There was a movie where there was a dish of "Wax Snow Seeking Plums", which was to seal the bear's paw with honey before cooking, saying that the bear's paw would absorb the sweet fragrance of honey, and the combination of the two complemented each other.

This dish has been hungry for Yao Yuan for a long time, and he also wants to try it after getting bear paws, but when the peerless ingredient of bear paws really appears in front of him, he knows that the movie is all nonsense and deception.

Chinese food pays attention to the flavor to make it out, and the tasteless to make it in.

The special bear's paws are all covered with honey, how can other flavors get in, and how can the thick fishy smell in the bear's paws be pulled out?

When a red chop bear's paw was served on the table, Yao Yuan knew that the so-called "complementing each other" was only aged Moutai and bear's paw, which were a perfect match!

The thick sauce fragrance of Moutai swept in the mouth like a leopard's tail fully stimulates and integrates the wildness from the mountains and forests in the bear's paw, and the thick and soft glutinous taste instantly fills the entire mouth, with a long aftertaste.

As if you don't have to chew, the thick flesh automatically slides into the stomach, and the slightly choked satisfaction makes people go up, and even the tongue seems to stick to the mouth, making people just want to taste and are too lazy to speak.

The so-called "one eats one without squeaking" is talking about now.

It was the old horse who opened his mouth first: "Sigh! No wonder the ancients would say: 'I can do what I want', such a good thing, people who don't like to eat it are fools. ”

The eldest brother of the party hurriedly praised him, and by the way, he trained his son who was not good at eating: "Yes, yes, yes, eat more if you like to eat, can you not be so unproductive in the little party?!" Eat slowly! Finish the bowl before you finish it! ”

The old horse sighed again: "Let your son spread out and eat, three bear paws, let this little thing eat enough today!" ”

Hu Xiaochuber, who is a little older, already has a little shame, and may be used to training this little brother: "Just knowing how to eat, there is no interest." ”

Lao Ma seemed to think of something: "Don't say that, even Kong Lao Er said that 'color appetite is also', eating is the first need of people, and loving to eat is not unproductive." I once heard one of my elders say that the proudest thing in his life is that he once ate Tan family cuisine, or the yellow braised shark fin that he ate with the prime minister of the Republic of China, my relative is now nearly 100 years old, and the most important memory of a centenarian's life is actually a meal and a dish, do you say it is interesting? ”

Speaking of this, Lao Ma paused for a moment, and saw that everyone's ears were ridged before he continued: "My old life, this year should be ninety-eight, he has no hobbies in his life, just delicious." At that time, the family background can be said to be very rich, and when he was young, he was good at learning and studied abroad. It's a pity that the family road fell later, and the family lost and there was no money, but what should I do if the old man is still greedy? In order to eat him, he cleaned up all the treasures of the family heirloom. I've heard of people who go to pawnshops because of drugs and gambling, but they are the first ones to eat because of this. ”

It can be heard in and out of the words that Lao Ma still respects his elder very much, and he uses the honorific "怹" that only Lao Pingcheng can say.

"It is said that they are all down, you can just get together and get it, but he can't look down on the dishes in the general restaurant, and he specially follows the famous chef of the big restaurant, when Chu Xiang, the master of your kitchen halal cuisine, first created the 'Ma Lianliang Duck', he was the first to taste it. Later, he heard that Pingcheng opened a Tan family dish that specializes in official cuisine, and the yellow braised shark fin table was done well, so he thought about eating a meal, but the Tan family cuisine only accepted the whole table reservation, and he couldn't afford to spend the whole table of shark fin seats, so he thought of a way to spend two oceans and buy off a guy in the store, and when the people held a banquet, he hid next door, and every time they served a dish, the guy allocated a small portion for him, which was equivalent to rubbing a yellow braised shark fin seat, in order to stutter not too cold at all. It was this yellow braised shark fin feast that made him still enjoy it with relish. Later, the guy told him that the dinner next door was a government premier surnamed Xiong and Boss Mei who sang in the field of the Republic of China, and this time he had more capital to brag, just this meal, the old man blew for half his life, and a piece of yellow braised shark fin made him hang on his lips, and he often mentions it now. ”

Telling this story from Lao Ma's mouth is a bit fascinating, especially for a group of cooks, who can cook the food that the vice premier of the country and Boss Mei make a special trip to eat? What about an old man who has eaten it for sixty or seventy years?

Hu Xiaochuber's face was fascinated, and he said quickly: "Then the person you are talking about is really greedy." ”

Yao Yuan slapped Hu Xiaochuber on the back of the head: "Is this called gluttony?" This is called a foodie! Just like the protagonist in the gourmand written by the husband, such a person is the bosom friend of our chef's line! When we open a store in the future, we have to respect it like a bodhisattva! What, Ma Lao, the old man you said is still alive, right? You'll have to help me make referrals. ”

The old horse nodded: "That's natural, the old man is healthy, let's have a chance to turn around, if he hears that he can eat bear paws and hash ants today, even if he rides a car five miles away, he can touch it." ”

As soon as the words changed, Lao Ma raised his glass and found Qin Shuhan: "Having said that, I have to thank our brother Qin for having this blessing today!" How about Brother Qin, let's do one? I heard that you still have to stay in Heicheng for a while, do you have any specific plans? ”

Qin Shuhan drank all the wine in the cup quite boldly: "If you want to say that you really don't have a plan, now that the snow in my hometown is closed, I can only have nothing to do in Maodong, I just want to come to Pingcheng to stay for a while and open my eyes." ”

There was a hint of cunning flashing in Lao Ma's eyes: "Then Brother Qin, I heard that you are a driver, and I happen to have a car here that no one drives, are you interested in helping me drive?" The steering wheel is in your hands, and you can drive around when I'm not using the car. ”

One sentence aroused Qin Shuhan's interest, how could the former commander of the driving company not be fascinated by the car? Immediately asked: "Ma Lao, what kind of car is it?" ”

The charcoal fire in the sauerkraut pot became more and more vigorous, the soup base was tumbling, and the whole room was filled with water vapor, and the steam formed into water droplets when it touched the cold window pane, which slid down the glass, and then formed window flowers, which were stacked into frost and thickened, isolating the joy of the room in that small space.

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Mi Xue also eats hot pot at home tonight, but they prepare standard Pingcheng mutton shabu.

The word shabu mutton is often translated as "Mongolian hot pot" in foreign languages, which is actually inaccurate.

The so-called "shabu mutton" originated in Pingcheng and came from the royal palace nobles, and has nothing to do with Mongolia.

If you don't believe it, you can ask the elderly Mongolians, which one of them has eaten, seen, heard, and talked about shabu mutton when he was a child?

There is no other reason, the early years were too hard, no one has the ability to drum up this kind of exquisite food, and the pastoral area is even worse, only in the capital, only in the palace nobles can there be this leisure and elegance, the best lamb leg meat rolls, frozen, and then sliced and eaten.

And since there is the hot pot of shabu mutton, it has been accompanied by sesame paste, sauce tofu, and leek flowers. In addition, there is also a flavor of brine shrimp oil is also indispensable.

As for soy sauce, vinegar, chopped green onions, coriander, etc., it depends on what each family likes.

Today, Michelle's father cooked the sauce himself, and put a lot of thought into the preparation of the sauce.

First of all, use star anise, bay leaves, angelica, pepper and other spices to boil into the water, and then use this water to add soy sauce, rice vinegar, sesame oil to drain the sesame sauce, the sesame sauce is not the so-called so-called 28 sauce with peanut butter blended outside, but the pure sesame sauce of Liubiju specially selected, in order to pursue the old taste of eating from the bottom.

Sauce tofu and leek flowers must also be used in Liubiju, and they must be newly bought, and they must be used in open bottles to prevent other miscellaneous flavors from entering.

As for the other seasonings, they are packed in small bowls of blue and white flowers, arranged in a row around the charcoal copper pot, and accompanied by a few kinds of sweet garlic, sweet and sour cabbage heart, fried red fruits, apple and egg salad and other side dishes, which are placed on the table with colorful flowers and are very beautiful.

Being able to pay attention to a meal of mutton shabu like this is not something that ordinary people can do.

In fact, Michelle's family is really not an ordinary family.

Michelle's family lived in a courtyard house in Lingjing Hutong in the Second Ring Road, which was a standard three-entry courtyard that used to be the residence of a certain Baylor in the former dynasty, but later changed hands to a broad merchant, and now it is a miscellaneous courtyard.

But because of his father's foreign trade work, Mi Xue's family monopolized the back garden of this courtyard, walked into the front vermilion gate, passed through the front yard, the corridor, the middle courtyard, and then passed through the next corridor, and the messy scene suddenly became elegant, and even a little quiet.

There are a few stones in the rockery in the back garden that have fallen, and the original appearance can still be vaguely seen.

Although there are no precious trees in the courtyard, the magnolia flowers in the middle are so withered that only the branches remain, and the nightshades in the flower pond have withered to the point that only the rhizomes that do not grow long, but you can imagine that when spring comes, the courtyard will definitely be full of life.

Several pieces of the stone steps on the high platform have been repaired in the north, the carved beams and painted columns and the cornices are lightly picked, and they still retain the temperament of the high-door large residences of the time, and there are two ear rooms on each side, namely a kitchen, a toilet and a boiler room.

Michelle's family has its own small boiler room for heating, which is one of the important reasons why my father took a fancy to this house, the old-fashioned boiler installed at the beginning of liberation is still very good to use today, and today my mother has not spared the coal that was finally brought in, picking up the best coal and stuffing it into the boiler, and burning the heating in the room in advance.

The father prepared everything on the dinner table, put on his coat and went to the gate of the compound to wait for the guests in advance.

Mi Xue, who was left alone in the room, was a little restless, her eyes glanced out of the window from time to time, the room was very hot, so hot that Mi Xue's little face was a little crimson.

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Today, Michelle's family wants to have a treat, and there is only one guest to invite, but the identity of this guest is a bit extraordinary.

First of all, he is Michelle's guest, it is the first time Michelle has invited his guests to his home, and secondly, the identity of this guest is very different, because he is a foreigner.

A foreigner from Australia, a white man who is like a fake.