Take it with you

Chapter 49 The Lotus Feast

"Sister Lulu, you can't favor one person over another, I want to eat your lotus leaf chicken. As for the soup, let me, Chef Chu, come to Xiaolu today, and let you have a taste of my cooking."

"Really, Xiaoxi cooks for herself, I'll have a good taste later." Xing Lu promised her with a smile, not mentioning her mother's taunts to her when she was in the Annan Base.

In fact, she didn't have much hope for Chu Xiran. She thought in her heart that if the soup she made was undrinkable, she would just take out the stock and let everyone deal with it for a meal. There is no need to beat her down now. Chef's enthusiasm.

She first classified the harvest this time, and did some simple processing first.Pick out the tender lotus leaves, petioles, and half-opened lotus flowers, and leave them as vegetables, and continue to clean up the rest.

Cut off the roots of the lotus leaves and wash them clean.After boiling water in a pot, put the lotus leaves in and blanch for 1 minute.After taking it out, control the moisture.Folded and stacked.Keep one piece to be used tonight, put the rest in a sealed bag and seal it, and then put it all in the space button.

As for the lower petioles, Xing Lu plans to wash and dry them to make tea like the older lotus flowers.

Handling the lotus pod is the most troublesome. You have to take off the lotus seeds one by one with your hands, and then use a dagger to cut a line on the black skin to take out the white and fat lotus seeds inside.Put away the tender ones without any bitter taste, and take out the lotus hearts one by one from the older lotus seeds. This step alone took more than an hour to complete with the help of everyone.

Thanks to Xing Lu's habit of collecting things when she was traveling, she bought several cookbooks in the bookstore, which introduced various cooking methods, and she was able to cook all kinds of delicacies without any pressure.Probably due to her extraordinary talent, even if she cooks according to the recipe for the first time, most of them are several times more delicious than those made by ordinary people.

This time she is going to make a lotus flower feast, and she will give everyone a taste of everything she got today.

The lotus petals are made into soft fried lotus flowers. The fresh lotus petals are rinsed, wrapped in egg white batter and fried, and then sprinkled with rouge sugar.The color of the finished dish is light and elegant, white and red inside, and the food is soft and fragrant, sweet and refreshing. (The rouge candy is made of powdered sugar and edible red coloring.) Some of them are folded and stuffed with red bean paste, so that the outside is burnt and the inside is soft and has a different taste.

There are still a few flower buds that have not yet opened. She crossed two crosses with a knife on the top, opened the flower buds with her hands to look like a flower, and then oiled them twice in a row to make them crispy. Add rouge sugar to make a whole lotus flower cake.

The petiole is hollow. Xing Lu stuffed glutinous rice into the petiole after boiling water and steamed it in the pot. When it was out of the pot, it was cut into small pieces of one inch long and placed on the plate in the shape of a flower. It is emerald green. The white glutinous rice is wrapped in the skin of the meat, which makes people's appetite greatly increased at a glance.

The lotus leaf Chu Xiran has been appointed to make lotus leaf chicken. Since the current mutated chicken is too big, she can only cut it into pieces. After marinating, she wraps the chicken pieces in lotus leaves and steams them in a pot. It took an hour and a half to take it out.Sprinkle some sesame oil and scallions on it, and it will be fragrant immediately.

The simplest thing is the lotus root at the bottom. I made the sweet and sour lotus root slices promised to Xiaohua, and made pan-fried lotus root clips. I used the ribs of the mutant pig to stew the pork ribs and lotus root soup. Of course, the soup is less and the ribs are more.

Using the fish caught in the pond, Xing Lu made another steamed mutated black fish, sprinkled with shredded lotus petals, and nicknamed it 'Lotus Fish'.

After finishing these, Chu Xiran who was on the side was about to bring out the soup.Because the current mutated lotus seeds are too big, she cut them into cubes, added the pre-soaked flower maw, lotus seeds, rock sugar and a few red dates to boiling water and simmered for two hours. It was delicious and soft. The stewed flower maw with lotus seeds and rock sugar is ready.

Just like the previous few days, Xing Lu sent some cooked meals to Qiu Lin. Qiu Lin couldn't help admiring the exquisite and delicious dishes, and they talked for a while before she left.

She feels more and more that Qiu Lin and Qiu Lin are like good neighbors: they can share with each other if they have delicious food, and they will help each other when they are in trouble, but they will not affect each other's lives.I am very satisfied with this state.

Back at the dinner table, Chu Xiran, who was particularly diligent today, had already set up all the dishes, and was waiting for him to come back before eating.

Seeing everyone sitting at the table waiting for her alone, Xing Lu was a little embarrassed, "I'm sorry, I just said a few more words with Qiu Lin, which delayed everyone's dinner."

"Sister Lulu, what are you talking about? Shouldn't the companions who are together share the joys and sorrows?" Luo Qi said pretending to be calm.The next sentence returned to the original form, "I was drooling at the table for a long time just now, now hurry up and start!"

"Hehe, good, let's eat!" Uncle Cang said with a smile.

"Sister Lulu, this table of dishes really includes all the parts of the lotus flower, it is a veritable lotus feast!" Chu Xiran pointed to these dishes and said.

"Well, yes, that's how I arranged it today. Let's try it and see if it tastes good."

"Everyone, please pay attention, today's sweet soup is made by me personally for everyone, I have to save face later, drink up all of it!"

"Oh? Xiaoxi is cooking soup? Then I want to join in the show and bring me two bowls!"

"Hehe, yes, you have vision. We are women of the new era who can go to the hall and go to the kitchen. How rare! It is your honor to drink the soup I cook."

"Hehe~" Her boastful words aroused everyone's hearty laughter.

Xing Lu took a sip and was full of admiration: "Xiao Xi, I didn't expect your cooking to be so delicious, so why didn't Aunt Mo let you cook when I was in Annan Base?"

"Hehe, Miss Xing, you don't know something. Miss Xiran has only one thing she can do. The other things she makes are 'dark cuisine' and cannot be imported."

"Hey, hey, Uncle Da, how can you say that in front of a lady? It's very rude, isn't it?"

"Is that so? Then I apologize to you and punish me to drink an extra bowl of soup to make amends, okay?"

"Hmph, that's about the same."

Xiaohua said sensiblely from the side, "Sister Xiran, I can only drink one bowl of soup. It's not that your cooking is not good, but that sister Lulu specially made sweet and sour lotus root slices for me today. I want to give them to you at the same time. Two face, but my stomach is only a little bigger, so I can only drink one bowl of your soup. You can put a few more bowls for me, and I will drink it later."

"Hehe, I know Xiaohua is the most sensible, don't worry, Sister Xiran won't be angry with you."

"Brother, what's the matter, I've performed normally today, right?!"

"It's okay." Chu Yu lowered his head to eat without even touching her eyelids.

"Then tell me, is my soup delicious or sister Lulu's? Don't say it's all delicious, you must answer."

"You did a good job, but you only know these kinds of sweet soups." And I don't like sweets very much.Everyone understood what he didn't say, and he didn't give his sister any face at all.

"That's why you think sister Lulu is better than me! I really forget my sister, brother, you've learned badly."

"Quiet, eat." The voice was still calm.It's just that the tips of his ears that are gradually turning red let people know that he is not as calm as he appears on the surface.

Xing Lu ate her own meal by herself.It wasn't that she couldn't understand Chu Xiran's voice, or that she couldn't feel the difference Chu Yu treated her.Although she has never been in a relationship, it doesn't mean that such things haven't happened around her.

She also has a vague fondness for Chu Yu, but Xing Lu has her own concerns: Although she doesn't take the disparity in status between the two into her eyes, it doesn't mean that others don't care. Li is like an ugly duckling who will never turn into a white swan, and is not worthy of Chu Yu, who is like a high prince.

Even if they break through many obstacles, the two can walk together in the end, but they still face an insurmountable obstacle in the end—Xing Lu is a cultivator, and as her level increases, her lifespan will only get longer and longer.As for Chu Yu, who is a supernatural being, how much will his lifespan be extended compared to ordinary people?she does not know.

She didn't want to separate the two of them because of the passage of time after she devoted herself wholeheartedly to a relationship, and it would have a great impact on herself at that time.Instead of relying on memories to remember when the time comes, it is better not to start, so that the two can at least become friends and support each other.

It doesn't matter if she is selfish or cowardly, when she is not sure that she will be with someone forever, she would rather be alone.

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