Chapter 715: Hundred Flowers Feast
The Hundred Flowers Banquet, this is a royal top banquet that can only be enjoyed by the royal family at the time of the transition of summer and autumn.
As the name suggests, the Hundred Flowers Banquet is inseparable from flowers, but it is not just as simple as sitting in the garden to enjoy flowers and wine. From last autumn to the end of summer this year, in the back garden of Mammoth City Palace, there is a flower picking order all year round, which is responsible for picking the freshest, fullest, and most delicate seasonal flowers, and raising ingredients for the Hundred Flowers Banquet in August and September every year. It can be said that every dish on the Hundred Flowers Banquet is a masterpiece presented by the blending of nature and time, even the royal families who are accustomed to eating the delicacies of the mountains and seas can't help but salivate over the long-famous Hundred Flowers Banquet.
The materials of the Hundred Flowers Banquet are limited and the dishes are precious, so there will never be many people attending the banquet, only the kings of various countries, as well as their relatives and cronies, are eligible to enjoy this set of delicacies that even the gods will drool, and there are only about 20 people in total. Because of this, when I saw the Su family sisters and brothers in the restaurant, Fan Qian, who thought that they would definitely be excluded by the kings of various countries, ate a whale. This also let him know who he is getting close to these days, Nobel 20 must know.
After the guests were seated, adhering to the principle of not talking about politics in front of the food, everyone patiently waited for the dishes to be served to them. And the kitchen, which had already been ready, also pinched the watch and delivered the delicious dishes to the table on time.
Aperitif, sparkling wine from cherry blossoms, has a pink color, fragrant aroma, sweet taste, and soft taste.
Cold head plate, chilled flower salad, made of more than a dozen kinds of flower petals that have been frozen since spring picking for several years, with a roll of thin pastrami beef like cicada wings, supplemented with flower nectar and flower vinegar, mix well and serve.
Hot head plate, crispy white jade flowers, select the largest and fullest gardenia, take the largest and fullest petals, wrap the egg white after beating and fry at low temperature, and then put it on the plate in the shape of a gardenia, the color is like white jade, crispy on the outside and tender on the inside, eat it while it is hot, and leave a fragrant mouth. When eating, it can be drizzled with a little special gardenia stamen sauce, which is fresher than lemon and sweeter than honey.
Clear soup, peach and pear vegetable soup, a plate of clear soup without oil flowers, clear to the bottom, no peach blossoms, pear blossoms embellishment, but the aftertaste of the entrance can taste a trace of peach blossoms, pear blossoms sweet and bitter, instantly wash away the appetizer residual in the mouth of the aftertaste.
Soups, peony cream soups, and cream soups are not uncommon, but this red, yellow, and white cream soup that looks like evening clouds is really rare in the world. Although the aroma of peonies is more or less masked by the flavor of mushrooms, taro puree and cream, this soup is known for its color and shape, and diners will be appetizing just by looking at it.
Accompaniment to the table liquor, jasmine white wine, just pull out the cork with a "poof!", and the jasmine fragrance wafting from the mouth of the bottle can make people unconsciously imagine the wonderful taste of the white elf dancing on the tip of their tongue.
As a side dish, lotus roast chicken, first wrap a chick stuffed with fresh lotus seeds with ten layers of lotus petals, then wrap the lotus bun with yellow mud with wine, then put it into an open flame to grill for half an hour, take out and crack the mud shell, and then pour salty and fragrant meat sauce on the surface of the chicken, and finally serve it to the table. It is recommended to eat it by hand, the chicken is soft and tender, and you can taste the sweet chicken juice bursting on the tip of the tongue in every bite, and even the lotus seeds that support the chicken belly are stewed to be sweet and delicious, soft and glutinous like a cake, so that people can't put down the spoon at all.
Accompaniment to red wine, poppy red wine, while poppy fruit can be used to make addictive drugs, poppies can help refresh the mind and whet the appetite. The taste of this red wine is not much different from ordinary red wine, but looking at the bewitching fuchsia liquor, just this appearance will make people feel the urge to drink it all.
Main course, osmanthus nectar steak, served with fragrant omelette, mixed chrysanthemum mashed potatoes, served with gold and silver sweet and spicy sauce. The main dish of fermented milk cake with osmanthus picked last autumn, fermented with fresh milk from frangipani picked last year, salted yellow dahlia picked last year as a side dish, and honeysuckle picked last year mixed with yellow chili juice as a dipping sauce, this main dish seems to be unremarkable, but in fact it is the flowers of last autumn that are moved to the table in the middle of summer this year. There is no need to deliberately remind you, as long as you take a bite, in addition to the refreshing floral aroma, everyone can taste the time-hardened heaviness hidden in the dishes.
After-dinner sweet wine, camellia rum, camellia flowers that have been stuffed into wine bottles since they were picked in early winter last year, seem to be still in the slightly turbid liquor at the moment, and the vague aroma of tea also adds a lot of color to the top rum in the Nobel royal cellar.
Dessert, golden volcanic smoothie, this golden smoothie is definitely not as simple as smearing yellow plum juice on ordinary smoothies, but in the middle of winter last year, when the plum blossoms are in full bloom, the plum blossom juice is mixed with honey and snow water frozen into ice cubes and stored, until the midsummer of this year and then ground into a delicate smoothie, so it perfectly retains the breath of the cold plum and snow that can only be smelled in winter. Finally, a thick layer of cherry sauce is drizzled on top of the smoothie to neutralize the bitterness of the plum blossoms, and this is the perfect dessert.
After eating this whole set of exquisite and somewhat gorgeous flower feast, including Fan Qian, the faces of more than 20 people on both sides of the long table were all filled with happy smiles. It wasn't until the head of the restaurant took a few beautiful little maids who didn't lose flowers to remove the already empty plates and wine glasses that Su Qi pulled Fan Qian's sleeves and said with a thief's eyebrows: "The hundred flowers banquet here in your house is worthy of being a hundred flowers banquet, even those maids are flowers!"
As soon as he heard this, Fan Qianle was happy, and immediately asked with a smile: "Which one do you like?" Tell my brother, as long as you are responsible to the end, my brother will help you marry her back to the Zaiben Empire!"
Seeing that Fan Qian and Su Qi were talking and laughing, Nobel 20 asked with interest: "Qian'er, what are you talking about, so happy?"
Fan Qian was so smart, he knew that if he told the conversation with Su Qi just now, he would not only sweep the face of the Su family's siblings, but also the face of the Zaiben Empire. So he rolled his eyes, pushed the boat down the water, and said: "It's nothing, Erchen and Prince Su Qi have recently gotten closer, and he wants to ask Erchen for the magic array diagram of new magic, in order to make me happy, tell me a joke!"
As soon as these words came out, the six kings on both sides of the long table, including Nobel XX, all sat up straight, and there was no happy smile on their faces, but instead a sense of nervousness for fear of being left behind.
At this time, King Newton of the Delai Empire, who had already confirmed that he would not be able to qualify for the finals of the Seven Nations Qualifying Tournament, opened his mouth and proposed: "Eat and drink, and drink and drink, the Hundred Flowers Banquet of the Nobel royal family is really worthy of its name." I don't think it's too early, and everyone's intentions are similar, so let's hurry up and get down to business. ”
King Newton's proposal was approved by the kings, and a moment later, all the family members, cronies, and guards who accompanied the kings to the banquet, including Fan Qian's biological mother, left the dining room, leaving only six kings, Fan Qian, and nine Su siblings, still sitting on both sides of the empty long table.
Fan Qian knew the intention of the kings. New magic is different from summoning demons, and it is also different from classic magic and classic fighting skills, in a way that modern people better understand, new magic is the plug-in in the game, the godfather of the green tea. Using new magic, you don't need the talent of a summoner, nor the penance of magic and vindictiveness, as long as you hold a piece of magic crystal from the rotten street, a group of small bronzes who don't even know what the King's Canyon is, can be transformed into a group of kings in an instant. Therefore, the kings' yearning and greed for new magic are completely understandable.
Since they are all people who understand, there is no need for Fan Qian to sell Guanzi. He was the first to speak, and said bluntly: "Your Majesty, the little nephew is here to call you uncles with a shy face, first of all, I hope that all the elders can understand the distress of my junior, before the final results of the Seven Nations Qualifying Tournament are announced, I will never reveal half a word about the new magic." ”