food queen

Chapter 407 Longevity Night (2)
Yun Shuo smiled and held Han Qian's shoulders as he walked towards the dining table, and asked, "Can you prepare something delicious to celebrate my birthday tonight?"

"Of course." Han Qian said, looking back at Apple.

Apple nodded, and clapped its hands towards the outside. After a while, six palace maids filed in, each holding an exquisite food box.

Spinach in sesame oil, double mushrooms in sauce, hot and sour melon strips, fried agar-agar with shredded cabbage, pearl tofu, and anchovy fins. Six light cold dishes are followed by six meat dishes: yam fillet, ox knee tendon, braised lamb, stewed pheasant with chestnuts , spicy shrimp segments, braised goose feet.Add a radish and duck soup.

Finally, there are two desserts: honey red beans and snow peach soup.

"It's all home-cooked food, I like it very much." Yun Shuo sat down with a smile, pulling Han Qian to sit beside him.

Han Qian smiled and said, "Although it's a home-cooked dish, every dish has been put into great effort. Brother Emperor, try it. If you think it's delicious, you'll be rewarded."

"Really?" Yun Shuo picked up the chopsticks with a chuckle, wandered around the table of food, reached out and added a piece of melon sticks, put it in his mouth and bit one.

In his impression, the hot and sour melon strips are just a kind of pickled pickles, nothing more than the hot and sour taste made by seasonings such as vinegar and peppercorns.However, today the hot and sour melon strips are different from those in the past.

The melon strips are still pickled melons, which are the melons that are commonly used to pickle pickles at home. Ordinary people usually peel the skin and remove the flesh and throw them in coarse salt to pickle. Yunshuo is no stranger to this, because he stayed in the Northwest Military Camp I didn't eat this thing less.

however--

Sour, but different from the sourness of the past, not the sour taste of vinegar, no taste of vinegar residue, more refreshing and delicious.

Spicy, not the spicy taste of pepper mustard, but more fragrant, spicy, and more addictive.

Yun Shuo always liked hot and sour food, so he couldn't help but praise: "It's really delicious!"

Han Qian smiled smugly, took the chopsticks and gave him spinach in sesame oil: "Try this again."

"Yeah." Yun Shuo glanced at the green vegetable leaves in front of him, and frowned in distaste. Green vegetables have always been the things he hates the most.However, it was picked up by a loved one, and he didn't want to brush her face off, so he frowned and put it in his mouth, but smiled instantly: "It's still this spicy taste."

In fact, Yun Shuo, as an aristocrat who had been in the military camp for several years, didn't even bother to study such things carefully. When he was young, his concept of food was that it was not poisonous, safe and edible; It is said that it is necessary for life. If you want to live, you must eat, and you must eat food that is not poisonous and beneficial to the body.

When he entered the military camp when he was young, eating has simply become a necessity of life. Eating the big pot meals in the military camp kitchen with the soldiers is just for the sake of physical strength. As for the taste?Can you ask for the deliciousness of the big pot rice in the tens of thousands of military camps?
Later, when he was enthroned as emperor, he was bothered by political affairs. Food was still a necessity for his life. The imperial dining room prepared various meals to please him, and his request for delicious food was nothing more than Han Qian's liking.

Later, when Han Qian entered the palace, His Majesty the Emperor had the honor to enjoy the delicious food with the Empress Empress for two years. Now the food requirements have been raised to a higher standard - he gradually has his own preferences, such as liking spicy taste, I like seafood, fish and shrimp, I like meat and meat dishes, and I like the taste of brine sauce. For example, I hate sweet and green vegetables, and especially hate vegetarian dishes that are boiled and fried.

"Spinach is made like this, I still like to eat it." Yun Shuo smiled and picked up spinach to eat again.

Han Qian went to pick up mutton for him again.

Braised mutton in red is completely the traditional method of the imperial capital, but the mutton is selected from the ribs of the lamb on the Qingchuan Plateau, the birthplace of the Jinhe River, for less than two years. The ingredients are garlic, cooking wine, red pepper, and ginger. Chips, star anise, pepper, wolfberry, cinnamon, etc. are all carefully selected.

"It's several times more delicious than the usual mutton!" Yun Shuo sighed contentedly, "Is this the queen's latest cooking method?"

Han Qian smiled and said, "I don't dare to take credit for it! The braised mutton has an exclusive and secret spicy sauce, so it has this taste."

"What kind of spicy sauce, and it's an exclusive secret?" Yun Shuo chuckled and shook his head, feeling that Han Qian's words were a bit exaggerated.

Han Qian didn't say much, and raised his hand to pour wine for Yun Shuo with a silver enamel jug.

"Well, this wine smells so good!" Yun Shuo looked at the light green wine in the silver wine glass and couldn't help but sigh, "What kind of wine is this? Why have I never drank it? There is this kind of wine in the wine cellar of the palace. liquor?"

"This is not the wine stored in the wine cellar of the palace. This is a newly brewed wine this year. The raw materials are kiwi fruit, green awns and a small amount of green plum. In addition, it is brewed with snow water on cedar and several warming medicinal materials. , what I like most is not the aroma of this wine, but its color."

"Well, this color might look better with a colored glass." Yun Shuo nodded with a chuckle.

"You can't test poison in glass cups. I'm afraid His Majesty won't drink it." Han Qian laughed.

"It's such a good atmosphere, why do you say such spoiled words." As long as she brought it up, even if it was intestinal poison, he would be willing to eat it.Yun Shuo chuckled and shook his head, raised his wine glass and touched Han Qian, "Thank you Queen for preparing this birthday banquet for me, Queen has worked hard."

Han Qian raised his glass with a smile: "I wish Your Majesty a long and healthy life."

The couple sat opposite each other under the candlelight like ordinary people, eating seemingly homely but very delicious meals, drinking rare and precious wine, and chatting with each other.

Not a god, better than a god.

Later, Han Qian asked someone to serve two bowls of birthday noodles.

Seeing the silver-thread-like noodles in the bowl, Yun Shuo couldn't bear to eat while holding the chopsticks.

"Try it quickly, it took a whole day to make this for His Majesty." Han Qian urged.

"One day's work?" Yun Shuo raised his eyes to look at her. At this time, he was already a little bit drunk. Then he looked at the beauty under the lamp, with black hair like lacquer, skin like jade, and beautiful eyes that looked forward to each other. An indescribable charm.She is like a peony flower in bud, beautiful but not coquettish, gorgeous but not vulgar, charming and unparalleled.

"This is the wheat grown on the land behind Yuquan Mountain, the flour finely ground with a small mill, and the beef bone soup and noodles that have been boiled for a day. Naturally, the beef bone soup was stewed the first night, otherwise it would be impossible. It’s too late—then the dough needs to be kneaded and beaten for half an hour, and then the dough should be kneaded and stretched a little bit. For the sake of luck, this side can’t be broken without using a knife... Oh, this day’s work is not enough! Hurry up Let's try it!" Han Qian took his own chopsticks and picked noodles and brought them to his mouth.

(End of this chapter)