In addition to making steamed buns, Yingzi is also good at home cooking.
It's all what she's practiced over the years.
I didn't have much money in my pocket and couldn't afford meat, so most of them were eggplants, potatoes, peppers, beans, celery, soy products and other vegetables. In order to make my children like to eat them, I had to work hard on the cooking methods, and over time I developed my own martial arts.
What she made today was beef dumplings, mushrooms, celery and carrot buns.
Cut the selected fatty beef into rice-sized pieces; cut parsley and carrots into rice; blanch mushrooms and cut into rice; cut thick dry tofu into shreds and then into rice; cut green pepper into cubes; cut coriander into rice.
First feed the beef cubes, and then put all the ingredients together to make the filling. The buns are fragrant and not greasy, with the aroma of mushrooms, the fragrance of celery, the nutrition of carrots, and the meat head of dried tofu.
Son, in Northeastern dialect - it's delicious.
Four stir-fries.
Stir-fried diced chicken with garlic sprouts, fried tofu in oil, stir-fried beef vermicelli with celery, and roasted eggplant with green beans.
For diced chicken and stir-fried garlic sprouts, chicken thighs are chosen. First, cut the meat into cubes and cook it until it is cooked. Then add the chopped garlic sprouts and stir-fry over low heat. When the chicken drumsticks are cooked, the garlic sprouts are also cooked. The heat is just right. Use seasonings.
It's also simple, just soy sauce and chicken essence, and the taste is extraordinary.
Oil-soaked dry tofu is simply an upgraded version of hot pepper dry tofu. Since thick dry tofu is used, the simmering time is longer and all the flavor is absorbed.
After it is ready and put on a plate, sprinkle dried chili segments and minced garlic on it, and pour hot oil on it. It looks like boiled dry tofu. Yingzi named it oil-soaked dry tofu.
"Ruoxi can eat spicy food, especially boiled pork slices. I couldn't afford to buy meat at that time, so I fooled her with this thick dry tofu. Unexpectedly, it was quite delicious." Yingzi said with a smile, Lao Tan
The root of my nose feels sore.
Beef cubes and vermicelli stir-fried with celery. This dish uses multiple ingredients for making steamed buns. It shows that Yingzi is very careful in budgeting and does not waste anything.
Yingzi processed the beef cubes very well, frying them until they were as dry as dried meat, and it was dry and chewy in your mouth. The celery was cut into cubes instead of segments, and was used as a garnish like chopped green onion, and it had a celery flavor.
If you remove the diced celery, this dish will be like "ants climbing a tree". If the heat is right, the vermicelli will be soft and chewy, bright red and transparent, and will not stick to or stick together. Ordinary cooks cannot do this.
For the roasted eggplant with green beans, I choose purple eggplant and king bean. It looks like it is roasted, but it is actually simmered. The sauce is rich and fragrant, and it is a good dish to go with rice.
I also made two cold dishes, one is cucumber peeling and the other is hand-shredded vegetables. They are both delicious summer dishes.
The people who came to Yingzi's house for dinner were not only Lao Tan and his son, but also Zhang Li and his wife. Yingzi had long wanted to treat Zhang Li and his wife to a meal, but had never had the chance. The main reason was that Zhang Li didn't want her to spend money.
It just so happened that today, Lao Tan came back from Suzhou, and the two families invited him together.
Zhang Li put another steamed bun into the bowl, and Lao Huang said, "Okay, this is your third steamed bun. You can't help but let go if it tastes good."
"Don't talk about me, you eat more than anyone else." Zhang Li rolled her eyes at him and ate her food unceremoniously.
"The buns made by Aunt Yingzi are so delicious that I eat them every time," Jia Heng said.
"It means you have no future," Lao Tan said.
"Don't talk about kids, the steamed buns are indeed delicious. I love eating them." Zhang Li said while eating.
Yingzi said: "As long as you like to eat it, I'm afraid you won't like it. There's not much meat."
"That's just right. If there's too much meat, it won't taste good." Zhang Li said, then she turned to Lao Huang and said, "Old Huang, learn from me and see how this bun is made."
Lao Huang smiled and said nothing, picked up the cup and drank with Lao Tan.
After the two children finished eating, they went back to the house to play, leaving four adults.
Zhang Li seemed to be full. She picked up her chopsticks and filled the wine glass. She picked it up and said, "I'm full. I'm a little tired. I'm going to start drinking now. How about not drinking?"
The four people toasted and drank.
"Old Tan, let me tell you something. When you have time, you can knock on Huaqing, but it's a little too distracting." Zhang Li put down her wine glass and said.
"Have you made the same old habit again?" Lao Tan asked.
"almost."
"how?"
"Do you still remember that classmate Meng Meng? The one who studied noodles with her first worked in the old store, and then was transferred to the Huangshan Road store." Zhang Li said.
"I know, isn't your name Wu Min?"
"Okay, I still remember the name." Zhang Li said with a hint of sarcasm.
"Let's talk business." Lao Tan said.
"The two of us should be fine. I heard that his wife is having trouble again."
Lao Tan thought for a while and said: "Yes, I understand."
"Also, Fang Jianjun hasn't been feeling well lately. Wang Hong said it was a kidney problem. It seems to be quite serious."
"Not hospitalized?"
"No." Zhang Li said, "I'm looking for an expert from Beijing Ditan Hospital. He happens to be coming to the Medical University on Monday, and I'll take him there to get a diagnosis."
"Lao Fang is in good health." Lao Tan muttered.
"Hey, how can you eat whole grains without getting sick or suffering from disasters? I still think I'm doing well. Who knows if I get that kind of disease, I won't die until I die.
I guess Lao Fang is timid and gets scared when the doctor says there is something wrong with his kidneys. Doctors are the same now. They say there is a disease when it's not sick, and they say it's a serious illness when it's a minor one. When it's really serious, they can't be cured." Zhang Li complained.
"I'll go take a look tomorrow," Lao Tan said.
"The only bad things are these two things. Nothing else. Everything else is normal and stable. It's just that the profit is less, not as much as last year."
"It's normal to have small profits, not like ours. I think it will be fine after October 1st," Lao Tan said.
"It's almost the same. Now the price of pork has begun to drop, and the price of beef and mutton will also have to drop. If it doesn't drop, people won't be able to afford it."
Zhang Li remembered something again and said: "By the way, there is one more thing. Please read the plan for the cooking competition. I suggest not to hold it in October. Our family is busy every October. Push it back one month, and it will be November.
The month is just right."
A week ago, Zhou Xiaomei sent the cooking competition plan to Lao Tan. After reading it, Lao Tan made changes to the program and competition items, and then sent it to Zhou Xiaomei to ask her to sort it out in detail. As for the competition time, she didn’t pay much attention to it.
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"You are right, October is busy and November is just right." Lao Tan said, "I have read the plan and there are a few changes. You and her can decide the time."
"What do you mean you don't care about anything?"
"do not care."
"It's okay, just ask them to get it. If you don't put the child on the road, you won't know how far to walk. It's okay to exercise. Besides, you should take a rest and don't be too tired."
At this time, Lao Huang said to Zhang Li: "I will retire in January after the Chinese New Year. Don't work anymore then. My pension is more than 7,000, which is enough for the two of us. We can go out and travel around if we have nothing to do."
Zhang Li said: "Who is going out with you? I haven't even received the certificate yet, I'm sorry to say."
"Aren't you unwilling to accept it?" Lao Huang was a little aggrieved.
"Why don't you take it if I say you don't want to take it? Why don't I be more reserved?"
"Am I not allowed to listen to you?"
"Listen to everything?"
Lao Huang had no choice but to pick up a cup and drink with Lao Tan.