"Huh? Are you ready so soon?"
In the small living room on the second floor, Chen Yan, who was sitting on the sofa playing with her mobile phone, looked at her sister and brother-in-law who came out of the room with a stunned expression.
Less than three minutes have passed.
Isn’t it too fast?
"Smelly swallow, what are you talking about?"
Shen Jiayue felt ashamed and angry, grabbing the pillow on the sofa and patting Chen Yan.
"Xubao is going to the kitchen to make crucian carp stewed tofu for grandma, will you go?"
Chen Yan doesn’t want to eat dog food.
The two of them are now in a sticky situation. If their love reaches a deeper level and they are like two seals hugging each other and gnawing at each other, then won’t I, a single person, be killed again?
She shook her head and said:
"You go ahead, I'll just stay in this small living room."
You can't go to the big living room downstairs. Relatives are chatting there. My sister and brother-in-law are not here at the moment. I will definitely be forced to get married as soon as I show up.
And when you go to the kitchen, you have to eat dog food.
The small living room on the second floor is still cool.
She kicked off her high heels and lay down on the sofa happily.
When dinner is served, I will go downstairs and sit in the corner eating and drinking. When I am full and drunk, I will leave as soon as possible, so as not to listen to the chattering of the adults.
Downstairs.
Lin Xu, led by Shen Jiayue, came to the kitchen on the first floor.
The kitchen is large, almost the same as the living room of an average family.
At this time, Aunt Liu and two other nannies were preparing lunch.
There were many guests at home today, it was quite grand, and there were a lot of dishes to be prepared, including all kinds of raw seafood, imported ingredients, and relatively rare mountain delicacies, etc. Lin Xu was a little dazzled.
Seeing Shen Jiayue and her new uncle coming over, Aunt Liu smiled and said hello:
"Yueyue, is this your boyfriend? He's so handsome, even more handsome than a movie star."
"Hehe, thank you Aunt Liu for the compliment. Where are the crucian carp and tofu? My boyfriend wants to show off his skills to my grandma, so just let him cook this dish."
Aunt Liu immediately said:
"How can we let the new uncle who comes to our house cook for the first time? Shouldn't it be laughed at if word spreads about it?"
"No, Aunt Liu, he is a special chef from Diaoyutai, and his skills are very good."
It sounds like the craftsmanship is very high.
Aunt Liu did not stop her.
Instead, he brought over the still alive crucian carp and a piece of tofu:
"Then I'll trouble my new uncle... Can I help you clean up this crucian carp?"
Lin Xu took it with a smile:
"No, I'll just come."
He washed his hands and boiled a pot of water on the stove.
Then he took a kitchen knife and quickly cut the tofu into strips of four to five centimeters long and two centimeters square.
If you are making grilled tofu, it is more suitable to cut it into triangles.
This not only makes it easier to taste, but also allows more juice to be retained, making the tofu more delicious.
For ordinary soups, the tofu is cut into slices with a side length of about four centimeters, which makes it easier to cook through and tastes more delicious.
But when it comes to stewed tofu.
It can only be tofu cubes or tofu strips.
Because tofu cut in other ways will easily rot during the stewing process.
After cutting the tofu.
Lin Xu waited for a while longer before the water on the stove boiled.
Pour the cut tofu strips into the pot, blanch them, and cook for a few minutes to remove the bitterness and beany smell of the tofu itself, so that it tastes full of bean flavor.
A few minutes later.
Turn off the heat on the stove, then remove the tofu from the pot and set it aside to control the water.
After cooking, the aroma of tofu has wafted out, and the tofu has become whiter and softer.
After the tofu is blanched.
He took the crucian carp to the pond, quickly removed the scales, gills and internal organs, and carefully cleaned the black membrane in the belly of the crucian carp.
If we use other methods, these crucian carp need to be slaughtered and marinated in advance before cooking.
But crucian carp stewed with tofu doesn’t need to be like this.
Just kill and cook now.
This kind of fish is fresh and the soup is rich in flavor.
After slaughtering the crucian carp, Lin Xu put the pot on the stove again.
After heating, pour some lard into the bottom of the pot, and then sprinkle some salt on the bottom of the pot.
The fish meat is rich in flavor but lacks aroma. You need to use lard to enhance the aroma.
The reason why salt is sprinkled is to prevent the fish from breaking during the frying process, and also to give the fish a base flavor during the frying process.
Heat the oil.
Lin Xu put several crucian carp side by side into the pot and started frying them.
Don't move the pan when you first put it in. It needs to be fried slowly and slowly so that the fish skin is complete.
It’s easy to judge when to fry.
As long as you hold the handle of the pot and shake it gently, the fish in the pot will also rotate, which means that the bottom part has been fried and can be turned over.
However, the firepower of small family stoves is relatively slow.
It felt like the fish was still motionless after a while.
If it were a professional stove in the hotel kitchen, both sides would have been fried to an attractive golden brown.
Finally, when he was shaking the pot and the fish was spinning in the pot, Lin Xu immediately took the pot and used a big turning spoon. Several crucian carp in the pot suddenly turned over in the air and were arranged neatly.
Fell into the pot again.
"Wow, it's so beautiful. Can I learn from it?"
Even though Shen Jiayue doesn't know much about cooking, she can still see that turning a spoon with her hands is not easy.
Because crucian carp are of different sizes and uneven, you need to control the force more accurately when turning the spoon, otherwise they will never be arranged so neatly.
"Girls, why do you want to learn this?"
Lin Xu quickly dismissed Shen Baobao's unrealistic thoughts.
For a novice like this who has no cooking skills, if he wants to make a big cooking ladle, he will most likely splash hot oil all over himself, or even do some magic and splash the ingredients all over the kitchen.
Just forget it.
Cooking is great, but safety is more important.
Continue frying.
After both sides were cooked, he poured half a pot of boiling water directly into the pot.
The secret to stewing fish into milky soup lies in frying the skin and boiling water.
With these two things, you can basically make a thick white soup from fish.
After adding water.
Lin Xu put a chive knot and a few slices of ginger into the pot and started to stew.
"You didn't put in the aniseed peppercorns."
Shen Baobao looked at it very carefully and found that his Xubao had added green onion and ginger but not the peppercorns, so he couldn't help but remind him.
Lin Xu smiled and said:
"Stew fish without adding peppercorns, which will suppress the freshness of the fish."
Soon, the boiling soup in the pot turned thick and white.
Lin Xu used a spoon to wipe away the foam in the pot, and simmered it for almost twenty minutes. When the soup in the pot completely turned into a milk-colored thick soup, he poured the previously cooked tofu into the pot.<
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Reduce the heat to a low level and continue simmering.
After about ten minutes, when the tofu in the pot becomes trembling, it means that the tofu has been stewed thoroughly and is ready to be taken out of the pot.
Use a kuaizi to pick out the green onion and ginger in the pot, then add salt and white pepper for a simple seasoning, then hold the pot and pour the fish and tofu into the soup basin.
This crucian carp stewed with tofu is ready.
This dish uses very few seasonings, only salt and white pepper.
The only ingredients are onions and ginger.
But as long as the fish is fresh enough and the tofu is stewed in advance, you can make delicious crucian carp stewed tofu, which can even rival the skill of a hotel chef.
"Oh, this smell is so bright."
Aunt Liu praised her, but she felt an inexplicable sense of crisis in her heart.
With a son-in-law who knows how to cook, you won’t be unemployed later, right?
She plans to entrust a housekeeping company to enroll herself in a cooking class when she has time.
Try to improve your cooking skills.
You have to show your ability before you can continue to work in the Shen family.
Lin Xu didn't know yet that his little move actually made Aunt Liu roll up. He said to Shen Jiayue who was about to eat secretly:
"Just made, be careful when ironing."
"Okay!"
Shen Baobao scooped up a small piece of tofu with a spoon and put it into his mouth to taste, and a surprised expression appeared on his face:
"Wow, this tofu is fragrant and fresh. There is a strong bean flavor in your mouth when you eat it. Your craftsmanship is amazing. Will you serve this dish in the new store when it opens in the future?"
"Yes."
"Then I want to eat it every day! Wakaka, this tastes so amazing!"
Soon.
Lunch at the Shen family begins.
The whole family sat around the dining table, looking at the crucian carp stewed with tofu in the middle. The milky white soup exuded a rich and delicious aroma, which made people immediately greedy.
"Grandma, Xu Bao specially cooked the crucian carp stewed tofu for you. Let me serve you some."
Baby Shen is still very sensible in front of grandma.
She picked up the small bowl and filled most of the soup and tofu with a spoon.
"Xiao Xu made it. No wonder it smells so fresh. Come on, come on, let me have a taste."
The old lady took it, scooped some soup with a spoon, put it to her mouth, blew on it, and couldn't wait to put it into her mouth:
"Well, it's so fresh and translucent, and the craftsmanship is really good."
After saying that, she tasted the tofu in the bowl again. It was still very delicious, not even like the tofu she usually eats.
"Grandma, this tofu is boiled in hot water in advance and then stewed in fish soup. Is it different from what you usually eat?"
"Really? No wonder it tastes different. You all should try it too. Xiaoxu's craftsmanship is really good. The simple crucian carp tofu stew can be so delicious. You all should try it quickly."
The old lady is very happy.
The more I look at my grandson-in-law, the more satisfying he becomes, and he is so good at making money, so he is impeccable in every aspect.
Lin Xu added:
"In addition to blanching the tofu, lard is also used, otherwise this soup would taste too bland and lack such a mellow and fragrant aroma."
When it comes to lard.
Mother-in-law Han Shuzhen became very excited and told her relatives:
"I used to be quite resistant to lard, but after eating Xiaoxu's cooking, I like the taste more and more. You all should try it too. It's definitely different from the usual dishes."
Now Director Han is almost becoming a lard promotion ambassador.
Even my relatives became curious about this dish. They unconsciously picked up the soup bowl and spoon and poured some into their own bowls.
When I tasted the taste of crucian carp soup and the texture of tofu, I couldn't help but praise it.
"This soup is really delicious."
"It's so fresh, so fragrant and fresh."
"Tofu is also delicious, soft and tender, and doesn't have a beany smell."
"I have to tell the nanny at home when I get back that I will make crucian carp stewed with tofu this way from now on. It's so delicious."
"..."
When everyone tastes Lin Xu’s craftsmanship.
Without saying a word, Shen Guofu opened a bottle of Moutai that he had kept at home for nearly twenty years.
In his opinion, this bottle of liquor, which is enough to replace a car, cannot express his inner joy at all. His daughter has found a partner, and he is so perfect.
In this situation, no matter what, I have to come and go gently, just half a catty.
He filled Shen Jiayue's aunt, uncle, uncle and others one by one, then picked up the wine glass and drank it all in one gulp.
When you are happy, drinking wine becomes smoother.
"Xiao Xu, don't you want some?"
Chen Yan's father, Chen Yuejin, held the wine glass and became more and more satisfied with his niece-in-law. Unfortunately, his daughter has not found a partner yet, which makes him and Shen Guofang almost unable to hold their heads high in front of their relatives.
"I have to drive later. Uncle, I won't drink anymore. I'll accompany you with a drink."
Lin Xu stood up and clinked the glasses with Chen Yuejin with the juice in his hands. When he clinked the glasses, he deliberately lowered his glasses and touched the middle part of the glasses.
Chen Yuejin was even happier.
Not many young people today know the etiquette of clinking glasses.
After finishing the glass, Lin Xu replaced the wine with drinks and clinked glasses with other relatives in the family to toast. The old lady was very satisfied:
"We are all family members, so there is no need to be so polite. Xiao Liu, see if the elbow is ready? Bring it over when it's done."
Today is such an important day.
The old lady’s rock sugar elbow will never be absent.
But there were a lot of people today, so she didn't stay in the kitchen to guard it. Instead, she asked Aunt Liu to take care of it after the stew was cooked.
Not long after.
Aunt Liu brought over the elbow with a strong fragrance.
The skin of the elbow meat is red and shiny, and when it is placed on the table, the elbow meat trembles like jelly, which shows that the meat has been stewed for a long time.
After putting the elbow on, the old lady smiled and said to Lin Xu:
"Child, come and try my cooking to see if it's as delicious as yours."
Lin Xu quickly said:
"Grandma's cooking must be better than mine, because the food cooked at home has the smell of fireworks, unlike a restaurant that only pays attention to exquisiteness and lacks the taste of home."
These words made the old lady smile.
After the elders began to taste the elbow, Lin Xu picked up a small piece of elbow skin with a kuaizi and put it into his mouth.
Well, the skin of the elbow has been stewed so soft and rotten that you don’t even need to chew it, it melts in your mouth with just a sip.
It has been said before that delicious elbows are eaten by sucking them.
I finally tasted it today.
This pork elbow is not only tender when stewed, but also tastes good.
The sweet and salty flavor interweaves, and you can also taste the sour and sweet taste of hawthorn, which greatly reduces the greasiness of the elbow.
Delicious!
This elbow is so delicious.
While he was eating, Shen Jiayue suddenly said:
"Grandma has been making rock sugar elbows for us all our lives. How about you make it for grandma one day?"
Making rock sugar elbows?
I'm not very good at this.
While Lin Xu was chatting, the system prompt sounded in his mind:
"The host respects the elderly and is full of filial piety. The reward task [Rock Sugar Elbow] is triggered: The host is asked to make a perfect rock sugar elbow for Mrs. Shen within two weeks. After completion, the host will be rewarded with an aquatic product upgrade card."<
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Sure enough...
Every time Baby Shen brings food, the system will give a reward task.
It seems that I won’t be able to learn how to roast suckling pig in the near future.
Lin Xu still has a perfect-level cooking learning card in his hand. He originally reserved it to learn Guo Weidong's roast suckling pig, but now the system clearly requires perfect-level rock sugar elbows.
Then you can only learn it with the perfect cooking learning card.
After all, the mission only lasts two weeks.
If you try to practice a dish from scratch in two weeks, you will never achieve perfection.
Thinking of this, he smiled and said:
"Then I will make a fool of myself in front of grandma. Then grandma will not be dissatisfied with the young man's poor craftsmanship."
Mrs. Shen was so happy that she couldn’t open her mouth from ear to ear:
"This kid is so humble. The rule in the family is to make rock sugar elbows for every banquet. If you can do it, then I can rest my old bones."
Everyone was happy with the meal.
Lin Xu also felt the warmth of family affection in the capital far away from his hometown.
After meal.
Aunt Liu brought a fruit plate and some snacks.
As soon as Mrs. Shen sat down on the sofa, Dundun, who had just finished eating the boiled chicken legs, trotted over and lay in the old lady's arms without any explanation.
"Oh, this little baby is so clingy to me."
She held Dundun in her arms and said to Lin Xu:
"Xiao Xu, can your parents come to the capital soon?"
Huh?
Let my parents come to Beijing?
Shen Guofu added from the side:
"You and Yueyue are so in love with each other. It's time to sit down and finalize the marriage. I'm still waiting to have a few drinks with your father."
Lin Xu originally planned to buy a house before mentioning the engagement.
I didn’t expect Shen Baobao’s family to be so anxious.
Are you looking forward to marrying off your daughter as soon as possible?
But since someone had already brought it up, he said:
"I will let my parents come to Beijing as soon as possible."
Well, during the competition in a few days, I will ask my parents to come over and watch me cook. After the competition, we will get engaged. If nothing happens, we will take Baby Shen and his parents back to his hometown together.<
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Walk around the scenic area and relax your body and mind.
Then return to the capital and continue to make money.
The old lady hugged Dundun and played for a while. After feeling a little tired, she went back to her room to take a lunch break, and other relatives were also preparing to go back.
The gifts Lin Xu brought were divided into six parts, and each family took one away.
After sending the guests away, Han Shuzhen picked up Dundun:
"Aren't you happy that you came to grandma's house to visit relatives today?"
Dundun immediately called out like a baby:
"Meow~~~~~"
Han Shuzhen was immediately overjoyed. She took Dundun in her arms and went to the gym and video room on the basement floor, preparing to familiarize the little guy with the environment at home.
Shen Guofu was sitting on the sofa drinking tea and said when he put down the teacup:
"Xiao Xu, the crayfish you made last time was very good. Your aunt and I didn't eat enough. How about you make some more tonight and go back after eating the crayfish."
Lin Xu has no objection:
"Okay, if I had known I would have left some extra for you that day."
Shen Guofu whispered:
"Actually, I didn't eat much, so your aunt ate them all. I asked the nanny to cook some noodles and mix them in, so I got a taste of it... I'll make more tonight."
"No problem."
After explaining this matter, Shen Guofu took the elevator to the master bedroom on the third floor to rest.
He got up too early in the morning and was drunk, so he had to lie down for a while.
Wait until he leaves.
Shen Baobao immediately pulled Lin Xu and rushed upstairs.
I can finally kiss my baby!
When she reached the second floor, she didn't even bother to enter the room, so she put her arms around Lin Xu's neck and started chewing.
Lin Xu hugged her waist and responded enthusiastically.
While they were kissing, a sleepy figure sat up on the sofa:
"Are you going to have lunch?"
Lin Xu:????
Shen Jiayue:????
Oh my god, no wonder the dining table feels so quiet while eating.
I didn’t expect my sister-in-law to be sleeping here.
"Can't you two kiss after eating? Let's see how strong you two are at sticking together. How about I buy a bottle of 502 and stick you two together?"
Chen Yan rubbed her eyes, sat up from the sofa, and urged while tying her high heels:
"Let's go, let's go downstairs for lunch. I'm really hungry."
Lin Xu: "..."
How can I make my sister-in-law calmly accept the fact that everyone has finished lunch?
Waiting online, it’s quite urgent!
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