The story of a cook

Chapter 447
Master Li's dishes have been selling well, and he is also in charge of a reserved old dish "small tofu".

This small tofu dish is very simple to make and delicious to eat.The main ingredients are bean curd residue and tofu, and the auxiliary material is Chinese cabbage.First steam the bean curd residue, then put oil in the pot, sauté the chopped green onion until fragrant, fry the chopped cabbage until it is broken, then add the bean curd residue and fry until fragrant, then add half a piece of crushed tofu and continue to fry Fragrant, after frying, sprinkle with chives and serve.

This dish is a bit like the "lazy tofu" at home. When I was a child, I couldn't make tofu at home. Others made tofu and gave the tofu residue to my family. My mother chopped cabbage leaves and fried it with the bean curd residue. It was very delicious. It's called lazy tofu.

I have tasted the small tofu fried by Master Li. It has a taste, but it is not too delicious, but it is okay. Many customers order it, and it can sell about [-] copies a day.

I asked Master Du how this dish was sold before. Master Du said that it sold very well when it opened, and it sold an average of [-] copies a day. It was made by a Jilin master and it was very good. good.After this master left, other masters didn't make that effect, but they kept selling well, so they kept it.

I like to eat tofu, whether it is dried tofu or tofu, or dried tofu, tofu skin, or frozen tofu, I like to eat them all.I like to eat and I like to study. I have always wanted to study this little tofu, and I think there is a lot of room for improvement.

The three of us drank and chatted about the dishes. Master Li said: "Brother, my dishes have not been selling very well. The cats and dogs are selling every day, but the small tofu is okay, but the small tofu is an old dish, and it is not me. out."

I said, "There's no secret to cooking, just use dim sum. I think you're not focused on cooking right now, and you have too many things on your mind."

"You're right bro, I'm not in the mood to cook now, and I don't know what to think about every day." He lit a cigarette, took a puff, and said, "You know that I'm divorced. I divorced years ago. , my daughter-in-law won’t let me go, because I think I’m too incompetent, so I go with others. I still have a child, kid, who’s three years old, and now my parents are in charge of me in my hometown. You say I’m already 30 years old , What can you not think about? Mom and Dad told me that a daughter-in-law started a family, and I thought about it and asked me to live a good life. If anyone wants to leave, the child will have to be watched by the old man and the old lady, making trouble."

I said: "It's certain to be upset, but you can't always worry about it. Even if your wife regrets coming back, can you continue to follow her?"

"I specified that I would not go with her."

"That's it." I continued: "No one who gets married is going to get divorced, but if two people can't live together, they can't be forced together. No one is sent by God to torture anyone. You make trouble. If you feel sad, you will feel sad. Your daughter-in-law may have found a good one. Besides, the child is still with you. Will the child not go to school in the future? Don’t study? Will he not marry a wife when he grows up? These are all your business, and it’s all up to you Don't worry, even if you find a good second marriage in the future, the child will still be yours, so you have to take care of everything, right?"

He nodded and said, "Yes, brother, I know what you said, but it's just uncomfortable. You don't know my wife——I treat her well——"

"I understand your current mood very well. I have deep feelings for your daughter-in-law, but you have to face the reality. You two are divorced. If you don't even want children, it proves that they have no affection for you and your children. You No matter how uncomfortable it is, I can’t live with myself. Brother, everyone says let go, but it’s not easy to let go, I understand this, but have you ever thought about why you can’t let go?”

He glanced at me.

"People, the so-called not letting go is not letting go of yourself, and you compete with yourself. When people are willing to look at your beauty, no one cares about your bearish appearance when you are sad. It is all about living your life and living your own life. This is how the old men are. When you feel uncomfortable, drink a little wine and sleep. What is yours is what you own. It is useless if you don’t force it. Remember brother, as long as you force it, you have no dignity, but you will be looked down upon by others. In this life, as long as our parents are alive, we have to live happily. As long as the children still call us fathers, we have to do it. There is nothing left for us. If you do well, some people will follow you. It is normal for you to die and no one will take care of you. .”

"Brother is right." He raised his wine glass and said, "Let's drink one."

Take a sip with him.

After putting down the wine glass, he said to him: "Actually, you have a good understanding of cooking, but now you are a little absent-minded. When we were in elementary school, the teacher always said a word, slip away, and you slip away now."

He said, "It's a bit sneaky."

"You can do it, just reflect on yourself every day, reflect on those useless things, earning money to raise a son is better than anything else." Master Ma said to Master Li.

"I also know this, but sometimes I can't control myself, I just treat my wife too well." Master Li said.

"It's okay to be nice to your daughter-in-law. You can meet better ones in the future." I said, "You should continue to be nice to your daughter-in-law at that time. The main thing is that you have to stand up now, thinking that the previous daughter-in-law was not good enough. Now she is not your daughter-in-law, so I keep it in my stomach if I can’t forget it, and it’s okay to take it out to recall and recall it. If there are women who like you, you can’t talk about your former daughter-in-law anymore, so no one will follow you. "

After listening to me, Master Li smiled, and then said: "Who can like me."

"Some people can fall in love with him, but where did no one fall in love with my son?" I said with a smile.

After talking about Master Ma, we both laughed.

"Now that you are out, the child is taken care of by grandparents at home. There is nothing to do. Don't think about it. It's just to make money. If there is a suitable one, it's good." Master Ma said.

"I don't want to find one, I want to make money." Master Li said.

"That's right, when will you earn money? If you have money, it's easy to find a wife. If the men don't have money, they won't want to follow." I said.

"That's the thing." Master Li said.

People are always trapped by love.According to what Master Li said, he has a deep affection for his former wife. Although he is divorced, it is impossible to forget it immediately.But you can't always think about it, and you can't think about it.

Once a woman turns around, it is difficult to look back.

It's either that a woman is heartbroken or has a greater temptation.

Generally speaking, I like to drink with them. To put it bluntly, I like to drink. There are many people in the restaurant for work meals, and no one drinks. I can’t drink there by myself, and I don’t want to go out alone. Drinking, it's good to have someone to accompany you, and chatting while drinking is also enjoyable.

When it came to the dishes, Master Li said: "Brother, you said that my dishes still need to be adjusted."

I said: "Actually, the dishes you serve are quite good, but the details are not perfect, and there are still some deficiencies. Just be more careful."

"I also feel that there is something missing, but I can't find the difference." He said.

I said: "Your dishes are not bad in terms of taste and production. What needs to be strengthened is the preparation work. When you don't see the food, you are anxious. Either the dishes are not good enough or there is something missing. Sometimes I see that you put the main ingredients in the pot and are still waiting for the toppings. You still haven’t got the green onions, ginger and garlic, and you are still impatient and scold your younger brother when you are busy, so your dishes look good, but they don’t sell well.”

"Do you know what's going on, brother? The main dish for me is not brought by myself. He doesn't listen to anything. He's even worse than me." He said.

I asked him: "How do you see Bao Peng who served me with the dishes?"

He said, "What else did Bao Peng say? Didn't you bring him yourself?"

I said, "Why don't you ask him to serve you dishes and give me your cutting board."

He froze for a moment and said, "Can that work?"

I smiled and said, "What's wrong with you? Let me tell you, brother, the younger brother was brought out by himself. You can see whether Bao Peng set up the stalls or prepared for work. He did everything well. In our house, I dare not Saying number one is about the same, everyone is qualified to be the boss of the cutting board, right?"

Both Master Li and Master Ma nodded affirmatively.

I went on to say: "But you two also watched. Did I also do it when Bao Peng was setting up the stalls and making preparations? At that time, you were all smoking outside. Did you watch me go out to smoke? It is rare to go out to smoke a cigarette in the morning. Generally, it is the time to go out to smoke a cigarette after a busy meal. The smoking time has never exceeded 5 minutes. A cigarette can be finished in 3 minutes. After smoking, go to the kitchen as soon as possible and stay outside Yes, and I won’t stand there and chat with you.”

Master Ma said: "You are like this. You never chat with us outside. Everyone admires this."

"You don't need to admire this. To be honest, I haven't developed the habit of going out to smoke and chat as a chef these years. As long as I work almost all the time, I forget everything about work and enjoy it. So I The preparation work is done well, my master told me that if you want to fry the dishes well, you have to do the preparation work well. Work without preparation is preparation failure.”

"It's also a habit I have developed over the years, and I attach great importance to preparation work. As a big master, I don't go out to smoke and rest. I also have work in hand, so I did a good job in the preparation work, and when I didn't look at the dishes, there were eleven cutting boards in the whole kitchen, but Bao Peng's own cutting board stood up?"

They both nodded.

I said: "Don't say that the younger brother is not easy to manage. You have to bring it yourself to be obedient. The younger brother is the younger brother. We are the masters to bring him to work. It is true to say that you can learn from anyone. Let's go out to smoke and chat, do you think they are working honestly in the kitchen? Impossible, they are embarrassed to go out, and they don't work when the master is gone, they get together to chat, or they just look at delicious food and eat something secretly."

"You both know Li Fushun who played lotus for me. That kid is so smart. He is the most cunning and thoughtful of all the lottery players. I have been working with me for more than a month now. At the beginning, I couldn't find anyone, right? I ran here and there, and sometimes I went to the kitchen on the second floor and came back. No one can find food here. Now you look at it, it’s not bad, follow me to do the preparation work, I don't go out to play anymore, I have developed a habit. A person's habit can be formed in 23 days, and if it doesn't work in 23 days, it will take 33 days. It is difficult to change after the habit is formed. So it is said that a good boy is brought out, a good job It is prepared, and good dishes are fried."

"Master Tan is right, that's what happened." Master Ma said.

"I won't go out to smoke from tomorrow. In fact, going out to smoke is just nonsense. Outside, these masters are not serious. They say women or women. It is useless to talk for a long time. It is a waste of emotion." Master Li road.

I said: "If you only talk about women outside, it's okay. Sometimes you start talking about gossips. Where do gossips come from? Gossips are made by people who are idle and have nothing to do together." , otherwise what is it called gossip? It’s gossip if you say it nicely, and it’s called pulling your wife’s tongue if you say it badly. I’m a man in his 30s. Once some gossip comes out, it’s not worth it to let people say a few words , right?"

"It's not a big deal, it's just gossip." Master Li said.

"People say that serious things are not addictive, but gossip is addictive, and the more they talk, the more they talk. It's not good to do something at that time, go back to the kitchen to make preparations, arrange the food stalls, help the chopping board to cut vegetables, teach Teaching Hetai how to make lotus and making plate decorations is not all work." I continued: "I am not talking about you, as soon as you cook without dried pepper pieces and shredded dried peppers, you will come to me to get them. Hide the dried pepper shreds to see what you use? If you have time to go out and talk, you can also use scissors to twist some in the house."

When it comes to dried chili slices and shredded dried chili peppers, the two of them smiled embarrassedly.

Every chef in the entire kitchen uses dried pepper pieces and shredded dried peppers, and each chef is responsible for twisting them on his own table. Sometimes he has to pick up scissors and twist them when he forgets when the table is busy, which delays the work.After I finished the preparations, I used scissors to grind it. There are always two empty chicken powder buckets under the table behind me, one for dried chili slices and the other for dried chili shreds.At first, the other chefs didn't know about it, but later they gradually found out that as long as someone's stir-fried vegetables were gone, they would send them to me on the lottery table to get them, which has almost become a habit.For example, Seafood Master Liu, for the sake of convenience, I will directly send him a bucket of the same, so as to save money.

I don't know if what I told them is useful or not, or whether they listened to it or not. Anyway, I said it, and said it's okay, and it's for their own good.

Tell Master Li that if he wants to improve his dishes, he must first improve the preparation work. When the preparation work is done and the quality of the dishes is fully improved, the quality of the dishes will naturally improve.At the same time, I told him that if he felt that his dishes were not selling well, he could take two of my dishes and I would study two new dishes, or we could exchange two dishes.

Master Li and I changed two dishes. At the same time, he handed over the small tofu to me for research. After I finished the research and sold it, I gave it to him.In this way, he also has a few dishes that sell very well, at least when the restaurant is busy, there are dishes to be fried, so that you don’t have to stand there and watch others stir-fry while you set up a sorghum pole. The big master stands there and watches. Also stunned.

Now I have given Master Ma two dishes and Master Li two dishes, and they each have four dishes, which can be done when they are eating.

Maoxuewang and boiled beef are selling very well here. The two dishes that Master Li gave me are "Mom's Eggplant" and "Stir-fried Chicken Gizzards". If these two dishes are improved and upgraded, customers will also like them.The most important thing is to study the small tofu carefully. I feel that this dish can be popular after research, because everyone can eat tofu and it is good for the body. Adding small tofu with bean curd residue is a memory of middle-aged and elderly people. I think I ate bean curd when I was a child, and people older than me also ate it. I have a special memory of bean curd.

Such a dish is worth studying.

Dishes don't matter how big or small they are, delicious food is the most expensive.

There is no distinction between high and low, it is good to be virtuous.

It's not that cheap raw materials can't make good dishes, and it's not that people who have no money are looked down upon.

This dish depends on how you fry it, and this person depends on how you cook it.

(End of this chapter)