Although the women of any family can almost do the work in the kitchen, seeing that Zeng Banniang is skillful and orderly, Lu Siniang can't help but look at her differently, and wait for her to taste the dishes when she is ready.

Banniang first chopped the little leg of mutton into a bone-sized piece of finger, blanched it with water, rinsed it, then took a jar, put enough water, poured it into the blanched mutton, and brought it to the stove. Then he peeled the white rotip, cut it into pieces, prepared another seasoning, put it in a jar and boiled it together, and waited until the water boiled and then ironed it in the rotip. Iron for an hour, and a dish of sweet and delicious mutton is ready.

He also asked the mother-in-law to help chop half of the remaining meat into puree, add ginger, onion and garlic, lift a piece of tofu, cut a square the size of a finger, first fry the meat puree with sauce, and then put in the small tofu block and burn it together, only wait for the tofu block to taste, it is a fresh and attractive meat foam tofu.

These are not enough, the remaining piece of white and tender tofu, Banniang personally hands, cut the tofu into a silver needle-like thin tofu shreds, into the boiling water for a while, and then take the boiling water, re-put the silver whiskers like the tofu shreds in the water, with chopsticks gently twisted, for a while, the celadon bowl reflects the white tofu silk like snow silver silk, really like an ink painting as smart and beautiful.

Lu Siniang watched from the side in amazement: "Eighth sister, I don't need to taste this dish, I have to be convinced of your craftsmanship, just looking at it, I feel delicious." ”

Banniang kept working with her hands, and said with a smile: "The way of eating, it's just the color and fragrance, but in the end, it's something to eat, although the color and fragrance are in the front, the taste is also the key, no matter how beautiful the food is, it has to be delicious." After thinking for a while, he said with a smile, "The main name of this tofu soup is Ink Mountains and Rivers." It's just that it's not over yet, so I asked my mother-in-law to stew white fungus soup, stew it well for a while, with white fungus, and then with some food, it's good. ”

Thinking of Huaiyang cuisine, the real famous dish, the lion's head is not able to get around, so I took the rest of the pork, washed it with water, cut it one by one, and then carefully cut it into thin diced meat, because there was no starch, I had to ask someone to take some fine wheat noodles, adjusted it with water, beat the eggs again, took the egg white, added ginger and garlic foam and salt, kneaded it carefully, until the feel was moderate, then let the mother-in-law take a can of clear chicken soup, and the kneaded meat puree was formed into fist-sized balls, which were submerged in the chicken soup and boiled on the stove over low heat. After a while, when the balls are cooked, take them out of the chicken broth, put them in another chicken broth, and add some boiled vegetables as a color, and this lion's head is done.

As for the two crucian carp, the mother-in-law also killed and washed, Banniang took one, put water in the pot, only added a shallot, two slices of ginger, a little salt, and put it directly into the pot to iron, that is, there was no oil star at all, only take the freshness of the fish itself.

Another larger crucian carp, just make a sweet and sour fish.

Because of the chili pepper, Banniang thought about it, so she took the cuttlefish fillet and planned to make a boiled fish fillet with Shu vegetables. After slicing the fish fillet, cut the few red peppers that were picked down into fine satin, and boiled the spicy oil in the oil pot with the peppercorns and other ingredients.

Although she has watched it for a long time, Lu Siniang has been convinced of Banniang's cooking skills, but she can't stand it anymore at this time, so she endured the spicy taste and asked Banniang: "Can you really eat this?" ”

Banniang thought about their poor taste buds that had not been destroyed, and smiled evilly: "Go back and sister taste it, you will know, what is a sentence called?" Pain and happiness, hehe, this dish, that's how it feels. Sister Lu, you better go back to the courtyard house first, I still have to be busy for a while. ”

Lu Siniang really couldn't love this spicy, and went red-eyed, but she suffered the mothers-in-law in the kitchen.

It wasn't until sunset that Banniang could be regarded as having made a few dishes, a mutton and rodish pot, a crucian carp clear soup, a tofu silver silk soup that she called ink mountains and rivers, a boiled fish fillet, a lion's head, a fried shredded pork with green peppers, and a vinegar white sham.

After finishing his work, looking at the few dishes with full color and flavor, he was very satisfied, so he washed his hands and face, and under the guidance of the maid, he went to find Lu Siniang.

Lu Siniang was also talking to Lu Seventeen and Zeng Wulang in the study, because Lu Siniang went back and said that Banniang was cooking, Lu Seventeen saw Banniang coming, and hurriedly asked: "Sister Zeng is all busy?" ”

Banniang said with a smile: "Because the food is limited, and it can only be used because of the materials, I made a few dishes, and the seventeenth prince will taste it with the fourth sister Lu in a while." ”

And there are no words of humility.

Lu Qiqi rushed to the pretending maids outside and said, "Go to the kitchen and pass it on and serve the food." ”

A few people moved to the hall, and the maids and ladies had already set up a set of utensils and were just waiting for the food to be served.

Lu Qiqi asked someone to warm up the wine, but was stopped by Zeng Wulang: "Drink again another day, I brought my eighth sister to the door today, if I get drunk when I turn around, I will worry about my eighth sister, and I will have to trouble the house." ”

Lu Siniang also persuaded: "Since the fifth brother of the Zeng family doesn't drink, brother, forget it, save yourself if the uncle comes back to look for you at night, and when the time comes, when he sees you drinking, he will have to say something again." ”

Lu Qiyi thought about it, because the Zeng family was very strict, so he didn't embarrass him, and he didn't want to be reprimanded by his uncle, so he had to give up.

Waiting for the dish, Wulang is okay, only the spicy fish fillet that Lu Siniang said he has not seen, and the others are not unusual, Lu Siniang has been watching in the kitchen for a long time before, and he has his own psychological preparation, only that Lu Seventeen saw it, and felt that as soon as this dish was on the table, it was surprisingly fragrant, and it was a practice that he had never seen, and he wanted to taste the craftsmanship of the Zeng family's little Banniang, so he didn't care about being polite, and beckoned a few people to sit, so he raised his chopsticks and tasted them one by one.

Banniang hurriedly reminded: "Seventeen sons, this boiled fish can be made because you have chili peppers at home, if it is elsewhere, you really can't eat it, this dish and that fried shredded pork, you keep it for the last taste, if you eat these two dishes, the other dishes, you won't be able to taste the real taste." ”

The results are overwhelming.

Lu Siniang was born in a rich family, and lived in a place like the capital for a few years, although she can't remember many things clearly, but she has been rich since she was a child, and she has also raised her extraordinary knowledge, plus her parents have gone in recent years, although she is attached to the big family life, but her brother Lu Seventeen does not care about the trivial matters at home, she is a person who has ideas and can do everything, in these three rooms, in fact, she is the master of the house, so she can eat well, and she is enjoying it every day. only tasted Banniang's dishes, and even she had to praise it.

Then there was the boiled fish, and this time it was Sogoro who also stretched out his chopsticks curiously.

Banniang stopped and smiled: "This dish is too spicy, I'm afraid everyone is not used to it, but after eating it, it is very appetizing for capable people, if you can stand this spicy, you can taste the deliciousness, but you don't dare to eat it, let's taste it slowly." ”

A few people tasted it for a while, Lu Siniang is a woman, she is naturally very reserved, and she can't help but spicy again and again, and hurriedly asked the maid to hand over warm water and drink two sips to relieve spicy, Lu Seventeen ate even more grinning, Wulang couldn't help frowning and holding on, it was Banniang herself, because this body had never been spicy, and she was spicy again and again.

It's just that when this momentum passed, several people couldn't help but stretch out their chopsticks again. The movements are almost the same, and they can't help but look at each other and laugh.

Lu Qiqi said: "What kind of seasoning is this?" It seems to have that magic power, which is obviously painful and unbearable, but I can't bear to taste it anymore. ”

"I haven't seen it either, I said it was called pepper, it was brought back by the fifth brother from Fuzhou, and it happened to be seen by the eighth sister of Zeng, so I picked some to use. I haven't seen it before, but I think it's something from that state. ”

Due to the developed maritime trade of the Great Song Dynasty, things outside the state were also very common, so Lu Qiqi didn't ask again.

For a while, several people were eating a lot, and Banniang never dreamed that she would be able to eat chili peppers today, and she couldn't care about the ladylike demeanor of her daughter's family, so she was also happy to eat.

After eating and drinking, Lu Qiqi touched his belly with satisfaction, and against the backdrop of his red clothes, his face was full of sweat, white and red, and he was even more handsome and extraordinary, and said with a smile: "If you want me to say, what kind of restaurant do you want to open, you can open a restaurant directly, there is a town with the eighth sister's hand, our restaurant is really going to open, I dare not say anything else, at least in our Nanfeng City, no one dares to call the board." ”