Having a goal also gives you motivation. After Li Xi had laughed enough, she went to the kitchen.
Auntie Lin is the live-in auntie. When she's not cooking, she cleans the place. Right now, she's cleaning the cabinets in the living room.
Seeing Li Xi coming downstairs, he hurriedly greeted Li Xi, "Miss Li is down, are you busy?"
"Boss Luo is coming back for dinner today and asked me to cook. I'll go to the kitchen to see what dishes are available."
Aunt Lin, who had been nimble and quick-witted just now, stopped what she was doing and turned to face Li Xi. "Why did you ask Miss Li to cook? Is it because my cooking doesn't suit Mr.'s taste?"
"No, no." Li Xi waved her hands repeatedly. "Last time I asked him for help, I promised to treat him to a meal. How can the delicacies from outside be as sincere as those made by hand? So I said I would cook a meal myself to thank him."
"So that's how it is." Aunt Lin smiled and started to pack up the cleaning tools. "Then I'll help you."
"OK."
Given Li Xi's level of cooking, she doesn't need anyone to help her. Besides, she used to cook alone and was not used to having someone to help her.
But, her current persona is that of a young lady who has never touched a woman's home. Her last attempt at making fresh meat mooncakes was jaw-dropping enough, but this time, she's making a delicious four-dish and one soup dish, which is a bit shocking.
Coming to the kitchen, Li Xi looked at the existing ingredients.
Aunt Lin goes to the market almost every day and buys vegetables based on their quality. Therefore, the ingredients, or the dishes served on the table, are different every day.
The meat dishes I bought today were not very diverse, including ribs, pork tenderloin, and chicken legs. There were slightly more vegetarian dishes, including bean sprouts, baby cabbage, corn, cucumber, water spinach, potatoes, and carrots.
Of course, you can also bring dried vegetables such as dried black fungus and seaweed. They are always prepared in the kitchen. When you need them, you can just take them out and soak them in water.
After looking at the ingredients, Li Xi thought for a moment and decided on tonight's menu.
The spare ribs are used to make soup, corn and kelp spare rib soup.
Pork tenderloin can be prepared in two ways: half can be used to make boiled pork slices, and the other half can be used to stir-fry moo shu pork.
As for chicken legs, I made some cold shredded chicken. I also had cucumbers with them, so the combination was delicious.
Finally, stir-fry some water spinach, perfect.
I thought so, but I couldn't tell Aunt Lin the names of the dishes directly. After all, she was a young lady who had never touched water.
Li Xi was speechless when she thought about her character. It really was inconvenient to do anything. The more comforting thing was that Li Meng had already given a good reason for her personality change—marrying into a wealthy family had made her feel proud.
Li Xi pretended to discuss the dishes with Aunt Lin for half a day. By describing the dishes, she slowly guided Aunt Lin to tell her what she expected from the menu.
Then, under Aunt Lin's hesitant gaze, I decisively opened the recipe app. The idea was to memorize the theoretical knowledge before starting, so that I could cook with ease and create delicious food that was both delicious and flavorful.
Well, actually, Li Xi is used to cooking by following a recipe. If someone is teaching her, she will become at a loss.
Aunt Lin was also good-tempered, and seeing her like this, she didn't say much. On the one hand, it was because Li Xi was the employer, and the employer's happiness was more important. On the other hand, Aunt Lin knew that young people nowadays have their own ideas about cooking.
Li Xi was very grateful for Aunt Lin's tolerance and asked her for help during the process, such as soaking kelp and black fungus, blanching the ribs, etc.
The pork ribs soup needs to be simmered, which takes a long time. With the help of Aunt Lin, Li Xi stewed the soup first.
After that, it's time to prepare other dishes: chopping, soaking, blanching, and pickling.
The two of them bustled around in the kitchen for nearly an hour before they prepared all the ingredients.
Li Xi checked the time, wondering when Luo Jingxuan would be back. If she put the food in the pot now, it might be cold by the time he got back. The other dishes were fine, but the water spinach would wilt if heated and wouldn't taste good.
For the sake of taste and her own fantasy of "Luo Jingxuan's expression of enjoyment after eating the delicious food", Li Xi decided to contact Assistant Jiang first to ask when Luo Jingxuan would be home.
Don’t ask why you didn’t call Luo Jingxuan. If you ask, it means you are a coward.
Assistant Jiang was quite reliable. He received a reply within a few minutes of sending the message. Not only did he clarify the time when Luo Jingxuan would leave the company after get off work, he also emphasized that he would contact the boss in advance when he was a 20-minute drive away from the villa.
Li Xi once again sighed that Assistant Jiang was such a good assistant, and she must whisper in Luo Jingxuan's ear and give Assistant Jiang a bonus.
While waiting, Li Xi first boiled the chicken thighs, then tore them into strips with her hands, and added the finely chopped cucumber, carrot, and fungus shreds by Aunt Lin.
Take another bowl of separate sauce, pour appropriate amount of light soy sauce, salt, sugar, vinegar, white pepper, oyster sauce and sesame oil into the bowl, then add a small amount of garlic water and stir evenly with a spoon.
Then pour oil into the hot pan, turn off the heat and pour in the chili powder.
Finally, pour the sauce and chili oil into the prepared chicken bowl and stir evenly with chopsticks.
Regardless of whether Luo Jingxuan would enjoy the meal, Li Xi was already crying with greed. She slipped a mouthful while Aunt Lin wasn't paying attention. Then, she praised herself in her heart, but her face remained expressionless. Only her cheeks moved, clearly enjoying the meal.
Li Xi was very happy after successfully cheating. She didn't even feel bored while waiting for Luo Jingxuan to get off work. Instead, she felt very happy.
Aunt Lin, who was watching from the side, thought that Li Xi was looking forward to her husband eating the food she cooked, and was so happy. She looked at Li Xi with an aunt's smile. Li Xi was stunned.
I always feel like the next thing she'll say is, "I haven't seen you smile so happily in a long time."
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