At noon the next day, many summer vacation parties came to Sun Dahai's house. Everyone celebrated Gao Yi's birthday and had a big party.
Jiang Xiuping deliberately went out to find friends and reserved space at home for them. Thanks to Sun Dahai's house, which is big enough, otherwise, more than 20 half-year-old children would be making trouble together without enough space.
Gao Yi is the birthday girl today, so Sun Dahai won't let her help with cooking today.
Fortunately, Wang Huan, Jiang Yan, Zhang Guozheng and Battelle could help him with the work. Otherwise, how long would Sun Dahai have to work alone if he had to prepare meals for more than 20 people?
Battle arrived home at ten o'clock in the morning. He loaded several large buckets of fresh seafood into the truck and picked up the cakes he had ordered.
Tables and chairs were set up in the middle courtyard, and Gao Yi sat in the middle, wearing a birthday hat made for her by Zhang Yujie and Su Jia, acting as a mascot.
Almost all of Sun Dahai's friends are here. Except for a few who are not in the capital now, and Yang Xufei, the rest are here.
There is no such thing as summer vacation for Yang Xufei's football team. They are probably training hard right now.
The seafood that Battle bought was very good, so Sun Dahai started cooking with seafood-flavored ingredients. There were many people, and they were all children, so everyone ate in the buffet style, which saved trouble.
The end of July is a good season for eating shrimps, and there are also shellfish, which are also the most delicious. Battelle followed Sun Dahai’s instructions and bought a lot of them.
He specifically inquired about all the shellfish from the seller, and found out that they were all made of silt and vomiting. Sun Dahai had to cook them immediately after taking them home, as he had no time to deal with them.
Pipi shrimps are easy to prepare, they are boiled with salt and pepper. There are also several seafood dishes, such as fried claw fish in sauce, spicy stir-fried clams, steamed scallops with garlic vermicelli, steamed sea urchin eggs, and fried conch slices with green onions.
Battle also brought back a lot of live oysters, which Sun Dahai cleaned up and put on the plate directly. Live oysters should be eaten raw, and reprocessing them is a waste of food.
Except for Zheng Peipei, everyone here now lives inland. If a meal consists entirely of seafood, everyone's stomach will probably suffer.
Spicy lamb trotters, white water sheep head meat, cold shredded tripe, braised pork ribs, dry croquettes, black-bone chicken stewed with mushrooms, and pork belly, these are Ma Jian's favorites.
Many of these dishes are prepared in advance and can be simply processed or plated directly when eating. Ever since Sun Dahai's family had a pig farm, the pork has never been cut off. The reborn daughter is not easy to mess with.
In addition to rice, the three-dimensional rice farming team also harvests a large number of fish, shrimps, crabs, frogs, and soft-shell turtles every year.
Gao Hongqi and the others started a comparative experiment between goats and sheep, and the two aunts raised black-bone chickens.
Therefore, Sun Dahai's family is a bit overrun with these ingredients. There are four large freezers specially used for restaurants, placed side by side in his storeroom.
The meat and vegetables alone were not good, but it was such a hot day that Sun Dahai was too lazy to cook any more. He cut the cucumbers, tomatoes, lettuce and other seasonal vegetables that Wang Huan had packed into two large pots.
One pot is used to make Chinese mixed vegetables, and the other pot is used to make Western-style vegetable salad. It is simple and easy to use, and it is colorful and looks very appetizing.
When the food was ready, Wang Huan and Gao Zhizhi served the dishes. Sun Dahai washed his hands and walked out of the kitchen.
Zhang Guozheng and Wu Yan are responsible for opening bottles for everyone. For more than 20 people, each person has to drink a box of Arctic Ocean soda. But now Arctic Ocean soda can be bought at the grocery store in front of the house without any restrictions. Unlike before
, it’s always out of stock when I want to buy it.
Battelle also moved out a box of Coke he bought yesterday, but except for Zheng Peipei who loves to drink it, no one else is very interested. In Zhang Yujie's words, it just smells like Chinese medicine. Apart from being full of energy, it is not as delicious as sour plum soup.
The sour plum soup she was talking about was made by her grandmother herself. Before liberation, her grandma would make sour plum soup at home every summer, and her grandfather would sell it at the door. It is said that she had a secret recipe, and the business was very good, with many repeat customers.
It's a pity that the state's control has become stricter and no stalls can be set up. Moreover, rock candy also requires a supplementary food book and is purchased according to the amount per person, so Zhang Yujie's family no longer does this.
Sun Dahai only learned about these things two years ago when he was chatting with Grandma Zhang. Zhang Yujie, a little fool, didn’t know this before.
What are you afraid of with a limited supply? Sun Dahai has banknotes in his pocket, and there is a black market outside. In less than two days, Sun Dahai prepared everything for Grandma Zhang.
Grandma Zhang's family used the traditional method of cooking black plum, sweet-scented osmanthus, hawthorn, tangerine peel, licorice, wolfberry, jujube, honey and rock sugar, boiling it twice and boiling it twice. It took nearly two hours to complete.
After Sun Dahai tasted it, he was full of praise. It is indeed the royal drink of the summer palace, "Tugong Plum Jian". It is sour and pleasant, and leaves a fragrance in the mouth. It is far beyond the comparison of the sour plum soup drinks in the previous life.
When Zhang Yujie saw that Sun Dahai liked it, she took the initiative to ask her grandma to teach her how to cook it. However, it has been two years now and Zhang Yujie seems to have not started cooking yet. Every year, Zhang Yujie’s grandma cooks it and then asks Zhang Guozheng to deliver it to Sun Dahai’s family.
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It's Gao Yi's birthday today, and Zhang Yujie originally planned to do it herself in the morning, boil a pot and bring it over so that everyone can have a taste of her craftsmanship.
After lighting the fire, she went to do other things and forgot about it. When she finally smelled the paste, she realized that the pot had already been cooked. Fortunately, she wanted to give everyone a surprise and didn't say it in advance. Otherwise, look at her face.
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Therefore, everyone can only drink soda or coke at noon.
Zheng Peipei has actually learned to make Cantonese-style herbal tea from Zheng Ziyun a long time ago, and she can still make several kinds of herbal tea. She is responsible for making it at Cao Ji Private Restaurant.
However, we mainly ate seafood today. Sun Dahai was worried that everyone's gastrointestinal discomfort would not suit her, so she did not dare to let her make Cantonese-style herbal tea for everyone to drink.
Sun Dahai raised the soda bottle to wish Gao Yi a happy birthday on behalf of everyone, and then everyone started to get their own meals.
The friends who came here today are all familiar with each other. Everyone is very satisfied with the buffet style at Sun's house. This is the first time for Xia Tiantian and her sisters to eat like this at Sun's house, and they also feel very good.
The biggest advantage of a buffet is that everyone can get what they want based on their personal preferences. Sun Dahai is actually a semi-buffet, because even if he finishes eating individual dishes, he will not refill them.
People who like raw oysters can't get enough of dishes like these, but most people don't dare to eat them. Battelle doesn't mind eating them raw, but he prefers beef and mutton, and he always feels that he can't get enough of seafood.
From this point of view, this pot of oysters was mainly eaten by Sun Dahai. He happily filled his plate with oysters, sprinkled a few drops of lemon juice on each one, and took one bite at a time. It was a very satisfying meal.
Sun Dahai knows that domestically produced oysters can only be eaten raw in the past few years. In a few years, the pollution of shallow seas will increase, and he may not dare to eat domestically produced oysters if he is asked to eat them raw.
However, he was not the only one eating oysters today, the little girl Gao Zhizhi actually liked them too.
She imitated Sun Dahai's eating method and ate four or five in a row. Sun Dahai was so frightened that he quickly stopped her and forced her to drink several large gulps of ginger and vinegar juice.