Star Food Tycoon

Of course, the delicacies brought by the five bodyguards are not limited to big crabs.

Wild mushrooms, wild vegetables of various colors, unknown wild bird eggs, a big bird with colorful feathers, beak and sharp claws, a beast that looks like a pig or a cow, and the non-toxic and odorless big leaves that Xia Zheng specially ordered Large petals, edible berries, and their usual natural seasoning of the woods.

Xia Zheng himself only brought seasonings and staple foods such as rice, flour, corn, potatoes, and sweet potatoes. The big crab was caught by Xuan Jing, and Xia Zheng caught several fish.

"...that's a lot." Xia Zheng looked at the mountains of ingredients. There were only eight of them, how could they finish them all, "Do you have any space in the storage?"

Fortunately, he originally wanted to marinate a batch of ingredients for his elder brother who might be staying here for a long time, so he brought a lot of bottles and cans.

Several people nodded their heads like chickens pecking at rice.Along the way, chefs collect ingredients and experiment with new cooking methods, and there will definitely be a lot of food that can't be eaten.According to the experience of the predecessors, generally speaking, the chef will distribute the food to those who protect him, and only store the ingredients in his own storage.So they cleaned out their lockers before heading out.

"I'll make some food that can be stored later." Although the leftovers can be reheated to continue eating, it is obvious that Xia Zheng doesn't want to do this.

The eyes of the boys immediately lit up.If it can be stored for several months, wouldn't they still be able to eat the delicious food after Xia Zheng left?

"What are you doing in a daze, help me. Do you want Xiaozheng to die of exhaustion?" Xuan Jing laughed and scolded the few drooling, looking like they couldn't walk.

"Mr. Xia, how can you help me!"

"I'm going to pluck the feathers! I'm familiar with this!"

"Mr. Xia, what to do with the wild boar?" (It really is a wild boar.)

"Mr. Xia, do you want me to beat the eggs evenly?"

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The lads were chattering, and Xia Zheng was a little embarrassed to hear their names: "You are my elder brother's comrades-in-arms, just call me Xia Zheng."

"Yes, yes, Mr. Xiaozheng, why do I feel that I am inferior to me." Xia Yu finally played a role at this time, "Xiaozheng Xiaozheng, can these crabs be used as bald butter?"

"Yes." Xia Zheng nodded.

There are seven or eight crabs in this small pile, and each crab is about the size of two palms of an adult.Because the water quality is clear and sweet, the crab meat is delicious and free of parasites, but the shell is thick and the meat is little, so the meat of these crabs can't fill a small bowl.

But Xia Zheng was lucky, just in time for the breeding season of these crabs, all the crabs were fat and yellow, and a simple steamed crab was delicious enough.

But now there are enough ingredients, and eating crabs is laborious. It is not suitable for tasting slowly in the wild. It is a good idea to make bald butter.

He brought the usual animal oil and vegetable oil, but now he has a wild boar, and he wants to try the oil boiled by the wild boar.

Game meat has a more fishy smell than domestic ones, and it is very unpalatable if it is not cooked properly.Generally speaking, wild pork has less fat, is difficult to boil, and has a strong smell.But if the fishy smell can be removed, lard will be much more fragrant than domestic ones.

When it comes to bald butter, some people's eyes are confused, and some directly start to wipe their saliva.

"Bald butter, is it the bald butter I imagined?" The young man slobbered, "That's a delicacy that originated from my hometown."

"Ancient Suzhou?" Xia Zheng asked.

The young man nodded vigorously: "My ancestors are from Suzhou, and the ancestral private recipe has bald butter. It has been a long time since I served in the army."

His four little friends immediately began to ask what bald butter is, whether it is delicious and how to eat it, and they did not continue to process the ingredients until they were suppressed by Xuanjing.

Xia Yu was still squatting there drooling, and Xuan Jing dragged her to work.

"If you want to eat, you can work. Don't you feel sorry for your brother who is so tired?" Xuan Jing raised his eyebrows.

Don't feel bad?How could it not be distressed!Xia Yu immediately went to fight against the bird feather with full momentum.

After dismissing Xia Yu smoothly, Xuan Jing continued to occupy the position of Xia Zheng's left and right hands exclusively, helping to process the ingredients while continuing to chat with each other.

Xia Zheng first dealt with fresh ingredients that were difficult to preserve.

Pick out the crab meat, scoop out the crab roe, and place them in an airtight container and immerse them in cold water to keep them fresh.

Take the whole crab shell on the back of the crab, wash and disinfect it in boiling water, and set it aside for later use.

The three big fishes caught were sweet and tasteless, with only a few big spines.Xia Zheng used one to cook soup, one to make raw fish, and one to make fish paste for later use.

The fish is sliced ​​as thin as a cicada's wing, held up in front of the eyes, and the sun can be seen through the fish.Xia Zheng used the home-brewed seafood soy sauce he brought, mixed with picked wild fruit juice, vegetables, and tuber juice, plus minced garlic and ginger, spicy millet, pickled pepper, mustard, etc., to prepare six different flavors of dipping water .

As soon as the yusheng and dipping water were ready, the men handling the ingredients came over by coincidence, and after Xia Zheng nodded with a black face, they quickly finished the plate of yusheng.

"I haven't tasted all the flavors of dipping water yet, and the yusheng is gone." Xia Yu looked melancholy, "I thought it would satisfy my hunger, but why am I even more hungry?"

Xia Yu spoke out the feelings of the other friends.The sweet fish meat is mixed with various flavors of dipping water, and the bland umami taste becomes rich in layers. The fish that melts in your mouth is like a mischievous elf, molesting your taste buds, making you not yet caught its true face, delicious There is only an aftertaste left, which makes you regret it.

This kind of regret makes you unable to control your hands. Chopsticks will soak piece by piece of fish with dipping water and send it to your mouth to experience the next round of delicious and aftertaste rotations.

Another piece... another piece... another... nothing? !

This fish looks quite big, and the sliced ​​fish can be spread on a large plate, but the seven young men scrambled for it, and the fish in their mouths was not enough to fill their stomachs.

Xuan Jing had the sharpest eyesight and quick hands. Not only did he eat the most, but he also put a chopstick of fish meat on the washed leaves for Xia Zheng.

Although it was just a chopstick, that chopstick swept across a small area of ​​the plate.

Looking at the angry eyes of the others, Xia Zheng put the fish meat into his mouth one by one by accident, and dipped all the dipping dishes in turn.

The taste is not bad.

Xuan Jing watched Xia Zheng eat the fish, smiled happily, and continued to join in the fight.Seeing that Xia Zheng had already eaten the fish, the others couldn't reprimand the chef for eating his own dishes, so they could only stare at Xuan Jing and continue to attack the little fish left on the plate.

In just a few tens of seconds, the plate was empty, and everyone began to stare at the plate in a daze.

So hungry, so hungry, more hungry, more hungry.

"Ahem, hurry up when you're hungry, don't let Xiaozheng wait for you." Xuan Jing's words aroused the enthusiasm of the boys, and everyone finally woke up from the temptation of delicious fish and continued to struggle with the ingredients in hand .

Xia Zheng smiled.He usually cooks for family and friends. Even if family and friends are very supportive, being sought after by strangers seems to be a very interesting thing.

In his previous life, he was superb at cooking, but the meals he made were tasteless and could not achieve the original effect of spiritual food. As a result, people who ate the dishes he cooked either felt pity, pity, or contempt. The dishes look crazy.

Before his rebirth, he was focused on recovering his mental strength and didn't think so much.Now, it's time to think about the road ahead.

It's not that he doesn't like fame and wealth, it's just that he didn't have the opportunity before.

Xia Zheng seemed to have figured something out, he was happy, and his movements became more agile.

When the wild boars and birds were processed on the other side, Xia Zheng took a look and found that the ingredients were processed well.

"I often go on field missions, so I still have some skills." The young man who butchered pigs boasted, "I'll be a butcher and sell meat when I return from the army."

Xia Zheng was about to nod his head to praise his skill in butchering pigs, when he heard the last part of his sentence, he couldn't help but twitch the corners of his mouth, ignored his trickery, and began to check the quality of the ingredients.

Maybe the ingredients caught were all young, or maybe it’s because the water and soil in this place are good, and the quality of the ingredients is better than Xia Zheng imagined. The wild boar and wild bird meat don’t have a strong smell, and the meat is relatively tender.

Xia Zheng coated the wild bird inside and out with the juice of a fragrant sour wild fruit, and then began to massage the bird's body, kneading every inch of the bird's flesh and softening it, completely permeating the juice into the bird. in the meat.

After the bird meat absorbed the juice, Xia Zheng replaced it with the juice of a plant leaf and continued rubbing and massaging.

"Knead pork like this?" Xuan Jing looked at Xia Zheng's small body, then at the six bastards who were waiting to be fed (he obviously forgot about himself), and then at the half-human-sized pig, "We Can I help?"

"Then I'll prepare the juice." Kneading the juice in is just because the time for marinating is not enough, and there is no technical content. Xia Zheng also thinks that if he does it alone, it is estimated that everyone will not be able to eat it for a long time, so he simply mixed it. After planting the juice for smearing, the job of massaging the pigs was given to others.

So this group of elite soldiers in the army began to massage the pig with juice and water.

Xia Zheng stuffed the kneaded bird meat with various seasonings, wrapped it with several layers of leaves, wrapped it in the clean mud by the river, and buried it in the pit.

Xuan Jing was amused when he saw it: "The beggar chicken?"

"It's called braised roasted bird." Beggar chicken is wrapped in yellow mud with its feathers. When the mud shell is peeled off, the feathers and chicken skin fall off together with the mud shell, leaving only the fragrant chicken inside.Xia Zheng just put the processed bird meat into the soil and roasted it, it was not considered a beggar's chicken.

But obviously, in the eyes of laymen, if it is wrapped in mud and baked in the soil, it is beggar chicken.

Xia Zheng looked at their "I understand" expressions, and when he turned his head to chat, he still said "I don't know what this chicken tastes like", and he didn't bother to pay attention.

The pork was also massaged. Xia Zheng took the rare fat and boiled it in oil. The half-fat and half-thin part was tied with a kind of withered rattan into the shape of rice dumplings, and boiled in the boiled brine.The thinnest part is cut into saozi for later use.

After the oil is boiled, the bald butter can be made.

The boiled lard also has a fruity and grassy fragrance. Add garlic and ginger and stir-fry, and the stimulating fragrance will permeate in an instant.Then, pour in the fat crab paste and crab roe, and simmer with home-brewed rice wine. When the lid is opened, the most delicious essence of the crab shines like golden light, capturing people's attention instantly.

and many more!

Xia Zheng rubbed his eyes.

This is not like, it really shines!

He knows that spiritual food glows, just like medicine pills, high-quality spiritual food will not only glow when it is completed, but also survive the calamity.But why in this world does food also glow?Could it be that the food in this world will also survive the catastrophe?impossible?

"What's wrong? Something got into the eyes?" Although Xia Yu was also attracted by the bright golden light of the bald butter, Xia Zheng came back to his senses as soon as he rubbed his eyes.

"No..." Xia Zheng said blankly, "Maybe it's my eyesight, why does the bald butter glow? Could it be the reflected sunlight?"

But it's strange that bald butter reflects sunlight?

"Pfft..." Xia Yu couldn't help but rub Xia Zheng in his arms, seeing his well-behaved and sensible younger brother's rare sluggish appearance, "Didn't I tell you that the dishes you cook will shine? "

"How is it possible..." Xia Zheng shook his head in disbelief.Why hasn't he seen it before.

"You didn't have mental strength before, did you?" Xuan Jing also laughed.

"But I have mental strength during the game."

"At that time, you hadn't used your mental power. Now, isn't your mental power flowing all the time, and it will also flow through your eyes?" Xuan Jing reminded.

Xia Zheng thought about it and understood.It is true that he only started to exercise his mental power after the game and learned how to use it.So, only when the eyes are covered with mental power can the light of food be seen?

Isn't this the same as Reiki?For mid-to-low-end spiritual food, only when the eyes are covered with spiritual energy can you see the fluctuation of the spiritual energy escaping from the spiritual food.If it is the ultimate spiritual food, it will cause a vision of heaven and earth, which can be seen by ordinary people.

So although the power systems are different, there are also commonalities among them?

"So... what I did during the competition also shined?" Xia Zheng had a very embarrassing expression on his face.At that time, in the eyes of the special judges with spiritual power, what did the meals they cook look like?What kind of light is shining?Suddenly very curious.

"When the first dish was opened, there was a faint white mist floating on it, which condensed and did not disperse; when the second dish was served, it was also shining with golden light, but when the spoon opened the golden light, the golden light suddenly dissipated ; the third dish is mist-condensed dragon, hovering over the mouth of the altar, and stayed there for a while until the dish is finished." Xuan Jing stood closest and could see clearly.

"The first dish didn't have time to cook the broth. The soup was seasoned to have the taste of broth, so its completion was compromised; the second dish, Liujin, was cooked just right, but because of the mandatory use of ingredients, some ingredients The taste and nature conflict with each other, I eliminated the taste and effect of some ingredients; the third dish is the finished product." Xia Zheng roughly figured out the law of the "vision".In addition to delicious, more important is "deliciousness".A golden ratio between utility and taste of ingredients.

This kind of "deliciousness" is not necessarily delicious-deliciousness is based on people's subjective feelings, but for ingredients, it is the most perfect way to exert its effect on spiritual power.

It's the same as spiritual food in the practice world.

However, in the case of the same "deliciousness", keeping the "deliciousness" unchanged and more in line with the taste of the importer will be more effective for the importer.

This is "customization" according to individual circumstances.

This point is also common to this world and the practice world.

Xia Zheng discovered that the exploration and use of spiritual power in this world is relatively shallow—or it may be that they are going in a different direction. This world pays more attention to technology and uses spiritual power to attract external forces.

Xia Zheng has no talent for cultivation, his talent is all in cooking, and all his physical skills are also created by fighting the jungle.So it was impossible for him to create his own way of cultivating spiritual power.However, according to what he learned in his previous life, his understanding and use of spiritual power is probably slightly deeper than that of people in this world.

But that effect is estimated to only be reflected in the dishes, and it does not have much effect on itself.

Xia Zheng is seriously biased.

But for this, he is very satisfied.

The exploration of cooking skills is his greatest pursuit.

"If other contestants know that your evaluation of your first two dishes is defective, they will be very sad." Xia Yu chuckled.

"No, for all chefs, the first two dishes are defective." Xia Zheng said seriously, "We are all trying our best to make up for the incompleteness of the dishes. Isn't this the content of the competition? ?”

"That's right, is the bald butter safe to eat?" The little brother who was born in ancient Suzhou was already squatting in front of the bald butter, his eyes staring straight.He guessed that he didn't even know what he was answering, his head was already filled with golden bald butter.

"There is one last dish." Xia Zheng couldn't help laughing.

It is really a joy to see others obsessed with food.

The last dish is colorful siu mai.

The juices of plants and flowers of various colors are added to the dough, which not only has a different fragrance, but also has five colors, which looks very beautiful.

Xia Zheng mixed five kinds of fillings, including pork, fish, crab, mushroom, and crab roe, and wrapped them in five-color dough, making them into siu mai and steaming them in a pot.

While steaming, he put rice, red dates, goji berries, etc. into bamboo tubes, and simmered them next to the fire where the roasted birds were simmering.

"Let's drink the soup first." Xia Zheng threw the smashed crab shells, mushrooms, and wild vegetables into the fish soup and boiled it for a while, then used the container to fill the fish soup with fish.At this time, Xia Zheng looked at it carefully. The fish soup was probably boiled very casually, so although there was a faint mist, it was no different from ordinary fish soup if you didn't look carefully.

So does glowing food have to be cooked carefully?Even if it's the same chef, the home-cooked dishes don't seem to shine.

However, although the fish soup does not shine, it tastes very delicious.This fish soup, just sprinkled with a little salt, is delicious enough.Coupled with the umami taste of the crab remaining in the crab shell, and the umami taste of wild vegetables belonging to the mountains, the taste of the mountains and rivers is integrated.If the plate of sashimi just now seduced people's desire for delicious food, then the aroma of this fresh mountain and fresh water will completely surround the body and activate all the body's desire for delicious food.

Appetizer warms the stomach and is ready for the main meal.

The meat of this fish is not enough for one person to hold two chopsticks, and the fish soup is only a small bowl for each person.After eating, the hungry stomach calmed down the protest a little, and began to wait for the next round of feeding.

The next thing to do is the pork wrapped in withered vines.The withered vines absorbed the fat of the pork, the pork absorbed the fragrance of the withered vines, and the marinade soaked the skin of the pork.After one bite, the wild boar with less fat is fat but not greasy. The salty flavor of the marinade is mixed with the fragrance of the pork that was kneaded into the pork before, and the special fragrance of the dry vine that belongs to the dry plant. The flavors of each layer blend into each other, and the activated thirst is satisfied for the first time.

The rich meat aroma has not dissipated, and the roasted bird meat has been dug out again.

After peeling off the mud shell, Xia Zheng saw a white light shoot out from the crack in the mud shell, soaring into the sky, almost blinding his eyes.

In the past, his status, even with the blessing of his ancestors, his status was not much higher.The spiritual food he made is delicious but low in effectiveness, and its vision is difficult to detect; although he has seen the high-level spiritual food, he either does not have enough strength to see the whole picture, or his status is low and he can only see it from a distance.

So this soaring white light still startled him.But looking at the reactions of the people around, this... is it normal?

"The delicacies cooked by chefs above level [-] still need light." Xuan Jing has tasted the most delicacies and has the most knowledge, "And it's just a light, which is weak now. I have seen chefs cooking at level [-] If you want to eat delicious food, you have to take your mental strength away from your eyes to eat it."

Xia Zheng's embarrassment has nothing to add.What does this mean?If you continue to look at that light, will your eyes really be blinded by the flash?Did those people in the previous life eat spiritual food in this embarrassing way?What should I do if I feel that the image of immortality and dao bone of the upper class in the practice world seems to have collapsed a little bit?

However, as Xuan Jing said, only the light was exaggerated when the mud shell was peeled off. After all the mud shell was peeled off, there was only a layer of faint white light condensed on the surface of the meat. If you didn't look carefully, you might think it was a layer water vapor.

Xia Zheng thought about it, probably because he chose the ingredients too casually.

But in the eyes of several others, this is already very satisfactory.How lucky is it to eat the dishes carefully prepared by the tenth-level chef of the blind man?Even a tenth-level chef doesn't make that kind of dish every time.

Most of the time, they either cook some home-cooked dishes, or use some strange ingredients and condiments to make some novel attempts.

All chefs have a hobby of making dark dishes, which is the enjoyment of letting the soul fly.

Those dishes may be good for spiritual power, or they may have no effect on spiritual power at all. The only thing in common is that everyone who eats it will feel like they have seen hell.

Currently Xia Zheng has not started to try dark cooking.When he realizes that his culinary skills are mature and needs breakthroughs and innovations, there will probably be more dark dishes.

There is no need to mourn for those around him just yet.

The roasted bird meat is fragrant, not as strong as the previous pork, but it will not be inferior to the previous taste.

At the back, there are multi-colored siu mai that you can’t eat no matter how you eat, and steamed rice in bamboo tubes with bald butter.

After a meal, the tongue is still not satisfied, and I feel that I can eat more delicious food, but the stomach is already full, which shows that the body is full.

"I think I can eat a little more." Xuan Jing said that he has a big appetite.

"Overeating is bad for your health." However, Xia Zheng refused.

Xuan Jing's shoulders, eyebrows, and corners of his mouth drooped together, looking very pitiful.Shocked the friends around me.