Mouthwatering Menus

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Mouthwatering Menus

• English
• Sixth Grade

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Teacher Page

• Content English
• Grade Level Sixth
• Creator G.T. McDonald
• Map Standards Communication Arts (4, 5, 6)
  Goals (1.5), (2.1), (2.2)
• Students will need copies of various menus from
  restaurants and materials to design a menu. A
  link to the scoring guide is provided.
• mouthwatering menu scoring guide

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Restaurant Experience

• How do you decide what to order in a restaurant?
• What kind of restaurants do you like?
• What is your favorite kind of food?

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Restaurant ExperienceContinued

• Three menus from area restaurants will follow.
• Pay careful attention to the descriptions given
  for each dish.
• Write down the adjectives from the descriptions
  for each dish in your journal.

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Annie's Santa Fe

• ENCHILADAS
• Beef Cheese 7.25
• with tasty enchilada meat sauce, smothered
  with sour cream , dusted with melted cheese.
• Blue Corn Chicken 7.50
• with Annies delicious savory cream sauce,
  sprinkled with melted cheese, ripe olives.

• COMBINACIONES
• Mucho Grande 8.25
• shredded beef taco, sliced beef spicy cheese
  enchilada a piping hot beef seasoned pork
  burrito served with Mexican rice, frijoles,
  sweet corn spoon bread.

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DOUBLE DRAGON

• HOUSE CHEFS SPECIAL
• Sautéed Shrimp and Chicken
  7.95 Jumbo Shrimp and grilled tender
  chicken sautéed with tasty bamboo shoots, sliced
  carrots, and scrumptious snow peas in a creamy
  brown sauce.
• General Tsos Chicken
  7.95 Chunks of tender chicken sautéed
  with chefs special piping hot sauce.

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Willie C's Cafe

• Ribeye (Willies Personal Favorite) Tender and
  juicy. Well marbled and hand trimmed. 12 oz.
  14.50
• Filet
• Savory, bacon-wrapped tenderloin. 8 oz.
  19.95
• Top Sirloin 11.95
• We use only the center-cut bursting with
  great Texas flavor. 11 oz.

• BBQ CHICKEN 9.25 A tender chicken
  breast grilled and smothered in our tangy BBQ
  sauce and a blend of cheeses.
• Baby-Back Ribs 13.50 Our tender
  and meaty Baby-Back pork ribs basted with BBQ
  sauce and slowly grilled. These babies are
  fall-off-the-bone tender.

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A Sampling of Menu Descriptors

• Several examples of menu descriptors are provided
  on the following screen.
• Organize these descriptors by sight, smell, and
  taste in your English journal.
• Add three more descriptors that are not given for
  each category.

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A Sampling of Menu Descriptors

• Surprise Creamy
• Delight Generous
• Bursting Jumbo
• Drizzling Cubed
• Shredded Crazy
• Famous
• Scrumptious

• Smoked Grilled
• Smothered Tender
• Sprinkled Frosted
• Boiled Tantalizing
• Super Melted
• Sliced Deep Fried

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Mouthwatering Restaurant Menu

• You are starting a brand new restaurant. A menu
  needs to be designed. This menu should include
  descriptions for various dishes.
• Each menu must include the following items 3
  entrées, 2 side dishes, 2 salads, and a dessert.
  
• OR

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Mouthwatering Cafeteria Menu Design

• Your task is to create a name for the Martin City
  cafeteria. Once youve decided upon a name, then
  a menu must be designed. Descriptions must be
  given to the various dishes that are to be
  served.
• The current school lunch menu must be adapted so
  that daily offerings would appeal to the most
  reluctant eater.