Chapter 10: Get in the Kitchen
Early the next morning, I woke up refreshed and walked around a lot before going straight to the kitchen of Sanniang Tavern.
"Sign in!" Zhou You was moved and signed directly in the kitchen, and then the familiar synthesized voice sounded in his mind: "Sign in in the kitchen, and get a home-cooked recipe of one hundred and eight dishes. This is to cook for my wife, to please me.
My wife’s ultimate weapon!”
"Ahem.. Who wants to please their wife? There is no better weapon.. Why do I feel that the independent sign-in of this system is becoming more and more unreliable," Zhou You, who almost didn't choke on his own saliva, secretly cursed in his heart.
Then he walked into the kitchen: "Opening a tavern, recipes... It seems that the things I got by signing in this time are of some use!"
In the kitchen, the tavern's chef Lao Cao and his wife Aunt Ji were already busy. Aunt Ji, who was picking vegetables, saw Zhou You and immediately stood up with a smile and greeted him: "Uncle, what do you want to eat? Just tell me."
, I asked Lao Cao to make it and send it to you, why did you come to the kitchen in person?"
"I'm going to make some breakfast for Sanniang myself," Zhou You said with a smile. Even the chubby chef Cao with a pair of mustaches couldn't help but turned his head and looked over in surprise: "Uncle,
Do you know how to cook?"
"Know a thing or two!" Zhou You, who smiled noncommittally, thought to himself: "My brother just learned how to make 108 home-cooked dishes. Making breakfast is not a piece of cake!"
But after going up to check the ingredients in the kitchen, Zhou You was a little scratched his head. Some of the vegetables he was familiar with seemed to be unavailable these days. Among the vegetables in the kitchen, he only recognized a radish, and the others looked like they were nothing.
It looks like wild vegetables, how to eat it?
Fortunately, there are still chickens, ducks and fish. Although there is no pork, there are wild boar, hare and other game. In this case, you can still make two familiar dishes, fry an egg or cook game meat porridge.
questionable.
After choosing some ingredients and busy preparing them, Zhou You felt a little helpless when it came time to actually cook them. There was no seasoning, and the coarse salt lumps had a lot of impurities at first glance. They were not clean. How could they be used for cooking? Don’t give them.
Poisoned!
"It was a miscalculation. I knew I would have brought some fine salt that I got at Brother Zhou's house. But salt is expensive, and Brother Zhou's house doesn't have much salt. Forget it, I'll just make do with it. I'll find a way to get some fine salt later.
"Salt," he said helplessly. After asking Lao Cao what seasonings he had in the kitchen, he started to get busy.
Although I can’t say how good my cooking skills are when it comes to cooking and traveling, home-cooked meals are still no problem. Coupled with detailed guidance on home-cooked recipes and some cooking techniques from later generations, it won’t be too unpalatable.
Besides, people in this era are basically accustomed to eating boiled vegetables. It’s a bit hard to swallow when you first eat them. How tricky can your mouth be?
In order to stir-fry a few home-cooked dishes, Zhou You also made some oil from fat wild boar. Although the wild boar has a bit of a strange smell, it is still very fragrant when stir-fried with oil. He also added a few seasonings from this era into the pot.
As soon as it exploded, the entire kitchen was soon filled with an alluring aroma.
"This..." Lao Cao was a little stunned. At first, Zhou You looked jerky when he moved his hands. He couldn't even distinguish some ingredients and condiments. He was obviously a novice, but he never expected that he had some skills in cooking.
The unique technique makes the vegetables so fragrant even before they are fried.
Once you get started, the rest will naturally go smoothly. Although there are not many other ingredients in this era, at least there are onions, ginger, and garlic. With these three things, you don’t have to worry about not being tasty.
In a short time, several home-cooked side dishes such as stir-fried meat with radish and stir-fried vegetables were ready. Together with the meat porridge that had been cooked from the beginning, the aroma filled the entire kitchen before you knew it.
"It smells so good! Lao Cao, what delicious food did you make?" A sudden voice came from outside, and then I saw Sanniang, dressed in women's clothes, who still looked bright and charming despite her simple clothes, walking out with a smile.
Come in.
Before Lao Cao could speak, Aunt Ji on the side was already smiling and said: "Sanniang, Lao Cao didn't cook the food. Today's breakfast was cooked by my uncle himself."
"Husband! How can you cook by yourself? I'll come, I'll come. It's Sanniang's time to get up early and cook today." Seeing Zhou You cooking, Sanniang immediately trotted over and said, she couldn't help but move a little bit as she spoke.
He squirmed awkwardly, frowned slightly and took a breath.
Zhou You smiled and said: "I saw that you were sleeping deeply, so I didn't wake you up. A man is a real man, he can go to the hall and go to the kitchen, there is no shame in cooking for his wife. I'll finish it soon, get ready to eat.
!”
"Husband, Sanniang must learn cooking skills from now on and abide by women's ethics. Husband, I'd better not cook for me in the future," Sanniang couldn't help but said with her beautiful eyes reddening.
Looking at her like this, she seemed to have bullied her, although she was indeed bullied severely last night... Zhou You smiled helplessly, comforted Sanniang, and prepared to have breakfast early.
At the same time, Zhou You couldn't help but secretly sigh in his heart, women in ancient times were different. No matter what their temperament was before marriage, they immediately became good wives and loving mothers after marriage, and their tempers immediately softened.
"Well, it's delicious! Husband, how come the food you cooked tastes so good?" When she was eating breakfast, Sanniang's beautiful eyes lit up after two bites, and she said with some surprise: "It's better than Lao Cao's.
It’s delicious!”
Lao Cao glanced at Lao Cao who was eating a lot. Zhou You couldn't help but chuckle in his heart. Lao Cao's cooking was so delicious. He could only force his mouth to eat it, right?
After listening to Sanniang's words, Lao Cao, instead of showing any dissatisfaction or embarrassment, nodded in agreement and was speechless with his mouth full of vegetables.
After swallowing the food in his mouth, Lao Cao couldn't help but said: "Yes, the food cooked by my uncle is really delicious. I, Lao Cao, have been cooking for half my life, and I have never eaten anything so delicious.
Where's the food? If I go to the kitchen to cook, our tavern's business will definitely be better."
"How can my husband cook?" Sanniang frowned when she heard this, and Lao Cao reacted and smiled and said: "Yes, yes, yes, it's me, Lao Cao, who is talking nonsense. Naturally, I can't act like that."
Just like Lao Cao, he is a cook."
"Actually, it's just a different way of cooking," Zhou You said with a smile, "Old Cao, I'll teach you how to cook more delicious dishes later. I have a lot of recipes here!"
"By the way, I found that the salt used in the kitchen is all coarse salt. Not only does the taste not be pure, but it also contains a lot of impurities. If you eat too much, you may get mineral poisoning. I know a way to purify and make fine salt. Let's go back...
"Immediately afterwards Zhou You was talking, but before he could finish his words, Sanniang interrupted him: "Husband, do you know how to make fine salt?"
Seeing Sanniang's beautiful eyes looking at him in surprise, Zhou You was stunned for a moment and couldn't help laughing: "Isn't it just making fine salt? What's wrong? Not only can I make fine salt, but I also know how to distill and purify wine.
, making a purer and stronger wine!”
"You can also make wine?" Sanniang was even more surprised when she heard this, and then she said with a smile with shining eyes: "I knew that your husband is not an ordinary person, but a truly capable person. Husband, you are all these things
Where did you learn it?”
"Uh, well, that's a long story. In fact, I have followed my master in the mountains since I was a child to learn the art of managing the world and applying it..." Zhou You explained casually. If you like movies and TV shows, please bookmark it.
Chapter completed!