Food

 

Different kinds of food

 

Frozen food

 

Dish  

My favorite dish is fried chicken.

 

Casserole 砂锅

 

My favorite dish is vegetable/ chicken casserole. 砂锅蔬菜/砂锅鸡肉

 

Stir-fry 炒

 

I prefer stir-fried vegetables. 炒蔬菜

 

Dessert

 

I usually have some dessert fruits after meals. 作为甜食的水果

 

Fruit salad 水果沙拉

 

Sometimes I have fruit salad for dessert.

 

Food and your health

 

Be good for

 

Be bad for

 

Health food 绿色食品（未施农药）

 

Junk food

 

Junk food contains a lot of fat, salt, and sugar.

 

be past its sell-by date 过了保质期

 

I am very careful not to buy some food which has been past its sell-by date.

 

Protein 蛋白质

 

Eggs are a good source of protein.

 

Carbohydrates 碳水化合物

 

Most vegetables and fruit are very low in carbohydrates.

 

Fat

 

I don’t like meat with too much fat.

 

Vitamin

 

There is a lot of Vitamin C in oranges.

 

Calorie

 

Chocolate is very high in calories.

 

Diet

 

I eat a healthy/ unhealthy diet.

 

Keeping food

 

Go bad/ off

 

I left the fridge open all night and all the food’s gone off.

 

Rotten 腐烂的

 

Rotten tomatoes have a nasty smell.

 

Sour （牛奶）变酸的

 

When the milk has gone sour, don’t drink it.

 

Fridge 冰箱

 

Defrost 解冻

 

I need to defrost the frozen chicken before cooking it.

 

Addictive 添加剂

 

I prefer food with no artificial addictives/ chemical additives. 人造添加剂/ 化学添加剂

 

Preservative 防腐剂

 

Junk food usually contains lots of additives and preservatives.

 

Egg

 

Eggshell鸡蛋壳

 

Egg white 鸡蛋清

 

Egg yolk 鸡蛋黄

 

Crack the eggs into a bowl.

 

Boiled eggs

 

I have boiled eggs for breakfast.

 

Soft-boiled/ hard-boiled 煮嫩的/煮老的

 

I prefer soft-boiled eggs to hard-boiled ones.

 

Scrambled eggs 炒鸡蛋（用牛奶和黄油）

 

I sometimes have scrambled eggs without milk or butter.

 

Omelet煎蛋（常加入奶酪﹑ 作料﹑ 蔬菜等）

 

(saying 谚) (one can't) make an omelette without breaking eggs  (one can't) achieve a desired aim without some loss or damage 不打破鸡蛋就做不成煎蛋卷; 不破不立.