Sun Dahai played with the two of them for a while, guessing that the time was almost up, so he got up and went into the kitchen.
Chef Cao is cooking, and the two burners on the gas stove are occupied. Chef Cao is frying potatoes in his hand, and on the other fire, the stewed fish is being cooked over high heat. Next to the gas stove, there is an assistant cooking
The coal stove is also working. A large pot of soup is simmering on it.
Steam is steaming in the kitchen, and the aroma is fragrant.
Sun Dahai sniffed and tried hard to swallow the excessive saliva secreted due to the stimulation of olfactory cells in his mouth. He first took out a bowl, beat an egg in it, added two spoons of flour and water, and sprinkled in salt
, five-spice powder, and pepper. After thinking about it, he added a few more drops of oil, and then stirred vigorously with chopsticks. Finally, Sun Dahai put the pickled fish scales into the basin and poured in the freshly thickened gravy.
Make the fish scales evenly coated with thin gravy.
Chef Cao was finishing the work, but the pot hadn't been emptied yet. Sun Dahai went to wash a few corianders and cut them into sections. He took out the basin with the fish skins, first took out a bowl and put it aside, and then put some in the basin.
While cleaning the pot, Chef Cao asked Sun Dahai: "How did you think of making fish skin? I've eaten it before, but I've never made it myself."
"It's like this. There is a classmate in our class who has relatives from the Hezhe ethnic group. He told me that the Hezhe people like fish skins very much. Small fish skins are eaten and large fish skins can be used to make fish skin clothes. His relatives agreed.
I'll make him a fish skin coat later. Today's black fish is quite big, so I thought of using the fish skin for cooking." Sun Dahai was very familiar with this kind of problem, and he casually sent out a scapegoat.
No need to make up any names.
"Can fish skin be used to make clothes?" asked Cao Yue, who came in to help serve the dishes.
"That's an old craft. The finished fish skin clothing is waterproof, wear-resistant, and very beautiful. Unfortunately, it's too cumbersome to make. There are very few big wild fish now, so many people don't know about it. If it continues like this, we might not be able to make it."
It’s lost.” Chef Cao sighed.
"I really want to see what the fish skin clothes look like." Cao Yue sighed regretfully and went out with the dishes.
Zhang Guozheng, Li Jian and others also came to help. The kitchen was suddenly overcrowded.
Chef Cao hurriedly chased him away: "You girls go to the dining hall to clear the table and set out the dishes. Xiao Jian, you and Xiao Liang go to my house and your aunt's house and take the steamer on the coal stove to the dining hall. Be careful."
Don't burn it. Just watch the state affairs from the sea."
Two little heads popped up at the door of the kitchen, and Zhang Yujie dragged Sun Yuanyuan to join in the fun.
"Give way, give way." Li Liang walked to the kitchen carrying a steaming steamer, followed by Li Jian who also held a pot.
Zhang Yujie took a look and quickly opened the door to the canteen for them. After the two of them entered, Zhang Yujie closed the door of the canteen, pulled Sun Yuanyuan to the door of the kitchen, and asked: "Grandpa Cao, the kitchen is so big, why are you still here?"
There is cooking in the house, the food is cooked in the house, and the smell does not escape for a long time." It seems that she has personal experience.
Chef Cao said with a smile: "We have rice as our staple food today. There are so many people eating it, and we have to cook at the same time, so we can only make rice with water. I boil the rice in a big pot until it is half cooked, then divide it into two pots and get
Steam it on the stove in the room. This way you don’t have to occupy the fire.”
Chef Cao took off his apron as he spoke and led them both back to the dining hall.
Sun Dahai ignored them and concentrated on the work in hand.
Sun Dahai lit a fire and made a pot. When the pot was hot, he poured oil and started frying the fish scales.
The fish scales wrapped in thin white gravy were lowered into the pot in batches by Sun Dahai. When they came out of the pot, they had turned golden brown and curled up, making them very attractive.
Zhang Guozheng said enviously: "Da Dahai, you know how to cook at such a young age, you are much better than me."
"I'm greedy, and Grandpa Cao is a great chef, so I naturally learned to cook. Brother Guozheng, what do you like?"
"I...I don't know either." Zhang Guozheng scratched his head in confusion: "My academic performance is average, and I am not very willing to learn. I want to wait until I graduate from junior high school to learn some skills and find a job. I will work early.
, we can let Yujie study hard, it would be great if she could get into university."
"After the New Year, Brother Guozheng, please get up an hour early every morning and exercise with me. No matter what you do in the future, your body is the most important. I will teach you boxing, I know Tai Chi, and...
"Changquan." Sun Dahai originally wanted to say Juntiquan, but then he thought that Juntiquan was only included in the training syllabus by the Military Commission in 1989, and the third set of Juntiquan he knew appeared even later. So it was renamed Changquan.
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"Okay, then I will learn from you." Zhang Guozheng was moved.
For a good friend like Zhang Guozheng, Sun Dahai will work hard to change his destiny no matter what. However, there is no rush now and he must take his time.
When the dishes were ready, Sun Dahai divided the fried fish scales, mixed fish skin, and each dish into two plates, and brought them to the dining hall with Zhang Guozheng.
Several tables in the dining hall were put together into a long table, with the elders sitting at one end and the juniors at the other end. Aunt Xiaoyue was not included, as she always had to be buried among the children.
Sun Dahai set the plate and took Zhang Guozheng to sit down. All the dishes on the dinner table were divided into two portions and placed at both ends of the long table, so that it would be convenient for everyone to eat.
Today’s lunch was very sumptuous. Boiled fish, braised black fish with garlic, spicy and sour potato shreds, stir-fried meat with garlic sprouts, vinegar cabbage, stir-fried radish skin, plus Sun Dahai’s cold fish skin and fried fish scales. Finally,
There is also fish head and tofu soup.
Dishes of delicious color and taste were placed on the table, and the aroma was overflowing. Everyone's mouths were watering. Jiang Xiuping said a few words, and everyone started to use chopsticks.
Sun Dahai helped Zhang Guozheng prepare the dishes. He was a bit shy and was not as open as his sister. Zhang Yujie did not care about it and ate with ferocity. The others were all relatives who came and went frequently and were not polite when eating.
.Sun Yuanyuan was arranged by her mother to take care of her meals.
"Dahai, you cooked these two dishes well." Chef Cao made an authoritative appraisal.
"It's delicious, and it tastes like Cantonese food." Zheng Ziyun also praised him.
"Grandma Zheng, I added a little bit of your favorite oyster sauce to both of my dishes. I think when making dishes with strong fishy smell like fish and lamb, you should add some oyster sauce to use the fishy smell of the oyster sauce to neutralize the meat.
This can remove the fishy smell and improve the freshness.”
The other elders also nodded. Even Sun Yuanyuan was eating happily. It seemed that the refreshing taste of the cold fish skin and the crispiness of the fried fish scales had conquered their taste buds.
The four members of the Li family and the Zhang family brothers and sisters don't usually eat much meat, so they eat fish with rice. Li Jian loves spicy food, and he also takes out the bean sprouts for cooking from the fish boiling basin and mixes them with the rice.
Zhang Yujie took a bite of roasted black fish on the left and a bite of boiled fish on the right. It tasted so sweet. Sun Dahai quickly told her that the boiled fish was made from grass carp, which had many thorns, so be careful not to get punctured after eating it.
After a while, they took turns to add more rice, and they were almost full. One by one, they slowed down and started to taste other dishes.
As a result, the two dishes Sun Dahai cooked were visibly reduced. Cao Yue even asked Sun Dahai to cook these two dishes every time she went home.
In addition to Sun Dahai's two dishes that were highly sought after, the black fish head and tofu soup made by Chef Cao was also drunk up without realizing it. Even the two grandma and Sun Yuanyuan, who didn't have much appetite, each drank several bowls.
.Sun Yuanyuan’s belly was bulging.
On the dinner table, except for the two kinds of fish that were heavily competed for at first, there was a little bit left over, and all the other dishes and soups were on the plate.
Today's lunch has concluded successfully.
With more people and more strength, everyone quickly finished all the work of washing dishes and cleaning the canteen. After resting for a while, Li Cuifeng and Sun Weiguo took the Li brothers and sisters to the department store for shopping. Sun Weiguo made an appointment with them
, after going to my grandpa’s house to continue playing during the Spring Festival, I saw off my cousins.
Zhang Yujie didn't want to go home yet, so she begged her brother to continue accompanying her. Zhang Guozheng felt that he had been playing here for a long time and was a little hesitant for fear of affecting the Sun family's lunch break.
Sun Dahai said to Zhang Guozheng: "Brother Guozheng, can you ride a bicycle?"
"Yes, I have practiced on my dad's car many times."
"That's great. In the afternoon, I have to go out to do some errands. It's not far away, right next to our school. I have a car at home, so you can take me there by bike."
Sun Yuanyuan was already drowsy at this time. Grandma asked Cao Yue to take Sun Yuanyuan and Zhang Yujie to her room for a nap. Then she asked Sun Dahai and Zhang Guozheng to rest in their own room.
The room was warm, the two people, who had eaten and drank enough, lay on the soft bed, with quilts draped around them, chatting for a few words, and then fell asleep.