[Comprehensive] On the possibility of food conquering the world

"Yo, Liu Lizi, long time no see."

Because there was only one pair of hands left, Liu Lizi could only use her hands to say hello to Shiyue and Kurosawa. As Mr. Kurosawa said, she was preparing dinner with starchy things sticking to her hands.

Maybe it's because I saw a lot of strange people and creatures during this day's trip to another world, but I'm not as afraid of the monsters and ghosts in this apartment as ordinary people.Shiyue suppressed her anger towards Mr. Kurosawa, walked forward very naturally, and bowed to say hello.

"Hello, Ms. Liulizi, I am October, the new tenant."

Miss Liulizi, who couldn't even shake hands, was a little flustered because there were crumbs of ingredients on her hands, not knowing what to do.Shiyue understood, and as soon as he turned his gaze, he turned to the somewhat milky-yellow ball of starchy ingredients in Liu Lizi's hand.

"This is...Miss Liulizi, can I have a taste?" Shiyue changed the topic subtly. For those who want to taste her own works, Liulizi certainly welcomes them, and let Shiyue try them.

Twist a small piece in October, it looks like dough at first glance, and you can feel it when you knead it with your hands. Although it is also a starchy food, the fiber is a bit rough compared to flour, and it feels rusty to the touch, and it is not as sticky as flour. Hands, such as potato flour, potatoes and the like.

"This is mashed potatoes?" Before putting it in his mouth, October has already identified the ingredients through the smell and feel.Liu Lizi clapped her hands, as if congratulating him for being right.

Mashed potatoes can be used as the staple food and accompaniment of many meals, but once you eat it, you can clearly know what kind of home-cooked snack Liulizi is going to make, which is potato cakes.

The potatoes are steamed very soft, probably to enhance the stickiness and taste of the potatoes, and a little flour is added inside, which makes the taste very dense.A little butter is carefully added to the mashed potatoes to make it less dry. A little sugar and salt and milk cream remove the earthy smell of potatoes, and the milk taste is very compatible with the mellow aroma of potatoes.Among them, October also tasted a little sweetness unique to sea water. I couldn't think of what it was, so I turned my head and looked at the ingredients on the kitchen table. It was broken seaweed.

"How about it? Just mashed potatoes are delicious, right?" Kurosawa jumped on his shoulders and swallowed the little lump of mashed potatoes left on his fingertips.

"Hmm~ Liulizi's potato pancakes are still as delicious as ever."

The undisguised praise made this shy woman blushed, and waved her hands to indicate that Mr. Kurosawa praised her.Then I started kneading and stirring the mashed potatoes, and evenly sprinkled a proper amount of thoroughly crushed seaweed.

Miss Liulizi's movements of kneading the mashed potato balls seemed very casual at first, but after watching for a long time, she found that she had some tricks in it.Perhaps because Shi Yue's eyes were too hot, Miss Liulizi stopped in speed.

Probably because she sensed Liu Lizi's non-existent suspicious gaze, or because of this pause, she realized that the gaze was too much, and Shi Yue's cheeks were slightly red.

Liu Lizi pointed to the door of the kitchen with both hands, but Shiyue didn't understand what she meant.

"Liu Lizi will ask you again if you want to learn how to make potato pancakes from her." After all, Kurosawa has lived here for a thousand years, and he understood what Liu Lizi wanted to say with just simple gestures.

"Huh? Can I?"

Liu Lizi waved to him, obviously very welcome.

"Well, it's not impossible. Liu Lizi is good at Japanese casual food, so let her be your first teacher. How about Liu Lizi?" Kurosawa asked with his head tilted. For having a disciple, he himself is very happy. Liu Lizi, who likes cooking very much, likes it very much.After washing his hands in October and entering the kitchen, he even pulled him to the counter intimately and began to teach him how to knead mashed potatoes.

The warm mashed potatoes are more sticky and firm during kneading. The residual heat evaporates the water, and the mashed potatoes are no longer soft. The taste of milk and potato butter is more mellow after part of the water is evaporated.

Because Teacher Liulizi had already finished half of the process when he came, so he can only teach him the subsequent production techniques at this time.The method of sending egg liquid is to knead potato cakes, wrap them in egg liquid and bread crumbs and fry them in an oil net.

But after a while, the outer skin of the oval potato cake has turned golden orange. The outer skin of egg liquid and bread crumbs can feel the crispness of the outer skin when the chopsticks are put into the oil pan, because it is fried. The aroma is tightly wrapped in the crispy skin.

Liu Lizi showed him two demonstrations, and the rest was handed over to Shi Yue to wrap the egg liquid and bread crumbs, and teach him how to observe the state of the potato cakes in the oil pan. Yue has mastered the method of frying potato cakes.

Liu Lizi took a pen and a notebook from nowhere, and wrote delicate words on the clean pages.

Deep-frying is the most effective way to wrap the aroma of food. Fragrance is an important part of the meal. Although deep-frying cannot effectively release the aroma at the beginning, it can make the aroma burst out at that moment when tasting.

When Shiyue was distracted to read the knowledge points written by Liu Lizi, when the potato pancake in his hand was picked up belatedly, the corners were burnt a little and it became a failure.

Liu Lizi wrote: Oh, oh, it's my fault, I'm distracting you by telling you this at such a time.

"No, no, it's because I'm not qualified enough. If I'm more serious and focused, it won't be wasted." Shi Yue hurriedly comforted this gentle woman.

Although the skin was burnt and not perfect, but as a trainee chef, food shouldn't be wasted. October blew the potato pancakes to cool down and took a bite.

very delicious.

October was a little surprised. Looking at the potato cake in his hand, it was just like what Liu Lizi said. After all, frying is a way of processing ingredients. For a snack like potato cake, the effect of frying is the taste, and the fragrance of the ingredients inside wrapping effect.Although the outside of the dough was burnt a little by October frying, it tasted a bit burnt and bitter, but it didn't affect the deliciousness of the mashed potatoes inside.

The crispy outer skin and the dense inner texture bring a unique taste when they collide together. The strong aroma of potatoes and milk cream pours into October's nose the moment the outer skin is bitten. It is not such a strong fragrance. But when tasting the food in the mouth, enjoying such a fragrance, it makes people feel very happy.

That's right, the feeling of happiness. Chef Liulizi's cooking gives people a sense of satisfaction and happiness. After a day of running around, the burden on the body after a nap seems to have been washed, as if it is about to be empty. It's like the mobile phone is fully charged in an instant.

"It's a warm and happy feeling."

"This is Liu Lizi's kitchen heart." Hei Ze jumped onto Shi Yue's shoulder, and took a bite of one side of the potato pancake that was blown by October and was not too hot.

"Chu Xin?" Shi Yue remembered that on the property panel, there was indeed one special property, Chu Xin.As for myself, at the very beginning, the attribute of Chef Heart was as low as 0. Although after receiving the blessing of life, the attribute of Chef Heart became 1, but this number is still very miserable.

Kurosawa swallowed the piece of potato cake in his mouth contentedly, and nodded while muttering. "That's right, Chu Xin, Liu Lizi's Chu Xin wants everyone who tastes her works to feel full of happiness."

October looked at the remaining potato cake in his hand and put it in his mouth.There must be something else that he has overlooked for this performance of cooking heart, there must be something else...

Potato pancakes have been made before October. Potatoes are a crude fiber food, which can give people a sense of fullness and satisfaction. I always feel that the fried potatoes are different from the previous ones.Fishy smell and umami taste, yes, although fresh milk and cream cover the earthy smell of potatoes, milk is also a food with fishy smell, but this taste is covered by something. At the same time, the umami and aroma of crushed seaweed was greatly improved.

Shiyue seemed to have thought of something, walked to the cooking table, picked up the bowl of seaweed, stuck some of it with chopsticks, and examined it carefully. Sure enough, there were some pieces that were lighter in color than the seaweed. If I guessed correctly, This is basil leaves.

Basil leaves, also known as basil, are a kind of spice, which can remove fishy smell and improve freshness. Not only that, basil leaves are often used in herbal medicine to promote qi and blood circulation, reduce swelling and detoxify, and correspond to many symptoms of human discomfort.Basil leaves not only enhance the taste, but also help the body after a long day of work. This is what Chef Liulizi said.

"Sure enough, what Mr. Kurosawa said is right, Master Liulizi is very powerful." Shi Yue praised, making Liulizi's hands red.

The potato cakes completed by Liu Lizi in October were appraised, and the appraised grade was golden advanced.Such a simple, unadorned potato cake has reached the golden and high-end grade.

"How did Master Liulizi manage to make such good food? Obviously you only have... sorry, I..." Shi Yue asked the doubts in his heart, and only realized that he said it in the middle of the sentence, as if It hurt Miss Liulizi who now only has one pair of hands left.

Liulizi was probably a gentle woman like Yamato Nadeko before she was alive. She didn't feel angry and blamed Shiyue's recklessness. She took Shiyue's hand and placed it on his heart. In such a flash, Shiyue seemed to understand She wants to say something.

Although she couldn't find other parts of her body except for these hands, she always remembered these delicacies in her soul.

Because Mr. Kurosawa didn't like to get together with the humans in the apartment, when the dinner time was approaching, October left the kitchen with his and Mr. Kurosawa's dinner, and said good night to Master Liulizi.

On the way back, seeing Mr. Kurosawa who was already sitting on the dinner plate and eating openly, Shi Yue couldn't help asking Kurosawa about Miss Liulizi.

"Hey, Mr. Kurosawa, can you tell me about Master Liulizi?"

"Huh? Liulizi..." Kurosawa withdrew his paw from the grilled fish and licked it. "Liu Lizi was a well-known geisha during her lifetime. She liked to cook. Later, after she redeemed herself, she opened a restaurant. I don't know much about what happened afterwards. I heard that some people dismembered her because they loved her too much. Liu Lizi, who became a ghost, only found her own hand, so her soul is incomplete."

Having said this, Kurosawa's eyes darkened. "The so-called greed and ignorance of human beings, who knows how many people like Liulizi have been ruined, and Liulizi's dream of opening a restaurant is naturally shattered. However, the result is not too bad, because there is no way to find them. Liu Lizi has no way to become a Buddha, and Tabian, who has no way to become a Buddha, has realized the values ​​and dreams she wanted in the monster apartment in Shouzhuang, and she met you again."

Shiyue didn't understand, she opened her eyes wide and didn't know what Mr. Kurosawa meant.

"Don't look at Liu Lizi's ability to cook such delicious food. In the final analysis, she is a remnant soul, unable to find her body, and unable to continue to improve her cooking skills. Although her life in Shouzhuang fulfilled her dream of opening a restaurant, but In leisure time, it is inevitable that I regret that I can no longer advance towards the higher level of food. So, Shi Yue, since you are Liu Lizi's first apprentice, let's inherit her dream and work hard."

"She'll be very happy."

Seeing Mr. Kurosawa's golden eyes with a gentle smile, Shiyue blinked, and her heart softened unconsciously.

【What, even though he hates humans, Kurosawa-san is still very gentle towards Master Liulizi and the others. 】

"Well, I will work hard." Shi Yue responded with a smile.

The author has something to say:

October: Mr. Kurosawa is still very gentle.

Kurosawa (shaking ears): You don't know how gentle I am? !Go, go back, go to bed!

October: MMP