The story of a cook

Chapter 302 Fruity French Fries Tenderloin
What is the real self?

My understanding is to say what you want to say, do what you want to do, and do what you want, as long as you are worthy of your conscience.

Everyone wants to call themselves real, but they always like to be sanctimonious.I could have lived happily, but suppressed myself and made myself very tired.In fact, there is no need, no one cares how you suppress, because he also suppresses, in other words, it is hypocrisy.

People have been hypocritical for too long, and they will not be able to find themselves.

Sometimes I feel that I am very hypocritical. I obviously like to relax, but I make myself very serious, as if it is very heavy.This aspect does not include the attitude towards women. Treating women is one's own true thoughts. If you don't want to have a super-friendship relationship with someone, then don't do it. But you can drink with women, because you want to drink, then go for it.

I have to go home every day, I have my wife at home, and I love her very much.Although she always ignores me, annoys me to drink, annoys me to smoke, but the person who cares about me the most is her, she is my hair-do.It's just that not going home with me during the Chinese New Year makes me very upset, and I don't know how to solve it.

If you really don't go home with me, you can't divorce her, go back alone, just get angry, nothing at all.

Lin Yan has been home with me for two years, and it is understandable to go back to her mother's house for the New Year this time.

Keep working on my potato chips.

Take out the soaked potato strips for splashing. After splashing, rinse with cold water, and then pat dry the starch.Be sure to pat the starch. The starch will become brittle after frying, but the cornstarch will not work. The cornstarch will become brittle when it is hot after frying, and it will start to soften when the temperature cools down. The effect is not good.

Do not fry the potato sticks immediately after shooting the starch. Wait for 10 minutes to allow the moisture in the potato sticks to fully combine with the starch, so that the fried potato sticks are not only crispy, but also firm.This is what I discovered when I was frying potato chips last time, and now it is experience.

Heat the oil in the pan, slowly add the potato sticks, fry slowly over low heat, and remove the potato sticks when they are crispy.There are a bit too many potato chips cut this time, and I can’t make that many, so I set aside a part for spare.

Hang the sliced ​​tenderloin on the chopping board with the gouache paste for deep frying, remove and control the oil when fried until crispy.Then the oil temperature rises to 30%, put the potato sticks and the fried tenderloin strips into the pan at the same time and fry them, the time is controlled within [-] seconds, when the potato sticks and tenderloin strips change color slightly, take them out quickly.Pour out the hot oil in the pot, leave a little bottom oil in the pot, add half a hand spoon of sweet and sour sauce and fry slightly, when you see dense small bubbles in the pot, pour the fried potato strips and tenderloin into the pot In the middle, quickly stir-fry, so that the sweet and sour sauce is evenly hung on the potato strips and tenderloin strips, and then pour the oil out of the pan and put on a plate.

The amount made is a bit large, and two plates are installed.

Call Master Hou, Master Wang, and Master Xu to come and taste it.

Master Wang said: "If you don't eat it in your mouth, you may think it's all tenderloin."

Master Hou said: "Yes, I tasted the same as Guobaorou, but I felt different when I ate potato chips. It was better than tenderloin."

Master Xu said: "I think this dish is more delicious than pot-packed meat. You can eat meat as well as potatoes. Potato chips are better than meat. If you serve this dish, it will definitely be popular."

I said: "If you eat well, it proves the same. You eat this plate, and I will take the rest of the plate to the front so that the front can taste it and see how they eat."

Carrying another plate to the front desk, the front hall has not yet served guests, and the waiter is cleaning and clearing the table.

Zhang Li saw me coming with a plate of dishes, and asked, "What delicious food did Lao Tan cook?"

"Try it first, and then talk about it after you taste it." I said.

"This is for us to eat." Zhang Li asked.

"Yes, for you to eat."

Zhang Li called Zheng Jiaqi and Li Shuang to come and taste it together.

"The potato sticks are delicious, they taste like pot-packed meat, and they are quite crispy." Zhang Li said, adding another potato stick.

"Where are potato chips? I eat them like tenderloin. Are they tenderloin strips? Master Tan." Li Shuang asked me.

I laughed and asked Zheng Jiaqi: "What are you eating?"

"There's tenderloin and potato chips, right?"

I nodded and said, "By the way, is it delicious?"

The three of them said it was delicious.

"Can this dish be used instead of pot-packed meat?" I asked.

"Almost, it tastes better than pot buns for me," Zheng Jiaqi said.

"I would like to eat the potato chips inside." Li Shuang said.

"It's delicious to eat, but it can't replace Guobaorou. People still like to eat Guobaorou." Zhang Li said.

"Isn't it troublesome to cook the pot of meat? I want to use it instead." I said: "When the guests order the pot of meat, please recommend it to the guests. Order it if you can. Cook this dish for 3 minutes. If you make the pot of meat The meat takes eight or nine minutes, doesn’t it save time, and the taste is still the same.”

Li Shuang asked: "Will the pot of meat still be sold in the future?"

I said: "Sell it, you have to sell it, I just ask you to push this dish first and see how it goes."

"Oh, what's the name of this dish?"

"It hasn't been named yet, you guys should give it a name." I said.

Zhang Li looked at me in disbelief and said, "We named it—"

"Yes, give it a name, let's see what it's called." I said with certainty.

"How can we name it?" Zheng Jiaqi said.

Li Shuang didn't care about those things, and said directly: "Is it okay to call it 'sweet and sour pork tenderloin and potato chips'?"

"Good." I said.

"It doesn't sound good, it might as well be called 'Fries Tenderloin'." Zheng Jiaqi said.

Zhang Li said: "Fries and tenderloin are delicious."

I said, "How about a sweet and sour one called 'Fruit Fries Tenderloin'?"

Zhang Li said: "Your chef has already said it, so what else to say, I think it will work."

That's how the name was settled.

"Master Tan, how much does it cost?" Li Shuang asked.

I said, "Just two yuan less than the pot of meat."

Li Shuang said, "You are too dark."

I said: "It's not black, just this price." Then I asked the three of them: "How about selling it tomorrow?"

"No problem." Zhang Li asked, "How many copies do you plan to sell a day?"

"Thirty copies will do,"

"no problem."

After returning from the front desk, the chopping board asked what to do with the leftover fried potato chips?I said to put it away first and give it to everyone during the work meal. The cutting board said that it is delicious now, and it tastes like KFC fries.I look at the fried French fries, the color is light yellow, a bit different from when they were first fried, they were very plump when they were first fried, but now the potato chips are a little bit deflated.Take one and eat it, it tastes better than when it was just fried.The crispness is also there, tell the chopping board to bring it when you eat, and I will do it.

When the meal at noon was over, when I was about to eat the work meal, I took the potato sticks from the cutting board, fried them again, and then fried them with sweet and sour sauce. I tasted one and found that the potato sticks at this time were very crispy and tender. The effect is much better when it is freshly fried.

I know what to do when I sell and buy tomorrow.

In the afternoon, I asked the chopping board to cut out a large box of potato chips and soak them in water, and told me to change the water after two hours.

When I got off work in the evening, I changed the water again, and when I started to work the next day, I fried all the potato chips in the big box, and fried two square plates.Then ask the chopping board to cut out ten catties of tenderloin strips, soak them in water, soak out the blood, then take out the water, put it in a basin with a little salt for pickling, and let the tenderloin strips eat a little bit, after half an hour Hang the gouache paste and fry half of it, and store the other half in the refrigerator for frying at night.

After the first "Fruity Fries Tenderloin" was sold at noon, eighteen copies were sold immediately.Because the potato chips and tenderloin strips are fried in advance, you only need to fry them again when the food comes. The serving speed is very fast, and it takes almost 3 minutes to make it, which greatly saves the serving time.

At [-]:[-], Li Shuang came to the kitchen and said to me, "Master Tan, the fruity fries and tenderloin are very popular with the guests. Two tables ate the first plate and ordered another plate, saying it was delicious."

To be honest, there is nothing that makes a chef happier than a guest saying that the dishes he made are delicious. The recognition of the dishes is the biggest reward for the chef, and he is happier than giving 200 yuan.

I asked: "Did you recommend it to the guests? Or did the guests order it themselves?"

Li Shuang said: "The first few dishes were recommended by us to the guests. Later, when the guests saw other tables serving them, they asked what kind of dish it was. We said it was a new dish in our family, called 'Fruit Potato Tenderloin'. The guests looked at it. It looks good, so I ordered it, the dish is really good-looking, orange in color, and the portion is quite large, the average customer will order it after seeing it."

"Well, I see." I said, "Thank you for your hard work."

"You're welcome, Master Tan."

I sold 33 plates of "Fruit Potato Chips" that day, and sold out all the prepared potato chips. There were still customers ordering later, and I informed the front desk that the estimate had been cleared.

Li Shuang ran to the back kitchen and asked, "What's wrong? Our potatoes are gone?"

I said, "It's not that the potatoes are gone, it's that the fried potato chips are gone."

"Then cut some potato chips first, aren't there potatoes?" she said.

In her understanding, there are potatoes and you can make french fries.

I said: "It's not good to cut it now. The potato sticks have to be soaked overnight after cutting, otherwise the effect will not be achieved." Then I said: "Got it, explain to the customer, it's not that I don't make it for him, but I do it If you don’t come out, come tomorrow if you want to eat, there will be tomorrow.”

"Oh, it's such a trouble, I know."

Li Shuang nodded ambiguously and left.

"Fruity Potato Fries" was considered a success and entered Lao Tan's recipes.

(End of this chapter)