NFBE Chapter 229: Hotpot, spicy hotpot with butter
Chapter 229: Hotpot, spicy hotpot with butter
At nine o'clock in the evening, the task of cooking was entirely given to Yun Yongyuan. While Zhao Xiaojing paid special attention to the dishes that required proper cooking, she directly took two preparation plates, a large deep plate and several flat plates, and began to arrange the side dishes for the hot pot.
In the afternoon, she had already braised pork intestines, chicken feet, quail eggs, and cowhide dried tofu, which are side dishes that are not easy to absorb flavors. Now she imitated the plating method in hot pot restaurants, using lettuce leaves to line the bottom and carving two fences out of carrots. She divided the large deep plate into four grids in the shape of a cross and placed the four braised dishes in them.
Zhao Xiaojing is already halfway through the carving class. Although she doesn't have a carving knife yet, carving a fence out of carrots is the simplest thing. As long as you know the structure, you can make it with a few cuts with a kitchen knife.
After the four grids were arranged, Zhao Xiaojing took a look at them, pinched two coriander leaves, scraped three small grasses with winter melon peel, and inserted them on the fence as decoration.
Next was the beef. Zhao Xiaojing bought several parts of the beef, such as the hind leg, chest, tenderloin, topskin, etc. However, to use the boss's professional terminology, they are pork toes, marbling meat, tender meat, and chest fat. Zhao Xiaojing didn't know much about this, so she just randomly bought a few pieces suitable for hot pot as recommended by the boss.
After all the beef is cut out, half of the large preparation plate is full. The tender meat is taken out and slightly marinated to make spicy beef, and the rest is eaten directly by hot pot.
For the mutton, Zhao Xiaojing only chose a piece of lamb tenderloin with both fat and lean meat. After being frozen in the freezer, it was now soft and hard enough to be cut. Although she only bought one type, the portion was large. After Zhao Xiaojing cut the mutton into long thin slices and placed them on the serving plate, the serving plate was more than half full.
If you put the basa fish and luncheon meat on the remaining quarter, the first plate will be completely full.
Zhao Xiaojing picked up the one-meter-wide plate and put it directly into the refrigerator. She started the second one, and the third one...
When everyone finished their work and the kitchen staff called for the dishes to be served, the seven people except Zhao Xiaojing were shocked.
The two one-meter-wide trays in front of them, which were usually used to prepare meals, were stuffed to the brim with food without even a gap. One tray was filled with all kinds of meat, with green leaves underneath and a little coriander dotted on top. It was arranged in a grand and artistic way.
There were a variety of vegetables, tofu and mushrooms on the plate. At a glance, there seemed to be more than twenty kinds of them. Each one was stuffed very solidly, and the colors gradually changed from yellow to green, getting darker from the bottom to the top.
In addition, there is a large deep plate next to it, which is almost a basin and is used to store dishes. It is divided into four parts by carved radishes, and each compartment is filled with braised dishes to the point of overflowing.
Not to mention that there are also plates of tripe, duck intestines, duck blood, duck throat, chicken gizzards cut into chrysanthemum shapes, etc. with crushed ice on the side...
Even though a group of people helped move the ingredients and cleaned and processed them together in the afternoon, the visual impact of all the ingredients when displayed was still too strong.
Moreover, the meat was all in the refrigerator, so everyone thought that Zhao Xiaojing had bought some vegetables for the next few days, but they didn't expect that it would all be cut up in the evening.
"Sister Jingzi, have you made a fortune?" Lu Hongwen silently swallowed his saliva that was not worldly-wise.
"Sister, sister, sister, are we going to be fired?" Ouyang Yidan's thoughts turned to the last supper.
"Sister, do I eat too much? I know I eat a lot. I will control myself in the future. It has nothing to do with Dandan. She actually eats a small amount!" Wu Kaile explained blankly after hearing this.
“Not like that. Junior sister eats a lot herself, so it should be that the vegetable market is no longer open.” Yun Yongyuan’s dry humor began to spread again.
"Hey! Xiao Zhao is so honest! Look at you, you are all so funny. Young people have rich imagination! Okay, come and move the tables to eat!" Hou Guihua shouted loudly, and everyone laughed. Lu Hongwen and Wu Kaile helped to put the two tables together to form a large table for 12 people.
Zhao Xiaojing came out with two bowls of dipping sauce. "This is spicy, this is not spicy. I've prepared it for you. Just scoop what you want."
Su Yuchen stared blankly at the bowl of seasoning soup, then looked at Zhao Xiaojing, "Did you use up all the sauces I bought today?"
"I'm not that wasteful." Zhao Xiaojing couldn't help laughing twice. "I used almost half a bottle. The main reason is that there is too much sauce. I was afraid that if I took it all out and asked you to mix it, you wouldn't be able to mix it well and you would have to let me do it. So I might as well make it all for you at once."
"You got it right." Su Yuchen laughed and stopped worrying. "Since you're so arrogant today, let's just have a drink! Xiao Wu, bring some white beer, yellow beer, and drinks. Everyone, pour whatever you want!"
"Okay!" Wu Kaile was excited when he heard it. Lu Hongwen and Ouyang Yidan followed quickly and dragged a bottle of beer, two bottles of white wine and several bottles of drinks directly from the beer box next to the front desk.
Lu Hongwen put a stack of cups away and asked everyone what they wanted to drink. Zhao Xiaojing turned on the induction cooker to the highest setting, and after the red soup pot boiled, she took the serving chopsticks and started to put the meat in.
The store had all kinds of soda drinks, but everyone unanimously chose wine. Lu Hongwen simply pushed the beer box containing the drinks away, and directly opened a barrel of rice wine and two bottles of beer, pouring them out one by one according to everyone's needs.
The hard-boiled chicken gizzards, shrimp balls and duck blood were boiling in the pot but not yet cooked. Zhao Xiaojing then put a few large pieces of beef, not sure what part it was, into the large colander.
"Sister Mirror, Sister Comb, please propose one." Feeling the warm atmosphere, Lu Hongwen said.
"Jingzi, go ahead. Jingzi paid for all the dishes today and didn't let me spend a penny. She also didn't want to use the working capital that we had set aside for the store. She said she wanted to treat you to a meal." Su Yuchen spread out his palms, propped up his head and looked at Zhao Xiaojing, making a gesture of invitation.
"It's nothing. This meal is for celebration, to celebrate the expansion of our store and the joining of Sister Geng and Sister Hou. Secondly, it's a thank you. Thank you for your support, thank you for being a team and treating the store's business as your own. I especially want to thank you, Shuzi. This hotpot is mainly for you. Without you, there would be no me today.
Come on, cheers! "
Zhao Xiaojing kept smiling, spoke very sincerely and seriously, and raised her glass again.
"Cheers!" Everyone was stunned by the sudden serious words, and they subconsciously raised their glasses to respond.
"Why are you suddenly so formal? I should be the one thanking you. I didn't do anything...
And thank you for needing such luxury?" Su Yuchen was confused and looked at Zhao Xiaojing and asked in a low voice.
"It's not luxurious, just a hotpot, spicy hot pot with butter." Zhao Xiaojing tilted her head and spoke softly to Su Yuchen.