Chapter 50: A Delicious Seafood Feast
Tell Hao Hua Xiaosong to take care of the fire, and Hua Manxi will continue to cook other dishes.
Clean the prawns and squid, cut the ingredients, heat the oil, remove the prawns from the oil and change color, then add the oil, stir-fry the ginger, garlic and pepper, stir-fry the prawns, add salt, soy sauce, put the pot in the pot, and sprinkle the green onions.
Squid fried chili, I also fried it for Uncle Hua to eat in this dynasty, it is a very simple home-cooked dish, and it is very fast to make.
Finally, there was the marinated wild boar, which she blanched in boiling water, then cut it into thin slices, and then slice the cucumbers.
Because the pickled meat is relatively salty, there is no need to put salt in this dish, the wild boar is slowly fried in hot oil to get oil, add ginger and garlic and other seasonings, and when the wild boar is cooked thoroughly, Hua Manxi will add the cucumber slices, put some soy sauce, and the cucumber can be served when it is broken.
The sweet potatoes have just been steamed with rice, the steamed sweet potatoes are peeled and mashed, sugar and flour are added, kneaded into a dough that does not stick to the hands, kneaded into a round shape, and slowly fried in 60% oil temperature, and can be fished out when it becomes golden.
It's even better if you have bean paste, you can put some filling in the center of the circle.
Not now, it's still unsatisfactory, it's crispy on the outside and tender on the inside, and it's quite delicious.
Finally, green vegetables, she plans to make cold kelp shreds, kelp she just brought a little back, wash and shred, put it in boiling water to blanch, this blanching process can not be too long, after taking it out, it will be over the cold water immediately, otherwise the kelp will become soft and soft, and there is no taste to eat.
Drain the kelp, add a little salt, a little vinegar, a little sugar, a little soy sauce, and chopped garlic, sprinkle with a little chopped green onion, and stir well.
Hua Xiaosong had already dug out the chicken, and Hua Manxi knocked out the dirt outside, and then carefully uncovered the lotus leaves, revealing the roast chicken with slightly charred golden skin inside.
Chop the whole chicken into a pot, put the shiitake mushrooms on it, and then pour the juice out of the stomach on it, which can be described as full of color and flavor.
The Liu brothers looked at the dishes on the table, and their eyes were straight.
"This, this dish is too fragrant, isn't it?" Liu Boqing and Liu Jiqing were both amazed.
"Mother, if I have a daughter, I will also promise, it is so delicious, isn't it a blessing to marry?" Liu Jiqing couldn't wait to clip a piece of chicken called Hua, and teased while eating.
"Although the name of the dish is very big, this is the first time I have eaten it." Liu Boqing tasted it slowly and methodically, and then commented unhurriedly, "The chicken is tender and juicy, the skin is crispy and delicious, and the entrance is sweet and smooth with a slight spiciness, it is really a good product, a good product!" β
"Big brother has a good reputation, hurry up and eat it, this prawn, I made salt and pepper shrimp, a little spicy, this squid, also fried with chili, I don't know if you can eat spicy, so use less, but this seafood, because of the heavy fishy smell, if you want to be delicious, you must be hot." Hurry up and move your chopsticks. Hua Manxi smiled slightly, and said generously.
"Daddy, to be honest, did you fall in love with Sister Manxi's cooking skills, so you recognized others as goddaughters, I knew that my father was gluttonous, yo, otherwise he wouldn't be the best brother with Uncle Li." Liu Jiqing teased Uncle Liu, but the movements on his mouth did not stop at all, and he quickly clamped a prawn with his hands and feet and was about to stuff it into his mouth.
"Hey, hey, third brother." Hua Manxi hurriedly put down his chopsticks and stopped him, "This shrimp can't be eaten like this, it has to be shelled first, and this shrimp head will be bitter and can't be eaten." β
As she spoke, she took a shrimp herself, skillfully peeled off the shell and head of the shrimp, and put the shrimp into Hua Komatsu's bowl, "Komatsu, you taste it." β
"Manxi, you mean, this, this head and shell bucket can't be eaten?" Uncle Liu was very shocked and pointed to the shrimp heads and shrimp shells peeled off by Hua Manxi on the table, and said bitterly, "Then this thing is too expensive, how heavy are these shells and heads, half of the money is bought and thrown away, it's really not cost-effective!" β
Hua Manxi: "......."
"Ahem, Dad, the flowers that should be used, the flowers that should be spent, if there is no silver, the second child and I will give it." Liu Boqing saw that his father really looked like he couldn't eat it, so he quickly softened and said, "Come, my son will peel a shrimp for you to taste." β
As he spoke, he had already peeled off a shrimp in accordance with what Hua Manxi had just said, and put the shrimp in Uncle Liu's bowl.
Uncle Liu now thinks that this game is very expensive, and he is reluctant to eat it in one bite, but he tastes it slowly, but he feels that this shrimp meat is unusually sweet, tender and smooth, which is really different from chicken and pork.
"Although this seafood has a big fishy smell, Manxi does not have the slightest fishy smell, but it is delicious and sweet, and it is very tender." Uncle Liu was amazed.
"I'll just say, everything in Manxi is delicious, and then I will say that people often say talent, God appreciates food!" Aunt Liu said happily.
Hua Manxi smiled and didn't speak, where is she God's appreciation for food, her cooking skills have been practicing hard for at least ten years.
"Yes, I think the girl's craftsmanship is not comparable to the restaurants in the town!" Liu Jiqing tasted every dish and praised the sweet potato balls, "Such a simple sweet potato, in the hands of a girl, can make such a crispy snack on the outside and tender on the inside." β
"Yes, Manxi, how is this made, soft and glutinous, very delicious, it just so happens that our people with bad teeth can eat it." Aunt Liu also loves this sweet potato ball for ten minutes. Asked.
"This method is very simple, take the sweet potato and steam it, peel it and mash it, then add sugar and flour, preferably glutinous rice flour, knead it into a dough, and then make it into a round shape, and fry it in the oil pan until golden brown. In this way, you can also make pumpkin balls and taro balls, which are all the same way. Hua Manxi didn't hide his selfishness, and said generously.
"This-Manxi's brain is flexible, she can make such delicate snacks with simple things like sweet potatoes and pumpkins." Uncle Liu also admired.
"By the way, godfather, hurry up and try this cold salad with shredded kelp." Hua Manxi took a chopstick of kelp and put it in Uncle Liu's bowl.
"Everyone tastes this, Manxi means that this thing, it doesn't cost money to take it on the dock, if everyone thinks it can be imported, then Dalang's wedding banquet can make such a dish, which not only saves money, but also allows the villagers to try it." Aunt Liu hurriedly spoke up.
When Liu Jiqing heard this, he quickly stretched out his chopsticks to clip a chopstick and put it in his mouth.
"It's delicious! It's cool and crunchy, and it doesn't smell fishy at all, but I think it might be better to add some spicy food just like those seafood. Liu Jiqing said.
"The third brother thinks the same as me, that is, I am afraid that you will not be able to eat spicy food, so I didn't put chili peppers." Hua Manxi said in surprise.
"This kelp, I have also seen it in books, it is indeed edible, and some medical centers will use this as medicine, but the Manxi girl actually knows that this thing is edible, and there is such a practice, which really surprised me." Liu Boqing also tasted it and exclaimed.
"Then you don't need to say, how can your father's goddaughter be bad?" Uncle Liu said triumphantly, "That's right, Da Lang, when I go back this time, I will ask people to combine the eight characters of you and that Yang girl, pick a day to hire, and this morning will settle the marriage, and when the wedding banquet comes, I plan to hand it over to Manxi." β
"Dad, although Manxi's craftsmanship is good, it's just that she is young after all, and the wedding banquet is a big event, and your friendship with Uncle Li is also there, isn't it a bit risky to do so?" Liu Boqing did not take Hua Manxi as an outsider, and said bluntly.
"You don't know this, a few days ago, a family came to the village, renovated the big mansion, Manxi she made a living, went over there to sell some food to make money, Manxi's craftsmanship is good, and the natural business is good, but Uncle Li's youngest daughter Qiuqiu didn't see Manxi make money, and she also wanted to follow the example of Dongshi and sell steamed buns, but she didn't want the buns to be unclean, and the workers had diarrhea, and then those workers came to the door and asked the Li family to lose the silver, and Qiuqiu's temper came up and ran out."
Uncle Liu felt thrilled when he talked about this, sighed and continued: "That old Li, I hurt this Qiuqiu as if I hurt my eyes, so I immediately chased him out, but he didn't find the child, but he got lost in the mountains, fell into the hunting pit, and broke his hand. β
"Is there such a thing?" Liu Boqing was so surprised that he even paused for the action of picking up vegetables.
"Oh my God, this girl is too willful, Dad, you used to say all day long that you want me to be a son-in-law to their family! Good thing I didn't! Liu Jiqing still has lingering palpitations when he talks about this.
"Ouch, it's been a matter of many years, isn't it watching you be naughty when you were a child, and you don't study well, and it's not easy to marry a wife." Uncle Liu and Aunt Liu smiled awkwardly.
Hua Manxi saw that he had almost eaten the meal, put down the dishes and chopsticks, and said to Liu Boqing: "Big brother, in fact, I came today because I wanted to trouble my eldest brother." β
Liu Boqing was still polite and said: "Since they are all a family, what trouble do you have?" β
Hua Manxi set his eyes on Hua Xiaosong: "This is my cousin Hua Xiaosong, who is ten years old this year, I want to send him to study in the school, I don't know when I will be able to enroll?" How much does a year cost? β
"School starts this morning, I'm afraid he won't be able to catch up, why don't wait until the year after the year to re-enter, our academy, the tuition fee for a year is ten taels of silver, in addition to the meal fee of twelve taels of silver a year, in addition to the festival of each year, pen, ink, paper, inkstone, seven, seven or eighty-eight, almost thirty taels of silver a year." Liu Boqing said.
"Manxi, are you going to send Xiao Song to school? This is your uncle and aunt's business, you are also a little old, although the Ding family has withdrawn, but you also have to think about yourself, you have to keep some of the money you earn from selling noodles as a dowry. Aunt Liu said earnestly, "Godmother knows that you are a good boy, but this school is not good." β