Chapter 303: Pickled Fresh
3:06 a.m. The sound of crying and laughing came from Mo Xiaoya's room.
Until 4:12 this morning. The room was completely quiet, and I should have slept!"
I took this note made by Niu Baiye.
This is the old cow I've known for so long. I saw him work most seriously.
Niu Baiye asked me curiously.
"What is this Mo Xiaoya for? Life is reversed day and night.
This night. I was noisy by him, and I couldn't sleep even if I wanted to. ”
I was calculating Mo Xiaoya's work and rest time.
replied casually.
"This Mo Xiaoya is a cartoonist. I still have a little talent for drawing. It's just that she is lazy and lives a very comfortable life. ”
Niu Baiye pointed to his head and said to me.
"I guess this Mo Xiaoya has mental problems. In the middle of the night, the ghost cried wolf, cried and laughed.
When I came out to go to the bathroom, I was greeted with a cold face.
I feel that this girl is not hot. ”
I said.
"I guess the little girl is scared of your appearance.
Yesterday during the day anyway. This Mo Xiaoya and Big Wave talked a lot.
After all, there is a difference between men and women, and I think this Mo Xiaoya has a shy personality.
I guess I'm thin-skinned, and I'm embarrassed to talk to our boys. ”
Niu Baiye cleaned up the garbage in the room and put on his own clothes.
Hand me his notebook directly.
"Yes, I've successfully completed my mission this night, and I'm off work completely.
Brother Wang, you can sleep for a while and play for a while now.
The little girl had just fallen asleep for two hours. I guess she won't be able to get up before 1 p.m. ”
I nodded. This dare is quite good, I used to think that it was hard work to defend Mo Xiaoya.
I never thought that this little girl was a stupid and sleeping lazy bastard.
It made my job a lot easier.
I waved goodbye to Niu Baiye and sent him out.
A person goes back to his bedroom, still leaving the bedroom door open.
In this way, you can pay attention to Mo Xiaoya's every move at any time.
I was lying alone in bed, bored scrolling through my phone.
I have nothing to do and feel a little thirsty.
So he went to the kitchen alone and boiled a pot of hot water.
"I don't know if this fox spirit has tea. ”
I said to myself. Actually, I'm a rather old-fashioned person. The style of conduct is also relatively old-fashioned. So I always like to drink tea water with my aunt and uncle.
I turned the kitchen of this vixen apartment upside down, and there was not a shadow of tea in the slightest.
On the contrary, there are a lot of health care products such as ginger ale brown sugar, loquat autumn pear paste, and linden honey.
I muttered to myself.
"No, this vixen has lived for more than two hundred years, according to his age, he should be a person who can drink tea!"
In the end, I locked my eyes directly on the refrigerator.
The fridge in this apartment is very large.
It is a large all-gold refrigerator with four doors.
I walked straight up to the refrigerator and opened the freezer compartment above.
It doesn't matter if it's a dozen. A whole bunch of things crackled out of the fridge and fell out of it.
I picked it up the same.
It's all cold and fresh. Fat cow and fat sheep rolls. Spicy fish, bacon, sausage, bacon, spring shoots, pork belly, vegetables, fruits, salad dressings.
Oh my god, this is a cornucopia.
Mo Xiaoya once said that most of the ingredients in the refrigerator were his own.
Mo Xiaoya, this girl has a plump figure and is more greedy, so she is very good at cooking.
However, look at the mess in this refrigerator. knows that this Mo Xiaoya must be a cute house girl who is very arrogant and can't do housework.
I'm a relatively clean person, though not a cleanliness fetish. But I really can't see such a dirty and messy environment.
Anyway, now that Mo Xiaoya is sleeping, I have nothing to do. I just helped him clean up the refrigerator.
I took out all the ingredients in the refrigerator. Then they are sorted out one by one and arranged in order.
Things like some pork belly rolls, bacon, spicy fish should be put in the freezer.
There are also some cans, drinks, sauces that can be placed in the compartment next to the refrigerator.
I made a point to look at the dates of these ingredients. The bag of bacon, which weighed a pound, was about to expire in two days.
This Mo Xiaoya is really arrogant, he said that in the future, if I give birth to such a sloppy and bad daughter, I will definitely be smoked by his angry seven orifices.
Fortunately, yesterday Mo Xiaoya had already allowed us to use the ingredients in the refrigerator as we liked.
I'm certainly not the kind of person to take advantage.
I pulled out 100 dollars from the mezzanine of my wallet. Place directly in the refrigerator.
Then take out the bag of bacon and spring bamboo shoots.
Fortunately, there are also ingredients such as pork belly and bean knots in the refrigerator.
Aren't these ingredients just right, the main ingredients of a large pot of pickled and fresh?
I went to university in Shanghai. For four years, I ate southern food every day.
In the past four years, and in the first few months, I was still a little unaccustomed to eating.
The difference between the diets of our northerners and southerners is really huge.
Northerners pay attention to heavy oil and salt. Especially Northeast cuisine. All of them were black and slimy, and most of them were stews, and the longer they were stewed, the more flavorful they became.
And the southerners pay attention to the light diet.
Whatever you eat, put a little sugar in it.
For example, there are several more famous dishes in Shanghai. Ringing oil eel paste, nine turns of the large intestine, Mao's braised pork.
Those ones are so sweet that they are greasy.
Fortunately, there is also a taste that will be light. The soup is rich and pickled.
However, this pickled tuk xian was not originally a native Shanghai delicacy, but came from Anhui.
Moreover, this pickled duxian dish is also closely related to the famous "red-topped businessman" Hu Xueyan and the late Qing Dynasty minister Zuo Zongtang.
It is said that Hu Xueyan has been a lover of ham all his life, and his family eats hundreds of hams a year.
Once, Zuo Zongtang came to visit Hu's house in Hangzhou, and Hu Xueyan improved a "bacon stewed spring bamboo shoots" in his hometown, Jixi, Anhui Province, in order to entertain him.
The original bacon was changed to ham, and the white shell seedlings (spring bamboo shoots) transported from Jixi's hometown were cut into strips, put in a pot and stewed over a hot fire.
An hour later, the pot emitted an attractive fragrance, and Zuo Zongtang praised it again and again.
Soon, Zuo Zongtang arrived in Shanghai, and he brought this dish to Shanghai.
Once, Zuo Zongtang invited Rui Zheng (the last governor of Huguang of the Manchu Dynasty) to a banquet in Shanghai, and he was asked what kind of dish he was.
Zuo Zongtang, who is full of Hunan accents, named it "pickled and stewed", which means marinated meat and stewed fresh meat.
Most of the people in the banquet were from Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and they all heard it and misheard the word "stew" for the word "Du".
Ruizheng also makes this dish a private dish and uses it to entertain guests every spring.
After the Manchu Dynasty was overthrown, all kinds of people in the kitchen were scattered. Since then, "pickled Du Xian" has become a famous dish in Shanghai, and has become a unique spring food custom in Shanghai.
However, there is also a coincidence that in Shanghainese. The word "tu" is also the meaning of the word "stew".
I stayed in Shanghai for four whole years.
In the later period, I liked to eat Shanghai local cuisine. Even for breakfast, I like to eat the southern plum cabbage button pork bun, as well as the fried pork with shepherd's cabbage and crab roe soup bun.
As for the sauerkraut fish in the south, it made me linger.
The sauerkraut in the south is different from the north. The raw material of sauerkraut in the south is snow cabbage, also known as Laotan sauerkraut.
And the sauerkraut in the north is pickled with cabbage. It is used to make dumplings and stew meat especially with rice.
Then again, I've been in Shanghai for so long. But I only learned to cook a Shanghai dish.
This is all Shanghai cuisine - pickled and fresh.
Actually, it's just because the method of pickling is so simple.
Just put the four ingredients of bacon, pork belly, spring shoots and bean knots in one place. Simmer in a casserole over low heat, and don't add any other seasonings.
Because the salty taste of the bacon is enough to add the maximum flavor to this soup.
I did what I did when I was in college, first cut the bacon and pork belly into pieces and blanch them in a pot.
Then pour a little oil into the iron pot, and sauté the chopped green onion and ginger slices in the oil until fragrant.
Then put the bacon and pork belly in a pot and add half a pot of hot water.