Because he was confined at home, Cheng Huailiang also gave up wanting to go out.

Every day from dawn began to play mahjong with the people in the house, maids, servants, family members, generals, except for the craftsmen who rushed to work day and night, most of them Cheng Huailiang have played with them, there is no hierarchy in Cheng Huailiang's mind, and there is nothing uncomfortable with anyone, so the life is very high.

In the blink of an eye, Cheng Huailiang came to the Tang Dynasty for a month, and he deeply liked this dynasty, he was so full of vitality and so proud.

But there are still a lot of places that people are not so satisfied, playing mahjong is the most annoying to follow Cheng Biting Jin, Yu Chigong and other generals, playing mahjong with them has to wear a steel helmet on the head, earplugs cotton, and always be vigilant against mahjong or other things flying from the air, which makes people feel very unsafe.

And what I'm not used to is eating. To put it mildly, the ordinary people of modern times eat better than the emperor Li Er at that time.

They cook mainly by steaming, boiling, and baking. No one knows how to stir-fry. Not to mention anything else stewed or something.

There are no vegetables, mainly wild vegetables, or okra, Chinese cabbage, spinach, etc., such as potatoes, corn, tomatoes, peppers, onions, sweet potatoes, etc., which can be seen everywhere in modern times, and it is a luxury to eat them in this era.

There are a lot of spices, but there are no chili peppers, and they are all Chinese medicinal materials such as cinnamon and star anise, and no one uses them as spices for cooking.

The staple food of the Tang people is noodles, such as Lingnan and Lianghu, which are still pickled places. Mainly Guanzhong people.

The main meat of the Tang people is mutton, pork is eaten by poor families, rich and nobles all eat mutton, eating pork is considered to be a drop in price, and the current pork is different from the later generations, it is the kind of black soil pig, the fishy smell is very big, will not get it, can not suppress this fishy smell at all, you want to vomit when you eat, cattle are forbidden to be slaughtered, and the farmers' cattle will never be enough.

Cheng Huailiang felt that he had eaten pig food for a month, and finally couldn't bear it anymore, and said angrily to Cheng Bing Blonde while eating: "Dad, you are still a general, you can't hire a better cook, what do you eat every day?" It's just pig food, and I want to vomit when I eat it. ”

"Pig food, our meal is enough for a poor family's expenses for a month, and pig food?" Cheng Yanjin roared at Cheng Huailiang.

"Really!" Cheng Huailiang said aggrievedly to Cheng Yanjin.

"No alcohol? Still no meat? This cook is still cheeky to go to the imperial dining room to snatch it back, don't know what to do! Cheng Yanjin said to Cheng Huailiang.

"Hey, Daddy, forget it, I'll make dinner in the evening, let you taste some real meal, this one will be a souvenir." Emperor Lao Tzu is also bitter and eats this pig food every day."

"Just blow it!" Cheng Yanjin didn't believe it.

After lunch, Cheng Biting Jin swayed out of the door, and I didn't know to find that card friend to play mahjong, I really don't know who is willing to play with him.

Cheng Huailiang came to the kitchen to understand the basic situation now, such as spices, vegetables, meat and other things, and found that things were very scarce, hey, there is no way, Tang people eat like this, Li Er, who has Hu blood, how much taste do you expect him to have? With this money, he felt that it was better to spend it on the development of the country.

Cheng Huailiang called the people in the kitchen to come back, and instructed them to pick up and buy things, beef, pork, pig's trotters, and go to the pharmacy to buy ginger and cinnamon and other spices, and also told them to buy those side dishes and so on.

When the servants heard that the young master was going to cook by himself, they quickly bought the raw materials as instructed.

Cheng Huailiang instructed the chef to look at it and learn it well, really, if you want to eat something, you have to do it yourself, what's the use of asking you?

Boil the water in the pot, throw the pig's trotters cut into pieces into the pot, pour out the blood water in the pot after boiling, tell the cook to wash the pot, put oil, put pepper, ginger star anise and other spices into it and stir-fry, pour in part of the pig's trotters, fry for a while, add water directly to the pot, boil the hoof flower soup and drink, I am afraid that I can't suppress the fishy smell and pour some wine to suppress the fishy smell.

Then put various spices in another pot and use it as braised pig's trotters.

I prepared another lotus white back pot meat and fried two vegetarian dishes. The main reason is that the dishes are really too simple, and Cheng Huailiang really doesn't know what to do.

It's hard to make beef when it's your turn, the best way to make beef is to cook it to eat, potatoes to roast beef, this famous dish is even a dish ordered in the restaurant under Cheng Huailiang in modern times, the pit is that there are no potatoes yet, and it is difficult for a good woman to cook without rice.

He was bored in the kitchen for a long time, and looked around the various dishes in the kitchen and suddenly found that there were carrots, that is, white radish, this roast beef can still be eaten, so it will be settled, Cheng Huailiang comforted himself.

Roasted beef with white radish, hoof flower soup, braised pig's trotters, lotus white back pot meat, and two vegetarian dishes, this is Cheng Huailiang's masterpiece in the afternoon.

"Learned? In the future, this is what people eat, are you talented? Cheng Huailiang said to the cook.

"Yes, I learned!" The cook quickly replied.

Cheng Huailiang instructed his subordinates to bring all the dishes to the table, and when Cheng Yanjin came back, he would start the meal, and now everyone is used to eating at the round table, and they feel very warm and convenient.

Less than a quarter of an hour after the food was served, he heard the conversation between the porter and Cheng Yanjin, and Cheng Huailiang instructed the maid to call the lady and the little master to come over for dinner.

When Cheng Yanjin entered the living room, he found that the food on the table was different from the past, and said to Cheng Huailiang: "You really got this?" ”

"Of course, Daddy, you try it!" Cheng Huailiang said proudly.

Cheng Yanjin picked up a braised pig's trotter and began to bite it, his eyes lit up instantly, and he gnawed it directly without saying a word, and went to take another one with his other hand.

Cheng Huailiang said to his mother Cui: "Mother, this hoof flower soup has the effect of nourishing yin and nourishing the skin, you can taste it." ”

Cui Shi picked up the bowl and put it in a bowl, tasted it slowly, and nodded with satisfaction from time to time.

The younger brother Cheng Chubi has one in his left hand and one in his right hand, and he is busy with pig's trotters.

Every dish on the table is so novel and delicious to them, so all the dishes go into their stomachs, and Cheng Huailiang hasn't eaten such a dish for a long time, and he can't stand up after eating.

"Damn, you're right, I've lived in vain all my life, and I've eaten pig food all my life!" Cheng gritted his teeth and said.

"Hey, in fact, I really want to eat potato roast beef, that's the real delicacy of the world!" Cheng Huailiang sighed.

"Really? What are potatoes? Cheng Chubi asked first.

"Uh, this ......"