After washing, Lin Xu took the elevator downstairs.
After renting a house.
His biggest change is that he sleeps longer.
When I lived on campus before, I had to get up at four in the morning so that I could be in time to buy groceries in the morning.
But now, he can sleep until 4:20 before moving in.
Scan for a shared bicycle at the gate of the community.
Lin Xu came to the Chunfeng Vegetable Market leisurely and began to purchase the ingredients for today.
"Good morning, Boss Lin!"
"Come to buy groceries, Boss Lin."
"Boss Lin, can you make more chicken feet?"
"It's just that our market ended late, so we went to have breakfast after we were busy and everything was sold out."
Just arrived at the vegetable market.
The vendors said hello one after another.
Lin Xu buys a lot of food, cooks delicious food, and is young and handsome. Within a few days, he became a celebrity in Chunfeng Market.
"After receiving your message last night, I ordered premium grade lotus roots overnight. These are nine-hole lotus roots with a crispy texture and are best suited for cold dishes."
Uncle Shen stood in front of the stall and enthusiastically introduced the lotus roots on the stall to Lin Xu.
Lotus root is divided into seven holes and nine holes.
Seven-hole lotus root is relatively thick and has high starch content, making it suitable for stewing.
The nine-hole lotus root is relatively slender and has a relatively low starch content, making it more suitable for making cold dishes with a crispy texture.
Lin Xu checked it.
These lotus roots are of moderate thickness, well-proportioned appearance, and really good color.
After reading it, he said:
"Twenty kilograms, it's the first day. It's too small and the customers will be nagging again."
After selecting the lotus roots, Lin Xu selected the tomatoes, eggplants and green vegetables to be used today, bought necessary ingredients such as pork and chicken feet, and was then delivered to the store by the enthusiastic butcher stall owner.
Lin Xu put away the ingredients for the afternoon.
Then start preparing the dishes for the morning.
Soak chicken feet and pork.
Then put the soup used to braise chicken feet yesterday on the stove to heat it up.
Let the jelly-like stew in the stew bucket melt.
These braised soups are originally made from stock, plus the chicken feet that are rich in colloids will solidify into lumps after the temperature drops slightly.
When used.
Need to be heated in advance.
After the stewed soup has dissolved.
Lin Xu used a large colander to take out all the onion, ginger, dried chili, pepper, star anise and other ingredients and threw them into the trash can.
The stewed soup can be reused unlimited times.
And the more it is repeated, the stronger the fragrance becomes.
But the slag inside cannot be repeated.
Cleaning and filtering are required every day.
Otherwise, it will easily cause the stewed soup to go rancid.
Filter the stewed soup.
Lin Xu began to pack the chicken feet.
Now the store needs to sell more than 2,000 chicken feet and more than 700 bowls of hand-made noodles every day.
This is basically the limit of kitchen production.
Although I grit my teeth, I can still increase the amount.
But Lin Xu doesn’t think it’s necessary.
Because the quality of the food cannot be guaranteed after the increase.
Moreover, if you continue to work at a high intensity, your body will not be able to bear it.
It is only right to stabilize the sales volume first and slowly add new dishes.
Seven o'clock in the morning.
Lin Xu had marinated the chicken feet and was just about to pack the lotus roots.
Mom Chen Meijuan suddenly sent a WeChat message:
"Son, I've already taken the high-speed train to Beijing. I'll arrive around 10:30. Send me your location. I'll take a taxi when I get there."
Lin Xu: "..."
Do you still think I’m in a pyramid scheme?
I didn’t send the message until I got in the car.
I'm afraid I won't be allowed to come.
He sent his mother a location.
Then take the lotus root.
First clean the remaining sludge on the surface.
Then use a paring knife to peel off the skin of the lotus root.
When making lotus roots.
The outer skin must be peeled clean.
Otherwise, the color of the lotus root slices will be dark, which will affect the appearance.
After peeling off the outer skin.
Lin Xu took the kitchen knife and started slicing.
When making ginger juice lotus root, the lotus root slices should not be too thick, but they should not be too thin either.
About two millimeters is best.
Such lotus root slices can be cooked through just a little blanching, and it is more conducive to the starch soaking out, making the lotus root slices more crispy.
The cut lotus root slices should be soaked in water with white vinegar added.
This can make the lotus root slices whiter.
The appearance is also more beautiful.
The lotus roots are cut.
Che Zi also came to work.
Lin Xu gave him a stipulation to arrive at the store at 7:30 in the morning.
Responsible for the toppings of several types of noodles and some chores.
Lin Xu is only responsible for technical matters.
Wash the cut lotus root slices several times.
Wash off the starch on the surface as much as possible.
Then put it in clean water and continue soaking.
Take advantage of this time.
Lin Xu brought ginger and a juicer.
Start squeezing ginger juice.
The biggest feature of the Ginger Lotus Root dish is that it uses ginger juice instead of minced ginger.
Ginger juice must be freshly squeezed.
Blend the squeezed ginger juice with white vinegar, then add salt and twice the amount of sugar as the salt, and the ginger and lotus root salad juice is ready.
There are many flavors of ginger lotus root.
There are hot and sour flavors, sour and salty flavors, and the sweet and sour flavor that Lin Xu is making now.
The sweet and sour lotus root tastes refreshing and appetizing.
It’s a good dish to go with wine.
10:40 am.
The preparation work in the store has come to an end.
Lin Xu and the five employees under him all held large bowls of noodles and ate noodles. In front of a few people, there was a plate of tiger skin chicken feet and a plate of ginger lotus root.
"Eat more. The customers at noon come more urgently and fiercely. When you are busy, let alone eating, you don't even have time to drink water."
When talking.
Lin Xu picked up a slice of lotus root as white as jade and put it into his mouth.
The sweet and sour lotus root slices are crispy with a hint of ginger spiciness, and are dotted with small pieces of green and red bell peppers, which not only enriches the taste, but also increases the appearance.
“The boss’s craftsmanship is really great!”
Che Zai originally thought that adding lotus root would not have any shocking effect.
At least no tiger skin chicken feet would be popular.
But after tasting it, he discovered.
I still underestimated the boss’s cooking skills.
These lotus root slices are so well made that they cannot be described in words.
No matter the white color, crisp texture, or sweet and sour taste, people can’t stop eating.
While several people were eating.
Chen Meijuan opened the door and walked into the store.
She is about forty-six or seventeen years old. Although there are signs of aging on her face, it can be seen from her still fair skin that Chen Meijuan was definitely a beauty when she was young.
"Hello, welcome!"
When Song Tiantian saw someone coming in, she quickly put down her chopsticks to say hello.
Lin Xu raised his head and realized that his mother was here.
He smiled and said:
"This is my mother. I'm here to see you from my hometown... You can continue to eat."
After saying that, he walked towards the door.
As soon as they heard that the boss's mother had arrived, Che Zai and the others quickly stood up to say hello:
"Hello, aunt."
"Auntie, are you tired? I'll get you some water."
"Are you hungry, auntie? The store now has tiger skin chicken feet and ginger juice lotus root."
"..."
Chen Meijuan greeted them with a smile and then walked to the kitchen:
"You eat your own food and don't worry about me. Son, cook me a bowl of noodles and let mom have a taste of your cooking. I want to see how delicious hand-made noodles cost 10,000 yuan a day." p>
Lin Xu picked up the rolling pin:
"Mom, ten thousand yuan was the day before yesterday."
Chen Meijuan put away her smile:
"You mean, there aren't usually that many? How many did you sell yesterday?"
Lin Xu flexed his index finger and thumb, raised his middle finger, ring finger and little finger.
Chen Meijuan raised her hand and hit him on the arm:
"You kid, let me ask you a question. Why are you comparing yourself to OK?"