Chapter Twenty-Three: The First Dinner
But if you feel that only vegetables are expensive here, then you are too naïve, and Jiang Hai also feels that he is a little too naïve, when he walks to the fruit section...... In addition to vegetables, the prices of fruits here are also outrageously expensive.
Watermelon is ninety-nine cents a pound, kiwifruit is a dollar and three dollars, oranges, about two pounds or more, and four points and ninety-nine dollars.
Apples are ninety-nine cents a pound a dollar, to be honest, seeing this price, Jiang Hai misses the country a little, this is just a random fruit outside, and the high-quality ones are more expensive.
However, Jiang Hai also saw a glimmer of business opportunities, his pasture, if all used to raise cattle, can raise 100,000 heads, but now he only raises 20,000 heads, and he keeps changing pastures all year round, and he can't use such a big place.
Some of the vacated space could be used to grow some fruits and vegetables, and he believed that the price of what he grew should be higher.
But now, it's just a matter of looking, and after a brief turn, everyone also starts to buy things.
Tonight he said that Jiang Hai was a treat, and naturally he was not ambiguous, the standard beef he bought, the best beef shoulder, eight dollars a pound, Jiang Hai bought two hundred pounds, these beef, not only tonight, but he also wants to eat it in normal times.
Besides, a manor like him naturally has to provide food and drink to his subordinates, which is unavoidable.
Two hundred pounds of beef, ten bags of chicken crutches, ten bags of ten wings, when Jiang Hai wanted to buy fish, he was stopped by Robbins and Edward, there were fish on the beach on his side, Edward took a fishing rod and hung it in half an hour, which was enough for these people to eat at night.
So you don't need to buy this, in addition, there are many other things to eat, such as onions, the people of the United States can't stand the taste of green onions, ginger, and garlic, but they like the taste of onions very much, and onions can also suppress the smell of beef, which is also very good.
In addition to this, there are also a lot of lettuce, carrots, celery, eggplant, etc., all bought organic.
Jiang Hai is not a small picker, although he has no money now, but he is not bad at paying lip service.
For example, in the past in China, the old people saved money, all from the mouth, but now Jiang Hai lacks money, obviously not from the mouth can be extorted, rather than this, then spend, after buying vegetables, meat, Jiang Hai bought a lot of fruits, apples, oranges, and some berries such as blue plum produced in Canada, these berries, two small boxes are about six taels, it costs three US dollars, it is indeed the price, after counting all these things, Jiang Hai also spent more than two thousand one hundred US dollars, but these small dollars, He won't care, he left the supermarket's phone number, and if there is such a large order in the future, he can ask them to deliver it.
Then, along with Edward and Robbins, he moved them all to the car.
Originally, before moving, Edward and Robbins were still saying that they would not let Jiang Hai do it, after all, Jiang Hai was the one who paid for it.
In fact, they were afraid that Jiang Hai would not be able to move, and their faces would be dull when the time came, but they didn't think that Jiang Hai was about to catch up with the two of them by himself, which scared the two of them, and it seemed that Jiang Hai was not as weak as he seemed on the surface.
"When we're done eating, let's get some bars!" After moving the food to the back seat of Robbins, Jiang Hai patted the car door and said to Robbins next to him and Edward in the distance.
"Buying wine? Okay, let's move to old Tony, his bartender there. "But all seafarers and cowboys, there is no one who is not good at drinking, and now as soon as I heard Jiang Hai say that he drank all the wine, the saliva in the mouths of these two began to secrete, and Robbins said directly.
"Old Tony's wine, that's really good, let's go!" Hearing Robbins's words, Edward here also laughed, and then the two old broken pickup trucks, with a roar, came to the Cowboy Song Bar where Jiang Hai came last night.
At this time, the bar was not open, only two waiters were cleaning there, and when they saw these three people walk in, they were obviously stunned, but they also knew Robbins and Edward.
After expressing his intentions, he left the amount that needed to be consumed in the past few days, and the rest that could be packed was bought by Jiang Hai.
I bought a total of three barrels of home-brewed beer, plus more than 20 bottles of foreign liquor, most of which are base, brandy, vodka, tequila, rum, and whiskey.
Jiang Hai only spent more than 300 US dollars in total for these wines, and he originally thought that he would have to spend more than 1,000 US dollars, because he remembered that he had drunk one of them before, and that kind of wine would be sold for more than 300 bottles in China, and it would be sold for 50 US dollars in exchange for American knives.
But I didn't think about it, when I settled the account, the wine was only worth twelve dollars, okay, Jiang Hai felt that he had been cheated again......
But there is no way, who calls it in China, he does not have this channel to buy these wines.
After loading the wine, Jiang Hai took his two subordinates and galloped all the way back home.
The next thing to do is to get the food right.
The people of the United States are not the same as the people in China, especially in the Northeast, if you want to show your enthusiasm, you have to make a lot of dishes, such as the New Year's Festival, or when people come to the house, you will always make a big table of dishes in the Northeast, and they are all double and not single, for example, if there are few people, it is six, medium is eight, and there are quite a lot of people, that is, ten, twelve, sixteen, etc., and the rest does not matter, but you must do more, show your hospitality.
But in the United States, it will not be like this, to be honest, the people on the side of the United States are still very simple to make things, basically like this kind of party, because it is the relationship between cowboys and fishermen, so beef, fish meat is essential.
The beef is cut into steak-shaped, and when it is cooked, the fish is basically fried, of course, you can also raise a fire in the yard and use it to roast it on your own, plus the sausages and chicken wings that Jiang Hai originally bought, you can just bake them if you want to eat them, what they have to do is to feed the ingredients first, and then put them on the fiber they bought, that's all.
In addition to this, vegetables and fruits, there is basically only one method, salad, not greasy, and very tasty, which is fine.
So cooking in the United States, especially making such dishes, is very simple, about an hour or so, Jiang Hai, Luo Housi and Edward have already made these things, Robinster went to the warehouse, and took out some branches that he usually cut down, these trees are dead trees in the forest, he is bored when he is on patrol, so he will cut down some, when he makes barbecue, he roasts them with wood, which is much more delicious than those made in the oven.
After getting all these things ready, Jiang Hai and his two subordinates rode towards the beach in an all-terrain car.
Now he has prepared beef, chicken wings, chicken crutches, vegetable salad and fruit salad here, as for the staple food, Jiang Hai called and ordered pizza, when he was in China, Jiang Hai liked to eat this thing, but this thing is not cheap in China, before the divorce, he didn't have much spare money to eat these things.
After the divorce, he had spare money, but he really didn't eat much in China, and after arriving in the United States, he found that the pizza of the United States was much more delicious than that in China, of course, according to legend, the best pizza was in New York, but Boston was also good.
He bought ten sixteen-inch pizzas at a time, enough for these people, and now they have to solve the problem of fish.
"Hey, boss, have you ever fished before?" As a professional fisherman, Edward's luggage is mostly fishing rods, and fishing rods are also divided into many kinds, some are suitable for fishing in rivers, some are suitable for fishing in ponds, some are suitable for fishing in large reservoirs, and of course, there are also sea rods for fishing in the sea, but there are also many kinds of sea rods, which are used on boats, on reefs, and on the seaside, and the length, thickness, material, etc., etc., there are many particulars.
The size of the hook, the thickness of the fishing line, and even the bait of the fish, these are all particular, not people who are not concentrating on playing with this thing, they may not really understand, Edward looked at the expression in Jiang Hai's eyes that wanted to show a hand, and couldn't help but smile and asked.
"I've fished before, but only in rivers, reservoirs and fish ponds." Scratching his head, Jiang Hai looked at Edward and said with some embarrassment, he only saw that others had used the sea rod, but he had not used it.
"Oh, boss, freshwater fish are not the same as saltwater fish." Hearing Jiang Hai's words, Edward here hadn't spoken yet, and Robbins over there had already said with a smile.
"Yes, fishing for freshwater fish, is always float fishing, but the sea fish is different, because the sea is too deep, so in addition to floating fishing, sea fishing is also divided into bottom fishing, boat fishing and play fishing, boat fishing we don't have this resource now, floating fishing can only catch fish about one meter deep, those fish are very small, so we basically use play fishing or bottom fishing." Hearing what Robbins said, Edward also smiled and said to Jiang Hai, hearing what they said so lively, Jiang Hai was also a little moved.
"Play fishing requires some skills, and the average beginner, fishing on the shore, is bottom fishing, you can try it first." Seeing Jiang Hai's eager look, Edward here picked up a fishing rod and handed it to Jiang Hai's hand.
This fishing rod is not like the hand rod usually used to fish freshwater fish, the front is so thin, the front of this sea rod is also very thick, a very thick line, tied to the roller below, on the top, tied with a small lead sinker and a pair of fishing hooks, but there is no deepest fishing float, looking at the equipment in front of him, Jiang Hai's eyes began to glow, took the fishing rod handed over by Edward, he tried it first, with his current strength, wielding these fishing rods is trivial.
Then from Robbins, I took some small shrimp, these shrimps are actually said to be small shrimp, but they are not small at all, this is Robbins before, idle and idle, copied with a net on the beach, specially used as bait, Jiang Haizhi felt distressed.
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