Li Taibai has a very good saying, "What I am born with will be useful."
Although Mrs. Qin is excellent in poetry and song, she doesn't even know the most basic means of life. If you leave her alone for a few days, she will starve to death.
On the other hand, although these children from poor families cannot read a single word, even if you throw them into the deep mountains and forests, they will not necessarily starve to death.
Who is a genius and who is a waste is a matter of opinion.
No one is perfect, and no one should feel inferior. At least you are still alive in the world, and you have enough pride compared to those who have passed away.
"Brother, these onions and ginger have been washed."
The two children hurriedly walked up to Li Qi with the wooden basin. After putting the wooden basin down, they hurried back to the stream. They could have watched the Golden Knife Chef cook, which would have been great luck, but these
How do children know this? They have seen a lot of cooking and can do it themselves, but the temptation brought to them by literacy cannot be compared.
Birds chirped, cicadas chirped, crickets, and frogs competed in singing in the field. The warm breeze blew by, rustling the leaves.
What a joyful song in the fields.
Li Qi was alone in handling those difficult loaches. He first used salt and wine to marinate the loaches for a while, and then took them out. His hands seemed to have magic power.
The loach that kept its hands was finally no longer willful.
Li Qi picked up a pair of small scissors, cut open the belly of the loach, took out the gall bladder, intestines and other internal organs, and cleaned the inside.
This loach is notoriously difficult to handle. When Li Qi's father taught him how to handle the loach, practice makes perfect. In fact, many housewives can handle this loach much faster than some chefs. Of course, the chef.
They rarely choose such a simple and crude method. They have more perfect methods and a better environment.
At the beginning, Li Qi was still a little unskilled, after all, he hadn't dealt with the loach for a long time, but as he got closer, he got faster and faster, and in the blink of an eye, dozens of loaches became dead souls under Li Qi's sword.
Then put the loach into the pot, add salt and an appropriate amount of water, and put it on the fire.
He cut the tofu he just bought from the workshop into cubes less than an inch, chopped the ginger, and cut the green onions into small pieces. When the loach was stewed until it was cooked, he added the tofu.
After boiling, Li Qi took off the hanging pot, placed a small pot, put minced ginger, chopped green onion and other ingredients, stir-fry until fragrant with a wooden spatula, then poured in loach, tofu, soup, soy sauce, rice wine, rice vinegar, and vinegar.
Cover and cook over fire.
"ok!"
Li Qi took a long breath and looked up to the stream. Seeing Mrs. Qin squatting with seven children by the stream and writing on the soil with a tree, he couldn't help laughing and said: "Is this really the story of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs?"
Story? No, no. This is more like a husband and a child."
After a while, Li Qi saw that it was almost done, so he shouted: "Hey, hey, that beautiful female gentleman, it's time to eat."
Mrs. Qin looked up, gave Li Qi a blank look from afar, and then walked over with a group of children.
"Wow! It smells so good!"
"Is this scent really produced by loaches? Why wasn't the one we made before so fragrant?"
"Brother, did you do this?"
As soon as the group of children smelled the aroma emanating from the pot, they immediately forgot what they had just learned and squatted by the fire, staring at the casserole with their shining eyes.
Li Qi smiled and shook his head. He removed the burning firewood and handed it to Ma Qiao to put it out. However, he did not touch the charcoal that was still burning and opened the pot directly.
A strong fragrance then spread out, causing these children to swallow their saliva.
Mrs. Qin smiled softly and caressed the little head of a child next to her.
Li Qi was not in a hurry to help them fill the soup, but smiled and said: "This big sister just taught you how to write names, you have learned it well."
The seven children nodded in unison.
"Then I'll check and check. If you haven't learned anything, you haven't eaten it."
The children immediately picked up the branches and started writing on the soil nearby. After a while, they all wrote their names.
Li Qi clicked his tongue and said, "This word is comparable to mine."
Mrs. Qin snorted and rolled her eyes: "You still have the nerve to say it."
Li Qi laughed twice and said: "Bowl."
Swish, swish, swish!
The seven children all stretched out their bowls. Li Qi was startled and said: "Don't worry, don't worry, come one by one, starting with the youngest one." He took it from the child who had just shot him in the butt.
He came over with a bowl, and while serving the soup for this butt, he laughed and cursed: "You kid, you dare to shoot my butt, how brave are you?"
The little kid pursed his lips and said, "I'm sorry, brother, I don't have the strength to pull the slingshot."
"I don't have the strength." Li Qi snorted and said, "Then I'll punish you by eating an extra bowl later to increase your strength, so as not to hurt my butt."
This punishment was not bad, and the little kid immediately grinned happily.
Li Qi helped each of them fill a bowl. Each bowl contained two loaches and a piece of tofu, which was fair and reasonable. He then helped Mrs. Qin fill another bowl.
"Thanks."
Mrs. Qin took the bowl and saw that the soup in the bowl was clear to the bottom. The white tofu seemed to be floating on the soup, which was very beautiful. She joked: "Your soup is much prettier than your calligraphy."
Hey, you dare to tease me, aren't you afraid that I will amuse you later? Li Qi said hey, "Not as beautiful as you."
Mrs. Qin spat, glanced at the children, and breathed a sigh of relief when she saw that they were all focusing on the fresh soup in the bowl.
Li Qi filled another bowl and sent it to Ma Qiao. Ma Qiao was about to reach out to take it, but Li Qi shrank back, put it to his mouth and blew it gently, saying: "If you want to eat, serve it yourself."
Maqiao is embarrassed.
There is no other way, Master Li just has this in mind.
Li Qi secretly laughed in his heart, you damn thing, you didn't even come to help me when you saw me being besieged. If I don't teach you a lesson, I'm afraid you will forget who you are.
Ma Qiao and the coachman helped themselves to a bowl.
"Gulu gulu."
"Hachihachi."
"It's delicious. This loach is really delicious."
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Mrs. Qin looked at the delicious food these children were eating. She wanted to swallow all the bowls and made various noises. If she were an adult, she might feel disgusted, but there were only children sitting there, so she found it quite cute.
.And seeing that they ate so deliciously, I couldn't help but increase my appetite. I blew it again and took a sip of the soup. I felt that the soup was delicate, mellow and pleasant, sliding over the tip of my tongue like silk. It had a great touch and fragrance.
It was wrapped around the teeth, and the aftertaste was endless. He picked up a piece of loach meat and put it into his mouth. The loach meat was even more tender and delicious, very delicious, with a smooth and succulent feeling. His eyes lit up and he said, "I didn't expect this loach soup."
It tastes so good, it can be called a delicacy."
Li Qidao: "Aren't you talking nonsense? This loach has the reputation of ginseng in the water. It is no worse than those shrimps and crabs. It's just that the loach is difficult to handle. Once there is a slight deviation and it is not processed cleanly, the deliciousness will be greatly reduced, and it may even be very unpalatable. Error tolerance
The rate is relatively low, so many people think that the loach is not as delicious as shrimps and crabs, but it’s actually because the chef is not skilled enough.”
Mrs. Qin said with a half-smile, "Yes, you are the only one who is good at cooking."
"You don't need to say this. Everyone knows it."
Mrs. Qin asked again: "Then what is the name of your dish?"
"Speaking of the name of this dish, it's amazing." Li Qi clicked his tongue.
When he said this, the children looked at him curiously.
Li Qi paused for a moment and said, "It's called Loach Diamond Tofu."
"Loach drilled tofu?"
Mrs. Qin immediately gave her own evaluation, "Vulgar."
What? With such a domineering name, it becomes vulgar if it falls into your mouth. You really have long hair and short knowledge. Li Qi glanced at Mrs. Qin dissatisfied.
Then Deng Zhong suddenly said: "Brother, you said this dish is called loach tofu, but we didn't see loach tofu!"
The other children also nodded.
Li Qi chuckled: "You are right. This is the flaw in my dish. I said before that loaches are very difficult to handle. In addition to the fact that loaches are slippery, another thing is that loaches are used to burrowing into the soil.
Go, there is a lot of mud in the body. If the mud is not cleaned up, the taste will be bitter and spoil the pot of soup. The original method of making loach tofu is to rest the loach for a few days and wait until the loach spits it out.
The soil inside the body began to cook again. But due to lack of time, I could only dispose of it by cutting it open and cleaning it."
Mrs. Qin asked curiously: "Even if the loach is alive, why did it get into the tofu?"
"A loach can even burrow into the soil, so does it have the right to dislike tofu? If it has tofu to eat, it's pretty good."
Li Qi further explained: "If the resting method is used, then when cooking, the live loaches and tofu are put into the cold water pot at the same time. As the water temperature continues to rise, the loaches will have nowhere to hide in the hot soup.
, and finally got into the cold tofu. Of course, they still couldn't escape the fate of being cooked. When the real product of this dish was presented, you can see several loaches getting into a piece of tofu. It was very strange, so this dish
There is also a name called 'Jade Clay'."
The children all opened their mouths when they heard this. This was really strange. Two little guys even clapped their hands, thinking that they must try this loach drilled tofu next time.
Fortunately, Xiao Jiu was not here, otherwise, he would have had to experiment immediately.
"Mud in Jade?" Mrs. Qin pondered for a moment and nodded repeatedly: "This name sounds much better. Tofu is as smooth and clear as jade, but loach is black. The loach burrowed into the tofu, one beautiful and one ugly.
The jade-in-mud complements each other very well. Although I have never seen it before, I can imagine it. It’s just---"
As she spoke, she suddenly asked Li Qi in a low voice: "Can this loach really get into the tofu?"
Li Qi's eyes swayed from side to side, and then he whispered: "It depends on luck. I've done it twenty times, and I've only succeeded three times at most. I usually insert the loach into the tofu manually."
Mrs. Qin said: "Then you are lying."
"What a lie, it's superficial." Li Qi snorted and said, "This dish is just like painting, it's all about artistic conception. How can the guests care about how you cook it? Oh, isn't my Buddha jumping over the wall? Only if you really look like a Buddha can you be considered as not lying to others."
Mrs. Qin was so robbed by him that she had no way to refute.
But with these words to cheer up, everyone ate more happily, but joy is joy, this soup can only satisfy the taste of the tongue, but cannot satisfy hunger.
The little kid covered his stomach and said, "Brother, do you have food to eat?"
"Wait a minute."
Li Qi smiled and dug into the fire with a long stick. Within a moment, he pulled out several bamboo tubes from the charcoal fire. (To be continued, please search Piao Tian Literature, novels are better. Update faster!