Chapter 12 Stewed catfish with tofu
Finally there is tofu to eat, Lu Zhe's tears are about to flow, in his previous life, he was born in a 4D magic Internet celebrity city in southwest China, especially loves to eat mapo tofu, after traveling to ancient times, facing the days when there was no rice, no potatoes, corn, eggplant, peppers and other foods, eating boiled mushrooms and yellow rice porridge all day long, Lu Zhe's mouth faded out of the bird.
Now, I finally have something I used to eat in my previous life. Tofu is not only very delicious, but also tofu can express the vegetable protein in soybeans that is not easy for the human body to absorb in another way, which is easy for the human body to absorb, and it is the same as the protein of meat, so it is also called plant-based meat. For Lu Zhe and Lu Yun, who lack meat and are weak, it is simply the most suitable food.
Lu Zhe carefully removed the plank, and a white and tender tofu appeared in front of him. He carefully sliced out a large piece of tofu with his knife. Take out the largest bowl in the house, pour hot water, put the tofu in it, and blanch it to get rid of the beany smell of the tofu.
Next, Lu Zhe put on his coat and turned around and came to the flower garden in his backyard. In the southwest corner of the flower garden, there is a large wooden pot in which river fish of different sizes swim.
Although there are many half-grown teenagers in the village who put fish cages in the river, the fish in the river have not been caught for a long time, so Lu Zhe's daily catch is still considerable. Some time ago, when the whole village was collectively panning the kang, Lu Zhe set up two big stoves in a corner of the open space in the center of the village, and everyone ate collective food together, and he took the opportunity to disclose the secret of the fish cage, so everyone had fresh fish to eat.
I also gave him a public understanding of this technique, and there were a lot of fish caught in those days, and after replenishing the meat in time, a group of women and children were stunned to take out the kang. You know, in the countryside, it's all men's work. Lu Zhe not only admired the women of ancient times, but sure enough, a great man was right, women can hold up half the sky.
After the kang was plated, almost every family brought gifts to him, among them, many people chose to give him fresh fish in the river, he and Yun Niang couldn't eat it at all, so they simply put it in a big wooden basin in their backyard and raised it. Therefore, this is the reason why Lu Zhe's family has a lot of fish.
Standing by the big wooden basin, Lu Zhe touched his chin and looked at the fish in the wooden basin. The fish, large and small, were still swimming leisurely, unaware of the imminent hand of sin.
It's up to you! After looking at it for a while, Lu Zhe's hands stretched out like lightning, and he plopped into the wooden basin, and then grabbed a gray and black fish.
The big fish was suddenly caught, and it was still struggling violently, its tail kept flicking, and a lot of water droplets splashed on Lu Zhe.
"It's quite strong." Lu Zhe smashed the fish's head several times with a stone, and finally became completely honest.
Lu Zhe chose a catfish, that's right, it is the bearded catfish he caught on the first day, this bearded catfish is the biggest fish he has caught so far, because there are still some grouses left on the day of the catch, this catfish was not eaten, and was raised in a wooden basin, and the next day Lu Zhe caught a new fish, but the size is not as big as this bearded catfish, Lu Zhe, who knows the earthy smell of the bearded catfish, decided to raise it, eat the small fish first, and then raise this big fish as a reserve grain.
Who knows, this raising, just raised for a month, Lu Zhe is not at home much this month, the little girl looks at her own fish in the basin every day, she is about to treat them as pets, and she also gives this bearded catfish a little black name, every day Lu Zhe comes home, Yun Niang will complain to her brother, and the bad little black robbed the earth dragon of other fish to eat.
Then Lu Zhe would smile and tell his sister-in-law that we would eat him in a few days.
Now, it's finally time to eat the bad little black in this little girl's mouth.
"Moved, you are the first catfish stewed with tofu in history, Xiao Hei, I will only give you this face." Lu Zhe skillfully scraped the fish scales, looking like a little black you have made a lot of money.
It's just that Xiao Hei, who was disemboweled, in his hand, probably doesn't think so.
The flower beds of the Lu family are humus, which is very suitable for the growth of earthworms, so Lu Zhe specially dug a small soil pit, threw the fallen leaves and part of the internal organs of the fish into it every day, and then watered a little, and raised a lot of earthworms, which was called the earth dragon in this era. Then give your sister a task of feeding the fish.
Yun Niang, who has nothing to play with, and her little friends have to feed a lot of earth dragons to the fish in the wooden pot, so these fish are very fat, especially this "bad little black" who loves to grab other fish to eat, is the fattest one.
As soon as the belly of the fish was opened, he saw that the white raw fish belly meat was very fat, and Lu Zhe was about to drip saliva when he saw it.
"Xiao Hei, you are so fat, you really deserve to be selected by me to make the first catfish stewed tofu in history. Xiao Hei, history and the people will remember you and your great contribution to the first course of tofu stewed catfish. Lu Zhe thought in pieces, looking righteous and awe-inspiring, but the saliva at the corner of his mouth began to betray him.
If Xiao Hei was still alive, he would definitely use all his strength, jump up and slap Lu Zhe, a shameless foodie, in the face with his tail, but it had already died heroically, and the fat fish body that had scraped off the scales was rinsed, cut into large pieces, and salted. The head of the fish is split in two, the internal organs are used to feed other fish, and the scales and gills are used to breed earthworms. Lu Zhe, who traveled back to ancient times, became very calculating, and he didn't even let go of fish scales.
Back at home, Lu Zhe took the clay pot in the house to boil water, and replaced it with another newly made clay pot, this clay pot was burned together when making bricks, the texture was harder than ordinary clay pots, and Lu Zhe could finally use it to fry things a little.
Stir-fry only began to appear in the Song Dynasty, the Tang Dynasty cooking food is generally roasted, steamed and boiled, a large part of the reason why there is no stir-fry is because of the problem of the pot, the pot of the Tang Dynasty is either a thick bronze pot, or a clay pot, stir-fry and require a high heat to fry, the thick bronze pot is difficult to conduct heat, and the clay pot is easy to crack under the high temperature of the fire, plus the main edible oil in the Tang Dynasty is animal oil, or sesame oil, they are called sesame oil, extremely precious, so stir-fry until in the Song Dynasty, iron smelting technology improved, It did not appear until craftsmen made thin iron pots, and it was not until the Ming Dynasty, when people widely extracted plants, that they became popular.
Lu Zhe added a lot of red sandstone to this pot, which is more resistant to high temperature than ordinary clay pots, so Lu Zhe decided that he must fry today's meaningful fish first, otherwise he will be sorry for Xiao Hei and tofu.
So, Lu Zhe carefully took out a small jar from the cabinet, took out a lump of grease in distress, and put it in his new pot.
The grease was melted, making a nice sound, and the aroma of the grease suddenly diffused in the small room, so fragrant, Lu Zhe sniffed hard, smelling the long-lost smell.
At the moment when the oil was completely melted, Lu Zhe hurriedly put the fish head cut in half into the pot, and when the fatty animal fat met the fish, a fishy fragrance unique to meat suddenly spread.
"Brother...... Fish, Yun Niang eats. The little man who was still on the kang ran to the head of the kang and stared curiously at the fish head in the pot, like a little cat waiting to be fed.
"Okay, we'll eat it later." Quickly turned the fish head over, looking at his sister with an expectant look, Lu Zhe was thinking, should he tell her that this is the little black she has raised for the longest time.
I don't want to. Lu Zhe remembered that after the rabbit he raised when he was a child was eaten, he shouted that it was really fragrant when he ate it, and he cried bitterly after eating, Lu Zhe shook his head.
Because it is a clay pot, Lu Zhe did not dare to fry the fish head for too long, after turning the noodles, quickly put in the ginger and garlic, and waited until the fragrance of ginger and garlic came out, in order to fear that the clay pot would burst, Lu Zhe did not pour cold water, poured in the boiling water, and then quickly scooped up the soaked tofu, with the mood of a foodie pilgrimage, carefully cut the tofu into small squares, put it in the fish soup, and put a handful of dried pine mushrooms at home.
Then, it's all up to time. Imitating the tone of a documentary, Lu Zhe put the lid on.
The new earthen stove was connected to the kang, and Lu Zhe found a wooden board to use as a damper, Lu Zhe blocked half of the damper, stewed the fish head and tofu over low heat, and then began to wash the rice.
The yellow and clear millet was cleaned, put it in a small basin, poured in an appropriate amount of water, Lu Zhe took out the steamer, and put the millet on top of the fish soup to steam. He changed enough food, and today he will eat tofu and stewed fish, so he will have the luxury of steaming dry rice once. Lu Zhe thought with some hatred.
An hour before the fish soup was stewed, Lu Zhe still hugged his sister and told the story of Qingqing Grassland Sheep Village to the little people, but when the fragrance of the fish soup became stronger and stronger, the brother and sister lost interest in telling and listening to stories. I started looking forward to the fish soup.
"Brother, how long is it left?" The lid of the pot and the steamer were brought aside, and a strong smell of incense came out, and the little man inhaled the aroma vigorously and began to circle around the stove.
"Wait a while, you can eat." The gray-brown clay pot, inside is milky white fish soup and snow-white tofu, the tofu has been cooked very delicious, there are many small holes on it, and even better, the dried pine mushroom absorbs the aroma of the fish soup, and integrates its own fresh flavor into the fish soup and tofu.
Lu Zhe took a piece of tofu, blew it gently, and brought it to his sister's mouth.
"Taste, is it delicious?"
"Hmm!" As soon as the tofu was in her mouth, the little man's eyes widened, and a look of surprise appeared on her face, and then, she swallowed the tofu in one gulp. "Delicious, delicious, delicious." It's still delicious, but the rapid voice shows that Yun Niang is more satisfied with the tofu.
"It's better than that bean curd, Yun Niang has never eaten such a delicious thing." The little man has crooked eyebrows and eyes, and has an expression of enjoyment.
"Really?" Seeing his sister's smiling expression, Lu Zhe also picked up a piece of tofu and put it in his mouth.
As soon as the tofu entered his mouth, a taste mixed with fish, mushroom and bean blossomed on the tip of Lu Zhe's tongue, and the tofu was very soft and tender. When you bite into it, the delicious fish soup immediately fills the mouth, because the fish head has been fried in meat oil, so the soup still has a fresh aroma of meat.
It's so delicious, fish head tofu soup, this is the familiar taste. Lu Zhe squinted, and he was a little moved.
A piece of tofu in the stomach, Lu Zhe couldn't help but look forward to today's tofu stewed catfish, he quickly poured the salted fish into the pot, he didn't have starch, there was no way to thicken the fish, but in the Tang Dynasty, there was no need to care so much.
After the fish was stewed in the pot for more than ten minutes, Lu Zhe tasted the taste, added a little salt again, sprinkled a little wild fennel, and then found a big bowl, scooped a full bowl, and sent it to the Lin family next door.
Absentmindedly embarrassed, Wu Zi also gave a salute to Xie Lin Jiang, and said that this thing is very beneficial to people, and the aunt wants to learn that she can come to the house tomorrow, and Lu Zhe, who was worried about the tofu stewed catfish, hurriedly ran home, impatiently scooped out the fish soup and millet rice, and shouted to her sister who was already lying on the side of the pot.
"Yun Niang, it's time to eat."
So, the two siblings began a meal they were looking forward to.
"It's delicious." A piece of fish meat was in his stomach, and Lu Zhe couldn't help but sigh.
The salted fish soup is simply a notch taper than the previous fish soup, the fatty fish, the milky white fish soup, the soft tofu, and especially the pine mushrooms that have soaked up the soup, are so delicious that they are simply foul.
In the cold winter, the cold wind blows outside, the snowflakes are also blowing, the small thatched hut is steaming, the two brothers and sisters sit on the warm kang, the kang table is made, on it is yellow and clear millet rice, snow-white fish and tofu, with the gray-brown, fat and delicious pine mushrooms, and the clay stove connected to the kang, the milky white soup is grunting carefully, and the air exudes a strange fragrance, which is the unique smell of tofu after being stewed with gravy.
The two brothers and sisters were laughing, eating, and talking about the trivial things of life, this scene was no different from the scene of Lu Zhe cooking hot pot with his family at home thousands of years later.
After eating the fish and tofu, scoop a few spoonfuls of milky white fish soup and pour it on the yellow and clear millet rice, the unique meaty aroma of the fish soup, coupled with the fragrance of tofu and pine mushrooms, gives the millet this grain a new taste, the two siblings soaked rice in the fish soup and chewed it.
Three catties of catfish, a catty of tofu, and a number of pine mushrooms, except for the bowl served to the Lin family, the others, with the efforts of the brothers and sisters, were actually eaten, and there was not much millet left.
"It's too much." Lu Zhe felt that his stomach was being stretched slowly, and the fish soup was about to pour into his throat. Looking back at her sister, the little girl was so propped up that she couldn't sit up, lying on the kang, her little hands and feet kept shaking, looking extremely comfortable.
"Brother, this tofu is delicious, if Aya A-Niang can eat it, how good it would be." The little man looked at the roof, and suddenly a sentence came out.
"Yun Niang, Aya A-Niang is in the sky, this tofu is what Aya A-Niang saw that Yun Niang was too thin, and specially got it from the sky, and told her brother in her dream. Aya A-Niang has been watching Yun Niang from the sky. ”
"Really? Did Aya A-Niang eat the elixir of the Taishang Laojun? After eating, they can come back from the Nantianmen. The little man believed in what his brother, who was known as an immortal disciple, including the story about the monkey, and the little girl took it seriously.
"This, wait for the next time my brother asks Ye Niang, but Yun Niang should be obedient and eat more, so that Ye Niang will be happy to see Yun Niang in the sky."
"Well, Yun Niang must listen to her brother and eat well." The little girl nodded very seriously.
Seeing his sister get rid of his sad mood, Lu Zhe was also a little sentimental, Yun Niang is his only relative, and where the little girl is there, it can be called home.
After cleaning up the dishes and chopsticks, Lu Zhe looked at the house full of grain, the game they sent, and the fish in the backyard, and was very satisfied, the snow had fallen, and the land began to freeze, fortunately, with these grains, he and his sister could spend a long winter,
This is the taste of home, after checking the food at home again, Lu Zhe began to play games with his sister, listening to his sister's silver bell-like laughter, feeling the warmth from the kang under his buttocks, the residual fragrance of fish soup and tofu in his mouth has not yet dissipated, and Lu Zhe's face involuntarily showed a happy smile.