Chapter 257 Vegetable Tofu Soup (Additional update for the leader of the cat who cannot program!)
Because Sun Jikai got drunk early, the skewers dinner ended earlier than expected. When Ji Yue returned home with the packaged crayfish, it was only 10:40.
Ji Xue did not sleep as she expected, and was still busy in the kitchen, but it didn't look like cooking, but making soup.
Ji Yue approached the kitchen and smelled the green vegetable and tofu soup.
"You're back!" Ji Xue hasn't taken off her apron yet, "Come and try the vegetable and tofu soup I cooked."
"Vegetable tofu soup?" Ji Yue put the crayfish on the dining table and went into the kitchen to take a look.
It is indeed a vegetable tofu soup, not only green vegetables, but also green beans, lettuce, lettuce, baby cabbage, cabbage and cabbage. All the vegetables Ji Xue brought back from the kitchen today are in this pot of soup.
Not only is it a vegetable tofu soup, but it’s also a green vegetable stew.
Because of the addition of tofu, the color of the soup is a little milky white. The vegetables are minced and mixed together, intertwined among the white and tender tofu. It is very light and elegant.
This is the first time Ji Yue has seen so many kinds of vegetables mixed with tofu to make soup.
"Axue, how did you come up with the idea of making this soup?" Ji Yue came closer and smelled it. It smelled good and should be quite delicious.
Ji Yue had just eaten so much greasy and heavy barbecue and a pound of crayfish. On the way back, she burped and smelled a little greasy.
Ji Xue made this pot of light, green and healthy vegetable tofu soup, which was just what Ji Yue wanted.
"My family often makes this soup, and my sister likes it. But the price of green beans has always been relatively high. My family usually makes this soup without green beans." Ji Xue explained, "I know you can't draw these days. I’m tired of writing a manuscript, so I go to Dongmen to eat barbecue every day to relax, but if you eat like this every day, your stomach will definitely not be able to bear it. Drinking this light soup is just the right way to relieve your tiredness.”
"Ah, Axue, I love you so much!" Ji Yue gave Ji Xue a loving bear hug, and excitedly went to get a bowl of soup to drink.
The vegetable tofu soup tastes very light. Ji Yue guesses that Ji Xue may have added nothing but salt and even no sesame oil, but the taste is unexpectedly good.
If the barbecue and crayfish we had tonight were compared to a gorgeous and thick oil painting with rich layers and colors, then the vegetable and tofu soup made by Ji Xue would be an elegant, light, gentle and pleasant, plain and elegant ink painting.
"It tastes great! It tastes great!" Ji Yue never hesitated to praise her, "In fact, if I drink this after eating barbecue, it will be so delicious!"
"As long as you like it." Ji Xue also looked happy, "Some customers suggested that there was no light soup in the store, so I wanted to see if I could sell this soup in the store."
"Absolutely, your soup is definitely light enough and delicious, so it will be no problem!" Ji Yue encouraged Ji Xue.
"I'll cook for a few more days to see if other dishes taste better. The store is testing dishes on the 27th, and there's still more than a week left." Ji Xue turned around and continued to clean up the household garbage in the kitchen.
Ji Yue stood in the kitchen drinking soup with a soup bowl in hand. Ji Xue was cleaning the kitchen quickly and was about to take the garbage bag downstairs to throw it away when Ji Yue stopped her.
"Oh, I was so busy drinking soup that I forgot about the real thing. Xue, please don't throw away the trash first. There is a crayfish I brought back for you on the table. Eat the crayfish first. There is still soup in it. I've picked out the garlic leaves and ginger slices for you. You'd better eat them now. It might not taste good tomorrow." Ji Yue put down the soup bowl and went to the table to take out the packaging box and open it, "I'm telling you, their garlic crayfish is particularly delicious. It's just fragrant. There is no garlic smell at all, you will definitely like it.”
"I..." Ji Xue hesitated.
"What am I? I've eaten so much of your cooking these days that I'm going to get fat! You have to give it to me too. You have to gain as much weight as I gain. Eat quickly. It's still warm now." Yes, it won't taste good when it gets cold!" Ji Yue urged.
"Okay..."
At Ji Yue's urging, Ji Xue walked to the dining table, put on her gloves, and slowly and slightly clumsily started peeling the shrimps.
The crayfish in my hand is still warm, with an attractive aroma and rich juice. The crayfish is very big, the shell is deep red and slightly black, and the shell is very hard, which poses a big obstacle for novices like Ji Xue to peel shrimps.
It took Ji Xue two or three minutes to peel the first shrimp, and the lobster meat, which was not very tight in the first place, was peeled off by her.
This barbecue restaurant in Dongmen is also good at cooking crayfish. The back of each shrimp is opened, and the juice goes into the shrimp meat, dyeing the originally white shrimp meat into a reddish color, which is salty and spicy.
Ji Xue has not eaten crayfish for many years.
Her father is a chef, and his cooking skills are not very good. Originally, the family ran a small restaurant and lived a relatively prosperous life. Ji Xue has been exposed to it since she was a child, helping to cut and serve vegetables in the family restaurant, which can barely be called a family education. Because of this, after one series of accidents happened at home, Ji Xue chose to drop out of school and work in a restaurant.
Her happy childhood ended when her mother was diagnosed with breast cancer when she was 7 years old.
Her mother was already in the middle stage of breast cancer when she was diagnosed, and after a year of painful and desperate chemotherapy, she could only choose to have it removed.
Immediately afterwards, her father was diagnosed with diabetes. At that time, Ji Xue's mother was still undergoing chemotherapy, and his father had no time to pay attention to his condition. He had to take care of her mother while running a restaurant business. As a result, his condition deteriorated rapidly, causing complications and leading to blindness.
When Ji Xue was thirteen years old, her family was already heavily in debt, her father's diabetes continued to worsen and had begun to develop into uremia, and the blindness caused by complications never improved.
In the same year, she chose to drop out of school and work as an apprentice in the kitchen of Tan's Restaurant, with food and shelter included, and a monthly salary of 800.
The reason why she chose to go to Tan's Restaurant was simple. She was under 14 at the time, and no other store dared to accept her. Only the owner of Tan's Restaurant, Master Tan's son, was willing to accept her. It's easy to be willing. She is young, the price is low, there is no contract, she is easy to exploit, and she does no less work than others. She is a cheap labor force that is easy to bully.
Now that she is 19 years old, life does not seem to be much better for her. Her mother's breast cancer has been cured, but her father's diabetes has turned into uremia. Even if there is a kidney source for a kidney transplant, their family cannot afford the surgery.
She was still the same as before, she didn't dare to eat, don't dare to wear, didn't dare to rest, didn't dare to stop.
The good things she tasted in her childhood, those snacks and snacks that only exist in her memory, such as crayfish, milk tea, lollipops, potato chips, and barbecue, have all faded out of her world and become dreams she cannot touch. .
But now, she seems to be living in a dream.
Her boss is nice, her co-workers are nice, her friends are nice, and her roommate is nice.
The touch on your hands is real, and the taste in your mouth is real.
"Axue, I see you are tired today. It's almost eleven o'clock. After you finish eating, you can go wash up and go to bed. I'll take care of these things. I have to draw pictures later, and I'm going to drink some soup now. "Ji Yue said in the kitchen.
"Okay."
Ji Xue remembered a poem her mother taught her when she was a child.
Give me papaya and give me Qiongju in return.
It’s always good to be rewarded by a bandit!
Give me peaches and give me Qiong Yao.
It’s always good to be rewarded by a bandit!
Give me wood and plums, and give me Qiongjiu in return.
It’s always good to be rewarded by a bandit!
Did you see this pigeon? Bald!
(End of chapter)