Chapter 209: Pumpkin! Pumpkin!
"Tong Xinrong?" Isn't that Tong Ran's father, Su Miao was slightly stunned, and asked suspiciously, "How do you know, you know him?" ”
"I don't know. Didn't you see Tong Ran call him 'father'? Aftertaste said lightly.
The corners of Su Miao's mouth twitched, how could he see that the old man who suddenly arrived from Tong Dan Guan was called "father" when he was so far away?
Tong Ran kept looking at Su Miao when she was talking to Tong Xinrong, and at first Su Miao thought they were looking at her, and she was furious when she was seen, but later she found out that they were looking at the aftertaste. After a while, a housekeeper-like person beside Tong Xinrong walked over with his waist bent, came to the aftertaste, bent his waist deeper, lowered his voice and said with a smile:
"The slave said hello to the little young master, my master knows that the little master doesn't like to be disturbed by others, so he specially ordered the slave to come over, and invite the little young master to go over to the elegant seat over there to watch the game, the position over there is good. What does the little master think? ”
"No need." Aftertaste replied coldly with three words.
The butler seemed to have known that he would refuse, and he didn't care, nodded his head and answered twice, and then politely retreated.
Su Miao swept over Tong Xinrong, Tong Xinrong did not sit with Tong Ran, but walked to the front row, someone gave up a place with a smiling face, he sat down, his eyes were half-open and half-closed, as if he was closing his eyes, and one hand was still unhurriedly turning the jade beads in his palm.
"Don't you know him?" Su Miao looked at the aftertaste and asked.
"I don't know."
"Then he still asked people to come over and take the initiative to talk?"
"I guess he knows me." Aftertaste said lightly, and glanced at Tong Xinrong not far away.
Su Miao saw that he was not interested, so he stopped asking. His eyes swept over Tong Xinrong and Tong Ran one by one, and then he went to see Changsheng and Tong Zhengsi on the stage.
Changsheng and Tong Zhengsi naturally noticed Tong Xinrong's arrival. When the two of them came out from behind the stove to pass by because they needed to deal with the ingredients, Tong Zhengsi snorted coldly. Lowered his voice and sneered disdainfully:
"Father is old in the end, and he still thinks about you as a mongrel, you haven't returned home for ten years, and you can still let your father come to see you in person, a mongrel is a mongrel, and it's as good a means as your mother!"
Changsheng's face changed color slightly, and the fist under his sleeve clenched for a moment, but released the next moment. He looked at Tong Zhengsi, who was smiling a little distorted, and said lightly:
"What kind of ability is it to whisper, you should be louder, just say it on this stage, so that everyone in Suzhou knows how the sanctimonious Tong family killed ten people in one night under the skin of benevolence."
"Fresh and shameless, it's really the same as your mother's slut!" Didn't see Changsheng's embarrassment, but was choked back by the other party's cloud lightly, Tong Zhengsi glared at him coldly, gritted his teeth and said.
Changsheng gave him a sharp look. Sneered:
"God knows what is going on in that matter, God knows your mother, your mother is an out-and-out slut, don't think that the evidence has been erased by you, you can arbitrarily deduct shit basins on dead people, people are doing it, and the sky is watching. Beware of retribution! ”
"...... you" Tong Zhengsi was furious, and was about to have a seizure, but he felt a pair of cold eyes cast on him. He looked at the past with a pang of his body. Tong Xinrong was looking at him sternly with a pair of narrow eyes, and his heart sank. Subconsciously lowered his head and cowered to fetch the pumpkin.
Changsheng left calmly after saying his words and returned to the back of the stove.
Under the stage, although Tong Ran was still sitting upright, his hand tightly holding the handle of the fan was pale without a trace of blood.
Changsheng was able to dig out the pumpkin into a pumpkin cup, Su Miao didn't think it was strange, but he didn't expect Tong Zhengsi to be very proficient, not only cut the pumpkin from the head and dig out the seeds, and carved a circle of lotus patterns on the incision of the pumpkin, but also carved the pattern of a rich peony on the surface of the pumpkin cup.
Su Miao saw it in her eyes and raised her eyebrows: "The knife work is not bad!" ”
The first dish is to use pumpkin as a dish, and Tong Zhengsi and Changsheng coincidentally chose to use pumpkin as a cup.
Steamed pork ribs with pumpkin flour, select fresh pork ribs and cut them into small pieces, marinate for two quarters of an hour, add spiced rice noodles and mix well, so that the ribs are evenly coated with a layer of rice noodles, and steam them over high heat for two quarters of an hour until the ribs are eight ripe. Dig out the pumpkin flesh in the pumpkin, stack the eight ripe ribs into the pumpkin, mix well with the melon flesh, and let the ribs soak the sweet aroma of the pumpkin. Finally, cover the pumpkin and steam for a quarter and a half hours until the pumpkin is fully ripe and sprinkle with chives.
When Changsheng carved the pumpkin, he carved the pumpkin lid and the top opening of the pumpkin with chrysanthemum patterns, and the staggered patterns were matched with the dark orange of the pumpkin skin and the tender orange of the melon flesh, which looked very delicate.
The ribs are evenly wrapped in a layer of rice noodles, and the slightly coarse rice noodles slide over the tip of the tongue, but bring a surprisingly wonderful taste, which better sets off the smoothness and softness of the ribs under the rice noodles. The sweetness of pumpkin has completely penetrated into the rice noodles and pork ribs, the rice noodles are full of pumpkin sweetness, and the pork ribs are full of pumpkin fragrance, which is very soft and harmonious. When these layers of fragrance gradually melt between the lips and teeth, a sense of lightness suddenly rises in the heart, so light that it seems to fly.
Su Miao smelled the harmonious and soft fragrance when she was steaming the pumpkin, looked at the chrysanthemum crisp in her hand, her stomach was empty, and she suddenly wanted to eat pork ribs, but unfortunately the finished products were to be presented to the judges, she flattened her mouth and muttered:
"It's so good to be a judge, I really want to eat it!"
"As long as you can win in the Qin'an Division, you can be a judge in the Qin'an Division next time." Aftertaste said with a smile.
"But I want to eat ribs right now!" Su Miao puffed out her mouth and said.
Aftertaste glanced at her and said with a smile: "Got it, I'll make you pork ribs to eat when I go back in the afternoon, okay?" He pinched the tip of her nose.
Su Miao touched her stomach, and then looked up at the sun in the sky:
"I shouldn't have bought too many dim sum, I should have saved some money to buy pork ribs with sauce elbow sauce or something." After eating too much sweet pasta and smelling meat again, she now wants to eat meat.
Aftertaste smiled dumbly, she must have been hooked up: "Or, I'll buy it for you?" ”
Su Miao thought for a long time, shook his head, and grabbed his arm: "Forget it, maybe I won't want to eat it for a while, if you make sweet and sour pork ribs at night, I can still hold back." ”
Aftertaste chuckled and touched her plush head twice.
Tong Zhengsi's pumpkin cup is similar to Changsheng's pork ribs, and the pumpkin is processed in the same way, using a flower knife, but he does not use meat, but is vegan. Put bamboo shoots, golden needles, vegetarian ham, and shiitake mushrooms in the pumpkin cup, add only a little salt, no other seasonings, and steam for 10 minutes. In just ten minutes, the pumpkin juice has stained all the ingredients, becoming more and more luscious and fragrant.
While the light vegan ingredients may feel a little lighter than the juicy sticky pork ribs, this is not necessarily the case.
The fresh and slightly sweet taste of pumpkin itself is very special, and the most important thing for cooking with pumpkin is to bring out the original taste of pumpkin, and expand and amplify the original taste infinitely, so that the taster can feel amazed by the natural and true taste of pumpkin. From this point of view, it is easier to do this with vegan ingredients, because no matter how light the aroma of meat is, it is stronger than that of vegetarian dishes, and the aroma of meat will mask the aroma of pumpkin if you are not careful.
But at the same time, there is another key to scoring, that is, the difficulty of the dishes, the use of vegan ingredients is relatively simple, the use of meat as an adjunct is relatively difficult, this score is counted in the impression score, the judges will subconsciously relax the requirements for the more difficult, and strict requirements for the simple.
There are pros and cons to both options, and in the end, it depends on the skill of the cook.
Su Miao sat in the corner and shook her head as she watched the guy serve the food to the judges, and almost pasted the four big words "I want to eat too" on the door of her head.
The guys all got off the stage to serve the food, and at this moment, Changsheng on the stage suddenly took out a small pumpkin from the steamer, handed it to Guan Chang, and whispered a few words to him. Guan Chang nodded, came down from the side with the plate, came to Su Miao in the surprised eyes of everyone, and handed it to the dumbfounded Su Miao.
Su Miao was stunned, pointed to the tip of her nose and asked, "For me?" ”
Guan Chang nodded.
The aftertaste begins to be unpleasant.
Guan Chang stuffed the pumpkin powder steamed pork ribs into Su Miao's hand and left.
Su Miao was slightly stunned, and immediately looked around, everyone looked at her, even the judges looked at her.
Although there is no explicit rule that the contestants can only cook for the judges, there are generally no contestants who have no leisure to do things that are meaningless to the scoring.
Changsheng is obviously the strange one who is idle.
Su Miao became the focus of the audience again because of a pumpkin, which made her a little shy, only to see her blindfolded for a moment, stood up with the pumpkin in her arms, and shouted at Guan Chang's back:
"Big brother, how can I eat if you don't give me chopsticks!"
"......" the audience was dumbfounded, can't a girl's family be sven?
Changsheng laughed, took chopsticks from the stage, walked down and handed them to her.
At the same time, Su Chan dragged Lin Yan over and said to the two people sitting on the other side of Su Miao:
"Brother, I'll change seats with you!"
The two looked at her, Su Chan looked at them coldly, so the two people agreed silently.
Su Chan took out a handkerchief from her arms, wrapped two pairs of chopsticks in it, handed Lin Yan a pair, and sat next to Su Miao to eat ribs.
Lin Yan was looked at by many people, not as embarrassed as Su Miao and Su Chan, and she didn't dare to eat a piece of it.
Su Miao and Su Chan hugged the pumpkin and feasted on it, Su Miao asked in surprise while eating:
"You still have chopsticks?"
"I thought maybe I could use it." Su Chan replied vaguely.
"You're so prescient, I'll bring a pair next time. Xiaoweiwei, do you want to eat a piece? Su Miao didn't forget to taste it while she ate it, and asked with a smile.
Aftertaste watched her eat a mouth full of rice noodles, snorted, don't look over.
He seemed to be angry.
But this can be put aside first, since he doesn't eat it, Su Miao concentrates on continuing to "exchange feelings" with the ribs. (To be continued......)