Chapter 58 Cold Toad Soup and Gold and Silver Flowers 1
Chapter 58 Cold Toad Soup and Gold and Silver Flowers (1)
Yu Jian didn't know the situation in Beijing because she was currently busy with the new exam week.
She took first place in last week's exam without any suspense, a full thirty points ahead of the second place in her grade. Looking at the high-ranking names on the list, she felt quite lonely at the top.
Chen Xinyi also did well in the exam, ranking third in the class and sixth in grade.
On the other hand, Huang Nuan, just like at the end of the semester, this guy was ranked 20th in the class and ranked outside the 50th grade.
Yu Jian was very curious: "How can you accurately maintain the same ranking for such a long time?"
Chen Xinyi also cast a curious look at her.
Huang Nuan felt that this result had exceeded his expectations, and there was a hint of joy in his tone: "Maybe it's due to the extra classes during the summer vacation?" These days, with so much involution, it is already a big improvement to be able to keep from going backwards.
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"Did you praise her just now?" Chen Xinyi turned to ask Yu Jian. Yu Jian was helplessly spread her hands, and said to herself, "I don't think you were praising her either."
After saying that, he and Yu Jian left hand in hand...
Huang Nuan stood in front of the bulletin board, touched her chin and laughed mischievously. She knew that her two best friends were at the top of the food chain, and she would definitely not be able to catch up, but she didn't say that she didn't want her to use it.
What a roundabout strategy. She had already asked her teacher. As long as she could maintain her current grades, it would be no problem to get an ordinary undergraduate degree in the capital.
Without noticing, the two best friends actually carried her and walked away!!
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Thursday was the Mid-Autumn Festival. The school kindly gave them a half-day holiday. Huang Nuan sadly swept the things on the desk into her schoolbag bit by bit, sighing.
Her parents are not coming back to celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival. How many years has it been? Every time I ask, they always say they are busy.
"How about you go to my house for dinner? My parents won't be back this year. Xinyi, what about you?" Yu Jian invited them.
Chen Xinyi pushed up her glasses: "If I go to your house, my dad won't come back."
When Huang Nuan heard this, he immediately felt balanced. Everyone was in the same situation. He laughed twice and his movements became brisk.
The two of them went home first, and Yu Jian told them to call their grandparents over, so that they could have a table together so that the elderly could talk together.
For the Mid-Autumn Festival banquet, Yu Jian planned to make it more sumptuous. Firstly, it was a difficult festival, and secondly, it was a celebration of achieving the goal in the exam.
"Uncle, what are the fresh goods today?" Yu Jian carried the bamboo basket to the west of the village, which is the largest fishing port in Xi'ao Village. When the fishing boats returned from the sea, the seafood they caught was laid out in a long corridor that went around the village.
All the restaurants will come here to pick their goods.
When the dark and thin man saw it was her, he grinned, showing his eight festive white teeth: "Is she the girl from the Yu family? The crabs are good, big and fat." The man picked up a big green crab whose hands and feet were tightly tied with a straw rope.
I put the crab in my hand and weighed it, "There must be eight taels."
He picked up another white sea fish, held the head and touched the belly: "Look, it's full of seeds."
Yu Jian ordered three crabs and two fish, and saw a clam seller nearby, and his eyes lit up.
It’s time to make cold toad soup.
As for the crabs, use two to make fried crabs and the other to make honeysuckle clips.
"Oysters, selling oysters!" Yu Jian was walking slowly along the seaside promenade and heard the sound of selling.
A middle-aged woman wearing a hat and a floral shirt saw Yu Jian coming and introduced to her: "The oysters I raise have fat meat." As she said that, she opened the oyster shell with a force of the knife in her hand. Yu Jian looked at it
Go, it's really plump and tender, with a milky smell.
I picked out half a basket of oysters before heading home. Huang Nuan loves to eat baked oysters, and she can even make fried oysters to try.
Yu Jian looked at the fishing boats with sails raised in the sea light, and saw the smiles on the fishermen's faces, and slowly smiled herself.
People rely on the sea to eat, fishermen breed and catch fish, and people living in rural areas eat seafood desperately.
The clams use salt water to spit out sand to ensure that they don't taste grainy. Yu Jian put the salt water in and added a drop of oil to speed up the sand spitting process.
Taking out the steamer, Yu Jian began to steam the pumpkin. The original cold toad soup of the Tang Dynasty was boiled clams in water, with some minced vegetables added to thicken the soup. It didn't have much of a taste other than being fresh.
After combining her grandfather's notes, Yu Jian prepared to innovate this dish. Mash the steamed pumpkin, add milk and water to make pumpkin soup, add a little salt, and stir evenly.
Take the shrimp heads from the fresh shrimps, stir-fry them over low heat to get the shrimp oil, remove the shrimp heads, pour in the pumpkin soup, cook until it bubbles slightly, add the cleaned clams, cover them, and simmer until they are all open.
Finally, sprinkle a little pepper and chives and parsley, and it's ready to serve.
This kind of cold toad soup will not have any fishy smell even if it is cooled. Even if the elderly eat two more bowls, they will not feel any burden.
Wash the blue crabs and steam them in a pot. After cooling, remove the crab roe and crab meat. This is a delicate job. Yu Jian wears gloves and carefully removes the crab meat, not missing any corner. After taking it apart, she puts the crab shells together.
When he got up, he still looked like a complete crab.
She looked at her masterpiece, washed her hands, took out her cell phone, took a photo and posted it in the group.
【!There are actually crabs to eat today!】Huang Nuan replied.
Chen Xinyi enlarged the picture and looked at it frame by frame. She quickly discovered the clues and poked Yu Jian: [Empty crab shell?]
Yu Jian looked at the two people's replies with a smile, then put down her phone and continued, regardless of the fact that the two of them looked like they had been scratched by a cat, full of curiosity but not knowing.
The roll should be thin. Yu Jian sandwiched the seasoned crab meat into the roll, put his thumbs together, and took a toothpick to secure it. Put it in the oil pan and fry until the surface of the roll turns golden brown. Drain and control the oil.
On the plate, put a small spoonful of orange crab roe on top, and place two water-dropping wheatgrass on the side.
The golden flowers are filled with silvery-white crab meat, paired with a touch of green. It doesn't look like food, but rather like a beautiful painting in a spring garden.
The old man has bad teeth, so he steamed the seabass, put green and red pepper threads on it, and topped it with hot oil sauce.
The fried crabs are rich in flavor, with glutinous rice cakes. The oysters are wrapped in batter and fried into small golden pieces. One plate of fried oysters and one plate of fried oysters share the same dipping sauce. One is crispy and tender, and the other is delicious.
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The vegetables are picked from the vegetable garden. The chive flowers snap into pieces and are paired with squid tentacles, which is Grandma Yu’s favorite side dish. There are also sweet potato leaves, add two cloves of garlic, boil the oil in the pan, and sprinkle only a little salt.
Just swallow your tongue.
Yu Jian was immersed in the joy of cooking, and even people outside the door knew.
"I feel like I'm going to overeat this meal again." Huang Nuan lifted the kitchen door frame as usual and peeked through the glass.
Chen Xinyi's posture was exactly the same as hers, and she finally suppressed the constant secretion of saliva: "Same as above."
Looking again, Yu Jian has already started to make the last duck flower soup. Chen Xinyi's pupils trembled slightly and she could no longer calm down...