Chapter 38: Barbecue is the true meaning of life
Heath curled his lips. He really wanted to ask Jun Shaling whether what she said about driving a big truck was proper or not, but considering Sister Feng who was standing next to him, Heath held back his words.
After the people from the TV station and the Hiruf Company left, Heath was dragged into the car by the Junshas. Then the Junshas set up tables and chairs around Heath and moved all the ingredients from the cafeteria over.
"Here they come again... Farfetch'd comes out to help!" Heath couldn't help but smile as he looked at the giggling Miss Junsha and the others. He was already used to such scenes.
"Trainer, what are you doing?" Zoroark, who had transformed into a caterpillar and was looking outside curiously, turned his head and asked.
"A barbecue party is the kind of party that makes them happy but makes me suffer." Heath summed it up succinctly. There was nothing he could do about it, since he was the best cook in this place.
Every time the Miss Junshas celebrated something and had a barbecue party, Heath was the one who worked the hardest.
He had to cut the ingredients, cook the barbecue, and record what Junsha and the others wanted to eat. After every barbecue party, Heath wanted to just lie down on the ground and sleep. He was so tired.
But now Heath feels a little more convenient, after all, he has his own partners, Farfetch'd and Zorua.
For a good barbecue, the combination of ingredients is also very important. Many people think that barbecue is a very simple cooking method, but in fact, barbecue is also difficult.
"Fish Onion Duck, look, this is a piece of pork. What you need to do now is to cut it into slices, while paying attention to separating the fat and lean parts. Is that ok?" Heath asked the Fish Onion Duck.
Although Farfetch'd can't do much now, at least Farfetch'd's knife skills can still help Heath a lot.
"Onion!" Onion Duck nodded very confidently. Heath took a look at the onion in Onion Duck's hand and handed a kitchen knife to Onion Duck. Meat cut with onions would easily have an onion smell.
Heath was busy preparing various seasonings. The soul of barbecue is seasoning, and good seasoning can enhance the deliciousness of barbecue.
The best combination of each ingredient is different, according to each person's different tastes and preferences, so Heath often puts various seasonings on the table and lets the Miss Junsha mix them themselves.
Of course, if Miss Junsha asks Heath to prepare a dipping sauce, Heath will personally prepare a dipping sauce for her.
"Congee~" The Onion Duck poked Heath's waist proudly. Heath turned his head and took a look. The piece of pork had been perfectly divided into fat and lean meat, and was cut very evenly.
Heath nodded with satisfaction. Before, when he was alone, it took him a long time to cut the ingredients.
"Come on, cut the mutton like this." Heath pointed at the mutton, and then picked up the skewers one by one. Heath made them himself.
There is naturally barbecue in the world of Pokémon, but the barbecue party for Miss Junsha and the others was organized by Heath. Whenever Heath thought of this, he felt like he was shooting himself in the foot.
However, Heath felt much happier when he thought about the small amount of money he could get after the barbecue party.
"Trainer, why are you doing this?" Zoroark had already returned to his original form. He stood aside and asked Heath curiously.
Heath looked down at the skewer in his hand. There was a piece of lean meat and a piece of fat on it, which were mixed together.
"Because this way you don't need oil, and pork roasted with lard will taste better. The only thing is that you need to sprinkle cumin, chili powder and other ingredients on the barbecued meat." Heath explained to Soraya while quickly skewering the barbecued meat.
Oil is of great help to chefs. Heath once watched a foreign program in which Chinese chefs competed with foreign chefs in cooking skills.
Then one time, the foreign chef took the oil from the Chinese chef, thinking that this would cause a lot of trouble, and the Chinese chef started to make alchemy on the spot...
No, that’s not right. They took out the fat pork and started to make lard, which scared the foreign chefs and made them call it cheating.
Although they are both oil, lard and vegetable oil have different tastes. The fried rice cooked with lard tastes better and more fragrant.
After the pork was skewered, Heath took it to the grill on the dining car. He had already put the burning charcoal in beforehand, and now he put the fatter pork directly on the grill.
There are certain things to know when it comes to grilling, and in Heath's opinion, fruit wood charcoal is better than wood charcoal, which is better than coal, which is better than a smokeless grill.
Although people now pay attention to healthy eating and smokeless and charcoal-free barbecue, the barbecue made with this method often tastes worse than that made with charcoal.
Heath thought the difference was the smell of fireworks.
As the charcoal heat roasts the pork, it slowly changes color. Oil drops emerge from the fat like small bubbles, which burst and dye the lean meat next to it shiny.
The rich aroma of pork slowly spreads.
Heath looked at the skewers in front of him, flipped them quickly with both hands, and then picked up the prepared barbecue powder next to it and sprinkled it on them.
As the barbecue powder fell on the pork skewers, a rich aroma of spices suddenly bloomed, making Zoroark and Duckling swallow their saliva.
Heath looked at the barbecue powder in his hand and couldn't help but smile. This barbecue powder was specially made by him and it couldn't be bought outside. However, this barbecue powder could only be used for barbecue with more fat.
"Hmm...it has a sour smell." Zoroya jumped onto Heath's shoulder and looked at the skewers in Heath's hand with a greedy look on his face.
Heath glanced at Zoroark. As a canine, he had a very sensitive nose. On the other side, the Farfetch'd Duck had already impatiently placed the chopped mutton next to Heath, looking at Heath eagerly.
Heath was a little helpless, but he didn't stop what he was doing. He kept turning the skewers in his hands quickly so that each skewer could be heated evenly.
It was almost time, so Heath put the skewers on the tray, then looked at the number of Miss Junsha's tables outside and divided the skewers in his hand equally according to the number of tables.
"For you and Farfetch'n, one skewer each... one treasure and one skewer. I'll give you something else to eat later." Heath handed two skewers of pork to Zoroa and Farfetch'n, and then continued to busily skewer the mutton.
Heath didn't have much time to eat, but it was okay to let his two little ones have a taste.
