Tan Qing was led into the kitchen by the young man, this time it was still early, the kitchen was empty, there was no half a figure, only a bunch of ingredients were piled up on the edge of the wall, looking at it, it was fresh.

Turning his head leisurely and taking a look, the young man was already gone, and Tan Qing was still thinking about whether he needed to let the young man give him a quiet environment when he was cooking, but he didn't expect that this young man was so observant of words and expressions, and he didn't even need Tan Qing to take the initiative to mention it, which made Tan Qing instantly feel a lot more relaxed.

It's just that Tan Qing didn't expect that this young man would trust such an inexplicable woman as himself, how to put it, the kitchen is the most important place for a restaurant, in the past, when Tan Qing was a cook himself, he would never let anyone into his kitchen.

After hesitating in place for a while, the figure of the young man never appeared, as if he had really handed over the entire kitchen to Tan Qing, and after thinking for a long time, Tan Qing pursed his mouth and raised his feet and walked to the corner where the dishes were piled up.

Since it is a recruitment, then it must be to show his best side, although Tan Qing has considerable confidence in his cooking skills, this time he also carefully considered it, after a while, Tan Qing looked at a piece of pork belly on the table and made up his mind.

In the past, Tan Qing has been a cook for fifteen years, and he has made a lot of special dishes and delicacies from the mountains and seas, and of course the taste will not be bad, but Tan Qing has always been the most praised, that is, he uses the simplest ingredients and the most simple cooking techniques to make the most memorable food.

And this time, what Tan Qing wants to do is Dongpo meat.

After staying here for two days, Tan Qing has a little understanding of this place, and meat is a rare thing for them.

Usually, if the family is okay, you may be able to eat meat once in half a month, but if the family is a little worse, I am afraid that you will not have the opportunity to eat meat once a year.

Compared with them, the slightly wealthy people are not so rare for meat, but the lack of meat is a large-scale trend in this place, which correspondingly causes the people in this place not to know how to make meat.

For example, when eating pork, most of their methods are just stir-fried with side dishes, and at most this dish is only a little minced meat, put fine salt and minced ginger and stir-fry, which is a dish.

And most of the dishes like pork belly will not appear here, after all, pork belly does not cost a lot of ingredients, if a process is not done well, then the whole meat will be wasted.

Therefore, the Dongpo meat that Tan Qing made this time will naturally not be made for ordinary people, and those who can enter the water mill to eat will definitely not be a poor person, so the water mill people naturally don't need to be stingy with meat, all they care about is the taste.

After this consideration, Tan Qing finally made a move.

First of all, I found out the ingredients I needed one by one in the kitchen, what ginger, chives or something, it is needless to say, and finally Tan Qing even found a few jujubes on the desk, and immediately Tan Qing was a lot relieved, this ingredient is enough, she will naturally be able to make it.

As always, the fire was lit in the stove, the cauldron was cleaned, two spoonfuls of water were scooped into the pot, and the firewood was added, and other things were prepared.

First, wash the ginger, cut it into large slices, set it aside for later use, and then wash the chives.

Then it is to cut the pork belly into small pieces of square and uniform size, take out the string to tie up each piece of meat, and then put the meat into the pot to blanch and drain the water.

Finally, take out the casserole, spread a bamboo sieve on the bottom of the casserole, spread a layer of chives on top of the bamboo sieve, put the blanched pork belly in the casserole, put the skin side down in the casserole, evenly stack the ginger slices on the meat, spread a layer of chives, add rock sugar and jujubes. After these steps, add salt, sugar, teriyaki soy sauce and rice wine, and cover the lid.

When he had done this, the vanished boy appeared at the door of the kitchen, followed by a man of about forty years of age, who looked like a merchant with a kind of philistine in his eyes.

"Sister, how are you doing?" As soon as Tan Qing turned his head to see this scene, the young man opened his mouth and said to Tan Qing quite affectionately.

Tan Qing pursed his lips, smiled at the young man, and returned, "Just put the dish in the pot, it will take some time for this dish to collect the juice, and it will take about an hour." ”

After the words fell, the man behind the young man stepped forward two steps, beckoned to Tan Qing, and said, "Girl, who did you learn this craft from?" Your mother? ”

As soon as these words came out, Tan Qing hesitated for a while, and only nodded lightly after a while, "Yes, when my mother was young, I went to the city to be a fire girl in a big family, and the cook there taught my mother to cook, and my mother passed it on to me." ”

Tan Qing explained like this, the man just nodded, and then said to Tan Qing, "It's noon soon, and there will be guests in this store slowly, since you still need an hour for this dish, don't rush to leave, stay in the kitchen, originally the chef in our store asked for leave yesterday, and said that I have to take charge of the cook today, since you are here, try to see if you can cope with today's work, and there will be two cooks for you later, you can do it yourself." ”

After saying all this, Tan Qing was stunned in place, it stands to reason that no matter how bad the cook is in this store, it shouldn't be to let a person of unknown origin do such a job as being in charge, in case he is sent by a hostile family to make trouble, as long as he does something in the dish, isn't it easy to mess up this shop.

Thinking about it like this, Tan Qing looked at the man's expression abnormally, he didn't look like a careless person, how could he make such a hasty decision.

It's just that before Tan Qing could say anything, the man had already turned around and left the kitchen, and then the young man came to Tan Qing in two steps, and said to Tan Qing in a low voice, "Sister, our shopkeeper has been watching you here for a long time, although he didn't say a word, but I can see that he seems to like you very much." ”

As soon as the young man explained like this, Tan Qing understood something, so it was, she thought it was some conspiracy here, it turned out that the shopkeeper had already observed himself in the dark for a long time, thinking about it like this, this man also said that he was in charge of the spoon, so in this way, could it be that he was also a cook in the past,

Thinking like this, Tan Qing unconsciously said this sentence, and the young man standing next to Tan Qing replied to Tan Qing with a smile, "That's right." ”

Tan Qing widened his eyes and glanced at the young man, the young man's eyes rolled twice, and then he came to Tan Qing's side, and explained in a low voice, "More than ten years ago, our shopkeeper entered the capital, stayed in it for seven or eight years, followed a chef, learned a lot of things, this is the return to Shuimo Town, opened this Shuimo family, at the beginning, the scale of the store was very small, there were two tables, our shopkeeper was in charge of the spoon, with his skills, it was slowly in Shuimo Town to make a reputation, So even though he doesn't cook much anymore, there are still a lot of regular customers who take care of his business. ”

"What's going on with Chef Chen, who was poached by the Yang family before, doesn't he say that he is the number one chef in Shuimo Town?" Tan Qing blinked twice and asked.

"That's because our shopkeeper hasn't been in charge of the spoon in person for a long time, otherwise why do you think that after Lao Chen left, our water mill people's business would have no impact at all." The young man glanced at Tan Qing with slanted eyes, and it was difficult to hide a proud look in his eyes.

Tan Qing understood something a little in his heart, and nodded secretly.

At this moment, the lobby suddenly became lively, it turned out that the other two cooks of the water mill family had arrived, in addition to three running halls, an account room, as soon as these people came, the entire water mill family was lively.

"Women?" It's just that one of the cooks, who is about thirty years old, frowned deeply after seeing Tan Qing, and his eyes revealed a look of disdain.

Tan Qing glanced at him quietly, but she didn't say a word, for such a situation, she had already expected it before she came, the status of women in this era was low, and in such a small town, most women do some housework at home, take care of children, if the family is really poor, it is to do some handicrafts or something to sell in the market, and basically there is no land that will provide work for women, of course, except for maids.

And if they want to change their contempt for women from the soul, Tan Qing naturally has nothing to do, but there is a saying called the strong man, in any position, as long as he is good enough, then he can naturally break the most intuitive perception of others about himself, so in the face of such a mocking look, Tan Qing did not use words to refute anything at all, she always likes to prove herself with actions.

The rest of the people had a lukewarm attitude when they faced Tan Qing, as if they didn't take Tan Qing in their eyes at all, except for the previous teenager, no one would take the initiative to talk to Tan Qing.

About half an hour later, guests began to appear in Shuimoren's house one after another, and Tan Qing was waiting in the kitchen in the morning, but every time someone ordered food, they were taken over by the other two, and they had no intention of letting Tan Qing interfere.

Tan Qing was not half dissatisfied with such a phenomenon, and it happened to be this time for her to take good care of her Dongpo meat.