Cooking at home

In general very well-constructed sentences, just minor grammatical changes:

A big bowl...

Ingredients

To prepare the salad...break the...under cold water

into bite-sized...

To finish preparing...ingredients,...

I'm choosing a salad because it's one of my favorite dishes to eat. First of all, I get one of my bowls. A big bowl makes it easy to mix all the ingrediens before putting them into the serving bowl. To prepare the salad I take a head of lettuce, brake the leaves off, wash them under the cold water, then dry them on a towel. You can cut lettuce using a knife, but I prefer to tear it into bite-sized portions by hand. The next step is to add veggies to the salad. Some choices are tomatoes (grape tomatoes are my favorite), bell peppers, avocado, carrots, cucumber. I wash and chop up a few. If a salad is one of my meals for the day, I add chopped pieces of turkey or chicken to it. I also like a little bit of sunflower seeds and shredded cheese. To finish the preparation I mix all the ingrediens and add my favorite dressing. Now it's ready to serve. Enjoy!

As always, an excellent composition, wonderfully understandable. I added some pointers for a thoroughly grammatical assembly. Счастливо! :)

I'm choosing [to describe how to prepare] a salad because it's one of my favorite dishes to eat. First of all, I get one of my bowls. [Using a/A] big bowl makes it [easier/easy] to mix all the ingredients before putting them into [the/a] server bowl. To prepare [the] salad, I take a head of lettuce, breake the leaves off, wash them under [the] cold water, then dry them on a towel. You can cut lettuce using a knife, but I prefer to tear it [into/in] bite-sized portions by hand. The next step is to add [veggies/vegetables] to the salad. [One choice is/Some choices are] tomatoes (grape tomatoes are my favorite)[,/. Other choices include] [bell pepper/bell peppers], [avocado/avocados], [carrot/carrots], and [cucumber/cucumbers]. I wash and chop up a few [of these (different kinds of) vegetables]. If a salad is one of my meals for [the/a] day, I add chopped pieces of turkey or chicken to it. I also like a little bit of sunflower seeds and shredded cheese. To finish the preparation, I mix all the ingredients and add my favorite dressing. Now it's ready to serve. Enjoy!

Good job. I would say "I'm choosing 'to describe how to prepare' a salad because it's one of my favorite dishes to eat." This explains just a little better right in the first sentence that you will be describing how to prepare the salad. Otherwise, you are just saying you are choosing the salad. We could be thinking that you mean you are choosing to eat the salad if you catch my drift. The suggestion by rosieo above to say "Using a big bowl" is a good suggestion. You need to at least use the article "a" because you are talking in general about a big bowl making it easier. I would say the bowl makes it "easier" to mix the ingredients, meaning easier than not using a big bowl, but to say it makes it "easy" is not wrong. Remember that "ingredients" has a "t" in it. I would say "before putting them into 'a' serving bowl" because you have not mentioned a specific serving bowl and "the" is used for mentioning specifics, but if you want to use "the" for making it understood that you mean by that "the" specific serving bowl that you or whoever else is going to use to serve this salad, then that is all right. There is nothing wrong with saying "To prepare salad". You don't need to absolutely say "To prepare 'the' salad" as some have suggested. "To prepare salad" is just a way of generally saying this is how you prepare salad on a constant, regular basis whenever you prepare it. To say "To prepare the salad", that makes it mean more like saying this is how you prepare this particular salad that you are describing right now. Again, "the" is more specific. You need a comma after "salad", though, because it is the end of a phrase. Remember the difference between brake and break. A brake is something that stops something else, like the brakes in your car, so to brake means to apply the brakes on your car or bicycle, etc. A break is a rest at work that comes between the morning and lunch and between lunch and the end of the day. To break something means to tear it apart in some way. So you can see there is a big difference between these two homophonic homonyms. A homonym is a word that sounds the same as another word, but has a different meaning. A homophone is a homonym that also has a different spelling. It's not necessary to put "the" before "cold water", but not wrong to put it there either. Again, if you do not put it, you are saying in general that you wash the leaves in cold water, any cold water. But putting "the" in front of it makes it again sound more specific, like you are saying you are washing it off with "the" specirfic cold water that you are using. It just depends how ambivelant or specific you want to sound. I would definitely say "draw them on 'a' towel", though, not "the towel" because you did not mention any towel until now and then all of a sudden you said "the" like you mean a specific towel and I am pretty sure any towel in general will do. You can say you prefer to tear the lettuce "into" bite-sized portions" or "in bite-sized portions". Using "into" sounds better, I believe, but I cannot definitely say "in" is absolutely wrong. You do absolutely need a "The" in front of "next step", though, unless you want to go into a special form of high-level technical editing and writing. This kind of purposefully omitting "the" in front of certain words where it would otherwise be considered absolutely essential is usually only done in IETMs (Interactive Electronic Technical Manuals) and other very scientific, technical, writing where the standard operating procedure for that type of writing specifically specifies doing so. This is done in government contract writing and I did that for three years, so I know about it, but the purpose here is to teach the basic English grammar rules, not the complex high-level writing you might see in some data module from a technical manual. It's all right to say "veggies" of course, instead of "vegetables" as long as you realize that it is slang and may not be appropriate in some formal settings to say or write, but I'm not sure if anyone is that strict, if anyone is. But there is another observation I would like to make. when you make a salad, you can put many grape tomatoes or cherry tomaties on one salad because they are so small, but nobody puts whole bell peppers and carrots on a salad, and yet, in your list, you have pluralized both of them, and at the same time, you did not pluralize avocado and cucumber, which nobody puts several whole avocados and cucumbers on thier salad either. So I am wondering why you would pluralize twice, then not pluralize, then pluralize and then not pluralize for items that all have to be sliced and cut up into pieces on the salad. It makes more sense to me to keep them all plural or all singular, except for maybe the tomatoes. "One choice is tomatoes (grape tomatoes are my favorite)." Tomatoes is third person plural which requires "are", but the "is" is for "One choice", which is third person singular and requires "is". If you said that, then you could say "Other choices include bell pepper, avocado, carrot and cucumber". But you might as well just say "Some choices are tomatoes (grape tomatoes are my favorites), bell peppers, avocados, carrots, and cucumbers." My favorite vegetable is Dr. Pepper. I used to be called SGT Pepper, but if I told you about that, I would have to kill you. Ha-ha! I think you should say "I wash up and chop up a few 'of these different kinds of vegetables'". I think that "If a salad is one of my meals for the day" is better than "a" day because here you mean the specific day that the salad is one of your meals for. That is how we would say that. Although, if you want to say "a" day there, you are the master of your own destiny. :) You do need to say "To finish 'the' preparation", though. Keep up the good work and if you read this novel, thanks.

Oops. I started a sentence with a lowercase letter instead of a capital letter.

*When you make a salad, not when you make a salad

*cherry tomatoes, not cherry tomaties

I hate it when I make typos (typing errors).