It's not the first time we've seen a mouse in a movie dealing with food, such as the Hollywood DreamWorks film "Ratatouille," where the extremely funny mouse ends up as the quality control director on a cheese production line! However, it seems that it is always the foreign rats who are entrusted with the role of chef and appear on camera, while the Chinese rats have to hide in the shadows of the folk tales and do some ingredient preparation for the traditional delicacy of Lapa congee, which is not fair at all!
Ratatouille is the hottest cartoon movie of the summer produced by Disney, which is translated as Ratatouille or Chef Ratatouille. The story is about a gifted country mouse Remy (Remy) because of the insistence on the love of food and ventured to the big city of Paris, in the famous chef Auguste Gusteau (Gusteau) ghost of encouragement to enter the restaurant to learn to cook, in the restaurant handyman Linguin (Linguini) help, through all the fairy tale episodes, and finally become a conquest of the most tricky food critics in Paris! The Great Chef. Of course, the dish that played a key role was called Ratatouille (vegetable medley).
Existing since Roman times, Provence is located in a hilly region in the northern interior of the Mediterranean coast of southern France, known for its distinctive Proven?al dialect and slow lifestyle, and is famous as a lavender producer and artists' paradise. Cézanne, Van Gogh, Monet, Picasso, Huxley, and Nietzsche all worked in Provence. But Provence owes its fame today to Peter Mayle, a British writer who lived here in seclusion, and whose A Year in Provence, published in 1989, Forever Provence, published in 1991, and Return to Provence, published in 2000, are known as the "Provence Trilogy", which bring the beauty of Provence to the world. These books bring the beauty of Provence to the world.
Provence has a wealth of agricultural products, fresh vegetables, fruits, olive oil, garlic, seafood, spices, composed of a paradise for diners, and its healthy lifestyle began to lead the fashionable elements of the European lifestyle. So, the delicious local dish - a messy stew of vegetables - became the main line of "Ratatouille", aiming to convey a concept of pursuing a simple life with a healthy and positive mindset.
Considering that Chinese food has always had a tradition of collecting recipes, I'll put it here. The "Provence Vegetable Chowder" has some of the flavor of the diet recipe "Seven Day Slimming Soup". It uses tomatoes, zucchini (a variant of winter squash), eggplant, colored peppers, onions and garlic, which don't look like very tasty vegetables, so it's the best way to represent the subtleties of French food ingredients?
It's a pain in the ass to make, cut the zucchini into thick slices, sauté them in olive oil and set them aside; cut the eggplant into thick slices and sauté them in olive oil and set them aside; cut the peppers into chunks and sauté them in olive oil and set them aside; sauté the garlic and onion in olive oil and then put in the peeled tomatoes and simmer them for 5 minutes; put the zucchini, eggplant, and peppers that have been sautéed and set them aside into a pot and simmer them for 3 minutes. Simmer for 3 minutes. Then add the seasonings in order: a tsp of basil, two tsp of thyme, two bay leaves, a tsp of salt, five grinds of black pepper, and simmer on low heat for another 30 minutes.
Of course, that's not how it's done in the movie, where they use animation to make the best "Provencal vegetable chowder" in Paris!
The Provencal risotto can be served as a main course, with bacon if you're feeling vegetarian, as a side dish with rice, steak or chicken breast, or chilled in the fridge and served cold, which is said to be the best.
Which French chef devised "Provencal Vegetable Chowder"? Perhaps it wasn't a chef at all! Ratatouille is French slang for "screwed up". Chinese food has a history of "accidental dishes", and I guess French food is similar.