lcionline Chapter 311 Eating hot pot
Chapter 311 Eating hot pot
Chapter 311 Eating Hot Pot
"Why is there no one at your house today?"
"My parents took my sister to visit relatives and will be back late. The servants at home are on Qingming holiday, so there is no one to cook at home. My mother asked me to eat outside before going home."
"I told you to eat outside before going home, why did you still want to come to the supermarket to buy groceries?"
Gong Yoo looked at the pile of snacks and dishes in the shopping cart. He asked, "What are you going to make tonight?"
Gu Chenxi replied calmly: "I can't cook."
As she spoke, she put a box of fresh boneless fish fillets that had just been sliced mechanically into the shopping cart.
Gong Liu pushed the cart and followed her forward, asking, "Why did you buy so many vegetables if you can't cook?"
"Isn't it you?"
Gu Chenxi blinked twice and said mischievously, "Don't you know how to cook?"
"I can only cook some simple meals, otherwise..." Gong Liu covered his face and said, "Let's go out to eat."
Gong Liu can cook, but his cooking is just at the average level and he hasn’t cooked for a long time. So when he was suddenly asked to cook, he was worried that the food he cooked would not suit Gu Chenxi’s taste.
"No!" Gu Chenxi shook his head and said, "Actually, I want to eat hot pot tonight."
"Let's eat hotpot. Why didn't you say so earlier?"
Upon hearing this, Gong Liu immediately breathed a sigh of relief - as long as he was not asked to cook.
Hot pot doesn't require any technical skills. Just prepare the hot pot base, wash the vegetables and place them on a plate.
With what Gu Chenxi just said, Kong Liu felt that it was time for him to practice his cooking skills so that he could show off his skills in front of his girlfriend next time.
After walking around the supermarket, the two bought a lot of dishes for hotpot, but they did not buy beef and mutton ingredients in the supermarket. If they did, they bought fresh ones.
The two drove to the largest vegetable market nearby and bought a pound of beef topskin and a pound of dragon meat at the beef stall, and then went to a mutton store and bought three pounds of fresh mutton.
One advantage of these stores that specialize in selling fresh meat is that the meat can be cut into slices or shreds according to your requirements. If you want to make it into minced meat, that's also fine. It's all cut by machines anyway, so you just have to pay a little labor fee.
Gong Yoo and his friends went home for hotpot, so they asked the boss to cut the meat into slices. All the cut meat was put into clean plastic boxes, each box containing one pound of meat, and also provided with disposable chopsticks. When they got home, they didn't have to do anything, just add the dishes.
When coming out of the market, Gong Yoo was carrying two big bags, one bag of beef and one bag of mutton.
"We bought so much meat, isn't that a bit too much?"
Gong Yoo looked at the two large bags of meat in his hands and thought about the pile of vegetables stuffed in the storage box in the front of the car. If the two of them ate together, they would definitely not be able to finish them.
"Don't worry, if you can't finish it, put it in the refrigerator and eat it tomorrow. It won't be wasted."
Gu Chenxi said as he opened the car door...
The two of them returned to Gu's house soon.
Just as Gu Chenxi said, there was really no one at their house tonight. The yard was empty and the lights in the house were off.
Gu Chenxi entered the house first and turned on the ceiling light in the living room. Kong Liu took out all the vegetables he had just bought from the car and walked into the kitchen.
The kitchen was very clean. There was nothing on the countertop; everything was put away in the cupboards.
Gong Liu asked Gu Chenxi: "Do you have a pot for cooking hot pot?"
"Yes, I'll look for it."
Gu Chenxi searched the kitchen cabinet for a long time, and finally only found a copper stove hot pot like the one used for northern mutton hotpot.
Gu Chenxi scratched his head and said, "It seems... I can't find the rice cooker. Wait a minute, I'll call the cooking aunt."
She doesn't usually come to the kitchen, so she doesn't really know how the items in her kitchen are arranged.
"Forget it, just use this."
Gong Yoo looked at the copper stove hotpot and thought it would be great for hot pot with meat. It just so happened that they bought a lot of meat for lunch today.
"Use this one?" Gu Chenxi pointed at the pot and said, "But this one is for burning charcoal."
"Huh?" Gong Liu asked in confusion, "Don't you have charcoal at home?"
"Yes, but I don't know how to light it." Gu Chenxi looked at Kong Liu expectantly and asked, "Can you light it?"
After listening to Gu Chenxi's words, Kong Liu smiled and said, "Oh, I thought it was a big deal. Burning charcoal is not a simple matter."
When Sun Yu was doing barbecue at Gong Yoo’s grandfather’s house before, he used the charcoal that Gong Yoo had lit. For him, making charcoal is a very easy job.
Gu Chenxi found a box of packaged charcoal from the utility room, and Kong Liu took an iron basin and put a few pieces of charcoal in it. The two came to the yard outside the door. Kong Liu propped up the charcoal and lit the small piece of alcohol that had been placed underneath it in advance.
When the alcohol was burning, a wind blew in the yard and the charcoal was quickly ignited.
After burning for a while, Gong Yoo broke the charcoal into pieces and used tongs to put them all into the charcoal fire hole in the middle of the copper stove. After a while, the copper pot was burning red and white, and it was steaming.
After setting up the hot pot, the rest of the things will be easy.
……
"Gulu~Gulu~"
Steam was rising from the pot, and the rich aroma of the beef hotpot base filled the air.
Gu Chenxi supported himself on the table with both hands, staring at the boiling red soup in the copper pot like a curious baby, his saliva already flowing out of his mouth uncontrollably.
She originally wanted to help Kong Liu prepare the ingredients, but Kong Liu didn't let her go to the kitchen. After getting the dishes and chopsticks, she sat obediently at the dining table and waited.
After a long time, Gong Yoo came out of the kitchen with the ingredients on a plate.
"Wow--!"
Looking at the beautifully presented meat and vegetable dishes being brought out of the kitchen, Gu Chenxi exclaimed as if she had seen something extraordinary, then clapped her hands and praised Gong Liu: "You are so amazing!"
Gong Liu, who was praised by Gu Chenxi, scratched his head and pretended to be calm and said: "Ah, it's not that great, I just put the food on the plate casually."
No wonder!
Although most of the ingredients are processed, such as the meat, they have already been washed and cut.
But in order to make the dishes look better before serving, Gong Yoo deliberately flattened the thin slices of meat and placed them on the plate one by one. The same went for the vegetables. He stacked the washed vegetables together again and stuffed them into the small cylinder for vegetables. As for the small shiitake mushroom, he deliberately made a beautiful cross cut on the mushroom cap.
In order to get this praise from Gu Chenxi, he put a lot of thought into the kitchen, otherwise he would not have made Gu Chenxi wait for him for so long.
Gu Chenxi continued to praise: "It's really amazing. You even cut the mushrooms in fancy ways, and the slices of the ham sausage are so thin."
Gu Chenxi watched very carefully, she could tell that Gong Liu put a lot of thought into cutting the vegetables. As a culinary genius, letting her enter the kitchen was simply a disaster, so she was particularly envious of those who could cook - good knife skills were also a manifestation of cooking skills.
“Well, it’s not that great. This kind of thing is very easy.” Gong Liu touched his nose, the corners of his mouth almost curled up to the sky.
"Chef Kong is amazing!" Gu Chenxi gave a thumbs up and asked, "Can we eat now?"
The words "Chef Kong" greatly satisfied Gong Liu's self-confidence. He stopped pretending and said with a grin, "Okay, okay, let's eat."
(End of this chapter)