I work as a chef in the university cafeteria

Chapter 160 You still specially invite a chef to cook?
Anyway, Jiang Yu finally didn't let grandma pick up those mineral water bottles.

In order to prevent her from sneaking out again while he was not paying attention, Jiang Yu took her directly to the vegetable market, preparing to buy the vegetables that needed to be cooked tomorrow.

It's rare to invite a guest, especially to thank others for their help to him over the years. Jiang Yu naturally thought about how to make it rich. Therefore, he bought chicken, duck, fish, meat, and various vegetables as he saw them. After a while, my hands were full of big and small bags filled with various ingredients.

After so many years, grandma has become used to thrift. She has never seen such a big purchase like Jiang Yu's, her face has changed, and her lips are trembling.

She followed Jiang Yu closely all the way, going wherever Jiang Yu went, her eyes fixed on the vegetables in Jiang Yu's hand, and she kept muttering:

"Oh, buy so much, buy so much... how can I finish this?"

"This mutton is too expensive. It costs more than 30 yuan a catty. You can buy several catties of pork..."

"What kind of mushroom is this? It costs more than 20 catties! It's more expensive than meat, so it's better to buy meat!"

"..."

Although grandma was very distressed, she just walked by and talked to herself, and she didn't say that she wouldn't let Jiang Yu buy it. It was just that these small and trivial words fell into Jiang Yu's ears, making him both funny and sad.

You don't need to think about it, but grandma probably doesn't want to come to the vegetable market to buy vegetables on weekdays. Even if she wants to come, she will wait until the vegetable market is about to close at night before she is willing to buy some promotional fat meat and vegetables.

Jiang Yu could even imagine that grandma was willing to buy some fatty meat. Apart from satisfying her cravings, she could also use it to boil lard. In this way, she even saved money on cooking oil.

In fact, when Jiang Yu came back from the National Day holiday, Jiang Yu left money for her grandma, not to mention that she had to pick up rags and sell them on weekdays, so she wouldn't even be able to afford food, but she just couldn't bear to spend money...

Even Jiang Yu might not be able to correct this point in a while.

After buying the vegetables, Jiang Yu bought some seasonings and other things at the grocery store in the vegetable market, and then went home with his grandma with a lot of bags.

On the way back, grandma struggled for a while, but finally couldn't hold back, and asked:
"Xiao Yu, let's treat guests tomorrow, at most ten people, you bought so many dishes, how can you finish them?"

"Grandma, if we can't finish eating, let's keep it for ourselves."

Jiang Yu turned his head and glanced at grandma. Her silver hair fluttered in the wind, making the wrinkles on her face deeper. He smiled and said,

"The Chinese New Year will be in a few days. Although there are only two of us in our family, we still have to prepare a New Year's Eve dinner!"

"Oh, oh, it's Chinese New Year!"

Grandma looked like a dream, as if she just remembered that the Chinese New Year was coming, she breathed a sigh of relief, also laughed, and said with some emotion,

"Time flies so fast, another year has passed."

Jiang Yu pursed his lips and said nothing.

Perhaps, in grandma's world, time does pass faster than others, busy and busy, the year is over.

She didn't even have time to sit down and take a good rest.

……

"Grandma, go and invite those people to sit at home, I'll go to the kitchen to cook."

Another day later, Jiang Yu processed all the ingredients he bought yesterday. Seeing that it was almost ten o'clock, he turned to his grandma and said,

"When they come over for a cup of tea, I can almost serve food here."

Grandma walked around in the kitchen, looking at the various ingredients piled up on the table, she couldn't believe it:
"Can you do it alone? Don't need me to help you light the fire?"

In the past, when the family was all around, every New Year’s Eve was a big family meal. After she had breakfast, she had to get busy preparing for the New Year’s Eve dinner. Such a large table was full of dishes, which were stewed and boiled. Steamed, if there are not many people to help, I am afraid that it may not be able to eat at night.

But now Xiaoyu doesn't need to help himself, even if it's lighting a fire!
"It's really not necessary. The smell of oily smoke in the kitchen is too strong. Go and call someone. When they come, you can just stay outside to greet them. I'm enough here."

Jiang Yu smiled at her, turned around and started to work.

Although he cooked a lot of dishes today, he also took advantage of "lazy".

For example, among the dishes he is going to cook today, there are braised elbows, steamed pork with rice noodles, and fish head with chopped peppers. These three dishes are actually steamed dishes. As long as the ingredients are processed in advance, they can be steamed directly in the steamer. enough.

There are two large firewood stoves in the countryside. The inner one is used to steam vegetables, and the outer one can be used to fry vegetables. Both sides are operated at the same time without any delay.

In addition to these three big dishes, other small stir-fries are much simpler.

In fact, in the kitchen, cooking itself is not complicated, and the process of side dishes is the most time-consuming. Once the side dishes are finished, the cooking time is often only a few minutes or ten minutes.

While Jiang Yu was busy in the kitchen, grandma had already invited Jiang Yu's uncles, uncles, aunts and other elders. Before entering the house, a group of people smelled a strong smell in the yard. The scent of vegetables wafted over from a distance.

An old lady with gray hair sniffed and couldn't help muttering:
"Whose family is stewing meat early in the morning, such a way of eating, the days are over!"

An old man walking beside laughed and said:

"Look at what you said, who can't eat meat now? You still have to wait until the Chinese New Year to eat some meat!"

"Life is much better now than before, but there is no one who eats stewed meat every day. It's not that I can't afford it, but it's too tired!"

"..."

A group of elders wentssip without saying a word, and soon entered the house.

As soon as they entered the room, they realized that the smell of vegetables in the room was stronger. The old lady turned her head to look at Grandma Jiang Yu with a surprised face, and said with some reproach:

"Hey, old sister-in-law, aren't you spending too much money?
We are all on our own. You said that you want Xiaoyu to treat everyone to a meal when he comes back. You are not polite. After all, Xiaoyu is a graduate student, so we should celebrate it!

But you can cook a few dishes by yourself, and everyone can sit together and have a lot of fun. Why did you specially invite a chef to cook?How much does it cost?

Last time the little grandson of the Laoniu family next door to my house was full moon, he invited a chef from a big hotel in the city to cook, and he made a banquet. The chef alone cost thousands of dollars, and I Smelling the aroma of that dish, it's not as good as the one your family invited!

Tell me honestly, it took a lot to hire this chef, right?This, this, this is too expensive! "

"What? Auntie, you also specially invited the chef to cook for us? Isn't this too grand?"

"Let me just say, why can I smell such a strong smell of meat from such a long distance? Ordinary people can't make that kind of smell!"

"Oh, I haven't tasted the dishes made by the chef in the restaurant..."

"..."

Jiang Yu's grandma looked dazed at the moment, feeling a little out of her mind.

What are these people talking about?
Why invited a chef from a big hotel?
After a while, she gradually came back to her senses and probably understood what these old men and women said.

Oh, they think the smell of the dishes in the house is too attractive and good, so they think that I specially invited the chef of the big hotel to cook the dishes in order to treat them to dinner?

How can this be? !
For this banquet, Jiang Yu spent hundreds of dollars just buying those vegetables and meat yesterday!

Then go to a big restaurant and hire a chef to specialize in the banquet?

How much does that cost!
Although I thought it was impossible, but smelling the delicious smell of vegetables in the room, my grandma felt a little unconfident again. It was definitely impossible for me to invite some chef, but, my grandson and young Fishing may be ah!
Maybe, he spent himself early this morning just to prevent himself from finding out that he hired a chef to help?
How much does it cost to hire a chef in a big restaurant?

Grandma couldn't help trembling in her heart, and she didn't care about the relatives who were still chatting in the hall, so she walked towards the kitchen.

In the kitchen, Jiang Yu was making braised mutton.

The mutton stewed in the pot is fat and thin, because it has been stewed with various seasonings such as soy sauce, refined salt, aniseed, and cinnamon. The small bubbles trembled slightly in the soup, making people swallow when they saw it.

Jiang Yu poked with his chopsticks and found that the meat was rotten, so he picked up a piece and stuffed it into his mouth to taste.

Probably because the mutton was a little hot, he couldn't help but open his mouth a few times to hiss, then chewed it quickly, and swallowed it with a satisfied face.

After he swallowed the mutton, he suddenly heard the sound of swallowing saliva from the door of the kitchen. Jiang Yu turned around and found that grandma was standing there with an embarrassed face. Neither is retreat.

Jiang Yu froze for a moment, and quickly waved to grandma: "Grandma, come and taste whether the stewed mutton is rotten, I'm worried that you won't be able to chew it!"

Including grandma, most of the elders that Jiang Yu invited were in their 70s and [-]s, and only a few were a little younger. The dishes must be stewed until soft.

If you invite someone to dinner, and they can't even bite the meat, then what's the point of inviting someone?
It's better not to ask!

"Huh? Shall I try it too?"

Grandma was also taken aback for a moment, and took two steps into the kitchen in embarrassment, couldn't help but look back, and said hesitantly,

"Your uncles and aunts are still outside. I, am I not doing well?"

"What does it matter?"

When Jiang Yu heard this, he waved his hands nonchalantly, picked up a spatula, filled a bowl with a small half bowl of mutton and soup, handed it along with chopsticks to grandma, and said with a smile,

"Whoever cooks has to taste the saltiness, otherwise who knows if the food tastes good?"

(End of this chapter)