Chapter 8 Audrey Hepburn Cookbook

My mother loves family life, and I often see her in the kitchen, painstakingly preparing all kinds of food.For everything, the mother does her best to do her best, which can make her feel satisfied and happy. I often get asked questions about my mother's figure: Is she really that thin?How did she do it?What's her secret to getting in shape?In fact, the mother's secret was simple: she was starved and malnourished during the war, and at the same time she kept up her ballet training.Her eating habits are very simple, without deliberate dieting, and her appetite is the same as that of ordinary people.My mother loved spaghetti and ate it almost every day, but she never served it with meat.At that time, we didn't know any healthy recipes and scientific meal matching, and my mother did it just because of her own taste.When she eats pasta, she likes to serve it with a salad, but no matter how tempting the food is, her mother only eats one portion at a time.

My mother ate less and less as she got older, though she wasn't a vegetarian as some had speculated.For reasons of personal taste, my mother does not eat pork, but she will eat small amounts of beef, chicken and fish.My mother has good cooking skills. She believes that the color matching of food is as important as the taste. "If the whole plate is full of white things, it must be boring to eat. Not only that, but such food is probably not a good thing for your body." According to this theory, the mother created her own So many healthy recipes with beautiful color combinations and great flavors that we lick our plates clean every time.

To be fair, spaghetti in tomato sauce was my mother's favorite dish.She eats pasta almost every day, all kinds, and hardly repeats it, but she eats pasta with tomato sauce at least once a week.My mother likes Bologna tomato sauce the most. This cannot be regarded as my mother's unique secret recipe, but my mother has made many improvements on the original basis, and it can be regarded as Audrey's private dish. It might seem like too much sauce for this dish, but that's just what my mother likes, letting the pasta swim in the sauce.If you can't finish it for the first time, you can continue to eat the remaining noodles in a wok over low heat, but this is rarely the case, because the stomach is always infinite in front of delicious food.

My mother told us that the secret of Italian cuisine is the freshness of the ingredients.Every ingredient is prepared in a short period of time, which is not like French cuisine. The preparation work also needs to pay attention to the process and ostentation. In the end, a lot of sauces and sauces can only be used to cover up the staleness of the food.My mother always said that nobility and royalty created French cuisine, and peasants created Italian cuisine.It would be unfair to think of Italian cuisine as all things slathered in tomato sauce and cheese, when in fact it is one of the most varied cuisines in the world.In some places, the same dish would never be found in a village 20 miles away.

Mother had her own recipe for a pesto she used to season pasta that we called "Audrey's Pesto," a base of celery, basil leaves, garlic, olive oil, and mozzarella.Compared to other sauces, Audrey pesto has more water content. To complete the meal, mothers usually serve it with some green salad.The salad dressing was also made by my mother herself. She told her good friend Connie about this method, and Connie also liked it very much. My mother likes to share happiness with her good friends, which is also one of her mother's temperaments. My mother never ate fast food, but she didn't say no to desserts, and they had to be sweet enough.She likes to pour caramel syrup on her vanilla ice cream.As a result of being constantly woken up by phone calls in the morning and long movie shoots, my mother developed a habit of taking a nap. After each nap, my mother would eat a whole bar of chocolate, a big one!My mother said that chocolate is a food that makes people happy and can drive away depression.