Chapter 590: Start Cooking (II)
Pork stewed cabbage, it looks very ordinary, but it can be stewed according to Yang Huairen's method, and the taste is indeed better than that of ordinary people.
First of all, the oil used is more meaty, and since the name of this dish puts pork in the front, it is not meaningless.
So called, then pork is the main ingredient, and others such as cabbage, other side dishes such as tofu or good, can only be regarded as a supporting role in this dish.
This is the difference between Yang Huairen's cooking, for ordinary people, they don't pay attention to how exquisite the appearance of the dishes is, how ingenious the combination of ingredients is, what they care about is not real.
There is a lot of oil and meat, and in the eyes of ordinary people, it is a real performance. Nearly half of a bowl of stew is steaming pork, and just looking at it is a great appetite.
When cooking a big pot of rice, the chopped cabbage looks quite a lot, many times more than pork, but the cabbage is full of water, and when it is hot, the dish itself shrinks, and after it is stewed, it looks like there is more pork.
Tofu, which is rich in vegetable protein, is the most suitable for stews, and when combined with the animal protein and fat of pork, the taste is the favorite taste of ordinary people.
In these years, when people cook at home, they are really cooking, and the operation of pouring oil when the pan is hot does not exist at all. Yang Huairen has seen with his own eyes that the villagers in the original Zhuangzi have no oil pots at home.
When they cook at home, they directly heat the pot, cook the dishes directly, and add a little salt, even if it is a meal for the family.
This is still an average family background, a bad family background, no fire all year round, and there are many people who eat radish pickles.
And the slightly better, there is an oil pot at home, and the bottom oil of the pot is used to cook the vegetables, and the chopsticks are also dipped in the oil pot, and the chopsticks stick to two or three drops of oil and throw it into the pot, and finally the cooked vegetable soup can see some scattered oil flowers, which is considered a good meal.
Add meat? Except for the New Year's holiday, no one in the entire Zhuangzi will buy meat to eat alone. During the Chinese New Year, there were hundreds of people in the whole Zhuangzi, and they would kill a pig, and the family would share a piece of meat.
We all know that it is delicious to fry and eat, but no one is reluctant to eat that little oil, and chop it up to make dumplings with pork filling, which is considered the New Year.
The living and eating standards of urban people are much higher than those of rural households because their income levels are higher than those in rural areas, their materials are also abundant, and they have some cash in their hands.
However, that kind of extravagant enjoyment is not within the reach of ordinary people, seventy-two buildings, that is also the home of dignitaries, princes and nobles, and rich families, people who have no identity and no money, can only stretch their necks to look inside when passing by, and they just look.
Other taverns and roadside food stalls are more suitable for ordinary people, and ordinary people here also refer to the middle class with jobs and incomes.
For example, a craftsman like Li Lei, whose monthly income has always been more money, goes to Suiyuan to eat a bowl of beef noodles, but only occasionally, let him eat every day, he doesn't have the time to queue up to get a stick, and second, he can't afford to eat.
This is the basic state of life of the people of the Great Song Dynasty, there are rich people, more ordinary people, poor people, beggars called Huazi, not starved to death, but also not full, a penny and a grain of rice to calculate the life.
Yang Huairen is a cook from the most ordinary people, he has seen the lives of those farmers, and he has sighed, so in his character, it is determined that he subconsciously stubbornly believes that those hard-working people deserve to eat better food and live a better life.
Zhao Hao and Zhao Ji, they are rich and noble people who have lived in the Golden Nest since they were children, and their natural noble identity determines what they experience, what they see and hear, which is actually quite far from the real life of the people.
They each have restaurants in their homes, and there are famous chefs from all over the country in the palace, and a meal is not much worse than that of the imperial chef in the palace, and they don't care about what the people usually eat, and there is no way to know.
This kind of experience will inevitably be a little embarrassing for them, but more importantly, it is still fresh.
Looking at the rattle on Yang Huairen's mouth, although this eating appearance is not very elegant, but in such a scene, it shows that the big pot stew that does not look good this night should taste good.
Zhao Yu got off his chopsticks, added up a piece of thin, fat, and less boiled meat, hesitated, filled it into his mouth, chewed it a few times, and the facial features on his face that were rarely crowded together gradually relaxed.
People like them usually don't eat pork, and it's still a matter of moral kidnapping from the science that prevailed in the Northern Song Dynasty.
However, since I have been in contact with Yang Huairen a lot, he is not so pedantic, and he has begun to try to eat some pork, and they will also find that the pork in their mouths is not as dirty as described by those Confucian Confucians who advocate science, and the taste is still good.
Compared to the meals they usually eat, pork stewed with cabbage and tofu is definitely incomparable in taste, but this experience still exceeds their expectations, at least, this vulgar dish tastes much better than they originally imagined.
Zhao Ji saw that the imperial uncle had moved his chopsticks, and he also began to try to eat a bite. It tastes a little greasy, but the feeling of being full of oil is not bad.
Yang Huairen looked at them and smiled. If they are willing to eat, it means that they will also start to think about problems that they would not have thought about before.
People with their status can't talk about the idea that everyone is equal, Yang Huairen wants to let them experience the life feelings of the people in this way, and maybe they can understand a deeper meaning for the things they are helping Yang Huairen grow vegetables now.
This kind of starting meal, the craftsmen, as well as the professional beggars brought by Lan Ruoxin, taste the most delicious.
Chopsticks are not used to pick up vegetables in their hands, but to pick vegetables, put the big bowl to their mouths, and pull them into their mouths, pork, cabbage, and tofu, and pull a lot together, and stuff their mouths full.
Then he began to chew, making a chirping sound like Yang Huairen, chewing his mouth full of oil, so that the most simple and honest delicacy filled his mouth.
Although they don't look very good-looking, they always have a smile on their faces, sincere, happy, and contented.
No one wasted food because Yang Huairen, the proprietor, said that he was enough to be full, and the big bowl was pulled by chopsticks with a "bell", and it was they who pulled the minced meat and vegetable residue at the bottom of the bowl into their mouths, and finally drank the vegetable soup without a drop.
Finally, take a sip of water to press the esophagus, swallow the last bite of food into their stomachs, lean back against a wooden pillar, or a stone, touch their bulging belly, and burp, this is their happy life.