72. Sweet potatoes
April in Seoul is already the season of spring flowers, especially the cherry blossoms in Namsan Park, just looking at the beauty of the cherry blossoms, in fact, they are not worse than those in Japan, but they are not as ubiquitous as in Japan, and they are not so large.
Entering April, for many people at Lee Jun Hyuk's coffee shop, they have ushered in a new life.
Because of Yang Lei's efforts, the business of the small shop is becoming more and more popular, and at the end of March, Yang Lei's mother and son's usury loan was completely paid off, and Yang Lei's mother and son, who are now "free", can now officially work for himself.
The recipes researched by Yang Lei have been successfully tried and officially promoted. It may be that the taste he made is more suitable for the taste of Koreans, so the response is not bad, and since then, Yang Lei has officially become the chef of Lee Junhyuk's coffee shop, fully responsible for everything in the entire kitchen.
Because Kim Soon-ae has gone to the "JH" company as the general manager, Park Hwa-ja has now become the official store manager, although her management model is completely different from Kim Soon-ae. But her management model is more suitable for small stores, because she does everything herself, which can drive the enthusiasm of the store staff.
"JH" is the name of the company of the breeding distribution center discussed by Lee Jun-hyuk and Kim Soon-ae. Lee Jun-hyuk is the owner of the company, Kim Soon-ae is the general manager, and Kim is the vice president.
The division of labor between the two is clear, Kim Soon-ae is responsible for the overall management of the whole aspect, while Kim is mainly responsible for implementation. Now the two of them are doing the most post-investigation in a small village 18 kilometers south of Seoul, because Lee Jun-hyuk's funds and skills are ready, as long as he wins the land again, he can officially start construction.
However, what I said above has nothing to do with Lee Jun-hyuk, at this moment, he is roasting sweet potatoes in the yard at the back door of the coffee shop.
Speaking of roasted sweet potatoes, the reason is because of Yang Lei, in the previous experiment of developing the cuisine, Yang Lei bought a lot of sweet potatoes, but for the convenience of production, he picked up those round and large sweet potatoes, leaving a lot of slender ones that look ugly here.
Li Junhyuk, who was idle and bored, happened to see it, so he took these slender sweet potatoes to the yard, and then found some tools and began to make roasted sweet potatoes with great interest.
Speaking of which, Lee Jun-hyuk's roasted sweet potatoes are different from those in South Korea, and he uses a "stone-roasted" method. The oven is a rectangular iron box with two tiers. The top layer is filled with gravel, and the bottom layer is hot charcoal. The charcoal burns underneath, and when the gravel on top is hot, use long tongs to "bury" the raw sweet potatoes that have been washed cleanly into the gravel, and the sweet potatoes can be roasted thoroughly. The sweet potatoes roasted in this way are cooked exactly the same on the inside and out, and they are fragrant, waxy in texture, and most importantly, absolutely hygienic, so you can eat them with confidence.
The charcoal was left over from the roast pig at Christmas, and as for the iron box, it took Lee Jun-hyuk a morning to make it himself, and although the shape is not very regular, it is not bad to use at all.
And those broken stones, I'm not afraid of people laughing when I say it, it was picked up by Li Junhe in Nanshan Park, they are all pebbles of basically the same size, and after being washed and washed by Li Junhe, they were put in the disinfection cabinet for a night, which is basically clean and can't be clean.
In fact, Li Junhyuk himself knows that he is just looking for a psychological comfort, after all, no matter how clean these stones are, he will peel off the skin of the sweet potatoes before eating.
Speaking of which, Li Junhyuk still has special feelings for sweet potatoes.
At the age of 13, Lee Jun-hyuk followed his father on his first half-month wilderness survival exercise. Although 13-year-old Lee Jun Hyuk has learned a lot of skills to survive in the wild, he is still a little nervous when he uses actual combat for the first time.
Because Lee Jun-hyuk's age is only 13 years old. Therefore, Old Price did not look for a particularly dangerous place, and his survival drill this time was mainly aimed at the application of the knowledge that Lee Jun-hyuk had learned. For Lee Jun-hyuk, the only thing that is difficult is the problem of food.
At the beginning, Lee Jun-hyuk did a good job, and he used the skills he learned to solve all kinds of problems one by one. But on the fifth day, after Lee Jun-hyuk ran out of food he brought, his life was not so easy.
In the mountains and forests, you can eat nothing more than mushrooms, tree bark and wild vegetables. And the place that Old Price chose this time is at the edge of the forest, so the animals are scarce, although the bark can satisfy hunger, but not to mention its taste, if he really starts to take a dagger to peel the bark and eat, then I am afraid that before the end of the acting, he will be invited to tea by the forest police.
There are many mushroom mentors, but Li Junhe knows that in the wild, the last thing that can be eaten casually is mushrooms, because 90% of the mushrooms in this world are poisonous, and even Old Price has been a soldier for so many years, and he doesn't dare to say that he is looking for mushrooms to eat in the wild.
Mushrooms and bark are gone, so only wild vegetables remain.
Maybe in the city, wild vegetables will be popular with some people, because although some wild vegetables will taste a little bitter, after cooking, you can still solve the bitter taste of these wild vegetables. But for Lee Jun-hyuk, who is surviving in the wild, he doesn't have the kind of convenient conditions to boil water and cook vegetables. Therefore, he can only chew bitter wild vegetables to satisfy his hunger.
Perhaps it was his luck, but when he had been chewing wild vegetables for 3 days, he finally couldn't help but start preparing to find another thing to satisfy his hunger. As a result, he really found it, and in a relatively open grove, he dug up a full 30 sweet potatoes.
Then, his first survival drill was spent in the smell of roasted sweet potatoes and the helpless look in Old Price's miscalculation.
Sitting in front of the iron box, Li Junhyuk recalled the scene at that time, and couldn't help but show a warm smile, at that time Li Junhe was still a stupid child who was not very good at anything, who would have thought that 3 years later, this stupid child would become the unique "Arthur" of British SAS.
It didn't take long for the iron box to begin to waft out of the fragrance, which was exclusive to the fragrance of roasted sweet potatoes.
After calculating the time, Li Junhe couldn't wait to start picking out the sweet potatoes that had passed the test one by one from the iron box with long tongs.
I made one that looked the most delicious, held it in my hand, made a cut on the sweet potato with a fruit knife, and then tore the skin of the sweet potato along the crack to both sides, and the golden sweet potato flesh inside was exposed.
Looking at his work with satisfaction, Lee Jun-hyuk is ready to start enjoying it.
"I'm sorry, but is this sweet potato of yours for sale?"
Just as Lee Jun-hyuk was about to start eating, a polite voice sounded from the gate of the courtyard.