Chapter 650: Hors d'oeuvres
Shen An'an saw that Shizi had become so reasonable and did not take the responsibility to continue to investigate this matter, and she finally seemed to be relieved in her heart.
Then she went out to help Shizi make porridge.
Shizi was just getting better from his illness and couldn't eat too much of a heavy diet, so she was going to help him boil a pot of millet porridge with preserved eggs and green vegetables. Mufu is worthy of being Mufu, don't look at the area of this mansion is not large, but although the sparrows are small, the kitchen here is no worse than the Li family.
And it is as small as a small dish, as large as oil, salt, sauce and vinegar, etc., all of which are very particular. Just the rice he ate, Shen Anan saw several kinds.
Among them, there is a very rare kind of long japonica rice, this kind of rice, transparent in appearance, pointed at both ends, not only beautiful appearance, but also very good taste. And there is no draught, and when you boil it, you only need to put a little bit of whomever is it. When you eat it, you will feel that this rice is particularly soft and glutinous, and it is very soft.
This kind of rice is estimated to be eaten only by a few high-ranking officials, and there is another kind of people who can eat it, that is, the people in the palace. This kind of rice, not only male survival, but also very delicate, planting an acre of land, can produce a hundred and ten catties is good.
However, Shen Anan didn't know that the mother yield she said was completely overestimated.
The yield per mu is less than fifty catties.
After picking the rice, Shen Anan carefully selected the tenderloin with a little bit of fat. If it is a pure tenderloin, it will appear too dry, without oil and water, if you pick some with a little fat, you can make the porridge taste better.
Do not release raw meat directly, you need to waterlog a little in advance to remove all the blood in the shredded meat, so that the meat will not have a fishy smell.
When choosing vegetables, don't pay too much attention to them, and the important thing is that the dishes are fresh. There is also the part of the vegetable leaves that should be selected as much as possible, and the vegetable stalks will be put into the porridge, which will be undercooked for a while and a half, and it will be hard and hard, which will also affect the taste. Shen Anan only uses the most tender vegetable leaves, and when he starts the pot, he sprinkles them directly on top of the porridge, and in the blink of an eye, the vegetable leaves are baked by heat, so that the porridge is not only good in taste, but also beautiful in color.
It can be said that it has both color and flavor.
What Shen An'an likes most is the satisfaction on his face when he sees others eating the porridge he cooked or cooking.
Seeing that a person is not careless in doing things, it can be seen from the things she brings out. It can be as big as a delicious dish, as small as a porridge or an appetizer.
Scoop two small bowls of rice, the rice should not be too much, too much will make the porridge sticky, too little and clear water can be seen. Therefore, you can scoop as many rice as you prepare.
This ratio and the side dish ratio are also to be matched. The only person who can see this comparison at a glance is someone who cooks regularly. It's like Shen Anan sometimes goes to the vegetable market to buy vegetables, and always goes to a blind old woman to buy them.
That's because she doesn't pick fish with her eyes, she picks them with her nose and feel.
Fresh fish, the meat is soft, and the scales are fresh and smooth. If you just look at it with your eyes, you can see that the scales are very beautiful and shiny.
And it turned out that Shen An'an's judgment was not wrong, and the fish she bought from that blind mother-in-law was fresh every time.
If you just eat light porridge, even if the porridge is fragrant, you will not be able to experience the best taste. It must be accompanied by one or two very delicious and refreshing side dishes, eat a mouthful of the dish, drink a mouthful of porridge, such an experience is perfect.
In fact, the reason why others like to eat the food made by Shen An'an is very important that she can put herself in the shoes of others. Even what you eat can be linked to the weather and environment of the day.
The main reason for her today is to increase Shizi's appetite, so the dishes she makes must be refreshing and delicious, and there is another point that must be appetizing.
This may be the origin of the so-called hors d'oeuvres.
Crispy three shreds, patting cucumbers is a classic dish of hors d'oeuvres, and it is not difficult for Shen An'an, who loves to make food.
Whether a dish is delicious or not depends on several conditions, one is that the freshness and quality of the ingredients must be good. The other is knife work and seasoning cooking.
The main essence of the brittle three wires is urging, and there is the selection of the three wires.
Pick the most tender lettuce, peel and cut into thin strips, and set aside in a pot. Cut some shredded white radish, lettuce and shredded white radish are foods that are not easy to get salt, and if the shredded white radish is not handled well, there will be a choking spicy feeling.
Therefore, the first step before cooking is to remove the spicy taste.
To get rid of the spicy taste, just marinate it with salt beforehand.
And lettuce and shredded white radish are one of the more amazing things that as soon as they touch the salt and are slightly pickled, they will become hard as a whole, and then become very crisp and delicious.
The reason why Shen Anan chose these two is not because he thinks that these two are the best match, but because under the existing conditions, the best one is chosen.
In order to make the color of this crisp three silks look very good, Shen Anan added green pepper shreds. There are two reasons why shredded green peppers are added, one is to flavor it, and the other is to adjust the color.
Some couldn't taste the taste of Shizi, and she didn't know if he would eat spicy, so she used a little bit.
When you eat it this way, it won't be very spicy, but it will have a slightly spicy feeling.
Some people may say that the food needs to be cooked as well as it is delicious, and there is so much attention to be paid to it. Let me ask you a simple question, what choice would you make between a dish that tastes very good and looks ugly, or a dish that tastes average but looks extremely tempting in front of your eyes.
It is estimated that many people, the first one willing to stretch out their chopsticks should be the dish that is in good condition. Perhaps after eating both flavors, others will be able to distinguish the deliciousness of the dish.
But if the same delicious dish is discounted in appearance, it is always a pity for those who are looking for perfection.
Shen Anan just wants to strive to be the best, and if he can't be perfect, then try his best to make it perfect. Who said this sentence, Shen Anan has forgotten it, but he has not forgotten the essence of this sentence.
When it comes to decorating a dish, just a few shredded green peppers is not enough, and perhaps you won't forget that orange carrots are the protagonist of the most classic red and green peppers.
However, in order to find the carrot, Shen Anan still spent a small amount of effort. After searching for a long time and a lot of effort, she found the last carrot from a bag in a corner of the kitchen.
Don't look at the carrot is full of mud, in fact, it is right to preserve the carrot in this way, the soil can protect the skin of the carrot and give it a sense of freshness. On the other hand, if you wash the carrot and leave it there, it will be air-dried in less than two days.
This is also the wonder of nature, everything can be mutually reinforcing.
After washing the carrot, sure enough, it was a beautiful carrot, there were not many roots, the top of the carrot was very smooth, scraped off some of the outer skin, some of it was cut into shreds, and the other part she left alone, and she would come in handy later.
While waiting for the shredded lettuce and shredded radish to be pickled, Shen Anan picked out the mung bean sprouts, smoothed them one by one, and then removed all the roots, upgrading from very ordinary bean sprouts to silver sprouts.
There used to be a joke that went like this. There is a son who has nothing to do all day and likes to brag. Because he never works in the field, it can be said that he is not diligent and does not distinguish between grains.
Once he went to a restaurant to have dinner with a group of friends, and because others couldn't get used to him pretending to be a scholar, they picked up a bean sprout with chopsticks and asked him, what is this.
The boy couldn't help but glance at the person who asked him, you don't even know that this is a bean sprout.
So the man smiled faintly, picked out another bean sprout with the roots removed, and asked him, "Then may I ask, what is this?" ”
"Bean sprouts with pants off."
So the people in the restaurant all laughed, and kept using this stalk to satirize the son, and finally the boy knew that he had made a joke and was ashamed.
Shen Anan deserves to cook often, and while waiting for the porridge to be boiled, he unconsciously finished the crispy three strips in the hors d'oeuvres.
Patting cucumbers is simpler, the main thing is the process of patting, and seasoning.
The essence of the seasoning is the ratio of garlic to vinegar. Cucumbers must be the kind with many thorns, and they must be prickly to the touch, because such cucumbers are fresh.
Shen Anan had heard her predecessors talk about the trick of picking fresh cucumbers, but she didn't think so at the time. Once she did an experiment, she deliberately picked a cucumber with thorns, and the cucumber really looked like it had barbs, and the thorns were still a little painful on the hand.
The other one is all the thorns hung with a towel, and it looks quite fresh. However, it is a little soft to the touch.
At that time, Shen Anan didn't care too much, his heart was just a few more thorns, and this cucumber without thorns looked very fresh, so it shouldn't be too bad.
So she didn't believe in evil, so she made a cucumber according to the same ingredients. However, one of the yellow ones was robbed of all in an instant, and the other one, although it tasted the same, was not cared for.
Shen Anan was very puzzled, so he grabbed a person and didn't let go. I saw her ask: "Hey, don't go, I want to ask you, these two cucumbers obviously taste the same, why do you like to eat one dish here and not move the other one." ”
The person who was questioned couldn't help but say with interest: "This question should be asked to you, why is the taste of the same thing so different when you make it?" ”
Shen An'an went to taste the taste in person, and this taste really tasted different, although the sought-after goods over there, there was only a little bit of the T-shaped block left, and she still ate the difference.
One is crisp and delicious, and I want to eat it after eating, and the other is too hard and even has a feeling of not being fresh. As soon as you bite into it, you feel like you're eating an overnight dish.