God of cooking

Chapter 43: The role of a head chef (5)

It is does not belong to me. It is translated by KobatoChanDaiSuki

Her intentions to try to liven up the mood were too obvious. They didn't know if that liveliness was fake, or if it came from an honest heart. Jo Minjoon couldn't know.

But one thing he knew was that his heart calmed down a little. Because if you say bitter words, people who listen to that would feel bad, but it's the same for the person that says it. So because he was Jo Minjoon, he couldn't feel good after saying those bad words.

Chloe also tried to liven up that, and if not for her, only an awkward atmosphere would have remained. Whatever it was, Jo Minjoon felt grateful for Chloe. Because the burden he was feeling got relieved thanks to Chloe.

"At least, I don't have that kind of illness."

Jo Minjoon grinned and got up. "Me too." Hugo got up. And after that, all of the team members got up almost at the same time. It was the same for Peter and Kaya. They couldn't back off in this kind of situation. Jo Minjoon looked at Kaya and said.

"I think that it would be good to make the dishes we were planning to make tomorrow, what do you think? Chef."

Kaya, that was listening to Jo Minjoon with a bad face, at the word of chef, she couldn't help but stiffen her face and looked at him. Hugo that was next to them received those words with an excessively funny face.

"Now that I look at it, even if it's provisional, a head chef is still a head chef. I will also call you chef from now on, chef."
"Me too, chef."
"Chef? That's good. It makes me feel like i'm in a real kitchen. It's okay, right chef?"

Joanne and Chloe laughed and looked at Kaya. Kaya was forcefully putting on a calm face, but her ears were reddening. Kaya opened her mouth.

"Just..... Fix the recipe."
"Yes, chef!"

Hugo replied like how a soldier would salute. And after that, Kaya shut her mouth.

The cooking proceeded in a more comfortable atmosphere. The team members each started to make what they were planning to do so, and Jo Minjoon also did the same. What he started to make was .

The bisque in Korea was a soup made by grating clam, crab or shrimp's shell and was recognized greatly. However, only half of it was correct. Precisely speaking, bisque is a dish made by making a soup with crustacea and molluscs shell. But there was no need to grate it.

The first thing Jo Minjoon handled was the vegetables. Celery, carrots, onions, garlic, parsley, thyme, salt, olive oil and bay leaves. Jo Minjoon sliced those vegetables and put them in boiling water. He was planning to make a vegetable broth.

Actually, when you made bisque by the normal way, what was recommended was to use chicken broth or fish broth. However, if he wanted to do so right now he had to use a product, and Jo Minjoon thought that it was better to use vegetable broth rather than doing that. In the first place, aside from it being a product, vegetable broth brought out the flavor more cleanly.

He put the broth on fire and Jo Minjoon started to handle the crab. The kind of the crab was dungeness crab, and it was normally eaten in the western coasts of America. And the size of it was as big as the ones that lived in the United States. Even roughly felt, it was almost 1kg.

But it was more comfortable the bigger it was, anyways. Jo Minjoon immediately dislocated the joints of the crab, and carefully peeled off the shell. It was a job that was easily done for people that touched crab everyday. To hull the uncooked meat. However, Jo Minjoon wasn't accustomed to doing it, so he could only be cautious. Because if he put in even a little bit more of strength, the meat would crumble.