"For dinner, you go to the store first. I'll ask Tiantian to take over for you for a while. Do you want Yueyue to get you some clothes? It's windy on the street. Don't catch a cold."
Lin Xu looked at his cousin who was still wearing a sweetheart-neck sweater, a jacket, and jeans with her ankles exposed, and felt that women were much more exaggerated than men in wanting to be elegant rather than warm.
"No, I just bought a scarf. I took the intra-city express delivery. It should be delivered soon. Don't forget my sour fish."
"No."
"Then go back to the store quickly. Don't delay me from working to earn money. If the unscrupulous boss sees it, he may deduct my bonus."
Lin Xu: "..."
Chen Yuanyuan children's shoes, I feel like there is something in your words!
"Boss Lin, why does this new employee talk so weirdly?"
A regular customer saw Lin Xu and said hello with a smile.
Lin Xu said:
"This is my cousin, here to experience life."
"Hey, cousin, no wonder you dare to confront the capitalists."
Other customers also said hello.
Seeing everyone's enthusiasm, Lin Xu left quickly, but he did not go to the store, but to Uncle Yu's supermarket.
To make fish in sour soup, tomatoes alone are not enough. You must also add an artifact that increases acidity and freshness - lemon.
For this kind of sour soup dish, cutting a few slices of lemon into it can have unexpected effects, but don't cut too many, just three to five slices, otherwise the sourness will be too strong.
"Do you have any lemons, Uncle?"
"Yes, Xiao Li, give Boss Lin two lemons...are two enough? Do you want to get a few more?"
Lin Xu said:
"If you don't want the money, then I won't."
"Don't worry, I have something to ask you for help, and these two lemons are my reward."
How small a favor is this, and two lemons are enough reward?
Lin Xu asked curiously:
"Tell me what you are busy with."
"Xiao Lin, my Shizi'er grilled sausage always tastes bad. Can you help me find out why? I have changed Shizi'er twice, and I have also changed several brands of grilled sausages, but when they are baked, they are all the same.
No one else’s tastes good.”
Pebble sausage?
Lin Xu looked at the electric grill outside the supermarket checkout area. It was filled with shiny black volcanic stones.
There are short and thick pepper sausages and meat sausages on the stone. From the appearance point of view, they are quite good. The grilled sausages are slightly charred, which makes people appetizing.
He picked up a piece of grilled sausage with a tong, skewered it with a bamboo skewer and took a bite:
"This tastes good. What do you think is the difference between it and others?"
The outside of the casing is burnt and crispy, and the aroma is very strong. The meat inside is so hot that it burns your mouth. After one bite, the cold wind blowing at the street entrance disappears in an instant.
"No one has the same aroma. You can smell the aroma of other people's grilled sausages when you pass by. But I can't do that. There's no smell at all. You have to taste it."
Does it smell delicious?
Then this has nothing to do with grilled sausages, it should be a problem with the stones.
Lin Xu asked:
"Are there any spices added to the stones? What does that fragrance smell like? Braised pork or something?"
If it tastes like braised meat, just sprinkle a little five-spice powder on it.
"It's not braised, it's sweet and fragrant..."
"That's caramel... Take a handful of sugar and sprinkle it into the pebbles, and the aroma will slowly come out."
As soon as it smelled sweet and fragrant, Lin Xu found out the reason. He often made sugar-roasted chestnuts for Baby Shen, and he was extremely familiar with the caramel flavor.
"So simple?"
As soon as Uncle Yu heard this, he went to the seasoning area to get a small bag of soft white sugar, used tongs to take out all the grilled sausages on it, and then sprinkled the soft white sugar on the stones, stirring as he did so.
While he was busy working, lemons were also delivered to him.
"Xiao Lin, what do you want lemon for?"
"My cousin wants to eat fish in sour soup. I'm going to make some for her to try."
"Oh? Can we also use lemon for fish in sour soup?"
"Yes, you can add a few slices of lemon to almost all sour soups to enhance the freshness. If you want to cook at home, you can try it. Not to say it has a miraculous effect, at least it can make the sour flavor of the soup stronger."
Just as he was talking, the fishing guy Lao Suntou walked into the store carrying a fishing bag:
"Lao Yu, bring me a pack of cigarettes."
Uncle Yu looked at his outfit and asked with a smile:
"It's already afternoon, and you're still feeding the fish? You're so diligent."
Lao Suntou ignored his teasing and urged:
"Hurry up, hurry up, the fish won't open their mouths when the weather gets cold, and you won't be able to fish for a few days... By the way, Xiao Lin, I caught two snakeheaded fish yesterday, both weighing about four pounds. Our whole family is tired of eating fish. My wife It still tastes fishy, do you want it? If so, I’ll let it go to you.”
"Yes!"
I’m thinking about what kind of fish to reward Sister Yuanyuan with.
Since there is wild snakeheaded fish, it is natural to use snakeheaded fish.
"I'll bring it over to you right now."
"How much does it cost, Uncle Sun?"
"It doesn't cost money, I don't need that stuff either... or I can exchange it for roasted chicken."
"Okay."
Not long after, Old Sun brought up two lively black fish. Lin Xu asked curiously after taking them:
“Isn’t it easy to catch such a big fish?”
"No, I walked for half the night."
Back in the store, Lin Xu went to the braised food department and packed a roast chicken for Lao Suntou, as well as some marinated chicken livers and other braised foods. Lao Suntou happily carried it away.
Lin Xu put the fish in the aquarium, and then realized that Dundun was no longer on the service desk. Shu Yun was lying there, looking at his mobile phone in boredom.
"Where's Dundun?"
"The boss lady took her home to make a video, and said she would join forces with Dundun to dominate short videos... She just updated a video, announcing that she would enter the short video industry."
Tsk, don’t you plan to go to work this afternoon?
Lin Xu came upstairs, clicked on Lin Ji's food topic, and found that everyone was forwarding a new short video account:
【Mommy loves Dundun the most!】
Could this be Shen Baobao’s newly created account?
When I clicked on the account, I saw that the profile picture was a selfie of Baby Shen holding Dundun. In the photo, Director Shen smiled sweetly and her exquisite facial features were impeccable, but Dundun in her arms looked full of disgust.
The contrast between one person and one cat is strong and full of joy.
The number of followers on the account has exceeded 50,000.
The account only has one video update, which is a video of my mother making chestnut jelly and chestnut shortcake last night:
"I heard that a new house needs elders to live in it to be auspicious, so the first post of the new account will be left to my mother-in-law. Dundun was dumbfounded by the two ways to eat chestnuts!"
Hey, you just started to contact short videos and you learned to click on the headlines?
I made jelly and shortbread last night. Is it okay for Dundun to sleep the whole time?
But you, the mother, were shocked the whole time and yelled all kinds of things. Dundun was annoyed by the noise and finally went to the room upstairs.
He forwarded this video to his feed:
"I was retweeted by someone with a gun pointed at my head. If you want to see Dundun's daily life, remember to follow it. In the future, my account will focus on food, and Dundun's daily life will be run by his mother."
After forwarding, other accounts also forwarded it.
"Hahahaha, Dundun fans are ecstatic!"
"Already followed it three times in a row. I hope you will get more updates."
"Dundun~my Dundun~~~"
"Dundun fans finally have their own settlement, so excited!"
"The voice of the proprietress in the video is so kawaii. Although I didn't see Dundun in the whole video, I still watched it several times from beginning to end. I really want to taste the caramel jelly."
"What a coincidence, so am I. Mother Lin is very fond of the landlady, and she wants the same kind of mother-in-law."
"When Mother Lin said it was no trouble, I was suddenly very touched."
"Me too, this family atmosphere is so enviable."
Lin Xu briefly browsed through everyone's comments and thought they were quite good. Maybe his sweet baby can really transform into an UP owner.
At almost four o'clock in the afternoon, I brought two black fish to the kitchen, slaughtered them, and started making fish in tomato and sour soup.
This dish is actually not difficult to make, it is almost the same as the pickled fish recipe.
However, the difference is that pickled fish relies on pickled cabbage to produce sourness, while sour fish needs tomatoes. The unique sour aroma of tomatoes can increase the umami flavor of the dish. This is also the reason why the tomato soup base in hot pot restaurants has always been popular.
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When butchering the fish, Lin Xu picked some washed tomatoes, cut them on the surface, and then put them into the steaming cabinet for steaming.
Today's tomatoes are all hard varieties, which are difficult to fry until soft, so steaming them in advance not only facilitates peeling, but the tomatoes can also become soft during steaming.
The tomatoes fried in this way will be more mushy and the sour flavor will be stronger.
Slaughter the snakehead fish cleanly, follow the method of making pickled fish, separate the bones and meat of the snakehead fish, cut the fish meat diagonally into fillets, add a little salt and onion and ginger water and stir until it becomes sticky.
Then add an egg white and a little potato starch and mix evenly. Finally, add a little peanut oil and mix it a few times to marinate.
Cut the fish bones into sections, cut the fish head into pieces, and marinate them in the same way.
After doing this, prepare some yellow lantern pickled peppers to add some spiciness to the sour taste, so that it tastes more delicious.
"Boss, do you need any side dishes to make the fish in sour soup?"
"Put some in, soak some fungus, add some enoki mushrooms, and add some fungi."
Lin Xu has finished arranging these, and the tomatoes are almost steamed.
Take it out, peel off the skin of the tomatoes, and mash all the tomatoes with a garlic pestle until they are pureed.
This step is the same as the eating method in Yunnan and Guizhou areas. The difference is that there is a roasting method for cooking tomatoes, while Lin Xu uses steaming.
Mash all the tomatoes and you're ready to make it.
Boil water on the stove, add a little salt, blanch the enoki mushrooms and fungus and put them on the bottom of the basin.
There were two fish today, and they were relatively big, so Lin Xu divided them into several portions so that everyone could try them.
After the base dish is ready, pour out the water from the pot, wash it, slide the wok a few times, then add cooking oil to the pot, put the fish bones and fish heads in and fry.
After frying, take it out, put another spoonful of lard into the pan, heat the oil, add the onion, ginger and garlic and fry it.
Fry until fragrant, take it out, and then add a tablespoon of tomato sauce.
When making tomato sour soup, tomatoes alone are not sour enough and the color is not good enough. You need to add some tomato paste to increase the color and taste.
However, although tomato sauce is easy to use, it needs to be stir-fried with hot oil until all the fermentation smell in the sauce is released. This will make the sour soup delicious, sour and spicy.
Saute the tomato sauce until fragrant, pour in the mashed tomato paste, add salt, and continue to stir-fry.
This step requires thoroughly frying the tomato paste, and allowing the tomato paste and tomato sauce to be perfectly mixed together.
After the sauce in the pot was stir-fried until a strong sour aroma wafted out, Lin Xu put the prepared yellow lantern pickled peppers in, and then cooked some rice vinegar along the edge of the pot.
Make the sour aroma more intense and soft.
Finally, add the fried fish bones and fish heads, stir-fry briefly, and add boiling water.
Add salt, sugar, light soy sauce, and a little dark soy sauce to the pot, cover the pot, and simmer over high heat for five minutes.
By boiling, the umami flavor from the fish bones is brought into the soup, so that the tomato sour soup tastes more delicious and charming.
Five minutes later, the soup in the pot has completely turned into red soup. The unique sour aroma of tomatoes and the fresh aroma of fish bones are mixed together, making people greedy unconsciously.
Lin Xu used a slotted spoon to break out the fish bones from the pot and put them into a basin.
Then boil the tomato sour soup again, add lemon slices to increase acidity and freshness, simmer for a while and remove the pot from the stove. When the soup in the pot seems to be boiling, add the fish fillets dispersedly.
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Just like boiled fish and pickled fish, when the fish fillets are cooked in tomato and sour soup, the soup in the pot cannot be boiled. The fish fillets are cooked by blanching, so that the taste is more tender and smooth.
Put all the fish fillets in, push them gently with the back of a spoon, wait until all the fish fillets change color, put all the fish and soup into a basin, garnish with some coriander leaves, and start eating!
Song Tiantian went out and quickly replaced Chen Yuanyuan.
"Hahahaha, I just said casually, brother, are you really a fish in tomato and sour soup?"
"How dare you not do what I asked you to do?"
Sister Yuanyuan wears a newly bought scarf around her neck, and her trousers that were originally rolled up have been lowered.
After being taught by the cold wind at the street corner, she finally learned to keep warm.
"I have to go back and put on my long johns after eating. The wind is too strong and my legs are freezing due to the cold."
When she was hesitating about what to wear in the morning, Director Zeng helped her analyze it and said that although the location of Ziqiang Shengjian No. 1 store does not receive sunlight, there are large frying pans in the store that are constantly working, so it will definitely be very warm.
It might even be so hot that you might sweat.
As a result, Sister Yuanyuan believed this and almost turned into a stupid dog from the cold.
At this moment, she looked at the red-colored fish in tomato and sour soup on the dining table and exuded a rich sour aroma, holding the freshly served rice in her hands, and she felt a little warm.
"Brother, please bring the hot drinks quickly. The coats worn by employees are too thin. Why don't you get some winter clothes that can protect you from the wind? It's going to snow and you won't freeze people into ice sculptures?"
Dou Wenjing, who came to eat, said:
"The company is preparing for this. We will definitely distribute the clothes within three days. In addition, we will add heating equipment to everyone to ensure that front-line employees will not get cold."
"Thank you Mr. Dou."
"I should thank you. Without your feedback, it would not be easy for us in the company to discover these details."
After everyone sat down, they started eating.
"What did you shoot this afternoon?"
Lin Xu scooped up a spoonful of tomato soup and tasted it. It was indeed delicious. The sourness of the lemon made the dish less greasy and more refreshing.
Baby Shen took a bite of rice:
"I took a picture of Dundun playing with the cat castle. He is so smart. He even pulled the cat stick to the Tongtian Pillar to tease me like fishing."
Lin Xu:??????
Which one of you is the cat?
The fish fillets are very tender, and the sour aroma of tomatoes is simply perfect.
Eat a piece of fish, then scoop up some sour and delicious soup and drink it in small sips. The coldness in your body will be dispelled by the sour and delicious soup.
Comfortable, so comfortable!
"It's delicious. I think it would be delicious if you add some rice noodles or noodles to this soup."
"That's for sure. Even if you put two big cakes in this soup, it will still be delicious."
"I almost want to hold the basin and take two big sips."
"Brother, you have such good craftsmanship, don't you plan to introduce new ones in the store?"
"We won't sell it for the time being. The pickled fish has been selling like hotcakes these past two days. We won't sell similar products for the time being, so that the kitchen will not have to prepare the ingredients for the fish in sour soup."
When introducing new dishes in a restaurant, you can’t just introduce them all at once, but you need to introduce them in an orderly manner.
Today's dinner included fish in sour soup and braised pig's trotters with soybeans. Dou Wenjing poured some soybeans into a bowl and put a piece of pig's trotters on it. Then she took a photo and sent it to the group. She liked Zeng Xiaoqi:
"Come on, Boss Lin's limited edition breast enhancement package, it's time for you to get rid of your little bear hat."
"Tch, my 34B is rounded up to 32C. Is C cup considered small? Leave some for me. I'm not doing it to enlarge my breasts, but I'm suddenly craving soybean braised pork knuckles."
Chen Yan said in the group:
"Director Zeng, it feels like if I throw you into a pressure cooker, even if the bones are crispy, your mouth will be hard."
Zeng Xiaoqi countered:
"Whatever you say, Sister Qiqi, I have a lot of money. Don't be angry. By the way, why is it Xiaodoudou's turn to poison today? Mr. Chen, the poison king, is not eating in the store?"
Shu Yun bubbled up in the group:
"After Mr. Chen fell in love, he paid attention to his figure and stopped eating with us."
Chen Yan said:
"Ren Jie was in a bad mood, so I accompanied him to Chaoyang Park for a walk, and then found a nearby cinema to watch two movies to relax."
"Why are you in a bad mood? Are you bullying someone?"
"How could I bear to bully him? The leader talked to him and told him that he was still young and had long-term goals."
Dou Wenjing immediately sent a message:
"These words sound familiar. Are you trying to take credit for it?"
"Yes, they say Ren Jie has only been in the team for a year and is too young... I'm so angry. Ren Jie's Captain Sui even cursed her on the phone..."
Chen Yan complained on behalf of Ren Jie and was very unhappy.
Dou Wenjing and others told the story while eating.
Lin Xu was very emotional after hearing this:
"Fortunately, I opened a restaurant as soon as I graduated and did not go to work. Otherwise, with my personality, I would definitely become an old scalper in the workplace."
Dou Wenjing smiled and said:
"In my first year of employment, half of my year-end bonus was taken away by the department manager. I felt aggrieved at the time, so when Shen Group poached me, I jumped over without hesitation."
Chen Yuanyuan was also very touched:
"Last time, Director Zeng went to the scenic spot to shoot a promotional video. He was too greedy and couldn't do the dubbing because he ate too much chili pepper. He asked other TV hosts to help with the dubbing. They all refused. At that time, Director Zeng was so aggrieved that he almost cried. Fortunately, my brother showed off the dubbing.
His talent in this field helped Director Zeng to speak out like this."
There are people in all walks of life, and Ren Jie has just joined the company for a year and is a veritable rookie.
It is normal for some people to deny his credit. After all, the kidnapping case last year was so sensational and there were so many people involved, so there must be someone who wants to come forward.
A few people chatted while eating. Although they thought this matter was quite irritating, society is like this, and it is not appropriate to break up with the leader over this matter.
The only thing Ren Jie can do is accept.
At the service desk downstairs, Dundun listened for a long time with his ears propped up, and small flames appeared in his eyes.
Can you erase the credit that I put so much effort into arranging if you want?
The little guy flashed his paws, and there was a bit of anger in his eyes. You can erase the credit for catching a fugitive, but what if you catch a group of people? This must be the credit of the uncle, right?
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Do you like to eat fish in sour soup made with tomatoes? I was so greedy when I wrote this chapter. Unfortunately, it was not sold. I couldn’t eat it if I wanted to. I could only watch the video to satisfy my eyes. This chapter has 5200 words. Please vote for me, brothers!
This chapter has been completed!