In the living room of Scamander's house, the enticing aroma of meat floats in the air.
In addition to Elena, the other two little witches and the Scamanders were already sitting at the kitchen table. They were waiting for the chef to finish her final cooking and return to the table to enjoy a sumptuous dinner with them.
The preparation process for today's dinner is not complicated. For the sake of safety, most people did not choose unfamiliar recipes.
In fact, almost everyone chose the dish of "Sear-fried Juicy Pork Chops with Sour and Sweet Peppers" which seemed to be a decent dish - except for Miss Luna Lovegood, who chose to share with Elena's "Stir-fried Kidneys"
”, at least pork kidney doesn’t sound weird.
This is good news for Elena.
On the one hand, she doesn't have to cook different dishes for each person separately. Just two sets of auxiliary ingredients combined with the main ingredients can complete most of today's dinner; on the other hand, Luna's choice also makes Elena happy.
A lot.
“A good choice. Purely pan-fried pork chop will be a little greasy, so the sour and sweet pepper and pork chop are an excellent combination.”
Elena waved the wand in her hand lightly, and three white dinner plates were arranged on the table.
On the other side, among three sizzling pans, the pork chops are dotted with large grains of black pepper. Set against the backdrop of thyme and basil leaves, the color and aroma have completely overflowed. The pork is drizzled with butter.
The steak has an attractive hazelnut color.
With the tap of the girl's wand, the pork chop filled with gravy slowly floated up and accurately landed on three dinner plates.
After practicing magic for such a long time, although she still needs the help of a wand, she can almost cast spells without spells similar to those of sixth- and seventh-grade students in this simple "Mage's Hand" type of magic.
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Dumbledore's previous speculation was not wrong. Mixed-blood Veela did have many advantages in learning magic that purebred human wizards did not have. However, this period of strength came earlier than the old wizard imagined.
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The "second-level use of runes" from the first generation of Dark Lord allowed Elena to stimulate the potential in her body in advance.
For chefs, this kind of elegance and calmness like a concert conductor is undoubtedly very suitable for a multi-person cooking environment.
It was precisely because of Elena's superb kitchen magic that Mrs. Scamander reluctantly agreed to sit at the dining table and let the girl be in charge of today's dinner cooking - mainly because Elena wanted to cook.
She doesn't know how to cook...
"Wait a moment, let the pork rest for a while-"
“The secret to a juicy pork chop is to take your time and remember to let the meat rest for as long as it took to fry.”
Elena turned her head and explained to Tina Scamander. The wand clicked on the cooked bell pepper slices in the pan next to it. The pan immediately floated up and moved to the side of the dinner plate.
Carry out the final finishing steps.
"Then... add the pre-sautéed sour bell peppers, basil and red wine vinegar. It smells great, right? Finally, put the pork juices and butter-fried garlic on the side, and pour over the rest of the pot
A little bell pepper vinaigrette…”
Bright red bell peppers are dotted under the pork chop piece by piece. The hot oil soup flows over the surface of the hazelnut-colored pork chop, making a slight sizzling sound. As the aroma rises, it penetrates bit by bit.
Below are bell peppers and onions.
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"Gulu——"
Hannah, Luna, and Scamander swallowed at the same time.
I have to admit that watching a top chef's smooth cooking process is a very eye-catching visual enjoyment, but if you add the color, fragrance and flavor of the dish itself, it will be too difficult to control.
Luna looked longingly at the two large pork chops on Hannah's plate, and couldn't help but feel a little regret in her heart.
Perhaps, like Hannah and the others, she should have honestly chosen the "Juicy Pork Chop Pan-fried with Sour and Sweet Peppers" just now, instead of following Elena's whim and trying that "Pork Kidney on Flames"
Flower Cluster".
Although the pork kidney pie and pork kidney sausage taste pretty good...
But at least judging from the current situation, the tempting appearance of the pieces of meat in front of Hannah is obviously much more delicious than the most luxurious kidney dish that Luna can imagine in her mind.
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"Sister Hannah, that..."
Luna Lovegood quietly poked Hannah under the table and whispered pitifully.
"I can take a bite of your pork chop later. I can trade it with you for the hot kidneys that Elena will make later, or other snacks, such as the Bloody Bronie at noon tomorrow.
Ya', if there is any more."
Obviously, there is a difference between pan-fried pork chop and pan-fried pork chop.
Compared to this kind of food that makes people drool at the sight of it, even Luna would be a little shaken.
After all, satisfying curiosity is not as intuitive as satisfying one's own belly. Even if the magical intuition passed down from Lovegood's family tells Luna that those internal organs may be really delicious, it is difficult to resist the temptation of meat.
"There is no need to exchange, let alone a bite, even a whole piece, um, half, um, a third..."
Hannah hesitantly glanced at the attractive aroma of pork chop in front of her, swallowed, and after appraising the weight of the pork chop, she bit her lip with some hesitation and continued to answer with a pained look on her face.
"Well, one third, I can give you at least one third of the pork chop -"
On the other side, Elena did not notice the transaction taking place on one side of the table.
Her attention was now fully devoted to the next dish, the hot waist dish that she had been looking forward to for a long time.
It is indeed difficult to find a traditional Chinese thick-bottomed wok in the UK, but the convenience of magic is now revealed again. Since mastering "Elementary Alchemy", Elena has not had as much trouble with kitchen utensils as before.
As the girl's wand moved, the two black pans quickly merged together and stretched into a wok.
"Now, let's continue with the cooking... The essence of stir-fried kidney is not to let it rest for a moment."
Elena moved her wrist slightly, turned the wand in her hand slightly, and tapped the kidney beans that had been marinated for seven or eight minutes. As she moved her wand, the marinated kidney beans shook off the excess salt.
The juice automatically jumped into the oil pan.
If frying pork chop requires patience and just right, then frying kidney requires fast and accurate heat.
Wow——
As the kidneys enter the oil pan, the smell of fireworks that is different from European cuisine explodes in the kitchen instantly.
At the same time, Elena's eyes became fiery, and the "Hecate of the Polar Night" in her hand quickly deformed and unfolded, turning into a gleaming, solid metal spatula in an instant.
"After putting it in the pot, slide it to spread quickly, within four to five seconds at most, and then take it out of the pot without giving it any chance to get old!"
"Then..."
The spatula in Elena's right hand remained unchanged, and she took out the wand with her left hand and pointed it deftly at the spice table next to her.
Scallions cut into diamond shapes, green peppers, red peppers, celery segments, chopped ginger and garlic, pickled peppers... no less than a dozen kinds of side dishes soared into the sky, pouring into the restaurant like a rainbow bridge.
In a hot pan with oil.
The spicy and fragrant hot smell filled the air instantly.
The sound of metal collision, the dazzling firelight, and the completely different hot aroma instantly attracted the attention of the four wizards at the table who had never seen the Chinese cooking process - Chinese food, this is cooking on the flames.
Even though they were several meters away, they could feel the air suddenly becoming a little hotter.
"Very good, the garnishes in the pot are all raw, now add the kidney flowers..."
Elena's movements were at least half faster than before. The speed of pure magic transmission seemed to be unable to keep up with the girl's pace of action at this time. Almost at the same time that Elena's voice reached everyone's ears, the speed of the spatula flipped
It also sped up.
Turn the pot, turn the spoon, sprinkle salt, thicken...
A series of operations are completed in one go.
"White rice, paired with hot kidneys... Try it now, this is my favorite."
Before the four people onlookers could react, the fragrant and hot kidney flowers were already placed on a plate and placed at the end of the dining table. I don’t know when, two plates of exquisite-looking rice also appeared on the dining table.
On the dinner plate at the end.
Counting carefully, this seems to be the first time Elena has eaten rice since traveling through time.
The rice comes from Indian rice bought by the goblins of Gringotts.
Although it is not a particularly precious variety, it is a very rare staple food in the European continent at this time. If it were not for Elena's status as the Fairy Queen, it might have been a while longer.
After all... even if Grindelwald plans to gradually let her take over the Saints, she still has no way to order those old men to buy rice for her - such behavior is really inconsistent with her image of the "Third Generation Dark Lord"
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Elena took off her apron, walked to the edge of her seat, and handed Luna a pair of black walnut chopsticks.
After a school year of "finger agility training", Luna, Hannah, and Hermione have all barely learned how to use chopsticks, although they are still unable to control Elena's long and thick pair of "magic wand chopsticks"
, but if it is a slightly smaller ordinary size chopstick, the little wings can still use it relatively smoothly.
"smell good……"
Hannah sniffed and glanced at the plate of hot waistband placed in front of Luna.
Even if she just smelled it a little bit, she could feel saliva secreting under her tongue. In the past year of her life on the Hogwarts campus, her greedy cat attribute had long been discovered by the evil white-haired dumpling.
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"Hmm...Luna, our previous deal was still valid, right?"