If it worked, it would be like mastering a small trick. If it didn’t, there was no real loss—at most, just a few scorched peanuts. For Lin Ji’s Food at the mont, this kind of loss was negligible.
He didn’t dare to let them bake for too long and didn’t even cover the pot. About two to three minutes later, he raked out the peanuts buried in the salt. Then he used a strainer to sift them, pouring all the peanuts onto a tray to spread out and prevent the residual heat from scorching them.
While the peanuts were cooling, Lin Xu took a cucumber, cut it vertically, laid one half flat on the cutting board, and sliced it diagonally into cucumber slices. After cutting, he arranged the cucumber slices in a circle on a plate, with the arcs facing outward, trying to form a flower-like pattern as much as possible. When the peanuts were cool enough, he carefully placed them in the center with a spoon.
If the quality isn’t enough, plating will help. All high-end dishes focus on presentation, which showed that appearance was also part of the culinary score. Lin Xu wasn’t very confident about this plate of peanuts, so he simply styled it, not expecting too high of a mark; just hoping to reach the Excellent Level would suffice. Since starting his career, this was the first ti he felt the "hurray for 60 points" sentint.
After arranging it, he looked at it with the Eye of Discrimination, and it turned out to be Superior!
This...
Lin Xu picked up a peanut and tasted it. It was fragrant and crisp, savory and delicious. Upon closer tasting, he could discern a faint braised flavor within the peanut. This gave him a new appreciation for the thod of salt baking. This technique was simply an amplifier for the aroma of the ingredients. The two dishes he had just prepared, whether the quail eggs or the peanuts, were both more fragrant than usual and had acquired an additional unique savory taste from the sea salt.
He had never expected that fiddling around with nothing better to do would actually result in a Superior dish. This was truly an unexpected gain!
Only one more dish to go.
In the blink of an eye, he had prepared two salt-baked dishes. Capitalizing on his proficiency with nuts, Lin Xu used the sa thod he did for the salt-baked peanuts to create salt-baked cashews.
"Host has completed the side-quest ’Technique Exploration’ by preparing three salt-baked dishes of at least Excellent Level within four hours, and acquired the universal Superior Cooking Technique—Salt Baking. Congratulations, Host."
Finally done.
Lin Xu placed the three finished salt-baked dishes on the work table and then said to everyone, "Co taste and see how they turned out."
Zhu Yong asked curiously, "Weren’t you saving these for Uncle Shen? If we eat them, how will you have enough to save?"
"He doesn’t get off work until much later. The quail eggs will be cold by the ti he’s back. I’ll make so more just before closing. Besides, this salt can be reused, and we have plenty of quail eggs available."
Hearing this, everyone stopped being polite, crowding around to start tasting. The quail eggs were fragrant and savory, the peanuts were crunchy with a gentle taste of braised at, and the cashews were also deliciously crispy, full of rich flavor but not salty.
Delicious.
All these snacks were quite tasty. The boss’s cooking skills were truly excellent; everything he made was delicious. Everyone couldn’t stop praising Lin Xu’s skills; it was a sha they couldn’t drink during work hours, or they would have definitely had a couple of drinks with these delicious snacks.
「Around five in the afternoon.」
Shen Guofu drove with Han Shuzhen to the store. They initially planned to ask Lin Xu about the thod for stewing Astragalus, but upon seeing the freshly made salt-baked peanuts, cashews, and quail eggs, they couldn’t help but lick their lips.
"Shuzhen, since we’re here and Lin Xu is offering, why don’t we try them before we go ho?"
Han Shuzhen rolled her eyes at him helplessly. "Then we’ll start from tomorrow, okay? We’re setting off for Yinzhou at the end of the month, and with all the hiking and sleeping in tents, you have to be in good shape. Don’t bla for not waiting for you then."
"No way, I won’t lag behind. Just you watch!"
While they were speaking, Shen Baobao and Chen Yan also finished work and ca to eat. Seeing the salt-baked dishes, Chen Yan imdiately beca interested. "Brother-in-law, the flavor of these salt-baked dishes is really good. Is it easy to learn? I’d like to give it a try if it is."
When it ca to other dishes, Lin Xu really wouldn’t dare guarantee his sister-in-law could learn them. But these kinds of salt-baked dishes, which were so easy anyone could make them, weren’t genuinely difficult. As long as one managed the ti well and didn’t use high heat when baking, it was hard to ss up.
He said with a smile, "It’s quite simple. You can definitely learn it if you want to."
As Shen Baobao was peeling quail eggs, she asked curiously, "Yan Bao, are you planning to personally prepare our birthday feast? What’s with the sudden diligence? If you were this hardworking in school, we might have had a Qingbei scholar in the family. Unlike . I was destined to go to Central Finance to find my Xu Bao; I couldn’t change my university application."
Chen Yan said, "..."
Sis, do you have so kind of condition where you feel awful if you don’t spread ’dog food’? Has flaunting your relationship beco a habit for you?
She retorted, "I just want to learn, alright? You have your brother-in-law to cook for you, but I’m all alone. If I don’t learn to cook, I’ll starve. Besides, there’s a lot of joy in cooking. Isn’t that more satisfying than playing those virtual gas?"
Shen Baobao’s eyes glead. "Then I’ll learn, too!"
I’m the official Executive Chef of Lin Ji’s Food; I can’t let a copycat surpass !
With that thought, the sisters headed to the changing room to put on chef uniforms, planning to earnestly master the salt-baking technique in the small kitchen beside the duck roasting oven.
「Six in the afternoon.」
Ren Jie walked out from the Yinchun Street police station next to Haidian Middle School. The team had recently tasked him with organizing so criminal case files. So cases had yet to be closed, so he had to go to the respective police stations to compile these files.
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