Bai Youjin nodded under Yu Wenran's incredulous gaze and said, "Go ahead."
Gu Yanyue patted Yuwen Ran's shoulder and said, "Aran, work hard. I'll go to the kitchen to prepare some delicious food for you."
Gu Yanyue had decided to teach Yuwen Ran a lesson because the servant hadn't weeded the garden for a few days. Now, seeing Yuwen Ran clumsily weeding in the small garden, she couldn't stand it anymore.
Gu Yanyue looked at it for a while, but couldn't bear to look any longer. She retracted her gaze and turned to Bai Youjin and asked, "Master, is there anything you want to eat? I'll make it for us later."
"The Wensi tofu you made for me the first time was delicious." Bai Youjin ordered this dish.
Gu Yanyue was a little confused. In the past, if Bai Youjin had heard that she was going to cook, he would definitely have ordered a few more dishes. How could he not have just ordered one dish like today? "Master, why did you only order this one dish? Why not order a few more?"
Bai You waved his hand and said, "No need. Just make more of what that brat likes to eat and reward him. Don't let him work hard all afternoon and then see food that he doesn't like in the evening."
Bai Youjin's favorite dishes are all spicy. Yuwen Ran grew up in the capital, so he can eat spicy food, but he can't tolerate food that is too spicy.
If you eat too much, you will feel stomach discomfort the next day.
In order to beg Bai Youjin to let her and Yu Wenran out, Gu Yanyue mostly cooked spicy dishes.
Yu Wenran had a hard time those days. He just kept eating his meal and only occasionally picked up some not-so-spicy dishes with his chopsticks to mix with the rice.
Only after Bai Youjin saved her life did Gu Yanyue go to the kitchen of the private residence. She took a quick look at the ingredients in the kitchen.
Because Gu Yanyue came yesterday, the person who delivered the ingredients brought some extra ingredients. Gu Yanyue picked some and planned to use them to make Yu Wenran's favorite dishes.
Because Gu Yanyue was craving for wild game yesterday, she and Bai Youjin made a simple trap in the back mountain, hoping to catch some wild rabbits to eat.
It just so happened that Yu Wenran came today, so she took some time to go to the back mountain to see if the traps she and Bai Youjin set yesterday had caught any game.
As soon as Gu Yanyue went up the mountain, she saw a gray rabbit struggling in a trap that she and Bai Youjin had set yesterday. Gu Yanyue happily ran over with her skirt lifted up, released the rabbit from the trap, and brought it back to the kitchen.
After catching the rabbit and returning to the kitchen of the private house, Gu Yanyue took out a dagger from his arms and cut the rabbit's neck to end its pain. He then skillfully drained the blood, skinned it, removed its internal organs, and even removed the entire spine to get rid of the fishy smell. Gu Yanyue did these things very smoothly. In a short while, Gu Yanyue had cleaned the rabbit and only needed to wash it.
After all these preparations were done, she carried the rabbit to the creek enclosed in the private house and washed the rabbit. After washing it, Gu Yanyue took out two small porcelain bottles from her arms and also took out the small brush she asked the craftsman to make for her, and brushed the oil evenly on the meat, and then sprinkled it with homemade seasoning.
The reason she came out of the palace this time was, firstly, to ask Bai Youjin to help her plead for Yu Wenran, and secondly, because when she came to Bai Youjin not long ago, she promised to make a roasted whole rabbit for Bai Youjin.
Bai Youjin has been craving for the taste of the roasted whole lamb made by Gu Yanyue ever since he ate it in the Western Regions. Although the roasted whole lamb is delicious, there are not many people in this private house, and it would be a bit of a waste for one person to eat an entire roasted whole lamb.
Bai Youjin asked Gu Yanyue if she could roast anything else besides a whole lamb. Gu Yanyue boasted that she could roast anything edible, whether it was flying in the sky or running on the ground.
On the first day that Gu Yanyue left the palace, the two masters and apprentices decided to go to the mountains to set up a lot of traps, intending to get some wild game to roast and eat.
So Gu Yanyue made a simple barbecue grill yesterday. She took out the bamboo sticks that had been peeled long ago, pierced the rabbit meat, and placed it on the grill.
Then she took out a flint and started a fire. When the fire was burning, she quickly turned the grill over and sprinkled some cumin powder that she had slowly figured out after traveling back to ancient times on the rabbit meat.
Seeing that the food was almost done, Gu Yanyue called a young palace maid she had brought out of the palace and asked her to help turn the grill over. She then went into the kitchen to cook other dishes.
Gu Yanyue just saw a large piece of pork, a few eggplants and some cabbages on the table; chopped green onions, ginger and garlic were also available.
She walked towards the kitchen while thinking about what she would make with the ingredients. As soon as she entered the kitchen, she rolled up her sleeves and washed her hands before picking up the piece of pork and taking a look at it.
This is a piece of ribs, and I guess it weighs about one and a half pounds. Although it looks like it has layers of fat and lean, the distribution of fat and lean is not very even, which is just right.
It just happened to be the lion's head dish that Yu Wenran loved to eat, so Gu Yanyue quickly made a decision.
After deciding what to do with the meat, Gu Yanyue immediately washed it, deftly removed the skin from the ribs, and also removed all the tendons and bones from the meat.
Then cut the meat into pieces as big as pomegranate seeds. This step is a test of the chef's knife skills. If it is cut too finely, it will be chopped into meat paste. If it is cut too big, it will be difficult to knead it into meatballs later.
After Gu Yanyue cut the meat into cubes, she mixed the separately cut fat and lean meat together. While stirring, she added a seasoning made of cornstarch, cooking wine, and onion and ginger juice until it became sticky. Then she used her hands to knead it into the size of the meatballs she usually eats.
After doing all this, Gu Yanyue spread the pork skin that had been removed from the head on the bottom of the casserole, and then spread some cabbage on it, put the meatballs on top, and slowly poured the boiling water that had been prepared earlier and set aside into the pot along the edge, covered it with a lid and simmered it over low heat.
Before long, a fragrance emerged from the pot and gradually filled the kitchen.
After doing all this, Gu Yanyue didn't rest.
After washing the rice and cooking, I used the meat that was specially left out from making lion's head and the eggplant on the table to stir-fry some meaty eggplant.
Then I beat a few eggs and put them into the pot together with the tomatoes, and cooked them into a tomato egg drop soup that was colorful, fragrant and delicious.
After doing all this, the lion's head that she had been stewing was almost done. She skimmed some of the oil off the soup, picked out the pork skin and cabbage underneath, sprinkled it with chopped cabbage and chopped green onion, ginger and garlic, and simmered it for a while before serving.
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