Chapter 352: Chinese New Year's Eve Dinner

The Chinese New Year's Eve dinner is really too important for the Chinese, and the family reunion around the table on Chinese New Year's Eve to eat a reunion dinner can almost be said to be a custom in the blood and bones of the Chinese.

Whether it is thousands of miles apart, the family will always reunite on this day and sit together as much as possible, while tasting delicious food, not only rewarding the hard work of the past year, but also sharing blood and family affection. This is no longer just a custom, but the core of Chinese culture.

The Chinese New Year's Eve dinner of the Canghai family is naturally extremely rich, with chicken, duck, fish and meat, vegetables and fruits.

Of course, there are three outsiders in the family, and Fang Wu is chasing Qi Yue over, which is understandable.

But the two old men, Qu Guowei and Xu Sheng, were stunned that they would not go back to their homes for the New Year, which made the people in the village a little confused, but everyone would not ask that.

As for Canghai, he won't ask, it's someone's family matter, Canghai has no interest in inquiring, anyway, Canghai is lively.

"What about these things?" Qi Yue is now excited, their family was not so lively in the past New Year, the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner is the usual ones, but it is more grand than before, where it is like Canghai here, do this and that, the whole village is happy and the dog barks, it seems that there is a New Year's atmosphere in the air.

Cang Hai turned his head and looked, just wanted to open his mouth and say let Ping An do it, but when the words came to his mouth, he remembered that today is Chinese New Year's Eve, no matter how good and safe this kid is, he has to go back to his house to work on Chinese New Year's Eve.

"No one will kill chickens?" Canghai asked.

Qi Yue looked around and said, "I won't anyway!"

"I didn't count on you either!" After speaking, Cang Hai turned his gaze to Fang Wu, this kid.

When Fang Wu's kid heard this, he hurriedly waved his hand: "I can't do this job, but I'm willing to do the work of picking hair."

Hearing what Fang Wu said, Cang Hai shook the water in his hand twice, wiped it on the apron in front of him, picked up a kitchen knife, and walked towards the kitchen door where the chickens, ducks and geese were tied.

"Bring me three empty bowls!"

Cang Hai first brought out the chicken, and the big rooster in his early ten pounds is now the time to taste good, and this year it will present a plate of braised chicken on the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner table.

Qi Yue heard Cang Hai speak, and immediately followed behind Cang Hai with a small bowl.

By the time Qi Yue arrived outside, Canghai had already grabbed the chicken wings with one hand and buckled the chicken's neck in his hand at the same time, and the other hand began to pluck the feathers on the chicken's neck.

Waiting for a gap in the chicken's neck to see the skin come out, Canghai grabbed the knife placed at his feet, wiped it directly on the chicken's neck, and immediately heard the chicken's fierce struggle.

Canghai threw away the knife in his hand and controlled the chicken with both hands: "Where's the bowl!"

After waiting for a second before the bowl arrived, he turned his head and saw Qi Yue standing behind him with grinning teeth, stunned, and looked at her appearance Canghai said: "What are you doing in a daze, it's not to wipe your neck, hurry up and bring me the bowl!"

"Oh!"

Qi Yue came back to his senses and hurriedly handed the bowl in his hand to Canghai, who instantly aimed the bloody mouth of the chicken's neck at the bowl, and soon half a bowl of chicken blood accumulated in the bowl.

Seeing that there was no more blood flowing out of the chicken's neck, Canghai also shook the chicken twice, and then threw the chicken out of his hand, and the chicken that had been drained of blood fluttered on the bloody ground twice and then remained motionless.

The chicken didn't move, Canghai turned his head and took out the duck again, and in this way the duck was also slaughtered, and then the goose, and it took less than ten minutes to kill the three.

"If you put it in ancient times, you can be an executioner directly" Qi Yue watched Canghai kill three birds in a row, and subconsciously touched his neck, and when he saw the knife wiping the chicken's neck, Qi Yue felt a burst of hair on his back.

"Kill a chicken and duck and you can be an executioner, hurry up, don't rub it, help me pick up the chicken and duck back, you and Fang Wu, this kid plucks the hair," Canghai said.

Qi Yue carried the duck in one hand and the chicken in the other: "Then what are you doing?"

"Can I still do anything?" Canghai glanced at him, bent down and picked up the goose's neck and walked into the kitchen.

When he arrived at the kitchen, the hot water in the cauldron had already been boiled, and Canghai threw the goose into the wooden basin, and then scooped a scoop of water and poured it on the goose in the basin.

"Hurry up, dial it cleanly, everyone eats by themselves at night" Canghai threw down a sentence and stood back on the pot.

Now in the pot on the stove in addition to the pot of boiling water, another pot is steamed with standard chicken, although this thing is called standard chicken but has nothing to do with chicken, the main ingredient is meat and yam, the two are mixed together and spread the shutters at the bottom, spread the battered meat on the shutters, and then spread the yam paste on top, the thing after the pot is steamed is called the standard chicken, this thing is the cuisine of the Jiangbei generation, Canghai used to enter the restaurant's signature sign, usually this thing is troublesome Canghai does not want to do too much, but today is Chinese New Year's Eve, when will it be revealed if you don't show your hand at this moment?

In addition to the steamed standard chicken, the small pot also burns Canghai's specialty dish: white chopped chicken.

Seeing that the water in the pot was already boiling, Canghai opened the lid of the pot and gently inserted the chopsticks into the chicken, seeing that the chopsticks were easily submerged into the chicken, he knew that the chicken had been cooked, so he reached out and fished out the chicken from the pot, and the chicken was directly immersed in ice water, and the chicken made in this way will be more delicious and firm.

Scoop out the chicken, the steamed standard chicken on the pot is also ready, Canghai was busy bringing the steamer to the side, put it on the table, unveiled the steamer to let the steamed standard chicken in the cage cool down, only when the standard chicken is cold, can you slice and cook vegetables.

After finishing all this work, Canghai took a look and asked, "What can I get?"

"Don't be in a hurry to fry the dishes, it's only four o'clock now," Xu Xiaomin looked up at Canghai and said.

Canghai looked at the clock hanging on the wall, and found that it was only half past four o'clock, and it was a little too early to stir-fry, and he wanted to cook the food and found that Fang Wu Qiyue's hair had not yet been removed.

After thinking about it for a while, Canghai took out the boiled beef key meat, preserved eggs, salted duck eggs or something, and began to prepare cold dishes for the evening.

Qi Yue saw it and immediately stood up: "I'll come here!"

"You honestly pluck your hair, do you want to do this?" Canghai said to Qi Yue.

Qi Yue said: "I don't do this, the taste is too big."

Qi Yue doesn't like to pluck his feathers, because when the dry water hits the chickens and ducks, it will emit a disgusting smell, and he almost vomited at Qi Yue.

Looking at Qi Yue's appearance, Canghai had to nod: "Go and wash your hands well!"

Shi Wei saw that Qi Yue didn't want to do the work of plucking hair, so she turned the twisted edamame in front of her, and found that it was almost a plate, so she said to Canghai: "Cook the edamame first, I'll do the work of plucking hair."

When Canghai saw it, he had to take out the hand that was about to be put into the basin, took the edamame and began to wash the edamame, and after washing the edamame, he added salt, star anise and pepper or something to boil the edamame in salty water, which was an excellent accompaniment to the drink.

Waiting for the edamame to be put on the pot, Canghai squatted down again to help Fang Wu and Shi Wei pluck the feathers together, and the three of them quickly dealt with the chickens, geese and so on.

Canghai picked up the duck and went to the faucet and began to carefully wash the duck, and by the way, the extra small fluff on the duck was clamped out.

"Yo, it's so lively."

At this time, Zhang Jiusheng pushed open the door curtain and walked in, and when he saw five or six people squatting in the kitchen of Canghai's house, he immediately said with a smile.

Canghai turned his head and saw that Zhang Jiusheng was still carrying a large basket on his back, and the basket was covered with cloth, and he couldn't see what was half-filled inside.

"This is for you, it's all semi-finished products," Zhang Jiusheng said.

"You have everything at home, what are you doing with the things you send, keep them for your own food" Shi Wei stood up, shook her hand and said politely.

Zhang Jiusheng said with a smile: "You don't have this at home, it's all seafood, I will let the kitchen deal with everything that can be handled, and you can figure out how to deal with it yourself."

Shi Wei took the basket, opened it and took a look, and found that there were two big guys on the top, one was a big crab like a small pot lid, there were countless spines on the crab shell, and the crab was still alive, spitting small bubbles in its mouth. There is also a big lobster with a green shell, and one is about four or five catties. As for what was placed underneath, Shi Wei didn't notice it at all.

"None of us will make this thing!" Shi Wei scratched her head a little when she saw the lobster and king crab.

"It's simple, I'll send you the method of how to do it on your phone later! The rest of the yellow croaker is all burned, you just add some vegetables and cook them, and the vegetables will be cooked, okay, I won't tell you more, I have to send them to another house!" Zhang Jiusheng said.

Canghai listened and asked, "How much did you buy?"

"Not much, each family has an Australian dragon and a king crab, everyone will try seafood during the New Year," Zhang Jiusheng opened the curtain and walked out.

"Hey, Shi Wei, I think let's call the third uncle and three aunts and the family of three, so many things are really ......" Canghai didn't know what to say.

Lobsters and king crabs are definitely to be eaten, and if they are left overnight, they will die.

The whole family can't eat these dishes prepared now, and now there are two more big hard dishes, so there are even more left.

"Then you can call it!" Shi Wei said.

Cang Hai listened and went out, turned to the door of the third uncle's kiln, stretched out his head and looked in and found that there was no one in the kiln, and when he arrived in the kitchen, he saw that there was no fire at home, and immediately understood that the third uncle's family must have eaten Chinese New Year's Eve dinner with other people's families tonight, and he didn't need to ask Canghai to know that this was with Wei Wenkui's family.

ran to Uncle Wei's house at the bottom of the slope to take a look, not only the third uncle's family, but even the uncle's family of five were also at Wei Wenkui's house, and the three families got together just as a big round table was full.

Canghai is not good for the third uncle's family now, and besides, the other people's side is also full of vegetable bowls, so they have to chat a few words and then turn back home.

"What's wrong?"

Canghai replied: "They are all at Uncle Wei's house, just a table, let's deal with it ourselves."

After speaking, he saw that the old man Xu Sheng was fiddling with the lobster, so he asked, "Will you do this?"

Xu Sheng smiled: "It turns out that there are still things that you kid won't do!"

"I've just stayed in a small restaurant, this kind of noble thing, you can only eat up a month's money from a part-time job, where would you make this thing" Canghai smiled.

Xu Sheng said: "Then you kid just stand aside, I'll show you a hand!"

After speaking, Old Man Xu picked up two pieces of cloth, put one piece on the shrimp head, and put the other on the shrimp tail, and worked hard with Qu Guowei to straighten the shrimp.

"This kind of shrimp must be ** before it is made, if it is not**, the shrimp will come out with a smell of urine......" Old man Xu Sheng said as he wrenched.

After a while, Canghai saw a stream of water emerge from under the shrimp's belly.

"I'll go, I really don't know," Canghai said.

Taking advantage of the old man Xu Sheng's rectification, Canghai secretly learned on the side, not to mention, the old man Xu really has a set of lobsters, and the actions are like flowing water in the same way, this is definitely not pretending, it must be done to have such skills.

"You always seem to be really rich, you have to eat it often," Canghai joked.

"You kid can't afford to eat?" Xu Sheng scolded Canghai.

"Hey, hey!" Canghai smiled.

Xu Sheng finished processing the lobster here, let the pot on the sea of Canghai steam, and then dealt with the king crab, waiting for Zhang Jiusheng's cheats to control the whole crab to be sent over, and the two things of the Canghai family were steamed in the morning.

The shrimp were put on the pot, and Canghai started to cook big dishes, like a pot of old duck bamboo shoots, braised goose, and everything was burned and rectified one by one.

After the big dish is cooked, it is a few small stir-fries, and when the soup is boiled in the pot, everyone begins to set the table to eat.

This meal could not be eaten in the kitchen, the large round table was placed in the center of the living room, and the room was warm as spring, and a whole large table of dishes was placed on the large round table.

As soon as he sat down, there was a burst of firecrackers outside, and Canghai slapped his leg when he heard it: "I almost forgot about this matter, set off firecrackers!"

I haven't spent the New Year in the countryside for more than ten years, and I can't set off guns in the city for the New Year.

Hurriedly took a firecracker and lit it and threw it outside, and a thousand red cannons exploded in front of the kiln in the sea with firelight.

With the sound of crackling firecrackers, Cang Hai raised the wine in his hand and said to everyone at the table: "Everyone raise a glass! Celebrate Chinese New Year's Eve!"

"Happy Chinese New Year's Eve!"

Everyone raised their cups one after another.

There are no requirements for drinking at the reunion dinner, if you want to eat white, you will be white, and if you want to drink red, you will be red, like Mengmeng, who is naturally holding a bottle of orange juice and drinking it, usually Shi Wei does not let her drink these unhealthy drinks, but except today, so Mengmeng is not happy to drink a glass of orange juice alone.

As for eating vegetables, it is more casual, everyone eats whatever they want, a large table of more than a dozen dishes, and there is always something to like in large pots and small plates.

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