Chapter 19: Everyday Life: Cooking in Another World
Alaiyo tasted a vegetable that he was very interested in, and every time he tried one, he had to ask, "What is this?"
Yu Youzi looked at the sliced leafy vegetables that Alaiyou received from his small bowl, and then pulled them into his mouth, and said: "Stir-fry the Lan cabbage, cut it into a spoonful size, pass a hot water, and then fry the ginger and garlic, and put the watered Lan cabbage in the pot...... I use flour to thicken it, and I taste it myself, but I don't know if it suits your taste. ”
Yoti: "This dish was too light at first, but after adding salt, it's fine. ”
Alaiyo whined while eating: "Hmmm, it's slippery!"
"What's this dish?" said Alaifeng, "Ho, it's a little spicy." But it's delicious. ”
"Oh, that's a spicy bamboo shoot...... Heat it in a frying pan until it is ripe, and then make the spicy soup in another pot...... Thanks to Jotti for helping me with the spices, otherwise I wouldn't have been able to mix them...... After that, pour the bamboo shoots into the spicy pot and stir-fry, and pour sesame oil and chopped green onions on the pan. ”
Alaiyou looked at Alai very happily, so he also stretched out the spoon to the spicy bamboo shoots, but was stopped by her sister: "You are still injured, you can't eat spicy!"
Yu Youzi: "Ah, this is my negligence...... Let's try this. As he spoke, he pushed a plate of colorful dishes in front of Alaiyou.
"What is this?" Alaiyo scooped up a spoonful, and in the small spoon there were three kinds of thin filaments, which looked very beautiful.
"This is my try to make a stir-fried four-color assortment. This dish can be regarded as a special dish of this world, and it uses the processing methods of this world, so Yu Youzi is looking forward to their reaction to tasting it, "Because the ripeness of vegetables is different, I first oil the hard-to-cook bamboo shoots and shredded smoked pork until they are half-cooked, and then add shredded radish and shredded umbrella pepper and stir-fry until cooked...... No extra seasonings are added, mainly smoked meats and oils. ”
"Well, it's even more delicious to eat while listening to your explanation. Alaiyo, who had changed to a forked spoon, praised that she now felt delicious in everything she ate. may be because he is sick in bed, and the food he eats in these three cycles is mainly light, and he smells a pot of boiled food on the way here.
Tahi tasted it quietly, and when she tried a plate of small cubes with a golden crust, the spoon couldn't stop, and she kept sending spoonfuls into her mouth: "Hmm, what is this?!"
"Ah, that's fried pearl blossoms. Yu Youzi replied to Tahi that he had tried to make it based on the inspiration he had received from the deep-fried dishes he had eaten at the Leg Ball, a bit like Japanese tempura, "made with bird eggs, flour and flour and flour batter, wrapped in water and diced pearl flowers and fried in a pan of oil." ”
Yu Youzi said as he took out a small plate from the dining car behind him, put it in front of Ta Xiyuan, and said, "This is a specially prepared spicy seasoning, and it tastes better to eat fried pearl flowers with this powder." ”
Yoti: "I guarantee the taste! ”
Tahidi: "Oh yes...... Uh-huh. ”
After having the spicy and umami taste, the crispy skin on the outside and the crisp pearl blossom on the inside became more flavorful, Tahi Yuan couldn't hold the spoon for a while, scooped a spoonful of the dish over, and then picked up a small plate and poured the seasoning on it: "Hmm, how did you come up with the idea of cutting it into such small cubes...... I can't stop. ”
"At first, it was slicing, but Jotti reminded me that the spoon wouldn't work well if it was sliced...... After cutting it into small cubes, I didn't expect it to be more flavorful. ”
Yoti: "yes, yes...... It's tiring. ”
Yu Youzi turned to look at the intern maid: "You can also sit down and eat together, you usually cook, and occasionally eat other people's meals." ”
"Heck, I'll just make some simple pasta, it's okay to have a full stomach, but if it's delicious...... I actually want to thank you for being able to eat it......" Yoti said with a sideways face, because it was the last day, so some words could be said directly.
"The person who replaced you will come in the afternoon, let's eat the last meal together. I made plenty of servings. "Each dish is piled up with a porcelain plate the size of a face, which is a lot for five people.
“...... Then you're welcome!" Jotty, who had been standing next to the dining car, walked over to the table, Tahi moved to the side, and Jotti pulled a chair and sat down.
The rectangular table in the small dining room was a six-person table, and Alaifeng and Alaiyo sat by the window, opposite Tahi and Yoti, and there were two single seats at both ends, which were reserved for Yu Youzi.
"Let me tell you, I've always tasted this bowl of winter melon soup, and I like to eat winter melon the most. As she spoke, Yoti picked up the common spoon in the soup bowl and scooped it into the small porcelain bowl she had brought over, "I can't help but want to drink it when you make it!"
"Haven't you tasted it?"
"Oh, that's enough for one bite. Jotti filled the bowl to his heart's content, blew on the hot air, and drank it with a grunt. Under her influence, others also made a splash on the clear soup boiled with green winter melon.
"Huh, why is it so fresh?" Alaifeng exclaimed, "This is the freshest boiled green winter melon I've ever tasted!"
There is no chemical seasoning such as monosodium glutamate in the world here, so it took Yu Youzi a lot of thought to season: "Do you see the diced mushrooms in the soup, this is the dried mushroom I found in the ingredient library, it is the taste that is used to improve the taste, I didn't give much salt and other seasonings, but I put some diced bamboo shoots, it can be regarded as a bowl of mountain soup." ”
After tasting the mountain delicacies winter melon soup, Alaiyou stretched out her hand to the last bowl of dishes, but her sister opened her hand with a snap: "Spicy, you can't eat it!"
Alaiyo pursed his mouth, looking very aggrieved.
Yu Youzi looked at her pitiful little appearance, and couldn't help but sigh happily, and then said to Alaifeng: "It's okay, this stew is just spicy, and the red pepper is mainly used for coloring." ”
Really? With a puzzled expression, Alaifeng stretched out his spoon to the sauce-colored stew dotted with red dots, scooped up a piece of meat and ate it.
"Hmm, what is this, it's so delicious!" Alaifeng's eyes widened, "It's just a little spicy, yo, you can taste it!"
After getting his sister's approval, Alai You moved the tableware with great joy, and then Xue Xue sighed in his mouth but exclaimed deliciously: "Huhu, a little spicy prickly feeling is really good...... This meat tastes awesome!"
Yu Youzi was a little happy: "It's just beef." ”
It is also possible that the beef in this world is more tender than that of the earth or other universes, but when they tried this radish beef stew, Yu Youzi did not feel that the beef was much different, so it was only possible that they had not eaten the beef they had cooked.
Yoti and Tahiti also moved their spoons, and Yoti also tasted the soup, which she had participated in the whole process of making in the kitchen, so her expression was a little subtle. Tahiya sensed her hesitation, and asked.
Yoti replied, "I've never seen it before, and I didn't expect it to taste like this when it's done." ”
Alaiyou: "Huhu, the taste of this meat is real, real...... It's a kind of emotion when you eat it! This is really beef?"
Alai Feng also nodded, held his cheek and said, "It's really uncomfortable to eat one piece less than one...... Hey, you eat two less, save me some!"
Tahidi: "How did you do that?"
Yu Youzi touched his nose: "It's nothing, it's just pickled before putting it in the pot...... The method is to thaw the refrigerated beef with water, and then pat it with your hands to make the meat soft...... Cut into pieces, put into the pepper-based spices, sesame oil, wine mixture of the base for pickling, and finally simmer with the radish for a long time, when the pot is boiling, sprinkle the green onion and pepper grains to match the color, the spicy taste of the prickly thorns you eat is actually brought by pepper and spices. ”
Alaifeng, Alaiyou, Tahi and even Yoti all seem to understand whether they understand or not, nodding their heads, because the iron pot in this world belongs to valuable kitchen utensils, ordinary families and even some rich people do not use iron woks and stewpots for cooking at home, stir-frying is a rare cooking method in this world, and the "thickening" and "flour" used by Yu Youzi before After asking Yoti about these cooking methods, she didn't know what Yu Youzi was doing, so she didn't know if this cooking method existed in this world, and of course she didn't know the corresponding words.
Words such as "thickening" and "face coat" used in the introduction of cooking methods, Yu Youzi is directly spliced with ready-made Patsy and Fengyu words, anyway, it looks like the sisters of the Wind People and the princess of the dead country don't know how to cook, just listen to Yu Youzi's explanation is very powerful, very good at cooking, and the food made is delicious, what does it mean...... Anyway, I don't know much about cooking, so if I don't understand it, it's nothing!
Because she is a maid, and Yoti, who knows a little bit about things in the kitchen, is different, she sees that Yu Youzi's cooking techniques are different from everyone she has seen before, and she is puzzled and surprised, but she thinks that this is the cuisine of another world, so with a subtle expression, she hands on the side and casually helps Yu Youzi taste it......
"Every dish is something I've never seen before...... Is this the food of another world?" said Tahi with emotion as she moved her spoon.
Alaifeng looked at Alaiyou and said, "We, the people of the wind, are going to travel all over the world, which means that we will taste the special foods of the world...... I can't imagine that I can be the first to taste the dishes of another world, I am really touched!"
Yu Youzi saw that the food she made could move others, and her heart was also warm: "If you think it's delicious, I'll make it for you again when I have the opportunity in the future." ”
"Huh, will there be a chance in the future?" Alaiyu swallowed the stew in his mouth, "Isn't it every day?!"
"Hey, cooking is a time-consuming thing! How can I soak in cooking all day......" Yu Youzi smiled bitterly, "You can eat so happily, and it's not worth the time I spent in the kitchen!"
Alaifeng also showed a disappointed expression after hearing this, but after seeing that Yoti's spoon kept moving, he quickly moved the spoon and pulled the food into his small bowl, and even Tahi Yan obviously sped up his movements......
Alaiyou beckoned Yu Youzi and said, "Don't you eat it?"
Yu Youzi, who had been standing between the dining car and the table, agreed, and said that I am very happy to see you eat well, and then took out two wooden skewers and a small bowl from the dining car behind him, and sat down at the dining table.
Alaifeng pushed the cutlery basket in front of him, but Yu Youzi shook his head, held up the wooden skewer and said, "I have it." ”
"Huh?" said Alai, looking at him, "don't you use a spoon?"
"This is the tableware of our world. Holding two long wooden sticks with a thickness of one finger and two fingers and shaking them, Yu Youzi said, "In another world, this is called 'chopsticks'." ”
"Kuaizi?" the girls in the audience looked incredulous.
Yu Youzi used his index finger and thumb to hold the chopsticks and moved, and the flexible opening and closing appearance made the girls' hearts move, only to see Yu Youzi stretch out the chopsticks and hand over a piece of stewed beef and throw it into his mouth, chewing it fragrantly.
"Wow, it looks more convenient than our finger cuffs!" said Alaiyo.
The finger cuff is a traditional tableware that has been passed down between the People of the Wind and the Hickland Empire, a wooden thumb and index finger cover, and in some places a middle finger cover, and the people there use this kind of tableware to eat, and Yu Youzi spent the day in Valli City, when he had dinner with Greif and Lan.
Alaifeng looked at Yu Youzi's flexible movements and sighed: "This kind of convenience, flexibility and simplicity is worthy of being tableware from another world!"
Alai You said enviously: "Ah, two sticks can be used like this! Teach me when you have time!"
"I'm also very flexible here!" When Alaifeng and Alaiyo asked to learn about the food culture of another world, Tahidi, who had lived in the hero country for a long time, emphasized in Parsi that she could use several commonly used spoons very flexibly, and I saw her brushing her wrist and forking the fried four-color assorted into her mouth.
"Oh, I've made it all the sizes and shapes to fit all kinds of spoons!" Jotti said proudly, as if she had made the table delicious.
Yu Youzi twisted the stir-fried Lan cabbage and said, "I really have to thank Yoti for handling it, otherwise if it is inconvenient to eat, the deliciousness will drop a lot...... Thanks to Jotty's tasting, I learned how to use at least five spices. ”
Aleyo, oh-oh, complimented Yoti, who was sitting across from him, and made Yoti's nose snort. In order not to be too proud, she got up and returned to the side of the dining car, and poured a small plate of spice seasoning for everyone except Tahiyi, because of different wind words, I didn't know the previous conversation between Alaifeng and Alaiyou, so she also gave Alaiyou a plate, but Alaifeng accepted it.
Yu Youzi took the fried pearl flower and dipped it in some spices and ate it, the spicy crispy slipped and exploded in his mouth, and he understood the reason why Tahi Ji kept eating one bite after another! This kind of cauliflower has the same crisp as the main taste, but the shape is a small pearl-sized ingredient, and it really goes well with tempura! How is one enough, and it can only be enjoyable with a bunch of bites, and the advantages of the spoon are reflected at this time......
"So what staple did you make?" Now that the dishes had been tasted, Tahi asked Yu Youzi a little curiously.