I'm the Culinary God

Chapter 1172: Chapter 473: Dundun: With a Mom Who’s Clueless But Loves to Play, What Can This Cat Do?

"What are you up to?"

Lin Xu took the steamed skin residue out and placed it in the cold storage to cool down. After finishing, he noticed Shen Jiayue sneakily taking a bag of cooked peanuts into the small kitchen, and curiously followed her in.

"Making peanut paste. That year, when I went to Liu Zhou with my mom and dad, I not only ate black sesame paste but also peanut paste. I’m planning to try making it the way you taught me."

Peanut paste is a sweet delicacy made in the same way as black sesame paste. It has a sweet, fragrant taste, slightly richer than black sesame paste, with a more noticeable smoothness.

Lin Xu saw this girl preparing to mash the peanuts in a mortar, so he didn’t say much.

Since she wanted to play, let her mess around with it.

After all, this method isn’t dangerous, at most she might get a little burn from the milk pan.

Whether or not she can make peanut paste is hard to say, because with her method, she’s likely to end up with a bowl of peanut butter.

Peanuts are rich in oil. When roasted and mashed, it’s essentially the same as the ancient oil extraction method.

In this case, peanuts smashed by the pestle will release oil, which will coat the crushed peanuts - that’s how peanut butter is made.

"Lin Xu, what’s with that look? You think I can’t make it?"

"No, I think using a grinder would be better, because mashing like this is very likely to make peanut butter."

Shen Jiayue originally wanted to argue back, but her dad once said:

Listen to advice, and you’ll be well-fed.

This girl didn’t hesitate to take the roasted peanuts out of the mortar and put them in the grinding cup. The rest that couldn’t fit were popped into her mouth one by one, like a hamster preparing for winter, chewing them down:

"I think there’s no need to make peanut paste; they’re delicious as is."

Lazy cooks find it hard to stick through to the last step, partly because they don’t want to move, and also because they feel the ingredients are already edible.

If they’re edible already, why bother with the extra processing?

Lin Xu said:

"You can give it a try, make the peanut paste so that you can pair it with black sesame paste in a bowl, creating a Tai Chi diagram like Tai Chi Soup."

Tai Chi Soup is a common soup whose biggest feature is its Tai Chi shape.

The black sesame paste made today is grey-black, and the peanut paste is earthy yellow. The contrast between these two colors can theoretically create a Tai Chi shape.

He was just mentioning it casually, but when Shen Jiayue, who was chewing peanuts, heard it, she immediately put the lid on the grinder, and got to work!

Hmm, if we can make the Tai Chi diagram today, it will definitely amaze all fans and netizens... Dundun, oh Dundun, you have to bless mommy to succeed!

Once mommy makes the Tai Chi diagram, she’ll buy you a dragon bed-style cat bed.

Shen Jiayue really hoped to make it because then she could brag for a long time, though she lacked confidence and assurance, she could only rely on a bit of mysticism.

At the service desk downstairs, Dundun was playing with a small ball with Shu Yun, looked up at the ceiling, a hint of confusion in his eyes.

"Dundun, catch!"

Sitting on the other side of the service desk, Shu Yun tossed a small ball. Normally, Dundun would immediately catch it, followed by a side kick to send it back.

But today, he didn’t catch it, instead he jumped in front of the service desk’s computer.

At this moment, Song Tiantian was busy organizing customer data and bills. Dundun jumped onto the keyboard and rolled over.

"What are you doing, Dundun? Keep misbehaving and Tongtong will grab your tail."

Song Tiantian lightly tapped Dundun’s chubby bottom. Turning back, she noticed a Tai Chi diagram had appeared on the computer monitor.

Dundun glanced at it, then continued playing with the ball.

Shen Jiayue was holding the grinder, grounded peanuts into powder, then used a non-stick pan to fry the soaked rice a bit, afterward, she combined the two powders in a pot at a ratio of 2:1, adding five times the amount of water and started cooking.

She was continuously recording a video, and Lin Xu didn’t involve himself much. Seeing that she wasn’t getting burned, he went out to attend to his own matters.

But leaving Shen Baobao alone with open fire was somewhat risky.

In the future, he’d definitely buy her an induction cooker, so it’d be safer without visible flames.

As for the taste... well, the taste isn’t that important.

After all, his Baobao is determined to become the god of small kitchen appliances, so she must use an induction cooker because, among small appliances, induction cookers are traditionally good sellers.

Apart from induction cookers, they’ll arrange for rice cookers, electric pressure cookers, electric crock pots, bread machines, ovens, breakfast machines, electric griddles, coffee machines, and electric steamers.

Anyway, this girl has nothing to do, so it’s perfect to accumulate some material.

Back in the kitchen, the temperature of the skin residue in the cold storage had come down. Lin Xu carefully placed it on a plastic board slightly bigger than the steaming tray.

He lightly tapped it a few times, then lifted it, and the steaming tray was removed.

Then he turned the plastic board over onto the cutting board, revealing the full face of the skin residue.

The skin residue was entirely yellow, with a layer of golden egg skin on the surface, not only making the color more attractive, but this combination and contrast also whetted the appetite.

In terms of presentation, the appearance indeed improved, but it hadn’t reached its peak.

Lin Xu thought next time he could spread a layer of egg wash in the tray in advance, steam it for a minute in the steamer, then take it out and add the mixed noodles.

In this way, the steamed skin residue would have egg skin on both sides, enhancing both color and appeal to the next level.