Chapter 340: Cooking
Canghai and Shi Wei were packing up their things, and a few groups of guests came to the living room to be lively, but after the excitement, there were also melon shells and peels and the like. The big guys in the countryside are not particular about together, they spit on the ground at will, if they are too particular, the guests are not used to it, and the host is not good at throwing his face, fortunately, the floor tiles are also paved in the ground at home in Canghai, and this is the case to prevent it, the floor tiles are easy to take care of relative to the wooden floor, not to mention the spit melon seed shell is to spit oil, and it is easy to take care of.
Waiting for the guests to leave, Canghai and Shi Wei naturally had to clean the room.
"Haiwazi, Haiwazi!"
Canghai heard Li Liren's voice coming from outside the door, so he put down the broom in his hand and opened the kiln curtain and walked outside.
"What's the matter, Second Grandpa Li?" Canghai saw that Li Liren was wearing a brand-new red apron on his coat, and immediately said with a smile: "Yo, is this the new year's new atmosphere, how can you put on a new apron, don't you say, this apron is much better than your gauze apron that is about to dirt black, newly bought?"
Li Liren laughed and scolded Canghai: "What the hell are you kid talking about, where will I have nothing to do to buy a new apron, this is what Changli just gave me, she used to work where she sent it, she thought it was very good-looking, so she took a few pieces and divided one with me." I said you're okay kid now, if it's okay, give me a hand and kill the fish."
Canghai nodded and said, "I'm fine, kill the fish, I'll go over later!"
Li Liren said: "Then hurry up, there are still a lot of things to do over there, dozens of meals are not so easy to make, and when you go, go to the commissary of your grandfather's house and bring the remaining box of wine."
Canghai responded: "I know, you go first, I'll go right away."
Li Liren turned around and left, arrived at the door of Li Licheng's house, opened the curtain and walked in, and came out with a tank of oil in a few words.
Cang Hai watched the old man take a few steps, then turned around and returned to the house.
Shi Wei had already heard the conversation between the two clearly, and when she saw Canghai coming in, she said with a smile: "Since Second Grandpa Li asked you to kill fish, you should go early, and I will do the rest."
Cang Hai saw that there was nothing left to take care of, nothing more than to dump the garbage in the field into the garbage can at the entrance of the village, so he said: "That's okay, I'll go!"
When he arrived at the door, Canghai stopped: "Why hasn't this kid come back yet?"
Shi Wei said: "You forgot, you asked him to send some things to my house, but look at it, it's time to come back."
This person didn't talk about it, and the two of them mentioned peace here, and the sound of peace came from outside.
"Second brother, sister-in-law, I'm back!"
Canghai opened the curtain and went out of the door, and saw that the brown peace-like peace had already gotten off the plow, and was reaching out to move the things on the plow.
"What is it?" Canghai asked curiously.
"My sister-in-law's family gave it, and I said it was New Year's goods," Ping An said with a smile.
Canghai walked over, stretched out his hand and opened the carton box, stretched out his head to take a look inside, and found that it was filled with sausages and ham, and there was some milk or something in the other carton in the car.
"There is no shortage of this thing in our house," Canghai muttered.
Ping'an heard it and said, "I said it, but Uncle Shi and his family had to give it, so I couldn't refuse, so I had to move back."
"If you move back, move back, move into the house, and let your sister-in-law watch it" Canghai waved his hand at Ping'an, brushed the ugly donkey's ears twice, and then raised his feet and walked towards Li Licheng's commissary.
Ping'an went to the house with the box here, and when he arrived at the door, he almost bumped into Shi Wei.
"Sister-in-law!"
"What are you holding!" Shi Wei glanced at the cardboard box: "These things are all in the house!
At this time, Shi Wei complained a little. No wonder it is said that the water spilled by the married daughter, Shi Wei, who has become the daughter-in-law of the Cang family in law, has changed roles unconsciously, from the daughter of the Shi family to the mistress of the Cang family.
As soon as this identity changed, he naturally felt that his mother's family was a little stingy, thinking about how many New Year's goods were delivered, at least 15,000 chicken, fish, meat, eggnog or something, not to mention anything else, just how much a box of Moutai was, and his family also generously gave 10,000 New Year's money, why did his father and mother give this thing, adding up to 2,000 yuan.
If Wang Zhenzhen were present now, she would definitely be by her own daughter!
The old couple sent things out of their minds, the son-in-law's family has nothing to do, there is no shortage of melons, fruits, pears and peaches, chickens, ducks and fish meat are directly caught and killed and fresh, the most important thing is that it is not bad money, the old couple thought about it, and simply bought a little brand-name New Year's goods to send to the son-in-law.
Unexpectedly, the son-in-law didn't say anything, and was complained by his own daughter.
"Let's take what the elders give," Ping An didn't think much about it, and said with a smile at Shi Wei.
Shi Wei stretched out her hand and rummaged through the box, and found that the sausages and ham were all bought, and the ham was still a famous brand, so she said to Ping'an: "That's it, leave the ham, and send the rest to the east of the village, today the village has a dinner, you send this thing to Grandpa Li, you can also count it as a plate, I'll go and see what is in the box."
Ping An nodded directly in response to this, and entered the house with the cardboard box.
Canghai also made sausages at home, because Canghai raised several pigs this year, the meat of the sausage is naturally used in its own pigs, the quality is needless to say, what brand of sausage will not be as delicious as Canghai's sausage, how many sausage companies are willing to use free-range black pork to fill sausages?
Leaned over to the cart and took a look, Shi Wei left a carton of milk, and the rest was gathered into a carton for safe delivery to the east of the village.
Canghai held a box of Daqu wine and came to the east of the village.
Now the kitchen in the east of the village has been fired, and the kitchen in the east of the village is very large, not only the kitchen but also the dining room. The west half is the kitchen. There are four iron pots of different sizes, the largest iron pot is about 1.2 meters in diameter, and you have to use a shovel to fry vegetables, and the smallest pot is only 60 centimeters in diameter. To the east is the dining room, where four or five large round tables for twenty people can be placed, and the entire kitchen and dining room are almost 200 square meters in size, showing a long strip shape, just standing on the edge of the platform.
The kitchen is not like everyone's private kitchen, this kitchen is a steel shed shelf, the shelf is covered with a layer of waterproof felt, the waterproof felt is hung with green tiles, the roof is decorative, but there are no walls on the four sides, only a few steel pillars. In the summer, it is naturally fine, it is cool to cook openly, and in the winter, you need to use plastic sheeting to fence the kitchen, so that the kitchen can be insulated.
Holding things into the kitchen, Canghai found that several old people from the grandmother's generation in the restaurant had already begun to busy choosing vegetables and washing rice, while Li Liren was occupying a table of eight immortals, waving a knife like rain and making a clattering sound of chopping vegetables, and with the rise and fall of the knife, the celery stalks were cut into the size of little knuckles, waiting for the cutting board to be full, Li Liren stretched out his hand and swept it, and the celery on the cutting board went into the bamboo basket next to it.
As soon as Li Liren looked up, he saw Canghai coming in, so he said, "What are you stunned about, hurry up and put the wine over there and kill your fish!"
Following the direction of Li Liren's finger, Canghai found that there were six big carp in a large wooden basin, each of which was about three or four catties, and the size was about the same.
"It's not easy for anyone to catch this fish, it's almost the same size."
After sending the wine over, Canghai rolled up his sleeves, drew a knife in his hand, pulled a small bench and sat next to the wooden basin, looked at the carp swimming in the water and said.
"Qu Guowei and Xu Sheng two old men fished, today luck, said that they found a fish nest, there were originally some small miscellaneous fish, but your third grandfather took it home, said that tomorrow to invite the two old men to the house to eat small miscellaneous fish pot stickers" Li Liren said with a smile.
Canghai looked at the happy fish swimming in the basin, opened his mouth and asked, "What are the fish going to do?"
Li Liren said: "Head fish, cross knife, the size of a mahjong!"
Shuitou fish refers to the fish boiled, the material is less, only soy sauce and ginger slices, it sounds very simple, but the simpler the dish, the more the level of the chef is tested, the fish is less burned, and it is not fishy, and the general chef does not have the ability to do it. Canghai also doesn't have the ability to make a head fish, because the ingredients are more and less than they can be made, and the taste of more soy sauce and less ginger is not right.
Canghai didn't ask too much, picked up a carp and put it on the cutting board on the wooden basin, and turned the back of the knife at the head of the fish.
With a snap, the fish was stunned by the sea, this killing fish is also exquisite, you can't shoot the fish to death, the taste of the head fish made by shooting it is also a little worse, the fish has to be stunned, and the fish has to move after getting out of the pot.
If it weren't for the high requirements, Li Liren would just find someone to kill the fish, why bother to go over and call Canghai over.
The fish was dizzy, Canghai directly laid the knife edge, pressed the fish head with one hand, and quickly beat the scales with one hand, after the fish scales on both sides were knocked off, the gills and the tail of the fish were stabbed, and then the fish tendons were pulled out.
Carp cramps are a habit, I heard that fish tendons are a hair thing, the elderly, pregnant women and children are not good to eat, and after removing the tendons, the carp will be less fishy.
Easily pulled out the fish tendons, Canghai gently pulled a knife in the belly of the fish, took out the fish intestines and everything, soaked the fat in the fish belly and the fish in the water, and stuffed it back into the belly of the fish.
So that a carp is completely taken care of.
After killing six carp in a row, the fish killed in front of them also seemed to wake up, and after being disemboweled, these fish kept swinging their tails in the bamboo basket, doing a dying struggle.
When the fish on this side of the Canghai Sea was about to be killed, Li Liren had already begun to process the killed fish, marinated it with special ingredients, and began to start the pot after waiting for five minutes, waiting for the pot to start steaming, Li Liren picked up the spoon and poured it along the edge of the pot, and as soon as the oil was slightly hot, he put the fish into the pot one by one and fried them over low heat.
Frying fish is also a handicraft, you can fry the fish to a thin piece if you can't fry it, and the fish skin that can be fried is not broken, Li Liren is obviously the latter, the fish is fried on both sides, the fish skin is not broken at all, it seems to sprinkle a few pieces of ginger casually, pour a few spoons of soy sauce into the pot, and start to cook the fish as soon as the pot lid is covered.
"What am I going to do next?" asked Canghai after washing his hands and wiping them away.
Li Liren stretched out his hand and pointed to the small square table next to him: "Let's cut the meat, beef and mutton, with lean pork, put it on the plate in three equal parts, the meat is slightly thicker, the slices of your meat are too thin, and it's not a ramen restaurant, what are you doing with cutting it so thinly."
"Alright!"
Cang Hai listened and drew another unused knife from the knife holder, flushed the water, sat down next to the small table, and began to cut meat.
Beef, mutton and lean pork are all cooked, not marinated, just put salt and cooked, the knife is very sharp to cut the meat like a knife to sweep the snow, each piece of meat is half a cigarette box the size, about three millimeters thick, cut almost a piece of Canghai will put the meat on the plate, pork is below, between the mutton, the beef is the top, when it comes out, each plate is full of sharp points, full of hard can not be hard dishes.
Canghai cut meat here, Li Liren has already started to fish out the cooked chicken in the pot, this cooking chicken technique is still Canghai taught white cut chicken, four chickens are fished out, Li Liren here began to fry hot dishes.
Waiting for Ping An to come and take a hand, Liu Aifen liberated himself from the stove and began to cut vegetables and side dishes, and the three of them got started together, and in about forty or fifty minutes, the three tables of dishes were almost ready.
Each table is four cold and six hot, with a soup pot of duck and bamboo shoots on each table, which tempts people to sniff as soon as they enter the shed.