After being forced into the palace, I became the tyrant's favorite

The memories came to an abrupt end. Wen Yao scooped up the cleaned tomatoes, peeled them off, put them in a pot, added a small amount of water and boiled them slowly over low heat until the tomatoes turned into a bright sauce, and then drew a star shape along the egg skin .

Luo Wenying saw it and asked, "Master, what did you draw on it?"

"Stars." Wen Yao replied without raising his head, "I will teach you how to draw in the future."

Luo Wenying nodded again and again, earnestly assured, "Master, don't worry, I will finish it well."

"Don't worry." Wen Yao said: "You still have a few days, come and have a taste first."

I gave half of it to her with a sharp knife, and I ate it by myself. The ingredients were well prepared, and the taste was very delicious. The sour taste of the tomato was neither strong nor astringent, which made my index finger wide open.

After wolfing down half of the omurice, she still didn't feel full. If it wasn't for the situation, she would have wanted to order one.

In addition, Wen Yao also plans to make hot pot.

Considering that the town is small, there are few rich people, and the gap between the rich and the poor is small, Wen Yao specially proposes hot pot, taking into account the different tastes of everyone, whether they prefer spicy or light.So Wen Yao asked Yan Mugong to introduce a blacksmith with superb skills, and specially made three iron pots. Each iron pot had a small cylinder in the middle, and the middle was hollowed out. The blacksmith was curious about how to use his pot.

Wen Yao said unhurriedly: "Uncle, I opened a restaurant in the west alley of the town, next to the official road, and it will open in a few days. Then you have to come and taste it made with this iron pot." How delicious the food is."

"Okay, uncle, thank you first. If you don't have any work that day, the old man won't be polite to you. He will go directly to your place to have a good meal."

Wen Yao smiled and said, "Okay, I'll wait for Uncle then."

Looking at the sky, the sun disappeared without a trace, instead a thin layer of hoarfrost appeared. The weather suddenly turned cold, and Wen Yao could feel the chill on his back. After he said goodbye to the blacksmith, he hurried back to the restaurant. government.

Zhou Yun traveled all over the market to prepare all the ingredients Wen Yao needed. Seeing this, Wen Yao called everyone into the kitchen. Once everyone arrived, he began to teach everyone how to make hot pot. The hot pot base can be used It can be used for a few days when it is chilled. First, teach them how to cut food and how to cook vegetarian and meat food separately.

Wen Yaocai said: "This soup has a recipe, and I will tell you how to prepare it later."

These words were obviously addressed to Luo Wenying, and the other party nodded heavily and quickly after hearing this.

"This is a common method, you all have to learn it, and it will be convenient for you to explain it to the guests later. Finally, this is the price of each dish I wrote. You can remember these prices. Later, I will find a master to make wooden menus. It is also convenient for customers to order food.”

Wang Dahua looked at the two palm-sized wooden blocks, engraved with several special dishes in the shop, the names of which were very novel, and he had never heard of them before.

So he didn't find it strange that Wen Yao came from Kyoto, and he had never seen anything good, and he heard that he had already opened a restaurant in Kyoto, and he heard that the business was booming, so he wanted to develop other counties.

Zhang Xiaonian and Yue Mo didn't take it seriously either.

On the contrary, Luo Wenying, who was careful, couldn't help but look at Wen Yao a few more times. This man was more than a little rich. She felt uneasy, guessing that Wen Yao was probably a son of a nobleman, but she couldn't figure out why he would open a restaurant in the town?

"You don't understand that."

While Wen Yao ordered Zhang Xiaonian to go to work, Zhou Yun managed to find a thick-skinned and thick-skinned man. The man was not very big, in his early twenties, with thick black hair, and he looked like a wounded wild dog when he laughed. .

The visitor first asked Wen Yao, "Are you the owner of this restaurant?"

"It's down."

Seeing the other person's nostrils upturned, Wen Yao frowned.

"I'm from Zhangjia Village on the other side, and my name is Zhang Yuan." Zhang Yuan spoke with a strong voice, and his tone of voice was lifted.

"Okay, what kind of dishes do you know?" Wen Yao changed his mind and asked, "Oh, no, you come to cook a dish, and the dish must include rising steadily, can you do it?"

Out of the corner of his eye, the youth's brows that were locked just now were pulled even tighter.

There are many ingredients that contain the meaning of rising steadily, such as bamboo shoots.But there is no such ingredient in the restaurant, only a kind of green vegetable.

He has seen this kind of vegetable before. It grows on the mountainside, in large patches, and its color is emerald green.

Unexpectedly, the green leaves are bitter.

It was passed on from ten to ten, and it didn't take long for everyone to stop eating this.

And call it bitter wheat dish.

Unexpectedly, he would see this dish in the back kitchen of Minshifu. Zhang Yuan was a little surprised. The expression on his face did not escape Wen Yao's eyes. Wen Yao subconsciously asked, "Is there a problem?"

"No problem." The other party shook his head, and then continued, "I was a little surprised to see bitter wheat vegetables here."

"Bitter wheat vegetables?" Wen Yao wondered, he really didn't know that lettuce was called by this name in this era.

"Yes." Zhang Yuan affirmed: "Because the leaves are bitter, people here call it bitter barley."

The leaves of lettuce are indeed bitter.

Wen Yao used to go back to his hometown to pick vegetables with his grandparents, and he had tasted this kind of vegetables, because they were made at home, without spraying pesticides. Although they were not as big as those sold outside, they were better than eating them safely and safely.

This kind of vegetable can be planted in spring, autumn and winter, and the most frequent season is from January to April.

Wen Yao was digging the ground with his grandpa and grandma. When his grandpa was thirsty, he would chop off a stem, and eat it after removing the skin from the stem.

He once also ate raw lettuce stems, which were very tender, crisp and tasty.

He remembered that his grandmother said that lettuce also had a name called Qianjincai, and that the name was given by the ancestors.

Lettuce has many effects, which are beneficial to the five internal organs, such as dredging the meridians, opening the chest septum, strengthening the bones and muscles, whitening the teeth, removing breath, opening juice, and urinating and defecating.

It is not difficult to understand why the ancestors named Qianjincai.

In fact, lettuce has more than these medical values. It is rich in carotene, thiamine, riboflavin, and trace elements needed by the human body. Elf".

Zhang Yuan broke his thoughts, "I'm going to try it with the stems of bitter barley."

"Okay, let's do it, I'll go out first, call me when you're done."

Zhang Yuan nodded and watched him leave.

The publicity has been very effective in the past few days. As soon as Wen Yao arrived at the front, he heard someone ask: "What kind of restaurant is it here?"

"Yes." Zhang Xiaonian replied.

The man stretched his neck around the door, but didn't see anything, and finally said: "The place is good, I'll try it when it opens."

Under Wen Yao's training, Zhang Xiaonian has already practiced the kung fu of smiling anytime and anywhere. He responded with a smile, and then watched people go away.

Wen Yao came over, patted him on the shoulder, and said with deep relief, "Not bad."

After being praised, Zhang Xiaonian rubbed the back of his head and grinned foolishly.

The ground was almost cleaned up, Zhou Yun took a few people out to publicize, and came back when it was getting dark, and gave instructions one by one what to do tomorrow.

As soon as Wen Yao finished speaking, he stopped Wen Yao, and Zhou Yun asked first, "What's your order, little master?"

"I have already agreed with Zhang Yuan in the afternoon. He lives in the village and it is not convenient for him to come and go every day. You can arrange a place for him."

"Okay, little man, let's go."

Speaking of which, after returning to the kitchen this afternoon, there was a faint fragrance wafting out. When he stepped into the room, he saw the lettuce stems on the stove on the stove at a glance.

The lettuce stems are cut into the thickness of a child's little finger, and several inches long, connected from top to bottom, and topped with a few green leaves, which looks like a rising green bamboo.

Wen Yao didn't expect this person to be able to put together platters. Although his skills were a bit poor, he had such an awareness.

He boasted a few words at that time.

Zhang Yuan smiled a little embarrassedly.

In the next two days, Wen Yao and Zhou Yun went to the market to buy ingredients together. Because they were going to make hot pot, the types of ingredients needed were more complicated than those in Kyoto's folk restaurants.

Fortunately, they brought Zhou Li and Luo Feng, both of them had extraordinary skills and were also stronger than others.

Wen Yao didn't know that they were able to lift things that weighed a hundred catties because they had internal strength.

After buying dozens of catties of meat and vegetables, Zhou Li and the others found three carts to transport them back. At the same time, Wen Yao discussed with the butcher and the farmer, asking them to deliver vegetables and meat to the restaurant every five days.

Wen Yao doesn't need much meat, but he needs some of everything, like pork and chicken, rabbit meat and mutton.

Wen Yao originally planned to use beef, but few people eat beef in this era, so he gave up in embarrassment.

Can only be pork, chicken, duck-based.

Pork Wenyao chooses tenderloin, water willow, pork neck, pork chops, and the yin/meat at the back of the shoulder blade, and the meat from other places is chopped into meat sauce.

Pig's trotters are used to make broth.

Cook the seasoning again, and use it as a hot pot base for a while.

After stewing the pig's trotters for an hour, Wen Yao added some white radish to remove the oil and water in the soup.

Wen Yao bought the white radish at the market this morning. At first, he was happy when he saw it. After asking Zhou Yun, he found out that white radish is called radish here, and it is divided into red and white.

After the pig's trotters were rotten, Wen Yao called them to the backyard, and Zhou Li came over with a wooden table and a few stools.

Wen Yao came out directly with a casserole in his hand. Seeing that everyone was present, he asked them to sit down, "Everyone sit down, why are you standing?"

The few people who got the words were not polite, Zhou Yun was the longest by Wen Yao's side, and as soon as he sat down, the people around him sat down one after another.

Wen Yao sat down and said, "Everyone, come and taste these pig's trotters."

"I added some pork belly to it."

Pig stomachs are generally not bought and eaten. First, they are not tasty, and second, they are more willing to spend money on fat and lean meat.

Zhou Yun controlled his expression so that he didn't look too surprised. Zhang Xiaonian and Yueling were the youngest, with surprised expressions all over their faces. There was a little surprise in Wang Dahua's eyes, but most of them couldn't believe it.

He has stayed in a wealthy family for seven or eight years, and every meal has meat, and the dishes are also rich, but he has never seen them eat pork belly and trotters.

After Wen Yao said to eat, he moved his chopsticks by himself, and Zhou Yun picked up a piece of pig's trotter without thinking about it, and after the first bite, he couldn't help but take the second bite.

Generally speaking, people think that pig's trotters are expensive and the meat is fat. Some girls don't want to eat them because they think they taste greasy and snore a lot.

But Wen Yao's stewed pig's trotters were not oily and tasted greasy, but instead had a radish scent.

Some of them knew radish, Wang Dahua ate a mouthful and wondered: "Master, is this white radish?"

"Exactly."

"Can it still be stewed in soup?"

"Yes." Wen Yao nodded and said, "In addition to being used as medicine, it can also be used for food."

"Unexpectedly, it can be eaten." Wang Dahua seemed to be talking to himself, with surprise in his tone. After he ate a piece, his sense of surprise became stronger.

"This radish tastes good." Zhang Xiaonian said, and Yue Ling nodded in agreement.

"Eat more if it tastes good. This pork belly is also good. You all have to try it. I have to go to other places in a few days." Wen Yao said and picked some pork belly for himself, and the pig's trotter soup was served with hot pot The bottom material is kept in well water, and it should be able to keep fresh for two days. On the third day, a new pot bottom material needs to be made.

Thinking that it can only be kept fresh for two days, Wen Yao has to sigh. If there is a refrigerator, it can be kept fresh for at least four or five days.

"Just now I made the bottom of the hot pot. I helped wash the vegetables and cut the meat in the afternoon. The meat should be on the pectoralis major. Don't move the meat on the chicken legs and wings." Wen Yao said to several people: "Duck wings and duck The same goes for the palm, and it will be like this every time in the future, keep these few, and the meat from other places can be sliced, or chopped into meat sauce, made into meatballs and put in the hot pot."

A few people didn't know what hot pot was, but they listened to what the master said, and when they encountered something they didn't understand, they asked Zhou Guanshi. Zhou Yun listened carefully, but he didn't know what hot pot was. It would be nice to see it, and at least I can tell them about it.

After tidying up the pig's trotters and pork belly, Wen Yao asked them to fold the vegetables first. He went to the kitchen to look at the wok. This kind of wok is similar to the stainless steel wok of later generations. Wen Yao originally wanted to use a wok, but that kind of wok It is not suitable for making hot pot, so he remembered the pot that he asked the blacksmith to make before.

Immediately recruit Zhou Yun and ask him to ask how the pot is doing.

Then Wen Yao assigned a task to Zhou Li and the others to wash the vegetables that had just been folded. Wen Yao showed Luo Wenying and Zhang Yuan how to cut meat, and let them cut it themselves. There were several knives in the kitchen. , will not be enough.

Wen Yao saw their knives, which were even in thickness, and nodded in satisfaction.

At this time, Zhou Yun also came back from the outside. He not only pulled back a few pots with a cart, but also brought back a tall and slender man in his twenties.

Wen Yao glanced over, and Zhou Yun immediately introduced, "Little master, this one is from Kyoto. He said he was sent by Master Ye, so I let him in."

Wen Yao didn't speak. When he heard that Ye Chu sent someone, his heart skipped a beat. He couldn't help but think of Ye Chu's lips curled up. He felt warm and said to the man, "Zi Yu asked you to come here." But what happened?"

"No." The man shook his head and said, his voice was low and sounded very pleasant, but at this time Wen Yao was out of the mood and admired his voice.

"Master asked his subordinates to send a letter to the little master." As he spoke, he took out the letter in the front of his lapel, and presented it to Wen Yao with both hands. Wen Yao took it, and instead of opening the envelope immediately, he asked, "What's your name?"

"Subordinate Wei." Wei lowered his head and bowed his hands in salute.

"The journey is tiring, you go down to rest first, and leave tomorrow morning."

"Thank you, little master." Wei's voice was cold and indifferent, even though he said thank you, there was no trace of gratitude in his tone, "But this subordinate is leaving today, and the master is still waiting for his subordinate to return."

Speaking of this, he asked: "Little master, is there anything you want your subordinates to take back?"

The author has something to say: Ps: Hot pot was called "antique soup" in ancient times, and it existed in the Warring States period. At that time, people used clay pots as pots. By the Song Dynasty, hot pot was very common among the people.Here is a private setting without hot pot.

Thank you very much for the little cuties for catching bugs, hehe.