Chapter 132,

Yes, do it!

Su Guoer found a hook, hung the squab on the hook, then put it into the hanging oven, turned the oven over and started roasting it. During the roasting process, she just turned the squab over. It would take about an hour to roast and it would be almost done.

It happened that she was also hungry, so she couldn't wait to take the squab off the signature, cut it into slices and put it on the plate, then put it back together to make a complete pigeon.

Then scoop a large spoonful of fresh plum jam and make a pattern on the plate.

Su Guoer drew a pattern of bamboo leaves, and the thick plum jam was quickly painted into the shape of plums and placed on a plate, with a whole pigeon standing upright with its wings flapping next to it.

Two fresh bamboo leaves are decorated on the head.

Su Guoer was just thinking about pinching some more dried tangerine peel and cutting it into shreds to sprinkle on top when she happened to meet Pang Ya who walked in from outside.

It has been a long time since lunch, and maybe she was too full, so now Pang Ya is holding a paper bag in her hand, which contains some fresh hawthorn balls and hawthorn strips.

She handed Su Guoer a hawthorn ball, and Su Guoer took it and ate it.

The first bite was so sour that it almost broke her teeth. It was no wonder, these mountain dregs were wild fruits picked from the mountains. Although coated with a layer of icing, it was inevitable that some vendors would pass off unripe fruits as inferior ones.

Su Guoer happened to eat one of these.

But this bite did whet her appetite. She picked up two hawthorn stalks from Pangya's paper bag and put them on the plate to eat after eating the roast pigeon. But she suddenly discovered...

It looks pretty good when it's arranged like this, right?

She came outside with the plate, and first picked up a piece of roasted pigeon meat with chopsticks and put it into her mouth. She didn't dip it in any sauce, and just ate the original flavor of the pigeon.

She took a bite of the meat, and it was so tender that she almost swallowed her tongue. The roasted pigeon was indeed better than the roast goose. The meat was not so tough, and because the skin was brushed with honey and sugar, it tasted a bit sweet.

How about eating it with some plum jam?

The sweet and sour sauce is paired with the fragrant roasted pigeon. When you put it in your mouth, the first thing you taste is the sweet and sour taste of the plum sauce, followed by the firm and tender pigeon meat and the crispy pigeon skin, all three mixed together.

This smell...!!!

This is the taste that Su Guoer wants!

It was delicious. She swallowed the whole mouthful of pigeon meat, then picked up a piece of the charred skin and dipped it in the sauce...it tasted a bit greasy. So, if this pigeon dish is to be delicious, it needs the firm and tender meat, the crispy and sweet skin, and the sweet and sour sauce!

Without any one of the flavors, this flavor cannot be achieved.

Su Guoer quickly ate the entire plate of roasted pigeon, and only then did she feel a little full.

When she was about to take it back, she saw some hawthorn strips placed beside her. She picked up a piece with her chopsticks and looked at it again and again.

I don’t know how these hawthorn strips are made. They look soft and moist, without the astringent taste of hawthorn. Maybe they are made in the same way as some other fruits or snacks?

But it tastes... quite delicious. The sour taste can just solve the greasy feeling of eating pigeon.

After eating two bites, she felt a little better in her stomach, and it seemed that she could eat a little more, but she couldn't eat any more. It was enough.

So she took the plate back to the kitchen and added the name of the dish to the sign in front: "Golden Honey Squab Pigeon"

It was something more precious than gold. It would be a good specialty dish in her restaurant.

Signature dish?

Not enough quantity.

But... after eating and drinking, Su Guoer felt a little worried again.

Because she still hasn't figured out what dish to submit for the MasterChef competition.

There are three rounds in the MasterChef competition, so you need to prepare at least three dishes, or four, and leave one as a backup.

Of course, no one stipulates that the dish must be Su Guoer's own creation. Dishes cooked in Beijing or famous dishes from other places can all be submitted for the competition, as long as you make them delicious, but the prerequisite is that they must be delicious.

Otherwise, no one will buy your account. This cooking competition is not a trivial matter. As long as you can survive the first round of auditions, you can get a few taels of gold even if you are eliminated in the second round.

The winner will even have the opportunity to prepare a meal for the emperor and meet him to receive a reward of over a thousand taels of gold, which is an unparalleled honor.

At this point, it is not about money anymore. It is about the honor of the store and yourself, so you must treat it with caution.

Therefore, the chef’s skills must be presentable, with good color, aroma and taste, which is the most basic.

Or perhaps you could come up with something new and innovative. It's said that at the last Master Chef competition, someone presented a lotus flower. When it was lit, it revealed an exquisite dish. The key was how to make the lotus flower bloom. That was the highlight of the dish. It became a legend in Bianjing, and no one has been able to replicate it to this day.

Su Guoer...

She knew she didn't have much talent for novelty, so she could only focus on cooking.

After thinking about it for a long time, she couldn't come up with any ideas, so she found the book she had read before and started flipping through it.

Not long after, the lunch crowd arrived. Su Guoer didn't stay for long before she rushed into the kitchen to get busy. The whole restaurant was bustling with activity again.

Not to say that the restaurant is always packed, but there has never been a vacant seat in this restaurant.

The diners might like the dishes in her restaurant very much, so there are many people coming to support her every day, but... those adults who used to come here to eat... seem to have never come again?

Su Guoer couldn't understand why this happened. She felt something was wrong, but she couldn't figure it out. So she just gave up and decided to take it one step at a time. She would deal with the enemy as they came, and it would be better than her previous life anyway.

Oh, by the way, maybe running a store is really too tiring, she almost forgot that she is living a second life.

Even... some of the shadows left over from the previous life disappeared at this moment. How long had it been since she thought of her ex-prince?

It's been many days, right?

She was delighted by this.

Finally... I can start a new life without that annoying guy bothering me.

She should repay the favor... He shouldn't care about it, right?

Anyway, Su Guoer didn't want to see him that much. If it really didn't work, she could ask Changqi to send some food to the Imperial City Division another day, as a way of expressing gratitude to him for saving her twice.

As for the rest...

Su Guoer still didn't want to have any interaction with him.