

V: Veal

• A calf raised for its meat.

• Veal is good.

• Calfs are taken away from their mothers when they are a couple days old, they are slaughterd when they are 14 or 16, they give the cows growth hormones.

W: Watermelon

• The large roundish or elongated fruit of a trailing vine.

• I love watermelons in the summer.

• Watermelons can weigh from 18 to 30 pounds, the colors can be PINK to dark red, they have about 120 calories.

X: Xylocarp

• A fruit, such as a coconut, having a hard wooden pericarp.

• Xylocarp is hard like a coconut.

• It is hard, it has a unusaul name, it is green.

Y: Yam

• The starchy tuberous root of any various climbing vines.

• I hate yams.

• Americans use the word yam to refer to a sweet moist orange potato, to everyone else in the world a yam is what americans call a tropical yam, wild yam is a herbal product.

Z: Zucchini

• A varitey of summer squash that is shaped like a cucumber.

• I think zucchini is alright.

• The zucchini plant is also edible, the worlds largest zucchini was 69 ½, a zucchini has more pottasium than a banana.