How to cook hamburgers

It’s picnic time! Since the weather is so nice these days, people really enjoy cooking and eating outdoors. One popular food choice for Americans and Canadians, as well as other nationalities, is the hamburger. Cooking hamburgers outdoors is not difficult if you follow these directions.

Start by putting charcoal on an outdoor grill that is barbecue. Wet the charcoal thoroughly with lighter fluid. Next, light a match and ignite the coals. Don’t burn yourself! After starting the fire, wait about thirty minutes until the coals begin to turn gray. Then, put the raw hamburger patties on the grill and sprinkle them with salt and pepper to give them more flavour. Turn the hamburgers over after about ten minutes. Last, cook them for another ten minutes.

In summary, it is not difficult to cook hamburgers if you follow these steps. You will love the taste of your barbecued burgers!

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How to make machbous

Machboos is an Arabic food that Arab people prefer especially at lunch usually. There are a lot of steps you have to follow to make delicious machbous and you have to be careful.

Firstly, you have to buy the ingredients like meat, vegetables, spices, rice, tomatoes, salt and dried lemon. Then, while you boil the meat in the water, you can cut and prepare the vegetables and tomatoes to save time. After that, remove the fat from the boiling water. Next, add salt, vegetables and spices to the meat until it is tender. After that, take out the meat and add the rice to the boiling water to gain color. Then, return the meat again to the water and keep it with the rice for 30-40mins until it is ready. Finally, you can serve the machbous and you can design it by putting some dried lemons on the rice.

As you can see from the steps above, making machbous is not easy; you have to be careful when you put the spices and the time also is important to make perfect machbous.

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Synonyms

1. Nation country

2. so far until now

3. Initially at first

4. Deadline time limit

5. Stop cease

6. Around in the region of

7. Benefit plus

8. Currently presently

9. Happens occurs

10. get off alight

How to make butter by hand

Making butter is not easy because there are a lot of steps you need to follow carefully to make good butter and of course if you do the steps correctly you will make high-quality butter.

Firstly, check the fresh milk to make sure of the quality and fat content. Then, leave the milk till it is cool and separate the cream from it and churn it smoothly. After that, drain the buttermilk from the butter and be sure to drain it correctly and put the butter in a jar. Next, take it out and clean it using cold water to remove the remaining buttermilk. After that, just add some salt to give it a nice flavour; then cut the butter and wrap it tightly. Finally, put the butter in a fridge to keep it cold.

As you can see from the steps above, it’s not easy to make butter by hand. There are a lot of steps you have to follow carefully to get high-quality butter.

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A Plane Story

I still remember that terrible event which happened three years ago. On that day at 5 pm I was stuck in a huge traffic jam on the main Abu Dhabi – Dubai road. I was really bored so I was looking around at everything.

As I was staring at the sky, I saw a plane coming out of the thick clouds and it was getting closer to the ground. After a few seconds all the people on the street saw what was happening, so I and a few other drivers got out of our cars and started to shout at everyone to clear their cars from the highway. Most of them rushed away from the road and screamed. In all this mess I looked up and noticed that something was wrong with one of the plane’s engines and it was on fire. In approximately five minutes several ambulances, policemen and fire brigades were on the scene preparing for the inevitable. The plane was a few seconds away from crashing on to the main road. The pilot activated the landing gear, but the plane was travelling too fast, so the landing gear collapsed. When that happened the plane burst into flames. All I could see were clouds of black smoke and the sound of huge explosions. I was shocked staring at the flames, when someone from the police woke me up and I offered to help them rescuing the passengers. There I found that the plane doors had opened and the people started to come out from the plane. I started to take the passengers to the ambulances and I helped them as best as I could. After saving most of the passengers, the police abandoned the plane. A few minutes later, the plane disappeared in a burst of flames.

After the accident, the police investigated about the cause of the problem and they found that the accident had been caused by a little mouse that had got into the plane and cut the engine wires. I felt really sorry because 53 passengers had died but I was also happy that the remaining 200 passengers had lived. This awful event really taught me the value of human life.

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