Chapter 51: Sister-in-law Huang
"Aunt Huang, what are you eating today?" Before Lin Xiaoxiao entered the kitchen, she smelled a faint fragrance.
"Today I made watermelon chicken, Wensi tofu, and squirrel cinnamon fish." Sister-in-law Huang smiled and said softly.
Lin Xiaoxiao's expression was a little stiff, this ...... Although she had only heard of the last two of the three dishes, she thought that the watermelon chicken was also a very laborious dish...... It seems that it is better to be a full-time cook, and there is more time to prepare carefully.
The aroma came from the casserole on the stove, which was supposed to be stewed chicken, and an open-lied, carved watermelon was placed on a plate on one side.
The head of a fish that had been slaughtered had been cut off, and it was lying quietly on the side with its eyes open on the board, and the bones on the back of the fish had been cut off, waiting for the next meal.
Lin Xiaoxiao was entangled again, one of her favorite dishes when she went out to eat in her last life - pine osmanthus fish. It's a pity that there are almost no real osmanthus fish on the market in N City, and they are all replaced by large grass carp and carp (she goes to small restaurants).
And she herself tried to cook this dish herself when she was hungry. Helplessly, the fish was too big, the pot was too small, and in the end, although it was barely made, the fish was not crispy enough, and the taste of the sauce was not satisfactory.
Fortunately, the sweet and sour meal was counted, and he was killed by Lin Rice Bucket twice, and then he resolutely refused to make it himself.
Unexpectedly, after the heavy queen, I actually saw the legendary osmanthus fish with my own eyes, and today I have to try the craftsmanship of Sister-in-law Huang.
After Sister-in-law Huang entered the house, she went straight to the casserole on the stove, and explained to Lin Xiaoxiao: "After I killed it with a hen, I added ham slices, ginger slices, bamboo shoot tips, wine, salt and clear soup to simmer on the fire, and now I have to remove the ginger......"
Lin Xiaoxiao hurriedly stood aside and watched, and Sister-in-law Huang quickly picked out the ginger inside, and poured Huang Chengcheng's chicken soup into the watermelon that had been dug out of the flesh along with the chicken. Cover the watermelon, put it in a large pot and continue steaming.
This kind of thing that needs to be steamed twice Lin Xiaoxiao has hardly done it before, and her heart is full of expectations, so she secretly took out a small notebook by the way, and wrote down the process that Sister-in-law Huang just said, plus the situation she saw, including the details such as the color of the chicken soup she saw just now.
After the watermelon was put on the pot, Sister-in-law Huang walked to the front of the board, picked up the kitchen knife, and quickly scratched the flower knife on the osmanthus fish. Then, sprinkle with salt, pepper, cooking wine, and moisten starch and wipe it with your hands.
After the oil pan is heated, take the starched cinnamon fish and put it in and fry it.
"Stand far away and don't splash the oil star." Sister-in-law Huang instructed Lin Xiaoxiao while staring at the fish in the pot.
Lin Xiaoxiao is not afraid of oil stars, if he is afraid of fire and oil when cooking, there is no way to get out of the kitchen. It's just that it is occasionally hit by the oil and a little bit of oil star, and it will recover within two days of washing with water.
After the fish body and fish head were fried, Huang Sister-in-law went to cook the tofu at a flying speed.
Looking at the slender tofu shreds that appeared under Sister-in-law Huang's hands, Lin Xiaoxiao couldn't help but have a headache, she hated doing these too detailed and tedious tasks the most, so the dishes she usually cooked were also known for being heroic.
It's like stewing meat, boiling potatoes, etc., it's all big pieces. Such a thin shredded tofu ...... Ahem, let's practice slowly......
Subsequently, seeing that the tofu shreds had to be copied over the water, Lin Xiaoxiao's heart precipitated with the extremely slender tofu, for fear that he would accidentally turn into tofu scum.
Open another cauldron, there are steamed mushrooms in it, Huang Sister-in-law made fire again, boiled the chicken soup, put in shredded mushrooms, shredded winter bamboo shoots, shredded ham, shredded chicken, shredded green cabbage leaves, and added refined salt to boil.
Put MSG in the soup bowl and pour the soup in.
Put the chicken broth in the pot again, wait until it is boiled before pouring the shredded tofu into it, and finally, use a colander to remove the tofu and put it in the previous soup bowl......
After reading this complete Wensi tofu, Lin Xiaoxiao immediately eliminated it from the menu she was ready to learn - it was simply a tangle in a tangle!
Who in an ordinary family has nothing to do with such a lot of effort and so much chicken soup just to eat such a bite of tofu?
Forget it, let's come to Mr. Gu's house to eat when you are greedy.
Lin Xiaoxiao felt that she could learn the pine osmanthus fish and watermelon chicken, the dish of the chicken was not troublesome, but it was a bit time-consuming, and the pine osmanthus fish was because she liked to eat it. As for this tofu...... Lin Xiaoxiao felt to herself that the mapo tofu she made was already very flavorful, and there was no need to learn more about it.
When Lin Xiaoxiao was entangled, Sister-in-law Huang had already quickly hooked the juice of the pine osmanthus fish and poured it on the fish's body.
Yitong's "squeak" screamed, and sure enough, the dish was as its name suggested.
The three dishes were served, and Lin Xiaoxiao shook off his cheeks and ate them.
"Xiaoxiao, how are you learning?" Gu Chengyun looked at Lin Xiaoxiao with a smile.
Lin Xiaoxiao said vaguely: "I definitely can't learn tofu, I want to learn these two dishes from Aunt Huang!" ”
"Yo? This little girl will pick a trouble-free study! "Wen Si tofu is troublesome, Gu Chengyun naturally knows, he usually doesn't eat this dish often, just because Lin Xiaoxiao came to class recently, Gu Chengyun was happy, so he specially ordered a few troublesome dishes with Sister-in-law Huang.
"Miss Lin is smart, this tofu is indeed not a home-cooked meal, it is too troublesome." Sister-in-law Huang laughed, even if she is an aunt from Suzhou, there are few who have her unique skills, Lin Xiaoxiao said that she can't learn, but it proves her cleverness.
After eating, and in the afternoon, he learned how to draw branches for another hour, and Zhang Guangqi came again.
Today, Lin Xiaoxiao only played a game of chess with him, so he went to Sister-in-law Huang to learn embroidery.
Picking up an embroidery thread that Lin Xiaoxiao usually uses, Sister-in-law Huang explained with a smile: "Half of this thread is 'a velvet', and one-sixteenth is 'a thread'." How well the embroidery is done, it depends on whether the thread is fine enough and whether the needle angle is dense enough. Let's split the thread first. ”
Sister-in-law Huang didn't go crazy to split an embroidery thread into sixteen parts, but she also divided it into at least five or six parts, so she taught Lin Xiaoxiao several basic embroidery methods.
Lin Xiaoxiao suddenly realized that she used double strands when she embroidered things in the past, but when she was serious about embroidery, she had to use single strands.
Huang Sister-in-law uses different embroidery methods to embroider round, straight, or winding and other styles. Lin Xiaoxiao was dazzled when he saw it. She never thought that there were so many patterns in embroidery? It's not like before, just fill in the pattern slowly as it looks.
Sister-in-law Huang made a simple appearance, only more than three stitches need to be used, and after pointing out which stitches to use to Lin Xiaoxiao, she let her embroider first, and then went to clean up the room herself - after all, nanny is her essential job.