After a few days, this matter finally came to a perfect end.
And time has quietly arrived on the day of the Lantern Festival. After the Lantern Festival, this not-so-peaceful New Year has finally come to an end.
Li Xiao originally wanted to come to the monitor to wish him well in his old age. After all, the monitor was very helpful in this matter.
If there is no squad leader, let alone whether Zhao Buhui can be sent in, whether he can come out intact is still open to question.
However, when he contacted the monitor, he learned that the monitor had already traveled abroad two days ago, so his plan to come to thank him fell through.
On the Lantern Festival, Li Xiao’s family has the custom of eating glutinous rice balls.
Many people think that Yuanxiao is Tangyuan, and Tangyuan is Yuanxiao. In fact, this idea is wrong. Although the two are very similar, they are not the same thing at all.
The glutinous rice dumplings are filled with soft fillings, and there are many choices of savory, sweet, meat and vegetable options.
Yuanxiao stuffing is a bit hard and usually has a sweet taste.
Tangyuan is mostly eaten boiled or stir-fried.
Yuanxiao is mostly eaten fried, but it can also be eaten boiled.
The soup after boiling glutinous rice balls is clear soup.
The soup after boiling Yuanxiao is turbid.
Generally speaking, people in the north eat Yuanxiao more often, while those in the south prefer glutinous rice balls.
The Li Xiao family eats glutinous rice balls, usually with peanut and sesame fillings.
Of course, the habit of eating sweet glutinous rice balls started with his father's generation. Li Xiao still vaguely remembers that when he was a child, he used to eat salty glutinous rice balls during the Lantern Festival.
At that time, the glutinous rice balls did not have any fillings. They were small solid flour balls. However, when cooking the glutinous rice balls, cabbage, pork, chicken, and sometimes even some dried squid were added.
Li Xiao's grandfather really liked eating the salty balls made into salty dishes, but he was not very sensitive to it.
During the Lantern Festival in previous years, Li Xiao's parents had already started working. After all, an extra day of work would mean an extra day of money.
Moreover, many factories start operations before the Lantern Festival, and not only are there red envelopes for starting work, but also 1.5 times the salary. After all, many people believe that the New Year ends after the Lantern Festival.
So I don’t have time to make glutinous rice balls by myself. I can only buy some ready-made glutinous rice balls in the mall every year, boil them in water during dinner, and finally add some sugar to celebrate the festival.
But today it was rare for the family to celebrate the Lantern Festival together, so Li Xiao went to the market to buy ingredients to make glutinous rice balls.
After a long absence, I opened the live broadcast of Mao Mao on my mobile phone. In the past few days, incidents of people being inferior to dogs have flooded every corner of the Internet. Li Xiao, the person involved, can hide whenever he can.
To be honest, if he is willing to take advantage of this wave of popularity and live broadcast for five or six hours a day, he may earn a small million a day. If he meets some wealthy people with a strong sense of justice, I am afraid this number will be even more.
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But Li Xiao is unwilling to do this because he feels that receiving live broadcast rewards from viewers at this time is like doing good deeds for the sake of popularity and traffic.
Therefore, the suspension period, which was originally planned to end in three days, was accordingly extended to seven days.
Li Xiao was a little nervous. He had never rested for such a long time.
There was not even a minute of live broadcast time for 7 days, which is unimaginable for any anchor.
After all, today's society is very cruel. Not to mention not broadcasting for 7 days, even if it is not broadcast continuously for two or three days, I'm afraid the popularity will drop a lot.
After all, if you don’t come to live broadcast, there will always be others who are willing to come to live broadcast. The live broadcast industry is very substitutable.
Instead of looking at yours, look at other people's. Anyway, there is no need to worry about reading a whole page of candidate lists. That's why it happened that the former top lady in the food area fell into the world in just two months.
Moreover, Li Xiao is still in a period of rapid development, and no one would be willing to make such a decision.
However, what surprised him was that although he had not started broadcasting for 7 days, his popularity did not decline much. It had not been long since it had been broadcast.
The number of people online in the live broadcast room has exceeded 150,000, and this number is still rising.
Although this number of people is indeed higher than the peak of the previous few days, when there were more than 200,000 people online as soon as the broadcast started. The number of people is far different, but it is already quite good.
After all, the traffic brought by popular people is too huge, and he never dares to hope to regain his glory.
Moreover, people nowadays are very forgetful. Seven days ago, the "People Are Not as Good as Dogs" incident was a sensation among the people. Today, seven days later, not many people have mentioned it. It seems that everyone has completely forgotten about it.
[Xizhou Banquet] The five-star hotel also reopened 7 days later, that is, yesterday.
However, they are somewhat self-aware and opened quietly, without even making any announcement on their official website.
He didn't even set off the firecrackers needed to reopen the business, quietly for fear that he would return to a hot spot.
He greeted the audience:
"Long time no see. I would like to wish all the viewers a happy old age and a happy Lantern Festival to all my brothers and sisters."
The atmosphere in the live broadcast room is quite good. After all, the saying that ignorant people are the happiest is quite reasonable.
"Hello, handsome anchor!"
"Happy Lantern Festival, anchor!"
"By the way, didn't the anchor participate in the Han Food Festival? Why are you still staying at home now?"
"Anchors have been working outside all year long to celebrate the New Year. Is it too much to go home and rest for more than ten days?"
"There is really nothing more important than going home during the New Year."
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Seeing that the audience was concerned about when he would start eating and drinking all over the country, Li Xiao said:
"The Dahan Food Festival may need to be postponed for a few days, because tomorrow I will fly to the capital to take the star chef test."
"In addition, I have to report to the national sports team in the capital. Of course, I am not a full-time athlete. I only applied for a part-time spot, but I will have the opportunity to participate in competitions in the future."
After he finished speaking, the barrage in the live broadcast room fell into a state of silence for two seconds. There was a brief moment of calm. Just when everyone thought they had disconnected from the Internet, barrages appeared overwhelmingly.
"Wait a minute, I seem to be having auditory hallucinations. It must be that I ate too much greasy food during the Chinese New Year and blocked my ears."
"Can anyone repeat what the anchor just said? I seem to be hearing hallucinations too!"
"I'm not surprised that the anchor can get certified as a star chef, but what happens next?"
"Join the national sports team? Or part-time?"
"This is the first time I've ever heard that our national team has part-time players. With so many people in our country, we still need one part-time player?"
"I suspect the anchor is bragging and there is actual evidence."
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Seeing the questioning voice in the barrage, Li Xiao scratched his head to prevent his credibility from collapsing.
He hurriedly ran to his room and found the red first-level athlete ID and the invitation letter for the national team.
When these two things that were very real at first glance appeared in front of everyone's eyes, the live broadcast room became quiet again.
After all, anyone with any brains knows about this kind of national-level certificate, but no one would go out of their way to fake it just to brag.
Moreover, it is also displayed in public, so there is almost no doubt about the authenticity of such a certificate.
Of course, there will be no shortage of sports enthusiasts among the more than 100,000 spectators, and there are even a few who are professional athletes themselves.
"I went to get a real first-class athlete certificate. My teacher has the same one. It is still hanging in our Taekwondo gym like a treasure."
"My brother-in-law is the coach of the national sports team. During the Chinese New Year, I heard him say that the national team was so crazy that they hired a part-time employee. I didn't expect that person to be the anchor."
"I'll go, does anyone here remember that we saw a pretty exciting table tennis match?"
"Hiss! Could it be that that table tennis match was not an exhibition match but a real one?"
"Anchor, just tell me what else you can't do? It doesn't matter if your cooking skills are so good. After all, it is your job. Now you tell me that you are still a first-level athlete. It's so scary!!!"
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Li Xiao waved his hands lightly and said very modestly:
"It's all trivial. Don't be too nervous. Now that you've read the documents, you should be able to believe me."
Having easily solved the credit crisis problem, Li Xiao returned to the kitchen and walked to the workbench again.
"Okay, let's get down to business. Today is the Lantern Festival, so I'll make glutinous rice balls for everyone."
"The making of glutinous rice balls is very simple. Since there are only three people in our family, I will show you a kind of glutinous rice balls today, which is filled with sesame and peanut fillings."
"As for wonderful fillings like red bean filling, cantaloupe filling, bitter melon filling, and bacon filling, I will make them for you again when I have the opportunity!"
As he said just now, the steps for making glutinous rice balls are very simple. They are basically divided into three steps. One is to make the thread, the other is to make the skin, and the third is to boil.
"First we need to fry the peanuts and sesame seeds to make the filling."
"First of all, in the first step, we soak the peanuts in water for 5 minutes. Soaking has two functions. One is to wash away the dust on the surface of the peanuts. The second is to effectively prevent the skin of the peanuts from scorching during the frying process.
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"After soaking for 5 minutes, the originally dry and flat peanuts have become slightly plumper. At this time, we can take the peanuts out and drain them."
"If possible, you can place the drained peanuts on dehumidification paper to absorb the moisture."
"Because if there is too much moisture on the surface of the peanuts, the oil in the pan will easily splash everywhere when the peanuts are put into the pan. This is because the density and heating temperature of water and oil are different.
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In order to reduce everyone's waiting time, of course he had soaked the peanuts in advance and drained the water.
Pour a small amount of peanut oil into the iron pot, Li Xiao poured all the peanuts directly into it, and while pouring the peanuts again, he reminded:
"Remember, when we fry peanuts, we need to use cold oil in the pot, that is, pour all the oil and peanuts into the pot before opening the pot."
"This is the key point. You need to take notes. This way you can try to avoid the oil temperature being too high, which will cause the skin of the peanuts to brown, and it can also make the peanuts more crispy and delicious."
While he was talking, he had already turned on the iron pot and turned it to the lowest heat.
"When frying, be sure to use a spatula to constantly turn the peanuts so that they are heated evenly. Don't stop in the middle, otherwise the skin of the peanuts will burn."
"Besides, don't stir-fry over high heat, otherwise the outside will be cooked and almost burnt, but the inside will still be raw."
As Li Xiao explained, the color of the originally light pink peanut coat began to gradually darken, from pink to light red, and then to deep red, after which the peanut skin turned reddish brown.
The peanuts make a dense crackling sound, and the feel becomes much lighter when fried, and the peanut aroma will become stronger and stronger.
After hearing the crackling sound, Li Xiao quickly turned off the fire, then opened the Maotai that had been prepared and poured it on the fried peanuts.
At around 18 or 9 o'clock, it felt like the whole kitchen was already filled with the fragrance of Moutai, and Li Xiao stopped.
Seeing his prodigal scene, everyone in the live broadcast room took a deep breath.
"I suspect the anchor is showing off his wealth, but there is no evidence!"
"I always thought that Moutai was given as a gift, and no one liked to drink it because it was so expensive. But now I know how wrong I was. Not only do some people drink it, some even use it to fry peanuts."
"Is this the legendary Moutai peanut? It's too luxurious!"
"Good guy! The Maotai you spread here is more expensive than peanuts. Is this the legendary soy sauce that is more expensive than chicken?"
"Can anyone explain why the anchor sprinkled some Maotai in?"
"I know this, because the host has too much Maotai at home, and it would be uncomfortable if he didn't sprinkle it."
Li Xiao chuckled when he saw these barrages. It is true that Moutai is a bit luxurious.
But there's nothing he can do about it, he doesn't want to show off his wealth.
But there is no other wine with a lower alcohol content in his house, and the only bottle of Guangdong rice wine was used up during the Chinese New Year, so now he can only use Maotai with a slightly higher alcohol content instead.
Li Xiao explained:
"High temperatures will cause the liquor to evaporate instantly. When the liquor evaporates, it will not only cool down the peanuts quickly, but also take away part of the moisture on the surface of the peanuts, making the peanuts crispier and less soft, and will taste more fragrant when eaten."
While speaking, Li Xiao's rapid stir-frying movement had stopped, and the aroma of the wine had been evenly distributed in each peanut.
Pinch up a peanut whose skin has begun to loosen and throw it into your mouth. The aroma is rich and burnt, and the rich peanut aroma and mellow Moutai aroma are mixed together.
Since these fried peanuts are used to make fillings, Li Xiao did not add salt during the frying process. Although the flavorless peanuts are a bit bland, they can make the original flavor of the peanuts more prominent.
After frying the peanuts, Li Xiao placed his eyes on the washed sesame seeds.
He scooped up a spoonful of wet sesame seeds and spoke to the audience:
"There is a lot of dust on the sesame seeds, so they must be rinsed with water before use, and enough water will prevent the sesame seeds from being burnt during the frying process."
The method of frying sesame seeds is similar to that of frying peanuts, but there are slight differences.
You need to add oil to fry peanuts but not to fry sesame seeds. This is because the oil content of sesame seeds is much higher than that of peanuts.
And because sesame seeds have no coating, you don’t have to worry about the paper-like coating being burnt when frying.
Pour all the wet sesame seeds into the pan, turn the heat to minimum, and use a wooden spoon to stir the sesame seeds continuously.
The heat of the pan quickly evaporates the water on the surface of the sesame seeds, and then the sesame seeds finally come into contact with the pan. The sesame seeds make a faint sizzling sound, and at the same time, waves of faint sesame aroma begin to spread inside the pan.
The time required to fry the sesame seeds is very short. It only takes about a minute or two to hear the sesame seeds dancing gently on the top of the pan, which means that the sesame seeds are ripe.
But the sesame seeds needed to make sesame fillings are not enough if the sesame seeds are fully cooked.
Li Xiao needs to completely fry the sesame seeds, so at this time, he needs to continue to stir the sesame seeds in the pot so that the skin of the sesame seeds changes from light white to light yellow.
The collision of sesame seeds and sesame seeds will make a rustling sound, which proves that the sesame seeds have been fried.
"Okay, the main ingredients for the filling have been prepared, now we're going to make the filling."
"Put the peanuts into the food processor and crush them. Of course, you must adjust the horsepower and never crush them completely. Of course, you can also crush them directly with a beer bottle."
"Otherwise, it won't taste that fragrant and the texture won't be that good. The best state is 70% broken into pieces and 30% still in the form of small granules."
"Mix the crushed peanuts and sesame seeds together, add a small amount of melted butter, mix the three together, then add a small amount of white sugar, and the sesame peanut filling is complete."
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"It looks really simple."
"I originally planned to go out and buy some glutinous rice balls to take home tonight. Seeing how simple the anchor made it, I also wanted to make a bowl of glutinous rice balls for my daughter."
"My family used to eat rice dumplings without fillings. Today I saw these peanut and sesame rice dumplings, and I actually wanted to change the taste."
"This filling looks super delicious. Can I eat this filling directly?"
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After placing the fillings in the freezer, Li Xiao returned to the workbench to prepare the wrappers for the glutinous rice balls.
Making the skin of glutinous rice balls was even easier. He took out a pack of Sanxiang brand glutinous rice flour and introduced:
"Although this Sanxiang brand glutinous rice flour is not made by Han Dynasty itself, but imported from other places, but one thing is that the quality is quite good, very stable, and it is very suitable for novices to use."
Li Xiao poured all the glutinous rice flour into the stainless steel plate, and then added warm water.
Li Xiao carefully added water while mixing the water into the glutinous rice flour.
"The water must be added little by little, stirring as you add it, and then knead for a while until it becomes a dough that is neither soft nor hard. Take a piece and knead it until it is soft and smooth."
The difficulty of making glutinous rice dough and flour dough is completely different. Glutinous rice dough basically requires your hands. As long as you don't add too much water, there will be no failure.
Once you have the fillings and dough, the rest of the work is much easier.
Leave the sesame and peanut filling into small yellow balls, shape the dough into a hollow semicircle, and stuff the small balls into the empty spaces in the dough.
Slowly roll the dough up with your hands until the sesame filling is completely wrapped in the dough. Finally, wrap a thin layer of glutinous rice flour on the playful surface, and a glutinous rice ball is completed.
