Tons of money
2019/03/21 04:12:28 網誌分類: 生活
I don’t like oysters but opened a very unusual Belgian Chardonnay for them to pair（match） with the oysters and smoked salmon. Some put oysters into wine glasses and ate them mixed with white wine. I had never seen that before. I next provided a Gaja Barbaresco red wine from Italy and a Chateau La Tour Carnet Haut-Medoc French red wine, which they drank with chicken and lobster. Some preferred to eat their lobster with Japanese single malt whiskey. Finally, I provided a very expensive Chateau Haut Brion 1990 red wine from France. I had opened the wines before dinner to let them breathe.
My seven friends finished the tons of food except the smoked salmon and four large boxes of Japanese strawberrie, which they put in my refrigerator. I knew the smoked salmon would spoil （go bad） and the strawberries would get moldy （covered with fungus） if I kept them too long. I took the largest box of strawberries to TVB for my close colleagues. For the next three days I ate strawberries for breakfast and lunch, and smoked salmon for lunch and dinner！ I didn’t mind because strawberries are full of vitamins. I love smoked salmon but too much is not healthy because it has a lot of salt. It is a British tradition to eat strawberries with cream during the annual Wimbledon tennis competition in late June. I ate my strawberries with fat-free yogurt because it’s healthier.
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幾個星期前，我約了朋友上我家（had friends over）吃晚飯。To have someone over 意即邀請那人上你的家。因為我一個人住，又沒有家傭，朋友們說他們會預備食物。我則準備了葡萄酒、威士忌、果仁和芝士與薄脆餅乾。他們來到時，帶來的許多食物（tons of food）令我大吃一驚。Ton在這裏並非指重量的單位噸，tons of food 是指很多很多的食物；Tons of money則指非常多的錢。我的朋友們帶來了大量的（tons of）生蠔、龍蝦、煙三文魚、烤雞及士多啤梨。
我不喜歡吃蠔，但也開了一支非常罕有的比利時莎當妮白酒，讓他們用來搭配（pair）蠔和煙三文魚。有些人會將蠔放進酒杯中，再混着白酒吃。我就從來沒有見過。之後我便拿出意大利嘉雅酒莊的巴巴萊斯科紅酒，以及法國拉圖嘉利莊園的上梅鐸紅酒，是他們吃雞和龍蝦時的佐酒。一些人吃龍蝦時會喜歡佐以日本純麥威士忌。最後，我預備了非常昂貴、來自法國的侯伯王莊園一九九○年紅酒。我在晚飯前已悉數開了酒，讓那些酒得以預先透氣。
我的七位朋友們吃掉了那大量的食物（tons of food），除了放在我雪櫃內的煙三文魚和四大盒日本士多啤梨。我知道如果存放太久，煙三文魚會變壞（spoil），士多啤梨也會發霉（moldy）。我拿了最大盒的士多啤梨回無線請相熟的同事吃。接下來的三天，我早餐和午餐都在吃士多啤梨，午餐和晚餐也是煙三文魚！我也不介意，因為士多啤梨富含維他命；也愛吃煙三文魚，但吃太多也不健康，因為它有很高的鹽份。在每年六月底的溫布頓網球錦標賽期間，英國傳統會吃士多啤梨配忌廉，我就用脫脂乳酪配士多啤梨，這樣吃比較健康。
中譯:七刻
Michael Chugani 褚簡寧
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