Guan Lang naturally didn't know what An Xiaqing was thinking behind him.
Thinking that he was free from her entanglement, Guan Lang was in a good mood and wandered home whistling.
He plans to practice cooking this afternoon.
His current cooking skill level has reached level 3 (5/15).
It was originally 4/15, but he diligently read cooking books in his spare time on weekdays, which increased his experience points a little.
In fact, even his current cooking skills are beyond expectation in a few months. However, since there is still room for improvement, who will be easily satisfied?
The food he cooks is the one that best suits his taste.
For example, when he is in a bad mood, he likes to eat saltier dishes when cooking, which is different from ordinary people who like to eat sweets when they are in a bad mood. There are many small details like this, which only he knows.
Therefore, unless it is a scary woman like Qin Yanxi who has extraordinary cooking skills, even if the average chef's cooking skills are slightly better than his, they may not be more to his taste.
Therefore, it is necessary to practice cooking skills diligently. In order to satisfy your appetite, even if you are lazy, you have to lower your priority.
It’s not so easy to learn on paper. Although I learned a lot about cooking principles through reading some time ago and learned some new dishes at the same time, it’s not enough to just write down the key points. Guan Lang wanted to make it and try it, which can be considered as a way to put all the ideas in his mind into practice.
comprehensive knowledge.
Of course, the dishes he prepared so solemnly were not the usual home-cooked dishes, but the dishes he learned from recipes. In addition, he had never eaten them in a restaurant, so he wanted to try them out by himself.
Speaking of recipes, when he went to Taobao to buy recipes, he originally wanted to buy the famous "Chinese Recipes" series of books. That series of books was written in the 1970s and published in the 1980s, and mobilized people all over the country.
Compiled by famous chefs from all over the world, it has a luxurious lineup and is comprehensive in content. It is a complete book in the field of cooking, comparable to the "Nine Yang Manual" of martial arts novels and the top internal skills and mental methods of the "Yi Jin Jing"
.
This is also the advantage of the planned economy. How can it be possible now to recruit such a team to write a set of books that is time-consuming and labor-intensive? With so many famous chefs leaving their posts, how much economic value will be lost, and it is impossible
As before, I contribute my own recipes from the bottom of the box without any reservation.
It's a pity that Guan Lang couldn't find old copies of the set of books that had been out of print for many years on Taobao. There were not even pirated copies, which was amazing.
With so many regrets, I could only buy a few relatively famous cookbooks, such as "Fengzeyuan Cookbook", Yuan Mei's "Suiyuan Food List" and so on.
Of course, although Guan Lang was disappointed at first, he later found out that he was overthinking it. The hundreds of dishes from the north and the south in the "Suiyuan Food List" alone took him a while to learn. After all, they were the delicacies of Yuan Mei, the three masters of Qianjia and Jiaqing.
A masterpiece.
Yuan Mei, who was a Jinshi in the fourth year of Qianlong's reign, was a peculiar person. In today's terms, he had an interesting soul. Others were considered gentlemen and stayed in the kitchen, but he did not. He not only went to the kitchen, but also opened a farmhouse. Regardless of his status,
Everyone from high-ranking officials and nobles to merchants and vendors can enter the garden for consumption. At the same time, he continued to collect recipes, searched for famous chefs, and competed with them on their cooking skills. Finally, he wrote the "Suiyuan Food List" based on his experiences.
Guan Lang felt that he was quite similar to this famous man from hundreds of years ago. Although he had neither the talent to recite poetry nor the great achievements of compiling books to leave history, both of them were foodies, which brought about a kind of
A strong sense of identity.
The dish I’m going to try today is shaved pork.
Peel and mince it, use three chickens per pound, both green and yellow, and mix with the meat; chop it again, add half a glass of autumn oil, minced green onion, mix well, wrap it with a piece of net oil; add four pieces of vegetable oil to the outside.
Two, fry both sides, remove the oil; use a cup of good wine, half a cup of clear sauce, stuff it through, lift and slice; add leeks, mushrooms, and diced bamboo shoots to the meat side.
Guan Lang looked at the steps for a long time when he was looking at the steps. It was just like doing ancient essay questions in high school. He had to go online to find out what "chicken", "wangyou" and "autumn oil" were. It was just a few lines.
The words are sparsely mixed with a lot of content. Otherwise, it can be said that everyone is a master. This choice of words and sentences is just plain practice.
Autumn oil is actually a high-quality soy sauce with a complicated process. It is the first soy sauce filtered out in late autumn after being exposed to the sun in the dog days of summer. It is more delicious and mellow.
Autumn oil appeared seventy-two times in "Suiyuan Food List", so it naturally attracted Guan Lang's attention.
However, it is also regrettable that he did not have such noble soy sauce on hand, and manufacturers such as "Haitian" and "Lee Kum Kee" did not sell such products, so Guan Lang could only use ordinary soy sauce instead.
If you have time later, you can start preparing to try brewing autumn oil to see if it is really that delicious and how different it is from ordinary soy sauce? Guan Lang murmured in his heart.
The ingredients are ready.
Soak the oily bean skins in a basin of warm water until soft, and wash the garnishes: leeks, mushrooms, and diced bamboo shoots.
Remove the fascia from the pork and cut into pieces the size of your little finger. Beat in three eggs and mix well with the minced meat, then cut into minced meat.
Guan Lang followed the translated cooking steps in a busy and orderly manner.
So particular!
Guan Lang thought that he was very meticulous and picky in his usual cooking, but compared with Yuan Mei, he was nothing.
A dish of deglazed meat that is neither delicate nor dewy requires dozens of process steps, including frying, roasting, boiling, and stewing.
After finishing one dish, Guan Langxin was exhausted.
A bowl of white rice was served, Wuchang rice from Heilongjiang.
Guan Lang couldn't wait to try the taste. After all, he had wasted so much effort. If it tasted good, he would have another killer signature dish when he invited people to dinner next time, and it was also a delicacy that could not be eaten in most restaurants outside.
The presentation of the shaved meat is quite good, with golden and beautiful egg roll-like meat patties arranged in a circle, topped with a layer of fragrant and rich sauce, and the fragrance fills your nostrils.
Guan Lang couldn't help but swallowed.
Grabbing the chopsticks, I took a half-bite of the meatloaf. The texture when I bit it was amazing. It was like a layer-by-layer changing feeling. The tofu skin was fried to a crispy texture, and the minced meat didn't look hard due to the addition of eggs. It was delicious in the mouth.
It is particularly fragrant. As the scallops pass through the different ingredients, various aromas and flavors rush into the taste buds of the mouth. It is like a small universe suddenly bursting out in the mouth.
Isn’t it so delicious?
Guan Lang was not sure whether it was because he had been hungry for too long or because of psychological effects. Anyway, he felt very satisfied after eating.
Just take a few mouthfuls of rice and eat it together. The happy feeling of fullness makes Guan Lang's accumulated boredom due to the previous complicated process disappear. Instead, he feels that it is natural. Only such a complicated process can be matched.