Perhaps Shen Yunshu's performance did work, and from this day on, the number of guests gradually increased.

The first old gentleman to step into Li Xiang's shop and order a song "Dream Wedding" ordered a pot of tea in the store, listened to the piano music played by Shen Yunshu, looked at a book picked out on the shelf, and drank the new green tea on the market this year. The old man sat like this for an hour.

After the old man, a young and fashionable couple seemed to be attracted by the unobtrusive name of Li Xiang's signature "Youjia Shop" and the sound of the piano in the store, and walked into the store.

Judging from the actions of the two of them looking around and nodding from time to time, the environment in the store seems to be quite satisfactory to them.

When the two of them walked to the bar, Li Xiang took out an elaborate menu, and all the drinks served in the store were packed in exquisite cups and taken high-definition pictures, specializing in modern face control customers.

"I can't accept tea, but I like coffee, but it's still a little ...... if I drink it in the summer."

The woman in the young couple does not seem to be interested in tea and coffee at the moment. But who made Li Xiang's store actually have the third identity of a bar, so out of tune?

In the case of a failed attempt to sell tea and coffee, Li Xiang showed off the store's wine list.

Compared to the light-colored tea soup and the predominantly brown and white coffee series, the cocktail has a much richer color.

Li Xiang pointed to a light blue cocktail in the center of the wine list:

"I personally recommend two people to try our blue Hawaii, this wine is colorful, bitter and refreshing, and it is perfect for summer drinking."

"It's really pretty, dear, let's order this, shall we?"

The man accepted the woman's proposal, so two glasses of blue Hawaii became the second transaction today.

"You can sit in any seat in the store as you like."

The young couple chose a seat next to Shen Yunshu, who was playing the piano, and sat down.

Ordering a cocktail for twenty or thirty yuan at a bar is largely a matter of time spent using the seat and the professional skills of the bartender.

Showing this skill to customers in a pleasing way is a trivial work ethic on the part of Li Xiang.

Take out two hurricane glasses that look like the curves of a woman's waist and hips on the sides, and add a spin to form an ice halo to lower the temperature of the glasses. Then remove the ice cubes and replace them with clean crushed ice. Add rum, coconut liquor, blue orange liqueur, lemon juice and pineapple juice to the shaker pot at 9:4:3:3:12. Add ice, shake quickly, mix well, and pour out the hurricane cups divided into two.

Pineapple leaves, pineapple horns and cherries are placed on the rim of the glass, which is threaded in a bunch of black plastic skewers, forming a red, yellow, green and blue color with the light blue color given to the body of Blue City Liqueur.

"The blue color of this wine itself symbolizes the sea, and the crushed ice symbolizes the waves on the sea.

Removing two colorful wine glasses from the tray and placing them in the middle of the table where the couple guests were sitting, Li Xiang took the tray under his arm and turned back.

The girl poked the boy's arm lightly,

"Honey, do you think the clerks in this store are so good?"

The boy looked at Shen Yunshu, who was playing with his fingers dancing, and the bartender who was standing behind the bar reading a book, and nodded approvingly.

After a while, a middle-aged man passed by the door, who was neatly dressed but looked a little tired. After seeing the small display board at the door that read "Coffee, Tea and Cocktails", the middle-aged man glanced down at the watch on his left wrist and walked into the store instead.

After entering the door, the first thing Li Xiang said to Li Xiang, who looked more like the boss, was:

"Boss, do you have Wifi here?"

This middle-aged man is a salesperson for a company who made an appointment with a customer in the neighborhood today. The result of the deal was not bad, but he was pressed for time, and he needed to get rid of some of the paperwork as soon as possible.

Just as he was worrying about how to find a place to deal with documents, the middle-aged man happened to see a coffee shop. After all, most coffee shops can borrow a place to work temporarily as long as they order.

The middle-aged man breathed a sigh of relief after seeing Li Xiang nodding and pointing to the Wifi password that had been posted at the bar, just as the middle-aged man had already taken out his laptop from a seat against the wall and plugged it in, the middle-aged man seemed to suddenly realize what was going on and returned to the bar again.

"Boss, just bring me a cup of coffee from you."

Li Xiang thought for a moment and responded:

"How about a latte?"

"It's okay, it's okay."

"Okay, wait a minute."

Compared with yesterday's hand-poured coffee specially made for old acquaintances, the coffee sold does not need to be too particular. A semi-automatic espresso machine is specially installed at the bar for the production of coffee.

This semi-automatic coffee machine usually comes with its own electric grinder, and it comes with a space to store coffee beans, and if there are enough ingredients in the machine, you only need to press the switch to automatically grind a sufficient amount of coffee grounds.

These grounds are stored in a brew handle that comes with the semi-automatic coffee machine. This handle is actually a metal funnel with a special design that can be used repeatedly, the effect is the same as the filter paper when hand-pouring coffee, the coffee powder is placed in the funnel, after cloth and compacting, the coffee powder forms a tight "powder" on the funnel, which is convenient for uniform extraction, which can be used to extract coffee.

This hopper is installed in another position of the coffee machine, this position has a water outlet, and hot water of the right temperature (88-95°C) passes through the funnel filled with dense coffee powder at a pressure of 9 atmospheres in 20-30 seconds, the coffee is dissolved by the water, and the coffee powder is left in the funnel.

These coffees made with powder are espresso espressos.

However, if you are not a coffee lover or someone who knows how to taste it, the taste of espresso is too strong, which makes it difficult for people to accept, Li Xiang knows this very well, so for most people who come to his shop, he will recommend fancy coffee such as latte or cappuccino.

In fact, these so-called fancy coffees are nothing more than diluting the taste of espresso through other liquids such as milk and milk foam. The difference is simply in "what to dilute" and "in what proportion".

If espresso is crudely considered as the starting point for all coffee brewing, then some common coffees are nothing more than -

An Americano is one espresso with three hot waters;

A cappuccino is an espresso with a serving of hot milk and a serving of milk foam;

A latte is one espresso with three servings of hot milk and a small amount of milk foam;

Mocha is an espresso served with chocolate, whipped cream and milk......

A spietro is finished by using a machine to extract an espresso, then a glass of milk is heated with a steam hose and a small amount of milk foam is blown out, and the two are blended to complete the latte.

If the customer is a child, then Li Xiang may directly add sugar to the finished latte at this time, but the taste preferences of middle-aged people are diverse, so just stop at this step. Li Xiang directly brought out the coffee and served it with two packets of sugar. Guests can add their own if needed.

Shen Yunshu reveled in the world of music. The body is tired, but the mood is extremely high.

She learned two instruments from Brooke, the piano and the violin, which are classical instruments called "Queen and Queen". After the gods of the worlds signed the contract, she also learned many other kinds of musical instruments from other worlds. And after leaving the world of pirates, this is the first time he has used his piano skills so vividly.

From Richard Klayderman's "Dream Wedding", "Autumn Whispers", "Adhelina by the Water", to Franz Schubert's "Serenade", Beethoven's "Pathétique Sonata", "Moonlight Sonata", ......

"Ding!"

A slender hand randomly presses several keys at the same time on the right key of the piano. interrupted Shen Yunshu's playing.

Shen Yunshu, who was confused, turned her head, and a glass of warm milk was stuffed into her hand.

"It's almost one o'clock in the afternoon and you've been working for hours on end, drink something and take a break. Also, I'm going to make lunch, is there anything I'd like to eat? ”

Shen Yunshu took a sip of milk and shook his head slowly.

Li Xiang sighed, as a cook, when he encountered no specific requirements, it was the most headache for him.

"Well, I'll go to the kitchen fridge to see what ingredients are left, are you sure there is nothing taboo?"

Li Xiang's inquiry was actually unfounded, and Shen Yunshu's living conditions and past experience determined that she had no taboos at all.

During the years at my aunt's house, I was often hungry; During the years when she was wandering in the One Piece world, she was a soul body and didn't need to eat; After returning to the real world, her life is free but poor, and it is normal for her to be hungry and full.

The customers in the store have already left, and Li wants to hide the front door of the store. turned around and greeted Shen Yunshu, who was sitting on the piano bench and taking a sip of hot milk:

"I'm going to the kitchen to make lunch, and you're going to come in and have a look?"

Shen Yunshu looked left and right at the front hall where there was no one anymore, and nodded. stood up and followed Li Xiang into the kitchen.

There were not many ingredients left in the refrigerator, but there was still a pack of pasta that Li Xiang had bought and stored in the refrigerator to save trouble, as well as some canned food, a small amount of vegetables, and especially a few red tomatoes that were already ripe.

Looking at these materials, Li Xiang's eyes lit up.

"Today's lunch seems to have been settled."

Pasta is the staple food closest to the Chinese eating habits in Western cuisine. Although they are the same distinct noodle foods, and they are also cooked and eaten, there is still a big difference between them. Duran wheat is the hardest of all wheat, so pasta made from this wheat has a harder texture than Chinese pasta. And if you want to make such noodles delicious, the method of making them is naturally completely different from that of Chinese noodles.

Among the pasta eats, one of the most classic is pasta with tomato bolognese.

There were still some small pieces of beef and pork left over from Li Xiang's cooking in the refrigerator, and these leftovers were taken out and finely chopped into minced meat for later use.

Cut the onion into small pieces along with a few cloves of garlic and set aside.

Three large ripe red tomatoes cut the skin with a knife and pour hot water on it, which will make the skin of the tomato easier to peel off. These skins are a nuisance part of the sauce that affects the texture and need to be removed.

Peeled tomatoes are cut into small cubes, because Li Xiang finally needs tomato meat sauce, tomatoes must only have a unique taste of sweet and sour, and can not eat the texture of tomatoes, cutting tomatoes into small pieces in advance can speed up the process of tomatoes completely turning into water. It is also convenient for the subsequent processing process.

Butter is added to the pan and boiled, then the beef and pork are mixed and cut into minced meat, stir-fried continuously until the pink color of the fresh meat turns into the color of brown cooked meat.

The minced meat will already absorb all the butter that was added to the pan, so Li Xiang wants to add two small pieces of butter again, add the onion, garlic and diced tomatoes and stir-fry in the pan constantly.

The tomatoes release their moisture when heated, and when stir-fried on the spatula floor, the diced tomatoes quickly become tomato paste.

When making tomato bolognese, only fresh tomatoes are used, and the resulting sauce will have a somewhat bland taste. In order to solve this problem, Li Xiang took out a tube of special seasoning - concentrated tomato paste made in Italy.

This is a seasoning that concentrates the dehydrated Italian tomatoes into a paste, and when added to the dish, it can significantly enhance the flavor of the tomatoes in the dish.

After adding a small amount of tomato paste to the pot, Li Xiang added some water to the pot, and added the cooked beef and pork minced meat to the pot, stir-frying and mixing evenly.

The aroma of tomatoes has filled the entire kitchen, and Shen Yunshu's eyes, who have finished drinking milk, glance at the pot with sauce from time to time, and his eyes are full of strong appetite. This made Li Xiang laugh when he saw it:

"Yun Shu, you can do me a favor. There is also a stove opposite me, so you can help me cook the noodles while I am boiling the sauce, right? ”

Shen Yunshu nodded, set up the pot, opened the natural gas valve to ignite the fire, and began to boil water.

Li Xiang, on the other hand, was adding black pepper, salt, a small amount of sugar, and a pinch of chopped basil to the pot in turn for an important seasoning work.

After this seasoning, Li Xiang simmered the lid of the pot.

It takes time for the flavors of the ingredients in the pot to penetrate into each other, and it is also essential to wait for a delicious tomato bolognese.

"The pack of pasta that has been opened on the table — yes, the yellow strips — just throw them in the pot and add three spoonfuls of olive oil and a spoonful of salt when you cook them, so that the noodles will taste better and won't stick easily."

Shen Yunshu carefully followed Li Xiang's guidance to complete the steps of cooking noodles.

After Shen Yunshu took out the yellow and clear noodles in the pot, Li Xiang's side, the reddish-yellow tomato meat sauce was also completed.

Li Xiang dipped a pair of long chopsticks in a little sauce and turned around:

"Yun Shu! Give me a taste. ”

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Shen Yunshu, who was carefully looking after the noodle cooking pot, turned her head in confusion, and the sauce on the chopsticks in Li Xiang's hand smeared on her lips. Subconsciously stick out your tongue and lick a little soup from your lips.

When the taste of the sauce touched Shen Yunshu's taste buds, Shen Yunshu's eyes lit up.

Li Xiang smiled and asked, "How do you feel?" ”

What responded to Li Xiang was a white thumbs up and Shen Yunshu's heartfelt smile.