Chapter 11

Chapter eleven, We had exactly forty-five minutes to complete our dishes. Judith Ann got right to work. As she chopped her vegetables, I could see sweat forming on her forehead. "Maybe you should take it easy on that poor little eggplant," I whispered to her. "I thought I just heard it screaming." "This is no time for jokes," she said. "As I told you, this means everything to me." I hadn't forgotten that. I was just trying to help her relax. I knew it wasn't going to take the whole time to make my Peanut Butter and Jelly Smoothie with Surprise Ingredients. But i wanted to look busy, so I took my time tearing

第十一章，我们正好有四十五分钟的时间来完成我们的菜肴。 朱迪思·安马上开始工作。 她切菜的时候，我看到她额头上冒出了汗珠。 “也许你应该对那个可怜的小茄子宽容一点，”我低声对她说。 “我以为我听到它在尖叫。” “现在不是开玩笑的时候，”她说。 “正如我告诉过你的，这对我来说意味着一切。” 我没有忘记这一点。我只是想帮她放松一下。 我知道用惊喜配料制作花生酱果冻冰沙不会花费我所有的时间。 但我想让自己看起来很忙，所以我不慌不忙地流泪

the peanut butter and jelly sandwich into bite- size bits. That took about ten seconds, so I tried to go even slower with the banana. After I peeled it one tiny section at a time, I waved to Frankie and Ashley sitting in the audience. They waved back with big smiles. Judith Ann had finished the vegetables and was rolling them into three plump meatless meatballs. "Look at you go, Judy," I said. "Those meatballs look really round." She glanced up at me like she was going to say something. Just then, one of the meatballs she was working on rolled out of her hand and onto the floor. "Oh no!" she screamed. "Look what you made me do!" "I didn't mean for that to happen. Honest." "I know, Hank. It wasn't your fault. I'm just so nervous." I turned back to my blender and started to crumble the cookies into the jar.

把花生酱和果冻做成一口大小的三明治。 这大约花了十秒钟，所以我试着把香蕉放得更慢。 在我一次剥下一小部分后，我向坐在观众席上的弗兰基和阿什利挥手。 他们微笑着向我挥手致意。 朱迪思·安吃完了蔬菜，正把它们卷成三个丰满的无肉肉丸。 “看看你，朱迪，”我说。 “那些肉丸看起来真的很圆。” 她抬头看了我一眼，好像要说什么。 就在这时，她正在做的一个肉丸从她手中滚到了地板上。 “哦，不！”她尖叫道。“看看你让我做了什么！”“我不是有意让这种事发生的。 诚实。”“我知道，汉克。这不是你的错。 我太紧张了。”我转身回到搅拌器前，开始把饼干揉碎放进罐子里。

Judith Ann put her two meatballs into the frying pan and rolled them around with a wooden spoon. Suddenly, I heard her shout. "Oh no! What is wrong with me today?" she said. "My meatball is crumbling." I looked over into her frying pan and saw that one of the meatballs had come apart. It looked like a vegetable pancake. "I am such a loser," she went on, sounding like she was going to cry. "I practice and I practice, and I can't do anything right." "Hey, do I ever know that feeling," I said. "I practice my spelling words all night long, and when I get to class, I have no idea where they are. They're sure not in my head." "I wish I were making your Peanut Butter and Jelly Smoothie," she said. "It seems so easy." She definitely had a point. She was chopping and rolling and frying and doing all kinds of complicated cooking stuff. All I was doing was filling a blender and flipping a switch.

朱迪思·安把她的两个肉丸放进煎锅里，用木勺把它们滚来滚去。 突然，我听到她的喊声。 “哦,不!我今天怎么了？”她说。 “我的肉丸要碎了。” 我朝她的煎锅里看了看，发现其中一个肉丸已经裂开了。 它看起来像一个蔬菜煎饼。 “我真是个失败者，”她接着说，听起来像是要哭了。 “我练习了又练习，但我什么都做不对。” “嘿，我知道那种感觉吗？”我说。 “我整晚都在练习拼写单词，当我去上课的时候，我不知道它们在哪里。 它们肯定不在我的脑海里。” “我真希望我能给你做花生酱果冻冰沙，”她说。 “这似乎很容易。”她说得有道理。 她在切菜、擀面、煎菜，做各种复杂的烹饪工作。 我只是往搅拌器里倒了油，按了开关。

As I reached into my bag to get the carton of chocolate milk, I smelled the pickle at the bottom. I looked over at Judith Ann. She was concentrating very hard on her last meatball, rolling it around to make sure it was fully cooked. It was then that I knew what I had to do. I reached into my bag and pulled out Papa Pete's dill pickle. When no one was watching, I dropped it into the blender and put on the top. Then I flipped the switch. I smiled to myself. Hank's Peanut Butter and Jelly Smoothie with Surprise Ingredients was sure going to have one big surprise ingredient now. By the time the forty-five minutes were up, I had poured my smoothie into a glass and decorated it with the gummy bears I brought

当我把手伸进包里拿出那盒巧克力牛奶时，我闻到了底部的泡菜味。 我看了看朱迪思·安。 她正全神贯注地做最后一个肉丸，把它滚来滚去，确保它完全熟了。 那时我才知道我该做什么。 我把手伸进包里，拿出了皮特爸爸的莳萝泡菜。 趁没人看的时候，我把它放进搅拌机里，放在最上面。 然后我拨动了开关。 我对自己笑了。汉克的花生酱果冻冰沙加惊喜配料现在肯定会有一个大惊喜配料。 45分钟结束的时候，我把我的冰沙倒进了一个杯子里，用我带来的小熊软糖装饰了一下

with me in my pocket. Then I popped in a redand- white-striped straw. Judith Ann had placed her one lonely meatball on top of the pancake one, and dripped some red sauce over both of them. It actually looked pretty good. She had turned her mistake into her own surprise. Chuck Hall picked up his microphone and stood between us. "Ladies and gentlemen," he said to the same seven people in the audience. "The Junior Chef Cook-Off is now over, and all that's left to do is the tasting. I'm going to take one taste of each dish, and decide who will appear with me on Country Cooking for the City." Chuck picked up Judith Ann's plate, took a big sniff, then popped a bite of the meatball into his mouth.

在我的口袋里。然后我塞进一根红白条纹的吸管。 朱迪思·安把她那一个孤零零的肉丸放在煎饼肉丸上面，还在两个肉丸上滴了一些红酱。 实际上看起来还不错。 她把自己的错误变成了自己的惊喜。 查克·霍尔拿起麦克风，站在我们中间。 “女士们，先生们，”他对听众中同样的七个人说。 “初级厨师厨艺大赛已经结束了，剩下的就是品尝了。 我要尝一尝每道菜，然后决定谁和我一起上《城市乡村烹饪》节目。” 查克拿起朱迪思·安的盘子，闻了一大口，然后把肉丸塞进嘴里。

"Mmmm very tasty," he said. "And I love the creative way you designed your plate. A meatless meatball on a meatless pancake. So creative." Then he turned to me, picked up the glass, and smiled. "This looks yummy," he said. "I love a good smoothie." He raised the glass to his lips and took a big sip through the straw. I waited, but not for long. He spit the smoothie out of his mouth like he was a fire truck hose.

“嗯，很好吃，”他说。 “我喜欢你设计盘子的创意。 无肉煎饼上的无肉肉丸子。 所以创造性。”然后他转向我，拿起杯子，笑了。 “这看起来很好吃，”他说。 “我喜欢美味的冰沙。”他把杯子举到嘴边，隔着吸管喝了一大口。 我等了一会儿，但没等多久。 他把冰沙从嘴里吐出来，就像他是消防车的水管一样。