Adorable Food Goddess

When Eunuch Gao came to declare the decree, Concubine Mei was startled and flustered.

This incident actually alarmed the emperor, and she was ashamed and humiliated, but the emperor had an order, and she dared not let it go.

"All of you have come to ask the dignitaries of this palace, is it possible that this Li Yao has not left after taking the reward? Nanny Yang, go and have a look." Concubine Mei winked at Nanny Yang.

Nanny Yang understood and turned into the apse.

Ye Jiayao was still covered with her mouth, she didn't struggle, it was useless, she might as well save some effort.

"Today, for the sake of His Highness the Crown Prince, Concubine Mei will spare you the crime of speaking indecently. Just listen carefully. If you talk nonsense after you go out, Concubine Mei will kill you at any time." Yang Nanny warned road.

"Do you understand?"

Ye Jiayao nodded.

Nanny Yang signaled the two eunuchs to let go.

Ye Jiayao rubbed her sore wrist and said, "Concubine Mei, please rest assured. I, a commoner, just want to live a peaceful life. If no one offends me, I won't offend anyone."

Nanny Yang choked, this kid was too rampant, she wanted to warn her a few more times, but when she thought of the emperor, she held back.

"It's best for you to understand. Remember that Concubine Mei let you go long ago. It was the palace maid of Chaohua Palace who asked you how to make cakes, so there was a delay."

Ye Jiayao sneered from the bottom of her heart, it must be the crown prince's important person, and Concubine Mei couldn't explain it, so she asked her to cooperate in lying.

Anyway, let's get out of trouble first.

Ye Jiayao never thought that it was the emperor, not the prince, who came to ask for someone.

This is the most supreme figure in the Huai Song Kingdom, and Ye Jiayao has a feeling of sleepwalking for her, it's too unreal.

"Yaoyao, are you okay? Are you injured?" Seeing her coming out, He Lianjing asked with concern, so he wanted to check if she was injured.

"No, but if you come a little later, it will be hard to tell." Ye Jiayao hurriedly avoided.

Eunuch Gao said: "Chef Li, the emperor appointed you to cook lunch today, let's go to the imperial dining room with the miscellaneous family!"

ah? Ye Jiayao is going to faint again, cooking for the emperor?

Nima, what an honor.

He Lianjing also said: "Yaoyao, this is your chance, come on."

He once asked Yaoyao, what does it mean to refuel? Yaoyao said that the fire will flourish only when fuel is added, which means working hard and getting better and better. He thought these two words were easy to use, so he learned them.

Ye Jiayao nodded vigorously, need I say that? Today, this old lady is going to show her housekeeping skills and use all eighteen kinds of martial arts.

Without further ado, Ye Jiayao followed Eunuch Gao to the imperial dining room.

As soon as she entered the imperial dining room, Ye Jiayao felt dizzy, oh my god, what a spacious kitchen, there are so many cooks!

Inside and outside, in and out, there are dozens of people at least.

Eunuch Gao took her all the way in, and came to the innermost row of houses, and said, "This is the kitchen dedicated to cooking imperial meals for the emperor."

Seeing Eunuch Gao coming, an imperial cook hurriedly came to greet him: "Eunuch Gao, what did the emperor order today?"

Eunuch Gao said: "Today, Chef Lu will take a break first, and the emperor appointed Chef Li to cook lunch."

He also introduced: "This is Chef Lu who is in charge of the emperor's meals. This is Chef Li Yaoli from Tianshangju."

Lu Yiming looked at Ye Jiayao, and it turned out that he was Li Yao, the chef of Tianshangju. Recently, Li Yao is the most popular figure in Jinling's catering industry. Everyone is discussing about him, such as iced drinks, ice cream mooncakes, and vegetarian longevity noodles. Homemade dishes and more...

He thought that a person with this level of culinary skills would be at least in his thirties, but seeing him now, he turned out to be a boy with no hair yet, and he couldn't help being shocked.

Heroes have been born in youth since ancient times, and the younger generations are awesome! I don't know, whether it is worthy of the name or a false name.

Ye Jiayao asked cautiously: "May I ask if you are Chef Lu Yiming Lu?"

"Exactly." Lu Yiming said.

Ye Jiayao was overjoyed: "So it's really you, Chef Lu. I've admired your name for a long time, and I've always followed your example. Today I can meet my idol. I'm so happy that I don't know what to say."

Ye Jiayao's enthusiasm has its own exaggerated elements. It is said that there are many people who are famous and right and wrong. Today, she almost died. Now that the emperor appreciates it, if she is given a chance to cook the imperial meal, she will probably encounter a lot of suspicion. Lu Yiming can be regarded as pregnant The leading figures in Song Dynasty's catering industry have extremely high prestige. In front of their seniors, it is always right to be humble, lower your posture, flatter your ass more, and smile brighter.

"Idol?" Lu Yiming couldn't understand this new word.

"It's a role model, which means someone you admire the most in your heart." Ye Jiayao explained.

Lu Yiming heheed twice, thinking that this kid is a bit exaggerated, but he is still cute.

Of course, Ye Jiayao's acting skills have been perfected on the Heifenggang. Even if she is facing a pile of shit, as long as she is willing, she can use the most sincere and sincere eyes and tone to praise the shit into a shit flower.

"Then what are you going to do?" Lu Yiming asked.

Although Ye Jiayao thought about the dishes to cook on the way, but to succeed, she still needs to collect more information. To understand the emperor's appetite, it is like a doctor seeing a doctor, prescribing the right medicine.

Ye Jiayao looked at Eunuch Gao.

Eunuch Gao said indifferently: "The emperor said, you just need to cook your special dishes, but Prince Jing Xiao recommended your sizzling mushrooms to the emperor."

Ye Jiayao quickly asked: "Then are there any taboos in the emperor's diet? Is the taste heavy or light?"

Eunuch Gao laughed and said, "You can ask Chef Lu to know."

With Eunuch Gao present, Lu Yiming naturally told all of them without omission.

Ye Jiayao has an idea, the emperor likes to drink soup, OK, then give him a Buddha jumping over the wall, the Buddha will jump over the wall to eat, let alone ordinary people.

After all, it is the imperial dining room, where there are all kinds of ingredients for those flying in the sky, swimming in the water, and running on the ground.

Ye Jiayao carefully selected the ingredients and started to cook.

Lu Yiming pointed to the royal chefs in the imperial dining room and said, "If you need help, just ask them."

Ye Jiayao smiled and said, "Just wash the dishes for me."

This period of living in the sky is not for nothing. It is not a problem for her to finish more than a dozen tables of dishes by herself, but today is cooking the imperial meal for the emperor, so she needs to be extra careful.

The first thing to deal with is the various ingredients of Buddha Tiaoqiang. There are as many as 18 kinds of ingredients used in this dish. The cooking process is very complicated, and the control of the heat is extremely demanding.

She has figured it out a long time ago, there is no such way in this era, she originally wanted to save this dish until she opened a restaurant, and now let the emperor enjoy it first.

Lu Yiming watched Ye Jiayao cook with a wait-and-see attitude. How much skill does such a young cook have? He has some doubts.

I saw Ye Jiayao handling the shark's fin in an orderly manner. After washing the shark's fin with water and removing the sand, neatly piled it on the bamboo grate, added Shaoxing rice wine, green onion and ginger to the boiling water, and then put the shark's fin in boiling water to boil to remove the fishy smell. Remove the flavor, put pork fat on the shark's fin, serve Shaoxing rice wine, and steam in a steamer over high heat.

Immediately afterwards, she cut the fish lips into even pieces, and also used boiling water to remove the fishy smell.

Then there is money abalone, chicken, duck, pig's trotters, pork belly, sheep knuckle, tendon, duck gizzard, fish maw, sea cucumber, scallops, turtle skirt, pigeon eggs, bamboo shoots, mushrooms and other ingredients, which are very complicated. .

Lu Yiming looked at it for a long time and wondered what kind of dishes she was going to cook. They boiled, steamed, fried, and stir-fried. All the dishes came out were semi-finished.

While the ingredients for Buddha Tiaoqiang were still cooking, Ye Jiayao prepared other dishes.

Shuifa mushrooms are cut into cross-flowers, pork belly is minced, made into patties with orange powder and various seasonings, pasted on the bottom of the mushrooms, and fried in a frying pan later.

Cut the eggplant into sections and hollow out, fill in the prepared minced meat, and put it on the steamer.

Remove the heads of the prawns, remove the shells, remove the tendons and keep the tails. Take another plate of shrimps and mash them into mud, and knead them with minced meat for later use.

Potatoes are cut into thin strips and fried in boiling oil until golden brown. Cowpea and eggplant are cut into the same length and fried in oil.

After all these were finished, she picked up radishes and began to carve. She cut, dug, and rotated quickly with a knife, and the flowers came out in different shapes, as delicate as real radish flowers.

Finally, Ye Jiayao picked up a big carrot, made some gestures, and started to carve a flying dragon.

In the imperial dining room, there was complete silence, and everyone's eyes were attracted by the carving knife and radish in Ye Jiayao's hands.

She was methodical before and did not attract everyone's attention. As the imperial chef, everyone here can do this, but with the lifelike radish flowers, the radish pigeons are presented. This exquisite carving technology is indeed true. Breathtaking.

Lu Yiming's expression became serious. He is an expert among connoisseurs. Although some chefs can also carve flowers, the patterns are so common and simple that it is not difficult to learn. He has never seen such complicated patterns as Li Yao. What is amazing is that Li Yao moves like clouds and flowing water. The carving process, the pinching of the shape, the control of the strength, as if everything is in the chest, the knife is like a god,

This kid really has a bit of talent, and based on this alone, he can look down on other chefs.

At the same time, Lu Yiming felt very pressured. This kid played this game today, and he played it to the extreme. What should they do in the future?

Eunuch Gao looked at the flying dragon that was gradually taking shape, his eyes straightened in shock.

This Li Yao, did he study sculpture or cooking? This is amazing too.

Ye Jiayao finished carving two flying dragons, carved another auspicious cloud, fixed the two dragons on the auspicious cloud with bamboo sticks, and finally dug out a shiny white radish bead with a spoon and inlaid it on the dragon's mouth, forming a pattern of two dragons playing with beads.

Then, after cutting cucumber slices, shredded tomatoes and other auxiliary materials, Ye Jiayao started to use the plate to make mosaic flowers.

What dishes to put on and how to arrange them have long been familiar by heart. Eighteen plates lined up in a row, such as the sunrise and the sea of ​​clouds, the surging spring tide, the rich peonies, the juxtaposed lotus...all are arranged in a short time.

The ingredients in the steamer over there are almost the same. Ye Jiayao processed all kinds of ingredients in order and put them into a jar filled with Shaoxing wine, poured chicken, duck and other soup ingredients, sealed the mouth of the jar with lotus leaves, and buckled it upside down. Put a bowl on a charcoal stove and simmer over low heat.

It was only then that Lu Yiming realized that the ingredients he got earlier were just a dish. I couldn't help but be dumbfounded. I have never seen such a complicated dish. It looks like a pot of stew, but in fact, every ingredient is processed very carefully. The sense of urgency and pressure in my heart is even worse, and I feel like I am about to be eliminated.