Chapter 411: Lantern Festival
The food corresponding to the Lantern Festival is rice balls.
On this day, it is customary to eat tangyuan, which means that the whole year is as complete as tangyuan.
Pick up Wei Qiaoyi's phone.
"Gao Dian, do you want to go see the Lantern Festival?" Wei Qiaoyi asked.
"Lantern Festival?" Gao Dian was stunned.
Watching the lantern festival during the Lantern Festival is also a custom that has been handed down.
However, Gao Dian has never been to the Lantern Festival, this kind of thing only exists in his imagination.
In some film and television works, there will be a plot of the lantern festival. His understanding of the Lantern Festival also comes from this.
Nowadays, it basically costs money to watch the lantern festival, and the place is far away.
Gao Dian had no money or time, so he didn't go to see the lantern festival.
"What? You don't want to go? Wei Qiaoyi's tone was filled with disappointment.
"No, I'm just a little surprised." Gao Dian said.
"So you mean you're going?" Wei Qiaoyi asked.
Gao Dian thought for a while and said, "It just so happens that I haven't seen the Lantern Festival yet, so let's go together." ”
"Okay, then I'll come to you in the afternoon." Wei Qiaoyi said.
After speaking, Wei Qiaoyi was about to hang up the phone, and Gao Dian hurriedly said, "Wait, do you have something to do at noon?" ”
When Wei Qiaoyi heard this, he paused and said, "It's okay, what's wrong?" ”
Gao Dian said: "Why don't you come over at noon, I just happen to make some rice balls, let's eat together." ”
When Wei Qiaoyi heard this, he smiled and said, "Okay, I'll come over right away." ”
Gao Dian answered and hung up the phone.
He took the chickens he had brought from the fryer to thaw them.
The chicken was killed and cleaned.
Although the quality of the meat will change after freezing, and it will not be as delicious as when it is fresh, but Gao Dian has no other way.
He can bring live chickens, after all, if you have a car, you can bring it with it.
But the problem is that he can't raise it here, and if he brings it to kill, it's not easy to deal with.
Half of the chicken was thawed, and Takanori prepared some other ingredients.
Invite Wei Qiaoyi to come over and eat rice balls, you can't really just eat rice balls, right?
After these processing, Gao Dian began to make the rice balls.
Generally speaking, glutinous rice balls are divided into sandwiched and unfilled.
What is eaten during the Lantern Festival is usually filled with rice balls.
Of course, it's not the kind of rice balls that Gao Dian's hometown eats, fist-sized rice balls.
This time, Gao Dian is going to get a little bit of both kinds of rice balls.
Glutinous rice balls without filling are usually small rice balls.
The most classic way to eat this kind of glutinous rice balls is the moromi rice balls.
Gao Dian was busy in the kitchen, and after a while, there was a knock at the door.
Gao Dian walked over and opened the door, it was Wei Qiaoyi.
"Come in and sit, I haven't cleaned it much, it's a bit messy." Gao Dian said.
Wei Qiaoyi looked around and said with a smile: "It's good." ”
In fact, for a single man, this level is really good.
"Sit down and wait for a while, if you're hungry, there's something to eat, you can bring it yourself and eat it for a while." Gao Dian said with a smile.
Wei Qiaoyi said, "Why don't I help you." ”
"No, you just sit." Gao Dian said with a smile.
When Wei Qiaoyi heard this, he had no choice but to sit first.
Sure enough, it didn't take long for Gao Dian to make a meal.
He stir-fried chicken, boiled tofu and vegetable soup, boiled a potato stewed beef brisket, and finally two rice balls.
One serving and mash rice balls, one serving of ordinary-looking rice balls.
"I didn't get much food, so I'll eat it." Gao Dian said.
"It's already good." Wei Qiaoyi said.
"Taste what the dumplings I made tasted." Gao Dian said with a smile.
Hearing this, Wei Qiaoyi responded softly, and then began to taste it.
The first thing she tasted was the mash rice balls, scooped them up with a spoon, and put them in her mouth.
The sweet and sour taste is very palatable.
The glutinous rice balls have a glutinous texture, the taste is slightly sweet, combined with the mash, the light wine aroma, the sweet and sour taste, and every bite is a pleasure on the tip of the tongue.
"It's delicious." Wei Qiaoyi said.
From the hands of Gao Dian, the taste is naturally not bad.
Then, she began to taste the unremarkable-looking rice balls.
This time, the rice balls in the mash rice balls are much larger.
Wei Qiaoyi bit it gently, it was a little hot, and the black stuffing inside suddenly flowed out.
It should be made of black sesame seeds.
Wei Qiaoyi thought to herself.
She chewed carefully, savoring the flavor.
Suddenly, Wei Qiaoyi's eyes widened, this taste was different from what she usually eats.
At the same time of sweetness, she can clearly taste a fragrance of osmanthus flowers, and at the same time taste a sour taste.
The smell was not strong, only occasionally, but it was like an electric current, constantly stimulating her taste buds.
"The filling of this rice ball is a little special." Wei Qiaoyi said.
Gao Dian smiled: "You tasted it?" I added osmanthus to this filling to increase its aroma, and at the same time added a little sour plum. ”
Wei Qiaoyi nodded and said: "It tastes sweet and delicious, and the acidity that can be tasted occasionally reduces the greasy taste to a large extent." ”
Tangyuan is delicious, but this kind of food is too sweet, and sometimes you will get tired if you don't eat much.
And Gao Dian added sour plum, but it relieved this greasy taste a lot. In addition, the level of flavor is also richer.
"This one is delicious too." Wei Qiaoyi said.
Hearing Wei Qiaoyi's evaluation, Gao Dian laughed heartily.
"It's delicious, try this chicken, I brought it back from my hometown, authentic local chicken." Gao Dian said.
Wei Qiao replied and looked at the plate of chicken.
This is a chicken fried with green and red peppers, and it is slaughtered in very small pieces, which has the feeling of spicy chicken, but it is different.
Wei Qiaoyi sandwiched a piece of chicken and put it in the nearest place.
She thought it would be spicy because there were a lot of chili peppers on top of the chicken, but when she ate it in her mouth, she realized that it was not what she thought.
It looks like a lot of chili peppers, but it doesn't feel spicy when you eat it, but the flavor of green peppers is blended with chicken, and it tastes very special.
Farmhouse chickens, in terms of meat quality, are indeed different.
Nowadays, many people who claim to be local chickens are actually not the case, and they are fed with feed. In terms of meat quality and taste, it is not as good as real farmhouse chicken.
Gao Dian's own chickens eat corn and rice bran, and he looks for food in the soil in his spare time.
The quality of the meat is very different from that fed with feed.
Such a simple cooking brings out the flavor of the chicken itself.
The two ate slowly, and after eating, Gao Dian began to clean up the table.
He found that the chicken had been eaten by the two of them, there was still some tofu left, and the beef brisket stewed with potatoes was left, but the brisket was left, and the potatoes were gone.
As for the rice balls, both of them finished eating.
Wei Qiaoyi was not idle, and after Gao Dian took it in, she got up to help wash the dishes.
The two of them worked together to get it done quickly.
Wei Qiaoyi looked at the time and said, "Let's go now." ”
"So early?" Gao Dian was surprised.
Wei Qiaoyi said: "It will take a few hours to drive over, and it will be difficult to buy a ticket if it is late." ”
When Gao Dian heard this, he felt that this was also the case, so he hurriedly cleaned up and said, "I'm ready, let's go." ”
Wei Qiao responded, and the two went downstairs together.
The car I drove this time was Gao Dian's car.
According to Gao Dian, there are too many people this time, and if Wei Qiaoyi's car is not good, his car will not matter.
In fact, Wei Qiaoyi herself doesn't care, she doesn't care whether she scratches it or not.
But Gao Dian said so, and she nodded in agreement.
Sitting in the car, it was driven by Gao Dian.
The place where the lanterns will be held is not in this city, but in another city.
By the time Gao Dian arrived, it was already past five o'clock.
They ate at noon, Gao Dian cleaned up, and when he went out, it was a little bit by little.
That is, it took four hours to come over.
Of course, the time to really run the high speed is not that long, mainly in the urban area spent a lot of time.
The two found a place to park, and then looked at the lanterns that had not yet lit up, and their hearts were full of shock.
The two of them could see from a distance that there was a huge lantern standing there.
The overall shape of the lantern is a beautiful woman, but not exactly a woman, and there are some branches and flowers wrapped around her body.
"Don't look at it, let's go buy tickets." Wei Qiaoyi said.
Gao Dian answered and followed Wei Qiaoyi to buy a ticket.
At this time, there were already people queuing up at the ticket window.
The two waited in line.
At this time, some small vendors carry things for sale.
There are no stalls here, and they are not allowed to set up stalls here, but they carry the goods on their backs, so they can't control it.
There are a lot of such vendors, and most of them sell lanterns and decorations.
There are hairbands, hairpins, and carrying.
There are all kinds of them.
But without exception, these are the kind that shine.
"Do you want this? I'll go buy you one. Gao Dian asked.
Wei Qiaoyi shook his head and said, "Don't, it doesn't look good when you wear it." ”
"Okay." Gao Dian responded.
Suddenly, Wei Qiaoyi pointed not far away and said, "I want that!" ”
Gao Dian followed Wei Qiaoyi's hand and looked over, and it turned out to be a vendor selling sugar gourds coming over.
What Wei Qiaoyi pointed to was the sugar gourd.
"Then you wait for me here, and I'll buy it for you." After Gao Dian finished speaking, he ran away.
After a while, Gao Dian came back from buying a bunch of sugar gourds.
"Here you go." Gao Dian handed it over.
Wei Qiaoyi smiled and said, "Thank you." ”
Gao Dian shook his head.
This string of sugar gourds is wrapped with hawthorn.
This is the most classic sugar gourd, and now the sugar gourd has all kinds of fruits in it.
Not only fruits, but also peppers.
Wei Qiaoyi slowly ate the sugar gourd, and after a while, she handed it over and said, "You can eat it too." ”
Gao Dian looked at the sugar gourd handed over by Wei Qiaoyi and said, "I don't like to eat this." ”
When Wei Qiaoyi heard this, he took it back and ate it by himself.
After waiting in line for a long time, the two finally arrived.
The two bought tickets, and they didn't plan to go in so early, but planned to buy something to eat.
There are also food inside, but the inside is too expensive, and the outside is much cheaper in comparison.
The two came to the stall, bought some snacks, ate slowly, and waited for it to get dark.
Today, if you can't wait too long, it's getting dark.
After dark, the two of them walked inside.
At this time, all kinds of colored lights are lit up, colorful and beautiful.
The huge lanterns lit up, and it was even more shocking, as if a giant was staring.
The two walked in, and Gao Dian took out something like a trick, handed it to Wei Qiaoyi and said, "This is for you." ”
Wei Qiaoyi looked over, and Gao Dian had a blinking headband lying on his hand.
"When did you buy this?" Wei Qiaoyi asked.
"I just bought it." Gao Dian said.
Wei Qiaoyi hesitated, but still took the blinking headband of the Bling Bring.
"How did you think to buy this?" Wei Qiaoyi asked.
"I saw that everyone else was wearing this, so I bought it." Gao Dian said.
Wei Qiaoyi was silent for a moment, sighed slightly in his heart, and put on the headband.
At this time, Gao Dian took out another one and brought it himself.
At this time, Wei Qiaoyi burst out laughing and said, "It's quite cute that you carry it." ”
Gao Dian smiled embarrassedly.
Wei Qiaoyi was in a happy mood, although she didn't like to wear this kind of headband, she felt very stupid and unsightly.
But with Gao Dian with her, she suddenly felt that this headband was also very good.
The two walked side by side, strolling around the lantern festival.
Along the way, all kinds of colorful lights are dizzying.
However, there are too many people, and it is difficult to take a good photo.
After strolling around for a while, the two saw that there was a lantern riddle, so the two ran over with great interest.
In the place of guessing the lantern riddles, there are many people, and the two of them have seen the lantern riddles one by one, and they suddenly fell silent, and they are not very good at these.
But soon someone searched on their mobile phones and guessed some.
After guessing the lantern riddles, the two lost interest and continued to wander around other places.
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"Come on! In a few days, we will really be at the level of a first-class pastry chef. Zhou Yongqing said.
Feng Zhigang nodded.
The two have been practicing for a long time, and they are both very tired at the moment, cheering each other on.
"Have you rested?" Zhou Yongqing asked.
"Alright." Feng Zhigang said.
"Get up and continue when you're rested, and we'll kill them!" Zhou Yongqing said viciously.
When Feng Zhigang heard this, he also said: "That's right, roll them to death!" ”
The two of them got up again and continued to practice hard, and they did not relax for a moment.
The target of the two at the moment is Li Dongyang.
Catch up with Li Dongyang and surpass Li Dongyang!
Gao Dian didn't dare to think about it, Gao Dian's progress was too fast, and they didn't have any thoughts to compare with Gao Dian.
But Li Dongyang is different, compared with Gao Dian, although Li Dongyang has made rapid progress, it is still within the normal range.
They spent all their rest time practicing, just thinking that they could surpass Li Dongyang.
They feel that Li Dongyang, who is already a first-class pastry chef, should rest during the holidays, and this is their opportunity.
At this moment, Li Dongyang is also practicing hard.
He didn't dare to relax, he had already seen that Zhou Yongqing and Feng Zhigang had made some rapid progress.
Tired from practicing, Li Dongyang stopped to rest.
Suddenly, he thought of Gao Dian.
"At this time, Gao Dian should also be practicing hard."
Li Dongyang muttered to himself.
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"Look at this lamp so beautiful! Come and take pictures. Gao Dian said.
"It's coming, it's coming." Wei Qiao responded.