Chapter 114: The Cook's Family Feast
After the dried silk is cut, it is put into the water and slowly raised, watching the dried silk open in the water like a cloud, it is the chef who has to be proud, just look at this knife work! Our Master Yao is still a treasure knife!
I am secretly proud in my heart, now I am energetic, my hand holding the knife is more stable, my eyes are sharper, and my taste discrimination ability is obviously more sensitive than before, it seems that we are the chef of God's choice!
I feel good today, the dried silk is a little finer, but the flaws are not hidden!
Up to now, the boiled dried shreds are half completed, and there are two Jiangnan side dishes prepared for my mother today, one is "hairy crab fried rice cake", today's hairy crab is not the kind of underage river crab, and the carefully selected female crab has more than four taels, each full of yellow!
I'm not afraid of spending money on cooking for my mother, anyway, now people don't know the goods, such a good crab has been bought for the price of cabbage, don't eat it for nothing, let's eat it badly today!
However, when Yao Yuan cut a few crabs, his hand stopped. A good cook should not spoil things, but good ingredients should be used to the fullest.
Isn't there a good flower carving for 20 years at home, as long as you sprinkle a lot of rock sugar, give a little good soy sauce, and then put in a few coriander roots, pick a little star anise, cinnamon and other spices at will, boil it on the fire, and the boiled soup can be made into Huadiao wine drunk crab after it cools on the balcony, this taste my mother must like.
When he poured Huadiao wine into the pot again, Chef Yao didn't think that he was spoiling this difficult good wine!
After adding a drunken crab to my mother temporarily, I checked the glutinous rice lotus soaked in red yeast rice osmanthus sugar water, and the color of the lake lotus root has slowly soaked in, and the crimson and chubby lotus root is rare to look at.
A few side dishes prepared for my mother are almost there, and when the meal is served, you can simply stir-fry and cut everything.
Next, I have to fool my father's appetite, my father's hometown is from Bohai Bay, and my ancestors have been authentic farmers who have farmed for a living for several generations, and the old man's taste has also retained the authentic peasant taste.
Now the streets are full of Chinese cabbage sold in winter, and the big trucks of the Jiefang brand are transporting them to the city one after another, and the Chinese cabbage at each vegetable selling point is piled up.
Residents also buy hundreds of catties or hundreds of catties at home, and when they buy cabbage, they have to carefully wrap each one with newspapers, and put a stack of neatly stacked along the root of the wall, and then these cabbages are the family's vegetable guarantee for a winter.
I really don't know when this custom began to form, just like you have to eat dumplings every year for the New Year, in winter, every family does not store a few hundred catties of Chinese cabbage, and there is no bottom in their hearts.
And when the government arrives at this season, in order to ensure the supply of these cabbages, it even does not hesitate to ask for help from the troops.
Now the price of cabbage supplied in the market is five cents a pound!
There are several varieties of cabbage that can be bought in Pingcheng, and the local yellow-hearted Chinese cabbage leaves are large and fat, and the weight of a single can exceed ten catties; The cabbage that was supported into Pingcheng from the Ludong area was larger, with a firm heart and many leaves; The cabbage from the suburbs of Jinhai is green and sweet, but unfortunately there are not many of them; There is also a kind of cabbage from Yutian, Hebei Province looks inconspicuous, the cabbage that has been beaten by frost wilts and does not pull a few, the cabbage has more leaves and fewer leaves, and there are not many people who know the goods.
But my father loves this mouthful of Yutian cabbage, maybe this kind of cabbage is closer to his hometown, and he eats this kind of cabbage from snack to big bar.
According to him, this kind of cabbage is sweet in the mouth, and the sweetness is the most delicious when it dispels fire and returns cabbage.
Yao Yuan chose this kind of cabbage today, with ten yuan and three catties of pipi shrimp, wanting to surprise his father.
Take out the shrimp meat, mash it into a puree, mix it with some fatty meat, and then use white pepper and salt to give a little flavor, and make shrimp glue rolled into the cabbage leaves flying through the water.
After a while, the neat cabbage rolls only need to be steamed in the pot for a few minutes, and then a thin layer of glazed potatoes will be hung up, and it will come out with an improved version of the "jade white jade roll".
'Jade White Jade Roll', the name sounds quite lofty, but this is a home-cooked dish that can be put on the table in the homes of farmers in the Bohai Bay area during the Chinese New Year.
However, local farmers usually use pork as filling, and those who can't afford pork can simply mix it with lard and tofu, and it tastes good.
Yao Yuan relied on his own feelings to reproduce this cheap and good-looking old family dish, which is estimated to give the old man a little surprise.
Daddy loves pork, especially braised pork.
In these years, in ethnic minority areas, there are many cattle and sheep, and pork will be rare in the future.
It is said that it is braised pork, but in fact, it does not use the technique of braised pork, because my father doesn't like the kind of method that is too oiled and fried with sugar, so he likes to stew pork belly with some soy sauce, and the pork will be rotten for two hours, and the tongue can be melted away.
In fact, the practice of braised pork in China is different in each place.
There is red oil red sauce from Shanghai style, the housewife holds a sugar jar in one hand and a soy sauce bottle in the other hand and slams it into the pot, and the pork belly is sweet and then salty, and the color is red.
There are also people who use a bottle of rice wine to pour it in and cover and stew it with the pork belly, and the braised pork belly is soft and glutinous and sweet, with a long aftertaste.
There is also the braised pork of the northern faction, the spiced spices must be put vigorously, and by the way, you have to grab a handful of vermicelli and put it in, so as not to waste the meaty soup that you have finally obtained.
Daddy Yao Haiyang's favorite braised pork is different, the method is stew, stewed pork belly at the same time, if you can add a little small squid with seeds from Bohai Bay to add some taste from the ocean, it is the best grade.
This dish did not leave any room for Yao Yuan to show off his skills, so he could only honestly follow the most village practice, put the pork belly flying through the water into the ceramic jar, and then put the small squid called "pen tube" into it at the same time, and what can be done is to stir the ginger, onion and garlic first, and at the same time stimulate the soy sauce to excite the fragrance and then pour it into the jar.
Fill the jar with a whole bottle of five-star beer, then add the lid, and leave the rest to time.
At this point, the meal is almost ready, check all the utensils again, and then prepare all the small ingredients needed for plating.
Who says Chinese food isn't plated? That's to see if you have the heart!
Whether a meal is tasteful or not, it has to be half plated.
Garlic slices wash off the allicin and soak it in milk, after such a process, the garlic slices will be milky white after frying, and crispy and delicious, the braised pork used to decorate the special village will definitely be beautiful, and the taste will complement each other, and this treatment method believes that there is no second person in China to understand!
It's a pity, Mom and Dad must not understand.
The cucumber is sliced with a planer knife, rolled up and fixed with a toothpick, and a small green flower is still in the basin for later use.
There are too few colors that can be found in winter, except for the cucumbers are green, the rest of the colors can only be made up with white radishes and carrots.
Moreover, you can't show off your skills too much, put the plate in three dimensions, add a little flower decoration, and it belongs to the range that ordinary people can understand, if you take out any siphon pot and dry ice at this time, I'm afraid the old man will feel that he is not doing his job, and he must not have studied hard.
The hour hand points to twelve o'clock and all the preparations are complete!
Today is Tuesday, Xiaohuaer has no classes in the afternoon, just pick her up and go to the airport with her, and there is still time to take Xiaohuaer to a McDonald's.
Big Qin sent the car over on time.
Today, Yao Yuan is going to drive to the airport in person, since he got the car book, there is almost no chance of driving, because this imported Mitsubishi off-road vehicle was requisitioned by Lao Ma, and Yao Yuan's hand, who has a car and can't touch the car, has long been itchy.
When the big man Qin entered the door, he first shrugged his nose, and then his eyes looked at the kitchen: "Emma, Manager Yao, what are you doing, are you also fragrant?" ”
Yao Yuan unceremoniously began to push him out of the door, and then closed the door with his hand.
These guys have never known politeness, and the things they prepare are all per person, in case this big man reaches out and grabs a copy, this half day will be in vain.
First send the eldest Qin to the small white building, during this time, the eldest man followed the old horse to learn a lot of things, and began to prepare for the preliminary work of the logistics company, and the two of them sat in the car and just chatted about some business.
"Brother Qin, how are the personnel preparations?" Yao Yuan took out a box of Hilton from his pocket and threw it to Qin Da'er, who didn't learn well from Lao Ma, and smoked more and more frequently.
Qin Da'er was overjoyed when he saw Hilton: "Emma, foreign trade tobacco, in the end, you are the manager, and it is different to make a move." ”
Yao Yuan raised his eyebrows angrily: "Don't talk nonsense, hurry up, I have to go to the airport in a while!" ”
The big man is positive: "People are not a problem, veterans are not living well, and they are very enthusiastic to have the opportunity to work in Pingcheng, but I am a little worried that the logistics company will definitely not be able to make money at the beginning, how can I afford to support these brothers?" ”
Yao Yuan turned his head and looked disgusted: "Why, Lao Ma didn't tell you?" ”
Qin Da took apart the Hilton, and just wanted to light a cigarette, when he saw Yao Yuan's expression, he immediately became serious: "Lao Ma said, but you are a small owner, I still want to listen to your chatter, after all, it is not a joke to attract so many people at once, I don't know the bottom of my heart." ”
In the end, he was a company commander, and he had a few more brains than the brother who was born as a cooking soldier.
Hundreds of people were called on to come to Pingcheng to defect at once, which was the size of a whole company, and as the person in charge, he had to be responsible for the future of these hundreds of people.
"Let me ask you, how are your comrades-in-arms living in their hometown? Is there a regular job? Yao Yuan slowed down the car and wanted to have a good talk with the big man.
The big man sighed: "You may not know the situation of the troops now, the disarmament and layoffs are all evil, the third-class merit is not counted, and the second-class meritorious heroes are persuaded to go back to the place, but how can there be so many places to settle in the place, after returning home, you can only wait at home, and there is no news when you wait, but the family is also waiting for dinner, and you can't afford to wait at all." My deputy company commander has already started to pull a cart to earn money in his hometown. ”
Yao Yuan pressed the window of the car and let out a sullen breath, the pain caused by the change of the times is unbearable for every individual and family!
The future national policy is peaceful development, and the troops that have shed their blood for the country will face large-scale reforms, which is a good thing and a correct decision to conform to the development of history.