I'm the Culinary God-Chapter 837 - 362: From Chestnut with Shell to Silky Jelly—The Magical Transformation of Food
Not long after, those little dough balls had relaxed nicely.
Chen Meijuan pressed the dough balls into flat disks by hand, placed them on a baking tray, and put them into the preheated oven to bake.
Shen Baobao crouched outside the oven with a camera, watching as the cakes inside turned a golden brown. The sight alone made her mouth water.
Not long after, with a "ding", the preset time on the oven was up.
Chen Meijuan donned oven mitts and opened the oven, and a rich scent of milk mixed with chestnut wafted out. Shen Baobao couldn’t help but put down the camera immediately.
Being a director can wait until tomorrow; for now, the delicious baked cakes come first!
Chen Meijuan used tongs to carefully take out the slightly golden-brown cakes and placed them in a bamboo basket lined with oil-absorbing paper.
A little wife who had given up on directing folded a piece of kitchen paper, carefully placed a still-hot cake near her mouth to cool, and couldn’t wait to take a small bite.
"Wow, so crispy and delicious, Mom, your skills are amazing."
"If you like them, I’ll make more before I leave, but don’t eat too many at night. These cakes are high in fat, so take a couple to work and try to eat them during the day."
"I know, Mom, don’t worry!"
While eating these delicious cakes, Shen Baobao readily agreed to anything.
Once the basket was filled with chestnut cakes, she took a couple of photos with her phone and posted them on her social media:
"I just said I was hungry, and my mother-in-law magically made a basket of cakes using wild chestnuts she brought. They’re very chestnut-flavored, with added milk and egg. Another happy day!"
As soon as she posted it, Chen Yan, who was chatting with Ren Jie at home, responded with a string of exclamation marks.
She didn’t say a word, but the tone conveyed strong resentment and dissatisfaction toward this late-night temptation coupled with boasting about her mother-in-law.
Shen the Director, feeling upbeat, immediately replied:
"Ha, Yan Bao, are all those exclamation marks because you’re drooling? Quickly say something nice for me to hear."
Despite being a bit annoyed, Chen Yan responded:
"Hello, dear sister!"
Oh, dear!
I can never kiss on my cousin’s territory again; otherwise, I’ll be caught again and again. What should I do?
Chen’s heart was full of regret; this was too passive!
Soon, another comment appeared from Director Zeng:
"Tsk tsk tsk, got caught again, huh? Poor girl!"
Chen Yan immediately replied:
"Sorry, I have a boyfriend!"
After replying, she still felt unsatisfied, so she added:
"Not only do I have a boyfriend, but I also have a 34D cup. Can you believe it?"
Zeng Xiaoqi: ?????
In a bad mood, she was fortunate there was a scapegoat.
However, before Chen Yan could relish her moment, Zeng Xiaoqi replied:
"After dinner, Yuanyuan and I had nothing to do, so we went to the small kitchen. We saw a camera left on the stove and took a look. Chen, guess what we saw?"
In reality, she saw nothing and hadn’t been to the small kitchen.
After dinner, she had taken a bunch of marinated snacks back home and was watching dramas with Chen Yuanyuan while munching on duck heads.
Her mouth was still smeared with red oil.
But so what?
It’s obvious that the Boss Lady caught Chen’s weakness, or she wouldn’t have obediently called her sister.
And the only places in the store where Chen could be caught would be those few spots.
So Director Zeng was taking a gamble, hoping to guess right. If she guessed right, great; if not, she’d continue munching on duck necks.
As for being mocked by Chen for having small Xiongxiong,
let them mock! She’s used to being teased by these big bear bullies.
Yes, in the ’Romance of the Three Kingdoms’, the warlords liked to call Liu Bei the ’Big-Eared villain’. So in the group, everyone else were the ’Big Bear villains’, the bigger the bear, the more rebellious.
Seeing Zeng Xiaoqi’s comment, Chen Yan immediately swallowed ten kilos of Confusion Fruit.
No way, did Director Zeng and Yuanyuan really see it too?
She quickly changed her tone:
"Qiqi, my most understanding and lovely Qiqi, let me tell you a secret. I’m actually a 34A, always padded. Oh, Qiqi, please forgive me!"
Hahaha...
Seeing this reply, Zeng Xiaoqi laughed so hard that she fell into Chen Yuanyuan’s arms beside her.
She even knocked over the duck brain that Yuanyuan had painstakingly shelled, onto the floor.
"You better give me a good reason for laughing, or... see my hands covered in red oil, Director Zeng?"
Zeng Xiaoqi sat up, adjusted her yoga pants, and then handed over her phone:
"I just tricked Chen a little, and she obediently called me sister. Women really can’t fall in love, once in love, they lose their minds..."
Chen Yuanyuan glanced and said:
"But she has a boyfriend!"
Yeah, she has a boyfriend.
Suddenly, Zeng Xiaoqi found Chen’s reply not funny anymore.
The two single people silently stared at each other until Dou Wenjing popped up in the comments section:
"Outside of filming time, you’re not allowed to leave any filming equipment in the kitchen. Director Zeng, show me the equipment you took down, and I’ll deduct the photographer’s bonus to buy you milk tea."
Chen Yan: ??????
Are you teaming up against me to mess with my mind?
She opened the group called ’Sisterhood Cup Doesn’t Shrink’ and tagged Zeng Xiaoqi:
"From today, I declare your cup size as only 32A, who agrees, who objects?"
In the living room of her new home, Shen Baobao munched on the delicious and crispy chestnut cakes while observing the scene of Yan Bao’s breakdown, and hurriedly jumped in to confess:
