As the Mid-Autumn Festival is approaching, it is naturally impossible to arrange the hot pot on a holiday. Since the guests invited are all wealthy people, Zhou Yan chose a day from the old almanac that is "suitable for meeting relatives and friends" and prepared the ingredients in advance.
Considering that there were many children among the guests, Zhou Yan and Qin Ruoshu made a batch of small desserts the day before the hotpot.
In the early morning of that day, after enjoying breakfast, the young couple began to process the ingredients. They had just been busy for a while when Feng Jun and Xu Wenjing rushed over...
"Let me go, the house is different..." Feng Jun looked at the furnishings in the living room with a smile.
"By the way, have you eaten?"
"Um..." Feng Jun originally planned to come over to have a meal, but he didn't expect that Zhou Yan had already ended the battle.
"If you hadn't told me earlier, we made salty soup this morning..."
Salty soup has different names in different places, such as salty paste beans, sweet foam, or by changing the main ingredients, it becomes sweet foam.
Zhou Yan knew that his cousin loved this dish, so he made a lot more. Of course, in addition to the salty soup, there were also meat pies and fried buns to go with it.
"Brother, you are living your life too carefree..." Seeing the familiar "face", Feng Jun's salivary glands began to commotion.
"Sister-in-law, you haven't eaten it either, let's try it together..."
As soon as she sat down, Xu Wenjing was too embarrassed to do anything. She just used a spoon to scoop out the salty soup. She wanted to eat the fried buns with her chopsticks, but she was a little confused.
Too greasy, forget it!
Just when this woman wanted to back down, Feng Jun picked up a few fried buns that were cooked well and put them on the plate in front of her: "It tastes good, try it!"
After one taste, I couldn't stop.
While the two were enjoying their meal, the doorbell rang at home.
Zhou Yan casually picked up the remote control on the coffee table and turned on the TV in the living room, which was linked to the video doorbell at the door.
Deng Zhuo's family of three, wearing pajamas, stood neatly at the door. Deng Zhuo, the leader, looked at the camera and yawned: "Old Zhou, open the door!"
Zhou Yan smiled angrily: "Another wave of freeloaders are here!"
This family of three was not as polite as Feng Jun. After entering the door, they looked around in the corridor, smelled it, and went straight to the kitchen.
Unfortunately, the only remaining breakfast was already placed in front of Feng Jun and Xu Wenjing.
"Hey, cousin is here too!" Deng Zhuo observed the salty soup in front of Feng Jun "curiously", then looked back at Zhou Yan, "Brother Yan, do you still have this porridge?"
Seeing that pretending to be stupid didn't work, Deng Zhuo winked at his son.
Deng Xi understood this and came to Zhou Yan pitifully: "Master, my parents are too lazy and didn't prepare breakfast. Master, do you have anything to eat here?"
"This can have..."
Making salty soup is easy, just think about the combination, choose the side dishes, and boil water. As for the matching pies and fried buns, the fillings are ready-made, and they are ready while the water is boiling...
Then, the doorbell rang again...
Xu Chongsheng's family lived quite far away, but seeing Miss Xu and Young Master Xu staring longingly at the kitchen, one could tell that Mrs. Xu's cooking skills were average, and a couple of children would probably have enough fun.
"If you want to eat, just tell your Uncle Zhou, you're not an outsider..."
"squeak……"
After enjoying breakfast, Xu Chongsheng picked his teeth happily and looked at Zhou Yan with a smile on his face: "Brother Yan, how about you cook more every morning from now on, so that we can save some effort?"
"What are you thinking about?" Zhou Yan gave Deng Zhuo a vicious look, "You can just have a few meals during the holidays, but you really want to use this place as a free canteen?"
"If you don't open the fire, where can we find such an authentic breakfast?"
"It's not that there is no way," Zhou Yan thought for a moment, "After a while, the big canteen that I jointly own with Miracle will open, and you can go and join us there."
"Fast food restaurant?" Deng Zhuo was a little disappointed.
"I trained Bai An in my father-in-law's shop. The noodles I used are the ones I used when I opened the restaurant five or six years ago..." Zhou Yan looked at Deng Zhuo with a smile, "Just a reminder,
It's best to get up early, otherwise you won't even be able to grab a drink..."
"real?"
Deng Zhuoke knew very well what level the breakfast at Ruiyang Restaurant was. It could basically be called the breakfast version of a state banquet.
"Then we really need to think of a way..."
The people who were invited to warm up the pot arrived one after another, so Zhou Yan didn't need to worry about the rest. He managed to win over a few people with decent cooking skills among the crowd, and went into the kitchen to continue preparing lunch.
Warm pot banquets are all about personal popularity, and the dishes don’t need to be very formal, just ordinary home-cooked dishes.
There are more than 30 people and more than 30 talents. Thanks to Anxin Shopping Mall, there is no shortage of all kinds of ingredients, so there are no duplicate dishes.
After lunch, Zhou Yan arranged a "parent-child activity" for a group of people - making mooncakes.
"Use families as a group to evaluate each other, and the final winner will receive a mysterious gift!"
Upon hearing the mysterious gift, the little beans were all excited, and they pulled their parents and asked to "join the war."
As a host, Zhou Yan's most indispensable thing is food ingredients and kitchen utensils, and each family has one set, which is more than enough.
After distributing the ingredients and tools and demonstrating them in person, Zhou Yan and Qin Ruoshu turned into technical instructors. Apart from occasionally giving pointers, they just stood by and watched.
Worried that a group of novices would waste the ingredients, Zhou Yan also played a mooncake making video in the living room.
Originally, there was not much technical difficulty in making mooncakes, but when it came to the "mysterious gift", a group of team members were very serious, making the atmosphere in the entire kitchen and restaurant tense.
Although the master leads me in, cultivation is up to the individual, but I can’t resist some people’s flexible minds.
"Master, can you give me some more advice..."
"No," Zhou Yan said with a straight face, "I've taught everything I can, and the rest depends on my personal attainments..."
However, Zhou Yan underestimated his apprentice's persistence...
"Let's do this." Zhou Yan saw that Deng Xi was leading him and wouldn't let go, so he had to take a step back. "Let's do it like this. For the sake of fairness, if you apply for technical guidance, you need a talent show..."
Deng Xi's eyes lit up and he glanced at the big triangle placed in the living room: "Can I play the piano?"
"no problem!"
Deng Xi was learning piano for the first time, so naturally he couldn't play too complicated pieces, so he just played a variation on Little Star...
"good!"
With Deng Xi as a role model, others also followed suit and applied for technical guidance.
The cooking skills of a group of people vary, but those who cook regularly are all at about the same level.
At this time, the role of experience was reflected. In the end, Xu Chongsheng's family won the first place with a big score advantage.
"Dang dang dang, now we present awards to the winners of this cooking competition..."
The prize is a box of mooncakes made by Zhou Yan himself.
Seeing the box containing the mooncakes, Xu Chongsheng was speechless: Are you done with mooncakes?
However, when Xu Chongsheng opened the box, he found that things were not that simple: the mooncakes in the box were shaped like the twelve zodiac signs, which looked lively and cute.
"I also want!"
"Master, I want it too!"
Zhou Yan was so entangled that he had no choice but to send a box of moon cakes with the twelve zodiac signs to each house.
However, as compensation, Xu Chongsheng's family received an extra box of macarons.
"You are not allowed to open it now. You can only open it after you get home!"
Zhou Yan learned his lesson and deliberately emphasized it when handing the dessert box to Xu Chongsheng.