Chapter 18 Chinese Cuisine
When they arrived at the ranch, Liu Chao and Zhao Nan were fascinated by Ju'an's house, with its dark red exterior walls, hidden among several huge cedar trees, snow-white windows, and a white porch on the first floor.
"Damn, you kid chose a good house" As soon as he stopped the car, Liu Chao hammered Ju'an.
smiled proudly: "Settle things down first, you guys rest first, we are having a Chinese dinner in the evening."
As soon as they jumped out of the car, the three of them had already greeted Thomas Sr. and said, "Welcome to Creek River Ranch."
"This is Thomas, Wynne and Nancy Nancy, and this is my friend, Steven and his wife Angela."
Several people shook hands with each other, and Wynne helped Ju An carry all his luggage into the house.
Then Thomas and the others took their leave and went to their own ranch, and when they were leaving, Juan told them not to cook at night and come over to dinner together.
I carried my luggage up to the second floor, and arranged my brother and them in the room on the right hand side of the house, and as soon as I pushed the door in, I found that old Thomas had opened the window, and the sheets had been changed.
Zhao Nan turned around: "This room is really good, thank you, Ju'an."
Ju An waved his hand and said, "You're welcome, senior brother has never been polite to me, just be satisfied."
"That's right! Right! We can't show satisfaction, we have to let this kid have room to rise" Liu Chao nodded and said with a serious face, and as soon as he finished speaking, he sighed, it turned out that Zhao Nan used his arm to come up for a while.
"Senior brother is right, it's like your own home here, it's okay at will" Ju An looked at Liu Chao and touched his arm and said with a smile, "Then you clean up first, and then call me if you have anything missing."
Closing the door casually, Ju An went downstairs to prepare lunch, a simple Western-style lunch, picked a few tomatoes in the greenhouse, and then made a cabbage, cucumber, carrot.
It's super easy to wash the dish and cut it into small cubes and serve it with salad dressing.
Then turn on the gas, put it on the top of the pot, melt some butter, then take out three pieces of marinated beef from the refrigerator, put them in the pan and fry them for a few minutes, then turn them over and fry them for a few minutes, look at it, put it on the plate, pour tomato sauce, cut a few slices of tomatoes, swing it, and everything is done.
Walked upstairs and knocked on the door: "Senior brother, sister-in-law, it's time to eat."
When Liu Chao and Zhao Nan went downstairs, Ju'an's red wine had already been poured.
"Yo he! Is this a good way to cook Western food that I haven't seen for a month?" Liu Chao sat down and praised.
Ju An glanced at Liu Chao: "Foreigners' things, it's too simple, it's fried, baked, fried, you can do anything else to read, where is it like our Chinese food, can you do it almost when you read a book, that is, the knife work can be practiced in a while, the last time I ate pasta, I saw that the whole cold noodles were poured with tomato sauce, which was hairy."
Liu Chao looked at Ju An: "I said you kid, do you want to eat Chinese food, I scratch a lot, when I first came to study, I often eat instant noodles, a foreign girl thought I was afraid of spending money, I think I was thrifty and simple, in fact, I think instant noodles are better than Western food, fortunately brother I found a Chinese, to find a big Yanma who doesn't like to eat Chinese food, I hung myself on the ceiling fan in less than a year."
Zhao Nan said: "Ju'an, didn't you see your senior brother's stupid appearance at that time, the girl was interesting to him, he hid around like a spy all day long, and I also made a few shields for him at that time."
Ju An was interested when he heard it: "The majesty has not diminished back then, it seems that only people who have been educated in the United States can appreciate your advantages, is it a domestic sling, and it has become popular in the United States?" ”。
"What do you mean by sling," Zhao Nan interjected and asked.
"Ahem" Liu Chao almost didn't drink a sip of red wine into his nostrils, "Don't mention these, eat, eat."
looked at Zhao Nan with a curious expression: "You ask senior brother at night."
After eating and cleaning up a little, Ju An pulled out the bean grass and Xuehua, put on the saddle, and let Xuehua carry three chairs, fish hooks and net pockets, and the senior brother and Zhao Nan couldn't ride horses, so they had to let them drive a quad bike. As soon as the horse was prepared, Zhao Nan took out his love crazy, so he gave two pieces of bean grass. said that it was posted on his own Twitter.
Digging a few earthworms under the big tree behind the house, putting them in small jars, Ju An rode a horse and led his brother and wife to the pond.
When he arrived at the edge of the pond, as soon as he took off the chair, Liu Chao hurriedly pulled out a fishing rod from the back of Xuehua and prepared by himself.
Zhao Nan was busy taking pictures around, slapping the white-tailed deer drinking water by the pond for a while, and then took a few more photos of Liu Chao and Ju An before propping up the chair.
The busiest thing is to live in peace, first of all, take off the net bag from the horse, a small bucket or something. Then take the saddle off the horse's back and let the snowflakes and bean grass graze around.
After doing this, Ju An found that Liu Chao was already staring at the float intently, while Zhao Nan just set up the fishing rod and put it at his feet, still holding Ai Crazy in his hand to shoot around, and he didn't know if there was bait in the hook.
A little further away from the two of them, Ju'an set up his chair, then sprinkled some oats into the pond, sat down in a nest, and then pulled out the fishing rod, took a small piece of earthworm, put it on the fishing hook, and flicked the fishing rod gently, and the hook fell into the nest.
After squatting for a while, I heard Liu Chao shouting: "Yes."
Then he saw a half-foot-long crucian carp row out of the water and landed in front of Liu Chao, took out the hook with a smile, picked it up and let Zhao Nan take a picture, and then put it into the bucket in front of him.
Ju An shook his head secretly, there are too many crucian carp bones, I don't like it, today he mainly wants to catch a big herring. There are fewer spines, and there are three foreigners at night, they eat fish to go to the bones, who has the time to give them the bones of the crucian carp.
After working for more than two hours, Liu Chao harvested the most, catching a total of four small crucian carp, as well as an ang thorn, and all that was left was some herring croaks that couldn't get into the eyes of Ju'an.
Zhao Nan didn't have one, he patronized and looked around, and his heart was not on fishing.
Ju'an harvested a few ang thorns, and the crucian carp and green croaks were still in the pond by Ju'an. Seeing that the time was a little early, Ju An was planning in his heart, whether to go to the space to catch a big herring and hang it on the hook to cheat, or he would only be able to eat a few ang thorns at night.
was pondering, when I heard Liu Chao shouting that he wanted to fly: "Anzi, come here, a big guy, so much strength."
Ju An hurriedly put down the pole and ran over. I shook the fishing rod and tried my strength: "Well, it's not small, it's so powerful."
Liu Chao held the fishing rod with one hand, controlled the line with one hand, and released the line slightly when he felt the fish pull down hard, and when he felt the strength of the fishing rod was lighter, he retracted the line, and slowly followed the fish.
After a stalemate of about ten minutes, the fish showed the surface of the water, and Liu Chao said with a smile: "Good guy, it is estimated that there are more than ten catties, and the big herring is enough at night."
It took a few more minutes slowly, and finally dragged the fish to the shore, it was indeed a big guy, with an arm length and more than a dozen catties.
took off the hook, buckled the gills, and asked Zhao Nan to take a souvenir photo, and the group packed up and went home.
Ju An and Zhao Nan cooked together, while Liu Chao rode around on a motorcycle.
Zhao Nan washed the rice first, cooked, Ju An was responsible for killing the fish, put the fish on the table, Ju An skillfully scaled the fish, cut the belly of the fish, the knife was lightly cut, the fish was hidden out, the fish was washed on the faucet, and then the fish bladder and fish roe were also washed down, the fish intestines and fish scales were thrown into the garbage bag, the fish was cut into four sections, and the salt and ginger were coded, and they were put aside to soak the taste.
Zhao Nan watched Ju An clean up the fish so quickly and praised: "I didn't see it, you would still do this."
"Nowadays in China, it is not uncommon for men to be able to cook, but it is rare for women to be able to cook, if you can't cook, you can't even have a girlfriend," Ju An said jokingly.
"Liu Chao in addition to eating, that is, he can cook an egg soup or something" Zhao Nan shrugged his shoulders, "and his mouth is very strong, he eats the things he likes to eat, he doesn't like to eat a bite and doesn't touch it, especially the mutton dislikes a smell."
"Wait for a few months, my cattle and sheep here can be eaten, you come to taste them, they are all free-range sheep" Ju An talked to Zhao Nan while washing the vegetables.
"That's good, I love mutton," Zhao Nan replied.
Next, Zhao Nan copied a stir-fried beef tenderloin, braised eggplant, fish-flavored shredded pork and hot and sour shredded potatoes, and then mixed a cold gherkin.
Ju An boiled a sliced pork, scrambled eggs with red silk, and a fish, and finally stewed a pork rib gourd soup.
By the time Thomas and the others returned, the rest of the dishes were ready, except for the fish and pork rib soup stewed in the pot.
As soon as Liu Chao entered the door, he said, "It's so fragrant, wait for me to bring the wine", and trotted all the way to get the wine.
Thomas happily said, "It smells so delicious, I can't wait."
When the dishes were served, Liu Chao gave each of the four men a small glass of white wine, and the two ladies drank red wine.
Liu Chao picked up his glass and said, "Thank you for your hospitality, thank you." Then he took a gentle sip of wine.
Thomas Sr. took a sip and said, "What a strong drink, it's about the same as vodka."
When eating next, Ju An found that the three foreigners actually used chopsticks, and the spoons originally prepared for them basically did not come in handy.
When I asked, I found out that there were also Chinese restaurants in the city, and from time to time they would also go to eat some Chinese food. It's no wonder that people say that there are Chinese restaurants wherever there are people, and they can be regarded as contributing to the prosperity of chopsticks culture.
Nancy took a few bites of food and asked, "Why, the taste of the Chinese restaurant in Lewistown is so different from the food you cook, I go to my friend's place and often eat Chinese takeaway, and I think the difference is so big."
Zhao Nan explained: "The taste of Chinese restaurants nowadays has been adjusted, which is more in line with the taste of Westerners, and this is the taste of real Chinese food."
Wynne pointed to the scrambled eggs with tomatoes and asked, "How to do this, I like it more, I can learn to make it myself in the future".
"Beat the eggs first, then put some olive oil in the pan, and when the stir-fry is about the same, just put the chopped tomatoes in it," Juan said.
Wynne said, "It's a little complicated," he said.
Ju An was stunned, and couldn't help but think of a German customer in the past, every time he came to China, as long as he went to eat, he would definitely order scrambled eggs with tomatoes, Ju An asked him very curious why again, and the old man said seriously: This dish is too complicated to make, such a complex dish can be made so delicious, the Chinese chef is really powerful, so Ju An is speechless.
A meal is a joy for both guests and hosts.