Chapter 34: Noodles and Hot Sauce
After returning home, Cai Xiaoxiao also told Zhao Wang's plan to go, and Zhao Wangshi was stunned: "Go to the town to open a store?" ”
Cai Xiaoxiao nodded and said, "Yes, mother-in-law, what do you think?" The tone was a little cautious, afraid that Zhao Wang's would not agree.
Zhao Wang smiled and said: "Of course you can, it's just that you have to work very hard after going to the town to open a shop, going back and forth between the village and the town every day." ”
Cai Xiaoxiao said indifferently: "It's okay, don't we still have a donkey cart, so it's not very hard, just to trouble you to take care of the family alone." ”
"What trouble is not troublesome, I don't do anything." Zhao Wang waved his hand and said.
"You don't mind." Cai Xiaoxiao smiled.
The seven-day period has arrived, Cai Xiaoxiao took out the hot sauce, opened the lid, smelled it and could smell the familiar taste of the hot sauce, she dipped it with chopsticks and tasted it: "Hmm! "It's the familiar taste of hot sauce in my memory!
"Xianggong, mother-in-law, you can also taste it, it will be a little spicy." Cai Xiaoxiao also tasted a little bit for Zhao Kangcheng and Zhao Wang, "How is it?" ”
The two tasted it carefully, and Zhao Wangshi said: "It's very spicy, but I feel like I want to eat it more and more." ”
Zhao Kangcheng also said: "It should be delicious if you pair the dishes." ”
"Then let's try to eat noodles at noon." Cai Xiaoxiao proposed with great interest.
"Noodles at noon?" Zhao Kangcheng asked.
Cai Xiaoxiao nodded: "Yes!" ”
"What else?" Zhao Kangcheng continued to ask, "Are there any dishes?" ”
When Cai Xiaoxiao heard this, she couldn't help laughing: "Let's eat shredded meat noodles, will we?" ”
"Meat? OK. Zhao Kangcheng was satisfied.
Cai Xiaoxiao smiled helplessly and shook her head: She is a meatless and unhappy husband.
If you want to cook noodles, you have to make noodles first, because there is no machine, you can only make noodles by hand, but fortunately, Cai Xiaoxiao has learned how to pull noodles with a noodle master before.
First of all, prepare an appropriate amount of flour, add a little water, and stir into a wet dough; Add a little more water and continue to stir, adding water repeatedly, stirring constantly, until the dough is fully integrated and becomes a dough.
Then fold and knead the dough repeatedly to make the dough smooth, after which it will sit for 20 minutes.
"Xianggong, do you prefer to eat thin or wider?" Cai Xiaoxiao asked Zhao Kangcheng.
"Everything." Zhao Kangcheng was watching her ramen technique and replied casually.
"Then it's fine, I like to eat thin." Cai Xiaoxiao made a decision.
Zhao Kangcheng has no opinion: "Yes." ”
While waiting for 20 minutes, Cai Xiaoxiao took out a part of the pork, washed it, cut it into shredded meat, and then put it aside for later use, and then came back to continue making the dough.
Coat a little water on the dough and continue to knead it to make the dough harder, so that the dough will bounce back immediately when pressed by hand; Then continue to dip a little water, knead repeatedly, this time to knead the dough soft, press it with your hand to press out a small hole, and then cover it with a layer of gauze, to leave it for half an hour, put it for a long time to make the dough elastic, and the noodles pulled out will be delicious.
While waiting for half an hour, Cai Xiaoxiao went to the vegetable garden to pick two green vegetables, washed them and chopped them, and then put them aside for later use.
Then she went to prepare the vegetable packets as well, and planned to take them to town tomorrow with the hot sauce to sell.
When half an hour is up, sprinkle some flour on the cutting board, cut the dough into parts, then knead the small pieces of dough into a long cylindrical shape, then flatten the long cylindrical shape into flat sheets, and then use a knife to cut the pressed flat dough sheet to the thickness of a little thumb, and then pinch the ends of the rolled small thick noodles with your fingers, and gently shake them up and down to become thin long noodles.
Then fold the elongated noodles back in the middle, put the ends of the noodles in your left hand, put the folded part in the middle on your right hand, and gently shake them up and down again, and so on, and finally it becomes a long, thin noodle.
During her noodle making, Zhao Kangqiang and Zhao Xiaoli came back, and as soon as they came back, they ran to the kitchen, saw Cai Xiaoxiao making noodles and curiously stepped forward to watch, and then applauded Cai Xiaoxiao's clean and neat action of throwing noodles.
Zhao Kangcheng saw it and thought it was interesting, so he also tried to pull one, but he accidentally overdid it, so that the noodles broke in the middle, Cai Xiaoxiao saw it, covered his mouth and snickered, but Zhao Kangqiang and Zhao Xiaoli laughed unceremoniously.
Cai Xiaoxiao took Zhao Kangcheng's broken noodles skillfully and turned them into thin noodles again, and at the same time told Zhao Kangcheng to use his strength and not to use too much force.
Zhao Kangqiang and Zhao Xiaoli also shouted to play with it when they saw that it was fun, Cai Xiaoxiao didn't stop the two, and gave each of them one, maybe because the two were children, and the strength in their hands was not very great, so the two of them still looked good when they threw up the noodles, and they didn't break it, which couldn't help but make the two feel very accomplished.
After several failures, Zhao Kangcheng finally succeeded in pulling a noodle, but Cai Xiaoxiao had already pulled all the noodles and was looking at him with a smile, while Zhao Kangqiang and Zhao Xiaoli were grimacing at him.
Zhao Kangcheng blushed, handed her the noodles, and said, "What are you looking at?" ”
Cai Xiaoxiao smiled and said, "Look at the little Xianggong." ”
When Zhao Kangqiang and Zhao Xiaoli heard this, they coaxed: "Oh, shame, shame! ”
So Zhao Kangcheng's face turned even redder.
Zhao Kangqiang and Zhao Xiaoli: "Big brother is blushing!" ”
Zhao Kangcheng: "Shut up, you two!" ”
Zhao Kangqiang and Zhao Xiaoli: "Annoyed and angry hahaha!" ”
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After the noodles are pulled, you can get out of the pot, Zhao Kangcheng lit the stove, Cai Xiaoxiao first poured a little oil into the pot, stir-fried the shredded meat and vegetables a few times to make them seven or eight minutes cooked, and then put in the water, and after the water boiled, put the noodles into the water one by one, and then gently stir them with chopsticks a few times and cover the lid, and then you can wait quietly for the noodles to cook, during which Cai Xiaoxiao added an appropriate amount of salt to it.
Soon, after the noodles were cooked, Cai Xiaoxiao divided them into five bowls, and she, Zhao Kangcheng, Zhao Kangqiang, and Zhao Xiaoli brought the five bowls of noodles to the living room, and Cai Xiaoxiao asked the four of them: "Do you want to add soy sauce to the noodles?" Or vinegar? Or with hot sauce? ”
"Hot sauce?" As soon as they heard the hot sauce, Zhao Kangqiang and Zhao Xiaoli's eyes lit up and said, "Sister-in-law, the hot sauce is already good?" ”
Cai Xiaoxiao nodded: "Okay." ”
"Then we want hot sauce!" Zhao Kangqiang and Zhao Xiaoli raised their hands and said.
"Okay, what about the father-in-law and mother-in-law?" Cai Xiaoxiao asked Zhao Kangcheng and Zhao Wang.
Zhao Wang said: "I'll also have hot sauce, but a little less." ”
Zhao Kangcheng also said: "I am also a hot sauce. "They all wanted to try what it would be like to eat hot sauce with noodles.
"Then I'll go get the hot sauce."