Chapter 115: The Softest Water
When Tian Dabang and Kou Kou ran away one after another, wanting to avoid Huo Xiang's own cooking, Duan Meimei entered Huo Xiang's kitchen.
Huo Xiang's kitchen is completely different from other people's homes.
More like a pharmacy.
There are scales, salt, sauce, vinegar, in different bottles, jars, all kinds of medicine spoons, knives, put on the shelves.
Laboratories, alchemy rooms, everything is like, but not like a kitchen.
So Tian Dabang has an extra small stove in the backyard, a chopping board and two small stoves, and he is reluctant to use this super large kitchen, because it is too weird.
"I'm a very strict person," Huo Xiang said, "I control the production of the dish very well, but every time it seems to be made, the father and daughter are quite dissatisfied." ”
"Actually, when they complain, how can I not understand in my heart? But I've done my best, so why doesn't it seem to taste good every time? Huo Xiang looked at Duan Meimei, she didn't know who to turn to for help in this matter, remembering that Duan Meimei had opened an inn hotel, and she really met her relatives.
"Auntie, if you don't mind, can you try to cook a dish and show me?" Duan Meimei said.
"Okay, then I'm here! I'm going to make chicken wings! Huo Xiang said.
Huo Xiang picked up a pot, added a small half pot of vegetable oil to it, and when it was hot enough, she threw the green onion and garlic into it, and then the green onion and garlic became dark, and she hurriedly threw the chicken wings into the pot, and then hurriedly added salt, autumn oil, wine and water.
The chicken wings tumbled up and down in the muddy soup, but the color was never as bright as red, and naturally it didn't make people appetizing.
"That's it," Huo Xiang looked frustrated.
"I guess I understand." Duan Meimei nodded.
"Try not to use so much oil," Duan Meimei said, "There is oil in the chicken wings, and if you use the oil from the outside and the fire, the oil will be sealed into the meat, and it will not taste good." ”
Duan Meimei took a flat cake pan, this thing is not used once a year, she quickly scrubbed it clean and burned it on the fire.
The fire slowly warmed up the pan and the moisture on it dried.
Duan Meimei took a piece of fat and cut off the skin of the flesh on it, and polished the center of the pan to a bright finish.
"What is this?"
"That's all it takes."
She rubbed the pot again with ginger, and the grease and ginger were already fragrant.
Duan Meimei spreads the raw chicken wings flat on the pan.
"Well, you're roasting!"
"yes, that's the best way to eat chicken wings."
The oil of the chicken wings was slowly roasted and sizzled.
"This is the secret of deliciousness." Duan Meimei gently sprinkled salt and a little autumn oil on the chicken wings.
Sprinkle rice wine over the chicken wings.
Golden.
"Don't be so juicy, the broth is just a point of soaking rice, if the family is not so short of money, if you pursue the taste, you should add more main ingredients, and pursue the taste of the chicken wings themselves......"
"I see!"
In the following time, Duan Meimei took over in an all-round way.
Huo Xiang understood that mutton can be eaten with carrots and juice dipped in garlic and autumn oil; Stir-fry shredded pork with egg whites, or dry starch is fine; Pig's feet should be blanched to remove the fishiness; The pork belly is first boiled and half-cooked and then sliced, and it will have a special taste when it is fried into rolls.
"It's an eye-opener." Huo Xiang suddenly felt that in the past twenty years, Tian Dabang had been putting up with her and accommodating her.
"Uncle must know all these skills." Duan Meimei said with a smile.
"Yes, I always felt that as long as he made it, I could eat it, so as soon as he gave me advice, I asked him, are you a housewife or am I a housewife, and he was speechless." Huo Xiang was a little embarrassed when he thought of this.
"It doesn't matter, it's all the most basic methods, just master it." Duan Meimei said.
She just happened to have the last straw hat cake on the pan.
This girl is so gentle.
"It's great to have a daughter-in-law like you, but it's a pity that her aunt didn't call you blessed." Huo Xiang looked at Duan Meimei with a loving face, she already liked this child completely, she wanted to take care of her, let her and Xu Yongzhi live a good life.
"No," Duan Meimei's face was a little feverish, "I quarreled with my son, but I was too willful." ”
"I understand what you're thinking, everyone seems to be useful in Jin'er's story, they have their own specialty, you can only take care of people, you can cook, it's not enough." Huo Xiang said.
"yes, and there are people who don't like to eat at all." Duan Meimei thought of Sister Qiao's troubles, and looked depressed.
"Eat first, and then we'll figure out how to do it when we're done."
A table of dishes was laid out, and Huo Xiang happily went to call the father and daughter.
"Good...... That's ......"
Not being able to move after eating is a problem for many middle-aged men.
"Hurry up!"
"It's coming, it's coming."
Coco sat down at the dinner table with a look of despair.
"Why, there's a new dish today."
"Huh?"
A completely different scent.
Tian Dabang took a chopstick first, "Ah, this tastes pretty good." ”
"Really?" Coco grabbed a chicken wing and took a bite.
Oh!
"Try the cake!" Huo Xiang looked expectant.
"Oh my God, it's delicious!" Tian Kokou has gone crazy.
"Why did your technology suddenly improve?" Tian Dabang looked relieved.
"It's a credit to Meimei." Huo Xiang did not take credit at all.
"Where is it, I helped my aunt do it." Duan Meimei smiled embarrassedly.
"Ah, Meimei, don't go, you stay and be a daughter-in-law to our family. No, no, no, no, I don't have a son at home......" Tian Dabang said without choice.
"Uncle, isn't my niece's daughter-in-law the same as my daughter-in-law, if you like it, I'll stay a little longer and disturb you for a few days." Duan Meimei said.
"This kid is really good at talking!" Tian Dabang said.
The wind and clouds are whirling, and a table of dishes is gone. Several people were full of trenches, and they didn't bother to move.
"Dad, you go feed the fire petals," Tian Kokou looked at Dad.
"No, I'm too late, I can't move, and when I move, it will come out." Tian Dabang was reluctant to move.
"I'll make some tea and get you some oil." Huo Xiang hurriedly got up.
"Go, Coco, your dragon, feed yourself." Tian Dabang said.
"It's hard for me to get up too." Tian Kokou said, "This doesn't fit my character as a beautiful girl with long legs, but I did eat too much today......"
"I'll go," Duan Meimei asked, "where is the food she eats?" ”
"On the stove, but she hasn't had a good appetite lately, I don't know why." Coco said weakly.
"I'm going." Duan Meimei went out.
Huo Xiang brought tea and four cups over.
"Where's Meimei?"
"Hey the dragon!" Tian Dabang is about to drink tea.
"She feeds the dragon? That dragon doesn't know her! What should I do if I get hurt? Huo Xiang was in a hurry.
"That's right," Tian Kokou quickly jumped up, "Cousin! Be careful! ”
She pulled her legs and ran out, when she heard a dragon groan outside the door.
"Whoa......"
"Oops!" Tian Dabang hurriedly got up and ran back.
Duan Meimei has fed cows, sheep, chickens, ducks and pigs, and this is the first time for a dragon.
The dragon was in the backyard, the size of a baby elephant, and it grew slower, but stronger.
Duan Meimei found that in the feed bucket was half a cut sheep.
The processing of this ingredient seems to be the handiwork of my aunt, and the fine hairs on it have not been shaved off, and there are even some coarse hairs.
It's not good. So she took the lamb to the back kitchen, shaved off the coarse hairs, cut them open, and burned the fine hairs on the fire.
The surface of the mutton was roasted golden brown by the fire, and the fragrance was already coming out, Duan Meimei didn't think about it, so she sprinkled a little salt on it.
"Well, it's much better now, Xiaolong should like it too." Duan Meimei came to Xiaolong with a bucket.
It was her first time to get up close and personal with dragons.
She had seen it when her aunt was scrubbing the dragon's body, and she thought it was a docile and friendly animal.
But when you really face the dragon's yellow eyes, it's a different story.
This is the animal at the top of the food chain of land, sea and air, and there is no way for any animal to take it except people, and it cannot be eaten.
Although Huopetal is a little girl, she already has her own majesty.
Meimei tried her best to be bold enough to approach the fire petal.
"Hello, Huoban'er, I'm Duan Meimei, I'm Koukou's sister-in-law......"
At this point she paused, a little shy.
Still, she picked up a leg of lamb and approached the fire.
Xiaolong looked at the strange girl carefully and sniffed the leg of lamb she had given her.
Meimei's heart rose to her throat.
Zhao Kuangyin's dragon robe was sewn by Duan Meimei.
I didn't expect the real dragon to look different from the one painted on the robe.
It's not golden, it's a gray color, like an elephant and a rhinoceros, and there are occasional merchants from Dali in Tokyo City, who will bring elephants, Duan Meimei has seen.
The color on the belly of the baby dragon is much lighter, so that the prey below will look up and think that it is a white cloud.
Huo Ping'er looked at the golden mutton and was a little surprised.
It's always eaten raw, how did it have the breath of fire this time?
It also smells of salt.
This is Duan Meimei's mistake.
Tian Kokou has been raising dragons for a long time, but she has no idea what the dragon's dietary preferences are.
When he found that the dragon ate meat, he kept feeding the dragon mutton.
In fact, although dragons eat meat, meat is not the same as meat, just like Huo Xiang and Duan Meimei's dishes are different.
Dragons are not mammals, so dragons are born to eat meat, and the dragon's mother has to take care of the little dragon, so she has to spit out the half-digested meat to it, and if it is bigger, it is to roast the meat half-cooked with fire, and then let the little dragon eat.
When Xiaolong is five or six years old and can spit fire on his own, he can roast meat and hunt for food by himself.
This kind of thing, you don't know if you haven't raised a dragon.
Pity our little dragon Huo'er, who has eaten raw meat for several years, and suddenly ate barbecue when he knew that Duan Meimei appeared.
Not to mention the sweetness, the key is that the meat roasted by the fire is the taste of a real mother.
Huo Petal was full of affection for Duan Meimei at once.
And salt!
Dragons, like goats, love salt on rocks, which makes them excited and energetic, just like we humans drink tea and coffee.
Huo Ping'er finished eating the mutton in two bites, lowered her neck, and looked at Duan Meimei in a friendly manner.
It's similar to a cat, when you're too lazy to pay attention to you, your eyes are a slit, and when you are favored, it's two large round pupils.
Want Duan Meimei to ride it?
Duan Meimei tiptoed onto the dragon's back, and at this time, the fire petal let out a deep and long dragon groan.
That's what Tian Kokou heard.
By the time Tian Kokou's family of three ran into the yard, the fire petals had already taken off.
"Oh my God!" Tian Dabang bit his fingers, "She'll be thrown to death!" ”
"Fire Petal!" Tian Kokou waved desperately at Xiaolong.
"Meimei can ride a dragon!" Huo Xiang was surprised and happy.
"It's also Qi Dongqiang! No kidding! Tian Dabang was in a hurry.
The little dragon nodded at Koukou, motioning not to worry.
But he still carried Duan Meimei and flew straight into the clouds.
"Chirp ashes!" Kou Kokou remembered that Chirp Ash was still here, and asked him to catch up.
I didn't expect the twitter to hesitate.
The dragon is the overlord of the sky, and everything that flies in the sky belongs to it, just like a puppy trembling when it sees a tiger, and when the dragon takes off, the parrot does not dare to catch up.
"Forget it...... "Kou Ko is helpless.
The wizard didn't have flying skills, so he had to wait for Xiaolong to come back with Meimei, if there was really anything missing, Coco really didn't know how to explain to Xu Yongzhi.
Besides, Duan Meimei on the back of the dragon, she is immersed in novelty, and she has no sense of fear at all.
In "Water Margin", Gongsun Sheng's nickname is called Zhuyun Dragon, which is a good nickname.
Dragons can't exert their performance at low altitudes, and when they are in the clouds, they will be like in water, and they can fly in the clouds with great effort, much faster and more efficiently, just like a stone hitting the water and bouncing on the water.
Duan Meimei couldn't open her eyes, so she had to grab the bone fragment on the back of Xiaolong's neck, and she only felt that the wind in the sky was whistling.
That is, the kung fu of a cup of tea, the flight in the clouds ended, and the little dragon swooped straight towards a huge circle on the bottom.
It is the mouth of an extinct volcano, deep and quiet, and the bottom is too dark to see.
The fire flaps accelerated towards the bottom of the volcano.
"I'm going to die, I'm going to die......" Duan Meimei regretted.
"Childe, save me!"
She let out a heart-rending cry.