The beginning is only when you become a chef

Chapter 16 Who is this sister?

Chapter 16 Who is this sister?
Hojo Miyoko chose a room, took a shower in the bathroom on the third floor, changed into her daily home clothes, and then was attracted downstairs by the clinking sound of ice being chipped in the yard.

Standing at the entrance of the lobby on the first floor.

Outside in the yard, I saw an iceberg with a steep outline standing on a table.

"Master Xia, what are you doing?"

Hojo Miyoko asked in surprise.

"Not sleeping?"

Xia An, who was still hitting the ice with an ice pick, took the time to look back.

"I just took a shower and I'm not sleepy."

"Come, help me cut the ice, and I'll kill the fish."

"Ok."

Xia An handed the ice-cutting tool to Hojo Midori.

He stood with his hands on his hips.

Hojo Miyoko didn't have the slightest bit of the delicateness of a high school girl. When she swung the sledgehammer with her arms, she seemed even more relaxed than Xia An.

Xia An looked silent.

Tsk, is this Miss Iron-Fisted Fire Dragon?
Sure enough, the female chef who can lift an authentic Chinese large iron wok with one hand and flip it over has terrifying wrist and arm strength.

"Well, Midori, I heard that you have a secret skill of backhand dunk when playing basketball?" Xia An thought of a scene in the original book and couldn't help but joked.

"Hey, Master, how did you know?"

Hojo Miyoko said proudly:

"No one in the girls' basketball club of Totsuki High School can stand up to me!"

Xia An clicked his tongue and turned to kill the fish.

The master and apprentice divided the work and cooperated with each other.

Not a moment.

Miyoko Hojo completely chiseled the iceberg.

Xia An was also in the yard, gutting a large swordfish and cleaning out its internal organs.

Even after the entire fish head was cut off with a knife, the headless fish body placed on the table still had the inertial spinal nerve reflex and struggled by swinging its tail.

Xia An made a cut at the tail of the fish, cut in with the knife, and then cut along the spine of the fish's back all the way to the head, thus dividing the big fish into two.

The fish meat on the other side with bones still attached is processed in the same way.

Soon, two complete pieces of boneless meat were perfectly processed and placed on kitchen absorbent paper.

"Miyoko, help me put away the fish bones and fish heads. We will have fish head and fish bone casserole tonight."

Xia An ordered casually.

But he found that the girl next to him was reluctant to move.

He turned his head and met Hojo Miyoko's incredulous gaze:
"Master Xia, do you also know sashimi techniques?"

Xia An said with a smile:

“Any knife technique is based on basic knife skills.”

"For example, if you practice basic knife skills to perfection, and then specialize in sashimi knife skills, it will become very easy."

Pause.

Xia An processed two pieces of fish meat while completely removing the entire fish skin.

While smiling, he asked:

"Miyoko, it seems that the two basic skills you have mastered to a certain degree are heat control and flipping the wok?"

Hojo Miyoko knew that she had revealed her true colors through her words, and finally revealed the youthful charm of a high school girl, and said shyly:

"Yeah, like this."

She is a two-star chef.

There must be two basic skills that have been practiced to a [minor level] level.

The learning progress of Japanese Chinese cuisine is [Introduction].

"Then I have thought of your summer study goals for you."

Xia An said with a smile: "The first goal is to get your knife skills closer to the [Minor Success] realm; the second goal is to absorb more authentic schools of the Shenzhou Continent, gain more insights, absorb nutrition, and get your mastery of Japanese-Chinese cuisine closer to the [Minor Success] realm."

"If you can achieve these two goals simultaneously and make significant progress, I believe you will make a splash in the 'Autumn Selection' after school starts in September!"

Miyoko Hojo started her classic Neon bow again:

"Then I'll leave it to Master Xia!"

Xia An smiled and shook his head. In his hand was a very slender kitchen knife. The shape of the blade was very much like a willow leaf, hence the name Willow Blade. It was specially used for making sashimi.

As we all know, cutting sashimi requires not only high knife skills, but also high requirements for knives. Using inappropriate knives to cut fish will damage the fibrous tissue of the fish and accumulate cell walls, thus seriously damaging the flavor of the ingredients.

The willow-leaf-shaped kitchen knife drew endless knife shadows in Xia An's hand.

With his efficient and delicate cutting skills, the two pieces of fish meat were turned into neatly stacked slices of sashimi on the tray.

Hojo Midori watched this scene from a close distance and was even more amazed at Master Xia's superb knife skills.

I made up my mind. No matter what else, I just wanted to learn Master Xia's superb knife skills.

Her overall cooking skills will surely improve by leaps and bounds.

however.

However, Hojo Midori saw Xia An staring at the sashimi on the tray, picked up a small piece, shook his head and sighed with regret.

She couldn't help but said in a daze:
"Master Xia, you performed very well. There is no flaw in your knife skills."

Xia An said:

"My knife skills are just ordinary, too ordinary."

"If I had learned that extraordinary knife skill, the cut of this piece of fish would be as smooth as a mirror and as thin as a cicada's wing, just like a crystal work of art."

Hojo Miyoko: ? ?
She couldn't understand what Master Xia was sighing about.

"Time to mix the sauce."

Xia An turned back to the open kitchen in the lobby and took out many bottles and jars of seasonings one by one and placed them on the kitchen counter.

Although his understanding of the ancient recipe "Fresh Sea Bream on Ice" is only at the beginner level.

But the degree of control does not prevent him from mixing a complete version of the sauce.

"First of all, sesame oil must be available."

As Xia An muttered to himself, his expression suddenly froze.

Uh!
He was in a dilemma.

Sesame oil was called sesame seed oil by the ancients, and is generally squeezed from white sesame seeds.

But in modern times, sesame oil has evolved into a different meaning and in most areas is defined as sesame oil that has been fried or soaked in peppercorns.

Simply put, it is a combination of sesame oil and peppercorns.

So here comes the question.

In "Fierce Ice Fresh Tai Mountain", is the sesame oil in Ryan's secret recipe pure sesame oil, or a combination of sesame oil + peppercorns?

"There is no problem with the precise proportions of other ingredients, only the oil has an ambiguous interpretation from ancient times to now."

"It's my first time doing this anyway, so I have to try more before I can find the right answer!"

Soon, two bowls of sauces with different flavors were prepared.

Xia An was about to take the bowl to the yard.

Then I heard Xiaoxi's voice coming from the stairwell:

"Dad? Dad, are you down there?"

My daughter is awake. Xia An looked at the clock in the lobby and suddenly realized that it was already seven or eight o'clock in the morning.

"I'm down there, Xiaoxi, please come down slowly."

A few seconds later, Xia An saw Xiaoxi walking down the stairs holding the railing, and then threw herself on his lap.

"Ok?"

The little girl smelled the fragrance flowing in the air, raised her head, and kept sniffing with her cute little nose. Her eyes turned to the two seasoning bowls in Xia An's hands, and her eyes lit up slightly:

"That's great, Daddy has made some delicious food again, Xixi wants to eat too!"

Xia An was speechless: "This is a dipping sauce for sashimi, it's not delicious."

Xiaoxi: "Then I'll eat sashimi!"

Xia An had a dark line on his forehead:

"Why would a child eat raw fish? Go away."

He saw his daughter's greedy look, her eyes rolling around, revealing a cunning look, as if she was planning to use the tactic of acting coquettishly.

Then he leisurely brought up the great witch to punish her:
“You can eat.”

"But if your mother knew you ate sashimi, she would definitely take you to the hospital for an injection."

It seemed like I heard the devil's mumbling.

Lan Xiaoxi's face turned pale in an instant: "Ah, why do I need an injection?!"

Xia An shrugged: "Because there are parasites, you need to take deworming medicine regularly, or go to the hospital for examination and injection."

"Then, then Xixi won't eat anymore!"

The little girl looked serious.

Xia An almost laughed out loud.

Return to the yard.

This time, Xia An was like an old hen, with a little kid following closely behind her.

When Lan Xiaoxi saw Hojo Miyoko cleaning up the kitchen waste in the yard, she was immediately stunned:

"Ah, who is this sister?"