Dominate the universe with food

For today's banquet, Lin Qingmian originally prepared ten dishes, but now that Bai Sihan came, the number of dishes was divided equally between the two, and each person only needed to prepare five dishes.Lin Qingmian prepared the remaining five dishes for nothing.

But Lin Qingmian didn't mind, and fed the money shrimp cakes made in advance to Zhao Wenxing who hadn't eaten at noon, and started to make other things.

Shrimp paste mixed with pork, water chestnuts added, deep-fried until crispy, dipped in pepper and salt when eating, crispy on the outside and tender on the inside, fresh but not greasy.

Zhao Wenxing was still joking and joking, but Lin Qingmian was keenly aware that Zhao Wenxing, who usually devoured food faster than anyone else, lost his appetite when faced with a plate full of money shrimp cakes, and took a long time to eat. Got a few.

Is it because Lin Qingmian's cooking is not delicious?

Of course not, I'm afraid the reason is his cousin Zhao Wentian.

Zhao Wenxing took two bites, got up irritably, put the money shrimp cakes into the lunch box, and then said to Lin Qingmian with a smile: "I'm going to the training ground. I'll eat this after training."

Lin Qingmian, who was depressed but insisted on covering it up with a smile, felt inexplicably distressed.

After Zhao Wenxing left, Lin Qingmian also calmed down and started cooking.

It will take a while for the Buddha to jump over the wall to be stewed, and the boiled cabbage soup has already been stewed, so Lin Qingmian is going to make a boiled cabbage first.

Boiled cabbage, this dish may sound like an ordinary name, but in fact, it is extremely extraordinary both in terms of recipe and taste. It is a famous Sichuan dish at the state banquet.

When most people hear the name of this dish, they will think that the main ingredient of this dish is cabbage, but it is not the case. The protagonist of this dish is "boiled water", which is the soup that judges whether the boiled cabbage is successful.

If you want the soup to be delicious and thick, you must stew the soup with chicken, duck, ham, and elbows. After two or three hours of stewing, the soup will turn slightly yellow, but at this time the soup is still a little cloudy, which is not as clear as the boiled cabbage soup. The standard of water.

The second step is to clear the soup, remove the impurities in the soup, and make its color more clear and clear.Use pure red meat, chop it into minced meat, put it into water and stir it thoroughly, then pour it into the stewed turbid soup, hang the soup over low heat, and gradually boil the umami of the meat into the soup.At the same time, under such cooking, the minced meat will absorb the impurities in the soup, and the color of the soup will change from cloudy to clear.

Repeat the clear soup three times, and finally the turbid soup will become clear as water, as clear as boiled water, hence the name "boiled water".

Because ham is added to the soup, the color of the soup is not really as transparent as boiled water, but is transparent with a slight light brown color.

The most important step of boiling cabbage is completed, and then the cabbage is started.

Choose long cabbage, cut into four pieces, choose the most tender cabbage core, tear off a layer of fascia on the cabbage with your hands, then boil it in hot water, and immediately put it in water with ice cubes after it is cooked , to prevent odor.

Then take out the cabbage, put it in a bowl, pour in the soup you just made, cover it with plastic wrap and steam it in the pot for a few minutes, so that the deliciousness of the soup can be completely injected into the cabbage.

After taking it out, pour out the soup, pour in the soup in your heart again, and the boiled cabbage is ready.

When this dish was brought to the table, it happened that Bai Sihan's dish was also ready, but his dish was completely covered by the cover, so it was impossible to see what he had done.

Lin Qingmian brought her own dishes up first. Inside the porcelain-white tableware, the cabbage was soaked in clear soup. People who don't understand this dish will immediately feel...

"Are you fooling people? The cabbage gang just poured some water and served it to us? Why don't you just serve a raw cabbage? And it doesn't matter if the dish is not good, and you don't know how to put it on the plate? These few days Why don't you put some tricks on a cabbage? Whose eyes are hot if you just pile it up like this?" Zhao Wentian's series of words belittled Lin Qingmian's dishes to nothing.

This is Bai Sihan's dish and it was brought over.

The lid was lifted, and inside was a beautifully shaped bergamot Guanyin lotus.

Bergamot Avalokitesvara, the main ingredient is cabbage, remove the cabbage leaves and leave only the stalks, each piece of cabbage is cut into the shape of petals, and then boiled in water, the flower stalks soften, and the shape becomes a blooming white lotus. The bright yellow cabbage heart happens to be shaped like a stamen.After cutting the cabbage stalk into the shape of a hand, and stuffing a few hams inside, the shape is barely like a bergamot.Hence the name bergamot Guanyin lotus.

This dish is far inferior to boiled cabbage in terms of craftsmanship and difficulty.

But in terms of appearance, people who don't understand naturally feel that such delicate dishes are more excellent.

Especially Bai Sihan's arrangement...

"This dish is called Buddha's Hand Avalokitesvara, and it is served on a jade plate carved from jadeite, just like the lotus leaf of a lotus. Besides, this lotus, although it is a cabbage, I spent two days and two nights carving it into a lotus. The shape of each piece of cabbage is meticulously carved to every stripe. After the final dish is finished, I sprinkle edible gold leaf on it, which is both beautiful and valuable, and it also adds more layers to the taste. "

As far as Lin Qingmian knows, edible gold leaf is extremely thin and light, and there is no feeling at all when it is eaten, let alone any taste. The only use of gold leaf is to decorate the appearance.

To sum up, what Bai Sihan said just now was all about telling others that he put all his thoughts into making the dishes more delicate and expensive, but he didn't put his thoughts into making the dishes more delicious.

But Zhao Wentian thought that Bai Sihan had given him a face, and praised him lavishly: "As expected of a famous chef who has been famous for a long time, he can be distinguished by just one glance."

"Okay, let's not talk about this at the table, let's taste the craftsmanship of the two chefs first." The third prince interrupted with a sudden smile.

Everyone began to taste Lin Qingmian's boiled cabbage first.

Originally, a few people came here to improve their mental strength, and they didn't have much demand for taste.Especially after seeing such a simple and ordinary dish, I lowered my expectations to a minimum.

But the soup was so clear that there was no trace of impurities. As soon as they entered the mouth, several people were surprised by the thick and delicious taste in their mouths.

The fifth prince couldn't help being surprised: "Qingmian, how did you do it? As far as I know, the purer and more delicious the soup, the thicker and turbid it will be. How did you make the soup so clear? , but the taste is so rich and delicious?"

Lin Qingmian smiled and said nothing.The other party just wanted to express his amazement, and didn't really want to listen to his explanation of the method.

Only Zhao Wentian didn't eat Lin Qingmian's dishes at all, but tasted Bai Sihan's dishes alone.

Seeing Lin Qingmian being praised so much, she thought it was just to save him face, and didn't take it seriously.

After tasting Lin Qingmian's boiled cabbage, everyone moved their chopsticks to Bai Sihan's bergamot lotus.

I picked up a piece of cabbage leaf and took a bite... This taste, um, is very pure cabbage flavor.

In order to maintain the shape of the lotus, Bai Sihan boiled the cabbage with high broth, but he didn't dare to cook it too much, so the taste of the broth only floated on the surface and didn't seep into the inside at all.

Compared with Lin Qingmian's tender cabbage that was full of mellow soup... Forget it, don't compare, bullying people.

Zhao Wentian was still waiting for these people to give their comments, but the expressions of the few people who had finished eating were as usual, and they just smirked at each other and said: "Not bad."

"The taste is very pure." The taste of cabbage is really pure.

Unable to wait for the desired evaluation, Zhao Wentian was a little angry, and Bai Sihan was a little embarrassed.

But what they didn't know was that the more embarrassing thing was yet to come. Everyone, except Zhao Wentian, didn't touch Bai Sihan's dishes after taking a bite. Instead, they drank Lin Qingmian's soup and praised him full of praise.

hypocritical.Zhao Wentian and Bai Sihan thought of these two words at the same time.

Neither of them believed that the difference between the two dishes could be so great, and they both felt that the people at the table deliberately favored Lin Qingmian.

For the next dish, Lin Qingmian served braised lion head, and Bai Sihan served Dongpo pork.

At this time, Lin Qingmian had already realized that Bai Sihan must have known his menu in advance, and deliberately chose similar dishes to serve together, in an attempt to overwhelm Lin Qingmian.

But the situation on the table did not seem to be as he wished.

Braised lion's head is made of three fat and seven lean pork minced, added with seasoning, and formed into fist-sized meatballs, and then braised in soy sauce, with a layer of deep red sauce on the outside.

Dongpo pork is also made of fat and thin pork. The shape and appearance of it are similar to braised pork, but it is much larger in size.

There is no difference between the two dishes, but the chefs are different, and the standards of the two dishes are also different.

After eating Lin Qingmian's fat but not greasy, thin but not woody, springy but not tough, braised lion head, and eating Dongpo pork made by Bai Sihan, there is only one feeling, greasy.

If you eat it in one bite, your mouth will be full of fat, and if you eat too much, you may feel nauseous.

The third prince did not expect that the chef Zhao Wentian hired to slap Lin Qingmian in the face would be of such a poor standard. What a famous chef, he was clearly a mediocre cook who did not deserve the name.Don't talk about slapping Lin Qingmian in the face, it's good enough not to be compared to the mud.

He couldn't help but get annoyed, and directly criticized Bai Sihan: "Chef Bai, you have such a great reputation for nothing, right? I don't think you can find any student from the gastronomy department to put Dongpo pork meat on the table." Make it like you. How did you make the white restaurant so big?"

"No, you didn't make the white restaurant big, it was your ancestors' credit. According to your current culinary skills, let alone keep the foundation, don't destroy the foundation left by your ancestors, it's all good luck for you gone."

Bai Sihan's face turned red and white after being scolded, it was extremely ugly.But in my heart I was resentful and dissatisfied.

At his level, he didn't know what the banquet meant today. He just thought that Lin Qingmian hugged Duan Chen's thigh. These people could only praise Lin Qingmian and belittle him because of their face.

He never thought that his cooking skills were inferior to Lin Qingmian.

Zhao Wentian saw that the third prince was really angry, and was a little confused.

He ate Bai Sihan's food and really thought it was good, his level was already extremely high, how could he be scolded like that by the third prince?

He didn't know at all, without comparison, there would be no harm, and eating Bai Sihan's food alone, naturally, wouldn't feel so bad.But with Lin Qingmian's jewels in front of him, the shortcomings of Bai Sihan's dishes were infinitely magnified, making his dishes even more unpalatable, and Lin Qingmian's dishes even more delicious.

Could it be that Lin Qingmian's food is really better than Bai Sihan's?As soon as this thought flashed, Zhao Wentian's expression turned ugly.

Impossible, it is impossible for Lin Qingmian to compare with Bai Sihan.

But he subconsciously stretched out his chopsticks to take a bite of Lin Qingmian's braised lion head.

It's just that before his chopsticks touched the lion's head, an afterimage flew out from nowhere, rubbed the back of his hand, and nailed it into the table with a buzzing sound.

Zhao Wentian withdrew his hand suddenly in fright, his face turned pale, and when he looked closely, he saw that it was a chopstick nailed into the table.If his hand had been a second faster just now, the chopsticks would not have nailed the table, but his hand bone.

Zhao Wentian was so frightened that cold sweat broke out on his back. He raised his head and looked fiercely to find the culprit, but suddenly met Duan Chen's cold pupils who seemed to be looking at a dead person.

The eyes that looked at him were obviously indifferent, but Zhao Wentian was inexplicably stared at, and his back felt chills, and he was so afraid that he couldn't say a word.

"Remind, that dish is made by Qing Mian, you are not qualified to eat that dish." Duan Chen's tone was cool.

It was obvious that he didn't like Lin Qingmian's food, why did Duan Chen say that he was not worthy of it?

Zhao Wentian was embarrassed and angry, but when he saw the chopstick out of the corner of his eye, he didn't dare to get angry at all.

He snorted twice, didn't speak again, and stretched out his hand to try to pull out the chopstick.

As a result, I grasped it several times with force, and the chopstick seemed to grow on the table, motionless.

Zhao Wentian became more and more embarrassed.