Reading a recipe book called "A Dinner of My Own", the author will tell a story about the dish before writing the recipe. Each dish not only arouses appetite, but also evokes all the emotions. Warmth and love for life. People who love food must also passionately love their own lives and the indelible memories that that dish brings to us.

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When I returned to China for a three-month break from my gap year in the UK, I missed the UK too much in the first month and suffered from a loss of taste that was tortured by the dark British cuisine. Because of the disease, he has no appetite for Chinese delicacies. The first time I started to have a tongue-curling feeling about food after returning to China, it was a snack in the Cantonese morning tea. The soy sauce had a faint soybean flavor mixed with salty taste, soaked in braised peanuts, and it was soft and glutinous with a slight bite. The refreshing feeling, and then the sauce penetrated into every cell of the taste buds little by little.

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I have a French good friend Camille. When I miss her, I start to cook the dishes she once made for me little by little.

When we were in the UK, she drove me around in her car. In order to save money, we all cooked our own meals. I joked with her: We are the best partners, and everything in person, luggage, and car is The kitchen has not been changed, but the kitchen has been changed more than ten times. We take turns cooking for each other. She cooks French/Italian food for me, and I cook Chinese food for her. I like to eat Western fast food now, and my favorite is Mexican avocado. Egg rolls.

I remember the first time I ate this dish, she took me to the supermarket to buy soft cheese. This was the first time I really understood it clearly in the cheese cabinet full of freezers. Learn how to use a certain type of cheese, open the Mexican tortilla slices, take a butter knife, use the blade to score some soft cheese, push it on the tortilla in a rotating manner, cut an avocado, fry a runny egg, and serve with Fold the bacon slices into a fan shape and eat. The food is ready in three minutes. The taste is amazing.

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When I was in the UK, I learned to make a very simple green onion and tomato salad. It was August in northern England, and the sunset was at 9:30. I was serving in a small restaurant. After finishing work, it was already 10 or 10:30. This time is very important for eating. After eating, my stomach will be full until the early morning, and I can't sleep. ; Not eating will wake me up at 4-5am. The chef in the kitchen made a green onion and tomato salad for us girls. He picked up the green onion and cut it into crisp sections with a knife. He used apple cider vinegar and honey to make the salad juice and cut the cherry tomatoes into green and red.

For dishes made with care, three parts come from the freshness of the ingredients, five parts come from the chef’s skills, and two parts come from the love for life.