Chapter 113: Lack of Ingredients
"Mother Zhang, there are guests coming to the house tomorrow, you look at the list I made, we have to buy these things tomorrow morning. Pen %Fun %Pavilion www.biquge.info"
Huang Hongying listed the menu and went to the kitchen to discuss the specific arrangements with the nanny Aunt Zhang, which was not a little sloppy.
However, after reading Huang Hongying's menu, Zhang's mother's face showed embarrassment: "Madam, this hairy crab is okay to say, but this wild anchovy is not easy to find, this thing is usually reserved, if you really want to buy it suddenly, I'm afraid you won't be able to buy it for a while." ”
Huang Hongying's face froze when she heard this, she just wanted to make a high-grade family banquet on the table, so the recipes she wrote were all extremely rare dishes, but she didn't think about the problem of ingredients.
"Then what should I do? I can't deal with it casually, this is related to Lao Su's investment plan this year, if this is a maybe, the investment project of 200 million yuan will be in vain!" Huang Hongying was anxious in the kitchen.
"What two billion projects?" It happened that Su Qingqing came back from outside, and when she heard Huang Hongying's chatter, she came over to ask curiously, but when she looked down and saw her mother's recipe, she couldn't help but look at it a few more times, "Mom, what is this?"
"Recipe, tomorrow your father is going to have a banquet at home, it is said that he is an investor from Hong Kong, so your mother and I are racking my brains to think of a recipe, quickly show your mother and me, how about this recipe?"
"White chopped chicken, crispy. Milk. Pigeon, steamed hairy crab, wine-stuffed anchovies......" Su Qingqing read the recipe again, nodded and said, "Yes, typical Shanghai food, all of them are my favorite food." ”
Huang Hongying glanced at Su Qingqing angrily: "It's useless for you to like to eat, and it's not for you to eat, so you didn't find that there was a problem here?"
"What's the problem?" Su Qingqing looked down at the recipe again, and didn't find anything wrong, so she asked in wonder.
"The ingredients! Zhang's mother said that this hairy crab is okay, but wild anchovy is not easy to find. The problem is that if you don't use wild anchovies, the taste will be much worse, after all, we are a banquet for distinguished guests, the ingredients are too poor will be very low-grade, if the guests are not satisfied, it will be a bad thing!"
"You let Dad figure out a way, he can still get a wild anchovy with a ********?" Su Qingqing said indifferently.
"Go and go, what kind of bad ideas did you come up with, you don't know that your father, how can a person who is usually not willing to take advantage of the bus fuel money use his power to do such a thing?" Huang Hongying took a sip of Su Qingqing, but her brows were frowning tightly, looking extremely distressed.
"Then I can't help it, you can do it yourself, if you really can't do it, just change to a different dish, get a sea cucumber, abalone, shark fin or something, isn't this what rich people eat?"
Su Qingqing shrugged her shoulders, glanced at the recipe in Huang Hongying's hand again, turned around and prepared to go upstairs.
Unexpectedly, after only stepping two steps, her footsteps stopped, and a person suddenly thought of in her mind, and looked back at Huang Hongying and said, "Maybe you can ask Ning Ning, although I haven't seen her sell wild anchovies, maybe she knows someone who sells wild anchovies." ”
As soon as Su Qingqing said this, Huang Hongying slapped her forehead suddenly, and suddenly realized: "That's right, you said that I have such a brain, why did I forget Ning Ning." Isn't that girl's shop selling wild aquatic products, the last time I went to her shop, I saw a lot of wild fish in her big pool. And we all tasted the hairy crabs you brought back a few days ago, and the taste is even better than the ones sold in the fresh market!"
Thinking of this, Huang Hongying didn't delay any longer, and hurriedly took out her mobile phone and couldn't wait to call Huo Sining.
Huo Sining has a class tomorrow, so he returned to the villa from the store after finishing his busy afternoon, and before he could enter the house, he received a call from Huang Hongying.
Why did my aunt call her at this time? Huo Sining felt a little strange in her heart, but she still quickly picked up the phone: "Hey, aunt?"
"Ning Ning, aren't you busy now?" asked Huang Hongying with a smile.
"I'm not busy. Huo Sining asked, "Do you have anything to do with me?"
"That's right, your uncle is going to have a banquet at home tomorrow night, and I am missing an ingredient in the recipe I have prepared, but I don't know where to buy it for a while, so I want to ask you if you have a way. ”
"Ingredients?" Huo Sining wondered, even the Su family couldn't buy it, how could she have a way?
"Where do you get all the wild aquatic products in your store, can you help my aunt ask if those people can catch wild anchovies, the price is negotiable, but be quick, I will ask for the goods before four o'clock tomorrow afternoon, and it is best to have live fish." ”
Hearing Huang Hongying say that the ingredient she was looking for was wild anchovies, Huo Sining was stunned.
Anchovy, commonly known as Sanli fish, Sanlai fish, is a migratory brackish and freshwater amphibian fish, enters the Yellow River to spawn in April and May every year, and then returns to the sea in October, comes every year at the right time, is punctual and correct, so it is called anchovy.
Adult anchovy enter the Yellow River system from the coastal cluster, and the migratory route is 700 kilometers long, because of its fast scales and fast swimming, so it is also called the mixed river dragon.
The meat of anchovy is delicate, there is the delicacy of fish, and the texture of meat, it is slippery and delicate in the mouth, fat and mellow, and it is unattainable by ordinary fish, so it is listed as one of the three freshness of the Yellow River. Moreover, anchovy is the treasure of treasures, and has always had the reputation of "king of fish".
However, anchovies die soon after they leave the water, and it is very difficult to catch anchovies, and it is very difficult to catch one, let alone live wild anchovies.
Nowadays, all that can be bought on the market are anchovies that cost tens of dollars a catty, usually either artificially raised or anchovies from foreign countries such as Myanmar and the United States, which are far from wild Huangjiang anchovies in terms of color and taste.
Huang Hongying wanted wild anchovies, Huo Sining was ready to refuse her without thinking about it, not that Huo Sining refused to help, but that she couldn't help with this favor.
In the past few months, she has dived into the Yellow River several times and caught countless fish, even the Yellow River saury, but she has never caught a single wild anchovy.
It's the middle of October, which is supposed to be the season for anchovy migration, but I haven't seen even a shadow of anchovy.
It seems that as rumored to be, wild anchovies have been on the verge of extinction over the years due to large-scale fishing that has destroyed their ecological balance.
"Auntie, wild anchovies are very difficult to catch, and now there are not necessarily dozens of fish migrating in the Yellow River basin a year, and trying to catch one is like looking for a needle in a haystack, unless you are lucky, it is difficult to catch. Huo Sining was a little helpless.
Huang Hongying was a little deflated when she heard this: "That's it, okay, I'll go and ask someone else." (To be continued.) )