"Try the shredded potatoes. I rember when I first started learning how to cook, I made this vinegar-flavored shredded potato dish. The finished product back then... um... I put in too much vinegar, the heat was too high, and before putting the potatoes in the pan, I didn’t know to rinse them in water first. I thought all I needed to do was peel them, cut them into shreds, and then fry them directly."
At this point, Gu Tiantian showed a sowhat embarrassed smile on her face.
"In the end, that vinegar-flavored shredded potato dish couldn’t even be called that; it should have been called vinegar-flavored mush."
She rembered this incident very clearly. She was young then, about twelve years old. Her father had just left, and her grandmother was in poor health, down with a minor cold, but because her father had left, her grandmother’s spirits weren’t good.
She ca ho from school that noonti, unlocked the door to get in, and usually, her grandmother would have already prepared the al and was waiting in the kitchen for her to eat, but the house was very quiet that day.
After confirming that her grandmother was asleep in her room and had taken her dicine, she breathed a sigh of relief and tiptoed to the kitchen, ready to give it a go.
She had never cooked before, but she was used to helping out in the kitchen with her grandmother, so it wasn’t difficult to cook the rice, and peeling the potatoes was quite simple. The problem arose while stir-frying, not knowing exactly how to do it properly, resulting in a pot of potato mush.
Because there was so much vinegar added, not only in the kitchen, but even in the living room and bedroom, a strong vinegar sll could be detected.
It was the sll that woke her grandmother up, who thought sothing was wrong in the kitchen. When she saw her granddaughter staring blankly at the pot of vinegar-flavored mush, about to cry, she laughed and went into the kitchen.
She rembered her grandmother squatted down, smiling, and lovingly comforting her when she was about to cry.
"Tian Tian, it’s normal not to do well the first ti. I rember when I cooked for the first ti, the at wasn’t fully cooked and neither was the rice."
"It’s okay not to do well the first ti; we have a second and third ti. Over ti, after doing it a few more tis, as long as you put your heart into it, you will succeed."
"Tian Tian, whether it’s cooking or studying, it’s the sa principle, don’t you think?"
Because of her family situation, Gu Tiantian was very sensible from a young age.
Although her grandmother was speaking about a philosophical truth, she understood it.
So, although she sniffled and cried, after being coaxed by her grandmother, she happily made another attempt at the vinegar-flavored shredded potatoes.
At that ti, she finally realized that after cutting the potatoes into shreds, they must be rinsed in water before frying; otherwise, the starch in the potatoes would turn into mush.
Of course, the previous dish of potato mush couldn’t be thrown away.
The family wasn’t in a good financial situation and couldn’t afford to waste food.
The grandmother and granddaughter took turns eating, finishing off two plates of shredded potatoes over two als.
Her thoughts drifted far away, and Gu Tiantian couldn’t snap back for a while.
Until she noticed a pair of dark eyes staring at her, she suddenly returned to her senses, a trace of embarrassnt crossing her face, hurriedly serving Bai Chenyao with more food.
"Open up!"
Her dish hadn’t even reached Bai Chenyao’s bowl yet, when Bai Chenyao’s chopsticks with a piece of fish were already at her mouth.
Gu Tiantian didn’t hesitate. Although she still felt sowhat awkward, she obediently and cleverly opened her mouth to eat the fish.
Then, they returned to the previous mode of interaction she had with Bai Chenyao.
Only later did Gu Tiantian realize that half of the food she had served to Bai Chenyao ended up in her own stomach.
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