Chapter 757 Stinky Mandarin Fish(1/2)
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Author: Love to drink aged vinegar
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"I understand, I remember what you said before, putting sugar in some salty dishes can remove some salty flavor and increase the degree of freshness. Putting some salt in beets can also play a comprehensive role." An Hongdou said.
"It's not bad, you remember all these." Chen Nian nodded with satisfaction.
But after doing this, the stinky mandarin fish will be ready.
Put the fish out and put it in a special fish plate, and then aged ones drizzle the sauce and the side dishes inside.
At first glance, the color is bright and the soup is rich. The fish itself is burned just right. If you turn off your sense of smell, no one will think that this is a delicacy that can be placed in the dark cuisine world, but will simply think that this is an ordinary braised mandarin fish.
"Aged, do you think this stinky mandarin fish is like canned herring, and the meat inside is very soft?"
Chen Nian shook his head: "Don't worry, definitely not. If its taste is that bad, it will not become one of the famous AH dishes. Generally speaking, the reputation of a dish is proportional to its deliciousness.
And even if this dish is placed outside, most people can actually accept it, because if you go to play, you will find that its odor is not like stinky tofu or stinky winter melon. The mandarin fish we took out of the jar just now was copper-green on the outside, but after processing it, it looks no different from a normal dish."
"Then can we have a meal now? I'm so hungry. Now I feel like I can eat a beef and stir-fry a pig."
"Okay, the steamed pork is almost done." Chen Nian nodded.
An Hongdou took two bowls and two pairs of chopsticks to serve the rice, while Chen Nian put the prepared stinky mandarin fish outside first, and then returned to the kitchen to take out the steamed pork.
"Let's eat the food first, wait a moment before dessert."
"Okay, listen to you." An Hongdou believes in what she eats very much. Although she likes to eat, she often suffers from choice before eating.
But after Aged, she was not so worried. First, Aged has a large appetite and can order more dishes she wanted to eat. Second, if she is unsure of her mind when ordering, Aged will take action.
Sitting at the table and looking at the person in front of him, Chen Nian only felt that such a peaceful life was great.
One room and two people, three meals and four seasons.
"I'll try your skills." An Hongdou was already a little impatient. After lifting the chopsticks and ate a bite of rice, she planned to see what the stinky mandarin fish tasted.
In fact, she also visited AH Huangshan and had dinner nearby. But after all, she was only one person at that time and couldn't eat any big dishes, so she had heard of stinky mandarin fish but had never eaten it.
An Hongdou first peeled off the side dishes on the fish, then gently inserted them into the fish body with chopsticks, picked them outward, and a piece of fish fell off like this.
Only then did she realize that although the fish meat was soft and tender, the inside was not as she had thought before, and it had turned into a crunchy shape. Just looking at the peeled piece of fish meat, the meat inside was white and the surface was smooth, and it looked very elastic.
"Aged, this one is indeed complete inside, and it looks a little like a garlic clove."
At this time, Chen Nian also moved his chopsticks: "In fact, the stinky mandarin fish is basically sealed during the marinating process, and salt water is sprinkled in it, so it can maintain the state of the fish itself to a certain extent."
An Hongdou had already picked up the fish meat at this time. The stinky mandarin fish was no longer as smelly as before, but she felt that this might be because she had adapted to such an environment.
Just like when eating snail noodles at home, I don’t feel that it smells bad, but after eating snail noodles, I leave the house for a while and then come back, I will smell the smell of sour bamboo shoots in the house.
But at this moment she couldn't care about so much. She put the piece of fish into her mouth. With her teeth lightly combined, she felt that the fish was very elastic and the meat was extremely tender!
The delicateness made her feel that it didn't look like fish that had been stored for many days, but it was a bit like she had just caught from the lake and made it directly by the river.
After pickling, the special smell and deliciousness blended together to form a very special taste. She had eaten a lot of smelly dishes before, but none of them could match the taste of the fish.
This is a stinky smell and delicious taste that collided with each other and blended at a very wonderful critical point. If you say it is fresh, you can still smell the smell on the fish that looks like the one that is about to get off work in the seafood market, but if it is not fresh, the meat is particularly firm and elastic.
"Ask a comment?" After eating, Chen Nian looked up expectantly and wanted to see what kind of evaluation An Hongdou would give to this dish.
"I feel it's hard to say, it's hard to describe it in words, but if I have to say it, I feel it's fresh smell?"
"Fresh smell?"
This was the first time Chen Nian heard such a word, but after thinking about it carefully, he felt that the word seemed to fit the dish quite well.
"It tastes a bit fragrant, this dish was completely beyond my expectations." An Hongdou said, while squeezing two more bites of the rice.
"It's really a meal. Fortunately, the Chinese New Year is about to begin, so I don't have to worry about gaining weight. No matter how you lose weight before, you will get fat after eating for a while during the Chinese New Year. This time I will treat it as an early rehearsal."
Then Hongdou said.
"You are not fat either. How many pounds are you now?" Chen Nian asked.
"My weight should be over 100 now. I used to be only about 90 kilograms, but the quality of life has increased after being with you." An Hongdou said now that she felt both happy and distressed.
"But then again, why do I feel like you have never been fat? It seems that when we first met you, you were of this size, and you didn't even have a belly. Usually, shouldn't a chef stand up with a big belly?"
"Maybe it's because of my special physique?" Chen Nian said. He couldn't tell Hongdou that I have a system, and the system will help me maintain a healthy body, right?
"I really envy you. I would have the same physique as you." An Hongdou looked at Chen Nian enviously.
In this way, they ate fish and meat and rice, An Hongdou ate two bowls in a row, and Chen Nian ate three bowls before finishing all the two dishes.
"Do you see this soup?" After eating, Chen Nian asked, pointing at the soup in the fish plate.
An Hongdou looked at the soup with crystal oil beads and couldn't help swallowing.
"Or we're half of each of us?"
"Okay, I'm worried that I can't eat another bowl of rice, so that half of each of us will be eliminated.
So they each served half a bowl of rice and cleaned the soup.
"I'm full." Then they touched their slightly bulging belly, which was hard inside, all of them for eating tonight. "I'll say it's better to come back and eat. The food outside is not as delicious as you cook."
Chen Nian looked at Hongdou with a smile: "It's good that you love to eat, and where is it? I will cook food for you for the rest of my life in the future."
An Hongdou's face turned red like a peach: "You can say it, I hope you can do what you say."
"Of course, I am the one who keeps my promise the most."
"Then I will sing songs for you for the rest of my life, of course, the premise is that you are not tired of listening."
"How could you be tired of listening to this? Your songs are all on my playlist. I will listen to them in a loop every time I go out."
"Chen Nian, I never thought I would find a boyfriend who is so good at cooking."
"Yes, I didn't expect that I would find a girlfriend who sings so well. It seems that we are really destined to be together."
After a while, An Hongdou suddenly remembered something: "By the way, didn't you say there were still desserts?"
Chen Nian scratched his head: "Aren't you all over? I was worried that you couldn't eat anymore, so I didn't say it."
An Hongdou looked as if he was taken for granted: "How can it be the same? Meals are meals, and desserts are desserts."
"As sure girls all have two stomachs, one is for food and the other is for desserts and snacks. The ancients really didn't deceive me."
"You're talking nonsense, which ancient man said this? Why haven't I heard of it?"
"What Lu Xun said."
Anyway, as long as you don’t know who said this, it must be Lu Xun’s words. If it really doesn’t work, there will be Zhou Shuren.
After eating the dessert, An Hongdou is now completely slumped on the chair and is extremely moved.
"Then you wait a moment, I'll go wash the dishes and send you back."
After saying that, Chen Nian started to clean up the dishes.
Today's account disciples have already made it, so Chen Nian doesn't have to worry about it. After packing the kitchen, Chen Nian rode his bike to send the red beans back.
It's still the corner without a camera.
"Our mouths are smelly today."
After the kiss, An Hongdou said.
But Chen Nian had a different feeling about this: "Nonsense, your mouth is clearly sweet."
As expected, Chen Nian was beaten by An Hongdou with a pink fist. After this pink fist, Chen Nian became even more excited.
"Oh, why are we not married yet?"
Chen Nian couldn't help but sigh.
"What do you want to do if you get married?"
"Of course I'm doing evil."
So Chen Nian was beaten with another pink punch.
"Okay, go back soon, I'm going home too. My dad sent me a WeChat message just now. If he doesn't go back, he will call him."
"Then you go upstairs first, I'm going to watch you go in before leaving."
In this way, the two of them parted reluctantly.
Chen Nian watched An Hongdou enter the corridor until he couldn't see it before heading towards home.
...
In the blink of an eye, a few more days passed.
An Hongdou also boarded a plane back to Suzhou with her parents in the morning.
Chen Nian felt a sense of loss in his heart.
The Chinese New Year will be over until the next meeting.
However, Chen Nian quickly put his thoughts back to work.
To be continued...