Food Intelligence King

Chapter 128 A Delicious Rice Roll for Small Animals
There was a "ding" sound.

The rice in the rice cooker is cooked.

Stir it briefly to disperse any excess moisture.

Next comes the core step of making rice rolls with vegetables:

Mash the steamed potato chunks into a puree and put them into the rice cooker.

Then comes the sauce.

At this point, the egg sauce was a darker color overall, and the eggs had also turned brownish. The surface was glistening with oil and smelled delicious.

Scoop a large spoonful from the bowl and put it into the rice cooker.

Next up is the braised pork in sauce at the shop.

Find a cut of meat with both fat and lean meat, chop it up, and put it into the rice cooker along with a little bit of broth.

Anyway, we can just use this one pot to cook.

Put whatever you've prepared into the rice cooker.

Use a small spatula to mix the rice evenly.

Mix the pale yellow of the mashed potatoes, the white of the rice, and the brown of the egg sauce together.

Finally, add a handful of chopped green onions and cilantro for garnish, and you have a rice ball for vegetable-wrapped rice.

In the evening, Ms. Lin returned home from get off work.

The family of three sat down to eat.

She looked at the large, mixed mess in the rice cooker, a little confused. "What is this? How did it all end up in the rice?"

Of all the items on the table, only the vegetable leaves looked familiar to Ms. Lin.

Chen Zhou laughed and said, "You'll know once you try it."

Chen Taotao had also been busy for a while, so she helped explain, "It's vegetable rice rolls, Mom!"

Ms. Lin gently rubbed Chen Taotao's head.

Chen Zhou picked up a vegetable leaf, put the prepared rice ball in the middle, and quickly wrapped three.

"Come on, let's eat."

"Ah."

The two larger vegetable leaves belong to the adults.

The smaller, tender leaves were also wrapped up, for the little girl.

Aside from Chen Taotao needing some help, eating wasn't difficult at all.

After biting into the vegetable leaf, there's a pleasant "crunch," and the juice inside begins to flow into your mouth. It doesn't provide much flavor itself, but rather serves as the carrier for the vegetable-wrapped rice.

The feeling of eating grass is familiar to everyone in the family.

Of course, Ms. Lin described it as a healthy taste, and she gave it a positive review.

Then, the warm, soft, and oily rice seeped out from between the vegetable leaves and touched the tip of the tongue.

The mashed potatoes, with their slightly grainy texture, work together with the slightly sticky rice to envelop the rich meat and the savory egg sauce.

A blend of flavors, chewed with both teeth, leaves a lingering and unforgettable aftertaste.

There were vegetables, meat, eggs, potatoes, and rice.

This was a very satisfying and substantial bite.

“It’s quite delicious.”

While giving her husband a positive review, Ms. Lin secretly admired him.

If you have any leftovers at home, just mix them into the vegetables.

I can't believe I came up with such a great idea!
It's almost the weekend, and while the family was having dinner, Ms. Lin explained the detailed arrangements and precautions for the kindergarten's autumn outing on Sunday.

These notes are for parents.

We will meet at the kindergarten at 8:30 sharp and depart by bus. (And so on.)

Chen Taotao is more concerned about the event arrangements.

She became excited when she heard that she could feed the small animals:
"I'm going to feed the deer."

The zoo isn't far away; the little girl had been there before, but back then she was still in an adult's arms.

But she does really love feeding small animals. For example, Chen Zhou often finds all sorts of things in Chen Facai's food bowl at home, and it goes without saying who did it.

Thinking about it this way, it's also necessary for zoos to sell food that is required for feeding visitors.

Chen Zhou recalled what the intelligence report had mentioned and reminded her:
"The zookeepers will give you carrots and lettuce leaves tomorrow. If the deer don't like them, you don't have to eat them yourself."

Not wasting food is a good habit that Chen Taotao has developed.

But Chen Zhou felt that a flexible approach was needed.

After hearing this, Chen Taotao nodded heavily, seemingly already quite sensible.

She said, "I know, Dad, I can't eat things given to me by strangers."

Although what my daughter said was not the same thing as what I said, as long as she knows she can't eat just anything, that's fine.

Ms. Lin, who was standing nearby, smiled inwardly as she listened to her husband and daughter talking about not being able to eat just anything.

She saw in the kindergarten parents' group that many parents had ordered steamed buns from the community canteen, so she followed suit and ordered a portion for Chen Taotao at the store.

This definitely doesn't count as eating someone else's food.

Of course, Ms. Lin didn't spend any money.

Today's vegetable rice rolls tasted very good. After eating one, Ms. Lin made a second one herself.

Chen Taotao said that she has grown up and wants to join in the fun, and also wants to do it herself.

The elderly mother then taught him step by step.

Watching the mother and daughter place their large hands on top of each other's small hands, their movements slightly clumsy...
Chen Zhou finally understood the true meaning behind the vegetable rice roll recipe that appeared in this food news flash.

He smiled and gave Chen Taotao a suggestion:
"If the fawn doesn't like carrots, you can wrap them in a leafy green and it will like to eat them."

"it is good!"

Chen Taotao learned quickly and wrapped one herself.

"Mom and Dad, look, I wrapped it up very small."

Ms. Lin encouraged her, "Our Tao Tao is really amazing."

"Then I'll give you a little one today too." Chen Zhou smiled and took out the phone watch he bought yesterday.

Chen Taotao has not yet been linked to any social media features, but in addition to the location tracking function that reassures parents, the watch also has a camera function.

She can also start documenting her life now.

The store was closed on Saturday, and Chen Zhou also rested at home for the day.

Go through the to-do items in the previous intelligence reports and look for any omissions.

They also taught Chen Taotao how to use some basic functions on the phone watch.

The little guy picked it up very quickly.

It's quite simple for a five-year-old to learn these things; it's nowhere near as difficult as it is for an elderly person.

If Chen Zhou and his wife hadn't been keeping a close eye on her, she probably would have been glued to her phone all day, watching children's short videos.

In the afternoon, I would pick up and drop off Chen Taotao for her Go lessons.

Originally scheduled for the weekend, the date was changed to Saturday because Teacher Wei also really likes his little apprentice.

While Ms. Wei's husband was teaching math, she also chatted with parent Chen Zhou for a while.

Firstly, she was very satisfied with the students Chen Zhou introduced.

This fulfilled her wish to teach children Go and spread traditional culture.

Secondly, it was really just a casual chat.

As Chen Zhou spent more time with him, he felt that besides his high achievements and profound knowledge in Go and calligraphy—

She misses her children who live abroad, complains about her husband going to dance in the square with other people, and asks whether the newly launched health products are effective.

She was just an ordinary old lady.

They might even have a bit of a sweet tooth.

Teacher Wei recalled:
"Xiao Chen, when I went to a competition outside before, I had a really good braised pork rice once. I traded a piece of calligraphy for his recipe. There's no use keeping it. Why don't you take it back and try it?"

[You've discovered a recipe for braised pork rice so delicious the delivery rider might steal it!]

(End of this chapter)