Chapter Ninety-Five: Heart
After making the catfish noodles, the next steps are much simpler for Hamura.
Although the catfish meat is tender and smooth, it lacks a relative taste, which is the strength and elasticity of the mouth, which is extremely important for noodles, otherwise the catfish noodles that lack elasticity will not be recognized in the special assessment.
In the original book, this problem also bothered Liu Angxing, but in the end he came up with the idea of stuffing shredded squid into the noodles to increase the taste.
When I watched anime, this made Hamura feel the most fake, because stuffing shredded squid into each noodle is difficult for ordinary people, and I am afraid that it is impossible for ordinary people to complete it.
However, for Hamura, it is relatively simple to do this.
Next, under Yakumo Zi's curious gaze, he quickly shredded the squid, these knife skills, to ordinary people who are countless times more agile, naturally nothing to him, and soon added squid heart shreds to each noodle.
After doing this, the next step is to make the soup, and the essence of a bowl of noodles is the soup, so no matter how you look at it, this step is extremely crucial for pangasius noodles.
The main ingredient of the soup is sea bream, which is also Hamura's favorite ingredient.
Brush Brush Brush!
The knife flashed, the scales were quickly processed under the sharp blade, the meat and the fish bones were separated, and then the fish bones and fish heads and tails were put into the boiling pot, according to the recipe, three sea bream bones were put in at once, and the prepared seasoning was added, and then the lid was covered and cooked for 30 minutes.
"It feels very different, catfish noodles, squid shreds are added to it, and sea bream is used to cook soup, this is a pot of seafood noodles! But is it possible to make a dish that shines? ”
Yakumo's eyes were filled with surprise, she had indeed heard of such a dish, and she had the rich imagination and creativity of a chef, and when Hamura did this, she felt that her appetite had been completely aroused, and she thought that maybe she could really see the glowing dish.
"I don't know."
Hamura sandwiched the wok on another stove, and when the pan was hot, he poured in the oil and stir-fried the sea bream meat. He's sure he'll be able to make catfish noodles this time, but if he wants to make the dish shine, I'm afraid it's not enough.
With 5% control, the task will be much more difficult, so it's definitely not that easy to make a glowing meal.
Thirty minutes later, Hamura lifted the pot, and as the steam rose rapidly, a smell of the ocean quickly filled the room, making Yakumo Murasaki wrinkle her cute little nose and smell the delicious fragrance.
"Hamura, hurry up, we can't wait to taste it!"
Yakumo Zi urged again and again on the side.
Hamura gave her a funny look, then put the catfish noodles into the pot, rolled in the pot for five minutes, and then quickly scooped up the noodles and turned off the heat.
Divide the noodles into two bowls, pour in the broth, and then arrange the fried sea bream fillets neatly on the noodles and sprinkle with chopped green onions.
"What a delicious smell!"
Yakumo Zi wiped the saliva from the corner of her mouth, and took the chopsticks with a roar, and took away one of the bowls of catfish noodles.
"Hmm!"
Quickly pick up a chopstick noodle without fear of being hot, and open your pink cherry lips to welcome the noodles.
Bang bang bang!
Yakumo's eyes widened suddenly, and the moment she bit off the noodles, she seemed to be able to hear a sound coming from between her mouths, which was the sound of extremely elastic noodles breaking.
"This tastes ......!"
A hint of pleasure appeared in Yakumo's purple, burgundy eyes, and then he took a big bite of it, completely ignoring elegance.
"It seems that the catfish noodles made for the first time have achieved good results?"
Hamura watched Yakumo Murasaki eat with relish, and also picked up chopsticks, picked up another bowl and began to taste it.
Bang bang bang!
The texture of the elastic noodles that seems to bounce to your teeth the moment they break is wonderful, but this texture alone is enough to make people forget about it.
Hamura and Yakumo quickly cleaned up the noodles in the bowl and put the empty bowl on the table, and Hamura couldn't help but start thinking.
Obviously, this bowl of catfish noodles is not perfect in all aspects except for the taste.
Although the two of them are not gourmets or chefs, as otherworldly beings, they can taste the most subtle differences in taste.
And that extraordinary taste, the catfish noodles that are fed back have many defects.
The first is the taste, the umami of the three kinds of fish is not perfectly blended together, this is easy to eat, and the second is that the soup is not in place, and the seasoning covers part of the delicious taste of the catfish noodles.
The second is the heat, the catfish noodles are a little overcooked, and the smoothness of the catfish meat is eliminated by a few points, and the umami is not perfectly integrated, and there is also part of the reason for the heat, as well as the sea bream meat, which is a little too old.
All in all, this bowl of catfish is definitely much higher than the dishes of ordinary restaurants, but in terms of taste, it must be a complete failure and be crushed.
However, because of the extremely elastic taste, it is enough to make many people ignore these shortcomings, just like Yakumo Purple just now, the noodles can't stop as soon as you eat it, and the taste is really wonderful.
This also made the two realize that the taste of a dish is sometimes not the most important, and the texture is also sometimes important.
"However, if you can combine the umami of the three kinds of fish, and then the soup is fused with the three umami, and the ultimate taste is added to this texture, then this bowl of catfish noodles is probably comparable to the fiery red pastoral rice made by your childhood sweetheart."
There was also a hint of pity on Yakumo's cheeks, "Of course, if you can add a heart to the dish that can bring the ingredients to life, then this dish will surpass the fiery pastoral rice!" ”
Yakumo Zi often goes to Yuanyue Academy to eat, so he can be regarded as half a gourmet, and gives what he thinks is a more accurate conjecture.
"Come again!"
Hamura recovered from his contemplation and got up to return to the kitchen. He didn't think he would be able to make perfect catfish noodles the first time, so he bought a lot of ingredients.
He sorted out the shortcomings of the last time, and this time he did it more seriously.
Hamura doesn't have a clue how to incorporate the flavor of the fish into the cuisine, but the question at hand is how to blend the umami flavor of the fish and develop the flavor to the extreme.
This busy work, from the afternoon to the evening, Yakumo Purple and he have already tasted four servings of catfish noodles, each time the taste has improved, but it is still not perfect.
Until the feather style and the others came back, Yakumo Zi didn't seem to have any intention of meeting with the feather style, so she opened a gap and left.
"It smells so good!"
"This is the smell of seafood?"
"It's so rich, I'm so hungry, I want to eat it!"
When Hashiki, Rokka and Nayako opened the door, they smelled the fresh fragrance that filled the air, and their eyes immediately straightened. The three girls couldn't wait to change into indoor shoes and looked at Hamura, who was busy in the kitchen.
"Brother, what are you doing to eat?"
Hashiki poked his little head out curiously and watched as the shiny noodles were poured from the pot to the bowl.
Nayako took a sip of saliva, as if waiting for a kitten to be fed, with a look of eagerness to eat.
"Everyone is equal in front of food, even the evil king True Eye is no exception, Hamura, you hurry up and bring the dishes that can replenish the magic power......"
Gollum~
As Liuhua spoke, there was a sound in her abdomen, and her lovely cheeks couldn't help but blush.
"Taste it, the catfish noodles I made."
Hamura prepared four servings, picked up one by himself, and left three servings, and the three girls had exactly one bowl each.
"This ......"
"Delicious!"
"The Evil King's True Eyes...... Irresistible food! This kind of cuisine is definitely from the Demon World! ”
The three girls just took a bite, their eyes couldn't help but straighten, the elastic noodles, the taste of the broken teeth, the umami, and the impactful taste, all of a sudden, conquered the three girls, they had never eaten such a delicious dish!
"Brother, I still want it!"
"One more serving, woo wow, this dish is amazing, please change me a big bowl, I'm going to eat it until I die!"
"The Demon Realm cuisine that can conquer the True Eye of the Evil King, although it is very dangerous, but please be sure to serve me another bowl, even if you sink now, you will have no regrets!"
"Okay, you wait."
Hamura looked at the anticipation in the eyes of the third daughter, and there was an inexplicable sense of accomplishment in his heart.
"I seem to understand a little bit why Liu Angxing is so keen on cooking, watching the diners look forward to their own food, watching the happiness and satisfaction on their faces, this feeling is really good."
"Is cooking meant to bring happiness to people? But I just want to make the people in front of me happy! If I can do that, then I don't mind putting in the effort! ”
Hamura stood in the kitchen again, but this time he was in a different mood than before, putting aside the mentality of just wanting to complete the task, he now only wanted to make Hashiki and Rokuka, and by the way, a troublesome evil god feel satisfied and happy, and with this mood, he completely put his mind into it.
Nearly an hour later, Hamura presented three bowls of catfish noodles to the three girls, this time he didn't taste them, but he knew very well in his heart that this time the catfish noodles tended to be perfect.
The extreme delicious fragrance seems to awaken the demon called appetite in the body of the three women.
The three girls quickly snatched the catfish noodles from Hamura's hands and couldn't wait to eat them.
But as soon as the noodles were eaten, the expressions of the three girls froze suddenly, and the three pairs of beautiful eyes widened.
"Alive!"
"Catfish! Squid! There is also sea bream~~! ”
"Hmm~ actually swimming in the mouth of my evil king's true eye!"
After the three girls were sluggish, they moved their chopsticks in a row, and soon the three bowls of delicious catfish noodles were eaten, and there was not even a drop of soup left.
"Why do I feel that this bowl of noodles is so much better than the previous bowl? It's not a level of cuisine at all! ”
Yu Shi put down the empty bowl with satisfaction, and then looked at Yu Village with great curiosity, "Brother, how did you manage to make the ingredients seem to come alive?" I just saw a river with catfish, squid, and snappers swimming in it, and it was an incredible sight! A bowl of food can be done to this extent? ”
Hamura didn't know how to answer Yushi's question, because he didn't fully understand it, but he was sure that this time the catfish noodles were given a soul by him.
This pot of food, which he wanted to make the feather style happy and satisfied, was endowed with an inscrutable mind by him, and the ingredients came to life.
But unfortunately, even so, the food still did not shine.
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At night, Hamura had just finished taking a shower and entered the bedroom, and he saw Shihua sitting on the bed, with Erlang's legs crossed and an attractive figure.
"Miss Shihua, what's the matter?"
Hamura couldn't help but be stunned, then closed the door and sat in the computer chair looking at her.
Shihua's burgundy eyes looked at him a little strangely.
"Do I have flowers on my face?"
"There are no flowers."
Shihua shook her head, "But I heard that you were in a relationship with Liuhua?" ”
"Well, that's right."
Hamura nodded calmly, there is nothing to hide, and if you want to hide it, how long can you hide it?
"Hey~"
Shihua sighed lightly, "Is that really the case?" ”
Then she raised her head and stared at Hamura, "My sister is still young, so it's okay if you get along, but you must not do anything too out of the ordinary." ”
"Don't worry, I'm not that."
Hamura was stunned for a moment, and then said lightly. With Liuhua's shy personality, kissing is the biggest bottom line, and if you want to get closer, I'm afraid you'll faint shyly.
He's not in a hurry, anyway, if you want to do it, you can go to the feather coat or the feather style, and the feather weave and Kasumigaoka Shiyu have been waiting for him to take the initiative, so there's no need to force Rokuka.
"Rest assured?"
Shihua's gaze became even more weird, and then under the gaze of Hamura, he took out a game packaging box from behind, and the cover on this packaging box was a cute girl with a red fruit, and an 18X logo on it clearly caught his eyes!
This is exactly one of the sister games that he hid under the bed and bought back by Feather.
"The ......"
"How can you reassure me?"
Shihua said, and took out three more.
Hamura's body stiffened, and he said with some embarrassment: "That, this game is not my ......"
"Not yours? Whose is that? ”
Shihua asked with a faint smile, but there was no trace of doubt in her burgundy eyes.
"Forehead ......"
Hamura is really hard to explain, saying that it is feather-style? Shihua definitely won't believe it, but he hasn't even played this game, it's really wronged!
I didn't expect to avoid the muses, but I was picked up by Shihua, so does this woman like to search under other people's beds so much?
"I think I'm going to have to be careful."
"Watch out! Do you think I'm going to do anything to you? ”
"Oh? That is, do you only like your sister? Or is it a character with a sister attribute? ”
Shihua picked up a packaging box and looked at the cover with a huge scale on it, and a blush appeared on her beautiful cheeks, "But Liuhua is my sister...... Oh~ You're not going to do anything to me, are you? After taking me down, Liuhua will become your sister, and then it is logical to satisfy your sexual fetishes? ”
"Are all black and long straight poisonous tongues?"
Hamura complained in his heart, it is still good to haori, although it is black and straight, but it is gentle and virtuous.
"You need to be cured of your paranoia! Anyway, give these games back to me first! ”
Hamura strode over directly, reaching out to snatch the game from Shihua's hand.
"Huh?"
Shihua smiled, lay down on the bed, and escaped the snatching of Hamura.
Hamura rode on Toka's soft and delicate body, firmly fixed her hands, and snatched the game away.
"This game ......"
As Hamura spoke, his eyes met with Shika's, and he looked at each other in an extremely ambiguous posture, and his voice paused.
Shihua struggled slightly, and then stared at Hamura who was looking at him condescendingly in her burgundy eyes, "What? Is this going to happen to me? ”