Chapter 128: The Suckling Pigeon
"Eldest grandson, I'm back, look at what I brought you" Just when the two of them were reminiscing about the past, a loud voice came from the front yard, and Dong Shanhe knew that it was Zhang Xiaodong's grandfather without thinking about it. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
"Second child, let's go, go and see what my grandfather brought, my grandfather's cooking is delicious!" I don't know if Zhang Xiaodong is used to eating what his grandfather makes, or if Wang Po sells melons and boasts, anyway, Dong Shanhe has heard Zhang Xiaodong say it countless times since he was in college, and he even told Dong Shanhe back then, when he has the opportunity to go to Huizhou, taste whether Zhang Xiaodong's grandfather's food is really so delicious.
When I walked to the front yard, I saw an old man in a black cotton coat standing at the door of the kitchen carrying various ingredients.
"Grandpa, what did you buy? Ah! And the stone chicken! This thing is not easy to buy!" Zhang Xiaodong screamed exaggeratedly, running in front of his grandfather faster than a monkey, and constantly looking at the stone chicken.
Dong Shanhe didn't know what a stone chicken was before, but he had heard of it, and even thought that the stone chicken was a stone? However, Dong Shanhe also felt that that kind of thinking was unreliable, after all, the stone chicken was something that could be eaten, so how could it be a stone? Later, Dong Shanhe learned that the stone chicken was a kind of bird, smaller than the pheasant, just like the turtledove in his hometown, about the same size as a pigeon, but it was more beautiful than ordinary pigeons, and it was widely distributed in Eurasia.
"Grandpa, why did you buy pigeons, do you want to stew pigeons to eat?" Zhang Xiaodong knew that his grandfather was a good cook in ten miles and eight villages, and he married his grandmother to the family with this skill, in today's words, if you want to get her heart, you must first conquer her stomach, and men and women are equally applicable.
"I know that you kid is so good, so I'll find you a special one, if I hadn't gone to find someone to stay yesterday, how could you have met it. Dong Shanhe is no stranger to pigeons, when he was a child, his grandmother raised pigeons and rabbits, and was later sold by his father, for the taste of pigeons, Dong Shanhe can not remember now.
"Grandpa, this is my good brother Dong Shanhe. At this time, Zhang Xiaodong remembered that his good brother had not yet been introduced.
"Hello grandpa!" Dong Shanhe came again decently.
"Prime Minister Shanhe, good name. "It doesn't matter what name you have for the elderly, what matters is whether you have the ability or not, even if you are called Chen Ergou, as long as you can make a fortune, you will not be looked down upon.
Of course, the old man didn't know that there was a person named Chen Ergou on the Internet.
"Grandpa, hurry up and cook, I'm hungry, it's past ten o'clock now, if you cook late, you and grandma will be hungry in a while." Zhang Xiaodong said very much for the sake of his grandparents.
"You stinky boy, you know how to eat, you know what to do besides eating. After the old man finished speaking, he walked into the kitchen, in fact, he just said that, he still loves his grandson Zhang Xiaodong very much, he was frail and sick when he was a child, and he was very filial when he grew up, isn't it like eating a meal made by himself? If he didn't accompany his classmates, Zhang Xiaodong might not be able to come back to his hometown once a month.
The old man was working in full swing in the kitchen, Dong Shanhe and Zhang Xiaodong stood at the door and watched, not that the two of them didn't want to help, but they couldn't intervene at all, in the words of grandpa, it would only help more and more chaotic.
Edamame tofu, I still remember seeing China on the tip of the tongue before, Dong Shanhe has a soft spot for edamame tofu, what a miraculous phenomenon it is, tofu will grow hair for a few days, not broken, Dong Shanhe once experimented at home, he bought two catties of tofu cut into small pieces and put it up, and it stinked before the third day, Dong Shanhe didn't know what was going on, is it only in Huizhou that this magical phenomenon can be realized.
The old man quickly killed two stone chickens and a pigeon, bled and plucked the feathers, without the slightest pause, as if he had done it thousands of times.
"When I was a child, Huizhou here are full of good things, now there are more people, but there are fewer things, when I was a child, I often went to the big pinnacle and the small pinnacle to catch pheasants and ducks, and went to the Black Dragon Pond to catch fish, your grandmother loves to eat fish, I took the risk of digging the corner of the socialist wall to catch fish, and almost fell into the Black Dragon Pond in the middle of the night, but I was lucky, caught a big king of more than three catties, but your grandma was happy. The old man said as he packed up the pigeons.
It seems that older people like to tell their own stories, and their grandfather is no exception, and Zhang Xiaodong's grandfather is no exception.
"Grandpa, you've said this many times, can you change it to a new one. Zhang Xiaodong said lazily, he heard this story since he was a child, and his ears were almost calloused.
"Stinky boy, if I hadn't caught fish, where would your grandmother get the milk to feed your father, and if you didn't have your father, so that Wang Ba saved your life. The old man was very dissatisfied with Zhang Xiaodong's interruption, and he didn't care.
"Okay, okay, I'll go to the Black Dragon Pond tomorrow to burn incense, and worship the king in the Black Dragon Pond who saved my life. Zhang Xiaodong laughed.
Dong Shanhe watched Zhang Xiaodong talk like this, he really wanted to smoke him a few times, if he didn't pay attention, Zhang Xiaodong almost opened his mouth to come, but Dong Shanhe knew that it was between familiar people, if it wasn't an acquaintance, Zhang Xiaodong would almost never speak, and only between good friends and family would it become like this.
Soon, Grandpa cleaned up the pigeons and stone chickens, and all that was left was to start cooking. The practice of the pigeon is a famous Huizhou dish in Huizhou, Huizhou stewed pigeon, the yam peeled off the skin and washed, cut into thin slices, put the boiling water slightly hot for a while, open a small mouth of the pigeon from the abdomen, take out the internal organs and wash it, scald the pigeon in the boiling water, pick up and clean it again and put it in the soup bowl, add yam tablets, green onion knots, ginger, salt, rock sugar, Shao wine and soup, cover the soup bowl with a large dish, put it in the pot and steam it over high heat for about 2 hours, the yam nourishes the yin and nourishes the kidneys, the pigeon meat is healthy and strong, it is a great supplement for people.
Dong Shanhe is also very greedy for this, and Dong Shanhe never hides his attitude towards delicious things.
After making Huizhou stewed pigeon, the old man began to make steamed stone chicken, cut a small hole in the neck with a knife, peel off the skin from the knife edge, and then remove the internal organs, chop off the head and claws, wash, and cut each into four pieces. Wash the fungus and tear off small pieces. Put the stone chicken into the soup bowl, add cooking wine, refined salt, sugar, monosodium glutamate, ginger slices, garlic cloves, lard, chicken broth, fungus, ham slices, bamboo shoot slices, cover a large plate on the soup bowl, and steam for half an hour.
Huizhou stone chicken meat is delicate, rich in protein, calcium and other nutrients, and has the function of clearing fire, brightening the eyes and nourishing the body, which is the best quality of the mountain.
After finishing these two dishes, the old man began to slowly make snacks with Huizhou characteristics, such as crab shell yellow baked cakes, stone buns, Huizhou chaos, butterfly noodles, and dried tea in Wucheng.
"Grandpa, don't forget to make tiger skin tofu. Zhang Xiaodong was not afraid that his grandfather would be tired at all, and wanted to add another dish.
"Stinky boy, didn't you see that I had already taken out the edamame tofu!" the old man pretended to be serious and reprimanded the tree, and then began to laugh again.