Flying Horse: Food/cooking

Each week, "Flying Horse" features dozens of Central Illinois children's thoughts and drawings on various topics. This week: Food/cooking

Chicken biryani: My favorite foods are chicken biryani and cheese ravioli. Chicken biryani is chicken and rice with spices and my mom makes the chicken biryani delicious. Cheese ravioli is mozzarella cheese, and the cheese is really stretchy and gooey, and I always eat cheese ravioli at Olive Garden and it's the best.

Shaunak Singh

Grade 3, Benjamin

Mom's cooking: My mom's cooking is the best, but I like to bake. I bake cookies with my grandma sometimes.

Josiah Julien

Grade 5, Calvary

Spaghetti: My favorite food is spaghetti because I really like it. I like baking banana bread with my mom.

Lucy Hardy

Grade 2, Corpus Christi

I love cooking: My mom taught me how to cook. I really like cooking because it is fun. I love it so much. I will cook dinner willingly.

Nicholas Gibson

Grade 4, Centennial

Doughnuts: I like to eat doughnuts, but I do not like chocolate doughnuts. I love lemon cake. I love lemon cupcakes.

Lucas Westendorf

Grade 1, Epiphany

My favorite foods: I love to cook. My favorite foods that I can cook are butter noodles and bacon, French toast and mac and cheese. My favorite food I cannot make is Chinese chicken. Oh, I almost forgot I love whipped cream on my French toast.

Zelie Rayburn

Grade 3, Epiphany

Cookie day: I love cookie day. We make a bunch of cookies and have a contest. Every year I win. I always make peanut butter blossoms. You have to a put a lot of sugar, but it's still worth it.

Jordan Danile

Grade 4, Fairview

Pasta and hot dogs: My favorite foods are spaghetti and hot dogs, also mac and cheese.

Abel T. Palma

Grade 2, Glenn

No-bake cookies: I make no-bake cookies. They are made with oats, peanut butter, milk and butter. First, you put the milk and butter into a bowl. Then you put them on top of the oven and stir it. When it starts bubbling, stir it for one more minute and then put the peanut butter and oats in, scoop it into a tray and put it in the refrigerator.

Allison Bingaman

Grade 3, Grove

Cookies and pancakes: I would prefer cooking because it is fun to make new recipes like baking cookies. Have you ever made ice cream? Or even pancakes? I pick cookies because next time you can make it again with friends and family. But some baking recipes need adults like making pancakes.

Nina Nguyen

Grade 4, Grove

Mini bake oven: I like to cook in my mini bake oven because you can bake cakes. There's a recipe book so you know how to make it. My favorite cake is cookie dough. Do you like cake? I do.

Elsie Ragura

Grade 2, Jefferson Park

Stromboli: My favorite food is stromboli because it is healthy for you. My mom makes it sometimes. My dad does not know how to make it.

Fiona McNulty

Grade 2, Northpoint

Cheeseburgers: Cheeseburgers are the best. I like mine with lettuce, cheese, tomatoes and bacon. They are the best with a crispy bun. The meat is delicious, and I can eat a cheeseburger with my hands.

Ronan Powell

Grade 3, Northpoint

Taco Bell: I like to eat at Taco Bell in Hammond, Indiana. I like to order quesadillas. I like to drink Coke. The best part is a toy in the happy meal.

Ashwath Sureshbabu

Grade 5, Northpoint

Flingers Pizza: My family and I went to Flingers Pizza. Next the staff showed us our seat. Then we wait for the pizza. Last the pizza was done. I was ready to eat some pizza.

August Ganci

Grade 2, Parkside

Peanut butter cookies: I baked peanut butter cookies with my mom this weekend. I went trick-or-treating. I got my favorite candy Reese's.

Erick Burkitt

Grade 1, Prairieland

Pizza and popcorn: My favorite food is pizza and popcorn. My favorite food to make is cake. My least favorite food is green beans. My brother's favorite food is bread.

Kyson Birge

Grade 3, Sheridan

Hershey's chocolate: I love Hershey's bars. They taste so good. After dinner for dessert, I get a Hershey's bar. Yum, yum! I love it. When we were trick-or-treating, I got a Hershey's chocolate. Yay!

Braelynn Greiger

Grade 2, Stevenson

Cooking with nana: I like cooking with my nana. She cooks all kinds of food. When she cooks cakes and pies I like to help her. She says I am her cook helper.

J'Rein Martin

Grade 1, Sugar Creek

Eggs: Mom and I make eggs for breakfast.

Jacob Sturgill

Grade 2, Washington

Pasta dish: I love offerto. It is so good. My mom makes it a lot. I love it.

Nevaeh Valadez

Grade 3, Washington

Chocolate chip cookies: Based on cooking, I have made chocolate chip cookies. They were so good. I did pretty much everything. At the end they turned out great. My favorite thing was eating the cookies. I loved making the cookies that day.

Rachel Sherrod

Grade 5, Washington

Pumpkin muffins: I like to bake pumpkin muffins. I also like to bake cake and cookies. I like to bake.

Haley Janssen

Grade 5, Calvary

Baking with grandma: Here are some things I like to cook. First, my favorite thing to cook is brownies. My second thing to cook is chocolate chip cookies. I like to cook them with my grammy. She loves it.

Kinley Hendricks

Grade 4, Centennial

Pastas: My favorite thing to eat is spaghetti. I like spaghetti because it is yummy. My second favorite food is mac and cheese. I like it because it is yummy.

Niko Delis

Grade 2, Corpus Christi

Pizza: My mom cooks the best. My favorite food is pizza. Food is something you can eat.

Santiago Gonzalez

Grade 1, Epiphany

Dad's cooking: My favorite food is my dad's burgers on the black stone and grilled cheese. My second favorite is my babysitter's cookies. Sometimes we help her make them. Other times we lick the batter. My third favorite food is Baxter's burgers. They have really good fries and ice cream. They also have really good ranch.

Wyatt Kaisner

Grade 3, Epiphany

Seafood: My favorite food is seafood. First, you can buy the crab sauce. Next, it comes with a lot of food. Lastly, you can make it by yourself. I love seafood.

Lamiyah Holton

Grade 4, Fairview

Indian rice dish: When I grow up, I would cook roti sooji dal and rice because the food is good, and my mom makes it; so does my dad. I will also give it to the kids. I hope they like it. My parents will teach me how to make it.

Sughosh Chincholikar

Grade 3, Grove

Steak: I enjoy steak. I like my steak pink inside with seasoning. My dad and I love steak. Sometimes my dad likes to cook on the grill.

Jordon Greening

Grade 2, Jefferson Park

Banana bread: My favorite food to cook with my mom and sister is banana bread. It is so yummy. My sister always says don't forget the white chocolate chips. I always add extra white and normal chocolate chips.

Claire Ramsey

Grade 2, Northpoint

Mac and cheese: I love to eat mac and cheese. I love to eat spaghetti. My mom cooks for me.

Gael Nsiangani

Grade 5, Northpoint

Pancakes: This week my mom and I made bread cake and pancakes. We use flour, water, salt and sugar to help make those.

Kaylee Wall

Grade 1, Prairieland

Ramen and more: My favorite foods are ramen, hot fries and corn. I also like popcorn with hot sauce, chicken, shrimp, rice, bacon and boiled eggs. I also like pizza, pepperoni, tacos, sushi, sausage. I also like chips, Slim Jims, and salami.

Jasmine Miller

Grade 3, Sheridan

Biscuits and gravy: My favorite food is biscuits and gravy. I love it so much. I would eat it all day, and my favorite dessert is ice cream. My favorite flavor is cookies. It so sweet. My third favorite is orange chicken. It is the best.

Maleigh Kisner

Grade 2, Stevenson

Grandpa's yams: I like my grandpa's yams. They taste nice.

Kat Turner

Grade 1, Sugar Creek

Mom's recipes: I love cooking, especially with my mom. My mom knows all of the tasty recipes. I love getting to spend time with her, and whenever we're done cooking the results are so worth it. One of the things I love about cooking is that you learn something new every time and make a lot of mess-ups, but in the end you end up making a good food creation.

Isabelle Butler

Grade 5, Washington