Chapter 133 Taste the Old Chef’s Cooking
Baoya looked at Zhu Qi, who was smiling, and said sweetly, "Uncle Zhu, what would you like to eat?"
Zhu Qi has been a chef for most of his life, so he is naturally very sensitive to the names of these foods.
After Baoya talked about all this, what he was most interested in was the taro ball honey soy milk tea, which he had never heard of.
So he said, "I didn't expect that after not seeing you for a while, you little girl have learned so many different kinds of food."
"I can more or less guess how the other foods and drinks are made from their names, but this... this round soy milk tea, I've never heard of it and don't know what it is. So why don't you just make this?"
Baoya nodded. "Okay. Uncle Zhu, it's taro ball and honey bean milk tea, but we don't have any honey beans at home right now. I'll make you a caramel three-ingredient milk tea, which is also very delicious."
Based on what Nan Xuan taught her before, she has now learned how to make caramel milk tea, adding various ingredients into it herself. In Nan Xuan's words, the number of ingredients added is the number of pinyin.
She made another seven-ingredient milk tea, but it didn't taste good. There were too many ingredients, which affected the original taste of the milk tea.
So when I make milk tea from now on, the ingredients will basically not exceed three.
Today she wanted to add some taro balls, raisins, and crushed peanuts, and she had to go to Aunt Sun Manxiang's house to buy milk for the milk tea.
Aunt Sun's family raised two cows, one male and one female. The male cow often pulled carts to town, and the female cow was used to give birth to calves and sell them for money.
However, few people would drink milk at this time. If Baoya didn't want to use it to make milk tea, I would never have thought of asking her family to buy milk.
Hearing the lively conversation inside, He Chunxiu, who was busy outside, poked her head in and said gently and expectantly, "Baoya, you want to make milk tea? Otherwise, I'll make you some potato pancakes as a snack before dinner."
Hearing that He Chunxiu was going to make potato pancakes, the children slurped their saliva and said in unison, "Okay! Thank you, Third Auntie!"
It seems that the potato pancakes made by the third daughter-in-law of the Yun family must be delicious too.
Zhu Qi smiled and said, "Thank you for your help."
"It's not a big deal, I'll just do it for you." He Chunxiu said and went out to do her work.
The children soon got busy. Yun Chengfu and Yun Chenglu carried buckets to Sun's house to buy milk, while Yunhua, Yunyue and Baoya prepared the ingredients for making caramel three-in-one milk tea later.
Zhu Qi watched the children busying themselves with food, and naturally felt embarrassed to just sit and wait for food, so he said to Zhao Zhilan, "Auntie, how about this, you should have some bacon and sausage at home, so I'll show off my cooking and make you a dish."
Xiaodouzi beside him also said happily: "Then I'll help you!"
Zhao Zhilan naturally wouldn't stop them. They were eager to try Chef Zhu's cooking skills.
"Okay, then I'll take you to the kitchen. It's a bit simple though." Zhao Zhilan felt a little embarrassed.
Zhu Qi waved his hand: "It's okay. Cooking is about skill, not anything else."
Soon, everyone was busy.
The Yun family's house was bustling with activity inside and out, and the aroma of food wafting from it was particularly appetizing.
At the Chen family next door, Zhou Cuihua cut the piece of pickled pork left over from last time into pieces the size of a child's fist.
"What's so great about building a house? Just because people keep coming here, you think your family is rich?" She rolled her eyes and cursed while chopping meat.
The door opened and Chen Changshui came out of the house with a cane.
He tapped his cane and growled impatiently, "If you want to chop meat, then chop meat. Can you please shut up?!"
Zhou Cuihua paused when he yelled at her. The knife fell and almost cut her hand, and she immediately became furious.
She said harshly, "I'm feeling aggrieved. Does my scolding bother you? I didn't even scold you!"
Since Chen Changshui recovered from his leg injury, he has become disabled. His left knee cannot bend and he cannot exert too much force. He can only walk with the help of crutches, but in fact, he is half paralyzed.
The man who had always been listless and timid had become irritable since his left leg was disabled. He never dared to talk back to Zhou Cuihua before, but now he dared to scold her.
"You're still feeling aggrieved. Our family is living like this now, don't you have any sense?! I think it's all your fault!"
"Hey, what did you say?! Chen Changshui, you've grown so powerful! How dare you scold me!"
"How pitiful! I am only fifteen or sixteen years old and I have to marry a heartless loser like you! Why is my life so miserable? Oh, God, please open your eyes and take a look..."
In the main room, Zhou Cuihua was crying and throwing a tantrum. She sat on the ground, howling and kicking her legs. From time to time, Chen Changshui could be heard sighing in helplessness.
Chen Xiaojuan, who was picking vegetables in the front yard, had a sullen face and closed the door to the main room.
Ever since she went to play with the young master of the Wang family, the coachman named Zhuangzi would come back to pick her up and take her to the Wang family in the next village.
I heard that Nanny Li had something to do at home and went back to her hometown. She won't be back until the end of the year, so during this period, Master Wang really needs her to accompany the silly young master Wang Guikang to play.
After her father's left leg was disabled, his temper became worse and worse, and he and her mother would quarrel every few days.
But she didn't feel anything, and was even a little relieved. At least, Zhou Cuihua didn't have the time to find fault with her.
The aroma of food filled the air from the Yun family’s kitchen, and soon all the food was ready, filling up a large table.
Baoya poured the caramel three-ingredient milk tea she had made into bowls one by one. Yunhua and Yunyue helped to bring the bowls to the table and distribute them to everyone.
He Chunxiu's fried potato pancakes are golden and crispy, topped with some green shredded vegetables and some bacon slices cut into similar sizes as garnish.
The staple food was still steamed bacon rice. Wang Cailian fried a few home-cooked dishes. He Chunxiu stewed braised pork ribs, cabbage, tofu and vermicelli. Li Rongyue helped out on the side.
A large table of dishes was laid out, and the entire Yun family and Zhu Qi were seated, except for a small empty space in the middle of the table.
There were rustling footsteps outside the door, and then I heard Xiaodouzi's clear and loud voice: "The preserved meat is ready to be steamed!"
Then, a large plate full of beautifully presented steamed bacon and sausages was placed on the table, emitting an enticing aroma.
The children's eyes widened immediately and they couldn't help swallowing. This... Boss Zhu's cooking is different from that of the farmers!
The dishes made with the same bacon and sausage are both beautiful and delicious, unlike the casual ones they make at home.
"This cured meat steamed together should actually be made by steaming cured pork, cured chicken, cured fish, chicken broth, and seasonings. But we only have these two now, so we can only make it simpler."
Zhu Qi smiled and said, "Come and try it, and see how good my cooking skills are after decades of experience."
As soon as he finished speaking, everyone started eating in unison without saying anything else.
Baoya picked up a large piece of steamed bacon and put it in her mouth to chew. She felt that the taste was different from the bacon in the stir-fried bacon with green bamboo shoots and the bacon stewed with tofu that she had eaten before.
But she couldn't quite put her finger on what the difference was.
Seeing her look of satisfaction after eating, Zhu Qi asked kindly, "Baoya, how does Uncle Zhu's steamed preserved meat taste?"
Baoya swallowed the bacon in her mouth, licked her lips with her little tongue, and said with satisfaction: "It's delicious!"
Yun Chengfu, who was standing by, saw that she was trying hard to express herself but couldn't find the words to describe it, so he smiled gently.
He spoke slowly, "Boss Zhu's steamed cured meat dish is rich in cured meat flavor, perfectly salty and sweet, tender and not greasy, and slightly juicy. The flavors complement each other perfectly."
Baoya was very impressed by what her elder brother said. She nodded vigorously and said, "Yes! That's what you said, elder brother!"
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