(English version follows Chinese Part)
这周主要都在练习英语，所以没有做比较特别的事情，也就没有非记不可的事。周记总归要写，想想这周下的厨房，就谈谈我对家常菜的一些思考。
我从小学低年级就主动学会了家常烹饪，是因为当时比较好吃，父母为了培养规律的饮食习惯又按三餐的时间表来做饭，当我嘴馋的不行（其实并不饥饿）的时候，就只好自己想办法弄吃的。
烹饪的技巧当然来自于负责我家三餐的老妈。但她并没有给我传授任何食谱或者固定菜式，而是让我学习厨房内外的工序，买菜、洗菜、切菜、调料种类、蔬菜种类、肉类品种、搭配习惯、加工方法。当时并不能理解，因为不能很快学会一道菜。但当我后来接触到许多美食书籍、节目的时候，我对此也有些思考。
一种饮食（比如中餐）的生命力，无疑是具有进化能力。如果使用菜谱将每道菜的原来重量、加工时间、摆盘样式都固定下来代代传授，这非常符合食品工业对质量控制的要求。但菜式不能随人的胃口变化而变化，最终只能生厌。
而传授烹饪技巧，或许每一次做菜，多放些盐、少放些香料、新添加一种原料，就会产生一种新的好菜。如同基因变化带来的进化。
如今我为能够拥有“冰箱中有什么原料就能依此做出一桌美食”的基本技巧而兴奋，随机应变、即兴搭配。假如如果我只有固定的食谱，就只能专程照单采购，做出一道“前些天不是吃过了么？”的旧菜。
I spent much time in practicing English this week, so that I did nothing special worth to write down. However, the weekly journal must be finished. I did several cook these days, why not talking something about cooking and recipe ?
I started to cook when I was in junior grade of primary school. At that time, I was always greediness (not hungry at all) during non-meal time, but parents cooked by standard daily schedule for healthy diet habits. So I planed to make dishes myself.
Mum didn’t taught me recipe or exact dish, but cooking skills. Including market purchase skills, cleaning food material, cutting material, seasoning species, material species, collocation skills, processing skills etc. Those skills founding my cooking ability even though those ‘theory’ can’t make me cooking in short time.
After then, I though about it :
Vitality of one food type should not be base on rigid recipe, but the changing during every cook. Less salt, more sugar, new material, may create new dish which will add new vitality. Just like evolution with genetic changes.
I really excited and proud ,that I can cook a complete meal with what I have right now, which is base on my mum’s cooking skills except menu. Or you will have boring meal of ‘did we just eat these few days ago ?’ with rigid recipe : )
Even though I support home cooking by ‘skills’, I have to confirm that modern food industries is base on recipe and menu for quality control (safety, taste consistency etc).
