140. Good wine and good food
There are a total of eight cold dishes for the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, namely sliced beef in sauce, braised pork platter, stewed pork trotters with soybeans, almond spinach, shredded zucchini, amber walnuts, spicy white, and a large pot of home-style mixed powder.
The sauced beef and pig's trotters have been stewed by grandma for a long time, stewed for a long time, very flavorful, the pig's trotters are stewed rotten, the pig's skin is soft and glutinous, quite delicious. The amber walnuts were freshly made this morning, and now they have been cooled, and they taste sweet and crispy. Needless to say, almond spinach and cold zucchini shreds, if the spicy white is white, it is actually Chinese cabbage, but the method is a little special.
To explain simply, the lower part of the Chinese cabbage, that is, the middle part of the cabbage, is cut down with a knife according to the position, and then the roots are cut off, and the cabbage becomes one by one.
Try to ensure that the shape of this large ball of cabbage is complete, then boil water, put the cabbage on a colander, and pour it continuously with boiling hot water to blanch the cabbage little by little. Finally, find a deeper cylindrical container, it is best to choose it in advance, and the position of the knife is also according to the container, it is best to cut out the cabbage gang slightly lower than the edge of the container, and the commonly used fast food cup is a good choice.
Put the blanched cabbage in the container slowly, it is best to ensure the integrity of the cabbage, and then fry the pepper oil with pepper and flax oil, put the salted pepper pepper on the cabbage, pour the hot oil hard, you can hear the sound of stinging and stinging, and at the same time, the cabbage will unfold little by little, which is very beautiful.
Finally, after pouring a large amount of vinegar, a spicy white unique to the Zhou family is made. This dish can be regarded as the reserved dish of the Zhou family, anyway, as far as Zhou Fangyuan knows, it seems that no one else will do this. Of course, the world is so big, there must be many people who can eat like this, and people in other cities or provinces are not sure to do this.
Anyway, Zhou Fangyuan didn't know, he only knew that in this circle of his own family, only their family would do this, and everyone who ate this dish couldn't help but stretch out their thumbs and praise it fiercely.
After talking about cold dishes, let's talk about hot dishes.
There are more hot dishes than cold dishes, not to mention those fried vegetables, anyway, there are just a few kinds.
The hot dishes here in Beitong still have some characteristics, such as the grilled pork strips that Zhou Fangyuan can never eat, which is a dish that most Beitong people love to eat.
Take it from the pork belly, throw the whole pork belly into the pot and boil it first, add some green onion cooking wine or something, and boil the fishy smell and blood water. Then take it out, cut it into one-centimeter-thick slices, let it cool and fry it in a pan. When the meat is browned and the fat can be easily pierced with chopsticks, the preliminary processing is completed. When it's time to eat, put the meat slices neatly on the plate, and put the condiments such as green onion and ginger on the top and bottom, and then steam them in the basket, which is called basketing.
After the basketing, the meat is placed on another plate, and the viscous soup is prepared in a wok, poured over the slices of meat, and finally the spinach leaves that have been watered are spread, and a plate of grilled meat strips is done.
Grilled meat strips with enough heat, lean meat is soft and tender, fat meat is crispy, fat but not greasy, and melts in the mouth. Of course, this is what others say, Zhou Fangyuan can't eat fatty meat since he was a child, and he can't eat a mouthful, so he has no mouthful.
And similar to grilled meat strips, there are also meatballs, which are more common, and they can be found everywhere in the world.
Grilled meat strips, meatballs, braised fish, stewed chicken, sweet and sour shrimp, steamed crab, oily meat, potatoes and beef, stewed mutton, squid, sea cucumber, quail, egg mushroom, etc., the already small table, with these hot dishes served one by one, can no longer be put down at all, can only be stacked on top of the plate, the basin pressure basin is barely piled up.
And that's not even counting the vegetarian dishes, but also the staple food.
There are two staple foods for the Zhou family's New Year, one is dumplings and the other is fried oil cake.
Dumplings are the staple food that people all over the country eat during the New Year, which goes without saying. But if you fry the oil cake, it is worth mentioning that the oil cake is also one of the special delicacies of Beitong, although the yellow cake is eaten by many people in the northern region.
There are many types of cakes, there are vegetarian cakes that can be eaten directly after steaming, and they are eaten with stewed meat, you can't chew too much, you can swallow it after chewing a few bites, and you feel that the cake is slippery and slippery into the stomach, with a strong meat fragrance.
There is also fried oil cake, fried oil cake is also divided into several kinds, the common ones are vegetable cake, that is, leek eggs, potatoes, foam, wood ear foam and other materials mixed into the filling; bean cake, red beans and red dates are boiled together, and then in the pot with a spoon to puree, you can add syrup, you can also add roses, sweet and delicious; marrow oil filling, with beef bone marrow oil, sesame, peanuts, melon seeds, The fillings made of white sugar and other materials, anyway, people who like them like it, but Zhou Fangyuan doesn't like it very much, he can always eat an inexplicable fishy smell when he eats, so he basically doesn't eat it.
In addition, there are fried cake slices, which are simple cake slices, sprinkle some sugar between the two slices, and eat a slice directly when eating.
There are also fried cake sticks, where the yellow cake is kneaded into a stick, and after it is fried in an oil pan, it is dipped in sauce and eaten. A more direct method is to fry the sauce slices, roll the yellow cake into strips, flatten it slightly, and then spread the sauce and roll it up. Put it horizontally, roll it out with a rolling pin, and finally fry it in the oil pan, which is directly a black and yellow cake like a flower, which is Zhou Fangyuan's favorite way to eat.
And eating cakes, which means rising every year, can be regarded as a beautiful expectation.
The meals were all served quickly, the family sat around the round table, there were cups in front of everyone, adults drank, women and children drank, Zhou Fangyuan was said to be not young, but because he was still a student, everyone felt that drinking was not good for the brain, so they did not agree with him drinking. Zhou Fangyuan is also okay, anyway, he drinks the same everything, the original picture is an atmosphere, and he has no alcohol addiction.
The TV was on, but no one was watching it. Everyone stared at the old man.
Finally, Zhou Fangyuan's grandfather raised his glass, "Today, I'm very happy, I just chatted with Jianguo, their shop is booming, and Yangyang is now also considering the good results of the sixth and twentieth in the class, so I am very happy." The two of you should also be good this year, and everyone will be good this year! Cheers!"
There are no flowery rhetoric, it is the roughest kind of toast, but the family, this is the best toast.
Cheers !!
In the next second, everyone stood up, raised their wine glasses, and the ten glasses gently touched together.
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This meal at noon was really enjoyable.
During the banquet, everyone kept laughing, saying some happy things, telling some small jokes, the so-called mother's kindness and filial piety, and the children and grandchildren were full of children, which is now this kind of scene. Grandpa rarely drinks a little too much, the old man is usually a very self-disciplined person, although he drinks every day, but he only drinks one or two at each meal, never too much. Drinking too much alcohol hurts the body, but drinking less also has a health effect.
But today the old man is so happy, the most important thing is that his eldest son is out of breath, and the eldest grandson's academic performance has also improved rapidly, how can the old man be unhappy? As soon as people are happy, they will inevitably drink more, and if they drink a little more, they will be more likely to get excited, and if they are excited, they will not count. As a result, the old man, who usually only drinks one or two, drank at least half a catty from this meal. In this way, he drank a little too much, and at the end of the meal, the old man couldn't bear it, so he left the table and went back to his bedroom to sleep.
The others were not far behind, and Dad Zhou also drank about half a catty, and his face was red, but he was still very sober, sitting there eating food bite by bite.
The second uncle drank more, about seven or eight taels, and was sitting on the sofa at this time, the whole person was crooked, and he opened his mouth to exhale the smell of wine.
The third uncle can drink the most, he drank about a pound and a half alone, and his face was as red as a monkey's buttocks, but he belonged to the kind of person who became more sober the more he drank, his face was so red, but his eyes were as bright as two light bulbs.
Several women were too lazy to care about their men, led by Zhou Fangyuan's grandmother, and the four daughters-in-law of the Zhou family were sitting together talking their own words. Well, grandma is also a daughter-in-law, from the perspective of grandpa's father.
On the whole dining table, probably the most boring are Zhou Fangyuan and Zhou Fanghui.
The two of them quickly finished eating, and when the sweat on their bodies was almost dry, Zhou Fangyuan took Zhou Fanghui out of the door, and before going out, he also got the car keys from Zhou's father, although Zhou's father was drunk, he didn't care if Zhou Fangyuan asked for the keys.
Zhou's mother stopped a few words, but was easily blocked back by Zhou Fangyuan.
"Oh, you guys don't care, it's okay, I've already learned. Besides, there is no one on the road today, so you can rest assured. ”
Zhou Fangyuan is really not wrong in what he said, today is the Chinese New Year's Eve, now everyone is eating and drinking, I am afraid that ten people will not be found on the street. And it doesn't matter if there is someone, driving with his skills is as easy as breathing. The most important thing is that although he doesn't have a driver's license, as long as he doesn't violate the rules, no one will check him.
With just these few points, he can drive the car out with confidence and boldness.
Zhou Fanghui had heard the news of buying a car before that "Daddy {Beitong also has the custom of calling his uncle 'Daddy'}" to buy a car, and she wanted to sit for a long time, but now that Zhou Fangyuan proposed it, she naturally had no objection at all. Zhou's mother stopped them here, and it also provoked Huihui's angry gaze.
The little guy's glaring was so cute that the whole family laughed at her.
"Okay, okay, you go, it's not that you're afraid of driving, and you're not afraid that you're not safe. Yangyang, do you have to be careful with your sister? Don't have an accident, don't you understand?"
"Understand, you can rest assured. ”
Zhou Fangyuan replied loudly.
Of course he understood, he said in his heart that I am in my thirties, if I don't understand this truth, then I didn't live in vain?
Then Zhou Fangyuan took Huihui out of his grandfather's house, drove the car, and drove towards Wangfu Street.
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