You've read all the recipes and you won't go into the kitchen once. That's the problem all cooks face. Cooking has never been a technical problem, and it is never the key to know and not to know. How to stimulate people's enthusiasm and impulse for life is the key.
Gide wrote in "Food on Earth": "You will never understand how hard we have worked to make ourselves interested in life."
It's the same egg. You can beat it evenly and steam it. You can also separate the egg white and wrap it in shredded pork for stir-frying. You can also put it in water at a constant temperature to turn it into a wobbly hot spring egg. You can even cook it until the protein is solidified. Take out the yolk with a needle, inject the chopped minced meat, and then cook it to surprise people.
It's also a bowl of steamed eggs. You can add soy sauce to turn it into a dark custard, or you can add a little lard and sprinkle a little pepper noodles when steaming, which will improve the smoothness. Chopped shrimp meat and shallots can also be added, which is suitable for nourishing the body of patients with severe colds.
this is knowledge? Is it skill? No, I'm curious to see how many tricks an egg can conjure.
When talking about food, the focus is never on the food itself, but on the connection between people and the world. Just as you don't eat Toona sinensis, you eat spring, so there is only one season in a year.
When there is Toona sinensis in front of you, bucket handle, the Big Dipper, should point to the east in the sky, because the east belongs to wood and everything grows. Pointing to the south is summer, because the south belongs to fire; Pointing to the west is autumn, because the west belongs to gold, and the gold owner is cold; Pointing to the north is winter, and the north belongs to water.
However, in the north, bucket handle always points to jiaozi, regardless of spring, summer, autumn and winter, because jiaozi did everything at once.
people are always interested in change, and they can't help but try it themselves.
Therefore, always take pains to tell in detail how to scrape tomatoes with a stainless steel spoon, so that the skin and flesh can be separated naturally; How to insert chopsticks into tomato stalks and rotate the barbecue on the gas fire to keep the most pulp when peeling; How to heat tomatoes with a steamer or boiling water is convenient for peeling. At the same time, the half-cooked pulp is most suitable for scrambled eggs. It takes no more than 1.5 seconds before and after cooking, and the egg flowers are as fresh, smooth and tender as tomatoes.
The purpose of telling all this is to make people have a vivid process in their minds before they do it, and after verification, they will rejoice and feel that they have been kissed on the forehead by life.
compared with the chef's video, the biggest advantage of words is to convey subtle emotions. The food writing is not that parents teach their children to cook, nor that the master teaches their apprentices to cook, but that your friend invites you to a family dinner. When the wine is full, he tells you in a daze: Actually, this dish is very simple to cook. Can you come here like this after you go home? Pass "you can do it too" to the other person's heart perfectly.
on top of all this, the most important thing is the picture. Never, never choose a photo that looks average. 99% people read the menu and went to the kitchen for the attractive picture in it, and decided that they could make a bowl of the same dish by following the process inside.
they will never know that in order to keep the shape of the dishes, the dishes in those beautiful pictures are not salted. They will never know how long the post-processing will take for that visual effect.
Choose a photo that looks ordinary, just like what any housewife can do. Make sure that most people can achieve this level, and they can easily surpass it the second time and the third time, and you will bring most happiness and sense of accomplishment to everyone.