What Li Shuli lent to Fu Yu was a complete set of heart-shaped molds. In addition to embossed ones, there were also directly carved ones, available in various sizes and shapes.
Fu Yu quickly smiled and thanked: "Thank you, Chef Li, I'll send it back as soon as I'm done with it."
Li Shuli asked curiously: "What do you want this for?"
Fu Yu explained: "Isn't today Valentine's Day? I have a customer ordering a note. I hope I can help with some plating styles to suit the holiday."
Generally, if a store has such a need, they will directly send workers over and ask Li Shuli to help carve roses or decorate fruits and vegetables with love hearts.
No matter how bad it is, Bai Gu can also make some pasta staples for the occasion.
Fu Yu talked about his creative idea, and Li Shuli's eyes suddenly lit up, and he praised with interest: "How did you come up with it, kid? You are young after all, your mind is spinning so fast!"
Fu Yu smiled coquettishly: "I'm just trying to catch a duck and get it on the shelves. It's my fault for being forced."
Li Shuli suddenly had a sudden impulse and became interested: "I've just finished everything here, so I'll go over there with you to see the effect."
Fu Yu nodded in agreement: "Okay, Chef Li, it just so happens that you can give me some guidance. You are a professional in styling!"
Since it wasn't the peak period for customers to dine, it didn't matter if Li Shuli went out for a while.
The two of them went back to the kitchen together. Zhang Jinyu was stunned when he saw Li Shuli coming over: "Chef Li, why are you here?"
Li Shuli smiled: "I'm here to see your chef making creative plate arrangements!"
At this time, Fu Yu had already opened the outer packaging of the mold, picked out a few that he could use, and said to Zhang Jinyu: "Jinyu, this is what I think, you can make thousands of knots into the shape of a rose, abalone It is made into a stacked three-dimensional heart, and the pork belly is directly cut into a heart shape. When placing the plate, every detail is included, and the scraps left after the abalone shaping can be directly made into roses for decoration on the plate, so that no food is wasted. It also serves as an embellishment!”
After Zhang Jinyu heard this, he was impressed by Fu Yu's genius idea!
His eyes lit up: "Okay! The effect should be good!"
As he spoke, Fu Yu handed over the selected molds: "Jinyu, take these and clean them first."
He himself began to make thousands of knots.
Fu Yu had never stacked roses before, but he had practiced withering flowers with radishes for a while.
He took out his mobile phone and called up the origami tutorial on the Internet, intending to try it out.
Li Shuli saw it and took the initiative to say: "Let me try it. Although I haven't used thousands of paper roses, I am very good at paper roses."
When Fu Yu heard this, he immediately became happy: "That's great!"
The Qianzhang itself is a thin piece. If you want to make it look like a rose, the difficulty is that you need to pay attention to the strength of your fingers when folding, otherwise the Qianzhang will be torn off with a little force, destroying the overall modeling effect.
Li Shuli picked up a thousand sheets and carefully began to fold them.
This process is quite a test of technique. Li Shuli tore up three thousand pieces in succession before he finally mastered the strength of duplication.
Seeing a thousand-folded rose tremblingly born in Li Shuli's hands, Fu Yu and Zhang Jinyu were overjoyed!
Very good!
Once the ingredients are finished shaping, half the battle is already done!
As long as Fu Yu doesn't destroy the rose shape when cooking, it will be fine.
Li Shuli was also very interested. It was the first time for him to use thousands of sheets to make decorative shapes. It was novel and at the same time, he felt particularly accomplished.
Thousands of roses were born on his fingertips, and he couldn't help but start to wonder what the meaning of these roses in all kinds of shapes were all made into the same shape, so he started to try to stack two more roses. Huaguduo.
Fu Yu saw that Li Shuli had no problem, so he took the mold and began to shape the pork belly.
Remove the skin from the pork belly, press it with a grinder, then cut along the edge with a kitchen knife, turn it around, and a three-dimensional heart-shaped pork belly is completed.
The pork belly itself is thick and plump, and the knife slides easily when cutting it, but this is not difficult for Fu Yu.
As long as he holds the kitchen knife, all cutting becomes a matter of ease for him.
When the pork belly is not cooked, it is cut into heart-shaped pieces, red and white. This shape looks a bit shabby.
But thinking about the heart-shaped potato cubes of a similar color after cooking on the special family banquet menu, Fu Yu suddenly regained his confidence.
Fu Yu originally wanted to make the abalone flowers by himself, but after hearing about it, Li Shuli took the initiative to take over.
In Li Shuli's hands, Feidudu's abalone quickly turned into a three-dimensional heart shape, and the cut corners were deliberately kept in a very complete shape.
In this way, when the cooking is completed, you can directly pick them out and put them on the plate, which is not only beautiful but also edible.
After all, abalone is paid per piece, and even the scraps are bought by customers. After it is served, it is their business whether the customer eats it or not. The kitchen will never cut corners.
After all the preparations were completed, Fu Yu started cooking.
The three-dimensional heart-shaped pork belly is marinated with cooking wine and salt for a while, then blanched and the foam removed.
Remove the pork belly, drain the soup, and reserve the soup for later use.
Make oil in a pot, sauté ginger, garlic slices and chili until fragrant, add pork belly and stir-fry.
Add abalone halfway through, stir-fry briefly, then pour in the soup.
Add Qian Zhangjie and stir-fry evenly.
Pour in an appropriate amount of light soy sauce, add some salt, and simmer over low heat.
Add a few grains of rock sugar and cook until the rock sugar melts.
Sprinkle some chicken essence and chives and stir-fry evenly, then take it out of the pan and place it on the plate.
The cooking process of this dish is not difficult for Fu Yu.
Whether it is seasoning or heat control, you can control it very accurately.
However, Fu Yu was still very cautious when cooking, mainly because he was afraid that the shape of Qianzhang would be damaged. As for the abalone and pork belly, he only needed to stew them normally.
When it was time to turn the pot over, how could Fu Yu dare to really do so? The collision caused Qianzhang to fall apart.
Fu Yu simply put on the tachyon clamp directly. Anyway, with the universal tachyon in hand, he was not afraid of damaging the ingredients no matter how he clamped it.
This kind of operation requires hand speed. If you turn it slowly, it will affect the flavor of the dishes. Moreover, there is not much in one pot, but it is still quite troublesome to turn the ingredients one by one.
Fu Yu has always been very attentive when cooking. He turns over a pot of ingredients repeatedly and becomes more and more skillful in his operations.
Soon, the one-pot dish is done!
The whole process went very smoothly, and Fu Yu completely copied the pattern of the special family banquet recipe when it came to the plating.
From thousands of roses to heart-shaped abalone and pork belly, every piece of food is presented with its own unique angle.
Even the remaining abalone scraps were not wasted, and two simple rose outlines were directly spelled out on the edge of the shallow-bottomed disk.
The whole dish is very creative, and the presentation is also very novel.
Especially the heart-shaped pork belly, which looks so plump and delicious.
Seeing the dishes being finished and plated, everyone couldn't help but feel happy.
Who would have thought that a dish of roasted pork belly with a thousand pieces of fresh abalone could be plated to suit the Valentine's Day atmosphere?
Thinking of this, Zhang Jinyu couldn't help but said: "Fu Chu, you are so awesome!"
Li Shuli personally participated in the cooking of this dish, and couldn't help but said: "Xiao Fu, you are a genius for coming up with this idea!"
I have to say that Fu Yu's idea is really a genius idea. Who would have thought that such a seafood dish can be presented in such a romantic presentation.
With this dish as inspiration, Fu Yu also followed the presentation of the special family banquet recipes for the remaining dishes, selecting similar ingredients for cutting and shaping.
Several dishes were quickly taken away by waiters and sent to the table in the front room.
The customer was very satisfied with the design of this dish and specifically asked the waiter to convey his thanks to Fu Yu!
After all, if it weren't for Fu Yu's help, I really don't know what to do with today's Valentine's Day dinner.
After this order was cooked, the kitchen began to take orders one after another.
Fu Yu was busy with the red gum for a while, and then went to the baking area to set up some work.
While he was busy cooking, Liu Yuqing came to the kitchen to deliver the barbecue order.
Fu Yu took the order, but Liu Yuqing did not leave immediately. Instead, she glanced at Zhang Jinyu who was making strings carefully and asked Fu Yu in a low voice: "I heard that you just made a table for Valentine's Day?"
When mentioning this matter, Fu Yu suddenly smiled proudly: "Yes, have you heard about this matter too? Haha..."
He was about to brag about his creative ideas when he noticed that Liu Yuqing looked at him with a somewhat unkind look.
The smile on Fu Yu's face faltered, and he asked tentatively: "What's wrong? Is there any problem?"
Liu Yuqing stared at Fu Yu and said meaningfully: "Oh, we can make Valentine's Day packages for customers, and when they get to me, they just transfer money directly?"
Fu Yu was stunned!
Liu Yuqing snorted coldly: "I can see that you don't love me at all!"
Fu Yu: "..."
Liu Yuqing: "I have never had a Valentine's Day set meal!"
The two were talking when Zhang Jiaxin took the order and came over to bake.
Seeing Liu Yuqing, Zhang Jiaxin smiled and said hello: "Xiaoqing, come here, do you have an order from me?"
Liu Yuqing shook her head: "No, there are very few orders today. After all, everyone is eating the Valentine's Day set menu!"
Fu Yu: "..."
Half an hour later.
Fu Yu took the time to bake a plate of broad beans, hoping to coax Liu Yuqing.
As a result, it was brought to the front desk. Liu Yuqing took the broad beans and sighed faintly: "Oh, everyone can eat the Valentine's Day set meal, but when you come here, you can only eat broad beans!"
Fu Yu: "..."
Come on!
This Valentine’s Day meal is a must!
Look, my girlfriend is so greedy that she even starts chanting curses!
well......
Fu Yu deeply reflected on himself and must remember today's mistakes and never make them again in the future.
...
After the new year, the business of major hotels has obviously declined, which is inevitable.
Sihaiyan's order volume is also far less than it was a year ago, and the staff in the store rarely slow down their work frequency.
Luo Jean is a fastidious person, and everyone who knows him knows this.
Ever since Fu Yu was delayed in going to the provincial capital to receive the award last time because of his help, he had always been thinking about this matter, thinking that after the New Year, he would treat Fu Yu to a meal no matter what, to express his gratitude.
Because of what happened a year ago, a chef in the back kitchen was fired, three workers left, and the buyer was also replaced.
After the new year, it was time to recruit and train people. After several days of busy work, all the staff had just been put in place.
After finally freeing up his hands, Luo Rang's first thing was to contact Fu Yu and arrange the thank you meal.
Luo Rang thought that since he wanted to treat the guests, he should be more formal and go out to eat. Since it would not show his sincerity, he simply called Fu Yu over and cooked a table of dishes to entertain the guests.
And when you get to your own home, you can easily arrange good food and wine.
After finishing lunch at noon, seeing that there were no orders delivered, Luo Rang avoided the others and called Fu Yu.
The call was quickly connected, and Luo Rang hurriedly greeted with a smile: "Fu Chu, this is Luo Rang. Are you busy now? Can you answer the phone?"
Fu Yu suddenly received a call from Luo Rang and was quite surprised. Hearing this, he hurriedly said: "Oh, I'm not busy. Chef Luo, do you have anything to do with me?"
Luo Rang said with a smile: "If you don't have any plans today, I would like to treat you to dinner tonight."
Fu Yu refused without hesitation: "Tonight? Not tonight, I have plans."
Luo Rang was stunned and said hurriedly: "Today is Friday, and tomorrow is the weekend."
No matter how normal the store's business is after the new year, the customer flow is still quite large on weekends. If we can't get customers today, we will have to reschedule to next week.
Luo Rang is an impatient person, and if he wants to do something, he must arrange it immediately, otherwise it will always be on his mind.
"Fu Chu, can you push forward the arrangements for tonight? I've already made arrangements here..."
Fu Yu immediately said: "No, I definitely can't go there today, I have to celebrate the festival!"
Just as Luo Rang was about to speak, he heard someone speaking on Fu Yu's side, and then Fu Yu's voice rang out: "Chef Luo, I have something going on here. Let's contact you next time."
After saying that, Fu Yu hung up the phone directly.
Luo Rang was stunned this time.
Although they have not known each other for a long time, he still knows Duo Yu relatively well.
This guy has a very good temper and is very polite and easy to talk to.
Today I took the initiative to invite him, but Fu Yu refused directly.
What exactly is going on?
besides......
Hasn’t this year passed?
What else are you celebrating?
Thinking about it, Luo Rang took out his phone and checked his calendar.
When I saw this, I suddenly understood!
Depend on!
February 14th!
Valentine's Day!
Luo Rang couldn't help but laugh. He hadn't paid attention to the festival celebrated by this young couple in many years.
However, at this moment, Luo Rang suddenly realized that...
He recalled that Fu Yu's parents suddenly came to Bei'an to visit relatives, and later they were in a hurry to buy a house...
yes!
Fu Yu already has a girlfriend!
If you think about it this way, it all makes sense!
I don't know whose daughter is so lucky to find such a good boyfriend as Fu Yu.
