The boss cooks, and the bankrupt company opens a state banquet restaurant

Chapter 198 Killing a pig? Get out of the way and let me come!

Liu Shengnan had already been waiting at the drop-off point. Seeing Su Chen open the door and get off the bus, he immediately rushed forward with red eyes.

All it took was a bear pounce and hug him directly.

Of course, if Han Cheng wasn't still here, she would really do this. Of course, this is just a hug of friendship.

After all, being able to make such a decision quickly in such a critical moment is beyond what ordinary friends can do. It must be at least half a life-long friendship!

"Why are you crying?" Seeing that Liu Shengnan was about to start again, Su Chen quickly glared, "Isn't this coming? We are all our own people, why are you so sensational?"

Liu Shengnan sniffed, his voice choked, "I"

Before the meeting, there were thousands of words to say, and many words of gratitude were prepared in my heart.

After meeting, the word 'I' was used and the rest of the words could not be uttered at all.

"Okay, okay." Su Chen patted Liu Shengnan's arm, "I'm here now, just leave everything to me. They will arrive tomorrow afternoon, so hurry up and prepare their bridesmaids' things."

Han Cheng came over at this time and said, "You are Shengnan's boss, right? Brother Chen, hehe, thank you, I really appreciate you this time!"

Su Chen shook hands with Han Cheng, "Okay, let's not talk about two families. How are the preparations at home?"

Liu Shengnan wiped his eyes and cheered up, "I asked people to help build five earthen stoves and a workbench. I have arranged for people to buy the ingredients. They are expected to be brought back tomorrow morning! The condiments are also arranged. Yes, it should have come back with the ingredients."

Su Chen thought for a while.

Basically that's all.

"But..." Liu Shengnan touched the back of his head, "I think domestic pork is pretty good. Han Cheng has two big black pigs at home. Do you want to kill them tomorrow?"

Su Chen:? ? ?
Can’t we just buy pork directly?
But then I thought, "Well, the relationship is great. It's best to kill the pork now, as long as there is enough time. Don't stand there. You two should do whatever you want. I'll go back to the house and rest. Let's go back together tomorrow morning and start preparing. .”

Two days before the wedding, the groom and the bride can't always be tired of looking at each other.

In the end, Han Cheng had to go home first, and Liu Shengnan stayed in a hotel in the town.

On the way back, Han Cheng was still thinking about why he always felt that something was not right.
Su Chen slept intermittently that night, mainly because he was not confident about the use of the earth stove, so he simply turned on the fire and spent the whole night making dishes in the practice room.

Mainly for the dishes that appear in the banquet and require the use of heat, as well as some cold dishes, which must be arranged in advance.

Early the next morning, Han Cheng drove his cousin's Wuling Hongguang to pick him up.

"Katsuo, the wedding will be held tomorrow. Why don't you go back today?"

Liu Shengnan gave Han Cheng a shock, "You are so young and engaging in feudal superstition with me? If I'm not here for a day, who knows what your family can do to the scene? I have to go back and keep an eye on it."

Su Chen also said something helpful, "There is indeed no need to engage in feudalism. The quality of life does not depend on this. Just hurry up."

As long as Han Cheng complied, "They brought all the ingredients back at six o'clock in the morning. They are all the freshest vegetables! Frozen goods were also delivered."

Liu Shengnan nodded with satisfaction.

This efficiency is still acceptable.

Something happened to the chef who was cooking the dishes before, but now that Su Chen is in charge, she is relieved as long as the ingredients are complete.

After swaying around the mountain road, the van stopped at the door of a small farmhouse.

Looking outside, I saw all the decorations and happy words that should be posted. With these things, the festive atmosphere came up. It was just past seven in the morning, and there were many people inside and outside the yard.

The men were busy packing things, and a few people were hammering nails at the door, not knowing what to hang on it.

There were several men helping to unload things from a mule cart, while the women were busy moving the ingredients to the yard. Someone had already connected the water and started washing and picking vegetables.

Su Chen got out of the car.

Wearing a black suit, he looked a little out of place among the crowd, and he quickly attracted everyone's attention.

"Who is this? Dressed so smartly, a friend of the bride?"

"She looks like a celebrity. She must have come early to attend the wedding. She must be my mother-in-law's family. Please hurry up and entertain me."

Liu Shengnan didn't care about everyone's looks, and took Su Chen's arm and walked inside, "Brother Chen, let's see if these earthen stoves work? If not, there is still time to modify them."

Su Chen walked into the yard and built a row of earthen stoves in the southwest corner. From the outside, the yellow mud on them was already dry. Someone must have been watching and drying it over the fire all night.

These earthen stoves are very big, and Su Chen is very satisfied with everything. The only thing that makes him a little uncomfortable is, "Is this pot directly built on top of the stove?"

"Yeah, we are all like this here." Han Cheng was quite satisfied with his family's achievements.

"What's wrong, Brother Chen? Is it not easy to use when it is placed on the stove?" Liu Shengnan asked.

Su Chen said nothing.

If it is not blocked, you can also lift the pot to control the heat, wash the pot, etc. This is directly blocked. Although the impact is not great, it is indeed a bit troublesome to operate.

"Forget it, this is fine."

It is a large iron pot with a diameter of at least one meter. It is no exaggeration to say that Zhang Li can be stewed directly in it.

This is quite consistent with the impression of a rural banquet.

"Boy, who is this?" Han Cheng's mother looked at the door for a long time, and then came over with two cups of hot tea.

I kept seeing Liu Shengnan holding the arm of the man in a suit, and the mother-in-law felt a little uncomfortable.

"Auntie, this is my boss. He came here specially to help prepare the table this time!"

Han Cheng's mother oops twice, "I didn't treat you well, I didn't treat you well! You drink a glass of water first. Are you tired from the journey? Why don't you go to the kang and lie down for a while, and I'll find some fruit for you, elbow!"

Su Chen got the hot water and said, "No, we have to start working now."

Han Cheng's mother said hello, and an aunt brought over some clothes, "Wear this for work. Don't let your clothes get dirty."

Su Chen took a look and saw that it was an ordinary piece of clothing from the countryside and an apron.

"No need, I'm always like this."

Han Cheng's mother murmured twice and looked at Su Chen's suit, which seemed to be worth a lot of money.

Is this really for work?

Or the spoon chef?

I do not believe.

Su Chen drank the hot water in the cup in one gulp, and the chill of early autumn was dispelled a lot.

"This is the menu I ordered when I came here. You can see if it works first. If not, there is still time to change it now."

Han Cheng's parents were illiterate and could only listen to their son read it out.

After reading for a full minute, Han Cheng's father suddenly asked, "Are there more dishes? It sounds like there are 24?"

Su Chen nodded, "This is the basic standard in Jingzhou. But don't worry, I'm here to help, not to make money. The ingredients are probably enough, and your expenses here are the cost of the ingredients."

Seeing that his idea was seen through, Han Cheng's father blushed, "That's not what I meant. I mean, can you cook so many dishes?"

"Uncle, don't worry! This is my boss!"

Liu Shengnan's seductive look made people who didn't know better think he was her groom!

Han Cheng felt the same way.

The people in this courtyard were all ordinary people, but suddenly there came such a good-looking man who was dressed very formally. At first glance, he looked more like a groom than himself.

Uncomfortable
After chatting for so long, Su Chen stopped talking nonsense, "Okay, let's get started. Where are the frozen goods? Get all the stuff that needs to be marinated first."

According to the menu, there is a lot of braised meat alone.

For example, elbows, no matter how you prepare them, it is best to braise them first and then process them again.

There are also pork trotters and beef, which need to be marinated and then cut into plates after they cool down.

Then there is the pig head meat. The pig is still alive and we can’t make it for the time being. It’s not a big problem if we wait first.

"Here!" The second cousin came in with a few people carrying cartons, "These are all frozen goods that have just been delivered, six boxes of elbows and six boxes of pig's trotters."

This amount is about the same.

One elbow and two pig's trotters on each table.

"spices?"

The second uncle came over with a huge nylon bag, "We have everything we need here, including star anise, leaves, cinnamon, etc. Anyway, we bought everything on the list, and we bought it in double the quantity!"

Su Chen nodded, good job.

"Give me some mixing bowl."

"Here we come!" Liu Shengnan ran into the house and took out a stack of stainless steel basins. "We borrowed more than 600 basins yesterday. This is a lot of them, and they are very useful."

"Six hundred?" Su Chen asked doubtfully, "Why do you get so many?"

"Just" Liu Shengnan touched the back of his head in embarrassment, "There are not enough plates, so I have to use these to serve the dishes."

Gan!
Su Chen felt like he was struck by lightning, and a stream of cold air rushed from head to toe, "No plate?"

"Yeah." Liu Shengnan also saw that something was wrong, "What's wrong?"

It's not that it can't be done. Don't look at the various shapes of plates in restaurants, but in fact there is a lot of knowledge in them besides being beautiful.

It's like a shallow plate. It looks big, but in fact it can be filled with just one spoonful of vegetables. Most of the time, no one eats cold dishes like lotus root slices. Using this kind of plate can not only reduce costs, but also Prevent wastage.

That's the trick.

Nowadays, all stainless steel basins are used, and the stainless steel basins Liu Shengnan took out look really big!
That kind of shallow plate, poured in here, is probably just a bottom layer, and it is too ugly.

"Nothing." Su Chen's scalp was numb.

If this is the case, it seems that I have to change my strategy slightly, because according to the quantity of ingredients I planned before, if I want it to look good on the table, it may not be enough!
Regardless of everyone's strange looks.

Su Chen picked out a few smaller pots and took out all the spices from the nylon bags.

Start sorting and putting them into pots.

Then there are the condiments, light soy sauce, soy sauce, oyster sauce, refined salt, chicken essence and MSG, all unpacked and poured into the basin.

This is very convenient to use when cooking.

More than thirty bottles, jars, pots and bowls were placed on the huge operating table. The old women who were eating melon seeds and working in the yard stopped what they were doing and gathered around. This way.

"Why are there so many condiments? Should we eat condiments when we eat?"

"What do you know? If you want the food to be delicious, you have to add enough seasoning. Do you know why your food doesn't taste good this time?"

"Hey, this is awesome! Can you use so many things?"

"I think this style looks a bit like a chef. Stop looking at it and get to work!"

After arranging all the condiments, Su Chen poured a lot of cold water into each of the five large iron pots, then threw all the frozen goods he brought back into the pot and began to defrost them.

"Brother, let me light a fire for you!" Han Cheng felt that standing here was not the same thing, so he offered to help.

Su Chen waved his hand, "No, just use cold water to thaw it."

When thawing with hot water, the heat of the earthen stove is not easy to control. It would be embarrassing if the ingredients are cooked on the outside and still frozen on the inside.

Furthermore, there are many kinds of ingredients, and it is a bit troublesome to sort and defrost them. If they are poured into the pot all at once, it will be more difficult to control when heating.

Simply thaw in cold water. Although it is a bit slower, it is safer.

While thawing the ingredients, Su Chen asked Liu Shengnan for a notebook and a pen.

Although I have a good memory, it is also a muscle memory formed after practicing in the practice room.

This is my first time doing this thing, so if necessary, I will record tomorrow's process while doing it, so as not to make a mistake and make so many people laugh.

"First, frozen mung bean elbow. Make the pork elbow into a frozen form on the evening of the 2nd, and it can be used directly at noon on the 3rd. You need to prepare: red oil flavored dish, ginger sauce flavored dish, pepper and sesame flavored dish, and garlic flavored dish."

The day before yesterday, Su Chen was thinking about soy pork knuckles. Later, after seeing Liu Shengnan's conditions, he discovered a more fatal problem.

There seems to be no suitable steamer available!
Even an ordinary household steamer is too small. If you cook thirty pork knuckles at one time, you can't even steam them.

Then you can only choose another method of preparation.

Mung bean frozen elbow is a Sichuan cuisine dish, so it's not bad if you eat it during this season. Su Chen is confident that this dish will maintain an A-level rating, after all, the ingredients are here.

"Second, braised pig's trotters."

This is not difficult. You just need to prepare all the pig's trotters today, cut them and put them on the plate, and serve them directly at noon tomorrow.

Su Chen went through the process and dishes one by one, and occasionally prepared simple things that could be prepared first. It was not until about ten o'clock in the morning that the things in the pot were finally defrosted.

Because he is writing and drawing here, and there is nothing interesting to see.

At first, some villagers expressed doubts about this behavior. After all, he didn't look like a chef who could handle thirty tables.

But Liu Shengnan ignored the differences and started directing everyone to do their own business at the top of his voice, leaving a quiet place for Su Chen.

"Get the basin and sort the things."

Han Cheng agreed, rolled up his sleeves and fished out the ingredients from the pot. The newly thawed water was so ice-cold that he grimaced.

According to Liu Shengnan's arrangement, Han Cheng was responsible for staying by Su Chen's side and helping him in any way he could!
After placing various ingredients in several large aluminum basins.

Su Chen asked Han Cheng to get all the water out of the iron pot and replace it with new water.

"Brother Chen, is this water clean too?"

"You don't understand." Su Chen wrote down the process and responded casually.

"But I think it's very clean?" Han Cheng used a horse spoon to scoop out the water.

This is also the reason why Su Chen doesn't want the pot to be blocked by the stove. It would be difficult to pour water!
"Do you usually cook?" Su Chen stopped writing and asked suddenly.

Han Cheng didn't expect the other party to ask a question suddenly. He was stunned for a moment and said, "If you don't do it, I'll just eat in the canteen."

"Oh." Su Chen lowered his head again and said while writing, "While thawing just now, the cold water also has the effect of soaking the blood out of the ingredients. If you continue to use this water, the result will inevitably be fishy."

Han Cheng nodded in understanding.

Follow Su Chen's instructions to clean all the water in the pot, and then add new clean water.

"Light the fire."

"Oh!"

Han Cheng went to grab the firewood, lit it and stuffed it into the stove.

"hair dryer."

"Okay."

Han Cheng came out with a power strip and a hair dryer again, feeling like a ruthless tool man!
If Liu Abao were here, he would definitely tell him.

Don’t you want to be this tool?

I'll do it!
Su Chen has almost written down the process of the dishes, and now it's time to start the initial preparations.

Pick up the large aluminum pot containing the pork knuckles and pig's trotters and place it on the workbench. Pick one up and look at it, and then put another one into the pot.

After putting all thirty pork knuckles into the pot, Su Chen said with satisfaction, "The quality of the frozen goods in this store is pretty good."

Whether it is pork knuckles or pig trotters, they are basically treated very cleanly. It can be seen that they have been frozen after secondary processing.

In this case, it saves a lot of trouble.

There are six pig knuckles and three pig trotters in each of the five iron pots.

Then wrap the chopped ginger and green onions in gauze and put them into the pot, followed by gauze wrapped in mung beans.

"Brother, don't these mung beans and pork knuckles go well together?" Han Cheng looked on, scratching his head and couldn't figure it out clearly.

How can pork knuckles be put together with mung beans?

Isn't this too strange?
Su Chen thought about it and didn't know how to explain it, so he came up with the eternal saying, "You'll know after you eat it."

The five iron pots were occupied again, and this time they would be occupied for a long time. Su Chen simply started walking around the yard.

"Brother, how do you prepare this fish? I'm afraid it's not fresh and I just bought it alive!" The eldest cousin went home again.

The seats at the back of the van were removed and a huge iron bucket was placed directly, with more than thirty grass carps in it.

"The fish needs to be killed and cooked now. It won't die overnight, so just leave it alone."

Kill now and cook now?

The eldest cousin scratched his head and wondered how long it would take to kill more than thirty fish.
But now that he was in charge, he couldn't say much. He could only ask people to move the iron bucket to the yard, and by the way, he warned, "Remember to change the water before going to bed at night."

Su Chen wandered outside the yard and suddenly heard bursts of screams, which did not sound like human beings!

He hurriedly ran back to the yard and took a look.

"Fuck!"

Just look at four or five big men, dragging a huge black pig out of the pig pen!
Two people held the position of the pig's head respectively, and one person pulled the pig's tail.

There was also a man holding the pig's body, wishing he could just ride on it.

However, the black-haired pig was too slippery and was escaped several times.

"Squeak ~ squeak ~"

Under the chase of everyone, the black-haired pig no longer looked as honest as usual, and even its screams became sharper.

"Damn it, this pig is too strong! I can't catch it!"

"How can I kill you? You have to hold on and lead me for a while. Quick! Don't let me get away!"

"No, my uncle's two pigs are let out for a walk every day. How can they stop being so energetic? I'm almost out of energy!"

Good guy!
Su Chen swallowed his saliva and didn't know why his blood suddenly felt boiling.

He yelled for no reason.

"Get out of the way! Let me come!"

(End of this chapter)