這些新鮮食物要多買
The produce aisle can be a little overwhelming. You've got your super-fresh stuff, your locAl stuff, your organic stuff, your what-the-heck-is-that stuff. Maybe you have a baby in the cart, or a kid tugging on your hand to get to the cereal aisle as fast as humanly possible. Perhaps you have a short list because you do most of your produce shopping at the farmer's market or you're in a CSA-a particularly smart move this time of year.
果蔬市場的食物玲琅滿目。有你想要的新鮮食物、當地特產、有機食品，還有其它一些沒見過的新鮮玩意兒。也許，你把嬰兒放在了推車裏，或者牽着一個小孩，他/她正拖着你去買麥片。也許你列了一份簡短的購物清單，因爲大多數時候你都是在農貿市場或社區支持農業店購買農產品--這是今年較爲明智的一項舉措。Regardless of your supermarket strategy, there are fresh foods I suggest you always pick up from this aisle. Nowadays, as a cook who makes Thai and Indian recipes as frequently as she does Italian ones, I find that I need these the most frequently, and curse myself when I do not have them.
無論超市的營銷策略如何，我都建議您多買這些新鮮食材！我是一名廚師，經常做泰國菜、印度菜和意大利菜，我發現自己經常需要用這些食材，若身邊沒有這些食材，我會十分惱火。Lemons
檸檬
Man, what can't you do with a lemon? You can squeeze them to brighten the flavor of fish, chicken, vegetables, or beans. You can use them for dressings and for cocktails. After juicing them, you can re-use their rinds to make a lemon-sugar oil called oleo saccharum. You can slice them thinly and use them as garnishes for the punch or for whole fish. Limes are great, sure, but lemon is a clean, bright flavor; there's a reason they use the fake version of it in air fresheners and the like. Always have lemons, if you can, and store them in the refrigerator to make them last longer.
兄弟，沒有什麼菜是不能加檸檬的。你可以擠出檸檬汁，給魚肉、雞肉、蔬菜或豆類提味。還可以用檸檬做調料，放在雞尾酒中做裝飾。榨完汁後，還可以用檸檬皮製作一種名爲oleo saccharum的檸檬糖油。可以將檸檬切成薄片，點綴一整條魚。青檸雖說不錯，但檸檬更清新、味道更淡，所以纔會有檸檬味的空氣清新劑（當然是假的檸檬）。如果可以的話，多買些檸檬，而且要放在冰箱裏，使其保鮮。
Garlic
大蒜You saw this one coming. My favorite pizza sauce contains nine whole cloves of garlic. One needs garlic for Thai, Indian, Italian, Greek, Chinese, Israeli, and all sorts of other cuisines. Its flavor shifts and morphs depending on how you cook it. (Have you had it confited or roasted yet? Let today be the day.) Look for plump, firm bulbs. You don't want soft or shriveled cloves. Though we're supposed to store whole heads of garlic in a cool, dark place away from other foods, I tend to pop mine in the fridge, and haven't had issues.
你也想到大蒜了是不是？我最喜歡的披薩醬含9瓣大蒜。泰國菜、印度菜、意大利菜、希臘菜、中餐、以色列菜、以及各種各樣的菜系都需要使用大蒜。它的味道會根據你烹飪方式的變化而變化。（你有沒有燜過或烤過大蒜？今天就試試吧。）挑一些顆粒飽滿的、硬實的大蒜。千萬別買軟捏的或乾癟的大蒜。儘管我們需要將大蒜放於涼爽的黑暗的地方，不與其它食物一起放置，但我往往把它放在冰箱裏，一點問題都沒有。
