Chapter 297 Chen Kejia's Gratitude
"Wait until I finish dinner. Have you eaten at home?"

Hearing Wang Jianye's question, Chen Kejia nodded and said, "I just ate it at home, so I came to learn how to make longevity noodles from you, Master Wang."

Wang Jianye asked her to wait for a while and let him eat something to fill his stomach first.

Wang Jianye didn't eat any big fish or meat late in the evening.

I just simply cooked a bowl of millet porridge and served it with a plate of state-banquet-level mixed pickles.

Only Wang Jianye can make pickled vegetables of this quality in the whole country.

Chen Kejia looked at the tempting pickled vegetables and couldn't help asking, "Master Wang, can I have a bite of the pickled vegetables?"

"Try it."

Wang Jianye was drinking millet porridge and asked her to get the chopsticks.

After Chen Kejia took out the chopsticks from the cupboard, she couldn't wait to pick up a piece of pickled vegetables that made her covetous:
"Mm! Master Wang, the pickles you make are so delicious, aren't they? How do you make them?"

Chen Kejia's eyes lit up when she tasted the pickled vegetables mixed by Wang Jianye.

She had never eaten such delicious mixed pickles before.

I never thought that a common pickled vegetable that is eaten with rice could be cooked so deliciously.

"You saw me mixing the pickles just now.
But even though the method is not complicated, it is not an easy thing to achieve such a high level. "

Wang Jianye said, shaking his head: "If you really want to learn, you need to practice frequently and summarize frequently.

In this way, after a few months, your ability to mix pickles will improve significantly.”

"Can that reach the level of what you did, Master Wang?"

"It's hard."

Wang Jianye was not attacking Chen Kejia, he was telling the truth.

Food of state banquet standard is not something that ordinary people can prepare.

Even for a professional chef, it would take several years to bring a dish to the level of a state banquet.

Unless Chen Kejia often eats the meals cooked by Wang Jianye and her talent is improved, then she will learn to cook very quickly.

After hearing what Wang Jianye said, Chen Kejia felt a little worried. Is she really that stupid?

"Master Wang, the pickled vegetables you make are so delicious, why don't you include them in the recipes you published?"

"Mixed pickles doesn't belong to any cuisine. Which cookbook do you want me to put it in?"

Although Wang Jianye said this, Chen Kejia's words reminded him.

Those side dishes and home-cooked dishes that do not belong to the major cuisines can be taken out and put in a separate recipe book called "Home-cooked Recipes".

Chen Kejia wanted to learn how to make Wang Jianye’s longevity noodles and also wanted to learn how to mix pickles. Wang Jianye talked to her while eating.

Chen Kejia, who graduated from university, still retains the good habit of taking notes while listening to teachers’ lectures in college.

While Wang Jianye was speaking, she quickly wrote down the key points.

Wang Jianye finished his millet porridge, and Chen Kejia cleaned up the dishes and the table for him.

"Master Wang, can we get started?"

"Let me teach you how to knead the dough first."

Wang Jianye washed his hands, took out his family's clay pot, poured a bowl of noodles into the pot, and explained to Chen Kejia how much water was needed for each amount of flour.

The ratio of flour to water, a certain ratio will make it harder, and a certain ratio will make it softer.

Chen Kejia just wanted to learn how to make longevity noodles, so Wang Jianye explained to her the dough kneading method and experience of making longevity noodles.

As for more advanced dough kneading, for example, knowing wheat flour, corn flour, sorghum flour and other flours, as well as the various proportions of them, and what kind of effect the dough will have.

This is too complicated.

In the daily cooking, kneading the dough alone is a huge subject that requires a lot of effort to learn.

Considering Chen Kejia's head, it is full of scientific knowledge.

Wang Jianye did not make things difficult for her and taught her the complicated things.

Instead, I only taught her the simplest method, which allowed her to make it and it tasted good.

Wang Jianye demonstrated it once, "Do you remember it?"

Chen Kejia nodded: "I remember it."

"Put down your notes and tell me what you think of longevity noodles."

Just like when he was teaching his own apprentice, Wang Jianye pointed out and corrected the various mistakes made by Chen Kejia.

"Thank you, Master Wang. I understand."

Chen Kejia added many things that he had not noticed in his notes and said happily:
"Master Wang not only cooks delicious dishes, but is also a first-rate teacher. I have never cooked noodles before, but after listening to your explanation, I feel like I learned how to make them right away."

"It's useless even if you know how to use your eyes and brain. You have to know how to do it with your hands. Go back and practice well in the next few days. If you don't understand anything, come and ask me."

Wang Jianye treated Chen Kejia as his own apprentice and patiently gave him instructions.

This made Chen Kejia very grateful, "Thank you, Master Wang, I will remember it."

After three days of practice.

Chen Kejia came to Wang Jianye's house excitedly, carrying a bowl of longevity noodles: "Master Wang, look, I made it!"

With just a glance, Wang Jianye could tell that this bowl of longevity noodles was not good, so he shook his head:
"The most important thing about longevity noodles is that they should be in one bowl and not broken, as that would be unlucky."

"Is it broken? It wasn't broken when I watched it at home."

Chen Kejia gently turned it over with chopsticks and indeed found the broken part. She immediately felt depressed:
"Yes, it is true... My father's birthday is next week, and time is running out. Master Wang, how should I improve it?"

"Don't worry, I'll teach you."

After Wang Jianye said this, Chen Kejia's eyes lit up again and she nodded vigorously: "Yeah."

Wang Jianye trained Chen Kejia, and finally after three days and three days, she was able to make the longevity noodles to a satisfactory standard.

On Chen Shan’s birthday, Chen Kejia made a bowl of longevity noodles that she had been preparing for a long time. She watched anxiously as Chen Shan happily ate it, and received high praise from him.

Chen Kejia came to Wang Jianye's house excitedly and bowed excitedly: "Thank you, Master Wang."

Then Chen Kejia excitedly told Wang Jianye how happy her father was when he ate the longevity noodles she made.

Seeing Chen Kejia's excitement, Wang Jianye could already imagine how satisfied her father was.

My daughter practiced for several days and made a bowl of longevity noodles for herself on her birthday.

With such care, even if the noodles are too salty and hard to swallow, the father will still eat them happily.

Wang Jianye did not discourage Chen Kejia who was happy, but encouraged her:
"Practice more, and your parents will be happier when they eat the better longevity noodles you make in the future."

"Ok!"

Chen Kejia nodded excitedly and decided to come to Wang Jianye's house more often to ask him how to cook.

A state banquet chef like Wang Jianye has superb cooking skills and is also very good at teaching. If Chen Kejia learns cooking from him, she will definitely make rapid progress.

(End of this chapter)