Baked Spaghetti I Can Cook

# I can cook

# I can cook

# I can cook. #

Hello. Lovely to see you. I'm just getting ready for today's recipe.

It's going to be so tasty and I can't wait.

KNOCKING

Come in!

-Hello, Katy.

-Hey, Mia. Come in.

ALL: Hello, Katy.

Hi, everyone. Come in. Come in.

Do you want to know what recipe we're cooking today?

ALL: Yes!

Today's mouth-watering recipe is going to be...

baked spaghetti. Doesn't that look really tasty?

ALL: Yes!

We're about ready to start,

but there's one thing we need to do first.

Do you know what it is?

ALL: Wash our hands!

# Roll up your sleeves

# Give your hands a wash

# With slippy dippy soap

# Splish splash splosh

# Cooking is fun

# But it can be mucky

# So put your apron on to stop your clothes getting yucky

-# Have you done your hands?

-Yeah

-Washed and dried?

-Yeah

-# Sleeves rolled up?

-Yeah

-Apron tied?

-Yeah

# Let's take a look in the cookery book

# What can you do?

# I can cook. #

Let's get cooking.

ALL: Yes!

To make baked spaghetti,

we need to start by giving a spring onion a haircut.

-Can you see his hair growing on top of his head?

-Yeah.

We need to snip that with a clean pair of scissors.

Remember, when using scissors, everybody knows,

it's best to point them at your...

ALL: Toes.

At your toes.

Snip off his wiggly hair on to the plate. Ooh!

Mine went jumpy.

That's it.

And we're going to snip off his wiggly legs.

-I got his hair off.

-Good.

Gabi, that's brilliant. You've done it perfectly.

His wiggly legs.

Now, we don't want to eat these bits.

We'll put them over there. We need to chop up the bit that's left.

So take your scissors again and remember to point towards your toes.

Can you snip them like me?

-That's it. That's how you want to do it.

-Done it.

-I've done it.

-That's it. Amazing!

I've got nine pieces, I have.

That's really good. You've got more than me.

We need to put our spring onion into a dish

that can go into the oven like this.

Sprinkle in your spring onion, everyone.

It's raining spring onions.

We're going to tear up some sun-dried tomatoes.

Why do you think sun-dried tomatoes are wrinkly?

Cos they've been in the hot sun

and then they got all hot and all wrinkly.

That's right. They have been in the sun.

Rip the sun-dried tomatoes up

and put them into our dish with the spring onions.

You have to pull very, very hard. It's like ripping paper.

Ripping paper's easier.

SHE LAUGHS

You could use your scissors, but remember to point them at your toes.

It's sticky. Who's got sticky fingers?

ALL: Me.

I've got sticky fingers.

THEY LAUGH

Next add some cold cooked bacon

that I cooked for you earlier until it was crispy.

We're going to crunch it into our dish.

We'll all crunch it together.

With both our hands, ready? One, two, three,

Crunch!

THEY LAUGH

Now, we're going to tear some black olives and put them into our dish.

So take your olives,

and tear them with your fingertips. Ugh, my fingers get all squelchy.

I squashed them.

Mia, what colours have you got in your dish?

I've got black, green,

and...

red.

-Is green your favourite colour?

-Yeah.

-It's my favourite colour.

What do you think we're going to need next in our recipe?

Let's put you to the test. Today's ingredient for you to guess.

What do you think it's going to be?

Let me give you some clues.

The missing ingredient for our baked spaghetti is very long and thin.

So could it be...?

A giant pencil?!

No. You can't eat a giant pencil.

Let's try again.

The missing ingredient looks like a bit like

something you can tie things up with.

So, could it be...?

A ball of string?!

No. You can't eat a ball of string, can you?

Let's try one more time, shall we?

It's long and thin. It looks a bit like string.

And one more clue, it's very famous in Italy.

So, could it be...?

Spaghetti. The missing ingredient is spaghetti.

We'll need some of this in our baked spaghetti.

Let's go and find out more on our computer. Come on.

To make spaghetti, you need four ingredients,

flour, eggs, salt and olive oil.

First of all, a chef cracks the eggs,

and whips them up to make them nice and creamy.

Then he adds them to the flour with some salt...

..and a little bit of olive oil.

He mixes it all together to make a dough.

And squeezes the dough with his hands to make it nice and springy.

The chef sprinkles some flour on the table

and squeezes the dough around a little bit more.

This is called kneading.

He then covers the dough up and puts it in the fridge

to rest for a while.

When it's ready, the chef takes the dough

and splits it into smaller pieces.

He then rolls it through a special pasta machine

and each time it goes through, the pasta gets thinner and thinner.

When the pasta dough is finally thin enough

he rolls it through a special spaghetti cutter

to cut it into spaghetti.

Finally the chef hangs up the spaghetti to dry,

so he can cook it later on.

We're going to use dried spaghetti in our dish.

We're going to do some snapping, so who wants to do snapping?!

ALL: ME!

You can pretend to snap at home if you want.

Hold it in both hands, like we're riding a bicycle,

then we're going to snap. Count to three, ready?

One, two, three, snap! Woo!

-When they snap, mine went flying!

-Nice!

Mine too!

I love snapping, it's really fun!

Now we can snap it into loads of bits and put it into our dish.

But make sure it all fits.

Mine jumped in!

You can snap it even more, Thomas!

It's really fun!

My spaghetti has gone everywhere!

-James, what noise does it make when you snap the spaghetti?

-Crack!

THEY GIGGLE

Next we're going to add some water into our dish.

It's like a waterfall!

All of it?

Then we're going to add some chopped tinned tomatoes, like this.

Pour that in, this one's all gloopy.

Mine's done.

Now it's time to get our pinchy fingers out.

Can you get your pinchy fingers out, like this?

-Wa-wa-wa-wa!

-Wa-wa-wa-wa!

We're going to take a pinch of stock powder.

This is going to add lots of yummy flavour to our dish.

So sprinkle on the stock powder.

Next, we need to take a pinch of this, and it's called paprika.

It's a red powder that's going to make our dish really yummy.

Only a little pinch.

That's right, only a little pinch cos it's very strong, isn't it?

-Yes.

-A little bit.

Only one little bit of this.

There we go.

Now we're going to give it a turnover,

because that's all it needs.

Look, turn it over.

Last of all, put on your lid.

And now it's time to put our baked spaghetti in an oven for 25 minutes.

But, remember, with ovens - beware, because it's hot in there,

so get an adult to help you. Come on, everyone!

Come on!

Thank you very much!

-Whilst our baked spaghetti's cooking it's time to...

-Tidy up!

It's always good to put away so we can use things another day!

Now it's time to remember what we've made today.

# Cut the spring onions Top and tail

# Top and tail, top and tail

# Crunch a piece of bacon Crunch, crunch, crunch

# Crunch, crunch, crunch Crunch, crunch, crunch

# Cut the tomatoes, snip, snip, snip

# Snip, snip, snip, snip, snip, snip

# Do the same with the olives Snip, snip, snip

# Snip, snip, snip, snip, snip, snip

# Snap the spaghetti Snap, snap, snap

# Snap, snap, snap, hear it crack

# Then mix it all together Whiz, whiz, whiz

# Whiz, whiz, whiz, whiz, whiz, whiz

# Pour it on the pasta Sprinkle on the cheese

# Sprinkle just like this. #

# I can cook! #

Our baked spaghetti has cooked, and while they cool down...

Let's lay the table!

Our baked spaghetti's cooled down and is ready to eat.

The waiting is over, enough of this talk.

Let's taste what we've made with a spoon and a fork.

Add some cheese if you want.

I'm getting some cheese so it looks all yummy.

-James, what do you think of yours?

-Nice.

Amelia, what's your favourite part?

My favourite bit is the bacon.

My favourite bit is the bacon too.

Our baked spaghetti is delicious, we did it!

ALL: We can cook!

That's it for now, I can't wait to see you all again soon

and just remember that you can cook too!

Mmm, so yummy.

Mia, which bit do you like?

Cheese is my favourite part.

I like the bacon.

I like the bacon too.

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