The word Cooking

I understand some words now.

For example cooking. I know it means I run to the kitchen, climb on my stool and then the fun begins: splashing with water or eating my cherry tomatoes. I get cherry tomatoes before dinner, to still the worst hunger. Only they make a mess by leaking on my shirt.

When we are finished cooking we have to wait a while: this is while the food cooks and we wait. This is a difficult time. But I know another word too: 'tafel dekken'.

Dressing the table, means that I put forks on the table, and my plate.

And then, there is food at the end of cooking.

I understand words, but I cannot speak them, only 'bal'.