It has been a long time since Lin Ye moved to his new home, so we naturally want to join in the fun and increase our popularity. Last time, Lin Ye let us taste his craftsmanship, and this time we plan to prepare a dish for each of us and have a cooking competition.

The first Bedroom Cooking Contest must be unprecedented, so this time we have family members to participate with their families. In order to show off their cooking skills, Da Biao's squad leader went to his girlfriend's school to discuss the recipe with her alone, and Eric also took 5 doll Wawa to the supermarket to study ingredients. Lao Zhao and I became temporary teammates and went to the vegetable market together to purchase. As for Mr. Liu, he disappeared after class, and we didn't expect him to cook anything.

"Steamed pork" is a famous dish in Tohoku, and it is said that every household can make it, and the method is different for each household. On the first day I came to the Northeast, I ate pot wrapped meat, and her aunt, a female classmate at the same table, strongly recommended this dish to me, and the first time I ate it, I felt that it was a boneless version of sweet and sour pork ribs, which was nothing special, and I didn't like the sweet and sour taste very much. Lao Zhao decided to use this dish to show his strength as a good man. After simply inquiring about the ingredients and methods of making them, we went to the vegetable market together.

Usually we go to the vegetable market to buy some steamed buns, pancakes and other cooked food at most buy half a roast duck to eat together in the bedroom, and never buy fresh meat and vegetables. I used to go to the stope with my mother, but my role was at most to be a vegetable picker, bargaining, this kind of thing was never mixed, let alone the quality of the vegetables, weighing catties and so on. Lao Zhao is estimated to be the same as me, the two of us are like two headless flies, spinning around in the vegetable field. Finally, we stopped in front of a butcher stall, and the enthusiastic stall owner greeted us warmly, waving a boning knife: "What do you want?" Freshly killed pigs, look at this meat, this five flowers...... This bone is best used in stew...... Look at it. ”

As for how much meat to use for cooking, and what part of meat to use, Lao Zhao didn't count in his heart. And I only know "kilograms" and "grams", and I don't have any concept of common units such as "catties" and "taels", so we have no idea for a while. Fortunately, Lao Zhao was more clever, and while flipping the meat in front of him, he said casually, "Ah, I want to make some pot wrapped meat." ”

"Pot-wrapped meat! Come and see the ridge here, how good, no fat at all! ”

Lao Zhao and I pretended to be very knowledgeable, and there we flipped through the tenderloin that the stall owner pointed out to us.

"How many people eat?" As he spoke, the stall owner took the piece of meat back to himself and prepared to chop it open. It seems that he has already seen that we are new to the vegetable market, and we have no idea how much meat we plan to buy.

Hearing this, I felt a little relieved, because I didn't need to calculate anymore, I had to buy a few catties and taels, and then convert between kilograms and catties. Lao Zhao was the same, he blurted out directly: "More than a dozen people!" "When the stall owner heard it, he thought we were a big deal, and said that we had to buy at least ten catties of meat. Ten pounds? I immediately counted all the heads silently in my heart, and found that there were only nine people at most, and one person had to eat more than a pound of meat. I was busy telling Lao Zhao that it was a bit much, and Lao Zhao immediately understood what I meant, according to the principle of cutting half of every thing in the vegetable market, we only need five catties of meat. In addition, Lao Zhao did it for the first time, and there would definitely be loss, so in the end, we weighed six catties of loin, let the stall owner chop it piece by piece, and finally left the stall in his resentful eyes.

I'm going to make a stir-fried dried tofu, and the ingredients are quite simple, just dried tofu and garnish with some chopped green onions. After looking for a long time, I didn't find it, the kind of dried tofu I ate in my hometown, and finally I had to find some cooked dried white tofu to replace it. Of course, in the part of buying shallots, because there were only two of them, I was naturally despised by the stall owner. Since I didn't have much confidence in my cooking skills, I also bought some cooked food as my plan B.

Everything was ready, and after meeting Eric and the others, we went to Lin Ye's new home.

This time they are still renting a single apartment, with refrigerators, color TVs, washing machines, kitchen utensils, and all the utensils, the difference is that the structure here is no longer a large room, but a bedroom, a living room, a kitchen and a bathroom. While we were visiting, Da Biao's squad leader and his girlfriend came, followed by Mr. Liu.

Now that everyone is here, let's start preparing. Lin Ye and his girlfriend began to make the Korean classic Gimbap, and Da Biao's squad leader and they began to steam potatoes, and then the two of them beat mashed potatoes together. Due to the limited space in the kitchen, the living room has also become our battlefield, but it still can't meet the simultaneous operation of so many of us, so it can only be carried out in batches. Lao Zhao's pot wrapped meat is a big project, and we think that if he is alone, it is estimated that he will not be able to eat it in the middle of the night, so Da Biao's squad leader went to study with Lao Zhao after beating mashed potatoes.

My dishes are simple and don't require much preparation, so it's never too late to make them when they're done. As for Eric, they hadn't decided what they were going to cook yet, and they weren't in a hurry.

Fortunately, I prepared cooked food, and Lin Ye's dishes were basically completed, and the mashed potatoes could also be cooked. Because the only table in the living room has also become a chopping board, and Lin Ye's house does not have so many stools, we have to sit on the floor again in a circle and put the dishes that have been prepared in the middle. From time to time, there was the sound of Lao Zhao and Da Biao's squad leader scolding each other in the kitchen, and Mr. Liu couldn't help but be curious and went in to join in the fun. After going through the steps of beating, hanging paste, frying, re-frying, adjusting the juice, and hanging the slurry, Lao Zhao and Dabiao squad leader worked together to officially put the pot wrapped meat on the plate. After all, it was the first time to do it, and there was little experience, maybe the heat was not in place, and their pot wrapped meat did not show a golden color, but pieces of white loin hung with some batter that looked like burnt. Maybe I'm hungry, but it smells good, and it feels like it should be okay.

Finally it was my turn to play, and the first thing I needed to do was clean up the battlefield. After Lao Zhao's frying and frying, Lin Ye's pot had already formed a thick layer of unknown burnt brown, and I brushed it three times with a cleaning ball dipped in dish soap before brushing it. Then remove the shallots, rinse them with water several times, and then cut them into chopped green onions for later use. Then he took a piece of Lao Zhao's unused loin and cut it into shreds, and put it on the cutting board with chopped green onions for later use.

I set the pot on the stove and grilled the remaining water from the bottom of the pot over the fire, while my mind quickly searched for memories of my mother's cooking of the dish. The boiling water in the pot is constantly vaporized, and finally all disappears. I carefully poured the oil into the pan and put my hand on top of the oil to feel the temperature. Eric and Wawa, who were watching from the sidelines, were frightened by my "professional" posture, thinking that I often cook at home, and that the dish I made would be a culinary champion. My hands could clearly feel the temperature of the oil, so I put the shredded meat in the stir-fry first, waited until they turned from red to white, quickly took out the dried white tofu from the plastic bag and put it into the pot, and then quickly stir-fried to prevent it from sticking to the pan. Just as I was thinking about putting it on the plate, I suddenly remembered that I hadn't put the seasoning yet! Immediately sprinkled another handful of salt flowers, then stir-fried a few times, and put in the chopped green onions on a plate. After a bit of scrambling, my first course was finally ready to be served. At this point, Eric and Wawa still hadn't figured out what to do.

After nearly 2 hours of busy work, our stomachs were already hungry, and Lin Ye also began to beckon us to sit down, and then began to open his fancy beer. After the first common toast, we began to move from contestants to judges. Da Biao's squad leader, their mashed potatoes were the first dish I tasted, soft and silky, and melted in my mouth. Then there is Lin Ye's gimbap, the seaweed is crispy, the rice is soft and glutinous, and it is sandwiched with cucumbers, carrots, ham sausages and meat floss, which is rich in taste. Lao Zhao and Da Biao's squad leader worked together to complete the pot wrapped meat is our hard dish, and they are more disappointed in their performance, saying that it is far from the authentic pot wrapped meat. I don't think so, I don't know how Lao Zhao mixes the juice, I always feel like a kind of seafood taste, and the sweetness is not heavy, just to my taste, I feel that this dish is tailor-made by me, the more I eat, the more addicted I become. In the end, I tasted my own fried dried tofu shreds, the dried tofu was originally cooked, and it had a salty taste of brine, and the iron pot stir-fried increased the aroma, and it tasted unique. The problem is that the shredded meat is not marinated, and soy sauce is not added to the flavor when stir-frying, and it tastes like chewing wax. All in all, it should be considered a failure, but I didn't expect Eric to praise it.

Eric and Wawa spent an afternoon at the supermarket, and with their sensual knowledge of food, they still bought some ingredients, but as for how to mix them, they didn't have a recipe at all. Now, under the influence of alcohol, Eric finally became "cooked", drunk and red-faced, and had to make us a "eggplant fish ball soup", and then got up and walked to the kitchen alone, Wawa also got up to help. There was also a jingling sound in the kitchen, and we didn't care, and continued to drink and taste food, chat and brag.

After about ten minutes, Eric cautiously walked towards us with a bowl of soup, "Come on, come on, let you taste what it means to eat, eggplant fish ball soup is here!" ”

Actually, we had all eaten about the same and our stomachs were filled with liquids, but after all, it was Eric who cooked, and we were full of curiosity. But when he put the soup in front of us, we saw a bowl of boiling water with a few pieces of eggplant floating on the water, and a few fish balls at the bottom of the bowl, and we lost our appetite in an instant. Eric himself was full of praise for his work, and after two sips, it was delicious. We didn't care about him, we continued to drink and eat, I was obsessed with Lao Zhao's seafood flavor pot wrapped meat, for fear that others would rob me. While we were all immersed in the feast, a sudden conflict was brewing.