Blend: Combine ingredients until smooth and uniform in flavor, texture, and color.

Boil: Cook food in a liquid and get it hot enough so there are bubbles rising all over and breaking at the surface.

Carve: 1. Cut or slice cooked meat, poultry, fish, or game, into serving-sized pieces. 2. Cut a design into PZ Kut or other carving rubber to form a stamp.

Chop: Even smaller than diced, and don’t worry about what shape it is.

Chop Finely: Smaller than “chop”.

Cream: Mash the sugars and butter or shortening together with a mixer or the back of a spoon. The idea is to add air to the mixture, and make the other ingredients mix in better.

Cube: Cut into square pieces approximately 1/2” on each side.

Dice: Cut into square pieces approximately 1/4 - 1/8” on each side.

Fold: Gently stir ingredients together with a rubber spatula so the whipped ingredient doesn’t collapse.

Full Boil: See “Rolling Boil”.

Mince: About the same as “chop finely”.

Mix: Stir ingredients together until they are thoroughly combined.

Pare: Peel the skin off a fruit or vegetable.

Puree: Process or mash a food until it is as smooth as possible; turn it into baby food, basically.

Rolling Boil: Boiling fast enough that the bubbles don’t go away when you stir it.

Sautee: Cook same size pieces of food in a little oil in the bottom of an uncovered frying pan, with fairly high heat.

Sift: Put the ingredients through a sifter to remove lumps and add air.

Simmer: Cook food in liquid as hot as you can get it without it actually boiling. There may be a few small, random bubbles.

Slice: 1. Cut food into flat, thin pieces. 2. Miss the PZ Kut while carving, and cut your finger.