Arriving at one o'clock in the afternoon, the two groups met. Each of the two old men brought a small cup of wine, set up a small banquet, and sat on the small coffee table in the middle of the large free kitchen, drinking peanuts.
Got up.
"The two of us took some time to chat while cooking at noon, and decided to add a small request to the pork dish in the afternoon, which is a side dish to go with wine, and it should be completed within an hour. Otherwise, I guess you two will most likely want to
How about making stewed pork? That is, pork trotters, braised pork, Dongpo pork stewed for several hours." The old man took a sip of the wine and said with a smile.
"..., grandpa is right." Shi Kuan nodded.
"Xiao Mao, you're about the same." Mr. Li said while picking the peanuts.
"Yeah." Li Mao, the third eldest son of the Li family, nodded and went to select ingredients with Shi Kuan.
"I said, Lao Li, your eldest son has already lost to my third son who is the best at cooking. Now you still want to save face and let your third son deal with my eldest son? Have you forgotten how badly your third son lost in the competition last year?"
The old man glanced sideways at Comrade Li.
"You also said that it was last year. There is an old saying that it takes three days to see someone with new eyes, let alone a year later. My third child has worked hard this year, and I have seen it all. Remind you.
Look, the most talented person in our Li family is the third child who looks the most ordinary. When he competed with your eldest son, he had only learned cooking for two years."
"Hmm... Really? It seems that the third child is just a little monster." The old man smiled and took a sip of wine. There was no victory or defeat in his eyes, only relief.
"Lao Shi, can you be a little more serious? I feel like I have a hot face against a cold butt."
"Hehehe...Old Li, let's learn to enjoy the blessings. Now is the age of children. We are old and it's time to let the children fly by themselves. Let's not push them too hard." The old man smiled and said
I grabbed a handful of peanuts and peeled them.
"Leave some for me... you've taken advantage of this little advantage, don't you have any moral character?" Lao Li said, looking at the peanut plate that had suddenly become empty and giving the old man a sideways glance.
"..., ah... hahaha. Second brother, go get another two kilograms of peanuts." The old man smiled and waved to Li Wu, feeling a little embarrassed.
Li Wu had already been waiting nearby with a bag of peanuts, boasting, "I really have foresight."
"Yeah." Shi Ke and Li Pin crossed their hands and nodded, their movements synchronized.
"Grandpa, Grandpa Shi, I've picked it up." Li Maoxian came over with pork belly and a series of side dishes.
"Well, let's go first. It's good to be quick in picking vegetables." The old man waved, very satisfied.
"Grandpa, I'm fine too." Shi Kuan came over with meat and side dishes.
"Well... this meat... is a bit interesting. However, adding water is a bit too much. Xiao Kuan." The old man tilted his mouth.
"..., no water added. Grandpa, this is a new dish I thought of." Shi Kuan put down the meat, grinned, and gave a thumbs up.
"Oh? Oh ho ho... Then I'll wait and see." The old man smiled and took a sip of his wine.
"Look, grandpa." Shi Kuan raised his kitchen knife and chopped open the pork he chose.
The skin and flesh are separated, the bones and flesh are separated.
Fatty meat, lean meat, pig skin, and pig internal organs are all finely divided into several parts, each with different patterns.
Cut the green onion into small sections, slice the ginger, flatten the garlic, squeeze the green onion into a roll, add soy sauce, sugar, refined salt, star anise, fennel, cinnamon and other condiments, stir evenly and pour on the cut pork.
"Let it marinate for half an hour. Twenty minutes is enough for the final step." Shi Kuan wiped the condiments on his hands with a towel and looked at Li Mao.
"Gulu gulu..." Li Mao looked at the iron pot of boiling water in front of him, concentrating on cooking the pork in the pot with chopsticks, and did not pay attention to Shi Kuan at all.
"..." Shi Kuan looked at Li Mao and smiled knowingly, "It seems that I am not the only one who has made progress. Last year, I was still in trouble at the first provocation..."
"No one will stand still. Do you really think you can beat me with barbecue? Brother Shi!" Li Mao said.
"Your boiled meat is the one who underestimates me." Shi Kuan said with a smile.
"Mine is not ordinary boiled meat."
"My barbecue is not ordinary. Forget it, it's useless to talk more. Let's see the real results." Shi Kuan set up another pot and began to melt the butter. After the butter melted, add more
Added with various processed rock sugar, bay leaves and other spices and ingredients, an appetite-inducing aroma overflowed and swept through the entire first floor like a tornado.
"Hmm... the smell is really nice." The old man said, touching his chin.
"Yeah. Very good." Mr. Li stroked his beard and nodded.
"Hmm~~, a familiar smell of spicy strips." Shi Ke smelled it and nodded, (￣￣).
"Hey~~" Several young people next to him looked disgusted.
"Hey!! Third brother! Don't ruin the atmosphere!!" Shi Kuan was so angry that the fat on his face trembled.
"Hehehe..." Shi Ke smiled like a Yukihira, and showed his big white teeth.
"Where did you get this expression? It looks really stupid!" Shi Fu thought to himself.
"Ah sneeze!!" Xingping, who was studying recipes at home, sneezed hard and looked at the two people around him fiercely, "Who is talking bad about me?!"
After a while, the two of them served the food.
Everyone looked at the two dishes and suddenly became greedy.
Shi Kuan's dish is a pork barbecue platter. The fat and lean meat are clearly differentiated, and various pork ingredients are displayed like soldiers waiting for review. The fragrant fat is slowly flowing on the pork visibly to the naked eye, filling the surface of the pork.
Because of the slightly opened patterns caused by the heat of the barbecue, and the sizzling sound caused by the residual heat of the grease, it makes people feel as if they are being teased, and they feel itchy in their hearts, and a feeling of hunger arises spontaneously.
"My dish is called small whole pig barbecue. Please try it." Shi Kuan pushed his dish forward and said.
"No rush. I'll take a look at Xiao Mao's dishes." The old man looked at Li Mao's dishes with a smile, not knowing what he was thinking about.
Li Mao's dish is boiled pork. The fat slices, about one finger wide and one finger long, about two to three millimeters thick, are as frosty as jade. They are arranged on the plate in a semicircle like a peacock spreading its tail. In the middle of the semicircle is placed
There were slightly red and white strips of pork belly, one finger thick and one finger long. A faint aroma of meat and wine accompanied by the faint water vapor penetrated into everyone's nostrils, making people couldn't help but shift their attention from the barbecue to
On this dish.
"Fragrance leaves, cinnamon bark, tangerine peel, cumin, star anise, refined salt, rock sugar, green onion, ginger, garlic, no soy sauce or other seasonings. Did you use strong white wine instead of cooking wine?" Shi Ke's nose moved and the corners of his mouth raised.
"My dish is called wine-flavored pork.
This is my special dipping sauce. Please dip it in the sauce before eating. Of course, you can also eat it directly." Li Mao brought out a plate of red sauce and a plate of black sauce and pushed them in front of the two old men.
"Yes. Not bad." Mr. Li nodded, and one look at his expression showed that he was very satisfied, "Old Shi, taste it."
"Well. Which one should I eat first?" the old man said.
"Let's eat your grandson's first. He introduced it first."
"Nice enough. Okay, as you wish."
"..., why don't you eat my grandson's food first, so as not to take advantage of you." Mr. Li closed his eyes and rubbed his temples.
"What did you say?" the old man asked, holding the barbecue made by Shi Kuan in his mouth.
"..., it's nothing! Eat!" Mr. Li was discouraged for no reason when he saw the old man's appearance.
Mr. Li put the barbecue into his mouth and savored it carefully, "Hmm! The outside is crispy and delicious, and the fat inside is fragrant. The smell of barbecue is obviously strong, but it doesn't feel greasy. It's fragrant! It's so fragrant!"
"Hmm. Just by looking at the appearance, I thought it would be so spicy, but I didn't expect... you would boldly add mint and honeysuckle when pickling. This strong contrast actually contributed to a very interesting taste impact. Boss,
You've made a lot of progress." The old man nodded while eating.
"..." Li tasted a piece and stared with dead eyes, "Shi Kuan, are you planning to beat me to death this year?"
"Yeah. I was scared by your food last year." Shi Kuan nodded calmly.
"Haha..., okay! Just wait for next year!"
After a while, he said, "Hey...it's all gone after just a few mouthfuls." The old man hadn't had enough yet, so he drank two more sips of wine to cover it up.
"Come on. It's up to you to grab more!" Mr. Li was fussing with his chopsticks and still couldn't taste the food. It was really unsatisfactory.
"If you can't beat me, you have to blame yourself. Go back and practice."
"snort!"
"Next dish." The old man stretched his chopsticks towards Li Mao's dish.
"Pah!" Mr. Li stopped the old man with chopsticks, "I'll go first."
"Oh oh oh...you go first. Don't act like I've bullied you."
"Yeah." Mr. Li picked up the first chopstick like a child.
The old man did the same thing, and picked up the second chopsticks immediately after.
The two old men looked at each other's actions and smiled at each other, "Eat!"
"Hmm!!!~ Good!! This dish is cooked well!!" The two old men ate the first piece of boiled meat and nodded in unison.
"Hmm...hahaha...good luck." Li Mao's expectant expression was stunned for a moment, and he couldn't help but blush and scratch the back of his head.
"..." The two old men were silent and rushed to eat.
Shi Ke saw that what they were eating was really delicious, so he couldn't help but pick up his chopsticks and join the army of meat snatchers.
"You brat! Why are you here to join in the fun?!" The two old men were so angry that they almost cursed.
"Oh, oh. One piece, just one piece." Shi Ke still shamelessly picked up a piece, walked to the side and started eating, his expression suddenly became super enjoyable.
"Gulu..." Shi Kuan, Shi Fu, Li Pin, and Li Wu swallowed together, and each of them snatched a piece.
"You brats, you are going to rebel!!!" The old man puffed his beard and glared, looking very angry.
"Hmm! It's delicious! This meat tastes really good~!" The little devils turned a deaf ear and stopped talking while eating.
"Um..." When the old man got angry, he stretched out his chopsticks and snatched away the meat that Mr. Li had selected and was picking it up. He dipped it in the sauce and ate it in one bite at the speed of light.
"...Ah! You shameless old guy!!" Mr. Li was stunned for a moment and then realized that he was so angry.
After a while, Operation CD was successfully completed.
"Hmm~~Phew!!" The two old men ate very happily. They took a sip from the small wine glass and lay on their respective chairs with glowing faces.
"..., Grandpa finally enjoyed the food I cooked! For the first time, I have a dish that Grandpa is sure of!" Li Mao was overjoyed.
"Old Shi, who won this game?" Mr. Li was a little excited.
"Your third child has won. This dish takes advantage of my eldest child's dishes and our ages."
"Yes. Now that I'm older, your eldest brother's food does handle the greasiness very well. However, compared with my third child's food, it's still a bit greasy. If I have to make an analogy, one serving is better.
A 100% test paper met a 100% test paper with additional points, just a little bit behind. Hahaha, Lao Shi, your boss lost." Mr. Li was very happy.
"Yes. The dishes prepared by the two boys are quite good. It's just that my little Kuan Shao has considered the physical condition of our two old men."
"Hmm. Now we have one win and one loss. When will the last match be?"
"Three against three. Okay, after the cafeteria closes at eight o'clock in the evening."
"Hmm~~" Mr. Li shook his head and held out a finger, "One-on-one. Don't try to hide it from me anymore. I have to know the strength of your second son today."
"Don't."
"It's okay if you admit defeat. Anyway, it's one to one." Mr. Li looked like he was sure of victory.
"Yeah. Don't regret it."
"No regrets."
"Then let's change the selection method. We'll finish the two dishes and then evaluate them." The old man said as if he was betting on his life.
"No problem." Mr. Li nodded with a smile.
Three emoticons of Shi Ke, Shi Kuan and Shi Fu. (w)(⊙x⊙;)(t＿t)
"Why do you have such an expression?" Li Pin asked quietly.
"Get the ambulance ready." Shi Ke patted Li Pin on the shoulder and left while suppressing a smile.
"Yeah." Shi Kuan nodded and walked away with Shi Fu, who was crying.
"What do you mean?" Li Pin had a bad premonition at this time.
Dark clouds began to appear in the sky outside the building, and a strange cold wind began to blow.