Cooking and love

Speaking of eating, this may be the most primitive instinct of human beings. In order to survive, human beings have tried countless possibilities. With the development of civilization, this instinctive behavior of eating has gradually evolved. From the initial steaming and frying to the present eating, the instinct of eating has also become the ability to eat, and the food has also changed from the roughest to the exquisite works of art, and the process of this change is cooking.

Everyone can eat vegetables, but not everyone can cook. People who can cook may not be able to do it well. There are many processes to make a good dish, from the selection of ingredients, the treatment of appearance, the mastery of heat to the final product, each process needs to be carefully completed by the chef. I once watched the TV series "The Legend of the Boss" and said that a good dish needs a soul, and the contribution of the soul requires the chef to have both technical support and emotional input. Therefore, the requirement of making a good dish is not lower than writing a good article and drawing a good picture, so a cook can also be called a soul forger, and a good dish can also be called a work of art.

I have a friend named Er Ya, nicknamed Ya, who likes cooking and studying vegetables. As a first-class chef in a circle of friends, she can only take selfies, be an intermittent practitioner of interesting souls and be an occasional fitness enthusiast. She cooks 1 or twice a year. Every time she cooks, she will start preparing, washing, making up, brushing Tik Tok's circle of friends and checking the power of her mobile phone in the early morning. When everything was ready, she began the annual cooking process.

Today, the dishes she is going to challenge are seafood, carrots, cucumbers and fried shrimp tails with corn kernels, which is a dish with very high requirements for taking pictures. She cut a cucumber and carrot into pieces, removed the shrimp head and shrimp line, and then divided the dish into two pieces, which were eaten raw and close to her face, and Ding Ding cooked them. The whole cooking process is very simple. Put vegetables and shrimp tails into a plate and put them in a pyramid shape. The hot oil in the pot is boiling, pour the pyramid into the pot, stir-fry, then sprinkle the seasoning savagely, stir-fry, pick up the fried food and throw it back, stir-fry ... After a stir-fry, the dish is cooked, taken out of the pot and put on the plate.

Then she started the second course non-stop, braised pig's trotters. It is said that men are big pig's feet, so when cooking this dish, Ya becomes emotional, because every time she cuts a knife, she will think of the past, as if with a little more effort, she can transfer this pain to those men who have hurt her. To make this dish well, it is very important to choose the ingredients. Ya is made of pig's trotters that have been treasured for many years. This kind of old pig's trotters is tasty, bright in color, slightly greasy in fresh, and naughty when cooked. The taste is energetic and mature, which is the taste that Ya likes and pursues. After a series of soaking, pickling and cutting, it is steamed in a pot. When the meat is dark red and the soup is rich, turn off the fire and put it on the plate.

For Er Ya, the food is ready, but it doesn't mean it is finished. It's just an important part of the cooking process. At this time, I entered the last and most important process of cooking today, taking photos and sending friends. After graduating from college, Ya broke a lot of mobile phones in her spare time, so for this shoot, she carefully pulled the dishes into what she wanted with chopsticks, then took photos, changed the angle, added filters, and took more than 400 photos, and finally finished. Who would have thought that two simple dishes, from preparation to cooking, seem to take less than a few minutes, but there is such a deep doorway behind them.

Actually, Ya is a good cook. She enjoys the process of cooking from raw to cooked. This process is like falling in love. From the first meeting to the realization of love, every process is like cooking. When cooking, you will choose the wrong materials, such as old leeks, shriveled wax gourd and rotten eggplant, and you will also encounter garbage, scum and bastards when you are in love; Cooking will hurt your hands, and falling in love will be sad; Some dishes are bright but dull, and some love is bright and bitter.

It turns out that falling in love is so much like cooking. Some people are gifted, no matter what ingredients are delicious in their hands, every love is delicious; Some people are dull in talent, and delicacies are also a pot of stew in their hands, and every love is confused; Actually, it's nothing. For an ordinary person, cooking is just to eat. As long as it suits his own taste, it is the best. There is no need to elaborate every dish. Stir-fry and slow stew are dishes, so are cauldrons and chowder. In the same way, falling in love is to find a place for your soul, and there is no need to deliberately pursue 100% fit. Vigorous is love, and quiet is also love.

Finally. Therefore, people with dull talent should not be sad. There will always be good food, there will always be the right person, and there will always be glances. When you beat an egg, she stirs it and laughs into a bowl of rice as soon as they meet. You fry the sauce, she cooks the noodles, and the fire is together, and the smell is full of room.