Mysterious Journey

Chapter 699: Being Behind on Updates is Wrong

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Ginger, scallions, and garlic are the best ingredients to remove fishy smells.
After being marinated with ginger slices and enhanced with pickled peppers, the stir-fried kidney blossoms retain their original tender, smooth, and bouncy texture under the rapid stir-frying over high heat, accompanied by refreshing green peppers, red peppers, and celery stalks. It is truly a massage on the taste buds.
Aileen picked up a piece of kidney blossom and green pepper with her chopsticks, casually and with a sense of ritual, dipped it in the sauce, and then quickly put it in her mouth, savoring the spicy, refreshing, savory, and tender flavors that bloomed on her teeth and taste buds.
Finally, while the wave of deliciousness on her taste buds had not yet subsided, she quickly grabbed another ball of rice and stuffed it into her mouth.
Spicy Sichuan cuisine, paired with fragrant white rice – you'll hardly find another combination that matches so well.
Aileen happily shoveled two large mouthfuls of rice, raised her head and looked at the quiet table, shrugging her shoulders.
"...Don't just stare at me, the dishes in front of you aren't bad either. If you keep spacing out, the pork chops and kidney blossoms won't taste as good once they get cold - that would be terrible."
"Oh, the cooking method of this pork kidney is quite special."
Tina Scamander looked across the long table, glanced at the stir-fried kidney blossoms in front of Aileen and Luna, twitched her nose slightly, and said curiously in a low voice, "So many peppers, it must be very spicy, right? But it smells really great! I vaguely feel like all the pores on my body are opening up!"
As for Luna Lovegood, her reaction at this time was much stronger and more direct than Mrs. Scamander.
After imitating Aileen and taking a bite of the stir-fried kidney blossoms, she felt like her blood was immediately rushing to her face, and her ears seemed to be venting steam outwards, as if she was not eating meat, but a ball of burning flames.
"Ha, ha... Haa - spicy, so spicy..."
Luna closed her eyes slightly, fanning her hand quickly while panting. This food was only slightly less spicy than the Devil's Peppers on the Slytherin side. She should have known not to pick up so many peppers.
Almost in an instant, a faint blush appeared on Luna's slightly pale face.
"But..."
After Luna recovered for a few seconds, she imitated Aileen's appearance, picked up a ball of rice, stuffed it into her mouth, chewed it a few times, swallowed the food with effort, took a long breath, and looked at the mysterious "stir-fried kidney blossoms" on the table with glowing eyes.
"This is just too delicious! Compared to the pork kidney pies I've eaten before, it doesn't seem like they're made with the same ingredients at all! Hannah, you should try it too, it's really super delicious!"
"But, this looks very spicy..."
Hannah said, looking at the bright red peppers in Luna's plate with some hesitation.
Aileen's cooking skills are excellent. Hannah Abbott had no doubt about this, but excellent cooking skills didn't mean that this white-haired ball wouldn't "poison" the dishes - in fact, chefs with superb cooking skills were even more terrifying.
Due to bad luck, and long-term delays in submitting the "A Bite of Hogwarts" food column.
In the past year, Hannah Abbott suffered the "Aileen's Dark Cuisine" punishment almost half more times than the other two little witches combined. She had tasted almost all kinds of sour, sweet, bitter, and spicy flavors. Among them, those "perverted spicy" dishes from Slytherin's Devil's Peppers left a deep impression on her.
"It just looks a little scary, just don't pick up the peppers."
Aileen shoveled another large mouthful of white rice, looked at the worry on Hannah's face, and added after thinking about it.
"However, I suggest you try the peppers first, Hannah. After all, there's spicy grilled brains waiting for you later. The spiciness of that is much more stimulating than this, you better get used to it in advance."
Hannah was still thinking about the peppers just now, and at this moment, as if struck by a heavy blow, she suddenly returned to reality.
"Grilled, grilled brains?!" She widened her eyes in shock, "This - isn't this what you were planning to eat? Why is there mine too?"
Among the entire Hogwarts, Hannah considered herself the person who understood Aileen the most.
Although she didn't have Hermione's keen insight, or Luna's incredible intuition, she was undoubtedly Aileen's most trusted friend when carrying out various demonic ideas - and true friends usually meant sharing joys and sorrows.
Compared to the other two little witches, Hannah was undoubtedly the easiest one to be coaxed into eating unknown foods.
On Halloween night, Aileen once held an unknown, hot, black stick-shaped object to the girls' dormitory looking for taste testers. It wasn't until a long time later that Hannah learned that the so-called "fluffy crab legs" were actually "Acromantula legs"; a few weeks later, Aileen brought strange milky white, salty paste-like things to find them to try, and it was also a long time later that Hannah learned that those were actually products formed after the corruption and deterioration of soy products...
"Because there's only so much pig brain, it's very precious." The white-haired ball spread her hands and replied.
"But since you asked this question," Aileen thought for a moment, and continued rather seriously, "Another reason is that pig brain is a very effective food for brain health. As one of the most common foods with the highest proportion of cholesterol, do you remember what we learned in school? I think you might need to review it."
Luna blinked her eyes, secretly pursed her lips, and watched her best friends while eating stir-fried kidney blossoms.
Watching Aileen fooling Hannah in a serious manner was one of the little pleasures she and Hermione liked the most, and it was also one of the "Danzi's evidence of guilt" that could be used to rebel against Hannah later. After all, Hannah was the only one who could physically suppress Aileen.
"First," Aileen held up her index finger, "You should have learned in extracurricular books that cholesterol is an indispensable important substance for animal tissue cells, and can be converted into bile acids, steroid hormones, 7-dehydrocholesterol through metabolism. And 7-dehydrocholesterol will be converted into 'sunshine vitamin' - vitamin D3 after being irradiated by ultraviolet rays, promoting growth and bone calcification..."
"At the same time, the internal organs are the parts of each animal's body with the highest cholesterol content, which also means that we who are still in the development period need to consume more internal organs, which has a good promoting effect on our bone development..."

"But, I don't need to worry about growing taller."
Hannah looked at Aileen, scratched her cheek, and said subconsciously.
"And Aileen, you've eaten so many internal organs before, and I haven't seen any change..."
"Second!" Aileen glared at Hannah fiercely, selectively ignoring what Hannah said just now, raised her voice and continued, " *A Bite of Hogwarts* has been suspended for a month, so in the next period of time, we need to produce a few new content manuscripts. As a special food reviewer, you need to participate in the identification of new dishes - this is our previous agreement, you shouldn't go back on your word, right?"
"Eh? Uh, it seems... uh, okay..."
Hannah was slightly stunned, and nodded hesitantly.
"Third..."
Aileen glanced at the Scamander couple, who had been intrigued by the conversation between the two, and narrowed her eyes happily - very good, the fish had begun to take the bait on their own initiative - the girl held up her finger and shook it gently, slowly and calmly.
"As the future landlady of the Leaky Cauldron in the wizarding world, isn't one of your wishes to make the Leaky Cauldron more and more famous? I looked at it on the way back just now, this non-magical town of Plymouth is very suitable as the first stop of your catering internship. When you learn these dishes, we can first open a different roadside stall tonight..."
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