"Get up." The more Bai Youjin looked at this disciple, the happier she became. She stood up and helped Gu Yanyue up. She took her hand and looked her up and down. With a smile on her face, she said, "Tomorrow, I will teach you all my skills."
Gu Yanyue knelt down again upon hearing this. "Master, please forgive me. I have unfinished business outside, so I'm afraid I can't accompany you to learn about mechanical engineering."
Bai Youjin looked at Gu Yanyue in disbelief, his voice full of doubt: "What did you say?"
Gu Yanyue couldn't bear to meet Bai Youjin's gaze, so she lowered her head and spoke with difficulty, repeating what she had just said: "My disciple said that I can't study mechanical engineering with Master for the time being. I have more important things to do."
"Is there anything more important than learning the art of mechanisms from me?" Bai Youjin snorted coldly.
Gu Yanyue still refused to let go: "I'm sorry, Master——"
Seeing that Gu Yanyue was stubborn and had a very stubborn temper, Bai Youjin angrily threw his sleeves and walked out.
After watching Bai Youjin leave, Gu Yanyue stood up again. She stumbled a little as she stood up after kneeling for too long. Yuwen Ran quickly supported her and said, "Senior Bai is unwilling to let you and me out. We have already wasted a lot of time being tied up in the mountain stronghold. If we continue to waste time like this, I am afraid that Tuoba Chen will attack us before the army reaches the Western Regions."
Gu Yanyue closed her eyes, rubbed her brows, and sighed. She didn't have any good ideas right now. The only thing she could show off was her cooking skills. "Ah Ran, your wound has just improved. Go back to your room and rest. I'll go to the kitchen to make some delicious food and then go to Master's room to comfort him."
"Okay, I'll go with you to find Senior Bai later. Two people are always better than one."
"Then I'll call you after I've prepared the meal."
After sending Yu Wenran back to her room, Gu Yanyue went to the small kitchen in their yard.
A few days ago, Gu Yanyue went there to check and found that the kitchen was fully equipped with oil, salt, sauce, vinegar, pots, pans, and even a complete set of knives.
When I went there today, I found that even the ingredients were not bad. There was a large carp, a pork chop, a slaughtered chicken, a lamb leg, and a variety of seasonal vegetables. Gu Yanyue stared. Bai Youjin was really too considerate. Thinking about how she had hurt her feelings again and again, she felt more and more like a worthless person.
Gu Yanyue thought to herself: I must make a meal for Bai Youjin that she likes.
Thinking of this, Gu Yanyue rolled up his sleeves and caught a carp without saying a word. He threw the fish hard to the ground. After it fainted, he began to remove the scales and internal organs, while wondering where Bai Youjin was from.
China's culinary culture is extensive and profound. After a long period of development and evolution, it has formed its own system with distinct local flavors. During the Tang and Song dynasties, it was roughly divided into southern and northern cuisines. By the Qing Dynasty, it developed into the four major cuisines of Sichuan, Shandong, Cantonese, and Huaiyang. Later, the divisions were more detailed, forming eight major cuisines.
Gu Yanyue thought about the past few days she had spent with Bai Youjin. From Bai Youjin's accent, it seemed like he was from the Wu Yue area. In that case, he must be cooking Huaiyang cuisine.
Although Gu Yanyue has studied various cuisines, she is best at Huaiyang cuisine. This may be because she grew up in Suzhou. Huaiyang cuisine is particular about the selection of ingredients, meticulous preparation, emphasis on knife skills, light seasoning, and the pursuit of original flavor. It has excellent color, aroma, taste and shape. The cooking method is good at using heat and is good at stewing, braising, simmering, warming, steaming, roasting, and stir-frying.
After finishing the fish, Gu Yanyue put the pork ribs with the head chopped into the pan and stir-fried them, adding ginger slices, a little mushroom, cooking wine, soy sauce and other seasonings. After stir-frying, put them into the casserole and simmer slowly over low heat. In this way, the braised pork ribs will be more flavorful.
Then she cleaned the chopping board and began slicing the tofu. She carefully sliced the tofu into paper-thin, even slices, arranging them neatly one by one. Her left hand, fingers curled tightly against the blade, moved the knife swiftly and evenly as her fingers retreated, the entire process flowing smoothly.
She planned to make an authentic Wensi tofu for Bai Youjin. Wensi tofu requires great knife skills. Recalling that when Gu Yanyue was learning to make this dish, she specially went to find a famous chef in the industry to learn knife skills for more than half a month.
Gu Yanyue cut the chicken breast, bamboo shoots and mushrooms into shreds. Yu Wenran looked at the curl of smoke rising from the kitchen ceiling and couldn't contain his excitement. He wondered what Gu Yanyue would do this time.
After a while, a fragrant aroma came from the kitchen. Yu Wenran could no longer sit still when he smelled it, and immediately went to the small kitchen following the aroma.
When Yuwen Ran came, Gu Yanyue was just changing the frying pan. Seeing Yuwen Ran coming, she couldn't help but smile. She had never cooked these dishes for Yuwen Ran before, so it was not surprising that Yuwen Ran came over when he smelled the fragrance.
She poured a thin layer of oil into the pot, put the mushrooms stuffed with meat paste in and fried them. The aroma of the meat and the fragrance of the mushrooms themselves blended together, stimulating people's sense of smell. She fried them until they were about 70% cooked, then poured in the prepared soup, added a little starch and simmered for a while, so that the mushrooms could absorb the moisture and flavor of the soup and become smooth and delicious.
This is the recipe for teppanyaki mushrooms. Gu Yanyue made a slight change this time, and it turned into another dish. Use chopsticks to place the mushrooms on the already stir-fried green leaves, pour the soup evenly over them, and another delicious dish is freshly baked.
Yuwen Ran looked at Gu Yanyue eagerly as she skillfully poured the freshly fried sweet and sour sauce over the carp that had just been taken out of the pot. The sweet and sour sauce flowed down the carp's body, contrasting the white fish meat with the bright red sweet and sour sauce. Yuwen Ran couldn't help swallowing his saliva.
Because there were three people eating together, Gu Yanyue prepared a total of five dishes today, including braised spare ribs, sweet and sour carp, a modified version of grilled mushrooms with rapeseed, Wensi tofu, and lean pork and bamboo shoots.
Yu Wenran couldn't help but put his nose close to the food and sniffed it, sighing with satisfaction: "Ayue, your cooking skills have improved a lot. The smell of these dishes is enough to make people drool."
Gu Yanyue smiled and teased Yu Wenran, "Then be careful not to let your saliva drip in there."
Since the dishes were made by Gu Yanyue, Yu Wenran took the initiative to take over the task of serving the dishes.
Inside the room, Bai Youjin was a little dazed as she looked at the five dishes. They all looked great and tasted delicious. She hadn't expected that her apprentice was not only talented in mechanical engineering, but also had considerable accomplishments in cooking.
If she wasn't still in her house in the woods, she would have thought she was in a restaurant outside.
"Senior, please try the dishes cooked by my Ah Yue. They are delicious!" Yu Wenran was so greedy that he couldn't help but pick up his chopsticks, but due to etiquette, he had to give up.
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