Ms. Liu, who had never seen it before, was shocked. She was still thinking about it when she saw the loach stewed with tofu in milky white soup being taken out of the pot.
She was very excited. This dish could be made to replenish her daughter's health, and she could eat it after she gave birth, so she wouldn't worry about her daughter not having enough milk to feed her grandson.
If such a good soup is given to the little baby to drink often, it may be able to take good care of the little baby's body.
Thinking like this, Ms. Liu wished she could go back and cook it for them right away.
But fortunately, my mind was still clear, so I quickly calmed myself down, and quickly helped wash the pot and put the fire on.
Her boss is so nice, so she has to work hard.
By the way, this morning I heard from the owner that the latrines in this inn are not very good and they want to renovate them.
Mrs. Liu said: "My boss, you are not very busy with farm work right now. Didn't you say you want to redecorate the hut? Tomorrow I will ask my husband, my son-in-law and my mother's brother to come and help you!"
Song Qiu had been working in the same kitchen as Mr. Liu for half a month, so he knew her well. She was such a hot-tempered woman who wanted to give up a pair of shoes for a pair of socks. Really!
Hearing this, she thought for a moment and realized that she had originally planned to hire someone, so she nodded and said, "Okay! Then you can ask them to come tomorrow! I'll pay them!"
When Mrs. Liu heard this, she was startled and waved her hands quickly, "I'm just helping to clean up the latrine. How big a job is that? How can I ask for wages? Boss, don't say that, otherwise I will be embarrassed to call them here.
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"Both your son-in-law and his mother's family are from Wufeng Village?" Song Qiu was curious.
Mrs. Liu nodded and grinned, "Yes, yes! I am the only one in our village whose natal family and husband's family are in the same village, and I also married my daughter in the same village, with houses next to each other. Whether I go back to my natal family, or
To see my daughter, you can just lift your feet, so convenient!"
Song Qiu smiled after hearing this, no wonder.
"Then let's not talk about wages. You call the three of them to come tomorrow, and I'll pay for them!"
As soon as she heard about the rice package, Mrs. Liu couldn't refuse it.
It sounds like they have to take advantage of it and put in a lot of effort. The food cooked by the boss is delicious!
There is still more oil and water!
She couldn't wait to do it!
While talking, Meng Chaoqun and Aling took care of all the loaches outside.
After bringing it in, Aling stood guard and refused to go out, wanting to see what Song Qiu did.
For the second course, Song Qiu plans to make braised loach.
Take out a bowl of washed and drained loach, season it, coat it in sweet potato starch, and mix evenly.
Then heat the oil in a pan. When the oil temperature is 70%, put the loach coated in flour into the oil one by one and fry.
When fried, crispy on the outside and tender on the inside, take it out and drain away the oil.
Scoop out all the hot oil in the pot, don't waste it, you can still cook.
Leave some oil in the pot, add bean paste, ginger slices, garlic slices, dried chili segments, peppercorns, star anise and bay leaves and other aniseed ingredients and stir-fry until fragrant. Immediately add the fried loach and stir-fry.
Then pour the chili cut into tubes to match the color, drizzle with a little soy sauce, and remove the juice over high heat before serving.
For the third course, Song Qiu plans to cook boiled loach.
For loach, use some wine, starch, and salt, and mix to taste.
Separate the leaves and stems of celery. The leaves are used for making the base. They do not need to be cooked. They are spread directly in the pottery bowl raw.
The stems are cut directly into short sections.
Heat oil in a pot until it is 70% hot, sauté the ginger and garlic, then add the watercress, peppercorns, salt and sugar, then add the chili tube and stir-fry until the oil is released.
Then add water, add fennel, then loach, and cook over medium heat without covering.
When the loach is ready, pour out the celery, boil it again, scoop it out and put it in an earthenware bowl lined with celery leaves.
Top the loach with chili powder, white sesame seeds, and chopped green onions.
Heat oil in a pot, throw in a handful of Sichuan peppercorns and stir-fry until fragrant, then scoop them out and pour them into the loach. The aroma will suddenly sizzle.
In the fourth course, Song Qiu plans to make stir-fried loach.
For this dish, the loach must first be coated in starch and then fried.
But if you fry it for a longer time, the loach will become dry and crispy when you bite it, so you can take it out.
Stir-fry the ingredients in the pot. Sichuan peppercorns are essential. Add the fried dried loach and stir-fry to coat the flavor. Then add a large amount of dried chili pepper segments and stir-fry until the aroma comes out. Pour on some soy sauce and a little sesame oil, and finally sprinkle on a handful of sesame seeds.
Stir fry.
The same loach was cooked into four dishes, and the color and aroma were so good that Alingou's nose couldn't bear it. When he saw the last dish coming out of the pot, he quickly shouted to start the meal, start the meal, start the meal!
There will be no other dishes for lunch today. These four dishes are enough for them.
The dishes were all brought out and placed on the table outside. At this moment, there were only three guests sitting in the tea tent, drinking tea, and no other guests came.
Song Qiu asked Ma Liang to guard first while Jiang came in to eat and then went out to replace him.
The four dishes, loach stewed with tofu in a milky white soup, braised loach soft and tender, boiled loach spicy and fresh, and dry-stirred loach spicy and crispy, will whet your appetite and make you unable to resist.
But they all looked at Song Qiu and didn't rush to use their chopsticks.
Song Qiu took the bowl, scooped out a bowl of soup first, and said with a smile: "Eat it quickly!"
As soon as she moved her chopsticks, several others couldn't wait to do it.
Mrs. Liu filled up half a bowl of soup and took a sip. It was so delicious that she almost swallowed her tongue.
Aling had quick eyesight and quick hands, so he first picked up a plump boiled loach. The meat felt fresh and tender in his mouth, and he said it was delicious.
One of Meng Chaoqun and Jiang had crispy dry-stirred loach, and the other had braised loach.
After everyone tasted it, they all got out of hand and ate heartily.
Ah Ling tasted all four items, gave Song Qiu a thumbs up and said, "I've never eaten ginseng before, so I don't know what it tastes like. I ate this loach today, and it's really delicious!"
She knew that the food that Sister Aqiu said was delicious must be delicious!
After Jiang had finished eating, he went to change the horse and Liang came in again.
The six people ate the four loaches cleanly, leaving no residue at all.
Mrs. Liu finished the last bit of soup and watched Ma Liang soak the loach in the red soup and eat it. She felt regretful that she couldn't have any leftover soup. She packed it back to cook and asked her family to taste it.
She didn't regret thinking about it. When she got back, she asked her eldest nephew to catch a few loaches and bring them back tomorrow. Later, she gave Shopkeeper Meng two copper coins and asked him to help bring a pound of tofu back tomorrow.
When she gets back from work tomorrow, she will make this loach stew with tofu, boil a big pot of soup, and take a big bowl to her parents' house and her daughter's house.
Let’s all have a taste.
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For the villagers of Wufeng Village, the temptation of loach, which cost two cents per pound, was not ordinary. The next day, the cat came to the mud ditch behind the village and caught it all day long, and even spent the night.
I worked hard for half the night under the moonlight.
Early the next morning, the village chief and two villagers brought a large bucket of loaches.
After draining the water and weighing it, it weighed more than forty-five kilograms.
Song Qiu paid them forty-five pounds of silver, which was ninety cents.
Seeing so many loaches, Song Qiu immediately decided to serve new dishes today. She made the same four dishes before, added them to the inn's dishes, and introduced them to the guests.
Loaches can be fed for several days without killing them, so they don’t need to kill too much at one time. They can sell them for one day, and they don’t have to deal with too much at the moment.
I promoted it to customers and the sales were quite good that day.
Meng Chaoqun's abacus clicked and he reported to Song Qiu that the loach was a good deal!
Song Qiu looked at the sales for the past ten days and also grinned.