Sixty-Four: New Year's Dinner (2)
There are few relatives in the family, only Lin Xiang and Lin Yan are quiet, there is nothing to do after lunch, Lin Yan went out for a walk to eat, Lin Xiang took advantage of the time and felt a little sleepy, so he leaned on the couch and slept for a while.
……
In the afternoon, when it was getting late, Lin Xiang woke up.
Lin Yan was drinking water and said, "Sister, aren't we going to Sister-in-law Wang's house for dinner?" ”
Lin Xiang was shocked when he heard this, and he was a little discolored.
"What's wrong?" Seeing Lin Xiang hurriedly get up from the collapse, Lin Yan felt a little strange.
"I want to make something to bring over-" Although he took a little osmanthus cake into it, Lin Xiang still felt a little embarrassed. After all, it's the New Year's dinner, and it's not good to have too much cheapness from others tonight.
Thinking so, Lin Xiang quickly arrived at the stove.
"Sister, what are you going to do?" Lin Yan leaned over with some curiosity and watched Lin Xiang raise the fire again.
Lin Xiang smiled lightly, looking at the morning, when the chicken soup that had cooled down at the moment because it was cooked had already begun to boil, he also had some faint expectations in his heart-
Hands to take out the boiled chicken bones in the pot, Lin Xiang took the chili powder and sprinkled some into the pot casually, and the boiling hot soup "gurgled and gurgled".
After just a moment's effort, Lin Xiang sprinkled all the ingredients that could be used at hand, such as star anise, such as ginger slices.
"Lin Yan, didn't you buy a lot of vegetables in the morning?"
Lin Yan heard the sound and came over-
"yes, you're going to cook?"
Lin Xiang asked Lin Yan to take a lot of vegetables from the things he bought back in the morning-
"You should also put more soybean sprouts......," Lin Xiang muttered.
The milky white chicken soup in the pot slowly overflowed with aroma, and the emerald green vegetables were boiled in the pot to float and float.
grabbed most of the plates of watery soybean sprouts, and Lin Xiang poured them all in-
The white and tender tofu, the slices of meat with a pale pink color and a regular shape.
Lin Yan looked at it, feeling more and more familiar, and after a while, he suddenly screamed, stared at Lin Xiang's eyes tightly, and then looked at the food in the pot: "Fire...... Chafing dish? ”
Lin Xiang pursed his lips and smiled.
After a while, Lin Xiang turned his face to his younger brother who was full of surprise and said, "The eyes are quite sharp." ”
Hot pot, hot pot......
Lin Yan just thought about it, and the saliva in his mouth had already begun to flood.
It is a light or rich soup, or a spicy or spicy soup base, and the lamb slices are poured in, lettuce, chrysanthemum, tofu, bean sprouts, meatballs, fish tofu, etc...... But there is nothing imaginable that cannot be cooked in a hot pot.
Because Lin Xiang added some chili peppers to the bottom of the chicken soup, the soup base at the moment looked a little red, the color was bright and attractive, and there was a faint layer of oil, and there were slices of meat and various dishes in it, and the familiar fragrance had already floated out.
His mouth began to grow, and the flavors that originally belonged to hot pot began to emerge from Lin Yan's mind.
The slices of meat with the soup, a hot mouthful of white air, dipped in a small amount of blended sauce, a trace of coolness and **, put it in the mouth, the tip of the tongue is suddenly delicious, belonging to the original taste of the dish, with the deliciousness of the soup base, people can't stop the slightest.
"It's a little different, though." Lin Xiang thought about it, and then turned his face to Lin Yan.
The kung fu in his hands was not slow, Lin Xiang kept adding dishes to the soup pot, and at the same time sliced the pork he bought this morning into neat slices of meat-
"First, because we don't have mutton now, we use pork for shabu-shabu."
Lin Yan didn't say anything because of this, but his mouth was full of saliva.
"Second, we don't have the kind of induction ......cooker in a modern restaurant," Lin Xiang said, feeling a little pity in his heart.
Yes.
If you have an induction cooker in your hand, you can eat and drink it now.
"So, if we want to eat something like hot pot, we can only cook all the things, vegetables, and meat......" Lin Xiang said, thought about it, and said: "It's a bit like Kanto...... Boil? That feeling? ”
"However, we have more stuff in the soup pot here, both vegetables and meat."
A thick mist began to float above the soup pot, wet, hot, with a spicy taste lingering on the tip of the nose.
Lin Yan couldn't hear what Lin Xiang said, he just said: "Hot pot or shabu-shabu or something, it's just a freshly eaten shabu-shabu, one is eaten after shabu-shabu, the taste before and after is not much different, one wants sauce, and the other doesn't." ”
Lin Xiang smiled: "If you want to eat sauce, I can give you a seasoning bowl." ”
"No need, next time." Lin Yan ate at noon, but at this time, smelling the aroma of cooked dishes, his stomach was inevitably "gurgling".
"Then I'll make the soup a little salty." When Lin Xiang heard this, he put a spoonful of the sauce in his hand a little.
"Gurr-" The reddened soup in the pot began to bubble continuously, the lettuce was boiled and began to tumble up, Lin Xiang leaned in and sniffed the aroma.
After a while, Lin Xiang poured all the slices of meat on a plate into the pot.
Lin Yan swallowed.
Lin Xiang picked up the small bowl on the side, scooped up the spoon, and filled the bowl with the vegetables and soup in the pot.
"You go get some food first." Lin Xiang looked at Lin Yan a little helplessly.
Lin Yan screamed in surprise, and then brought the thing to his hand instantly, not caring about the heat, he hurriedly ran to the table and picked up the chopsticks and ate it.
The tip of the tongue was drenched with hot juice, and the delicious and piping hot aroma filled the mouth and eyes.
Lin Yan gulped down the soup that came to his mouth, revealing a slightly satisfied look.
……
Lin Xiang quickly stirred the contents of the pot twice, and the meat slices were cooked quickly, but they could be out of the pot in a few moments.
Put all the mist and hot soup and meat in the pot into a large pot.
At this moment, Lin Yan had already eaten a small bowl of food.
Licking his mouth, Lin Yan squinted.
Lin Xiang extinguished the fire on the stove and said, "Let's not rush to go first, we'll ...... later" As he was talking, there was a knock on the door of the house over there-
"Wow, bh
Lin Yan raised his eyebrows, then quickly ran to the door, opened the door, and sure enough, he saw the face of Sister-in-law Wang.
"Let's go-" Sister-in-law Wang didn't enter the house, and when she saw Lin Yan, she took his arm and said, "Lin Xiang, come out quickly-"
"Eh-" Lin Xiang responded briefly, and after sweeping the dust from the stove, he quickly washed the handle.
Lin Yan was a little at a loss and was dragged away by Wang's sister-in-law.