Happy private dishes

Chapter 131

In December, Kou Yuanyuan had several relatives and friends who were going to take the Huaguo Culinary Master Qualification Examination.Since the number of culinary masters in Huaguo is very small, and they have to go through various hard training, all parties must recommend each other to successfully advance.Some people have struggled all their lives, but they have not been able to get to that position.

Therefore, the Culinary Master Qualification Examination, which is said to be one of thousands of senior chefs each year, has become the most valued examination in the culinary circle of Huaguo.

However, due to the tight homework of senior high school students, Kou Yuanyuan has no way to go to the scene to watch the exams of relatives and friends.She herself has to take monthly exams to simulate various exams.

Moreover, the Huaguo Master Chef Qualification Certification does not accept any TV broadcasts.It is not a competitive competition, but a serious qualification examination.Just like Kou Yuanyuan's father, Kou Tiancheng, and Feng Yuanbin, the judge of the gold medal chef, both passed this exam and won the title of Master Chef.This has allowed their careers to develop by leaps and bounds.

As a chef, as long as he has this certification, he can be regarded as the top of the pyramid in the culinary world of Huaguo.With this certification, chefs from Huaguo can go abroad with pride.Or, be qualified to appear in front of the public and become an authority.

Before taking the qualification exam, Fang Shulan was actually nervous for a while.Half a month before the exam, Fang Shulan took a leave of absence from her job at the TV station, and even Su Yongmin disappeared.She has completely entered a closed state.Only Kou Yuanyuan and her dishes are left in her world.

Fang Shulan often cooks dishes for a whole day. Sometimes, when Kou Yuanyuan comes home, she sees all kinds of beautifully arranged dishes on the table.

Fang Shulan made it for Kou Yuanyuan's dinner.However, most of the dishes were tasted slowly by Fang Shulan, correcting her own shortcomings and looking for opportunities for improvement.

Fang Shulan even tried to make soup filled yellow croaker.I don't know if it's because of her mentality, but she has never been able to make this dish that her father is good at.

The failed yellow croaker soup seems to indicate that Fang Shulan's exam this time, in fact, she doesn't have much confidence in her direct career as a culinary master.

Su Yongmin took the exam almost every year, but failed every year.His chef qualifications have always been senior chefs.

In fact, before Kou Yuanyuan's "accident", Fang Shulan resigned herself to her fate as the first champion of the gold medal chef, became a food host with peace of mind, and then studied under Feng Zongshi.

She has always thought that senior brother Feng Yuanbin is a master chef, and her level is at best a senior chef.If she wants to step into the realm of a culinary master, she will probably have to study for ten or eight years.

However, this time she bit the bullet and asked Master Feng for a letter of recommendation.Master Feng took a deep look at her.

"Shu Lan, it's a good thing that you finally know how to make progress. It's just that whether you can advance depends on your state of mind! You have been in the kitchen for nearly 20 years, and you have your own ideas about cooking. But, You are still hesitating!"

Although the teacher gave a recommendation, but he said very vague words, Fang Shulan was confused.

In fact, Fang Shulan has always understood herself very well. Even when she stepped into the society, she is actually still so modest.Her world is very small, after the divorce, it is her daughter Kou Yuanyuan.Then, it would be great if she could have a legitimate job to raise her daughter and cook happily.Now there is another boyfriend who wants to spend the next life together.

If it wasn't for her underage daughter, who had a close relationship with a famous celebrity like Zhao Feiran, Fang Shulan would probably never want to take the master qualification exam in her life.

She took the exam with the belief that she will work hard and be a daughter to rely on in the future.

If she is admitted to the master of culinary art, then she will find a way to be promoted to the master level one day if she keeps studying hard.

Cowardly as Fang Shulan, but now she wants to be the top person in the culinary circle.She also needs to have status and the right to speak.Needless to say, Gu Zongshi is just her father's best friend.If that time comes, what will Kou Yuanyuan and Zhao Feiran really have?Can Master Gu really speak to Yuanyuan?
Fang Shulan didn't believe it.She will always remember her little daughter looking for a house with her.

That was the first time in her life that she realized that no one cares about their mother and daughter, no one speaks for them, who cares if they are beaten, abused and bullied?Relying on the mountain to fall, relying on everyone to run, or relying on oneself.

It can be said that for Fang Shulan, this master-level qualification examination is a last-ditch battle.She made an agreement with Zhao Feiran for one year, and during this year, she only had this chance to quickly improve her social status.

However, the more it happens at this time, the more likely she is to get nervous, and the dishes that she could cook are not good now.With the exam approaching, Fang Shulan has been very anxious these days.

However, when Fang Shulan walked out of the kitchen, she found that the yellow croaker filled with soup that had just been placed on the table had disappeared, leaving only the fish head, fishtail bones and an empty plate with some soup.

On a rare Sunday rest, Kou Yuanyuan was sitting on the sofa, watching TV programs and smiling happily.

"Yuanyuan, where's the fish mom made?" Fang Shulan asked with a tired face.She didn't know how many times she had failed?
"The fish on the plate? I ate it, and I thought it was an extra meal made by my mother! Such a delicious fish, I couldn't help but ate it all!" Kou Yuanyuan looked at it suspiciously She seemed to be asking, did I make a mistake?Isn't it for me to eat?
"No, it's not that you can't eat it, but, Yuanyuan, don't you think the fish soup is very fishy?" Fang Shulan asked her daughter with a frown.Her daughter's tongue is much more sensitive than hers, so she should have discovered the fish's problem.

"Why is it fishy? It's delicious! The big meal my mother made for me is full of my mother's love for me." Kou Yuanyuan turned to look at her.At this moment, Kou Yuanyuan's eyes were black and shiny.

Kou Yuanyuan was so sure that the fish was cooked for her, as if Fang Shulan's dishes should be cooked for her.Under her almost stubborn gaze, Fang Shulan seemed to have been punched hard.

It wasn't until this time that Fang Shulan realized that her original intention of cooking in the kitchen was to cook delicious and nutritious meals for her daughter.Her daughter's tongue was very sensitive when she was a child. At that time, she was very picky about food.She would not eat something that was not tasty.

At the beginning, Fang Shulan only cooked in the hope that her daughter would like to eat.Later, Fang Shulan incorporated the feeling of wishing her daughter to eat well and grow up healthy into her own dishes.

This belief has followed her for more than ten years.Therefore, what Kou Yuanyuan said is actually correct, almost every dish she cooks is for Kou Yuanyuan to eat.Even if it is the final of the gold medal chef, she still hopes that her daughter will come to eat her dishes.

However, as she won the championship, became a "celebrity", entered the society, and worked day after day, her job was to stand in front of the stove and teach the audience how to cook.

Gradually, her belief in cooking seemed to have changed unconsciously.The dishes she cooks are no longer for her daughter to eat, but for the audience to watch on TV.

She pays more and more attention to the form of cooking, and pays more and more attention to whether the dish is beautiful or not?Would it look good to record it and show it in front of everyone?
Slowly, she forgot the original feeling of cooking for her daughter and looking forward to her healthy growth.Her personality has also become more and more impetuous. She participated in three food shows at the same time, and she still has to study, so she is busy all day long.Kou Yuanyuan usually cooks for her at home.

Obviously she was the one who ignored her daughter first, and she kept it from her when her daughter fell in love, but she couldn't help but blame others.

Now that I think about it, after the Spring Festival, after the "Happy Reunion Dinner" program made her famous, did she really calm down and take a good look at her precious daughter?

She kept saying that she was working hard and making money for her daughter.But in fact, she had already left her most precious daughter aside.

Fortunately, after Kou Yuanyuan's third year in high school, she began to slowly adjust her life rhythm.Except for Saturday, she would prepare a sumptuous dinner for Kou Yuanyuan almost every night.The mother and daughter have returned to the state of life before her fame.They always share some recent events and talk about their recent mood.Seeing Kou Yuanyuan's unshakable smile, she knew that her choice this time was the right one.

It's just that life is gradually getting better, but her cooking skills have been stuck at a critical point.It's the same now, she has memorized the steps of filling the soup with yellow croakers.However, the details are still not handled well.

She also talked to her teacher about this, but Teacher Feng said that she just entered a bottleneck, and she might be able to get over it soon, or it might take several years.However, as long as she walks over, her cooking skills and mood will make great progress, but all this depends on her own exploration, and others can't help her.

Therefore, Fang Shulan has been making various attempts, until today, did she find out what went wrong with her?
Isn't her daughter's happiness the most important thing to her?Incorporate the mother's belief that her daughter can be happy and happy into the dishes she makes.This is the way of cooking that Fang Shulan wants to do!
Thinking of this, Fang Shulan suddenly stepped forward and patted her daughter on the shoulder. "Yuanyuan, get up!"

"What are you doing, Mom?" Kou Yuanyuan was drinking her fifth cup of tea, but the fishy smell on her tongue was still lingering.

"Come on, Yuanyuan, let's cook in the kitchen with my mother. These days, you are almost annoyed by your mother, right? Your hands are itchy because your mother has been occupying the kitchen all the time?" Fang Shulan said with a relaxed face , The dark clouds hanging over her head finally dissipated.

"No, I'm busy with homework too. There's a lot of homework in the third year of high school! Will I disturb your exam preparation when I enter the kitchen?" Kou Yuanyuan frowned and asked, she has been studying and studying these days, and she is almost suffocated .It would be nice to let her practice food carving with a winter melon.

"Of course it won't affect it, anyway. Come on, Yuanyuan, the kitchen should be a place where we can be happy and relax."

"Okay!" At that moment, Kou Yuanyuan's eyes became unusually bright.

The mother and daughter squeezed into the small kitchen, and soon Fang Shulan noticed that Kou Yuanyuan's little face was full of joy.

Cooking should obviously be a happy and happy thing, not just for others to see.These days, she actually forgot such important things.

Watching Kou Yuanyuan quickly waving a kitchen knife to deal with the fresh fish, and even...the whole fish was stripped of its bones.

"Yuanyuan, how could you do this?" Fang Shulan looked at her daughter in disbelief.In fact, Fang Shulan's whole fish is very problematic when it comes off the bone.

"I know it! Mom, you forgot that I am also Lu Sandao, and we have dozens of knife techniques just to deal with fish. Our Lu Sandao just wants to make the kitchen knife so cool. Fortunately, it's been a long time Even touching a kitchen knife is not unfamiliar." Kou Yuanyuan said proudly.

"..." Sure enough, Fang Shulan forgot that her daughter was born to beat other people's knife skills.She, the mother, was also one of the targets.

"Mom, let me tell you the trick of removing the bones from the whole fish?" Kou Yuanyuan blinked at her with a childish complacency.Like showing off her test scores to her mother.

"Okay." Fang Shulan looked at Kou Yuanyuan and couldn't help laughing too.

"This is how..." Kou Yuanyuan worked slowly, first cut a knife at one end of the fish head, separated the fish meat from the backbone with a special sharp knife, and then cut a knife at the tail on the other side of the fish body to separate the fish meat from the spine , and then pull out the fish bone and viscera from the end with the larger incision.

"Oh, that's it." Fang Shulan seemed to be enlightened.

In the following time, the mother and daughter worked together to make a plate of yellow croaker in soup. Kou Yuanyuan basically didn't do much, but kept pointing fingers, but Fang Shulan was not angry, but accepted many of her opinions happily .

Then, as soon as the finished product was on the table, Fang Shulan found that the yellow croaker filled with soup was much better this time.

On that day, the mother and daughter ate fish very happily.

Kou Yuanyuan touched her stomach and said, "It's full of love, my stomach feels so satisfied."

Fang Shulan just sat across the dining table, looking at her daughter and smiling.Sure enough, fish with a taste of happiness is delicious.

Fang Shulan couldn't help adding another bowl of rice.It had been a long time since she had eaten something she made so happily.

After packing up all the things and returning to her room, Kou Yuanyuan rubbed her bulging stomach, took out her mobile phone and sent a message.

"Swallowed a yellow croaker in soup that I couldn't handle, my tongue and my stomach kept crying. I don't want to eat unqualified dishes anymore, eh. Fortunately, I took stomach medicine beforehand, otherwise I would What should I do? Sure enough, being a gourmet is actually a very hard job, right? Fortunately, I don’t need to be a professional gourmet! By the way, I already know how to cook yellow croakers in soup, and I will cook them for you if I have the chance!” by Stomach is always on Protesting little chef Yuanyuan.

On the other side, Zhao Feiran rubbed his empty stomach, staring at the messages on the phone, speechless for a long time.

Anyway, let's eat something to cushion our stomachs first.But what if he suddenly wants to eat fish?
Where can there be fish to eat in the backcountry here?Even if there is no good chef to find the fish, it is impossible to make it delicious, right?
The assistant Xiao Yu followed behind him quietly, wondering if Brother Zhao would want to eat the boxed lunch just now?There is fish, braised in soy sauce, delicious!

At the end of December, Kou Yuanyuan really failed to attend the master chef certification exam.

However, according to Xiao Xu who went to accompany the exam, everyone in the exam room fought very hard.Every chef who went to take the exam looked amazing.There was even a gray-haired grandfather who arrived at the examination room early.And the grandfather is very serious, and his grandson is also here to accompany the exam.Later, the brother who accompanied the exam told Xiao Xu that his grandfather had been taking the exam for 20 years.In the past ten years or so, his father accompanied him, but now he comes to accompany his grandfather.

Xiao Xu couldn't help swallowing his saliva after hearing what the little brother said.What a persistent old man!

Then, Kou Yuanyuan frowned and said to him: "Uncle Su has also taken the exam 8 times, my mother told me. Chef master is the highest honor in every ordinary chef's heart. Even if there is a glimmer of hope, everyone will continue to take the exam .”

"..." Looking at Kou Yuanyuan's serious smiling face, Xiao Xu really couldn't bear to tell him that his uncle failed a round of exams.

The main ingredient of the first round of exams was actually white flour.

Seeing this main ingredient, many chefs were on the verge of tears.This is the exam for Hongan Chef Master, who would have thought that such a question would be asked this year?
Others complained, "The Master Qualification Examination has failed with the Ascension Star Exam."

"Is this going to force chefs like us who specialize in red cases to make pasta?"

There is really no way, many chefs are forced to make steamed buns and noodles.It is also for this reason that many chefs who seem to have great potential have unfortunately failed in the face.Some people swear that they will learn how to steam buns when they get home.

"However, fortunately, the master and the godmother are fine. The master can make siu mai. I began to suspect that the master is omnipotent. The godmother simply made a mousse cake and said she wanted to take it home for you to eat. The players in the same field went crazy after hearing what she said."

After hearing what he said, Kou Yuanyuan's eyes turned slightly red.Mom always remembers to make cakes for her!I heard Xiao Xu continue to say:

"By the way, Yuanyuan, do you know the little yellow croaker? I'm dying of laughter. He doesn't know how to make pasta. There's nothing he can do. Like the uncle next to him, he took a trick and made a bowl of tofu noodles with white noodles. Fish soup. Then, maybe the marinated tofu is so good that the first round of judges actually passed him."

There was chaos in the first round of exams, the buns made by the masters of the red case, and the sugar triangle.The most amazing thing is that someone actually fried the spring rolls on the spot and passed it.Some people also made croquettes with flour, made fried dumplings, deep-fried pork chops, and some made Japanese-style tempura.

"Actually, I think the first round of exams depends on the quick wit of the chefs. If you can make pasta, of course it's no problem. You are an all-round chef, and we will pass you. But, if you can't, just watch Can you match the flour with the familiar ingredients? Then, many chefs failed the first round due to carelessness or anxiety. But anyway, the little yellow croaker is still very smart." Xiao Xu said with a smile.

"At least call him Uncle Huang, the master has already contacted him, hasn't he?" Kou Yuanyuan reminded her in a low voice.

"Okay, Master Huang... Uncle. Cough, anyway, after the first round of exams, probably more than half of the master chefs were eliminated and went home. Many chefs are crying, and they will come again next year. This year is really unlucky." It's gone." Xiao Xu looked like he was watching a joke.

In the first round of exams, many people calmed down and had a chance to pass, but they flinched as soon as they saw the questions.They are all saying that chef Hongan is not good at making noodles.However, does the chef in the red case really have to cling to the restriction of red and white?Xiao Xu is the one who makes lion head steamed stuffed buns.

In the subsequent exams, the test questions became that the examinees open the box, select the corresponding auxiliary ingredients according to the main ingredients in the wooden box, and conduct a practical assessment.Then, Xiao Xu discovered that in fact, there are various traps in every exam session.

For example, there are various ingredients in the ingredient library, how do you choose the fresher and most reasonable part?Then, some chefs were eliminated because the meat was too old.

There are also various kitchen tips and taboos for matching ingredients.

The examiners will say: "You don't even know that beef and chestnuts can't be eaten together, who dares to let you cook for others? Eliminate."

If you want to use all the ingredients in the box in one dish, then it is undoubtedly the biggest failure.

"Are you cooking pig food, all mixed together? Eliminate!"

"I want to make braised pork, but I can't master the fried sugar color! Eliminate!"

Almost every chef is surrounded by several chef examiners.Some people make frequent mistakes because they are too nervous.And these bully examiners seem to come here just to find fault with everyone.

Even if you didn't make any mistakes, the examiner still has to mix in the knife and firework seasoning.After the second exam, there were only 20 people left.

These 20 people will also enter a more rigorous third round of examinations.In short, when it came to the fourth exam, there were only 8 candidates left on the field, and Lu Yuchi, Fang Shulan, Huang Yu, and Su Yongmin were all there.

Then, the examiner announced. "The next exam topic is self-selected ingredients. In this exam, please be sure to show your highest level and present us a dish. We will invite 10 gourmets with 4 stars and above and 10 master chefs to share Taste. Finally, I will give you a fair score. In particular, as the last exam, this exam is not limited in time."

Xiao Xu's blood boiled when he watched the master qualification exam, and then when he told Kou Yuanyuan, his blood boiled too.

"Actually, I thought the master would choose to make long fish dishes, or difficult Lu dishes such as Jiuzhuan Dachang. But this time, the master didn't cook those. Instead, he chose three sets of ducks. Huang... Uncle Master He is still making his tofu dishes, as he said, he will only cook tofu dishes in his life.

As for Uncle Su's choice of fish-flavored shredded pork, he probably wants to fully demonstrate his cooking skills?Then, no one expected that the godmother would cook yellow croakers in soup on the spot?
At that time, the examiners were stunned.Originally, it was unexpected enough for the master to make three sets of ducks.Unexpectedly, the godmother actually made yellow croaker in soup? "

It turns out that as the last round of exams, there are actually traps.After three exams, the chefs on the field had been standing in front of the stove for nearly four hours. At this time, every candidate was exhausted to the extreme.If, at this time, cooking a simple home-cooked dish can undoubtedly free you from this difficult exam earlier.As for how many points the examiners will give, it is hard to say?

If you cook a complicated dish, like three sets of ducks, you need to simmer slowly for three hours, even if the examiners are willing to wait for you for three hours, but these three hours are not only tormented by the expectations of the examiners, but even more tormented by the expectations of the chefs. physical strength.

We waited so hard for you for three hours, you give me this kind of food?Dissatisfied, bad review!
Almost everyone at the scene broke into a cold sweat looking at the thin and frail Fang Shulan.

Lu Yuchi dared to do three sets of ducks, and he was strong and energetic at first glance.

What about Fang Shulan?Could this aunt collapse in the examination room?

(End of this chapter)