Eating and drinking, men and women, people's great desires.

The life of Chinese people is inseparable from eating, just as the life of the same Chinese people is inseparable from pizza and cola chicken wing burgers.

Although this sentence seems to be nonsense, in order to survive, everyone in this world cannot live without food. But the Chinese people have eaten food out of the realm, quality and life.

There are eight major cuisines in China, and each cuisine is enough to beat all foreign cuisines. Even in the eyes of many people, the so-called three top delicacies in the world, foie gras, truffle, and caviar, are really delicious? Not really.

Lin Ming was lucky enough to eat it once in the capital in his previous life, and the taste can't be said to be bad, but to say that it is so delicious that it can't be overstated, it is obviously blown out.

In Lin Ming's opinion, the reason why they are sought after is only because they are rare and precious.

Just because an ingredient is expensive doesn't mean it's delicious.

Hunan.

The cuisine, which has been inherited for thousands of years, was formed in the Han Dynasty and has a fairly ancient culture and tradition in it.

Lin Ming is especially good at Yuncheng cuisine and Xiangxi cuisine, many people think that Hunan cuisine is a kind of cuisine, but in fact, the characteristics of Hunan cuisine in each place are different, just like the local dialect of Hunan Province, ten miles and eight towns have different sounds, and it may be a reason that after a village, the dialect becomes different.

Yuncheng dishes are delicious in color, heavy oil, heavy and spicy, and the taste is relatively soft and tender. Xiangxi cuisine is particularly rich in mountain delicacies, and wax products are abundant. In the previous life, Lin Ming especially liked the firewood bacon made by Xiangxi local pigs, which was a must among the Hunan cuisine bacon.

It's a pity that the vegetable market sells fakes, Lin Ming walked around, but didn't find the real Xiangxi native pig firewood bacon, so he could only regretfully buy half a catty of pork belly, a fish, and a tender duck. The fish is made into hot and sour fish soup, and the duck is naturally made into a special beer duck, which is a dish to see the level, and Lin Ming has to take out the housekeeping skills.

Coupled with a plate of scrambled eggs with tomatoes and a bowl of fried meat with chili, three dishes and one soup, it is considered to be a good job. There were fresh chili peppers, ginger, onions, garlic and other condiments at home, and I bought some tender tofu, sauerkraut, cinnamon, bay leaves, star anise, beer and other ingredients.

"It's a pity that it's 6 o'clock now, and the time is too short to prepare, otherwise it will definitely be more abundant. Tomorrow I will stew you a three-layer set of chicken, which is a very tonic medicinal meal. Your body is too thin and weak, and so tall that I am afraid that a gust of wind will blow you away. ”

Lin Ming was very distressed about An Ran, it was not early today, if he made those nourishing soup meals, it would definitely be too late, so he thought about making them for her tomorrow.

An Ran tilted his head and looked at him and smiled: "Okay, if you don't do it for me tomorrow, I'll beat you." ”

"Hey, hey."

Lin Ming smirked: "I promise to make it for you." ”

When I got home, there was no one at home. I called my mother before, and he said that he would cook and eat by himself today. Mom went to the yard to play mahjong very happily, Lao Lin went on a business trip, no one cared about her recently, mahjong addiction came up again, Mom completely let go of herself to play cards every day, and also pulled up the aunt, the addiction of the two is really big.

Ran entered the door safely, and came in with his slippers familiarly. She is not stage frightened, who hasn't played in any house every day when this group of friends in the yard was a child? Whoever is not at home on a business trip will become a playground for these dozen children, making a mess at home. An Ran remembered that when he was a child, Zhang Shaoan was rewarded with a little overlord game console by his father because of his good grades. From then on, it was like fighting a guerrilla war, as long as the adults were not at home, they would immediately say hello, and more than a dozen children would hula and rush to someone's house with the little overlord. Once at Lin Ming's house, Yuan Wenwen broke one of his vases, causing Lin Ming to be beaten tragically, and the scene was very bloody.

"Flutter." An Ran suddenly thought that Lin Ming was often chased by his mother in the yard with a hanger, so he suddenly laughed.

Lin Ming looked at her puzzled: "What are you laughing at." ”

"No, I remember when you were in the 5th grade, you were beaten by your aunt once. Your screams can be heard in the whole yard, and Aunt Rao on the other side of your house can't stand it anymore, so she comes and knocks on the door to persuade and ask why she beats the child. As a result, your mother said that you are in the 5th grade and still wet the bed. Aunt Huan said, isn't it normal for children to wet the bed? Then your mother went on to say that bedwetting was normal, but you actually threw away the quilt, sheets, and pajama pants to destroy the body. Giggles, it's funny to think about it. The point is that you naively want to destroy the corpse and destroy the traces, you also know about Auntie's big mouth, and the next day the whole yard knows that you are still wetting the bed in the 5th grade. ”

An Ran didn't mention which pot to mention, and he thought that thing was really funny, and he giggled.

Lin Ming: "......."

That incident was really embarrassing, and it can still be joked about by my friends. In fact, I really can't blame him, Uncle Ying's zombie movies were popular in that era, and then he wanted to pee at night..... Lin Ming didn't dare to go to the toilet, so he kept holding his urine. As a result, at night, I dreamed that there was a toilet next to the bed, and then I peed.....

Even if he is nearly 30 years old, he is embarrassed in front of his beloved, and he rushes into the kitchen with his face covered and escapes. An Ran was still laughing in the living room, and Lin Ming rolled his eyes and said loudly: "Enough is enough, watch your TV." ”

An Ran held back a smile, and soon, the sound of the TV came from the living room, but the laughter was still endless.

Lin Ming calmed down, and after being reborn, he hadn't been in the kitchen to cook big dishes for almost 3 months. The techniques are unfamiliar, but fortunately, the steps are remembered, and there will be no problems.

First, take out the pressure cooker, wash the rice, pour water, and cook the rice.

Then take out the cut duck meat and put it in a basin, pour in some salt and ginger slices and sprinkle it on the duck meat, and then pour cooking wine to remove the smell.

While the ducks were still fishy, Lin Ming took out the grass carp he bought in the vegetable market, and it was still alive. Skillfully pressed it and took the kitchen knife to shoot sideways, he had a lot of strength, and he easily slapped the fish on the board with two strokes. Scrape the scales, dig up the internal organs, buckle the gills, remove the fishy thread, and then cut the fish into pieces and put it on a plate for storage.

After finishing the fish, Lin Ming began to make other condiments. Wash and chop vegetables, cut the ginger into ginger slices, chop the green onion into small pieces, remove the chili peppers from the peppers, and cut the tomatoes into slices. While humming a small song, he showed his skillful knife skills and cut all the materials he needed.

Looking at the time, the duck meat is almost ready. Start the fire, set up the pot, and pour the oil. Add garlic, chopped green onions, star anise, cinnamon and ginger slices and stir-fry. Some people may wonder why they don't blanch the fishy water, but put salt and cooking wine to soak it. This is because the duck that Lin Ming bought is a tender duck, and the old duck has to be cooked for a long time before the meat is delicious, so if you want to make a beer duck quickly, you have to buy a tender duck. The meat of tender duck is relatively tender, and blanching will make the duck meat tighter, and it will not be easy to taste when cooking, so it takes some time to use cooking wine to remove blood and fishy smell. Put the fried ingredients on a plate, and the main event comes. Wash the pan and pour the duck meat directly into the pan and stir-fry.

No oil, the tender duck is fatter, the duck skin oil is more, not like the old duck with tight meat and less fat, so go directly to the pot and stir-fry with duck fat. The ducks in the vegetable market are all cut for you, the head and internal organs are removed, and the whole duck is poured into the pan, and the spoon is easily stir-fried, and the side of the duck skin is fried in the bottom of the pan to get oil.

After a while, the duck fat is stir-fried, and then the ingredients that have just been fried are poured in, and stir-fried for a while. Then add light soy sauce, dark soy sauce, bay leaves, cinnamon, star anise and stir-fry until colored, and the condiments depend on personal preference.

When it is almost done, pour the whole bottle of beer into the pan. Because it was a whole tender duck with more duck meat, Lin Ming appropriately added a small half bottle and boiled it over high heat.

Next, just wait for it to come out of the pot.

In fact, the taste of this duck is definitely not as good as that of a long time and carefully made, buying a young duck is to try to be fast, if you want to make it more delicious, buy an old duck. The meat quality of the old duck is already tight, and the meat quality is even tighter when blanched, so pour it into the cooking wine, put it in the refrigerator overnight, and copy it directly from the pot the next day, and then put the condiments in order and fry it until it is colored. The whole duck may have to burn about two or three bottles of beer, if you want to craft a little more slowly, simmer slowly over medium heat, continue to add the beer when the beer is gone, simmer for at least 40 minutes or more, the taste is absolutely superb. If you want to go faster, you can continue to boil on high heat, so fast is fast, but the texture must be a little bit less delicious, so it depends on personal choice.

Lin Ming used the second method, and if the duck is tender, it can be cooked after 20 minutes. Simmer a little longer, and the meat will rot. Although the conditions are not allowed, when it comes out of the pot, it is still full of color and flavor, poured into a large bowl, the aroma is fragrant, which makes An Erfayette alarmed and ran to the kitchen to see.

"Wow, it smells so good." An Ran stood at the door of the kitchen, smelling the fragrance, and the gluttonous worms in his stomach were about to come out. She's not that kind of foodie, that's why she's so thin. But even if it doesn't taste good, I feel saliva secretion, and I can't help but want to eat it.

Lin Ming took a small bowl with chopsticks and handed it to her, and said with a smile: "Try my craft." ”

An Ran was not polite, he put a piece of duck meat in his mouth, blew it, and after eating it without burning his mouth, he felt that the taste was very good, and the meat was not tight or loose and did not stuff his teeth, which was particularly delicious. couldn't help but praise: "Yes, I didn't expect you to have this hand." ”

"Of course."

Lin Ming said proudly: "Bring the dishes over, the rice is almost cooked, wait about 15 minutes, and you can eat." ”

"Okay."

An Ran obediently served the beer duck to the table.

Next up is hot and sour fish soup, which is prepared in many ways. Lin Ming made a pure Hunan method, which was relatively heavy and spicy, and the chili pepper was a very spicy millet pepper. Making hot and sour fish soup is much simpler, put water in the pot, turn on the heat, and put the cut fish pieces directly into the water to cook.

Wait for the heat to boil, calculate the time, add tofu, light soy sauce, ginger slices, chopped green onions, millet pepper, sauerkraut, oil, salt, and other fish in turn, and cook them directly.

The next dish is fried meat with chili, which is a classic dish of Hunan cuisine, which almost everyone loves to eat, and it is a test of basic skills. Add oil, pour in the sliced pork belly and stir-fry. When the meat starts to turn brown and brown, set the meat aside and add the chopped green peppers. When it can come out of the pan, add salt and stir-fry a few times, and put it directly on the plate.

Tomato scrambled eggs are even simpler, but in just three or five minutes, Lin Ming has prepared a few dishes, and the rice that happened to be cooked when he entered the kitchen was already cooked. In those days, pressure cookers were used to cook rice, and the small hats on the pot kept bubbling and rotating, and the hot steam came out like mist, making a sizzling sound, telling people that the rice was cooked.

"Enron, come and pack the rice."

Lin Ming shouted, first unscrewed the small cap on the pressure cooker, let the steam inside drain, and then opened the lid of the pressure cooker, and then served the food. When I arrived in the living room, I saw that the small half bowl of beer duck on the table was gone, and An Ran was like a little cat, eating with oil in his mouth.

Seeing that An Ran was secretly eating, Lin Ming scolded with a smile: "Don't patronize the vegetables, go get a bowl of rice." No one will rob you, and I will make it for you to eat every day in the future. ”

"Oh." An Ran was a thief, and ran to the kitchen to load food with a bowl.

Lin Ming put down the hot and sour fish soup, and went to the kitchen to bring the tomato scrambled eggs and chili fried meat. The considerate An Ran packed two bowls of rice and two pairs of chopsticks and put them on the table.

Lin Ming sat down, took out a tissue and wiped An Ran's mouth, and said with a smile: "You." ”

"What's wrong with me?"

"Mouth full of oil."

"Hmph."

An Ran snorted, and put another piece of duck meat in his mouth, his cheeks bulging, very cute.

"Is it delicious?"

"It's delicious."

"Then eat more and grow more meat."

"Hmm."

An Ran buried his head again and began to eat.

She didn't like the food cooked outside.

But Lin Ming's cooking, somehow, just liked it very much.

Maybe the mood will be different depending on the person who does it.

Today's Enron eats more than ever before, eating two bowls of rice.

An Ran thought to himself, the food he cooked was really delicious.

I really want to eat only the food he cooks for the rest of my life.

Two pairs of chopsticks, a pair for a lifetime.

Life may be as simple as that.