Ever since he tried to serve steam pot chicken in the store, Lin Xu has been troubled by one thing.
That is, the steam pot chicken is not exquisite enough. It is served in a big pot, which is completely inconsistent with the exquisite and small-portion beauty of high-end restaurants.
But if you switch to a small steam pot, you can't put a few pieces of chicken in it, and the steam pot chicken will not be sold at a high price.
Now if pigeons are used instead of chickens, a pigeon can be easily put into the smallest steam pot, and even several medicinal herbs for beauty and beauty can be put in.
There has always been a folk saying that "one pigeon is worth nine chickens".
Pigeon soup is also recognized as more nutritious than chicken soup.
If you use a small steam pot and serve one cup per person, then the steam pot squab in the store will definitely be very popular.
For those ladies who love beauty, who wouldn’t want to have a delicious soup made from pigeons, especially if it also contains notoginseng, astragalus, Codonopsis pilosula and other blood-tonifying and qi-tonifying herbs.
This is simply irresistible.
Of course, if you have to replace the medicinal materials in the pot with velvet antler, cordyceps, epimedium and other ingredients that can nourish the kidneys and strengthen the waist, then it will be the male customer's turn to lose control.
But these can only be thought about. The Chinese herbal medicines used in cooking should mainly be Zhongzhengpinghe.
Medicinal materials that are too strong and overbearing should be used as little as possible.
To prevent customers from having bad experiences after eating.
Lin Xu asked Che to carry the pigeon to the kitchen, and then asked Lao Huang to wash his hands and eat:
"Boss Huang, hurry up and wash your hands and eat. After dinner, I will try the steamed pigeon that my senior brother mentioned. Just wait and try it."
If steam-pot squab is really feasible, we should immediately open up a place in the back kitchen and install a steam cabinet dedicated to cooking steam-pot dishes.
This kind of cabinet can freely prepare steam water and can make dozens of pots of steam pot chicken at a time, which can definitely meet the needs of customers.
Lao Huang washed his hands, sat down with a bowl, took a bite of cauliflower and said:
"When we went to buy pigeons, the couple was beaten and scolded. The reason was that the man secretly sent a Happy National Day red envelope to another woman on WeChat, and his wife discovered it."
He spoke vividly, Cui Qingyuan interrupted him with a smile:
"There are children here, so don't talk about this kind of topic."
Lao Huang said seriously:
"The younger people are, the more they have to learn. The people they can chat with online may not be men or women. Don't involve money transactions. Maybe they are opposite a big guy who controls dozens of WeChat accounts at the same time.
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After speaking, he explained to Xie Yufei and Xie Yuhang:
"Although this girl Lele is less than two years older than you two, she was specially recruited by Tsinghua University. Ordinary people will definitely not be able to deceive her. The key is you two. Be careful when making friends online. Your father often talks to leaders of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and even foreign dignitaries.
Those who deal with you, please don’t talk nonsense online.”
Xie Yufei and Xie Yuhang looked at each other. They had never heard their father say this before.
I heard that he is a chef who cooks in Diaoyutai. Doesn’t he still have a certain status?
Seeing a trace of doubt flash in the eyes of the two brothers, Lao Huang said with a smile:
"If you don't believe it, one day I will take you two to the Diaoyutai, and you will be able to intuitively feel how powerful your father's position is in the Diaoyutai."
As soon as he finished speaking, Xie Baomin said:
"Forget it, that kind of place is not suitable for children to go there."
Just kidding, we have to take the children to Diaoyutai, and the head chefs have to reveal all the disgraceful things they have done.
Old Huang is also a rotten and rotten dog. He obviously wanted to speak for himself, but in the end he secretly took him into the ditch.
In order to change the subject, Xie Baomin said:
"You can't use up all these pigeons to make steam-pot squab? I'll make a stir-fried squab tonight. Since both children like this spicy, fat and plump dish, I'll also show off my Sichuan cooking skills."
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Stop pretending, I am the master of state banquets and I will show my cards.
Brothers Xie Yufei and Xie Yuhang were stunned and asked at the same time:
"Dad, can you also cook this kind of food?"
"I'm so good at it. I usually think that you guys must have eaten a lot of oily dishes at school, so the meals at home should be as simple and elegant as possible. But since you like it, I'll let you try my cooking."
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Xie Baomin was full of confidence and planned to show off his cooking skills. Xie Yuhang said with anticipation:
"I hope it can cook better than the chef at window 3 in the school."
Xie Yufei took over the conversation:
"It's okay for my dad to go beyond window number three, but it's difficult to go beyond window number five."
"That's really difficult. Window No. 5 is recognized as the second most delicious window, just a little bit worse than Window No. 7."
Xie Baomin:??????
In your eyes, am I still not as good as the school chef?
So today I will show you the cooking skills that are unmatched by the school chef.
Lin Xu on the side felt like laughing.
The head chef of the state banquet, who made the entire Diaoyutai back kitchen fearful, unexpectedly got into trouble with a canteen chef from a boarding middle school.
If it weren't for the wrong timing, I really wanted to call the other head chefs from Diaoyutai to come over and cheer me up.
After the meal, everyone was busy with their own business. Xie Baomin followed Lin Xu and planned to go to the braised food department on the first floor to see how delicious the roast chicken everyone kept praising was.
After arriving, he sniffed:
“It doesn’t taste like roast chicken.”
Lin Xu opened the lid of the pot and said with a smile:
"The taste is all sealed in oil. It's almost time to take it out of the pot. Master Xu, skim the oil out of the pot and let my senior brother take a look at the roast chicken in our store."
"Okay, Chef Xie, you'll be waiting for me later."
Xu Xinhua has worked in Diaoyutai Building 2 for more than a month and is very familiar with Xie Baomin.
He brought a clean stainless steel basin and used a long-handled stainless steel ladle to skim out the yellow grease in the pot little by little.
These fats were originally lard and cooking oil for stewed soup.
However, hundreds of roast chickens are braised every day and have already been dyed yellow by the chicken fat.
As the fat decreases, the smell of the stewed soup in the pot gradually comes out.
Xie Baomin smelled it for a few times and then gave Lin Xu a thumbs up:
"This stewed soup is quite authentic and has plenty of ingredients. Let alone chicken, you can put any ingredients into this soup and it will still taste good."
He had just eaten and he didn't want to eat at first.
But now that I smell the aroma of roasting chicken, I can't help but want to tear open a chicken leg and taste it.
After skimming off all the oil, Lin Xu checked the quality of the roasted chicken:
"Okay, let's go out."
After speaking, he said to the neighbors queuing outside the window:
"The roast chicken will be out of the pot soon, don't worry."
After saying hello, Lin Xu saw that Uncle Zhou, who often came to the restaurant to eat, was also lining up in the crowd, so he asked curiously:
"Uncle Zhou, why are you here to line up too? Where is Aunt Liang?"
"The temperature has cooled down in the past two days. She is craving for cold and has caught a little cold. I plan to buy some braised food to eat... By the way, Xiao Lin, do you have any sweating soup here?"
Soup?
Lin Xu said:
"Yes, yes, please come in and wait. I'll go up and make a hot and sour tripe soup and put it in a thermos. You can bring it to Aunt Liang to try."
"That's great, thank you Xiaolin."
Lin Xu waved his hand:
"You're welcome. By the way, you have to go out when you're caught by the cold. You can't stay at home. In the afternoon, we'll make pigeon soup. You can bring Aunt Liang over to drink it. Then I'll add some Chinese herbal medicine to dispel cold and sweat. Aunt Liang will warm it up.
If you drink it, maybe it will get better."
If you catch a cold, it will usually heal if you sweat.
When I was testing the small steam boiler in the afternoon, I just put some anti-cold medicine to try. Even if it doesn't have much effect, just drinking the small pot of boiling pigeon soup can still have an effect.
After Uncle Zhou came in, Lin Xu went upstairs to make soup.
Xu Xinhua scooped the roast chickens out of the pot one by one. He originally wanted to serve one directly to Xie Baomin, but he was refused:
"Sell them first. If there are some that are not in good quality, just tear them open and try them. Don't worry. You don't need to taste this roast chicken. You can tell it's good just by smelling it."
In front of the service counter, Uncle Zhou looked at the price of tripe soup, took out his membership card and handed it to Song Tiantian:
"Tiantian, come and swipe your card, swipe an extra hundred, and add the money for the belly soup. It's not easy for you to do business, and I can't take advantage of this."
Song Tiantian said:
"Wait until the boss comes and then do it. I don't dare to collect money randomly."
"You kid, why are you so honest? Dundun, do you think this front desk manager should criticize?"
Uncle Zhou scratched Dundun's chin. He was one of the few customers who could touch Dundun.
In the past, he would come over to interact with Dundun at meal time. Whenever he saw the envious eyes of others, Uncle Zhou felt very happy.
If this little guy were a cat from Peking University.
With this level of well-behavedness, he is definitely the favorite of all students.
Not long after, Lin Xu came down with a bag, which contained a large portion of spicy and sour belly soup prepared for Aunt Liang in an insulated lunch box, a portion of beef in small sesame pancakes to satisfy Uncle Zhou's craving, and a portion of
Tomato and egg rice bowl.
Served with roasted chicken, these are enough for the elderly couple to have a full lunch.
"Thank you so much Xiao Lin, your aunt will be very happy later... How much is it? Let Tiantian give her the money and she won't do it. I can't take it if you don't accept the money."
Uncle Zhou was the leader of Peking University before he retired. Although he did not have big money, he still had no shortage of small money.
Lin Xu said:
"Let's charge the price of two roast chickens... By the way, Uncle Zhou, why haven't you seen Professor Xu and Aunt Xue recently?"
"I'm going to take care of my grandson, but I'll be back soon. Lao Xu is an old scholar and doesn't know much about housework. His wife is an artist and doesn't mess with the world. It's really difficult for them to take care of their grandson."<
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After paying the money, Uncle Zhou hurriedly left the store with the packed food and went home to have dinner with Aunt Liang.
At this moment, Xie Baomin finally saw a roast chicken placed close to the edge of the pot. The chicken skin was slightly damaged. When Xie Baomin saw it, he immediately handed it over with a plate:
"Give me this one. It's trembling as if its bones have been removed. It looks rotten to the ground."
Xu Xinhua held the roast chicken with a slotted spoon and slowly placed it on the plate:
"Chef Xie, be careful, it's hot."
"As a chef, you can't be afraid of burning it. Come on, put it in."
Xie Baomin came upstairs with a plate and said to the two children:
"Come on, come on, let's try the roasted chicken that your Uncle Lin made. It's just come out of the pan and it's too hot. I'll shake it up for you two."
He pinched the joints of the two chicken legs and shook them violently. The slightly disfigured roast chicken immediately fell apart, making Xie Yufei and Xie Yuhang's eyes widen:
"How amazing!"
"Dad, isn't it hot?"
Xie Baomin pinched a piece of chicken leg meat, tasted it, and said with a smile:
"It must be hot for you, but for a chef, this is just a basic skill... Junior brother, this roast chicken tastes really good. I was thinking it would be salty, but I didn't expect it to be just right."
Xie Yufei and Xie Yuhang took the kuaizi from the disinfection cabinet, each took a bite of the roasted chicken, and then their eyes lit up:
"This roast chicken is so delicious, fragrant and tasty."
"Everything Uncle Lin makes is really delicious. Dad, if you have nothing to do, please learn more from Uncle Lin."
Xie Baomin: "..."
Yes, my reputation cannot be reversed.
In the kitchen, Lin Xu looked at the still warm pigeons and prepared to start cooking now.
Pigeon stew cannot be washed. It even needs to be suffocated with hot water when slaughtering, so that the blood of the pigeons remains in the meat, which can maximize the nutrition of the pigeon meat.
However, the slaughter of live poultry is now prohibited within the urban area of Beijing. There is no way to retain the blood of pigeons, so we can only keep the pigeon meat as nutritious as possible without washing or soaking it.
The shorter the pigeon slaughtering time, the more delicious the pigeon soup will be.
Thinking of this, Lin Xu immediately planned to give it a try.
Use a knife to remove the pigeon's butt and head. These two parts are more likely to have odor, so remove them, chop off the claw tips, and scrub them with salt to remove as much odor as possible.
After cleaning it up, put it into a clean steam pot. There are not so many pressure cookers in the store now, and there are not that many stoves to make steam pot squab for a single person.
So I still use a big steamer to make it, and then use a small steamer to make two or three pots to try.
He put the whole pigeon into the steam pot without changing the knife to keep the squab intact as much as possible. In this way, after drinking the soup, each person would put one in the bowl and it would definitely be a satisfying meal.
Put the squabs in one by one, add some herbs used to make the steam-pot chicken in the afternoon, and cut a few slices of Xuanwei ham to increase the flavor. The steam-pot squab is ready.
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Putting the big steam pot aside, Lin Xu brought in a few small steam pots and began to play with the ingredients and medicinal materials that needed to be placed in the small steam pots.
The small steam pot is not as big as the noodle bowl in the store. If a squab is placed inside, it takes up most of the space.
After putting the squab in, put a piece of ham into each pot, and finally the medicinal materials.
Aunt Liang had caught a cold and needed to put some medicinal materials to relieve sweating. Lin Xu put some ephedra for sweating into a steam pot. This is the main ingredient of many cold medicines. Stewing it into the soup can have a good sweating effect.
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The lunch rush was coming soon, and the stove in the big kitchen could not be occupied, so Lin Xu brought a few steam pots to the small kitchen, then moved all the pressure cookers in the store and started cooking steamed pigeon in the pressure cooker.
A large steam boiler requires an iron stand, but a small steam boiler does not need to be so troublesome. It can be placed directly on the gas valve of the pressure cooker.
The only thing you need to pay attention to is that the lid of the small steam pot is too light and can easily be lifted up by the steam. The best way is to put a heavy object on it.
With these things done, the afternoon rush hour has arrived.
Tourists from out of town and local customers from the capital came in an endless stream, each ordering their favorite delicacies.
Xie Baomin ate a few bites of the roast chicken and then went to the kitchen to soak the remaining squab.
Since you want to cook it raw and stir-fried, there is no need to pay so much attention to it.
And it’s still several hours before dinner, so these pigeons will have a peculiar smell if they are not soaked.
After finishing the afternoon rush hour, Lin Xu took a break and went back to the community behind him, turned on his computer, and uploaded the second half of the highlights.
After uploading it, he looked at yesterday's video. The number of views has exceeded 3 million, and the number of likes has exceeded 600,000, and it is still increasing.
Even the retweets immediately reached 100,000.
This shows that everyone is very interested in taking selfies with cats.
As the popularity of this video increased, other cats also became popular.
For example, the "free cat" who secretly opened the door and caused the sweeping robot to go down from the 27th floor to the first floor, and the "Chaoshan health cat" who likes to lie on a bamboo chair and drink tea, etc., have become popular with Dundun.
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Netizens joked that they were the advance team to conquer the earth from the distant cat star.
And Dundun, who can even take selfies, is naturally the commander of the advance team.
Soon, the video passed the review and appeared in Lin Xu's personal news.
"Wow, the second half of the featurette has appeared."
"What tidbits? Is this a feature film?"
"What new tricks does this cute little Kangkang do!"
"Is there any cat owner who can tell me whether cats are really that smart?"
“I don’t know if I’m smart or not, but I’m quite neurotic anyway.”
"My big cat led the second cat to the balcony several times with toys in its mouth, and then secretly closed the balcony door. The second cat almost suffered from heatstroke several times after applying the compress..."
"So you need to be careful when planning a second child!"
Netizens started to discuss it lively in the comment area before they even started watching the video.
Lin Xu closed the computer and returned to the store, where he happened to bump into Zeng Xiaoqi, who was returning from a wedding. She was at the service desk, eating a small sesame-stained pancake.
He asked curiously:
"You're just attending the ceremony and being the master of ceremony, so you're not in charge of the food?"
Zeng Xiaoqi said with a confused expression:
"That kind of reserved table is not delicious, and you are surrounded by colleagues from other departments of the TV station, so you can't let it go. If you want to enjoy the meal, it has to be Lin Ji's food."
Lin Xu pointed at the braised food department:
“Just go to the braised food department and ask for whatever you want to eat.”
"No, I'm still waiting to taste the steamed pigeon in the evening. I heard that eating pigeon is a great supplement, I have to feel it."
Shu Yun, who was scratching Dundun's chin at the side, glanced at Director Zeng's Xiong Xiong with a half-smile but said nothing, but his eyes that were three parts sarcastic, three parts disdainful and four parts careless said everything.
Lin Xu said:
"Not only will there be steam-pot squab in the evening, but my senior brother is also planning to make raw and stir-fried squab, probably the same way as fried chicken or braised chicken nuggets, let's wait and see."
"Wow, Chef Xie cooks it himself, so I have to try it."
At 4:30 in the afternoon, Xie Baomin, who had taken his wife and children to visit Tsinghua University, strode into the kitchen, took out the squab soaked in the basin, drained the water, and chopped it into large pieces with a kitchen knife.
Then prepare some dried chili peppers, dried Sichuan peppercorns, green pepper segments, ginger cubes and other ingredients.
When everything is ready, set up the wok.
He is going to cook the stir-fried squab he is going to make to open the eyes of his two children.
Well, starting from today, you must crush the school chef and become the No. 1 culinary artist in the hearts of your children!
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