Food starts with Mapo Tofu

Chapter 594

A few people went to eat some western food at noon, and they went to the beach to play for a while in the afternoon, but Chen Nian was not very interested in it.

Compared to looking at beauties on the beach, Chen Nian still finds it more interesting to study new dishes.

After playing like this for a while, Chen Nian also lay down and fell asleep until everyone woke up after having fun.

Afterwards, they packed up their things and headed towards the family hotel that the driver had mentioned. After all, what Chen Nian wanted was to be able to cook and eat by himself, and such a hotel was the most suitable.

After coming here, Chen Nian felt that the environment here was very similar to some scenes he had seen in movies before.

The house looks like an old house, but the overall layout is very warm, and everything is cleaned.

"Their family has lived here for a long time. Although they are not locals but moved from Washington, they have lived here for more than ten years and are already familiar with the people around them."

Listening to the driver's introduction, everyone politely greeted the boss here.

The couple living here seem to be about 60 years old, and they are both in good health. After questioning, they found out that they had never had children in their entire life, because they enjoyed such a life very much.

After entering, it was time to choose a room. Naturally, they let Vivienne choose first, and then the rest of them randomly chose.

Anyway, it's just a place to live here.

As long as the surrounding environment is clean, Chen Nian is not very picky about where he lives.

It's just that at night, Chen Nian was bored alone in the room, so he went to the living room downstairs for a walk, only to find that the couple were chatting in the living room.

After seeing the arrival of the old age, I greeted them warmly.

Then Chen Nian also went down to chat with the two of them.

Immediately afterwards, Chen Nian talked about wanting to use the kitchen tomorrow, and then wanted to use some of their ingredients.

The boss readily agreed after hearing this.

……

Early the next morning, in the kitchen of the family hotel.

Lucas looked at Chen Nian seriously.

"how do you feel?"

"It can be made, but I can't guarantee the taste..."

"It's okay, as long as it can be made." Lucas comforted Chen Nian.

The main reason is that Chen Nian feels that this approach is very in line with the habits of artists just by listening.

Including Chen Nian, I still remember an article I studied when I was a child, that is, Alexandre Dumas always likes to put a rotten apple in the drawer of his desk where he often writes, because he thinks that smell can make people sober. Can bring inspiration.

And the boss here also looked at him wonderingly after taking out the ingredients according to the requirements of the old age.

"You want these for one person?"

Lucas nodded: "Yes, I want to ask him to help reproduce Beethoven's favorite food."

The couple glanced at each other, sighed, and shook their heads, thinking they had to be young to play.

But anyway, they will give money, and it's casual.

But in the end, Chen Nian was worried that the other party might misunderstand, so he explained that he made this food only for Lucas.

In addition, other people including myself still have to eat normal breakfast.

At that time, I have to trouble the boss to prepare.

Then the aging began to revisit the classics.

"In the famous story written by Mileda Broca, it is mentioned that Beethoven likes to drink very strong coffee, so every time he makes coffee, he must use a full sixty grams of coffee beans. ’ said Lucas.

Although Chen Nian doesn't really like coffee, he thinks it's a lot of effort to grind sixty coffee beans into a cup and then pour them into a cup.

"Are you sure you want to do this?" Chen Nian asked.

"of course."

Sighing helplessly, Chen Nian finally decided to satisfy the other party's wish.

"But let's talk about it first. After it's done, if you feel that there is any problem with the taste of eating, or if you feel uncomfortable, you must stop immediately, understand?" Chen Nian began to go out Counting the coffee beans, he exhorted.

Sixty aged coffee beans are placed on the table one by one, ten in a row, and there are six rows in total.

After one is not bad, these are put into the coffee grinding machine.

There is such a machine in this small family hotel, but you can only grind it by hand. Fortunately, this little thing is not big.

It didn't take long for the old coffee beans to be ground into powder.

A small box was ground, and then the coffee powder was put into the machine for brewing.

I have to say that the coffee culture in the West is still very popular, just like people drinking tea in China.

The whole room is filled with the aroma of coffee, but Chen Nian knows that the smell is good. If he really takes a sip, he will probably be able to directly lift himself up.

"Never mind, I'm not drinking it myself anyway." Chen Nian thought so.

While the coffee was being made, Chen Nian went to prepare another dish.

Lucas was looking forward to it: "Beethoven also liked to drink soup. It was also mentioned in "Beethoven's Letters". Beethoven himself once said that only a pure heart can make good soup."

Hearing this, Chen Nian couldn't help asking: "Then do you think I can make good soup?"

"I think so," Lucas said.

As a result, Tonio showed his head from outside the door: "What happened to the conversation between the two of you?"

While talking, he purposely squeezed the orchid fingers with a high voice, and learned the dialogue between the two again. Chen Nian looked at this kind of cheap Tonio, and wished he could fly over with an iron spoon.

Seeing that Chen Nian was angry, Tonio quickly turned around and ran away.

Chen Nian then turned his head: "So we are going to make soup next, right?"

"Yes, this is a bread soup, but generally speaking, there are two types of bread soup, one is garlic bread soup, and the other is cream cheese soup.

But only garlic bread soup needs to put eggs in it, so although it is not mentioned above, I feel that what Beethoven likes to drink should be garlic bread soup. "

Chen Nian nodded. He really knew how to make garlic bread soup. Although he had never made it before, when he was on the Platinum Star, Uncle Martin next to Chen Nian happened to be able to make this.

Because it is not difficult to make in the first place, Chen Nian has watched it a few times and he will get it.

Immediately after aging, the ingredients were prepared.

Peel the garlic, cut the ham, and hollow out the middle of a round bread.

After all the ingredients are ready, the old man will turn on the fire and heat the pot first. After it is overheated, add cold oil, and then add garlic, ham, and chili powder.

At the same time, put the bread that was taken out when the bread was hollowed out into the pan and stir-fry over medium-low heat.

After the aroma came out of the stir-fry, Chen Nian directly added the simply prepared broth into it, and finally beat in ten eggs one after another.

Looking at the eggs floating in the pot, Chen Nian felt unconfident...

"Can you still do this?"

Although Chen Nian can accept the practice of diversified delicacies, it is too abstract to put ten eggs in a soup and eat it alone.

But Lucas insisted that he remembered correctly, this soup is made in this way, there is no way, old age has to follow the method of ten eggs.

Stirring slowly, as the eggs were broken and absorbed on the bread, the old age also saw that the soup in the pot became less and less.

But that’s how bread soup is done.

After coming over for a while, after all the ingredients inside are cooked, Chen Nian will take out the bread soup and pour it into the bread.

For a moment, inside the bread that was used as a container, the golden soup was shining, and ham could be seen dotted in it from time to time.

If you don't consider its appearance, you can smell the aroma of eggs and a touch of milk just by smelling it.

But if Chen Nian is allowed to eat it, Chen Nian is absolutely unwilling.

He really couldn't figure out why Beethoven would like to eat this kind of food.

In the end, after thinking about it, he could only attribute it to the special hobby of great musicians.

It's like Alexandre Dumas loves the smell of rotten apples.

And Lucas looked at the bread soup, and felt that there was nothing wrong with it, mainly because he watched from the side during the whole process of making it, and Chen Nian didn't make any mistakes when making it.

"It looks good." Lucas nodded and said.

Chen Nian sighed, thinking that although Lucas has been relatively smooth in the past ten years, his eating habits have probably changed a lot, especially after living in Jakarta for so long.

"Okay, then this is your breakfast, and the coffee should be about the same." Chen Nian said.

Then Lucas found another cup and went there to pick up a cup of coffee.

He took a sip expectantly, and then showed a very satisfied smile.

Chen Nian looked a little curious. To be honest, he didn't do much research on coffee. He only knew that the coffee should be bitter when it was first made.

But seeing Lucas's expression of enjoyment, he couldn't help but get a little interested.

So I also found a cup and went to the coffee machine to pick up a little.

Slightly shaking in the cup, the texture is very thick, and it smells like a strong coffee aroma.

Then he took a sip too.

At this moment, Chen Nian seemed to see his own life, and it flashed through his mind.

He felt that his mouth was all bad.

Sixty coffee beans are ground into a cup of coffee, the concentration of which can be imagined, and now Chen Nian feels as if someone has been poured a mouthful of Coptis chinensis, and two slices of bitter gourd are soaked in the Coptis chinensis.

Chen Nian put a mask of pain on his face on the spot.

"I'd rather eat Zhe Ergen than drink this thing!" This taste is old and unacceptable, but the expression he looks at Lucas doesn't seem to be fake.

"Okay, this kind of food can only be enjoyed by you and Beethoven." Chen Nian sighed and cleaned up all the tableware he had used.

And Lucas had already eaten it, but he didn't eat it fast.

After Chen Nian packed up, he went to call the boss and his wife to prepare breakfast.

I have to say that the breakfast prepared by the boss and his wife is quite good, not that complicated, just milk and sandwiches.

Ham is also added to the sandwich, and the ham tastes pretty good after being roasted, and last night they knew that Chen Nian and the others have a lot of appetite, so they specially made the sandwich very solid.

So much so that Chen Nian ate a sandwich, drank another glass of milk, and then ate some fruit, and then he was completely full.

But the old man was full, and Lucas who ate the Beethoven breakfast made by the old man was even fuller.

That's ten whole eggs, and such a big loaf of bread.

Even the soup and water are eaten into the stomach, and the bread in the stomach is getting bigger and bigger by the soup, so it will naturally become more and more full.

So Lucas couldn't follow them when they went to play in the water in the morning.

During the next two days, Chen Nian experienced surfing and skiing a little bit.

In order to attract tourists, these projects will be open to the outside world. Although there are not many protection measures at this time, many people die because of these projects every year, but this still cannot stop the enthusiasm of aging.

Anyway, in the dream, I'm afraid of a woolen yarn!

This kind of extreme sports is simply a man's romance!

Although Chen Nian can't do it at all now, he feels that he likes these sports after only trying a few times.

So Chen Nian didn't go anywhere these days, but stayed at the beach and learned to surf with the coach.

And the most important point is that the money Chen Nian learned to surf was given by Vivienne.

In Vivian's words, it was to thank Chen for helping her on the boat some time ago.

Chen Nian thought about it and accepted it.

After all, it was really dangerous back then.

In this way, Chen Nian stayed at the beach and surfed the waves for a few days. When he finally returned to the boat, his whole body was tanned except for the underpants and the eye circles with diving glasses.

During this trip, Chen Nian had a great time, and bought some coffee beans from the couple when he left. If Anna and Jie Luo really come to find him after landing, they will take these coffee beans Give them as a gift.

However, before boarding the ship, I thought about it, and asked the driver to introduce another store and bought a bottle of wine that was not bad.

When the ship starts sailing again, it means that several old dishes have to be re-made.

However, this is not a problem for Chen Nian at all. Whether it is Shandong cuisine or Huaiyang cuisine, there are many seafood and river dishes that can be used in it.

And those dozens of cooking methods are enough to stay on the boat for several years.

So he didn't take these things to heart at all.

However, on the night after boarding the boat, Chen Nian made a special trip to Xiao Huang's place again.

"Master Huang, this time the ship stopped in Hawaii, and I went out to look around, but I didn't see any other suitable gifts, so I asked the locals to introduce a reliable store and bought a bottle of wine for you. It is also to thank you for teaching me how to cook during this time.

After we land in the United States at that time, don't we have to rest for a few months, and then I will treat you to dinner. "

(End of this chapter)