"Forget it!" Manager Qian said, displeased. "Make the vegetable dumplings first!"
It's said that a wise man keeps away from the kitchen, but this Manager Qian has been cultivating for thousands of years and is also the owner of a pharmacy; he has enough elixirs to eat. Judging from his appearance, he might have been a cook for his wives and concubines before becoming an immortal, so he doesn't know much about cooking.
Anyone who has never seen Zhao Xi cook would not believe that a mortal could control a flame with spiritual energy and make food that meets the needs of immortals.
Moreover, she was not familiar with the spiritual plants of the Immortal Realm.
She took out a banner and a frame from the ring and built a simple shed to block out the sunlight.
No matter how rich the spiritual energy in the cave is, the ingredients cannot be exposed to direct sunlight, otherwise they will dry out quickly. These spiritual plants, with their heads and tails removed, have already lost some of their spiritual energy; if they are exposed to the sun like this, all the spiritual energy will escape.
She scooped a ladleful from the cooled spring water that had been boiled in the kitchen, put it in a spray bottle, and sprinkled some water on it.
Then he moved a small stool and sat down under the shed.
He would take each kind of spiritual plant out of the basket, pinch it a few times, smell it, and sometimes even take a bite.
Some vegetables are very tender and are good whether served cold or stir-fried.
Some vegetables are so tough you can't even bite them, so you can use them to make soup or grind them into powder to make seasonings.
Then they are categorized according to their spiritual energy attributes and recipes.
In the food of immortals, spiritual energy is equivalent to nutrition. The spiritual energy attributes of spiritual plants in the Middle Immortal Realm are even more detailed, with even the main attribute potentially having different combinations.
Take the seven-leaf clover in this basket, for example. Zhao Xi first tasted a sweet one, and upon smelling it, she noticed a woody aroma, as if earth-elemental spiritual energy contained wood elemental properties. The other one, also primarily earth-elemental, had a numbing sensation when eaten, as if it contained lightning-elemental impurities.
It's a bit troublesome.
Just as Zhao Xi was about to ask for help, she looked up and realized that while she was focused on picking vegetables, Manager Qian and the little fairy boy who had come to help her had left, leaving only Immortal Master Muqiu.
His small frame leaned lazily against the wall, a whisk in his hand, his face stern and displeased. Seeing Zhao Xi trying to look at him, he asked irritably, "Why are you looking at me? Look at the food! You know how to cook, right? Then hurry up and finish cooking all these dishes before you die!"
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