Chapter 26 All Vegetarian Dishes
Although this family dinner was not very large with only a dozen people, we had to customize the menu and prepare the ingredients, which were not easy tasks.
Bai Mengmeng naturally had to temporarily suspend business, causing people in the WeChat group to wail.
She knew that those exquisite dishes were her weaknesses, and even if she forced herself to make them, there would be no good results, so in the end she just made simple ingredients and tried every possible way to make the best taste.
Bai Mengmeng wrote the menu and asked the Qi couple to purchase the ingredients, but they had to buy the vegetables from her, as the expensive vegetables outside might not be as delicious as those she grew.
Then Bai Mengmeng will not be responsible for the tableware, and will just come to cook by herself.
When the Qi family eats, they use the separate dining system, so even if it is not Western food, it still has to be made into small portions, which requires a lot of tableware.
Time flies, and the birthday party arrived the next day.
Even though it was a dinner party, a lot of things had to be prepared in advance. Whether it was preparing dishes or making soup, it took a lot of time, so Bai Mengmeng set off early.
When Xu Bo heard that Bai Mengmeng was going to someone else's house to cook, he was worried about her safety and planned to accompany her and help out.
Bai Mengmeng quickly refused, saying that Uncle Xu was not young anymore and there was no way he could go through so much trouble.
Moreover, the Qi family is so rich that the old man lives in a villa and there are several cooks at home, so there will naturally be no shortage of people to help.
Xu Bo had no choice but to insist that Bai Mengmeng take the good tea.
This guy looks young, but he is very strong and can help move things. He is also quite good at fighting. If anything happens, I will feel more at ease with him around.
Although Bai Mengmeng is the head of the sect, she is a woman after all. It is really worrying to see her going to a wealthy family to cook alone.
Bai Mengmeng did not object. She took the snakeskin bag and stuffed all the vegetables and mushrooms she needed, as well as the kitchen utensils she was used to, into the pocket, filling several sacks.
With Liangcha's help, another large jar was loaded into the car. This was the snow vegetables that were pickled during the previous attempt. In the end, the car sent by the Qi family was almost full.
The car drove all the way to the city and then stopped in front of a garden villa in the city center. The land price here is so expensive, the Qi family is indeed rich.
Bai Mengmeng is still in the struggling stage, and she can't help but feel envious. The garden is bigger than her farm house, and she really wants to compete with these rich people.
The car passed through the gate and stopped at the edge of the lawn. From here, things could be moved directly to the kitchen, which was very convenient.
Bai Mengmeng was holding a snakeskin bag, and Liang Cha was helping to hold the jar of pickled vegetables. They just got out of the car.
A disdainful sneer came from the side.
"Second uncle is really petty. What kind of cook did he hire? He looks dirty, smelly and disgusting."
Bai Mengmeng turned her head and saw a young girl, about twenty years old, standing on a balcony not far away.
Although she is very beautiful, what she says is very harsh.
When she said the word "Second Uncle", Bai Mengmeng immediately realized that this girl should be of the same generation as Qi Cong. They were indeed somewhat similar, both so arrogant and domineering.
She was too lazy to argue with such a person, as it would only make her angry in the end, so Bai Mengmeng just glanced at him twice and ignored him as if she didn't see anything.
The girl upstairs was a little surprised. She had found out yesterday that her second uncle had agreed with Bodhi Pavilion to invite Chef Sun today, but he didn't show up. Instead, he invited an unknown female chef.
I heard that he is very young and opened a shabby farm house near Phoenix Mountain.
She thought this was hilarious. How could the food cooked by such a person be served on the table?
I originally thought that this female chef should be vulgar, with big shoulders and a big waist, but now I see that she is quite pretty, with a slim figure, and very attractive.
Although her complexion is not particularly white, she looks very healthy, with a rosy complexion and delicate facial features. She is not a top-notch beauty, but she makes people feel inexplicably comfortable when they look at her.
Finding that Bai Mengmeng ignored her, the girl snorted disdainfully: "I don't know where this cat and dog came from, it's really unlucky!"
Liang Cha's eyes turned cold instantly, and he took out a peanut from his pocket. It was unknown whether he had hidden it secretly. He didn't make any movement, and the girl upstairs suddenly covered her head and screamed.
She lost her balance and fell.
"What fell?!"
Liangcha had no expression on his face as he picked up the pickle jar.
Bai Mengmeng has excellent five senses, so she naturally noticed Liangcha's action. She was not angry but rather secretly happy. This eldest disciple is quite protective of his master.
I don’t know where these peanuts came from, or whether there are any peanuts in the farmhouse’s kitchen.
Entering the villa, Bai Mengmeng nodded quietly.
Qi Cong's family lived outside, so besides Grandpa Qi, there were only his eldest son's family in the villa. However, the kitchen was very large and fully equipped with all kinds of kitchen utensils.
Putting down the snakeskin bag and taking out the vegetables, fruits and melons, Bai Mengmeng went to the field to pick them early in the morning. They still looked very fresh now, with soil still on the roots.
Bai Mengmeng asked the cook to help her while she prepared the dry goods herself. She also made a pot of broth with vegetables such as hair algae and day lily. Because the soup would take a long time to cook, she needed to prepare it quickly.
Although she didn't plan to make it too complicated, for such a birthday banquet, the appetizers, cold dishes and desserts could be a little casual, but the main dishes could not be sloppy, otherwise it would be embarrassing.
After searching for information for a long time yesterday, Bai Mengmeng finally decided to make a top-notch vegetarian dish from the Manchu-Han Banquet, called Dinghu Shangsu.
This dish is quite common nowadays, but most restaurants only make a simple version. The complete Dinghu Shangsu requires more than 20 kinds of wild delicacies, cooked with bamboo shoots and mushrooms.
But even if all the ingredients are prepared, most people can only make this dish taste fresh and imitate some meaty flavor, but it is actually just a hodgepodge.
The essence of this dish lies in preserving the original flavor of each ingredient while making the ingredients blend harmoniously together, which is not an easy task.
Bai Mengmeng was busy preparing in the kitchen, but she felt a little worried.
Because there was so little time, she didn't know whether the Qi couple could buy all the ingredients she wanted.
When the other side dishes were almost ready, the Qi couple finally came back sweating profusely, while Bai Mengmeng was looking forward to it.
"Boss Xiaobai, thank you for fulfilling your mission. We have bought all the ingredients you needed!"
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