Chapter 13: Become a Chef
Considering that the number of viewers is still rising, Li Yan was reluctant to go offline, so he casually ate some snacks as lunch and broadcast live without interruption.
Li Shizhen: "The old man admires the professionalism of the anchor, but the body is the most important, skipping lunch is not good for the stomach, so let's go eat first." ”
Zheng Banqiao: "What Doctor Li said is reasonable, the anchor might as well broadcast live while eating, and it just so happens that the old man also wants to see how modern dishes are different from our era." ”
Seeing that many viewers agreed with Zheng Banqiao's proposal, Li Yan nodded: "Thank you for your concern for Xiaoshuai, then follow what everyone said." ”
Seventy or eighty meters from the right when you go out, there is a restaurant, Li Yan introduced as always: "A restaurant like this kind of eating, we call it a fast food restaurant, and the price of the food is relatively cheap and affordable. ”
Gong Zizhen: "I don't know what a high-end restaurant is called?"
"High-end ones are called restaurants or hotels, and only by participating in the banquet and wedding banquet can Xiaoshuai have the opportunity to go to that kind of high-end place to eat, which is usually unaffordable. ”
Li Yan spoke to Mai, walked to the ordering area, and casually asked for three dishes and one soup, with vegetables and meat, and balanced nutrition.
Zhang Dai: "Looking at the dishes, it doesn't seem to be much different from the home-cooked food hundreds of years ago." ”
Wang Xiaoyu: "The cooking techniques are really ordinary, maybe this is just an ordinary restaurant, lacking a smart chef." ”
Dong Xiaowan: "Hey, there seems to be an ingredient that the slave family can't identify, what is the pink one?"
Glancing at the plate, only the hot dog was pink, Li Yan picked up a piece and explained: "This thing is called hot dog, it is a delicacy that foreigners brought to China, and hot dog scrambled eggs are a common dish on the table." ”
Dong Xiaowan: "Hot dog? What a strange name, could it be made of dog meat?"
Li Yan was suddenly covered with black lines, but it is understandable that when he heard this name for the first time when he was a child, he also thought of dog meat.
After listening to Li Yan's simple explanation, Dong Xiaowan was more interested in modern food, and said: "Xiaoshuai anchor, the slave family has always loved cooking, please be sure to help the slave family find a modern recipe, and in return, the slave family will also teach you the experience of cooking." ”
Looking at this comment, Li Yan's heart moved slightly, and he gently put down his chopsticks.
No one can do without food, clothing, housing and transportation, so a good cooking skill is very useful, especially for people like Li Yan, who are greedy for appetite, learning to cook is particularly important.
It's not too difficult to find a complete cookbook, Li Yan agreed to Dong Xiaowan's request.
For Dong Xiaowan, most people only know that she is one of Qin Huai's Bayan, and she is as famous as the famous Liu Ru and Chen Yuanyuan.
Li Yan once read a food magazine and knew that she was not only a famous prostitute, but also one of the top ten famous chefs in ancient times, good at making all kinds of pastries, and the famous Dong Tang was created by Dong Xiaowan.
In addition to Dong Xiaowan, Wang Xiaoyu, who has previously commented, is also among the top ten celebrity chefs, both in terms of cooking skills and theoretical experience.
After lunch, Li Yan immediately went to a nearby bookstore, which can be found everywhere in the area of Funing University.
When passing by a clinic, Li Yan had another idea in his mind, and said with a smile: "Li Shizhen Lao Tie, Chinese medicine is the quintessence of China, but now Western medicine is popular, that is, the medical skills passed down by Western Westerners, I wonder if Lao Tie is interested?"
In order to compile the "Compendium of Materia Medica", Li Shizhen had tasted all kinds of herbs and went through many hardships, which showed his love for medicine, and immediately asked: "Is there a big difference between Western medicine and traditional Chinese medicine?"
"There are indeed big differences, each with its own advantages and disadvantages. Li Yan nodded.
After hesitating for two or three minutes, Li Shizhen responded: "Okay, please ask the Xiaoshuai anchor to burn a few Western medical books to the underworld, and the old man will give his life's medical skills as a reward." ”
If during his lifetime, Li Shizhen would never casually teach medical skills to others, in ancient times, the most important thing was the inheritance of the teacher, but people have been dead for hundreds of years, and the concept must naturally change, otherwise a body of medical skills is likely to have no successor.
After entering the bookstore, Li Yan went straight to the recipe category.
Although Dong Xiaowan only needs one cookbook, Li Yan is still relatively kind-hearted and carefully selected three books.
In view of Dong Xiaowan's ability to make pastries, one of them is mainly to introduce the production method of Western-style pastries.
After picking out the recipes and wandering around the bookstore twice, I found only a small number of books on medical skills, and they were all easy to understand and had no depth.
Medical books are relatively out-of-the-box books, and there are not many readers, and ordinary bookstores generally don't buy too much, so Li Yan had to give up for the time being.
returned to the rental house and burned three cookbooks to Dong Xiaowan, and soon a red envelope she gave popped up on the screen.
Just like last time, after clicking on the red envelope, the information automatically drilled into his head, and Li Yan became a top chef in the blink of an eye!
He couldn't wait to try his hand at it, and after chatting for a while, he turned off the live broadcast, went to the supermarket to buy ingredients, and rushed back to the dormitory.
In order to facilitate the cooking of hot pot in the freshman year, the four people in the dormitory jointly purchased a bunch of kitchen utensils, induction cookers, pots and pans.
Seeing Li Yan walking in with a big bag and a small bag, Chen Zhijun and the three of them were slightly surprised, including Lao Wang, who was broadcasting live, couldn't help but look over.
"I said Lao Li, if you buy so many vegetables and pork, you can't just stir-fry vegetables, right?" asked Lao Zhang suspiciously.
"Guess right!" Li Yan smiled mysteriously and said, "Let you taste my craftsmanship in a while, and I guarantee that the aftertaste will be endless!"
Hearing this, Lao Zhang made a loveless expression: "I ate the sweet and sour pork ribs you made last year, and now I think about it, I still have sore teeth, you can pull it down." ”
Thinking back to the sweet and sour pork ribs, Li Yan smiled: "It was purely an accident, my hand shook accidentally when I poured vinegar, and I will never make the same mistake this time!"
Chen Zhijun and the three of them didn't say anything more, but they knew by looking at their expressions that they didn't have the slightest confidence in his cooking skills.
After washing the kitchen knife on the cutting board, Li Yan began to make the first dish - braised three-layer pork.
Three-layer meat, also known as pork belly, is the meat of the pork belly, fat and thin, and is an excellent ingredient.
Originally, Lao Zhang and Chen Zhijun didn't have any hope, but when they saw Li Yan's fluent way of cutting meat, they didn't look like novices, but like old chefs who had been in charge for many years, and the two couldn't help but be stunned.
"I didn't see it, Lao Li's knife work is good!"
Hearing Chen Zhijun's exclamation, Lao Wang turned his head to take a look, and shouted at Mai with an idea: "My roommate shows off his cooking skills and cooks live!"
After speaking, he pointed the camera at Li Yan, who was busy.
As Lao Wang's girlfriend, Zhao Xiaolin naturally wants to support the live broadcast career of male tickets, and she basically watches Lao Wang's live broadcast.
As soon as the picture turned, she saw Li Yan cooking pork belly, she suddenly became interested and called several beautiful roommates over to watch it together.
Since he used Li Yan as a shield that night, Xia Mu was very impressed by him, and when he saw the picture in the live broadcast, his heartstrings were slightly stirred.
"I really didn't expect that Li Yan had a good amount of wine and such superb cooking skills!" Li Keke couldn't help but admire.
"Good cooking skills, high amount of alcohol, I heard Yun Jie say that Li Yan has a very gentle personality, three good men!"
The Yunjie in Zhao Xiaolin's mouth is Lao Wang, his full name is Wang Yunjie, and Lao Zhang's name is Zhang Leilei.
"You all know this boy who cooks?!" asked another roommate, Zhou Yuan, in surprise.
Last time Lao Wang invited guests for supper, she was not in the dormitory, so she didn't go with Zhao Xiaolin and them, so she didn't see Li Yan.
"Of course I know, he is still the favorite of Xia Mu's beauty!" Li Keke quipped.
She was referring to Xia Mu's use of Li Yan as a shield that night, making the latter blush, because she had indeed said such things in public.
"Ah?!" Zhou Yuan exclaimed: "Xia Mu actually has a good impression of this boy, except for his good cooking skills, he can't see anything brilliant!"
"I know that looking at the appearance, you are too superficial, and people are people with internal shows. Zhao Xiaolin retorted.
Although she had only met once, she had a very good impression of Li Yan and intended to introduce Xia Mu to him.
"Don't make fun of me, the situation was special at that time, and I just wanted to send Gao Qingze away as soon as possible. Xia Mu explained shyly.
In fact, she didn't say it, Li Keke and Zhao Xiaolin also understood that Li Yan was not the kind of boy who looked amazing, and it was almost impossible to make Xia Mu fall in love at first sight.
Before falling in love with Wang Yunjie, Zhao Xiaolin had a relationship history, and she knew that the kind of boys who looked like playboys, nine out of ten were unreliable, and it was better to find a boy with an ordinary appearance.
When the four girls were chatting, Li Yan's first dish was already out of the pot, and the fragrant braised pork belly was full of aroma, filling the entire dormitory.
"It looks like it's delicious......"
Taking a deep breath of the aroma, Lao Zhang hesitated with a pair of chopsticks, the shadow produced by last year's sweet and sour pork ribs still lingered in his heart, making him dare not taste it first.
"What do you mean by it seems to be delicious, but it's too underestimated to underestimate the craftsmanship of Chef Ben!"
Ignoring the others, Li Yan took the lead in taking a piece of braised pork and stuffing it into his mouth, nodding his head while chewing, squinting with a look of enjoyment.
Seeing this situation, Lao Zhang's concerns were instantly dispelled, and they immediately gathered around the plate and gulped down the braised pork, while the audience in Lao Wang's live broadcast room could only watch and drool.
Grabbing the last piece of fat in his hand, Chen Zhijun glanced at the live broadcast that was still ongoing, and said with a smile: "Lao Wang, I'm afraid that you will provoke the anger of the public by doing this, do you want a gift in the future?"
Hearing this, Lao Wang was full of excitement, and he was too excited to eat and forgot about many fans, which can be a taboo for soldiers, and it will be bad if the fans are lost.
Turning his head to look, there were really complaints in the comments, Lao Wang reacted quickly, and hurriedly pulled Li Yan over and asked him to explain the method in detail to dispel the audience's anger.
Unknowingly, Li Yan took the position of the anchor, and at the strong request of the audience, he made a vegetarian dish.
Although it is a very common vegetarian dish, under Li Yan's superb cooking skills, it is full of color, flavor and flavor, and it makes people appetizing when they look at it.