Chapter 38: Cooking
In the morning, Wang Xia decided to make breakfast for Yiyi to eat, it was time to test his cooking skills, for the sake of Yiyi's safety, Wang Xia locked the door and went to the nearest market at the speed of a rocket to buy eggs, milk, ham, noodles and other condiments, he wanted to make a loving breakfast for Yiyi.
The kitchen is on the first floor, so Wang Xia is not worried that the sound of making breakfast will spread to the second floor. After opening the gas tank and starting the fire, Wang Xia poured oil and fried a few poached eggs first, in order to make the poached eggs look better, Wang Xia took great pains, played the spatula and the pot very smoothly, and finally fried a few poached eggs that he thought looked good.
After frying poached eggs, it is fried ham, which is relatively simple and does not require any skills, as long as it is not burned.
The last step is to cook noodles, this Wang Xia has the most experience, he doesn't know how many times he has cooked noodles, this is a necessary skill for lazy people, simple and convenient.
After the water boiled, Wang Xia put the noodles into the pot, picked up the kitchen knife and swished through the green onions and other ingredients.
Just as Wang Xia was waiting for the noodles to come out of the pot, Yiyi's voice came from upstairs, "Where are you, Baba" with a crying voice.
After Wang Xia heard his daughter's crying voice, the whole person trembled, quickly turned off the fire, and ran to the room on the second floor at a cheetah-like speed.
I saw Yiyi sitting on the edge of the bed crying quietly, with a pair of big eyes red, Wang Xia's heart was about to break, and he hurriedly hugged Yiyi: "Yiyi, Dad is here, don't cry." Kissing Yiyi's little face with pity.
Yiyi, who was hugged by Wang Xia, sobbed and said: "Where have you been, Yiyi thinks that Baba should not be Yiyi." A pair of small hands hugged Wang Xia's neck tightly, for fear that Wang Xia would disappear.
"Silly Yiyi, how could Dad not be Yiyi, Yiyi is so well-behaved and so cute, it's too late for Dad to feel distressed, how can you not be Yiyi, Dad is making breakfast for you. Wang Xia touched Yiyi's little face lovingly, and wiped all the tears on Yiyi's face.
After comforting her for a few minutes, Yiyi's mood stabilized and she stopped crying. Wang Xia suddenly realized that he had a heavy responsibility, he was no longer a student, but a father, a father of a daughter, he couldn't let his daughter be sad and sad, he wanted his daughter to grow up happily. Like today's mistakes, he can't make them again, he must always pay attention to the child's thinking, of course the child will be very sad when he wakes up and doesn't see his parents, and the number of times Yiyi and himself meet is very small, which makes Yiyi feel insecure.
"Baba, Yiyi is hungry. Yiyi suddenly said to Wang Xia, her little stomach was already very hungry after crying for so long.
"Dad cooked noodles for you, let's go, Dad will take you down for breakfast, so that Yiyi can see Daddy's cooking. Wang Xia touched Yiyi's little head lovingly and said, after washing and changing clothes for Yiyi, he went downstairs to eat breakfast with Yiyi.
Wang Xia decided to slowly change or even eliminate Yiyi's habit of getting up early and having to drink milk, Yiyi is now three and a half years old, can eat and drink porridge, it's time to wean, Wang Xia still remembers that a cousin's child in his previous life was weaned very early.
"Wow, it smells so good. Walking to the first floor, Yiyi moved her little nose and sniffed the fragrance in the air, and said with an intoxicated face.
Wang Xia couldn't help but smile proudly when she saw Yiyi's little expression, her daughter said that the noodles were fragrant before she ate them, so happy.
"Yiyi sits on a stool, and Dad brings you noodles to eat. Wang Xia put Yiyi on a small stool and filled a bowl of noodles, plus two poached eggs and some ham.
"The noodles boiled in Baba are so fragrant, and this egg is also very good-looking, just like Grandma Wang's cooking. Yiyi praised Wang Xia happily after seeing the noodles, and Wang Xia was even happier after hearing it, her daughter is really powerful.
"Come, it's not good to try the noodles that Dad cooked. Wang Xia blew hot air on the noodles and fed Yiyi to eat noodles, Yiyi opened her small mouth to eat noodles, and Wang Xia looked at Yiyi expectantly.
"Wow, the noodles boiled in Baba are so good that I still want them. Yiyi's eyes suddenly widened and said to Wang Xia.
Wang Xiale blossomed, his daughter said that the noodles he cooked were delicious, worth it, this breakfast was worth it, for Yiyi's praise, he decided to cook for Yiyi in the future.
"Eat more if it's delicious, come, open your mouth. Wang Xia kept feeding the noodles to Yiyi, and Yiyi was also very cooperative to open her small mouth and eat the noodles, which made Wang Xia very encouraged.
"Come on, eat the balls, children will become smart when they eat the balls. Wang Xia took a poached egg and fed it to Yiyi, Yiyi took a big bite, and the semi-solidified egg yolk juice flowed down the corner of her mouth, Wang Xia quickly wiped the corner of Yiyi's mouth with his thumb, and then sucked his thumb, well, it tasted good.
"The eggs fried in Baba are so delicious, just as delicious as Grandma Wang's. Yiyi praised Wang Xia, in order to show that what he said was from the heart, so he took a big bite of the poached egg, and his small mouth was full of egg yolk liquid.
Seeing that Yiyi liked to eat so much, Wang Xia felt very satisfied, and fed Yiyi to eat noodles one bite at a time.
The child's appetite is very small, Yiyi only ate half a bowl of noodles plus a poached egg and a few pieces of ham are already full, Wang Xia still wants to feed Yiyi milk, but Yiyi said that he can't drink it, Wang Xia is not reluctant.
Yiyi was full of Wang Xia and was going to eat it by himself, well, the noodles he cooked this time were indeed okay, salty and light, and the noodles were also very strong and refreshing, so Wang Xia eliminated all the noodles in the pot, as well as poached eggs and ham.
After eating breakfast, Wang Xia pondered whether to buy a dining table and chairs, otherwise there would be no place to eat, and the small bench that Yiyi was sitting on now was still what he bought in the market today, and he ate the noodles standing up.
Wang Xia calculated in his heart how much money he still had, how much money he had left after buying the dining table and chairs, and finally concluded that he didn't have much money left after buying the dining table and chairs, but it was enough for him to spend the last few days of the month, so he chose to buy it.
After carrying Yiyi to the nearby furniture city, at Yiyi's request, Wang Xia finally bought a table with a pattern, and it was a very kawaii pattern, to be honest, if Yiyi didn't like it, Wang Xia wouldn't have chosen this kind of dining table at all, after all, he was a big man who bought this kind of dining table weirdly.
The salesman on the side saw Wang Xia's somewhat helpless expression and held back his smile, "Sir, your daughter is so cute and has a good eye, and she chose the cutest table in our store at once." ”
Wang Xia is funny and angry, some people say that his daughter is cute, of course he is happy, but when he talks about the dining table, he is a little unhappy, and he is asked to put such a kawaii table here, so that he has to buy this dining table.
"This table is equipped with chairs, and the chairs don't have this pattern. Wang Xia asked the salesperson on the side.
"Sir, the chair also has this pattern, but this pattern is really cute. The salesman politely replied to Wang Xia.
Wang Xia was a little helpless, but he still bought this dining table out of his pocket, no way, his daughter likes it, he can't help but buy it.
When he was paying, it really made Wang Xia feel distressed, the money, the red ticket, just went more than half, and it was back before the liberation.
After paying the money, the owner of the store asked the truck to deliver the dining table and chairs to Wang Xia's home, and after having the table and chairs, he felt that the house was more fulfilling.
Near noon, Wang Xia went to the market with Yiyi to buy a few vegetables to prepare to go back to cook, this time he didn't buy cucumbers and tomatoes, he couldn't always make two dishes of cucumber fried ham and tomato scrambled eggs, he had to innovate.
So Wang Xia bought fish, pork ribs and lettuce this time, he wants to make braised fish and sweet and sour pork ribs, uh, of course, Wang Xia has never made these two dishes, but he can learn, in order to follow him, he is ready to learn to cook different dishes.
Because of the possibility of failure halfway, Wang Xia bought a few ingredients, and if he didn't succeed once, he would do it a second or third time, and it would always be successful.
But after arriving at the kitchen, Wang Xia Ke was sad, cooking is not so easy to learn, braised fish and sweet and sour pork ribs are not as simple as cooking noodles, just like Wang Xia is facing a question at the moment, what is the first step of sweet and sour pork ribs, fried pork ribs or what?
Regardless of the fried ribs first, after making a decision, Wang Xia poured oil and fried the ribs, and then put sugar and vinegar when the fried was almost done.
Yiyi looked at Wang Xia fried pork ribs curiously with watery eyes, and said vigorously that the baba is so powerful, which makes Wang Xia a little embarrassed, what is it, he is doing it randomly.
Because our Wang Daba was making sweet and sour pork ribs for the first time, the heat was not well controlled, and the ribs in the pot were honored to be scorched by him, seeing that the ribs had turned black, and they also emitted this strong burnt smell, Wang Xia hurriedly turned off the fire and put out the black pork ribs, with a helpless face, it was obvious that he had failed to fry sweet and sour pork ribs for the first time.
"Baba, what is this, black, stinky. Yiyi covered her nose and said with a little disgust, it was difficult for her to understand what she was made of, so ugly and smelly.
"Well, Dad didn't fry well this time, Dad fried again, this time it will definitely succeed. Wang Xia said to Yiyi a little embarrassed, and then poured out the black ribs.
In order to no longer waste ingredients to ensure that sweet and sour pork ribs can be successfully made this time, Wang Xia checked the method of sweet and sour pork ribs on the Internet, carefully looked at the above steps, and after he understood the method, Wang Xia confidently remade sweet and sour pork ribs.
First of all, fried pork ribs, Wang Xia kept turning the spatula to fry the ribs yellow, seeing that the color of the ribs had become yellow, Wang Xia quickly fished out the ribs, and then fried the ginger and green onion to make the fragrance, and then poured the light soy sauce and dark soy sauce or something on the ribs, added boiling water to stuff the ribs.
After doing this series of operations, Wang Xia touched the sweat on his forehead, this time it should be okay, he did it according to the steps.
Yiyi watched curiously as Wang Xia completed this series of operations, and said crisply: "Baba, are you ready?" ”
"Not yet, we'll have to wait a while. Wang Xia said to Yiyi with a smile.