Mecha Era for Kitchen

Chen Zikai said good night to the housekeeper Mary. As soon as he walked into his room, he saw the snow-white walls, the snow-white door, and the snow-white doors and windows. The first thought in his mind was——Oh, bad!How could he forget to tell Song Yiming and Rhine that he wanted that white radish just now! ?

He was thinking about making pickled radishes!

...However, if a potato costs 25 yuan in common currency... will a radish be more expensive?He doesn't have any money on him...

Speaking of which...will I be paid as a cook for Major General Seves?

Since the chef has such a noble status, the price of cooking a meal must not be low, right?He made a dinner...stayed up all night making hawthorn...uh, enough to buy a turnip?

But Mr. Major General has helped him, an 'undocumented vagrant', obtain a legal identity card, so he still doesn't want to think so much now.

But if you don't even have radishes, you can only live on nutrient supplements these days...

It was so painful... Just thinking about that greasy taste made him feel sick to his stomach...

Chen Zikai didn't even take off his clothes, and fell headlong on the big bed in the middle of the room. After thinking about something in his mind for a while, he fell asleep in a daze.

Then Chef Chen, who didn't have pickled radishes and couldn't use the ingredients in Seves's refrigerator without permission, really drank nutritional supplements for three or four days in a row...

But not to mention, although the taste of those nutritional supplements is quite inferior in Chen Zikai's opinion, the effect is still very obvious-basically a small bottle will make people feel very full, in Chen Zikai's inner world Here, commonly known as drinking support.

It was already the afternoon of the fourth day when Seves came back, and Chef Chen, who had lived a miserable life for several days, was as excited as if he had been beaten with chicken blood.His mind was full of the idea of ​​'my god, major general is finally back, hurry up and open the warehouse door and let me cook a meal', excitedly he was ready to open the door and go out to find Major General Seves, who was in charge of the ingredients.

As a result, Aunt Mary, who was about to go upstairs, poured cold water on him: "Why are you going?"

"Didn't it mean that Major General Seves is coming back? I'll go and see..."

"Don't run around, just stay at home. If you want to see their army come back, you can watch it by turning on the light screen repeater."

So Chen Zikai walked back to the living room dejectedly. The light screen repeater had been turned on, and the huge picture filled the entire wall.And as soon as he put his eyes on the light screen, his head froze immediately.

If Chen Zikai felt the surprise brought by the development of human science and technology when he saw the patrol mechs in the government square for the first time, then there are only two words to describe Chen Zikai's feeling on the screen. .

—shock.

There is a large black mass of mechs, estimated to be thousands of them, walking neatly, without any flaws in the lineup.The shooting angle of the broadcaster is also perfect. The unknown metal on the mecha reflects the dazzling light, making those cold steel lines look even more eye-catching.

However, what caught Chen Zikai's attention the most was the existence of those two mechas, which were obviously a size larger than the other black mechas - one was silver-gray all over, while the other was softer, the background color of the fuselage was pure White, with striking dark blue stripes painted on the limbs and waist, and the helmet is all blue.

It is estimated that these two are the mechas of Seves and that Lieutenant General Zhao, right?

Chen Zikai thought in his mind that from the perspective of Seves' personality, there is a 90.00% possibility that the silver-gray mecha belongs to him, and he sighed in his heart that his ability to accept these new things is really quite good. strong.

But maybe when people are suddenly thrown into a new environment, they will be like themselves now?

The Iron Warriors of the brigade, led by the two mechas at the head, slowly walked into the special area belonging to the army in the government square, and gradually disappeared on the light screen relay. .Chen Zikai didn't know how to turn off the light screen repeater, so he could only look at the empty street on the screen and wonder if he finally didn't need to drink nutritional supplements for dinner...

Just when Chen Zikai was eagerly looking forward to Sevez's return home, the door that could automatically identify visitors opened with a 'squeak'. He turned his head to look, and the person who hurried in was not Sevez. .

He was really startled, and he said that Sevis couldn't be so fast...

"Mr. Chen, can I do you a favor?"

"Ah?" Chen Zikai was a little puzzled by David's words, "What's the matter?"

David pursed his lips helplessly, and then said: "It's like this, Lieutenant General Zhao and Major General Sevez have returned from victory. According to the rules, we need to hold a celebration banquet. But this time the incident happened suddenly, we did not discuss with S[-] Let's discuss over there..."

Chen Zikai added some knowledge about S[-] to Song Yiming, and he immediately reacted: "Is there no chef willing to cook?"

"Yes," David frowned. This is a celebration banquet for his major general. If he drinks the nutritional supplement, he will be killed by his major general. "So can I trouble you?"

"Okay, then let's go now."

Chen Zikai's straightforwardness made David heave a sigh of relief, and he glanced into the room again, but he didn't see Mary: "Do you need to say hello to Mary's housekeeper?"

"Shouldn't be used? She seems to have gone to rest, and it's not a big deal."

David set the speed of the maglev vehicle so fast that Chen Zikai felt as if he was flying to the Government Square.The building of the army headquarters is a bit outrageous, definitely more than ten times the size of the detention center he went to last time.

Chen Zikai was led by David into the exclusive kitchen in the military building, where all kinds of brand-new tools were neatly stacked, and a large pile of ingredients was piled up on the desk——Chen Zikai glanced at it, except that he had seen In addition to the potatoes, radishes and chicken, there are a few Chinese cabbages, a large piece of lamb...

"These are the things sent by S[-] stars. They don't want to send people over, they only sent the ingredients." Seeing Chen Zikai staring at the ingredients, David explained clearly.

Chen Zikai was a little surprised at the pride of the members of the so-called S[-] Chefs Association. How could a chef just throw a bunch of ingredients over if he didn't want to cook?Isn't this too irresponsible?He didn't know what to answer, so he let out an 'hmm'.

"About [-] generals will be present at this banquet, and I trouble you to prepare more."

[-] bits? ...The number of people is still quite a lot...What is more appropriate...?

Looking at the huge piece of mutton, Chen Zikai suddenly had a flash of inspiration: "By the way, do you have a relatively small pot here? There are also heating tables...the kind that can be placed on the table, it is best to have more."

David wondered why Chen Zikai wanted these things: "There should be some, I'll go and ask the soldiers in the logistics department, what are you going to do?"

"Make hot pot."

"Hot pot?" This is the first time David heard such a new word. Is it a pot made of fire?

"Don't you know what it is?" Chen Zikai just asked casually, but he already knew David's answer very clearly in his heart——

"I don't know." The other party shook his head, but he didn't continue to dwell on this question. "Mr. Chen uses the ingredients in the military warehouse as he pleases. Remember, the banquet time is six o'clock in the evening."

Chen Zikai took out his own magnetic card, looked at the words [-]:[-] displayed in the small rectangle on it, and nodded: "No problem."

David looked at Chen Zikai's confident expression, and said, "So trouble Mr. Chen." ', turned around and walked out from the kitchen.He had also seen Chen Zikai's skill in making hawthorns before. Although he felt that making those small things was not at the same level as being in charge of the generals' banquet, but for some reason, the man in front of him had a strong sense of trustworthiness. .

On weekdays, he was just a handsome, ordinary person, but when he got to the kitchen, his aura began to change qualitatively.

And Chef Chen stood in the huge and empty kitchen, actually feeling a little uneasy.

It's not that he hasn't cooked high-end dinners for dozens of people. When he was still on earth, he was able to handle large-scale wedding banquets and dances in hotels with ease.But when this kind of workload is huge, there are often countless helpers who help wash the pots and chop vegetables. As a chef, he only uses the pots and shovels to control the heat, and there is no need to go through every detail. solving issues.

But here - he's all alone...

That's why he thought of such a quick way as 'eat hot pot'.Although when we were on earth, hot pot would never appear on the banquet table, but here, even potatoes are treasures, so why can't hot pot be a special banquet?

Chen Zikai always thought that bone broth was the best choice for the soup base of the hot pot, but he looked around in the huge freezer, but he couldn't find any bones. There were a few chickens that were packaged beautifully.

If you can't make big bone broth, you can actually use chicken racks...

Chicken rack, in fact, refers to the remaining parts after the skin, thighs, breast meat, etc. are removed, almost all of which are bones.Although there is not much meat left, it is indeed a good material for soup.Chen Zikai took a few chickens from the freezer, which he saw had the largest bones, walked back to the counter, took a kitchen knife and began to chop off the neck and thigh.

His knife skills have always been very good, and he operates it quickly enough. A few chickens have become bare bones in an instant.Chen Zikai put the roughly processed chicken rack and cold water into the largest pot he could find, added sliced ​​ginger, sprinkled pepper, put it on the temperature control table and started to boil over high heat.

After the water in the pot was boiled, Chen Zikai turned the button on the temperature control table and turned the heat from high to low.

While cooking on a low fire, Chen Zikai went to the freezer again, and took almost all the ingredients he thought could be put into the hot pot - but there are few ingredients here, and the most selected ones are still potatoes...

Even a dozen large oyster mushrooms were found in a corner of a freezer.

If it wasn't for S[-]'s conscientiousness to send some ingredients, I guess the generals at this banquet can eat nothing but boiled potatoes...

I can't stand it...

Potatoes, carrots, and white radishes are all washed quickly by him, then peeled and sliced. Each slice is [-] mm thick, with almost no deviation.Cabbage and mushrooms are cleaned and cut into small portions.Chen Zikai also used the meat removed from the chicken to make the chicken rack. The breast meat was cut into thin slices, the chicken neck was cut into small sections, and the thighs were cut into chunks...

The huge piece of mutton was the main character. Chen Zikai washed and deboned this piece of mutton, removed the ribs, and each cut was a thin slice of [-] to [-] centimeters and [-] to [-] centimeters wide.Slices of mutton with the thickness of a piece of paper and uniform color and size are placed in several large discs, forming a blooming flower shape.

It's a pity that it took too long to cook the soup, and Chen Zikai washed the vegetables and cut the meat too quickly. After all the dishes for the hot pot were processed, the chicken racks were still rolling in the soup that was neither thick nor weak.

Chef Chen thought about it, and decided to add a red oil pot bottom to the chicken soup. If you can't focus on the type of dishes, you should focus on the type of soup base.

He took a lot of onion, ginger and garlic from the seasoning rack, peeled the garlic, squished the garlic cloves with a knife, chopped them, cut the shallots into flowers, prepared the ginger slices, and cut the dried red peppers into small pieces.I took a frying pan from the cabinet, poured oil into it and heated it up, and when it was fragrant, there were about a batch of green onions, ginger, garlic, and peppers, and I took them out after they were all fried until they were golden brown.

The dried red pepper section has been fried to produce a barking red chili oil. Together with a handful of peppercorns, stir-fry again, and continue to add green onions, ginger, garlic and whole dried red peppers until the aromas of several seasonings are fully exerted. Turn off the temperature control section under the wok.

The chicken soup was almost ready at this time, Chen Zikai found another large pot, divided half of the stewed chicken soup, added the mixed seasoning just made, poured it into the pot, added salt, and boiled it again Cook over low heat.

The remaining minced garlic was put into small bowls, poured with sesame oil, and it became an excellent ingredient for red oil hot pot.

Chen Zikai was busy in the kitchen, but in the small banquet hall on the second floor of the military building on the government square, it was a completely different atmosphere - a rectangular table was placed in the banquet hall, covered with light The blue tablecloth and delicate silver-plated tableware reflect the soft light from the chandelier.The generals of the imperial army sat together, except for the occasional few who looked at Zhao Qingze and Kano who were sitting together.Other than Seves nodding his head as a signal, almost no one made any other moves.

David, who was in charge of the banquet, and another lieutenant colonel walked in and saluted all the generals present: "Generals, are you ready to start the banquet now?"

The old man at the head had five hexagram epaulets on his shoulders. He lowered his head and thought about something, then nodded slightly: "Let's get started."

According to the usual practice, the lieutenant colonel next to David added: "Today's dinner is in charge of Chef Chen." Then he motioned to the soldiers behind him to start serving dishes to the table.

Chef Chen?

Although there was no expression on Sevis' cold face after hearing this brief introduction, Zhao Qingze who was sitting beside him could also sense his slight stiffness.General Zhao, who is in his early forties, usually looks energetic and has a good relationship with young people in the army. He smiled and turned sideways: "Kano, what's wrong?"

"fine."

"It seems that something is wrong with you today."

"No, maybe I'm tired."

Zhao Qingze also knew that Sevis was a person who was so cold that he could freeze to death, so he shrugged and stopped asking, and leaned back on his chair.

Sevis looked at the trays of raw potato slices, carrot slices, and chicken fast... his body stiffened even more.However, Zhao Qingze next to him didn't have the time to study what was wrong with Seves at this time. He looked at the ingredients on the big plate and served them on the table. He saw that they were ingredients that hadn't even done the most basic cooking process, and smiled. : "Yo, is it really fresh?"

A major general on the opposite side of the table also followed with a 'haha': "It's fresh! What's the way to eat this? Let's eat it raw?"

A few generals with more straightforward personalities have already started discussing in private, and there is a buzz around the dining table.

Because Chen Zikai didn't have the opportunity to ask everyone's taste beforehand, he simply prepared two small pots for each general.When the soldiers from the logistics department delivered enough small temperature control tables and small pots with a diameter of [-] centimeters, Chen Zikai, who was still worried about moving such a big pot to the banquet hall before without tools, was relieved. in one breath.

The small temperature control table is about [-] cm long and [-] cm wide. It is just right to put a spicy oil pot and a chicken soup pot on it.The red chili oil and the thick chicken soup in the pot are bubbling and steaming, exuding a spicy and rich aroma, which immediately increases the appetite.

The voice of the discussion suddenly stopped, and a major general couldn't wait to ask: "How do you eat this?"

David bowed slightly, and replied: "I'm not very clear about this, Mr. Chef said he would tell everyone."

chef?

The person sitting in the first seat raised his eyebrows and looked behind David.Serves also straightened his back, and cast his sharp eyes directly over him. David couldn't bear the stare of this real stare, and hurried to the side.But the man behind him pulled his suit awkwardly, completely ignored the major general's cold gaze, and walked generously from the gate to the dining table.This dress was found for him by David on a temporary basis. It was probably one of Sevis's 'abandoned' or 'unworn' clothes, and it still didn't fit very well.

Chen Zikai walked up to Sevis, smiled politely at everyone, picked up the chopsticks on the table without saying a word, picked up a piece of mutton and put it into the bottom of the tumbling spicy oil pan.The thin slices of meat gradually became curly with the washing of the spicy soup. The originally red and white slices of meat were covered with a layer of chili oil, and together with the aroma of mutton, Chen Zikai put them on the plate in front of Seves.

The snow-white plate, the dark sliced ​​meat and the red chili made the major general involuntarily pick up the chopsticks, and he picked up the piece of mutton and put it in his mouth.The mellow mutton in the mouth and the enjoyment brought to the taste buds by the soup made the major general's cold eyes gradually warm up, and he nodded appreciatively, but there was still no smile in the depths of his eyes like the first time he ate Chen Zikai's matsutake.

But at the moment of gourmet food, even some urgent problems can't make Seves waste time at the table. He turned his eyes back to the two small pots in front of him, followed Chen Zikai's example, and threw a few slices of Chinese cabbage and radishes into it. pot.

"That's how this hot pot is eaten. Put all kinds of vegetables and meat into the pot and boil until they are cooked through. You can try it, major generals." Chen Zikai didn't notice Sevis's strangeness, but put down the chopsticks in his hand, He bowed slightly to everyone, and then exited through the gate he had entered just now.

Seves became famous in the army for two things - the first is because he is a war machine that kills without batting an eye, a master of mechs; and the second is because he loves to eat, where there is delicious food, Where there is Major General Seves...

Major General Seves nodded and said something delicious, so there must be no problem!

So the generals began to imitate gourds, and you threw things into the two small pots in front of you with a chopstick and a spoon. You can eat them when they are cooked, and the smell is still so fragrant. Although the name of this hot pot is a bit strange , but it's really a good thing!

This chef from S[-] is so capable?But it looks good.