英语访谈对话 1 The Omelet

 　　Kerri shares her recipe for making a delicious omelet.

       Todd: Oh, hey, Keri! You cook, right! You're a pretty good cook.

　　Keri: I'm OK.

　　Todd: OK. I want to make an omelet, so actually this is really silly, I've never made one before. How do you make an omelet?

　　Keri: OK, Well, I can teach you how I make them, which is the same way my father and grandmother make them, which is a little special.

　　Todd: OK. Yeah! Yeah!

　　Keri: First you take some eggs and crack them into a bowl, and whisk them up, quite, so they're quite high and fluffy¹, and in a hot pan, and you need a pan that's that's kind of small, that the sides go up at an angle. You put some oil and heat it up, so it's quite hot, and then you take your whipped up eggs, or whisked up eggs, and pour them into the pan, and as it's cooking, if you take a spatula², and push the bottom layer of the egg, to the side, to the sides, and then to the middle, so the uncooked egg gets to the bottom of the pan.

　　Todd: Oh, OK. Wow!

　　Keri: OK. And keep doing that until most of the egg is cooked so you should have a nice thick omelet and then flip³ it over, you'll only have to cook that side lightly. Put your fillings on the top and fold it over and let it sit just long enough to melt the cheese.

　　Todd: Wow. That sounds really good.

　　Keri: Mm, it is.

　　Todd: Wow. What fillings do you recommend?

　　Keri: Well, if you want to do a real simple one, you can just use some pre-made salsa and cheese, and that's easy, or you can do something like cut up some ham and cheese, onions, tomatoes, mushrooms, anything that you like. If you want to make a spinach⁴ omelet then you have to add the cooked spinach to the egg mixture. So it's actually cooked in it. It's inside bacon and sour cream is nice and Jack⁵ cheese.

　　Todd: Oh, OK. I'll have to give that a try.

　　Keri: OK. Sure.

1 fluffy   

adj.有绒毛的，空洞的

参考例句：

• Newly hatched chicks are like fluffy balls.刚孵出的小鸡像绒毛球。
• The steamed bread is very fluffy.馒头很暄。

2 spatula   

n.抹刀

参考例句：

• He scraped the mixture out of the bowl with a plastic spatula.他用塑料铲把盆里的混合料刮了出来。
• She levelled the surface of the cake mixtured with a metal spatula.她用金属铲抹平了蛋糕配料。

3 flip   

vt.快速翻动；轻抛；轻拍；n.轻抛；adj.轻浮的

参考例句：

• I had a quick flip through the book and it looked very interesting.我很快翻阅了一下那本书，看来似乎很有趣。
• Let's flip a coin to see who pays the bill.咱们来抛硬币决定谁付钱。

4 spinach   

n.菠菜

参考例句：

• Eating spinach is supposed to make you strong.据说吃菠菜能使人强壮。
• You should eat such vegetables as carrot,celery and spinach.你应该吃胡萝卜、芹菜和菠菜这类的蔬菜。

5 jack   

n.插座，千斤顶，男人；v.抬起，提醒，扛举；n.（Jake）杰克

参考例句：

• I am looking for the headphone jack.我正在找寻头戴式耳机插孔。
• He lifted the car with a jack to change the flat tyre.他用千斤顶把车顶起来换下瘪轮胎。