Writing Prompt Wednesday: Creative Recipes
Write a creative recipe for something! What are the “ingredients” in your life that make you you? What are the “ingredients” that make something you love amazing or special? Create your own recipe!
Once you’ve chosen a topic for your recipe, start by choosing at least six ingredients. Then use cooking verbs to write an explanatory sentence for each ingredient, which you’ll use for the “Directions” section of your recipe.
In the example poem below, cooking verbs are in bold. Use these same verbs or look up other recipes to incorporate cooking language into your recipe.
Recipe for Basketball Bliss
Ingredients:
Basketball signed by Stephen Curry
Teammates with heads that can turn 360 degrees.
Lightning-laced sneakers
Velvet springs inside that help you dunk
Basketball jerseys that smell like rotten eggs
Nose plugs for just your team
Crowd of super-fans
Half-time show with Beyoncé and Jay-ZDirections:
For a game of pure basketball bliss, do the following steps. First, sauté a basketball signed by Stephen Curry and sprinkle in teammates with heads that turn 360 degrees. This way, your teammates will always see you’re open. Next, fold in lightning-laced sneakers. On a fast break, you’ll sprint down the court so quickly that the audience will get whiplash from watching you. Toss in velvet springs inside your sneakers. How else will you dunk even though you’re only 5’7”? Stir in basketball jerseys that smell like rotten eggs. Your opponents will never dare to get close enough you to guard you. Blend in nose plugs for your team. Sprinkle in a crowd of super-fans. They will roar like lions each time you score. Mix in a half-time show with Beyonce and Jay-Z and bake everything at 350 degrees.
Need some ideas? You could write a recipe for peace, for happiness, for a fantastic year, for the best day ever, for the perfect birthday, for the most wonderful school trip, most amazing brother, or something completely different!
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