There is indeed a problem with my summoning spirit system

Chapter 279

Perhaps Shen Yunshu's performance really worked. From this day on, the number of guests gradually increased.

The old man who was the first to step into Li Xiang's shop and ordered a song "Dream Wedding" ordered a pot of tea in the shop, listened to the piano music played by Shen Yunshu, and looked at a book he picked out on the bookshelf. Reading this book while drinking green tea, which is new to the market this year.The old man sat like this for an hour.

After the old man, a young and fashionable couple seemed to be attracted by the inconspicuous name of Li Xiang's signature "Youjia Xiaodian" and the sound of the piano in the store, and walked into the store.

Judging from the actions of the two people who looked around and nodded from time to time, the environment in the store seemed to be quite satisfactory to them.

When the two walked to the bar, Li Xiang took out a carefully crafted menu. All the drinks provided in the store were packed in exquisite cups and high-definition pictures were taken, specializing in modern beauty-conscious customers.

"I can't accept tea, but although I like coffee, drinking it in summer is still a bit..."

The female partner of the young couple does not seem to be interested in tea and coffee at the moment.But who made Li Xiang's shop actually have a third identity as a bar, so inconspicuous?

After failing to sell tea and coffee, Li Xiang showed off the store's wine list.

Compared with light-colored tea soup and brown and white coffee series products, cocktails are much more colorful.

Li Xiang pointed to a light blue cocktail in the center of the wine list:

"I personally recommend you two to try our Blue Hawaii. This wine is colorful, with a sour and bitter taste, very suitable for drinking in summer."

"It's really beautiful, honey, let's just order this?"

The man accepted the woman's proposal, and two glasses of blue Hawaii became the second business deal today.

"The two of you can sit in any seat in the store at will."

The young couple chose a seat next to Shen Yunshu who was playing the piano and sat down.

Ordering a cocktail at a bar for 30 to [-] yuan largely buys the time to use your seat and the professional skills of the bartender.

Presenting this skill to customers in a pleasing way is Li Xiang's insignificant professional ethics.

取出两个侧面看上去类似女性腰臀部曲线的飓风杯，加入旋转形成冰晕降低酒杯温度。随后去掉冰块，换为干净的碎冰。雪克壶内加入9：4：3：3：12的朗姆酒、椰子酒、蓝橙利口酒、柠檬汁、菠萝汁。加冰快速摇动混合均匀后倒出分装于两个的飓风杯。

Put pineapple leaves, pineapple corners and cherries in a string with black plastic short skewers on the mouth of the cup, forming a four-color match of red, yellow, green and blue with the light blue color given to the body by Lancheng Liqueur.

"The blue color of this drink symbolizes the sea, and the crushed ice symbolizes the waves on the sea. The Hawaiian series of cocktails are blue Hawaii. Please use them slowly."

Taking two colorful wine glasses from the tray and placing them in the middle of the table where the couple guests were sitting, Li Xiang put the tray under his arm and turned back.

The girl gently poked the boy's arm,

"Honey, do you think that the shop assistants in this store are all very classy?"

The boy looked at Shen Yunshu, who was playing intently and dancing his fingers, and the bartender who was standing behind the bar reading a book, and nodded in agreement.

After a while, a well-dressed but tired-looking middle-aged man passed by the door.After seeing the small display board at the door that said "Coffee, Tea and Cocktails", the middle-aged man looked down at the watch on his left wrist and walked into the store instead.

After entering the door, the first words to Li Xiang, who looked more like a boss, were:
"Boss, do you have Wifi here?"

This middle-aged man is a salesperson for a company. He made an appointment with a customer nearby today.The result of the transaction was pretty good, but time was tight and he needed to get rid of some of the paperwork as soon as possible.

Just when he was worrying about how to find a place to process documents, the middle-aged man happened to see a coffee shop.After all, most coffee shops can borrow a place to work temporarily as long as they order.

After seeing Li Xiang nodding and pointing to the Wi-Fi password that had been pasted on the bar, the middle-aged man breathed a sigh of relief. Just as the middle-aged man had already taken out his laptop on a seat against the wall and connected it to the power supply, The middle-aged man seemed to realize something suddenly and returned to the bar again.

"Boss, just bring me a cup of coffee from your place."

Li Xiang thought for a moment and responded:
"How about a latte then?"

"It's okay, it doesn't matter."

"Okay, please wait a moment."

Compared with the hand-made coffee specially made for old acquaintances yesterday, the coffee sold does not need to be too particular.The Italian semi-automatic coffee machine specially installed on the bar is prepared for coffee production.

This kind of semi-automatic coffee machine generally comes with an electric grinder and a space for storing coffee beans. When the raw materials in the machine are sufficient, you only need to press the switch, and the machine will automatically grind a sufficient amount of coffee powder.

The ground coffee is stored in a brew handle that comes with the semi-automatic coffee machine.This handle is actually a specially designed metal funnel that can be used repeatedly. It works the same as the filter paper when pouring coffee. The coffee powder is placed in the funnel, and after being clothed and compacted, the coffee powder is formed on the funnel. A compact "powder cake" that facilitates an even extraction, which is used to extract the coffee.

Install this funnel in another position of the coffee machine. There is a water outlet at this position. Hot water with a suitable water temperature (88-95°C) passes through the process at a pressure of 9 atmospheres in 20-30 seconds. Pass through a funnel filled with dense coffee powder, the coffee is dissolved by the water, and the coffee powder is left in the funnel.

These coffees made with powder cake are espresso.

However, if you are not a coffee lover or someone who knows how to taste, the taste of espresso coffee is too strong, which makes it difficult to be accepted by people. Li Xiang is very clear about this, so for most people who come to his shop He will recommend latte or cappuccino and other fancy coffees.

In fact, these so-called fancy coffees are nothing more than diluting the taste of espresso with milk, milk foam and other liquids.The difference is only in "what to dilute with" and "in what proportion to dilute".

If espresso is roughly regarded as the starting point of all coffee preparations, then some common coffees are nothing more than——

An Americano is one part espresso and three parts hot water;
Cappuccino is one part espresso, one part hot milk, and one part milk foam;
Latte coffee is an espresso plus three parts of hot milk, plus a small amount of milk foam;
A mocha is just espresso with chocolate, whipped cream and milk...

Operate the machine with ease to extract an espresso, then use the steam tube to heat a cup of milk and blow out a small amount of milk froth, and finally mix the two to complete the latte.

If the customers you are facing are children, then Li Xiang may directly add sugar to the finished latte at this time, but middle-aged people have various taste preferences, so it is good to stop at this step.Li Xiang brought out the coffee directly, and served it with two packets of sugar.Guests can add their own if necessary.

Shen Yunshu is intoxicated in the world of music.The body is exhausted, but the mood is extremely high.

She learned two instruments from Brooke, the piano and the violin, which are known as the "king and queen" of classical instruments.After signing a contract with the gods of all worlds, she also learned many other types of musical instruments from other worlds.After leaving the world of pirates, this was the first time that he used his piano skills so vividly.

From Richard Clayderman's "Dream Wedding", "Autumn Whispers", "Adi Lina by the Water", to Franz Schubert's "Serenade", Beethoven's " "Pathetic Sonata", "Moonlight Sonata"...

"Ding!"

A slender hand randomly pressed several keys on the right side of the piano at the same time.interrupted Shen Yunshu's playing.

Confused, Shen Yunshu turned her head, and a cup of warm milk was thrust into her hand.

"It's almost one o'clock in the afternoon. You've been working for several hours. Have a drink and take a break. Also, I'm going to make lunch. Is there anything you want to eat?"

Shen Yunshu took a sip of milk and slowly shook her head.

Li Xiang sighed. As a cook, when there is no specific requirement, it is the most headache for him.

"Well then, I'll go to the back kitchen refrigerator to see if there are any other ingredients. Are you sure there are no taboos?"

Li Xiang's inquiry was actually unfounded. Shen Yunshu's living conditions and past experience determined that she had no taboos at all.

During the years at her uncle's and aunt's house, she was often hungry; during the years wandering in the world of One Piece, she was a soul and did not need to eat; after returning to the real world, her life was free but poor, and it was normal for her to be hungry and full. .

The customers in the store had already left one after another, Li Xiang concealed the front entrance of the store.Turning around to greet Shen Yunshu who was sitting on the piano bench and sipping hot milk:

"I'm going to the kitchen to make lunch, you come in and take a look?"

Shen Yunshu looked left and right in the front hall, where there was no one left, and nodded.He stood up and followed Li Xiang into the kitchen.

There are not many ingredients left in the refrigerator, but there is still a pack of pasta that Li Xiang bought and stored in the refrigerator for convenience, as well as some canned food, a small amount of vegetables, especially a few ripe red tomatoes.

Looking at these materials, Li Xiang's eyes lit up.

"Looks like today's lunch is in order."

Pasta is the staple food in Western food that is closest to the eating habits of Chinese people.Although they are also noodles with distinct roots, they are also cooked and eaten, but there is still a big difference between them.Duran wheat, which is used to make pasta, is the hardest variety of all wheat, so pasta made with this wheat has a harder texture than Chinese pasta.And if you want to make such delicious pasta, the method of making it is naturally completely different from Chinese-style pasta.

Among the ways to eat pasta, the most classic one is pasta with tomato sauce.

There are still some small pieces of beef and pork left over from Li Xiang's previous cooking in the refrigerator. Take out these leftovers and finely chop them into minced meat for later use.

The onion and a few cloves of garlic are also chopped into small pieces and set aside.

Three ripe red tomatoes cut the skin with a knife and poured hot water, which will make the tomato skin easier to peel.These skins are a very unpleasant part of the taste when making pate and need to be removed.

Peel the tomatoes and cut them into small dices. Because Li Xiang wants to make the tomato meat sauce in the end, the tomatoes must only have a unique taste of sweet and sour, but cannot taste the taste of the tomatoes. Cutting the tomatoes into small pieces in advance can speed up the completion of the tomatoes. The process of turning into moisture.It also facilitates subsequent processing.

Add butter to the pot and heat it up, then add minced meat mixed with beef and pork, stir fry constantly, so that the pink color of the fresh meat turns into the color of brown cooked meat.

The minced meat will have sucked up all the butter that was added in the pot before, so Li wants to add two small pieces of butter again, add onion dices, garlic dices and diced tomatoes and stir fry in the pot constantly.

Tomatoes release moisture after being heated, and when stir-fried with a spatula, the diced tomatoes quickly become tomato sand.

When making tomato meat sauce, only use fresh tomatoes, and the final sauce will be a bit bland.In order to solve this problem, Li Xiang took out a tube of special seasoning-concentrated tomato paste from Italy.

This is a seasoning that removes water from Italian tomatoes and concentrates them into a paste. Adding them when cooking can significantly enhance the flavor of tomatoes in dishes.

After adding a small amount of tomato paste to the pot, Li Xiang added a portion of water into the pot, and then added the cooked beef and pork minced meat into the pot, stirring constantly to mix well.

The aroma of tomatoes had already permeated the entire kitchen. Shen Yunshu, who had finished drinking the milk, glanced at the pot with the sauce from time to time, his eyes full of strong appetite.This made Li Xiang couldn't help laughing:

"Yun Shu, you can do me a favor. Opposite me is also a stove. While I'm cooking the sauce, can you cook the noodles for me?"

Shen Yunshu nodded, set up the pot, turned on the natural gas valve to ignite, and started to boil water.

On Li Xiang's side, he was adding black pepper, salt, a small amount of sugar, and a pinch of basil to the pot in order to carry out important seasoning work.

After seasoning this time, Li Xiang put the lid on the pot.

It takes a certain amount of time for the flavors of the ingredients in the pot to permeate each other. To obtain a delicious tomato sauce, this step of waiting is also essential.

"The package of spaghetti that has been opened on the table—yes, those thin yellow strips are, throw them into the pot, add three tablespoons of olive oil and a spoonful of salt when cooking, so that the taste of the noodles It will be better and less sticky."

Shen Yunshu carefully completed the steps of cooking noodles according to Li Xiang's instructions.

After Shen Yunshu fished out the yellow noodles from the pot, Li Xiang's red and yellow tomato meat sauce was also done.

Li wanted to dip a little sauce with a pair of long chopsticks, and turned around:

"Yunshu! Give me a taste."

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Shen Yunshu, who was carefully looking after the noodle pot, turned her head in confusion, and the sauce from the chopsticks in Li Xiang's hand smeared her lips.Subconsciously sticking out his tongue to lick a little soup from his lips.

When the taste of the sauce touched Shen Yunshu's taste buds, Shen Yunshu's eyes lit up.

Li Xiang asked with a smile: "How do you feel?"

What responded to Li Xiang was a raised white thumb and Shen Yunshu's heartfelt smile.

(End of this chapter)