In Stardate 9102, humanity had left Earth for seven millennia. In the interstellar era, Earth's civilization was lost, and humans survived on nutrient solutions. In this very year, an Earthling...
Chapter 198: White-Cut Chicken [Update 1]
When Tu Rongrong carried her sister downstairs, there was no one downstairs. Tu Yuanyuan ran back upstairs from the kitchen to look for her sister. The two-year-old was already very smart and could move freely.
Tu Che and A11 were in the kitchen at the moment. Tu Che just put the rice in the rice cooker and started cooking. He also listened to Tu Rongrong and boiled a pot of water for her.
When Tu Rongrong came over, the water was just slightly hot and had not yet boiled. After Tu Rongrong handed Tu Yuanyuan to Tu Che, she took out a chicken, washed it, and put it in the water to boil.
"What are you doing?" Tu Che held Tu Yuanyuan in his arms and stood behind Tu Rongrong, looking at her busy appearance and asked puzzledly. Was she going to cook some other dishes?
"How about I make you a whole chicken dinner tonight?" Tu Rongrong said with a smile.
"A whole chicken feast?" Tu Che was very confused. "Are you planning to eat chicken exclusively tonight?"
"Yes." Tu Rongrong nodded, "We just happened to catch a lot of pheasants. These pheasants are especially fat and big, perfect for making all kinds of delicious dishes."
Tu Che thought about it and nodded, "Okay, then do it if you want to."
Tu Rongrong smiled, washed her hands, and then wrapped her hair with a silk scarf. Even though she had already tied her hair into a bun, there were still some scattered bangs, so Tu Rongrong had to wrap it up with the silk scarf.
Tu Rongrong took the apron hanging in the kitchen and put it on, then asked Tu Che to contact the managers at the food factory to send over ten processed pheasants.
The food factory needs a lot of food ingredients recently, and there are more meats such as pork, beef, mutton, chicken, and duck. However, because the food factory has not yet officially started the production of meat products such as chicken, duck, goose, beef, and mutton, if Tu Rongrong needs pheasants, they can still send Tu Rongrong a lot.
Of course, there is no need to drive a car to deliver the cleaned chicken. The food factory has a special express receiver for sending their products, and Tu Rongrong's family also has one, so it is very convenient for people there to send express directly, and it will be received in less than a minute.
Tu Rongrong asked Tu Che to go to the express receiver and bring back the ten chickens she needed. Tu Rongrong opened her own live broadcast room and said hello to Xingbo, saying that she had started a live broadcast.
"Good evening, welcome everyone to Mao Rongrong's live broadcast room. I am the anchor Rongrong." Tu Rongrong opened the live broadcast room and set up the flying camera to follow while greeting the audience.
【Here it comes! 】
【The goddess finally started live streaming. 】
It's only been over 20 hours since I last saw my goddess, and it feels like over 20 years have passed. It's too hard to bear.
[It feels like I haven't seen a goddess in two hundred years.]
[Goddess, we agreed to live stream the next day, why are you doing it now?]
[Goddess, do you know how much I miss you? ]
[Goddess, you didn't start your live broadcast this morning or at noon. I thought you were going to cancel your live broadcast today.]
[Here I am, good evening, goddess.]
Good evening, goddess.
"Good evening." Tu Rongrong greeted again, and then she explained why she was broadcasting so late, "Because I was too tired yesterday, I slept all day. Well, that means I slept for a full 24 hours."
"I said yesterday that I would do a live broadcast today, but it's not even midnight yet, so it's still today. I can't be considered as canceling it, right?" Tu Rongrong said with a smile.
[Woo woo woo, goddess, are you going to play this trick on us? ]
[Goddess, you have already started live streaming today, I am satisfied. ]
[I am relieved that I can still see the beautiful goddess today. ]
[Goddess, what are we eating today? ]
[Can you be more ambitious, the one in front? The moment you see the goddess, you ask her what she wants to eat, unlike me... Goddess, are you cooking dinner tonight?]
[Goddess, I really miss the banquet we had last time. How about we have another banquet tonight?]
[Not the one before. The banquet takes a long time to prepare. If you start now, you won't be able to make it in time for dinner, right?]
"Yeah, I calculated the time, it's almost seven o'clock over there, Goddess. If we're preparing a banquet, does that mean we have to wait until the early morning to eat?"
Tu Rongrong smiled faintly and said, "Today can be considered a banquet. We will have a whole chicken feast today."
[Whole chicken feast? 】
Is the whole chicken feast what I thought it meant?
[Goddess, are you saying you're going to prepare a feast filled with chicken today?]
Does this mean that all dishes today are made with chicken?
[A whole chicken feast! A whole chicken feast! Please note, the emphasis is on the word 'feast'!]
[Ahhh, a whole chicken feast! Does that mean there are more than two or three dishes tonight?]
【Goddess, please tell me. 】
"Yes." Tu Rongrong nodded, "Today I'm going to make a whole chicken feast with nine dishes and one soup."
[Nine dishes and one soup?]
【Ahhh nine dishes and one soup! 】
【With so many dishes, I feel happy today. 】
"Okay, now we can cook today's dishes." Tu Rongrong took out the whole chicken that had been boiled in the pot and rinsed it clean.
Put clean water in the pot, put the washed whole chicken in, then add cooking wine, green onion knots, and ginger slices, cover the lid and continue stewing.
"This needs to be boiled for ten minutes, then turned off the heat and simmered for twenty minutes. Now we just wait ten minutes and then turn off the heat." Tu Rongrong stewed the chicken and left it alone. Tu Che over there had already brought all ten chickens sent from the food factory.
Tu Rongrong took the ten chickens and put them in a basin to soak them in water and wash them, then she began to prepare the dipping sauce for the poached chicken.
Tu Rongrong cut the ginger slices into shreds and then minced them, then added chopped green onions, dark soy sauce, light soy sauce, sugar, chicken broth and sesame oil. She had already prepared the dipping sauce.
After that, Tu Rongrong prepared a dipping sauce. She chopped the garlic into fine pieces, then added light soy sauce, oyster sauce, green orange juice, chili powder, and two drops of vinegar. Finally, Tu Rongrong also sprinkled in the chopped coriander and stirred it all over.
After preparing the two dipping sauces, Tu Rongrong placed them in a heat-insulating food container. Then, she began to prepare one of the chickens. She cleaned the chicken inside and out, then placed it in another pot, added water, and boiled it until it was half-cooked.
After Tu Rongrong put the chicken into the pot, the poached chicken next to it had also been cooked for ten minutes. After she turned off the fire, she did not open the lid of the pot and let it simmer for another twenty minutes.
"We just need to wait for it to simmer for twenty minutes. Don't worry about it now." After turning off the fire, Tu Rongrong prepared to make other dishes. Anyway, the chicken for glutinous rice chicken needed to be stewed until half-cooked, so she still had some time to do other things.
Tu Rongrong took out a chicken from the basin, washed it clean, then marinated it with pepper and salt for about an hour.
After Tu Rongrong finished, she looked at the dishes she had prepared. The glutinous rice chicken and bamboo shoot and chopped pepper chicken she needed to make both required cooked chicken, so she washed another chicken and put it in the pot to stew together with the previous one.
"I miscalculated, so I put the other one in now." Tu Rongrong put her hand on the lid of the pot where the two chickens were cooking and smiled awkwardly at the camera.
(End of this chapter)