Chapter 146: Working hard to become a fat man
Xiao Peng has been on the boat for so long and has been eating nothing but fast food and seafood. He is almost sick of it. What he wants now is meat, real meat, not the luncheon meat they eat on the boat!
And this is when you see the benefits of having an Italian at home!
Bellucci's cooking skills are really good! Xiao Peng's first dinner back on shore was a formal Italian dinner.
Italian food is also divided into different cuisines like Chinese food. They are roughly divided into: northern cuisine, central cuisine, southern cuisine and island cuisine. Sicily, where Bellucci lives, belongs to the southern cuisine. The characteristic there is the use of herbs, spices and seafood in dishes. In short, they are better at cooking seafood.
But Bellucci's cooking is not southern cuisine but more like northern cuisine: she boils the pasta in plain water, filters the water, puts it on a plate, pours olive oil, grated cheese and sauce on it, and eats it directly.
This way of eating pasta is simpler than eating it in China, but it is indeed the most common way of eating pasta in Northern Italy. Eating it this way makes the pasta very springy, and it feels like the pasta is dancing on the lips and teeth.
And the way she cooks rice is also very interesting.
She put the rice in a pot with only a small amount of water, stirring it while it cooked, and then adding more water. At the same time, she added butter and grated cheese, heating and stirring them. The result was Italian rice.
Xiao Peng doesn't like this kind of rice, but Pascal and Xiao Hengheng particularly like it.
The appetizer is a cold dish, which is Italian braised pork, which is similar to the domestic braised beef, but it is pork, and it tastes first-class with pickled mushrooms.
Xiao Peng likes this kind of pickled mushrooms very much. The method is extremely simple. Just cut the fresh mushrooms into small pieces and put them in a pot and cook them with various spices. After cooking, pour out some of the water and add sugar, vinegar and salt and put them in the refrigerator to refrigerate. It is a very delicious appetizer.
But Fabian refused to even touch the pickled mushrooms because the spices used to cook the mushrooms required cilantro, and Fabian couldn't eat cilantro.
Sadly, cilantro originated in the Mediterranean region, but many people there can't enjoy its flavor. This is because they have a gene called 'OR6A2.' Cilantro's unique flavor is due to the presence of aldehydes, and people with this gene are extremely sensitive to these aldehydes. They perceive cilantro as a foul odor rather than a fragrance.
In fact, there is an organization in France called the "World Anti-Coriander Alliance". They say that coriander is "the devil's fart" and call on people all over the world who hate coriander to boycott coriander.
Xiao Peng doesn't care about them. He likes coriander and he wishes he could have coriander for every meal!
Shredded pork with coriander, coriander dumplings, coriander pancakes, dried shrimps with coriander, coriander meatballs... He could instantly think of countless wonderful corianders - including Hanazawa coriander, of course.
It’s a pity that Fabian can’t eat coriander, because everyone else eats it and it smells delicious.
The sweet and sour pickled mushrooms go really well with pasta or Italian rice.
The main course was Xiao Peng's favorite fried steak.
Bellucci makes authentic 'Milanese fried steak'. He mixes eggs and olive oil, adds salt and stirs vigorously until foamy, then sprinkles pepper on it. He then soaks the steak in the egg liquid, coats it with breadcrumbs and cheese powder, and deep-fries it in oil.
Although this kind of fried steak is also very greasy, the oil used to fry the steak is a high-calorie oil mixed with butter and olive oil, but after the fried steak is poured with tomato juice and eaten later, the greasiness is neutralized and it tastes unique.
After eating, drink a glass of sweet liqueur wine with strawberry cream cake. I have to say, this is how to enjoy life!
Now Xiao Peng is even more certain: the weight gain of Westerners in middle age isn't a racial issue, it's likely a diet issue! If Xiao Peng ate this every day, he'd be at least twice as fat in less than a year!
After eating and drinking, the whole room was filled with people chatting. Xiao Peng felt warm and at ease. People still need friends at all times. However, Xiao Peng was happy for a short time before he discovered a serious problem at home.
There are eight people in my family now, including myself: Pascal, Fabian, Bellucci, Moreau, his daughter Cathy, Xiao Hengheng, and Emile. But these eight people can't speak the same language.
Although there are many people in the room who can speak French, Bellucci only speaks Italian; Emile only speaks Arabic; and Xiao Hengheng is even more terrifying. Even African language experts cannot understand her language.
Xiao Peng had taught them French on the boat, but their French was still terrible. They could speak word by word, but asking them to communicate? It was an impossible task!
"Protest!" Fabian said, "Since we want to unify the language in this room, why don't we learn Chinese?"
Xiao Peng blinked, suspecting he had misheard. "What did you say? Learn Chinese? They're French citizens now and will be living in France. You want them to learn Chinese?"
Pascal said, "Xiao, you still don't understand what Fabian means? He really wants to study those books you mentioned, so that's why he asked to learn Chinese!"
At this moment, Cathy said, "Howl, take a break, and see you."
Xiao Peng was stunned: "Kathy, how come you can speak Chinese?"
Moro smiled and said, "Boss, I sent Cathy to the Chinese International Class! You are my boss, so of course I want my daughter to learn your language so that she can work better for you, right?"
Fabian raised his middle finger in front of Morrow and said, "What a flatterer! But wouldn't it be more appropriate for you to go and study?"
Moro looked bitter after hearing this: "I want to learn it, but it's too difficult! I'm afraid I'm past the prime age for learning a new language."
After learning about this, Bellucci also shook his head, saying that it was too difficult for her to learn a new language at her age.
The issue of unifying the language was left unresolved, but Xiao Hengheng and Emile had to learn French because they would have to live here in the future and they couldn't fail to speak the language.
Fabian was responsible for recruiting a home language tutor. Cathy and Emile were about the same age, and being friends would also help Emile's language skills. As for Xiao Hengheng... let the teacher handle it. Xiao Peng had more important things to do right now.
"You guys keep chatting, I'm going back to bed to have a nice sleep. I won't even wake up in an earthquake! Don't bother me!"
What do you miss most at sea? Besides delicious food, the only thing you miss is a bed that won't budge! The pain of drifting at sea every day is unbearable for most people!
Xiao Peng just wants to have a good rest now.
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