Go to a windy place and wait for the wind to come

Chapter 15 I Remember Who You Are

After checking the knives, Zhang Wentao also misunderstood Xu Hongdou's rejection.Take the vegetables you need out of the refrigerator and say to Xu Hongdou:
"Don't worry, I don't mean to pursue you. It's just that you help me clean up. I don't want to owe you a favor. In addition, I will cook more things. If two people can eat it, they can't finish it."

Seeing Zhang Wentao being so upright, Xu Hongdou shook his head helplessly and had a new judgment on Zhang Wentao who was about to prepare dishes.

Narcissistic, low EQ...

No wonder Nana complained yesterday, it was just cooking a meal, and she could be involved in chasing after her or not, it was really funny.

Didn't you say you're afraid of waste, so I'll call both Damai and Nana.

Let three light bulbs light up you blindly!
"Do you need me to help you?" Xu Hongdou raised his chin and asked Zhang Wentao who walked into the kitchen.

"No need." Zhang Wentao said calmly with a pretentious face.

"..." Xu Hongdou rolled his eyes at the back of the other party, okay, I have nothing to do to make excuses for myself.

The garbage in the restaurant was taken to the garbage storage place in the small courtyard. Aunt Agui had specially told her to keep it clean and put the garbage in the designated storage place.

When she came back, Zhang Wentao had already washed and dried all the vegetables for later use.

He is going to make 4 dishes today, Caesar salad, onion soup, Provence vegetable chowder, and a red wine stewed chicken.

The staple food is still prepared to be replaced with rice. To bake bread, without the help of a machine specially used to stir flour, no Western food chef is too lazy to do it.

The kitchen has a relatively small area for cutting vegetables. For convenience, Zhang Wentao took a chopping board, a knife, and everything needed to make Caesar salad dressing to the long table in the restaurant.

Two eggs were also boiled in the pot.

His hands are fast and the knife has just been sharpened. Under Xu Hongdou's watchful eye, in just 2 minutes, he split a purple onion into two, tore off the unwanted skin, and cut the Chop a whole onion into fine mince and put it in a small plate for later use.

Then cut the anchovies and pomegranates into minced pieces, and peel the appropriate amount of garlic cloves and cut them into minced garlic.

After finishing these tasks, the eggs happened to be boiled in boiling water until they were fully cooked.

"What are you doing?"

Hearing the question, Zhang Wentao, who was about to wash the minced onions to remove the flavor and chill the eggs, didn't stop what he was doing, and said, "Make Caesar salad dressing."

"Isn't salad dressing sold in supermarkets, why do you have to make it yourself?"

"..."

Well, now Zhang Wentao also took a blank look. How can a Michelin chef cook salad without making his own sauce, and use industrial products like supermarkets.

It's just that he was carrying Xu Hongdou on his back, and the other party didn't see it.

"If you really want to help, how about peeling the garlic for me?" After adjusting his mentality, Zhang Wentao recovered the expression on his face, responded, turned around and returned to the dining table with eggs and drained onions.

In fact, it is not troublesome to make all kinds of sauces in Western food.

The Caesar salad dressing he is making now is nothing more than adding some other ingredients to the mayonnaise according to the recipe to enrich the taste.

And making mayonnaise is also very simple.

It is to take out the yolk of the raw egg and put it in a basin, add lemon juice, white vinegar, salt, mustard, and then mix it with oil and keep stirring until it reaches the desired consistency.

It's just that it makes people who are not familiar with the principle of mayonnaise making and don't know how liquid turns into solid feel strange.

To put it bluntly, it is oil in water.

Soon, after making the mayonnaise, add the other ingredients prepared before, then chop the hard-boiled eggs and put them in. After adding a little black pepper according to personal habits, stir well, and it is the best Caesar salad. The indispensable Caesar salad dressing (feels like shit, lol).

Make the salad dressing and put it in the refrigerator.

Zhang Wentao tidied up the tabletop, chopping board, and knives, and prepared two time-consuming dishes.

"I've peeled all the garlic you asked for. You can see if it's enough." Xu Hongdou was a little embarrassed seeing Zhang Wentao return to the kitchen. He wanted to help him, but he didn't know where to start.

But stay in the kitchen and just stand there in a daze after peeling the garlic.

It's not that she's lazy, or that she's too poor at cooking to even know how to chop vegetables, but that she doesn't know what Zhang Wentao is going to do next from the beginning to the end.

And Zhang Wentao did not communicate.

"Well. You go to work, I can do it here by myself."

The joy of cooking food lies in the devotion of the whole body and mind, and the allocation of time to process each ingredient according to a certain order, just like a very well-planned trip, which makes the cooks enjoy it.

Zhang Wentao was also uncomfortable with such a person beside him who couldn't help and took up space.

"That's fine, I won't make trouble for you." Xu Hongdou said as he rinsed the garlic smell from his hand in the sink, shook it off, and put it under his nose to ask.

The slightly wrinkled little nose shows that the cold water did not wash away the spicy garlic smell.

Zhang Wentao took a good look at this detail. He picked up a used half lemon, handed it to Xu Hongdou and said:
"Here, just squeeze the lemon with your hands and then rinse it out."

"Yeah, no need... Well, thank you."

Xu Hongdou was about to refuse, but the scene in front of her made her take it over involuntarily.After washing my hands with lemon, I smelled them again, and sure enough, the lingering garlic smell was gone.

Hearing what the chef said was right.

"Thanks, then I'll get to work first. By the way, what time is your appointment?" Xu Hongdou greeted Zhang Wentao with a smile, and was about to leave the kitchen.

"It's around 9 o'clock. It's more troublesome to prepare the dishes. If you're really hungry, you can eat something first."

"Okay, then go for it."

After the words were finished, Xu Hongdou, who had walked out of the restaurant, stretched under the half-set sun, and walked out of the small courtyard.

She was going to find Nana, buy some drinks by the way, and drink in the evening.

……

In the setting sun, the paths of the emerald green rice fields are full of returning villagers.Some are migrant workers after a busy day's work, and some are parents who have just returned from school to lead their children.

Xu Hongdou took small steps and walked happily among the returning crowd. Hearing the laughter in his ears, he recalled the scene in the kitchen just now.

It seems, in my impression, a long time ago.

In BJ, when I was in the hospital, someone once handed me half a pack of tissues, both of them had similar faces and figures.

Xu Hongdou was stunned for a moment by the picture that emerged in his mind.

More than ten minutes ago, the figure of Zhang Wentao in the kitchen slowly merged with the figure that appeared in his mind... So it turned out to be him!It turns out that I have seen it!No wonder he said he hadn't seen him for a long time when he saw him for the first time.

But why is he here? !
Unexpectedly, he turned out to be a chef. What a coincidence, the change is quite big.

So he is unemployed?Or quit?Or did you come here just to fall in love?
Xu Hongdou, who remembered who Zhang Wentao was, walked to Youfeng Restaurant where Nana worked, with question marks on her forehead.

(End of this chapter)