【Discussion】 A gentleman is not far from a kitchen

A few days later, I went to buy lunch, pointed at the food I wanted to eat across the counter, and my aunt helped me with the food.

"You must think this is sweet potato leaves, right?" I pointed to a dish, and my aunt suddenly seemed to have discovered a new world.

I shook my head, "This is apricot."

Auntie was a little surprised: "It's not like you're not cooking, you even know this dish."

"Actually, I know most of the home-cooked vegetables."

What my aunt didn't know was that I had been holding a spatula in the kitchen since the third grade of elementary school. At that time, it was just to help my mother. Later, my mother asked me if I wanted to try cooking vegetables on a fire, from omelette to egg fried rice, to learn egg fried rice. ”

"But I haven't cooked yet."

"It's the same, just put the vegetables in the pot and fry them."

So, the kitchen became my playground and experimenting ground. As long as I didn't get hurt, my mother was happy to play with me. Unexpectedly, two years later, my mother had to go out with my father to work until late at night because of the change in my father's work style, so it became my responsibility to cook dinner for the family. After primary school, I went to my aunt's house to lead a bicycle, and hurriedly rode home. I opened the refrigerator and took out all the ingredients I wanted to cook today. Go out during tuition. The rest of the meals are put into the electric cooker to keep warm, so that parents who only come home in the middle of the night can have hot meals to eat.

This kind of life is about two or three years. At first, my brothers and sisters will refuse to eat because they think I can eat it, but then they are still good at it (probably don’t want to go hungry!) and get used to my cooking. Later, my parents didn’t need to run around like this. About the second year in my country, my mother asked me if I wanted to go to the school building to experience it, and I didn’t stop until I did. So I'm no stranger to the home-cooked vegetables that appear in the kitchen.

After I moved to Kaohsiung to live independently, I also got my mother’s electric cooker and wok. For a while, I was often depressed because of the pressure of work. At that time, the most stressful way was to cook, and I kept trying various combinations of ingredients. , or challenge more sophisticated precision cooking techniques. When I get home from get off work at 6 o'clock, I spend my time cooking, maybe I can't have a meal until nearly 9 o'clock, but from the preparation to the slow cooking process, all the pressure is released.

I don't know when I started, and I was no longer interested in spending time cooking. Except for my family, no friends actually knew that I would cook. Until a certain time, a colleague came to the house and asked to cook some dishes by himself to entertain a colleague who came to celebrate. This colleague is not good at cooking, so we also held the determination that every bite must be said "delicious", and let the colleague treat ourselves with more confidence in cooking skills. Unexpectedly, the situation is really not good. My colleague can still handle the simple stir-frying of green vegetables. Faced with the cooking of fish and meat, my colleague panicked for a while, so naturally I took the spatula and added what I saw. My colleague saw it. I was so excited to cook so easily, as if I had discovered a new world, "I can't think of it at all..." Only then did my colleagues know that I would still be able to cook. Later, when I entered the house, I also cooked a table to entertain my colleagues. In fact, that time I made a mutton stove, a salad and a bitter gourd with meat, and fried two green vegetables. It looked very rich. But in the eyes of my colleagues, even the mutton stove can be done, and since then, in the eyes of my colleagues, it has been directly promoted to "God Rank". After that, I will cook less. Even if I have one, it is very simple to cook one or two dishes. Anyway, it can be done in a Datong electric cooker. After putting it in the electric cooker, I can have some time to do other things. Life, try not to be complicated. , simple and easy.

It seems that I have some talent for cooking. When I go out to eat or have a meal with friends, I can always eat the ingredients, seasoning or cooking method of each dish. If I want to copy it myself, I should be able to make the same 70% similarity. Dishes, this is not complacency, but the accumulated experience of more than 30 years!

Of course there is a song at the end. So, are there any songs about cooking? Of course there are!

Martika - Martika's Kitchen