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Baking
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Baking
烘焙

Learn about Gerunds and Infinitives

Date: Jan 06 2012

Themes: Food, Hobbies

Grammar: Gerunds vs. Infinitives

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There’s nothing like freshly baked cookies to sweeten up your day and make your whole house smell delicious. But some people seem to have the magic touch when it comes to baking, while others struggle to get even the simplest recipe to turn out right.

Baking is different from cooking in that it’s not as easy to make changes to the recipe. If you don’t use the right amount of each ingredient, your brownies could fail to rise, or your cookies could come out of the oven hard as a rock. On the other hand, if you follow the recipe carefully, you should be OK. But as Ella explains to Marni, that isn’t true for everyone.

新鲜烘焙的曲奇能够让你整天都感到快乐,并使整个房间芳香四溢。在这方面,没有任何其它事物能够与之媲美。但是,某些人具有烘焙的天赋,而其他人则为一个最简单的正确配方而纠结不休。
烘焙与烹饪不同,改变配方绝非易事。如果每种原料使用的量不对,那么巧克力饼可能无法发酵,或者曲奇饼可能硬的像一块石头。相反,如果严格遵照配方,应该不会出问题。但是正如艾拉向玛尼说的那样,这并不适用于每个人。

Dialog

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Marni

Marni

Ella

Ella

Marni:  Ella, I just baked you a batch of chocolate chip cookies.

Ella:  Oh, thank you. I thought you were going to say I would have to help you bake, because it would be a disaster then.

Marni:  Oh, really? You don’t like to bake?

Ella:  I don’t like to bake. I don’t like to cook. I just don’t have the patience to wait, and baking is a lot of waiting and watching. And also, I don’t like to measure.

Marni:  Baking, you have to be really exact, whereas cooking, you can be a little more spontaneous. Throw in a little of this, a little of that. But baking, you have to follow the recipe to a T. But I love it. It’s just so relaxing to me. It’s so rewarding to have your house smell like fresh baked cookies or bread or cake or pastries.

Ella:  I can’t do it. I mean, I love the end results, so that’s why I love to go to a bakery after someone else has done the hard work. But I myself could never be a baker. I don’t have what it takes.

Marni:  Well, it’s a good thing you have friends who like to bake. You sure you don’t want me to show you sometime?

Ella:  I’m good. I’ll just eat this cookie instead.

Marni:  OK.

 

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Marni has baked some cookies. She offers them to Ella. Ella is relieved that she didn’t have to help make the cookies, because although she loves eating baked goods, she hates baking.

Ella says she is bad at baking because she is too impatient, and she doesn’t like measuring. To bake, you have to carefully measure out the ingredients. Unlike Ella, Marni thinks baking is relaxing and rewarding.

Do you like to bake? What is your favorite thing to bake?

 

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snoopyboy

snoopyboy

Antarctica

Butta, you listen to Adele but you consider yourself pass the age of make-believes! (:


you make-me laugh

07:54 PM Jan 06 2012 |

 julito

julito

Argentina

Tell us Duaa, I am  also  a pizza eater , what kind of topplings do you prefer :cheese, pepperoni, tomato, jam ,mushrooms  ?

07:39 PM Jan 06 2012 |

nfrtary

nfrtary

Egypt

what a lesson i am starving when i read it and when i read your comments guys espically when i saw your cakes  kotlesya , how amazing 


well i don`t like kitchen and idon`t like baking but i`d love pizza and of course i like the food but one day i tried to make something with myself it was pizza , really it wasn`t as good as my mum make it but i ate it with my all happines coz i made it but it was the first and the last time i enterd the kitchen hehehehSealed


 



07:30 PM Jan 06 2012 |

snoopyboy

snoopyboy

Antarctica

We’re having a cake eating contest in our heads in la-la land. we are just playing pretend Butta.

06:41 PM Jan 06 2012 |

snoopyboy

snoopyboy

Antarctica

Very funny Butta, I forgot to mention, when I finally ate myself through the wall of that deliciousness cake I would eventually create an entrance. Well it’ll be an entrance for me as it’d allow me to get back in and finish the cake off; but to Marni it’ll be a one -way exit door, that I’d gladly point for her.  (:


I think Cake is a home wrecker  to us.

06:36 PM Jan 06 2012 |

 julito

julito

Argentina

Trancesoul.   Well, I had  been living in the US ,maybe  I just  developed a taste for them at that time, and is not so common in others countries.  It is said that the” dulce de leche was invented in Argentina ” do you have” dulce de leche ” in the supermarket?

06:02 PM Jan 06 2012 |

fr0oggy

fr0oggy

Bulgaria

I am starving ofter this lesson :) 



TranceSoul i wantTongue outkotlesya these easter cakes are looks amazing. In Bulgaria we have easter cakes too but they look very different from yours.




06:01 PM Jan 06 2012 |

snoopyboy

snoopyboy

Antarctica

Butta am marrying Marni  from the lesson’s dialogue… play the audio, her entrance got me entranced. I want to marry her because she can bake chocolate cookies.


Can you bake a Igloo shaped cake around both of us?.No entrance I’ll eat my way out

05:57 PM Jan 06 2012 |

kotlesya

kotlesya

Belarus

Everybody here, have a good evening ( or morning or day – according to your location). I hope to talk to all of you soon. ByyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyeKiss

05:54 PM Jan 06 2012 |

 julito

julito

Argentina

Butta,  you really makes me smile , sooooo funny.  But remember,  you were in New York,  Wall Street, money, money ,money  . She is  sooo beautiful but business comes first :D

05:54 PM Jan 06 2012 |

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kotlesya

kotlesya

Belarus

ANJA, I will 100% send you a recipe as quicky as I translate it Smile

05:52 PM Jan 06 2012 |

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TranceSoul

TranceSoul

Poland

Julito I should admit that I have never baked cinnamon rolls  and I don’t even know if I ever  eat it. Of course I do know the cinnamon flavour so I can imagine what it tastes like ( and I like cinnamon but in a litlle quantity). Usually I bake rolls with some jam or chocolate :)

05:51 PM Jan 06 2012 |

kotlesya

kotlesya

Belarus

Yes, they should be this shape ( according the tradition on the Easter Day in Belarus)

05:08 PM Jan 06 2012 |

snoopyboy

snoopyboy

Antarctica

Kotlesya , I saw the picture you posted about the cakes. what a torture , what a tease to my taste buds. I’m sitting here eating cardboard pizza , and you had to post this wonderfull photo here….


My concern is not the recipe, rather which one I would attack first


hehehe!Tongue out

04:53 PM Jan 06 2012 |

snoopyboy

snoopyboy

Antarctica

I’m proposing with a cellphone , so she can choose any ring she likes, hehehe!

04:50 PM Jan 06 2012 |

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 julito

julito

Argentina

Snoppy, what about the “Ring”    how much  money  would you spend on it.  Girls like expensive ones.

04:48 PM Jan 06 2012 |

 julito

julito

Argentina

Kotleysa , I think that it won´t be difficult for Butta  to have it translated  into German or English . your cakes are a feast for  my eyes..   

04:45 PM Jan 06 2012 |

kotlesya

kotlesya

Belarus

Buttafly, seems to be it will be very difficult to translate the recipe from Russian into English correctly (with my poor English), but I will try to do it anyway. I will send the recipe of the Easter cakes we bake in Belarus asap :)


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snoopyboy

snoopyboy

Antarctica

Elllla… I just baked you a batch of chocolate chip cookies !!!


Marni, Drop the Ella, replace with Snoopy, use same tone of voice. and say “yes, I do” as I kneel before you proposing!


hehehe!

04:33 PM Jan 06 2012 |

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snoopyboy

snoopyboy

Antarctica

I’ll lick the pots clean, and any mess in the kitchen is likely sweet t; so I’ll lick it all off. This is a chore I’d do anytime Tongue out

04:14 PM Jan 06 2012 |

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