Food starts with Mapo Tofu

Chapter 301 Like a Child
Entering the kitchen, all the tools here are also neatly stacked, but Chen Nian was surprised to find that the tableware in Teacher Yu's house is basically cute and cute, for example, there is a chubby one printed on the side of the plate. Doodle strawberries, and on the side of another plate is a plump pineapple.

"Grandma, did you buy all these tableware yourself?" Chen Nian couldn't help asking curiously.

"Yeah, last year I went shopping and found that there were some of these tableware on the side of the road, and they were not expensive, so I bought a lot of them. How is it? Doesn't it look good?"

"It looks good, it's so cute." Chen Nian couldn't help showing a smile on his face, even men can't help but smile when they see these cute things.

But chatting is chatting, Chen Nian still didn't forget their mission of coming in, they came in to help each other, looking at the strawberry next to him.

"Red bean, why don't you wash the strawberries, and I'll help grandma wash and chop the vegetables."

An Hongdou nodded after listening.

"Young man, my surname is He, and my name is He Hui. What's your name?"

Since Chen Nian was good at chatting, Grandma He also took the initiative to chat with Chen Nian.

"Grandma, my surname is Chen, and my name is Chen Nian."

"Oh, Chelian? You have two cars in your name. It seems that you are going to make a fortune in the future."

Chen Nian: "???"

"It's not grandma, I'm not called Che Lian, I'm called Chen Nian."

"Huh? Channing? Sorry, I'm hard of hearing, sometimes I can hear clearly, sometimes I can't hear clearly, but this name is a bit like a foreigner, but it sounds strange."

"No, it's Chen Nian." Hearing that the other party made a mistake again, Chen Nian said every word in a correct way.

"Cheng Yan?"

"No, it's grandma, it's Cheng... No, it's not Cheng, it's Chen, old, old wine, old vinegar."

"Orange sweet old vinegar? Orange sweet old wine? Fruity?" Grandma He asked suspiciously.

In the end, Chen Nian really had no other choice, so he had to take out his mobile phone to type his name on his own mobile phone, and then show it to the other party.

"Ah, it's Chen Nian. I didn't hear clearly just now. I'm sorry, Xiao Chen."

"It's okay, grandma."

Listening to the conversation between the two, An Hongdou on the side couldn't help laughing. The conversation between the two was so funny. Just when she was holding her waist and almost laughed out of breath, Grandma He turned her head to look at An Hongdou again: " What's your name, little girl? Is it his girlfriend?"

As soon as these words came out, An Hongdou's face turned red: "Grandma, I'm not his girlfriend, we are just good friends, my name is An Hongdou, An is safe and sound, and Hongdou is the red bean wrapped in red beans. "

"Oh, An Hongdou, what a nice name."

This time Grandma He was able to say the name of An Hongdou right once, which made Chen Nian a little curious: "Grandma, can you hear what she said clearly?"

Grandma He turned her head and said with a smile on her face: "Of course I can hear it. I also heard what you said just now, just to tease you."

After speaking, he looked at the surprised expressions of the two and explained: "You are the first time to visit our house, you must think that we are elders, it is inevitable that you are a little restrained, I will tease you, everyone will be happy, and you will not be so restrained. .”

When the two heard this, they couldn't help but feel awe in their hearts!

Don't look at this grandma He likes to eat strawberries, the plates she uses are all cute and cute, she has a young girly heart, but after all she is so much older than herself, these things in dealing with people are much better than the two of them.

But after doing this, Chen Nian and An Hongdou really felt less restrained.

In the end, Chen Nian started to help Grandma He handle the ingredients neatly, while An Hongdou carefully washed the strawberries over there.

Seeing Chen Nian's skillful movements, Grandma He asked curiously: "Xiao Chen, do you often cook at home?"

"Yes, grandma." Chen Nian nodded.

An Hongdou also said in a timely manner: "Chen Nian's cooking is delicious, and I often eat at his place."

When Grandma He heard this, she looked at the two of them again, and immediately understood that the little girl must be embarrassed to say that, although the two of them probably haven't reached that relationship yet, they probably have such intentions in their hearts.

Otherwise, can I go to someone's house to eat every day?
And just now Chen Nian didn't say that he lived alone, so Xiao Chen's parents must have known about the little girl's past.

This shows that the parents are also more optimistic about this little girl.

But this youthful look is really similar to when I was young.

Thinking of this, Grandma He suddenly had a flash of light in her heart: "Xiao Chen, how about this, each of us cook a few dishes, and then go out and let them guess who made these dishes? What do you think? "

"This..." I didn't know whether I should agree or not.

"Okay, let's make it like this. Today we are five people eating, and six dishes are enough. We each cook three dishes. Now I have already made two, and I will make another one. You will do the rest, the kitchen You can use whatever you want in the refrigerator and the food in the refrigerator, and I will let the old man guess later to see if he knows which dishes are made by me."

While talking, there was an inscrutable smile on the corner of his mouth.

Grandma He cooked a total of three dishes. The first dish was stewed beef with potatoes, which is still boiling on the pot. The second dish was a stir-fried vegetable, and the third dish was soup.

After the three dishes were ready, Grandma He put them on plates and put a cover on them to keep them warm.

"Grandma He, did you buy this online? I also have one bought by my mother at home."

"Yeah, the things on it are quite cheap. Sometimes I watch the live broadcast. I dare not buy the expensive things in the live broadcast room, but those one yuan can be bought back without any problem. Look at the jade next to me. The rolling pin I made was bought for a dollar."

Chen Nian was shocked again this time. I didn't expect that Grandma He would not only buy things on the e-commerce platform, but also buy things in the live broadcast room.

Speaking of which, Grandma He was quite proud: "Now I plant trees on Taobaobao and Bingxixi, and I can get a box of fruit almost every week."

"Haha, so is my mother."

"That's right, that's what women who know how to live are like."

While joking, Chen Nian also started his own cooking, although it was in someone else's house, and the temperature of the gas stove in this kind of home is definitely not as good as that of a restaurant, but a qualified chef will definitely not be restricted by this condition .

After looking at the seasonings in the kitchen and the ingredients in the refrigerator, Chen Nian thought of what Grandma He wanted to do, and couldn't help asking her: "Grandma He, what do you usually cook?"

As long as you make some dishes that Grandma He usually cooks, then you can show them to others to guess, otherwise, you can make a mapo tofu by yourself, which is definitely not what Grandma He is good at.

"Me, I usually make tofu with soy sauce and stir-fried shrimp to supplement nutrition for my husband, but today I plan to make fish-flavored shredded pork."

Since this is eating at someone else's home, it is not suitable for cooking that kind of complicated and time-consuming dishes. It is best to make some quick dishes.

Fortunately, the dishes mentioned by Grandma He are not too difficult. After looking at the existing ingredients, Chen Nian quickly decided on the three dishes he wanted to make.

The first is stir-fried shrimp. This dish can be said to be simple to make, but even if it is simple, not everyone can do it well. It is like a novel whose keynote is invincible text plus spiritual recovery and monster-killing upgrades. But some people can't even sign a contract when they write it down, and some people can earn millions a month when they write it down.

And aged hands are naturally different. When cooking, shrimps, celery and diced carrots seem to be holding hands in the pot and dancing cheerfully together. With the change, with the addition of various seasonings from the past, this stir-fried shrimp will be out of the pan soon.

Grandma He kept this dish in the heat preservation cover as usual.

Immediately after the old age, he began to cut meat and vegetables to prepare the second dish. He made fish-flavored shredded pork. The popularity of fish-flavored shredded pork is also very wide. Although it is Sichuan cuisine, it is also popular in places outside Sichuan. It's very popular, but it's not the same everywhere.

Although there is no such dish on the menu of Honghong Restaurant, it is definitely not a problem to make it now, it is nothing more than proficiency.

However, compared to the next dish, if you want to make the fish-flavored shredded pork delicious, it still takes a little effort, after all, the meat needs to be marinated for a while.

After adding the noodles and the required seasonings, put the meat aside for marinating, and put all the ingredients aside for later use, and cut the tofu after aging.

The cooking process of soy sauce tofu is also very simple. As the name suggests, the main ingredients are soy sauce and tofu. If it is made properly, this dish will have a strong sauce aroma and a slightly darker color. on top of the tofu.

You can taste the tenderness of the tofu and the strong aroma of the sauce in one bite. It is also a great choice to pair with white rice.

This dish is also not on the menu of the Honghong Restaurant, but it has been in the original Chen Mapo Restaurant, and this dish can be regarded as one of its signatures.

After all, Chen Mapo Restaurant is still the most famous for making tofu, such as mapo tofu, soy sauce tofu, bear's paw tofu, etc., and the price is not expensive, so it is very popular among customers.

The fish-flavored shredded pork is made after the soy sauce tofu is aged for a long time. The most important thing for this fish-flavored pork is sweet and sour sauce and thickening.

If these two steps are done well, then Yuxiang Pork Shredded is like having done all the simulation papers within the possibility range of the teacher's questions, previous years' real questions, class exercises and some famous teachers' betting questions before the end of the semester. More than three times the same, as stable as an old dog.

Of course, those who can do these two steps well will not fail in other steps.

Before starting, Chen Nian first adjusted a bowl of sauce. Regardless of the taste, the ratio of sugar and vinegar is basically infallible, and then added a little soy sauce, a little monosodium glutamate, and chopped green onion, ginger and garlic.

And of course the most important starch.

It is best to put this part of onion, ginger and garlic in it in advance, because this can further stimulate the taste of onion, ginger and garlic, while the other part of onion, ginger and garlic should be used for stir-fry later, the combination of the two In order to make a plate of delicious fish-flavored shredded pork.

After preparing dinner, the first step is to fry the previously cut shredded pork to change its color, and then put it aside and set it aside for later use. This step is equivalent to paddling in a restaurant.

Then add green onion, ginger and garlic to the pot again and stir-fry until the aroma penetrates into the nose like a goblin, then add Pixian bean paste and pickled pepper.

When the red oil is stir-fried and the color gradually starts to catch people's eyes, then add the previously fried shredded pork that can't wait to blend with the seasoning.

When the color of the shredded pork gradually turned bright red, and the aroma began to come out like elementary school students rushing to the playground at the last physical education class in the morning, Chen Nian poured the prepared bowl of Gorgon into the pot.

Since Chen Nian knows how much gravy should be added to what kind of dishes, it only needs to be added once to this dish.

Just like this, I watched the soup gradually become viscous due to the effect of starch. When it was aged, the fire was almost turned off, and then the fish-flavored shredded pork came out of the pot!
As soon as this dish is made, the room is filled with fragrance.

By this time, the dishes were all ready.

An Hongdou went out to inform the two that they were going to have lunch, and at this time Zhang Fangyuan, who was struggling under Teacher Yu's Go offensive, finally had a breather.

"Teacher Yu is good at chess. In the past, I would not lose so badly at this time, but this time I have almost reached a dead end."

"How can there be, director Zhang is busy with work, unlike me, who has nothing to do every day, except singing opera and playing chess, that's enough, let's not talk about that, this game of chess will be like this first, let's go It's time to eat."

The dining table outside had already been cleared. When An Hongdou and Chen Nian were serving dishes, Teacher Yu went to make tea.

"No drink?"

"Let's just drink tea. Drinking tea in moderation is good for your health," Teacher Yu said.

"This guest is here. It's fine if we don't have wine at home. Why don't we have drinks yet? Otherwise, I'll go out and buy it."

But Yu Fuchun and He Hui are old couples, how can they not know what their wife is thinking, it is clear that she wants to drink when his wife says so, this wife is usually good at everything, but sometimes he is like a child, It's fine to eat fruit or something, but drinks are really not very good for the body.

"Forget it, there's no need to go, it's already this time, you go to buy drinks and come back, we've finished our meal, why don't you let the guests watch the joke?"

In the end, Grandma He sighed and sat back at the dining table.

"Hey, there are six dishes today!" Yu Fuchun couldn't help but his eyes lit up when he saw the dishes on the table, and then he looked at Zhang Fangyuan, Chen Nian and others happily and said, "Today I can be regarded as being touched by you guys." It’s all gone, we used to cook one or two dishes at home.”

But Zhang Fangyuan said politely: "Mr. Yu, please don't say that. It should be because we have been honored by you. I haven't eaten Auntie He's dishes for a long time."

He Hui also had a smile on his face when he heard this: "The three of us made this dish today, how about this, you can guess which of these dishes are made by me and which are small Chen made it, which ones are made of red beans?"

As she spoke, there was still a sly look in her eyes.

(End of this chapter)