Chapter 172: Warm Fragrant Nephrite
Su Ruotong felt that she was about to die of exhaustion, and she was about to take the final exam, I don't know what the classmates in the class thought, and everyone started a new round of action to "urge Su Ruotong to take the first".
Su Ruotong herself is actually not a particularly competitive person, she will try her best to do her part well, but she will not force the first, for her, a clear conscience is better than anything else.
But her classmates apparently didn't think so, they were all crazy!
Soon they will be in their third year, and at the beginning of the second semester of their junior year, the school classes are basically slightly equal to nothing, and there are very few classes in the last semester. According to the experience of the seniors, some students even apply to leave the school for internship, as long as they can be stamped with the official seal of the unit, they can be approved.
But the difficulty of their exams, but it will not be reduced at all because of this, and it is even said that it is to let the students get a "lesson" at the end, the final exam of the sophomore to junior year, no matter which subject, will add some additional difficulty, when the teachers come out of the question, they will put some of the super-syllabus books mentioned in the class and the content of the recommended bibliography in the exam.
If Su Ruotong hadn't missed so many classes this semester, she really wouldn't be so tired now, but what is more troublesome is that she has taken too much leave this semester. Although she usually relied on the courseware sent by Lin Jing, she reviewed the knowledge on the courseware and books quite well, but the pile of super-outline books and papers to memorize stuffed by the classmates made Su Ruotong's head bigger.
Even if she is as energetic as her, she is a little unbearable, not to mention, she now has to go to Gao Yumei's house every day to manage all kinds of affairs of the newly built office in New York, which is simply tired like a dog.
Fortunately in the misfortune, Tao Xian was still by her side, and it seemed that seeing Tao Xian's handsome face that was the best in the world, Su Ruotong felt that her blood volume was full again.
Early this morning, Tao Xian got up at five o'clock in the morning, heated up the breakfast he brought from the restaurant last night in the kitchen, put it on the table, and waited for Su Ruotong to go downstairs.
Breakfast is made by Bao Ruwen, with a variety of beans and grains ground into soybean and rice milk, no sugar, but also very sweet, after heating the taste is simply invincible. There are also fried vegetable corners filled with egg vermicelli and shrimp, which are not greasy at all, the skin is particularly crispy, and the side is made into a perfect wheat ear edge, and the top is also pinched out of two lively little pigeons, fluttering wings, just looking at it is beautiful, even if it is put overnight, only use the microwave oven to bite, or the taste is great.
In addition, there are also prepared side dishes, as well as a small platter made of beef, chicken, and lobster, which can supplement the nutrients Su Ruotong needs in the morning.
Su Ruotong went downstairs at half past five, and what she smelled was the aroma of food, and her heart was warm.
"Thank you, Brother Tao Xian. Su Ruotong sat down, drank a glass of honey water brought by Tao Xian, and then started to eat.
Because there is no need to cook Su Ruotong's meal in the morning, Wu's mother doesn't get up so early now, Su Changqing is even more accustomed to getting up at half past seven, the quiet early summer morning, the weather is slightly cool, the sky is slightly green, and the birdsong is also wet, the two glanced at each other, each eating the meal in front of them, only feeling that the years are quiet and the present world is stable.
Tao Xian took two bites casually and asked: "Tongtong, when I went to the restaurant to pick up food last night, Master Bao asked you, when are you free, point out Zhao Fakai and Jiang Mingming, and this time the invitation is invited to participate in the Su Restaurant, so the restaurant can form a team, at most ten people, and now there are only seven of them, and there are three people, waiting for you to go." ”
Su Ruotong still has more than a week to finish the exam, and said: "Wait for another nine days, I don't have time at all for these nine days." ”
"Actually, according to me, you can take a place for yourself. Tao Xian said: "I have been to watch this rookie chef competition for a few years, it is very interesting, it just so happens that the time of the competition is the summer vacation, you can also relax." ”
Su Ruotong had an idea and said to Tao Xian: "Brother Tao Xian, why don't you join our team too, there are still three places anyway." ”
As soon as he heard Su Ruotong's suggestion, Tao Xian's face showed a strange expression: "I don't want it." ”
"Why not, I think you can! You are so sensitive to the taste of things, and you have been doing food shows, and you have a high taste for food, which can help the team a lot. Su Ruotong stared at her paralyzed face and said with a serious face.
Moreover, she really hopes to be able to cook with Tao Xian, speaking of which, until now, she has not eaten any of the meals that Tao Xian made for her, which is a pity.
Tao Xian was vague: "You should be busy with the exam first, this matter is not in a hurry, there is still more than half a month to go before the competition." ”
It seems that in the blink of an eye, the exam is over, Su Ruotong feels that she is like being released from prison, the exam-oriented education on the earth is simply too cruel, and it is even more difficult to deal with in her previous life when she was in the world of cultivating immortals.
But the end of the exam doesn't mean that she can relax, and there are many more things to come.
Su Ruotong only rested for one night, and went to the third store of Su's Restaurant the next day.
The place of the three stores is large, the kitchen is also expanded, and all kinds of equipment and kitchenware and design are the most novel and cutting-edge, which is temporarily incomparable to the old store, so the people who were selected to participate in the competition are trained in the new store.
Bao Ruwen, Li Hongxing and Chef Charlie are also all staying here almost around the clock these days to train the selected people.
The ten people who participated in the competition this time are now decided, including Zhao Fakai, Jiang Mingming, Bao Ruwen, Li Hongxing, Charlie, and Bao Ruwen's second apprentice Jiang Xinghai, Li Hongxing's eldest apprentice Chen Si, in addition to Jiang Mingming's skills to be discussed, the rest are all famous chefs in Su's Restaurant now, specifically in the fact that Jiang Xinghai and Chen Si also have their own chef cards, and if you order their dishes, you can get a chef card.
If it weren't for Zhao Fakai going to the capital to take charge of himself, Zhao Fakai would definitely have this honor now, but now that Zhao Fakai has a big vision, he will not be jealous of the little junior brother who used to be under him, but will sincerely bless him.
In the face of these big hands, Jiang Mingming was actually quite nervous, when he went to the capital with Zhao Fakai, it was not because of his cooking skills at all, but because Zhao Fakai was good at cooking, but people are not very good at doing things, so Jiang Mingming, who can do things, was put on top. During these years in the capital, his cooking skills have improved a lot, but compared to Bao Ruwen's masters, and Chen Si, the senior brother above, he is still nothing, and joining the team is simply pulling everyone back.
Su Ruotong entered the kitchen, everyone who was about to participate in the competition was practicing together, and Bao Ruwen's fat and strong body was going around in the kitchen, shouting from time to time, calling everyone around.
Until he saw Su Ruotong, his face changed, and he quickly changed to a smiling face: "Miss Su, you are here!"
"Hmm!" Su Ruotong walked to the side of the desk, only to see that everyone's cooking was different, but it looked complicated, and now it was only halfway through, and most of them couldn't see what the finished product looked like.
Su Ruotong pointed to a basin of shiny jelly-like items in front of Zhao Fakai and asked, "What is this?"
"This is a new dish that I have been thinking about with Master recently, called Nephrite Warm Fragrance. Zhao Fakai said: "Isn't it popular to eat skin jelly in the Northeast, but this skin jelly, although it is good, but it is salty, I thought, can I make skin jelly powder like gelatin powder or fish gelatin powder, and then when I want to make ready-made skin jelly, I can adjust it casually, and the taste will pick up what I like." ”
Su Ruotong felt that Zhao Fakai's idea was still good, and said, "Then have you succeeded?"
"Didn't work out!" As soon as he said this, Zhao Fakai was a little dumbfounded: "In the end, it was Master Li's suggestion to make us into aseptic frozen bricks in sealed packaging." Now what I have in my basin is the jelly bricks that have been processed, there is no salty taste and no meat smell, just taken out of the refrigerator, and the taste is good for a while, and it tastes similar to jelly, but it is a little more elastic and melts quickly. ”
"It's good to be able to make frozen bricks. Su Ruotong nodded, they are willing to have this kind of pondering energy, and they are stronger than most sub-chefs who can only cook in their lifetime.
Zhao Fakai, like his master Bao Ruwen, did not praise it, and when he heard Su Ruotong's praise, he suddenly wanted to go to heaven: "It's good! With this skin frozen brick, we have developed a lot of new dishes, among which there is a particularly popular one, called nephrite warm fragrance, which is a dessert, Miss Su, do you want to taste it in a while." ”
When Su Ruotong heard this name, she was still quite curious, so she nodded.
Zhao Fakai had time to be alone outside, and his hands were relatively fast, only about twenty minutes, and he brought up the nephrite warm incense.
I saw that one by one the crystal clear flowers were placed in the bean green rectangular flat plate, and a variety of green coriander was placed on the bottom of the plate to decorate, in the heart of these flowers, some were a small red fruit, some were a piece of olive, some were directly a pool of burgundy liquid, and even a pinch of golden osmanthus, and some were a piece of blue vegetables......
They are densely arranged together, according to the rainbow color row by row in the plate to extend downward, colorful, but also quite small and fresh, the top layer, was poured with a thin layer of honey sauce, the already bouncy through the skin jelly is more shining bling-bling light, just look at it, it makes people feel pleasing to the eye, saliva flow, can't help but look forward to what it is like to eat.
"This is the warm fragrance of nephrite. Zhao Fakai said proudly.
"Ahem. Jiang Mingming suddenly probed: "This plating was made with the help of my master." "Li Hongxing also put a lot of effort into it, and he couldn't let all the credit be taken up by Zhao Fakai and Bao Ruwen.
Now Li Hongxing's aesthetics in cooking are becoming more and more exquisite, whether it is the choice of utensils or the color matching of dishes, he has made a lot of efforts, and he has a specialization in the art industry.
Zhao Fakai said: "Yes, thank you Master Li too." ”
Zhao Fakai and Jiang Mingming looked at each other and smiled.
Looking at the good appearance of their brothers, even if they haven't tasted this dish yet, Su Ruotong feels that it is enough!
No matter how rare a dish is, it is not as important as working together. For the upcoming Global Rookie Chef Competition, Su Ruotong is full of confidence.