Chapter 285: The Paradise Created by Dionysus (Part II)
Slap in the face, this guy is definitely deliberately slapping in the face, in the selection and processing of ingredients, which is obviously already above himself.
Zhang Fei only felt a sense of shame swept over, she has been studying since she found that wine can improve freshness and fragrance, but her personality itself is a bit arrogant, so in the processing and selection of ingredients, it will not be too meticulous.
In front of a real chef, she felt that her shortcomings were infinitely magnified, and she only felt that her face was flushed.
"What's wrong?" Looking at Zhang Fei's appearance, Guan Yu asked with concern.
"Wow, what a soup!" Liu Bei suddenly exclaimed, "Obviously the material is so simple, why?" ”
"I didn't expect the chef to know how to use ham, and it's also the part of the fire claw...... Lu Su also scooped up a spoonful and tasted it slowly, a mellow aroma and umami, obviously just an ordinary bowl of mixed mushroom ham soup, it can be so delicious.
"Ham?" Not ham can be made everywhere, especially in this era, Liu Bei is very puzzled.
"An ......ingredient made from a pork leg, smeared with salt, and then air-dried or smoked," Zhang Fei put down the soup bowl, "Originally, our family also planned to make some, but the climate in Zhuo County is not suitable for making ham." ”
In the end, it is a big family that deals in wine and meat, Zhang Fei is naturally no stranger to ham, but few people on her side can use ham, and it is not suitable for making ham, so she has not been exposed to much.
"Supposedly, Zhen Cheng, where Chef Wang is located, shouldn't be suitable for making ham?" Guan Yu looked at Wang Yong.
"In the early days, I didn't have a fixed residence, and I traveled all over the country. I found a lot of ingredients and saw a lot of cooking methods. I still know the ingredient of ham. Wang Yong said proudly, if there are too many lies, it will become the truth.
"In other words, Chef Wang has never taken the chef exam before?" Liu Bei suddenly looked at Wang Yong.
"After all, I didn't settle down, so I didn't have a chance to participate at all." Wang Yong was a little embarrassed.
"You don't know, when I first met him, his cooking skills were not much better, at most he was at the level of an intermediate chef. The knife technique, the selection of materials, the heat and the seasoning can only be regarded as average. After a year, it has been directly promoted to this level, and even I was shocked! Xiahoudun is naturally on Wang Yong's side.
It is precisely because he was exposed to it from the beginning that he does not feel strange, after all, his initial cooking skills are indeed like that. If you don't know some novel recipes, I'm afraid you won't be able to attract their attention.
It only takes one year to be able to improve to this level, which can only be said to be 'talent'. She discussed with Xun Yu, and even Guo Jia and Hua Tuo, that Wang Yong's real talent may not really be martial arts, but cooking!
"You can't just drink the soup, you have to eat the rest while it's hot!" Lu Su picked up the rice bowl, and after drinking the fragrant soup, he would be a little eager to eat.
When you really enter it, you find that the rice is full and soft, and at the same time, there is a faint fragrance of bamboo and wood.
"Chef Wang, you seem to have said just now, what is this...... Rice? Lu Su couldn't help but raise his head, looked at Wang Yong and asked.
"Rice in a bamboo tube, rice and water are put in a bamboo tube, then placed on the grill and slowly grilled over charcoal. In this process, the rice will absorb the flavor of the bamboo, giving the rice a fresh scent of bamboo. Wang Yong introduced.
"So complicated, just to make a bowl of rice?" Zhang Fei really couldn't imagine that such a simple thing as cooking rice could be so complicated!
"Serving the best food to diners is what it is a chef's job to do!" Wang Yong said proudly.
At this moment, a divine light seemed to be released from his body, illuminating Zhang Fei unable to open his eyes. Under this light, it seems that his cooking skills can't be brought out to meet people!
"Goo, pretend to be ......" Zhang Fei picked up the rice bowl, picked up some and ate it. The soft rice has the fragrance of bamboo and wood, and the heat is just right. In particular, this flavor just suppresses the aftertaste of the last dish and allows the tongue to rest.
"It's hard to imagine!" Although Zhang Fei was very unwilling, he couldn't help but exclaim, "Rice can actually make such a taste!" You must know that the promotion of rice only started after Sunshine Breakfast withdrew from Cantonese roast rice! ”
Earlier, the mainstream staple food in the Central Plains should actually be corn and sorghum...... Rice and wheat were originally miscellaneous grains like millet and millet.
"The rice and soup are like this, and the other dishes are ...... What kind of ...... is it" Liu Bei couldn't help but swallow his saliva and looked at the other three dishes.
The skin of the chicken is sauce-colored, but from the outside, it should be the result of simmering. Don't look at anything else, it's a bit like a white chopped chicken, but it's just colored with old soy sauce, but since it is said to be 'Huadiao Chicken', then it must have added Huadiao wine.
I sandwiched a piece and was about to put it in my mouth, but the moment my lips touched it, I only felt a cold feeling coming from the chicken. I was a little surprised, and I couldn't help but exclaim: "This chicken is actually cold!" ”
"Well, it's been chilled in ice cubes for more than half an hour......," Wang Yong nodded, "Huadiao chicken also has several cooking methods, hot and cold, and the principle is that in the final analysis, it is Huadiao wine and chicken." Considering that the weather is a bit hot right now, let's have some hot and cold combinations. ”
"Oh...... Oh......" Zhang Fei nodded, just listening to Wang Yong's words, he knew that the production of this Huadiao chicken was definitely not simple, at least the process was also very thoughtful.
"Oh! The sweetness and aroma of rice wine completely penetrate the chicken...... At the same time, the spice part, star anise, pepper, bay leaves, grass fruit, cardamom...... Chef Wang, I'm not wrong, right? Lu Su slowly tasted a piece, and then asked.
"That's right!" Wang Yong nodded, this Lu Su really knows how to eat, the key is to know how to taste.
"It's just...... I feel a little flawed......" Lu Su immediately wrinkled.
"It's true, it was supposed to be frozen for a day so that it could be thoroughly absorbed...... It has been marinated for more than half an hour, and it seems that it is still not enough......" Wang Yong also admitted the shortcomings of this dish.
"It's so much trouble to cook a chicken?" Zhang Fei couldn't imagine that the finished product would take more than a day or something, in her opinion, it was something that was unimaginable.
"Some dishes even require more than 30 days of preparation before they can be cooked, but just one day is really not enough to see!" Xiahoudun said complacently, "This Huadiao chicken is slightly flawed, but it is still superb!" ”
"That's right!" Lu Su nodded, he could make such a dish, in fact, this flaw was negligible. After all, it was decided on the fly, and there was no time to prepare for him.
Of course, it can also be said why not prepare other dishes, such as hot Huadiao chicken. Lu Su didn't think this was Wang Yong's mistake...... So, the answer should be in this package!
"How can there be such a thing when you prepare a dish that takes thirty days to start cooking?" Zhang Fei was more concerned about the so-called dishes of Xiahoudun, and directly questioned him.
"Of course there is!" Xiahoudun had a smug expression, "Earlier, Fujun personally prepared it, cooked it into two cows at a low temperature of thirty years, and then took the beef to cook the dishes. Aged beef, it's very juicy! ”
"I want to eat!" Lu Su immediately shouted.
"It's not easy to prepare...... Besides, it's a waste of beef to eat like this......" Wang Yong smiled, he didn't want to make this aged beef often if it wasn't necessary. After all, in this era, the number of livestock raised is not very large.
There is no feed and fertilizer, and the green storage material has not appeared, and the cost of large-scale breeding is still too high. The key is that cattle and sheep grow meat too slowly, and it takes too long to breed from cubs to adults.
"Hmm...... Well! Well!!! What's going on with this meat!? Liu Bei took a bite of the chicken and immediately exclaimed, "The chicken is so tender, and this umami smell is almost bursting open, splashing into his mouth with the gravy!" ”
"Indeed, this taste is remarkable!" Guan Yu also had to praise this Huadiao chicken, obviously he also added a lot of wine, but this wine completely played a supporting role, but it highlighted the umami and aroma of the chicken.
"In contrast, third sister, your dishes are ......" Guan Yu couldn't go on, too much, these four words are the best interpretation.
"Goo ......" Zhang Fei only felt that the cooking concept of more than 30 years was completely shattered at this moment. She studied cooking for three years, and spent a lot of money to learn recipes, knife skills, seasoning, material selection and heat, and she thought she was already very smart.
Especially after discovering that the use of wine can improve freshness, I also began to go out of my own way. It's only now that I realize that there is really a sky outside the sky, and there are people outside the world. In the application of wine, Wang Yong has left her far behind.
His own shortcomings have been magnified to the maximum, and his previous cooking habits are also full of mistakes and omissions. Although it has a lot to do with her personal personality and habits, these are very deadly behaviors for a chef.
"Chef, do you need to get to this point?" Zhang Fei really couldn't believe it, originally thought that cooking was nothing more than a competition of skills, but on Wang Yong's side, she felt something at a higher level.
But she didn't know what it was, she just felt that it was very ethereal, there was no physical body at all, and she couldn't touch it.
"Cooking is like martial arts...... Wang Yong said slowly, "If you go against the trend, if you don't advance, you will retreat." When you cross a rapid, you find that there is a bigger rapids waiting for you to challenge. I've spent most of my mental energy trying to cope with this, and as for the rest, I don't have the energy to do it anymore. ”
Sometimes I really admire those all-round traversers, after the crossing, all the skills are at your fingertips, and all fields have reached the peak. He can't help it, just the skill of cooking, he will probably have to spend his whole life studying......
"......" Zhang Fei gritted her teeth, she knew this meaning better, she was a military general, she had to lead the army to fight, and if she didn't touch cooking for a long time, her skills would become rusty. I am usually tired from practice, and when I come back, I am too lazy to move, and my cooking has become perfunctory.
This is also the main reason why she has been a senior chef for several years, but she has not been able to improve. It's not that she doesn't work hard, but this thing, indeed, is just like Wang Yong said, if she doesn't continue to practice, she will retreat.
But can martial arts be wasted? That's what she actually eats, so can't! Commanding troops to fight can't be wasted, otherwise the two righteous sisters will be too busy, and even when necessary, they have to deal with public security issues, which consumes a lot of effort!
Thinking of this, Zhang Fei is a little decadent, any senior chef, in fact, he is deceiving himself. Perhaps, she is indeed not suitable to be a chef, at least, it is estimated that it will be difficult for her to reach a higher realm in her life.
"The first few items are of this quality, so the remaining two dishes ......" Guan Yu swallowed his saliva, and then stretched out his chopsticks.
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