Stop pretending, I am the God of Cooking and I am showing off my cards!

Lin Xu began to mix the egg yolk filling.

First, crush the steamed salted egg yolk with a spoon. When crushing, the scent of salted egg yolk comes out, and it smells delicious and comfortable.

After everything is crushed, start adding egg yolks to it.

The egg yolks are ready-made, and all the egg whites were used to make the meat paste. Now there is a small basin on the workbench.

Lin Xu took a spoon and poured it into the basin containing salted duck egg yolk. He stirred it a few times with chopsticks to make the scattered salted duck egg yolk stick together again.

Salted duck egg yolk itself is sticky because of the fat, but now that egg yolk is added, it becomes even stickier.

Lin Xu put on disposable gloves and kneaded the egg yolks like dough, so that the egg yolks and salted duck egg yolks were perfectly mixed together.

You must wear disposable gloves for this step, and you cannot use your hands directly. Not only is the egg yolk relatively sticky, but also the hands that have rubbed the egg yolk will have a fishy smell no matter how you wash them, so the best way is to avoid direct contact.

After rubbing the egg yolk once, pinch a little in your hands and knead it to make a small filling ball. Then roll it in dry starch to make a thin layer of starch stick to the surface of the egg yolk ball.

Starch prevents egg yolks from sticking, such as to a plate or a bunch of yolk balls sticking together.

And with a thin layer of starch, it will be easier to wrap.

After kneading each egg yolk ball, Uncle Gao also mixed the tofu and egg white. He placed it on the chopping board and kneaded it like dough, then rolled it into long strips and divided it into small portions.

This kind of dough is much smaller than dumplings, and even smaller than dumplings, but Uncle Gao divided them evenly one by one and pressed them into round cakes. The whole set of movements was as smooth as flowing water. Qi Siming was impressed. , Qiu Zhenhua and other masters who are proficient in Bai An praised him again and again.

Who would have thought that this skilled Bai An Kung Fu was done by a Red Case master?

After Uncle Gao pressed the round cake, Lin Xu took it over, placed the egg yolk ball in the middle, and slowly wrapped it up like pinching a peach. Finally, he pulled off the excess dough and kneaded it gently. A ball the size of a Japanese bean was made. alright.

The white appearance looks like freshly polished pearls. Guo Jichang couldn't help but admire:

"The cooperation between Lao Gao and Xiao Xu is really pleasing to the eye."

Qiu Yaozu winked at Qi Siming:

"Silly boy, you have such a good learning opportunity, why are you still standing there? Hurry up and help!"

His words reminded the surrounding chefs, who all washed their hands and immediately started to help wrap the pearl balls.

Lin Xu looked at Wu Chunjiang and asked:

"Uncle Wu, if you replace the egg yolk balls with ones stuffed with black sesame lard, it will turn out to be pearl glutinous rice balls, right?"

"Yes, yes, the pearl glutinous rice balls are almost the same as this, but the outside is not made of tofu and egg white dough, but glutinous rice skin. This way the pearl glutinous rice balls taste better."

When Shen Jiayue saw this, she whispered:

"I can make glutinous rice balls, and I can also make glutinous rice dumplings. Yan Bao, can you do it?"

Chen Yan opened her mouth, wanting to say that I can eat, but she felt that it was nothing worth showing off, so she couldn't help but cover her unswelled belly and said:

"Then my son will be lucky in the future. He can eat the glutinous rice balls made by his aunt."

Before I got pregnant, I always wanted to compete with my cousin, but now that I'm pregnant, I think about the little one in my belly. The more my aunt knows, the more the child will benefit from, which is a good thing.

Soon, the pearl balls were wrapped one by one. Uncle Gao brought a plate, spread a layer of lard on the bottom of the plate, then placed the pearl balls in and sent them to the steamer for steaming.

Steaming can set the meatballs into shape and also make the color whiter.

Pearl meatballs are easier to steam. You can turn off the heat after five minutes of steaming. Steam them for another minute to allow the temperature in the pot to slowly drop. Then you can take them out of the pot.

The moment I opened the lid, a unique aroma of tofu wafted out of the pot.

The pearl balls on the plate are all white in color and shiny on the surface. They are so beautiful that you almost don’t want to eat them.

Uncle Gao took a small bowl and filled it with half a bowl:

"Girl Yue, you little girls, try it and see if you like it."

Shen Jiayue looked surprised and yelled, "I didn't expect to be treated like this while eating melon and watching a show. Long live Master!"

She took the bowl and waved to Zeng Xiaoqi, Xiao Wei Xiaosui and others who were not far away, and everyone gathered aside to taste it.

"Wow, this pearl actually feels a bit crystal clear."

"It's so beautiful, what should I do if I don't even want to eat it?"

"It's easy. I'll take your share, and I'll give you free breath after you finish it so you can smell it."

"Yan Bao, you are older, you should come first."

Chen Yan was originally very excited to try it, but when she heard this, she immediately thought of saying, "It's okay if you don't want to eat these pearl balls." Then she strode away with a crooked mouth.

But after all, she had never eaten it before, and she wanted to establish correct prenatal education for her child, so she picked up a spoon, picked up one, put it to her mouth, blew it, and then put it into her mouth.

As soon as you enter the mouth, you can clearly feel the tenderness and rich aroma of tofu. Once you bite it lightly, the unique aroma of salted duck egg yolk floats out. When your teeth touch the egg yolk, there is a clear feeling of rustling, as if you are eating custard. stuffed mooncakes or quicksand buns.

After eating a pearl ball, Chen Yan said with emotion:

"It's delicious. It's like eating a salty glutinous rice ball or a snack filled with custard. Anyway, it's very enjoyable and delicious."

Shen Jiayue tasted it and nodded in agreement:

"It's really delicious. As expected of a master, he can surpass many Bai An masters with just a little effort."

Soon, all the pearl balls in the bowl were eaten by several people.

At this time, the white jade paste in the steaming cabinet was almost steamed. Uncle Gao opened the steaming cabinet, took out the basin inside, and directly put the basin into cold water to cool it down.

Do not pour this type of food out after it has been steamed, otherwise it will break all over the floor.

You have to let the temperature drop a bit before it can be formed.

Qi Siming's eyelids were vivid. When he saw this situation, he took the basin and went to the cold storage in the back kitchen.

Although cold water cools down very quickly, it is still incomparable with cold storage. It is an all-round cooling, and it can also be placed on ice to accelerate heat transfer.

In this case, the benefits of aluminum basins are reflected.

Aluminum has better thermal conductivity, so it heats up and cools down quickly. It is very suitable for making steamed dishes or defrosting meat. However, its disadvantages are also obvious. If you put a basin of hot water in it, the entire basin will immediately become hot, which is not a problem at all. Fa Duan.

About ten minutes later, Qi Siming came over with a basin. The temperature inside had dropped. Although it was not completely cold to the touch, at least it was not hot anymore.

Uncle Gao tested the temperature, turned the basin upside down on the chopping board, and gently patted the bottom of the basin, and the solidified meat paste inside fell off.

Because of the undercut, the upper half is the color of white jade, while the lower half is emerald color.

There is an obvious gradient layer in the middle, and the overall look is very good.

Uncle Gao turned over the large ball of jelly-like meat paste again, took a small knife, and made cuts every five centimeters on the front, and then made cuts horizontally, with the same intervals of five centimeters.

Soon, a chessboard was drawn.

He separated the pieces and said to everyone:

"If you think there is still room for improvement in your knife skills, follow me now and I will teach you how to carve jade cabbage."

In the field of cooking, there has always been a saying that the smaller the size, the harder it is to cook.

The smaller the ingredients, the lower the error tolerance, and the higher the requirements for knife skills. Sometimes, if the hand shakes, all previous efforts may be wasted.

But the more this happens, the more practice is needed.

Uncle Gao took a carving knife and started carving from the front, carving it into the shape of cabbage leaves blooming slightly outward, just like the appearance of cabbage before it is wrapped in the core. The emerald-colored leaves bloomed outward one by one, and in the middle was The cabbage hearts haven’t grown yet.

After carving these, cut off the outer corners and cut out the cabbage.

While he was doing it quickly, he reminded everyone:

"Don't cut the cabbage to the bottom. You must leave a little solid part at the bottom. This will prevent the leaves from completely opening due to gravity. Just like a bouquet, no matter how big the top is, the bottom must be firmly fixed together so that the bouquet will not fall apart. open."

Lin Xu took a few glances and made exactly the same emerald cabbage flowers. Then Xie Baomin, whose flower knife has always been his strong point, started carving as well, and even started thinking:

"I think the top can be made red and the bottom green, so that it can be carved into a rose, or the top can be made yellow to make a yellow peony..."

Anyway, as long as you master the process and routine, the flowers and shapes are not important.

After all, when Uncle Gao asks everyone to learn, he is just teaching people how to fish. Teaching the process and methods is more important than learning a dish alone.

In addition, what everyone lacks is not the skills, but the way of thinking that can be learned and applied. For the chefs present, this is actually the most worth learning.

"Damn, this cabbage is so beautiful!"

The staff around me suddenly became uneducated, and they kept saying shit.

If not for watching the whole process, everyone would really wonder if the chefs were making jade carvings, which are exactly the same as the imitation jade cabbage sold online, and even more realistic, more like a real cabbage.

"I feel like today is the biggest achievement since filming the state banquet."

"It's true. I used to think that chefs just put in the effort, but I didn't expect that it's just me who puts in the effort. They are real artists."

Once the cabbage is carved, everything becomes easy.

He brought the single-person soup container used at state banquets, put the emerald cabbage in it, and placed one or two pearl meatballs in the center of the dish.

Then reheat the clear soup and pour it on the cabbage in the bowl. When it is about 70% full, the entire dish is completely ready.

Most of the cabbage is soaked in transparent soup. The leaves sway in the wind. There is a round white pearl in the middle of the leaves. The whole dish looks more like a work of art.

He Guangchang looked left and right and couldn't help but admire:

"This is the highest quality pearl emerald white jade soup I have ever seen."

Dai Yue's plump face is envious:

"I don't know what kind of brain Lao Gao has. It's really admirable."

For everyone, there is nothing unusual about clear soup dishes, but it is somewhat unexpected to make clear soup dishes to this extent.

But this also opened up new ideas for everyone. As long as you give it a little more time, you can make clear soup dishes of flowers, plants, and even animals.

Guo Weidong said:

"At the next state banquet, we can make some zodiac-related soups or local specialty soups to give foreigners with poor food culture a little shock."

This proposal was approved by the chefs:

“Chef Guo’s suggestion is spot on, which is to practice some similar dishes.”

Food carving is a type of cooking. If it is combined with clear soup, the range of carvings can be expanded, and you can even carve it into a giant panda.

Uncle Gao wiped his hands, looked at Qiu Yaozu and asked:

"Well, have you met your requirements?"

"Lao Gao, can you say something else? Look at how arrogant you are... By the way, our family has a bunch of cooking classics from the older generation, many of which are single copies. Let's study them together when we have time."

Upon hearing this, Uncle Gao immediately became interested:

"Okay, I happened to be compiling a cooking textbook recently. If there are any merits, I will include them and see if there are any dishes suitable for restoration."

Not all dishes are suitable for restoration. For example, some placenta dishes and wild animal dishes must be firmly resisted. Other dishes that are too cruel must also be eliminated.

In a civilized society, the catering culture must also abandon some of the bad customs of the past. If we blindly respect the past, the entire society can only stay in the stage of consuming raw materials and drinking blood.

While the two chatted, others began to taste the pearl emerald white jade soup on the table.

The soup is very delicious. After all, the broth is used and so many ingredients are added, the taste is extraordinary. Even the texture of the jade cabbage is very tender and smooth.

After the tasting, everyone began to prepare for the celebration banquet. There were about ten tables. The reason why there were so many was that the main sponsors would come. In addition, food suppliers such as Lao Huang and the leaders of the TV station would also come to gather with everyone to celebrate the completion. .

Shen Jiayue held the camera, and together with Chen Yan and Hao Qingfeng, began to shoot the preparations for the closing banquet.

This long video will be uploaded together with Joy Media and CCTV to promote the program in this way.

Even though it was just a long video, the program team had to pay Lin Xu at least 500,000 in cash. After all, for publicity, people can't help in vain.

Uncle Gao did not make any further move, but was chatting with Ye Lixin, Liao Jinming and others with his hands behind his back:

"Next time there is a state banquet, arrange a seat for Xiaoxu. Although some Chinese chefs are trying to pull a circle and act like a powerful family, in our circle, we always value those who are experienced as teachers, otherwise those in Diaoyutai who are older than me It’s impossible for people to listen to me.”

"Don't worry, Chef Gao, we will make arrangements."

"Yes, Director Lin is so capable, so we will naturally help him build ladders as much as possible."

The higher Lin Xu's status, the more visionary and forward-looking the two of them can show, so they are more eager than Uncle Gao to hope that Lin Xu will become more famous.

If you were just an Internet celebrity, many people would definitely question it.

But if you host a large state banquet alone, the voices of doubt will be much smaller.

While they were discussing, Lin Xu suddenly heard a system prompt in his mind:

"The host enjoys the care of the master's elders, completed the hidden task [Master's Care], and obtained the perfect large-scale banquet planning skill package. Congratulations to the host."

Lin Xu was a little surprised:? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?

Can large banquets also be rewarded?

Let me ask Dundun back, isn't this prepared for a state banquet?

However, there are no major foreign teacher activities or competitions at the moment, and there is no state banquet for the time being, so I probably won’t need it for a while.

The reason why Dundun distributes rewards through skills is most likely because he has nothing to do. In line with the principle of not harvesting the wool, it will be wasted, so he distributes it through hidden tasks.

Don't let the rich water flow to outsiders' fields.

The celebration banquet in the evening was very lively. The leaders were very happy and everyone had a good time.

After working for so long, I have finally finished filming all the state banquets. Now it’s time for the post-production teachers to get busy. Not only do they have to edit, but they also have to review the films internally to make sure there are no problems before they are scheduled to be broadcast.

After finishing the celebration party, Lin Xu went to work for two more days and started packing his luggage for travel on Tuesday night. Dundun also joined in the fun and worked hard to pack toys into his small box.

Little pine trees, little rabbits, feathered mice, electric mice, etc. were all pulled in, for fear of leaving any little ones at home.

After Shen Jiayue packed up her swimsuit and saw Dundun pretending to be toys so enthusiastically, she couldn't help but ask:

"Baby, it's hot now. You can go swimming at the beach. Do you want to swim a few laps in the water?"

When Dundun heard this, he immediately shook his head to express his refusal.

Cats naturally don't like water, and they feel uncomfortable being wet, so forget it.

You can go to the big litter box to pee and play, but if you want to go into the water, sorry, I can’t do it, and you can’t pay more.

After packing their luggage, the family took a chartered flight and set off the next day.

After the plane landed in the sky, Dundun leaned against the window and looked at the scenery outside seriously. The vast land and white clouds were all in full view.

The little guy liked the feeling of being in the sky and kept pointing out the window and meowing.

But not long after, it became the target of several stewardesses, who took pictures with it, kissed it, and basically used their hands on the little kitten to smear it.

When we arrived at Fuzhou Airport, the B\u0026B we booked had already arranged a car to pick us up.

The driver enthusiastically helped Lin Xu carry the luggage to the car. There was also a cat litter box for Dundun on it. The high-end B\u0026B had relatively high services and even pets could be taken care of.

After arriving, I looked at the room and saw that it was a villa with a view of the sea.

There is a beach outside the villa. As soon as you walk over, the salty sea breeze blows in your face.

Shen Jiayue looked at it all over, turned off the lights and closed the curtains, checked it with the camera detector and mobile phone camera she bought, and confirmed that there was no secret camera equipment, and then she felt relieved.

She changed into clothes without wearing shoes, and went to the beach with Lin Xu and Dundun.

The little guy was more excited than expected when he saw the sea for the first time. When he saw the seagulls in the sky, he made a clicking sound in his mouth. This is the hunting instinct of cats when facing flying birds.

When he came to the water's edge, the little guy dug a hole with his paws, peed happily, buried it quickly, and then ran around happily on the beach.

Shen Jiayue held Lin Xu's arm, stepped on the beach, and asked curiously:

"Xubao, how many children do you think we should have?"

Lin Xu smiled:

"At least two children. Didn't you say you planned to change one of your children's surname to Shen?"

"But grandma disagreed again. She said that children with different surnames would not be close to each other when they grow up and would be easily alienated, so there is no need to change the surname. Moreover, the surname has little to do with whether a person is happy. The most important thing is family harmony. There is only harmony. Families can raise happy children.”

"Hey, how did my baby become an education expert?"

"It's harmful. It's not just that Yan Bao has been studying prenatal education and pregnancy education all day long. Even I have followed the education."

"..."

The young couple walked along the beach, leaving two sets of footprints.

Dundun rolled his eyes as he listened to the conversation between the two.

Want two kids? Then arrange for twins. The brothers will not be alone since they were young. When they grow up a little, I will be able to find my brothers with peace of mind...

Thinking of this, it raised its paws and scratched on the beach.

Soon, eight crooked Chinese characters appeared on the flat beach washed by the sea:

“Keep doing it and you will have a promising future!”

After writing, the little guy followed the footsteps of his parents and chased forward with his tail raised.

Behind it, white waves hit the shore, smoothing the beach again, as if no words had ever appeared...

————————

I have finished writing the main text, and there are only three days left before the end of the month. I will update Dundun’s extra story, connect it with the plot of the book, and then lead to the story of the next book. This extra chapter is a link between the past and the next. I hope everyone will read it.

This chapter has 5500 words. Please subscribe and vote monthly!