Chapter 71: Chinese New Year's Eve Dinner
Actually, Wen Liu is a collection of contradictions, say that she is too sensitive emotionally, she likes Han Zhen so obviously, Wen Liu is too slow to behave, say she is dull, she is like a cannonball, last time Ye Tong lightly made a joke, she blew up, but she blew up, not others.
Only stupid women only know how to hurt themselves and don't have the guts to fight back against others.
However, on the whole, Wen Liu's heart is still quite big, but to say that she has a big heart, other people's divorce is falling apart, and she is divorced, and the wind is calm. However, I feel that there is an undercurrent hidden under the calm waves, which bursts out all the time, setting off stormy waves.
However, Wen Liu at this moment is in a state of big heart.
Time, always when you sigh and regret that it is losing quickly, it will not sympathize with you, and still walk over without expression, not even looking back at you.
It's the New Year, today is the thirtieth day of the Chinese New Year's Eve, Wen Liu got up early today with Wen Jianjun's two families, even if it is a family of three, they still have to work hard to make a good Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, not to mention the elderly grandmother.
The family has already divided the work, Wen Jianjun is responsible for the traditional three steamed, nine buckles and eight large bowls, because there are few people, and there is no need for so many dishes, so Wen Jianjun streamlined it, leaving a few dishes that everyone in the family loves to eat, including steamed pork, baba meat (Wen Liu generally calls baba meat balls), plum cabbage button meat, steamed crispy meat, sweet glutinous rice; Liu Sufang is in charge of stir-frying and stewing soups; Wen Liu is in charge of vegetarian dishes.
Because the daughter has only come back for a short time, the parents always have to feel distressed for a while before they can ask her to do things with peace of mind.
Wen Liu has the least to do, so he has to be responsible for bringing his grandmother to the house first.
Because Wen Liu's grandmother's rheumatoid arthritis is getting more and more serious with age, and this disease cannot be cured, so Wen Liu also feels very sad, because what happened to her grandfather may be repeated in her grandmother again.
The loss of a loved one is always very painful, especially for relatives who are close to each other, because the loss of a loved one may mean that there is one less person in this world who loves him, and he is one step closer to loneliness.
Wen Liu saw a well-known actor on the Internet say something like this before:
"Parents are a wall between us and death,
Parents are here, you can't see death,
If your parents are gone, you face death. ”
The well-known actor also explained:
"The presence of parents is like a wall blocking the path between the child and death.
It is precisely because of this wall that young people do not worry about getting married, having children, or whether they will have someone to accompany them when they are old, because they do not perceive the preciousness of life. But once our parents are gone, we will face death and see the end of life until we see it.
You're 30 years old, you can't think about it, you don't think about it when you're 60 years old, because you always feel that there is a wall in front of you and death, and you can't see death. As soon as your parents are gone, you face death.
At the same time, parents who face death will be very anxious because they see death, and they will worry about how their children will survive in the world without their own protection in the future. Many things they are afraid that it will be too late if they don't do them, and the most important thing they can't let go of is actually their children's lives. ”
Wen Liu read these words at the time and was very touched, which is the direct reason why Wen Liu did not immediately refute when Liu Sufang talked about the object of introduction.
She understands her parents' painstaking efforts.
Wen Liu carefully helped her grandmother to sit on the sofa, poured hot water, brought soft snacks, played her favorite TV series, and went to the kitchen to help.
Wen Liu actually came to steal the teacher, and she wanted to see how Wen Jianjun made a round.
I saw Wen Jianjun chop all the green onions, ginger and garlic, and then add them to a large pot of pork puree prepared, and add pepper, pepper powder, salt, chicken essence, appropriate amount of egg white and starch and other seasonings to the pork puree.
Finally, the pork puree with the seasoning should be spread on the banana leaves, spread into a large meatloaf-like shape, the thickness of the meatloaf is about 6 cm, the distribution must be even, and finally the surface of the meatloaf should be smeared with egg yolk and egg white stirred together to make the egg liquid, to be evenly coated, and then steamed in a special steamer, to be fully cooked.
Don't think that this is enough, you can only say that if you do this step, you will basically complete half of the dish.
After the meat puree is steamed, cut into 1 cm thick 6 cm wide and 9 cm long pieces of meat, stacked in the earthen bowl of specially steamed vegetables, and then spread the boiled half-cooked mung beans, then add half a spoon of broth in the bowl, steam on the steamer for about 2 hours, when the steamer lid is opened, a bowl is buckled on the top of the earthen bowl, and the earthen bowl and the buckle bowl are quickly turned over.
The last step is to sprinkle fine green onions before serving, which is one of Wen Liu's favorite hometown dishes.
Looking at the complicated steps, Wen Jianjun also specially emphasized to his daughter in the process of making it, which step is the most important, which step determines the color of the dish, and which step determines the taste, Wen Liu kept them all in mind.
In Chuanjiang, there are thousands of flavors in a dish, and the taste of each household is different, just like the taste of kimchi in every household is different, and the taste of sauce is also different.
Sometimes, heirlooms don't necessarily have to be gold, silver and jade, jade antiques, it may be a taste or a feeling.
Sometimes, the wanderer misses his hometown, and he may also miss the taste of the dish on the table at home, because it can't be eaten anywhere else.
Soon it was noon, because the dishes prepared by Wen Liu for Chinese New Year's Eve were the simplest, so lunch was ordered by Wen Liu, and a pot of large bone soup noodles was simply cooked, with soft cabbage and refreshing kimchi and meatballs left over from making balls.
Wen Liu served a bowl to her grandmother, put her parents' on it, and then served it in a pot.
It's been another hurried afternoon.
Finally, the three of them worked together, and the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner was finally served.
Wen Jianjun went to set off a firecracker first, and then started the meal.
This custom cannot be lost.
The family worked hard all day, looking at the dishes on the table, Wen Liu felt very happy, although there were few dishes made by himself, but Wen Liu felt wrapped in the warmth of home, very satisfied, and very happy to eat.
The New Year is to have a family eat Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, watch the Spring Festival Gala, set off fireworks, Wen Liu feels that this year is complete.
It's just that there is no grandfather, but people can reminisce about the past, but they can only look forward.