Chapter 3 Tomato and egg gnocchi
Despite the sense of crisis, Kagawa's stomach is still convulsing with hunger, and now he is even hungrier after throwing up, and the most important thing now is to fill his stomach quickly.
She "thought about it", opened the refrigerator and cupboard next to her, looked at the shriveled greens in the refrigerator, and decisively reached for the eggs, tomatoes and flour in the cupboard. Then I rummaged through the cabinets and finally found a smooth steel plate that could barely be used as a cutting board. Since there was no sieve, Kagawa casually found a bowl and scooped out half a bowl of flour, and she grabbed it fiercely in her hand, which made her glad that the dough behind her hand was semi-loose, which means that it was all-purpose flour. If it's cake flour, she'll have to figure out how to make fried pasta without an oven.
But when he cut the peeled tomatoes and blanched them with boiling water, and beat the eggs with a machine, Kagawa suddenly thought of a question: what to do with the seasoning? The memory in her mind has no memory of condiments, and she really doesn't care about eating in this world!
Kagawa turned his head and asked, "Brother Xiangqi, do we have any condiments in our house?" β
"Huh?" Xiangqi suddenly came back to his senses, he looked at Kagawa's series of actions just now and was stunned, "The condiments are all purchased by the kitchen AI, and I don't know what they are...... Why don't you ask? AIοΌ β
[Beep - Young Master Xiangqi, Miss Kagawa, Miss Xiangxue, good morning]
That's what it was called. Kagawa silently remembered in his heart, there is no information about AI in his "memory", and he really doesn't care about this in this world.
"Kitchen AI, what's the seasoning here, and where can I heat the cooktop for the pot?"
[Beep - At present, there are a total of 5 kinds of condiments stored in the food warehouse, including all the condiments sold in the market, including salt, sugar, vinegar, spicy powder, and animal oil. Food can be processed by this machineγ
"Give me one portion of salt, one portion of sugar, one portion of vinegar, and one portion of oil. I want to cook it myself, you just have to answer yes or no. β
[Beep - the black platform on the right side of the sink can heat the utensils, and the operation can be manually or handed over to the machine. Salt and animal oil have been sent to the storage cabinet on the left side of the refrigerator.
"Good...... Ah yes, is there garlic in the warehouse? β
[Beep - the current storage of garlic in the warehouse is 20 kg]
"Bring me two...... Forget it, give me a pound. β
[Beep - Sent to the refrigerator]
It turns out that garlic in this era was counted as a vegetable and not as a condiment? Kagawa complained silently in his heart as he took out the garlic from the refrigerator, then peeled the garlic according to his "memory" and put it in the food processor and stirred it into minced garlic.
It wasn't until she took out the two porcelain jars in the cupboard that contained salt and sugar, and then took out two bottles of oil and vinegar that were about the same height as the 1-liter capacity X-day soy sauce in the original world, and the preparations were finally completed.
Kagawa put a round pot on the heating table, and after heating it, put in the oil and minced garlic, and the cooking smoke caused by heating and stir-frying made the kitchen AI automatically turn on the ventilation mode to suck away the fumes, and at the same time, the aroma of stir-frying minced garlic also made Xiangqi and Xiangxue's eyes widen.
It's so fragrant, more fragrant than freshly baked multigrain biscuits.
The two thought about it in unison, and subconsciously wanted to get closer, but Kagawa quickly stopped them when he saw this.
"Beware of oil splashes."
Watching the two of them reluctantly retreat, Kagawa was embarrassed, he was used to cooking in the original world, so it didn't matter, the brothers and sisters in this world looked like they didn't eat the fireworks of the world, and if they were splashed with oil, they didn't know how much it hurt.
It was topped in tomatoes, salt, sugar, and vinegar β thankfully it was white vinegar, and she wondered if it would be aged vinegar before she got the bottle.
The amount of eight large tomatoes is quite tiring to stir-fry. After the tomatoes and spices were stir-fried into a paste, Kagawa poured in four large bowls of water and began to simmer β she liked to eat something a little thicker. Once the soup is boiling, turn to medium heat and cover the pot and simmer, and then she will start preparing the main dishes.
Finding a large food bowl from the cupboard, Kagawa scooped a few more bowls of flour from the flour box in the cupboard, and after turning on and off the faucet several times, she found that the current faucet was all out according to the set program, so she simply scooped a bowl of water herself, poured water into the flour drop by drop with her left hand, and stirred the dough with her right hand to form a gnocchi with chopsticks (Kagawa: Thank goodness there are still chopsticks to use now). After pouring three bowls of water, all the flour in the basin was mixed into lumps, and she knew why the owner of the noodle shop next door to her hometown was reluctant to make gnocchi, which was really a tiring job, she shook her somewhat sour shoulders and thought.
Looking at Kagawa's irregularly shaped flour lumps that looked like muddy soil, both brothers and sisters couldn't help frowning, and hesitated to open their mouths first to let them serve some soup first, after all, both of them were now smoky with the sweet and sour tomato fragrance in the air.
Kagawa washed the flour on his hands and lifted the lid of the pot, and the aroma of tomato soup, which was already appetizing, was fragrant, and Xiangqi and Xiangxue felt that they just wanted to serve a bowl beautifully.
I saw Kagawa holding the bowl of dough and stirring the gnocchi, and dialing the gnocchi into the soup pot little by little, the original orange-yellow tomato soup now turned into red and white, not as terrible as the two imagined, but looked unique.
"Xiaoxue...... Forget it, Brother Xiangqi, come and do me a favor. β
Kagawa called.
"Can I go over?"
Xiangqi cautiously approached.
Kagawa is embarrassed: "I'm cooking soup now, so I don't have to worry about being splashed with oil." You go to the pair of chopsticks again and stir up these gnocchi so that they don't stick together. β
Xiangqi asked the kitchen AI to bring him a pair of chopsticks, and he carefully stirred in the soup, and the tomato-scent water vapor fluttered on the back of his palm.
After a while, all the gnocchi in the bowl in Kagawa's arms were put into the pot, and the volume of the soup visibly increased by more than a third to the naked eye, but it was not over yet. Kagawa asked Xiangqi to step back, picked up the beaten egg mixture and poured it on the edge of the soup little by little, poured it over and over again and stirred it with a soup spoon, thinking that the first time the two of them ate it, she cooked it for a while, and then turned off the heat after making sure that the egg was almost cooked.
"Okay, Brother Xiangqi, Xiaoxue, bring the bowl and eat."
Kagawa stretched her waist, although this gnocchi is quite easy to make, but finding kitchen utensils and ingredients made her toss for a short time.
"You don't need to take the bowl," Xiangxue blinked her big eyes, "Just let the kitchen AI send the machine to send it over." β
"Ah, so?" Kagawa snorted haha, this is really something she hasn't "remembered", think about it, how can she go to the kitchen with her own fine clothes and food in this world? "By the way, kitchen AI, is there any pepper in the warehouse? It is best to grind it into powder. β
"Huh? Isn't pepper medicine? Are you feeling unwell? β
Xiangqi looked at her strangely.
"Huh? Is it medicine? β
Kagawa's eyes widened, pepper medicine was a popular use in the Middle Ages in the original world, right? How did you get to this high-tech world to have a time reversal?
"yes, you should have learned biology class, right? But after all, it is not a precious medicinal material, it is very convenient to plant, so it is not very well-known, but it is often used in health care products, and it is a relatively rare low-end medicinal material. β
"Oh...... Oh......" Kagawa's brain was in a state of flux due to hunger, and all she was concerned about now was, "Do we have pepper in our house?" β
"There should be a lot of them, you and Xiaoxue hate to take medicine, so when you have a fever or an upset stomach, your parents will let the kitchen AI mix some pepper in the meal for you to eat."
"Where's it? I'll get it. β
"Don't bother." Xiangqi opened his terminal and operated briefly, "I've already asked the maid to send it over, okay, let's go eat first." β
After speaking, he walked quickly to the table at a speed of two or three percent faster than usual, and Xiangxue next to him couldn't help but cover his mouth and laugh.
While they were talking about pepper, the kitchen AI was operating a robotic arm sticking out of the ceiling to put the pot with gnocchi on a four-legged instrument like a small coffee table, the small coffee table put away its limbs and floated in the air, slowly sending the pot above the table, it stretched out its two forearms to lift the pot with fresh fish noodle soup in front of the three people, the platform under the pot slowly rose, and then used its hind limbs to put the gnocchi pot on the platform. The platform, sensing the weight, sank a little more, and automatically adjusted the height.
Kagawa took three new bowls when she came from the kitchen, handed two of them to Xiangqi and Xiangxue, and then decisively asked the machine to clean up the bowl full of fresh fish noodle soup on the table.
Xiangqi and Xiangxue hesitated for a while, but put aside their fresh fish noodle soup for the time being, and the two filled a bowl full of gnocchi with anticipation and nervousness.
Kagawa scooped it up with a spoon and tasted it, and the sweet and sour soup and rich tomato flavor washed away the unpleasantness caused by eating fishy food before, and the gnocchi soaked up the soup, and it was a great satisfaction when I took a bite.
The two people next to him looked at Kagawa's look of enjoyment, and finally couldn't help it, Xiangqi carefully put a spoonful of gnocchi into his mouth, and Xiangxue scooped a spoonful of soup first. The new flavor stimulated the taste buds of the two of them, and they instantly put the fresh fish noodle soup next to them behind and began to send the gnocchi into their mouths spoonful after spoonful.
[Beep-Miss Kagawa, the call you want has been delivered]
Kagawa turned his head and saw a life-size starfish with red on the left and blue on the right...... It is said that it is a starfish-like object, its surface is not as pitted as a real starfish, but has a waxed rubbery oily texture, and it holds an iron box about the size of a bento box in its hand. Although he was frightened at first sight, Kagawa immediately "remembered" that this was their maid, a bionic robot with the appearance of a starfish.
She opened the tin box, and it was full of pepper, Kagawa quickly held her breath, it would be bad if she sneezed at this time, and she hadn't eaten breakfast yet. She used her chopsticks to pull out a pinch of pepper, then called out the kitchen AI and told it to grind the pepper in the box into powder and divide it into several seasoning jars.
Kagawa puts a pinch of pepper from the chopsticks on a plate, then uses his fingers to crush two peppercorns and sprinkle them into the gnocchi, mix them with a spoon, scoop a spoonful and put it in his mouth.
Gradually, it smelled like that. Kagawa thought to himself.
Xiangqi and Xiangxue also took two peppercorns and crushed them and sprinkled them in the soup, tasted them carefully, and found that the pungency of the minced pepper had a different fragrance in the soup, and their hands couldn't stop.
In the end, the last drop of soup in the bowl was wiped out by the three of them.
That's what people should eat. Kagawa leaned back in his chair and patted his little belly with satisfaction.