小品：恰好外面下着雨，坐在一个明亮的西班牙风情的图书馆里，写篇关于大白菜的文章。
大白菜是家乡最平凡的一种蔬菜，说起小白菜、茼蒿、西兰花可能想起一些精致的菜肴，大白菜却是无论春夏秋冬大宴小食都随处可见。小时候读过一篇文章，有这样一段描述：外面大雪纷飞，在家里吃一碗热气腾腾舒心的大白菜。。。记不得出处记不得细节，情境却记了十多年。大白菜可能也最容易做汤。。。有食材可以加香菇、冻豆腐、木耳、粉丝、金针菇、韩式年糕，没食材加水放一粒大料加点酱油，水滚开的那一刻，舒心的味道已蕴含到蒸汽中了。
Wenting's Take: It's a pleasant experience to think about cabbage soup while sitting in a Spanish style library in a drizzling Sunday afternoon. Cabbage is the most common food in my hometown Shenyang, a city in northeastern part of China. It's easy to name some gourmet dishes that feature bok choy, broccoli, or chrysanthemum greens. However, few people think of cabbage as a desirable ingredient. It's such a common vegetable for all seasons, used in feasts and mom's cooking.
I remember reading an article describing cabbage soup when I was little. It described the wondrous feeling to come home from a cold snowy day and enjoy a hot tasty cabbage soup.
It's very easy to make soup with cabbage. You can add ingredients like shiitake mushrooms, frozen tofu, cloud ear fungus, glass noodles, golden needle mushrooms, or Korean rice cakes. But if you don't have any of them, one or two pieces of star anise and some soy sauce can also make an excellent cabbage soup. As soon as the water boils, you will smell the soothing scent of home cooking.
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菜谱 (Recipe)：
To inspire the flavor:
0. 大料 (Star anise)
0. 酱油 (Soy sauce)
The remaining ingredients/steps:
1. 大白菜 (Chinese cabbage) - needed :)
2. 韩式年糕 (Korean rice cakes) - optional
3. 金针菇 (Enokitake mushrooms) - optional
4. 东北木耳 (Cloud ear fungus) - optional
5. 香菇 (Shiitake mushrooms) - optional
6. Slice cabbage into pieces.
7. Boil water with star anise, then add the optional ingredients above. You want the flavor absorbed into the soup.
8. Add sliced cabbage.
9. Add soy sauce.
10. To make it fun, add umami flavor with seaweed.
11. Make it spicy if you like!12. Enjoy. It goes with anything.
