To make garlic green beans, Gu Yingxue first picked up some garlic cloves minced it with knife. Then she trimmed the ends off the green beans, washed and dried them with kitchen towel.
The she heated the pot filled with neutral oil. While the oil heats up, she prepared a plate with a layer of paper towel. After oil was heated, Gu Yingxue fried the green beans in batches. When green beans' skin blistered, she quickly removed them in to kitchen towel lined plate to drained off excess oil.
After all green beans were fried, Gu Yingxue heat up a pan with oil, and when oil heated, put minced garlic, pinch of salt and some chicken stock powder in it. When fried garlic aroma began to spread in air, green beans were added.
Like that Gu Yingxue, made garlic green beans in few minutes.
No: 2001, next door,
Zhou Rouwei, came home after shopping. Because of tiredness, she fall on sofa, quickly close her eyes rest. What she not expected was, suddenly there was a rich fragrance filled in air.
Smelling the fragrance, she twitched her nose a few times in order to catch it. Next second, the usually lazy dog in her family, rushed to to door and began to scratched it anxiously like asking her to opened the door.
Zhou Rouwei, also rushed to the door.
"LeLe, what are you doing?"
Looking at disobedient dog, Zhao Rouwei got frustrated.
"LeLe, stop scratching the door. If uncle saw it, you will be definitely throw out."
Hearing Zhou Rouwei's threaten, LeLe paused for a second, but twitching it's nose, it became restless again.
"Ah, what are you doing? Didn't you hear me?"
With tiredness and also a troublesome dog, her patience began to lose control. But the smell filled in air make her stop doing anything.
But after second, she came to her mind and pulled the restless dog into his room with after few struggle.
"Sigh...why I can't reset all least for moment? What even worse if this smell?"
"Who the heck was trying to torture me?"
"Is that my uncle, because I spend lots money on shopping, he planed to torture me?"
Zhou Rouwei fall on sofa again, began to start thinking widely.
This short drama didn't caught in Gu Yingxue's eyes. Meanwhile she started to prepare the next few dishes.
After making garlic green beans, she decided to make eggplant and minced pork with garlic sauce.
This dish-making idea came to her when she saw a old grandma in a traditional market selling fresh and plump eggplant. When she saw her, she observed her for a few minutes and saw that no one was going to her stall and that Grandma looked at other stalls filled with customers with a lonely look. So she went to her stall and bought all the eggplants and also broccoli from her.
First she washed the eggplants that bought, removed the top stem and cut them in half lengthwise and into 3 inch wedges. Then she set a timer for 10 minutes, steamed the eggplants until they have a soft texture, but not mushy.
While eggplants were steaming, she minced the garlic and ginger, sliced scallions thinly and separated the white and green parts, also sliced red chilli thinly after seed were removed.
Then she made sauce with soy sauce, cooking wine, black vinegar, chill crisps, sesame oil, cornstarch, sugar and water.
On medium heated pan, she add oil, minced garlic and ginger, sliced white scallion part, and chilli to stir-fry until it became fragrant. Then added minced pork and stir-fry for few minutes until it became golden. Then added the prepared sauce on it, cooked it until sauce became thick. Then put steamed eggplants into the sauce and mixed it well. After that Gu Yingxue put it in severing plate and garnished it with scallions and sesame seeds.
Then she started to make last dish, tender chicken and broccoli.
After buying broccoli from old grandma, Gu Yingxue thoughts about making new recipe that was in cooking guide and recipes book given by system. She never tried out that before, so this was a perfect chance to make it.
First of all Gu Yingxue sliced chicken breast against the grain, that means sliced against the direction of long muscle fiber running. After that she marinated chicken breast with cooking wine, salt, light soy sauce, sugar, cornstarch, baking soda. After mixed it well, she set it aside to marinade while prepared other ingredients.
When she marinated chicken breast, the lotus root and pork bone soup also simmered until, what she wants. Then she added already soaked peanuts into it, covered it and let it simmer another half an hour.
Then she washed and cut broccoli into florest, kept the stem and minced the garlic finely. After that, she picked up a bowl, began to prepare the sauce.
Chicken broth, soy sauce, oyster sauce, sugar, rice vinegar, cornstarch and sesame oil added into the bowl and mixed it well until cornstarch dissolved.
Then steamed broccoli in a lager pan filled with water, covering the lid for a few minutes. After that, In the same pan that water was removed, she added neutral oil. When it heated up, she added marinated chicken, spreading chicken slices across the pan. Then flipped it in few minutes and cooked another few minutes. Once chicken was ready, Gu Yingxue added the broccoli and sauce to the pan and stir it until sauce became thick. Then she transferred it into the plate.
Finally when she finished making tender chicken and broccoli, soup also was ready and then she seasoned it with some salt, white pepper and some chicken stock powder.
Meanwhile in next door, Zhou Rouwei freshened up after resting for while. But since she smell rich food aroma, her nose didn't stop from twitching, what even worse is her stomach also began to fight. Not only her, but also LeLe couldn't sit still.
Unable to resist, she finally decided to go to find that torturing aroma. But she didn't expect that, when she opened the door LeLe will rushed out of the house like a lightning bolt.
"LeLe! Stop right there? Where are you going? Come back here!"
Zhou Rouwei was shocked and scrambled after him. Following the strong scent, LeLe ran all the way and stopped precisely infront of next door.
Zhou Rouwei also stopped at Infront of Gu Yingxue's house, glanced at the golden retriever who paced anxiously in circles, hen barked twice at the door.
Gu Yingxue was arranging the dinner on table, when she heard the dog barking and looked at the door in confusion.