Chapter 733 Dundun: Translation Translation, what is fishing law enforcement! Delicious mirror-encrusted tofu! [Please subscribe]
"Mom, you...what are you doing in Yinzhou?"
Chen Yan tentatively asked, just as she was about to sing "It's a Sunny Day in the Liberated Areas", she received a warning. If my parents come to Yinzhou, will there be a chance for my baby Yan to have fun?
Shen Guofang said:
"Aren't you, Grandma Lin, celebrating her seventieth birthday? Dad and I went to celebrate her birthday. Your uncle and your grandma were both there. Moreover, we missed the opening of the racecourse due to business matters, so we came here and took a look there. landscape."
Chen Yan: "..."
Are you sure you're not here for me?
No matter what, let’s play first!
"Mom, buy your ticket and send it to me with your arrival time. I will drive to pick you up then and let you experience the beauty of Yinzhou..."
Before he finished speaking, he was interrupted by Shen Guofang:
"Why should I drive when I'm pregnant? We can just take a taxi to the scenic spot when we arrive. We don't have to run back and forth. We should stay in the scenic spot honestly. Don't run around or make trouble. Have you listened to the prenatal education class I posted on WeChat? Listen more, experts. To say that it has the effect of enlightening one's wisdom cannot be done casually..."
Chen Yan:?????????
You really are here to take care of me, right?
Wuwuwuwuwu... I will climb a mountain later and write a big word "miserable" on the top of the mountain!
After hanging up the phone, Chen Yan, who was originally in high spirits, immediately became depressed. Shen Jiayue held a small basket of freshly washed Meizao cherries and asked curiously:
"What's wrong? The baby is kicking you in the belly?"
Chen Yan gave her cousin a helpless look:
"It's still in its embryonic state. It's kicking the ass. It's my parents who are coming...my good life has not even begun, it is about to end!"
"It's okay, it's okay. Do you think my parents don't care about you? Eat cherries. This is a gift from my uncle's friend. It's super big and super sweet."
Chen Yan pinched one and put it in her mouth:
"It's okay, now only food can relieve my depression..."
In the kitchen, Lin Xu listened to the "sizzling" sound coming from the pot and slowly turned down the heat.
When stewing for the second time, the cooking time should be slightly longer, so that the meat will have a richer flavor.
In addition, when the water in the pot is boiled dry, the honey dripping from the pork will vaporize at the bottom of the pot, forming a smoke-like effect and giving the pork a red layer.
This method seems very simple, just two fires are enough, and it can not only cook the meat, but also color the meat, but the actual operation is not that difficult.
Because not only the amount of water and rice wine must be adjusted according to the size of the meat, but also the length of cooking time, the combination of seasonings, etc., all have very high requirements. One mistake may cause the dish to overturn.
If Lin Xu hadn't directly acquired the cooking skills, there would have been no way he could have done it.
This is actually the reason why the pot-stewing technique has been lost. The threshold is too high and the difficulty is too great. In the past, when materials were not abundant, it was difficult to eat a piece of meat. Who would dare to do this so badly?
Therefore, this technique disappeared in the long river of history.
Put the casserole on low heat for a while, then Lin Xu turned off the heat and let the casserole cool down slowly. When the temperature drops completely, you can take it out and slice it for consumption.
After walking out of the kitchen, my parents went to the tourist service center to deal with things about the scenic spot, my father-in-law and mother-in-law went hiking, and other elders also had to work and take a walk.
Lin Xu saw Chen Yan eating a big cherry dejectedly and asked curiously:
"There are no elders now, why don't you go play?"
Shen Jiayue on the side said sympathetically:
"Forget it, my aunt and uncle are coming to Yinzhou, and Yan Bao will be nagged by the elders again...Xubao, will I do the same when I give birth to children in the future?"
Lin Xu smiled:
"Just keep it quiet for the first few months. You won't see it anyway."
Shen Jiayue's eyes lit up, yes, as long as you don't make any noise, the elders won't nag you, and when you get pregnant, you should enjoy the care of your elders.
Chen Yan on the side opened her mouth, and the cherry in her mouth suddenly stopped being sweet.
Ahhhhhhhhh why didn't I think of this?
At that time, Yueyue reminded her to buy a pregnancy test stick first, but she refused to listen and took her mother-in-law to Xiehe University for a test...
It's fine now, all tears.
While she was worried, Shen Jiayue picked up a cherry and fed it to her mouth:
"Okay, okay, don't be sad anymore. Looking on the bright side, you can at least provide us with experience and lessons and let us know the correct way to deal with pregnancy. We will be forever grateful to you."
Chen Yan opened her mouth:
"Can you please stop talking?"
One of you is adding salt to the wound, and the other is adding fuel to the fire. You really live up to that sentence:
"If you are not a family, you will not enter the same family!"
Since becoming pregnant, Chen Yan has been experiencing excessive care and concern from her elders. She finally understands why depression during pregnancy is so common. It is estimated that most of it is caused by excessive care from her elders.
In order to prevent her sister-in-law from collapsing again, Lin Xu asked:
"Sister Yan, what do you want to eat tonight? I'll cook it for you."
I can’t help with anything else, but I can still help by eating to relieve my worries.
Speaking of food, Chen Yan became energetic:
"I want to eat that kind of tofu stuffed with meat. I have eaten it at Fengzeyuan before and thought it was delicious. But I have eaten it several times in other places and I am not satisfied with it... You two have just done this to me.
It hurt me, so I have to compensate me with this dish."
Naturally, Lin Xu would not refuse this request:
"Okay, we'll start cooking later. My aunt and uncle are coming for dinner, so we need to prepare a more generous meal."
Shen Jiayue asked:
"Xubao, what's the name of the dish filled with tofu stuffed with meat?"
"There are many names. In Shandong cuisine, it is called tofu box, in Sichuan cuisine, it is called pregnant tofu, in Cantonese cuisine, it is called stuffed tofu, and in Huaiyang cuisine, it is called mirrored tofu... The cooking method is similar, and it is a high-end banquet dish."
Although they are generally the same type of dishes, different cuisines have different ways of making them.
Relatively speaking, Yong Tou Fu is the most common Cantonese dish. Cut the tofu into pieces, hollow out the middle with a spoon, stuff it with meat filling, and steam it directly in a pot. After steaming, pour some soup on it, and that's it.
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Those who are more particular will use egg yolk or quail eggs to seal the meat filling when stuffing it, so that the meat will be more tender and the visual effect will be better.
In the field of Cantonese cuisine, this is a home-cooked dish originating from Hakka, and it is not difficult.
To make pregnant tofu in Sichuan cuisine, you need to carefully remove a complete lid from the surface of the tofu, then scoop out the excess tofu inside, stuff it with meat filling, and then put the lid back on to keep the tofu as it is.
From the appearance point of view, it is more beautiful than Cantonese food, and when you bite into the tofu and eat the meat filling, you will feel a sense of surprise.
But among these methods, Huaiyang cuisine’s mirror-encrusted tofu is the ceiling.
Mirror-inlaid tofu, also called mirror-box tofu, is tofu made into the shape of a box. The open side should be the same as the lid of the box and can be opened gently.
Only after opening it can you put the meat filling inside.
This is a test of skill, especially since the tofu is so soft that it is difficult to handle, so the requirements for knife skills are even higher.
But the more you do this, the more you practice your skills. In addition, the cost of tofu is not high, and you can eat it no matter what shape it is carved into. Therefore, cooking apprentices basically use tofu to practice their knife skills.
At four o'clock in the afternoon, Lin Xu returned to the kitchen again and started making the mirror-encrusted tofu that her sister-in-law ordered.
He first took a piece of front leg meat, chopped it into minced meat in a ratio of one-third fat and seven-point lean, chopped it and put it into a basin, then added onion and ginger salt water, pepper water, light soy sauce, dark soy sauce, egg white and other condiments.
Start beating to make the meat filling thicker.
When the meat filling is ready, cover it with plastic wrap and put it in the refrigerator for marinating.
Taking advantage of this time, I took the tofu over, peeled off the old skin on the tofu, then cut it into pieces slightly larger than mahjong, and soaked it in salted boiling water for about ten minutes.
The reason why it is soaked in hot water is to remove the beany smell of tofu, and soaking it in salt water can make the tofu taste softer and tenderer.
But doing so will also increase the difficulty of changing the knife from tofu.
However, Lin Xuyi is a brave man. As long as the taste and texture can be improved, he doesn't care about the difficulty in knife skills.
After soaking the tofu, take it out to control the water. Bring the marinated meat filling over, cut some minced water chestnuts and shrimps and add them, stir evenly, then prepare some starch water and start making.
Lin Xu held a piece of tofu in his hand and held a knife in the other hand, cutting the front of the tofu.
For the rectangular tofu block, cut the upper and lower short sides, then cut the long side of one side, tilt the knife, and cut the entire side of the tofu to form a door shape.
Carefully open the door, remove the excess tofu pieces on the door, and then hollow out the inside of the tofu to make a box with a thickness of four to five millimeters.
After completing this step, stuff the marinated meat filling directly into the box. The meat filling can be filled a little full, because the meat filling will shrink, so there is no need to worry about the box bursting.
Fill the meat stuffing, apply a layer of starch water on it, and then close the door of the box again.
In this way, a green embryo of mirror-mounted tofu is completed.
In the past, when this dish was made for dignitaries, patterns would be carved on the surface of the tofu to resemble a real box.
But now it’s just to taste the delicious food, so steps like carving can be dispensed with.
If you have the time, why not make a few more and let your family taste them?
Lin Xu prepared the tofu piece by piece, and his cousin Jia Xingwang was already stunned:
"This tofu is really hard work. What are you going to do later?"
Lin Xu said:
"After a while, pat a layer of dry flour on the surface and fry it first, then put it into the pot and simmer it with stock and shrimp roe. Once the flavor is absorbed, you can take it out of the pot and put it on the plate."
There are actually many ways to make this kind of tofu. It can be made in a pot, or it can be cooked by simmering, braising, stewing, etc.
Tofu is a versatile ingredient, and the taste is the same no matter how it is cooked, so this gives more possibilities for mirror-mounted tofu.
After the meat filling was used up, Lin Xu completely crushed the remaining tofu, added some minced pork fat and egg whites, and made first-grade tofu again.
The elderly at home like this dish, so I took the opportunity to make some.
It tastes delicious and nutritious, and can effectively replenish protein. Eating it in moderation will only do good to your body and not do any harm.
After mixing the tofu with lard and egg whites, Lin Xu did not start cooking immediately. Instead, he went outside and asked Chen Yuejin and Shen Guofang carefully about their arrival time.
It is basic courtesy to wait until the guests arrive to start the meal, but you cannot let people come and eat leftovers.
"We will arrive at Yinzhou East at 5:15. Yueyue and I will drive to pick him up later...Brother-in-law, you should prepare as you should. My parents are not outsiders, so there is no need to be so polite."
Although she knows that her parents will be nagging her when they come, Chen Yan still behaves very positively. After all, she can always be a child in front of her parents.
Lin Xu looked at the time and said:
"Okay, then I'll cook the other dishes first, and then we'll start having dinner when you guys arrive."
He returned to the kitchen, took out a dried duck from the refrigerator, paired it with a chicken and a piece of bacon trotters, cut it into large pieces, splashed water first, and then put it into the pot for stewing.
This method is more common in the south. It combines the taste of ham, the umami of chicken and the texture of air-dried duck.
The whole dish can be eaten with meat, soup, or rice. There are many ways to eat it. In addition, it is simple to make and even the seasoning step can be omitted. It is very popular.
Not long after, Shen Jiayue drove to the high-speed rail station with Chen Yan.
As soon as the two left, Dundun sneaked out of the restaurant with his grasshopper cage in his mouth.
Lin Xu smiled and asked after seeing it:
"What, you want to catch a grasshopper and put it in? Unfortunately it's not the season, so I can't catch it for you."
Dundun doesn't care about this. He just hopes that his aunt won't pay attention to him. As long as Chen Yuejin and his wife come over, the little guy will have a backer.
At this time, take out the grasshopper cage and play with it in front of Chen Yan. If she runs and kicks like a crazy woman, she will definitely be punished. If she doesn't kick, she will definitely not be able to bear it.
To put it bluntly, the little guy just wants to use this grasshopper cage to fish and enforce law.
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Don’t worry, my aunt won’t take the bait!
Lin Xu naturally didn't understand the little baby's thoughts. He thought that Dundun slept in the restaurant all afternoon and was probably hungry, so he fished out a big yellow loach from the pool, quickly cleaned it up, and used salt to wash away the mucus on the surface.
For a moment.
Then remove the meat from the loach, cut it into dices, mix it with egg yolk, and put it into a steamer for steaming.
A loach can probably make a kitten feel full.
After the loach is steamed, pour it into a large dinner plate and spread it out to dry. When it is not hot, take it outside. The little guy who is playing the grasshopper cage as a football immediately flies from a distance like a wild boar coming down the mountain to look for food.
Coming running.
It is now accustomed to eating meat mixed with egg yolks. When it puts its head on the plate, it turns on the showy rice mode.
Dundun finished her meal and squatted comfortably at the door of the kitchen to wash her face.
Lin Xu put away the dishes, washed them, and then returned to the kitchen to start preparing dinner.
He first put the first-grade tofu into the pot for steaming, then set up the wok, put some lard in the pot, heated it up and brought over the mirror-studded tofu stuffed with meat filling, with a thin layer hanging on the surface. Dry powder and put it into the oil pan for frying.
Fry the bottom until golden brown, then carefully flip over.
When all the surface of the tofu is fried, add a large bowl of stock, add some shrimp roe, pour in a little dark soy sauce, two pieces of rock sugar, and start simmering.
While he was busy, Shen Guofu returned from climbing the mountain.
He hasn't climbed to Longshou Peak yet, but I don't blame him. The main reason is that there are too many tourists on the mountain and it's hard to speed up, so I climbed to the viewing pavilion halfway up the mountain. The couple discussed it and decided to climb again tomorrow morning.
"Huh... there are so many tourists, we urgently need to expand."
For a businessman, tourists represent income. As long as the tourists are well served, the money will keep rolling in.
Although Longshou Peak is not big, it has all the precipitous beauty it should have, and the tickets are cheap, so it’s no wonder tourists come here.
Lao Shen took a sip of water and asked Lin Xu
"What are you having for dinner today?"
"First-grade tofu, mirror-mounted tofu, chicken, duck and turkey stewed with live chicken..."
As Lin Xuzheng was talking, Shen Guofu couldn't wait to ask:
“Can the braised pork be eaten?”
"That's it."
These words made Lao Shen feel reassured, and he was just waiting to taste it, hoping to enjoy it.
Lin Xu returned to the kitchen and touched the casserole with his hand. It was slightly warm and did not feel hot at all. He took off the jade buckle paper that sealed the outside of the casserole and opened the lid. The faint aroma of wine and bamboo came out. Floated out of the pot.
The aroma of meat is subtle, but it does not mean that it is not delicious. On the contrary, it is a sign that the aroma is completely absorbed into the meat.
At this time, the pork belly in the pot has been smoked with a layer of red, especially the skin. After the excess fat has been steamed out, coupled with the smoked red color, it looks crystal clear and very attractive.
Take out the pork belly and smell it carefully. You can smell the fragrant meat aroma in the wine aroma. The aroma is also mixed with the fragrance of bamboo and the sweetness of honey, which makes people greedy.
The bamboo grate in the pot also changed color now, from the original green to slightly yellow, with fine water droplets still hanging on the surface.
Obviously, when the temperature in the pot is high, these bamboo grates are also smoked and sweat slightly.
When you take out the bamboo grate, you can see a thin layer of fat on the bottom of the pot. This is all steamed out from the meat and can be reserved for cooking.
Shi Wenming looked at the pot of braised pork and was a little surprised:
"Oh, this meat looks really good. How about just slicing it and eating it, Xiaoxu?"
Lin Xu nodded:
"Yes, you can eat it sliced directly, or you can spread it on hot rice, or sandwich it with hot steamed buns to bring out the aroma before eating."
Now the meat's aroma is all contained in the meat. Only when it encounters heat will the meat's aroma come out again.
After saying that, he cut the pork belly into one-inch-wide strips, and then cut it into slices with a knife. When cutting, you can clearly feel that the meat has become solid.
After the meat was cut, Lin Xu picked up a piece and put it into his mouth. The texture of the meat was denser due to the tendons of the skin, and it tasted fragrant and delicious, a bit like the taste of free-range pigs.
Damn, it’s delicious!
Today’s work was not in vain!
The meat slices are salty and delicious, and there is also the sweet taste of honey, which is really delicious.
When I was making it, I was afraid of overturning it, so I used a piece of pork belly. Now it seems that I made too little, so I probably won’t have enough to eat today.
But it doesn’t matter, just continue cooking it tomorrow. With the skills at hand, it’s easy to eat pot-braised pork.
At almost six o'clock, Shen Jiayue drove Chen Yuejin and his wife to the scenic spot.
When the relatives gathered together and were busy chatting, Dundun ran up to his aunt with the grasshopper cage in his mouth, deliberately kicked her gently with his paws, and looked at her provocatively.
Just as Chen Yan was about to kick him away, he suddenly realized that his parents were there, and he immediately understood the little guy's sinister intentions.
She gave Dundun a hard look:
Little fat cat, just wait for me. I’ll let you feel my aunt’s love for you when I get the chance!
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