Food starts with Mapo Tofu

Chapter 508 Ying Jinger's Dinner

"Good evening, Chef Chen, why are you free to look for me so early today?"

The news from An Hongdou came back very quickly.

"Isn't it a holiday today, so I gave the employees a holiday earlier, and now the three of them have all gone back, and my mother has also gone shopping with Aunt Wen." Chen Nian said.

"Hey, then you are quite conscientious, at least you know how to give the employees a holiday right now." An Hongdou replied.

After Chen Nian saw this, he smiled: "Of course, it's okay to lose one day's money, the main thing is to keep the hearts of the apprentices."

"Oh, don't talk about it, it's a big holiday today, I'm so busy, I went to the recording studio in the morning to record another version of the previous song, and I will shoot with you at Miaomiaowu's house in the afternoon.

Afterwards, I left as soon as you left. There was a small Tanabata party, and there was no show on my side. As a result, yesterday, one of their actors temporarily broke the contract and couldn’t go, so they called urgently Ask me if I have any arrangements for work here, I thought it would be a lot of money, so I agreed, and I am still doing makeup here. "

After An Hongdou finished posting this, she sent another emoji expressing regret.

"It's always good to have a job, but where is your event? Is it in Chengdu?" Chen Nian asked curiously.

"No, in Chongqing."

"That's a pity. If I'm in Chengdu, I can still go and have a look."

"Haha, that's not to say."

"But you're still putting on makeup now, so it shouldn't be too early after the show is over?"

"It's probably around [-]:[-] or [-]:[-], but the organizer has arranged a hotel here. I will stay in the hotel for one night and return to Chengdu tomorrow."

"That's good too, so be careful."

"Don't worry, I have a lot of experience in outdoor life. Okay, let's not talk about it. The makeup artist is going to paint my eyes. I have to go to the backstage for a brief rehearsal. The director probably has something to do." Tell us."

"Okay, no problem, you go to work first."

Chen Nian hung up the phone, saying in his heart that he was not disappointed, it was a lie, but after all, the other party still had work to do, and now only Chen Nian was left in the store.

"Actually, it's nothing special. Anyway, Qixi Festival in ancient times was not Valentine's Day. According to the rules, Valentine's Day should be on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month." Chen Nian kept comforting himself in his heart
But comforting and comforting him, he still felt a little bored, and he would definitely not be able to fall asleep in bed at this point.

"Forget it, let's make a dish."

Chen Nian's appetite is not bad. I ate at Miao Miaowu's place before, but it was considered a full stomach. After all, if you eat Er Liang Nian by yourself, you can finish it in a few mouthfuls, that is, chatting with them While eating, eat slowly.

After I came back, I was busy for a while, and I felt a little hungry again.

At this moment, Chen Nian suddenly saw a figure at the door.

"Sister, are your workers off work again?"

It was Lu Xiao who came here again. During the day, Lu Xiao basically stared at the decoration next door. Recently, we need to pay more attention to the water and electricity changes. After all, the position of the faucet, the upper water pipe and the lower water pipe also need to be properly arranged. For opening a shop, these things Naturally, it must be wrapped in the wall, otherwise it will affect the appearance.

But usually when the workers reach six or seven o'clock, it's time to get off work.

"Yeah, it was supposed to start a little earlier, but it's more troublesome to change the water and electricity, and you have to dig and buy pipelines, so the workers worked a little overtime to catch up with today's progress.

And you had a rest early here, so I packed some food for them outside, and they all went back after eating. "

"Then you didn't eat anything."

"I didn't eat it. The food didn't taste very appetizing, so it's not like waiting for the workers and masters to come over to see if you have anything delicious here."

Lu Xiao came to the kitchen while talking.

"That's just right. I was going to make something to eat, so we'll eat together."

"Okay, what feast are you going to have today?" Lu Xiao looked at Chen Nian and asked curiously.

"I haven't made up my mind yet. Cousin, do you have anything you want to eat? I can make anything I have in the kitchen." Chen Nian said with a smile.

Lu Xiao glanced around the kitchen, but didn't see anything outside: "I don't know, but today is a holiday anyway, why don't you make something suitable for the occasion?"

"Then let me see what's in the freezer."

While thinking about old age, I went to the freezer to see what ingredients were left.

In the freezer in the kitchen are not only the necessary ingredients that they usually sell in restaurants, but also some that they usually buy for their own staff meals.

After looking through it for a while, I found that there are beef, beef tongue, tripe, pork and so on.

After seeing the ingredients in the refrigerator, Lu Xiao thought for a while: "Forget about the pork. I can't think of what to do with the pork. How about making a couple's lung slices? Although we are both widowed and lonely old people, But maybe after today's meal, you can get out of the order?"

"Okay, Chen Nian feels that this dish is also good."

But this is just a meat cold dish, it's good to drink with, but if you only eat this, it's a little thin.

After all, husband and wife lung slices are only a relatively refreshing dish in Sichuan.

Of course, the refreshment here may be slightly different from the refreshment understood in other regions. The refreshment here refers to a more refreshing meaning.

"Although there is sour plum soup for drinking, sour plum soup doesn't seem to be suitable." Chen Nian looked around and found that there were a few apples under the table, which my mother bought from outside during the day for everyone to eat of.

"Using this... just make a candied apple. It just happens to be involved and it's more suitable for the occasion. It's like a pair of young couples walking and shopping on the street outside, and it's very sweet." Chen year suggested.

"Candied apples, I haven't eaten this before. I have eaten candied sweet potatoes before, and I think it's quite delicious, so let's make another candied apple." Lu Xiao nodded, showing great anticipation look.

Although the candied apples have not been made for a long time, there are many similar tutorials on the Internet. Anyway, this dish is not very difficult to make.

"These two dishes are still not interesting. Didn't you just say that sour plum soup is not suitable? How about making another drink? But you may not have enough ingredients for dessert drinks here. Let's see what you can do. If there are no materials, I will go out and buy them.

Chen Nian thought about it again when he was in the copy of San Francisco Dreamland, Master Qiao made a mandarin duck milk tea at that time.

And at that time, it was mainly because in the United States, people drank more coffee there, so Master Qiao tried to make it later, and it turned out that the taste was really good.

"Then let's make another milk tea, I seem to drink this stuff when I was in college..."

"Milk tea is good! I haven't had milk tea for a long time. Like you, I am usually busy with work. When I was in school, I often went out to drink milk tea and eat desserts with my sisters. But after I came back and opened my own shop, I was too busy to take care of it. I can only eat the endless desserts in the store every day, and I almost vomit."

"Okay, now I have two dishes and one drink, and think about what else is more suitable for the occasion." Chen Nian couldn't think of it for a while, so he could only throw the question to his cousin.

"What you said stumped me, how about looking up at the starry sky?" Lu Xiao said tentatively.

Chen Nian's face turned dark when he heard this dish: "Is this inappropriate?"

"I think it's okay. You see so many fish heads looking up at the starry sky, and Qixi Festival is the day when Cowherd and Weaver Girl meet. Isn't this equivalent to us witnessing their love? Fish heads symbolize all living beings." Lu Xiao He tried hard to explain.

Listening to his cousin's explanation, Chen Nian thought about the scene in his mind.

In the endless galaxy, countless magpies have built a bridge of magpies. At both ends of the bridge are Cowherd and Weaver Girl who only meet once a year.

Waiting for the two to look at each other across the bridge and slowly approach each other, with expectations and longings that have not been seen for a long time, the picture is beautiful and touching.

But then the scene changed, and under the magpie bridge, there were countless fish staring at the dead fish eyes and watching the meeting of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl in the sky...

The originally beautiful picture suddenly became weird.

"No, no, let's change it." Chen Nian shook his head quickly.

"The main thing is that there are no hard dishes. A husband and wife lung slice is a cold dish, and there is a shredded apple that tastes like dessert, but these two dishes are not hard enough. Otherwise, make a fried liver. I remember I was studying in BJ at that time. I liked it when I was young, but I haven’t eaten it once since I came back, it shouldn’t be difficult for you as a chef, if you haven’t done it, you can look for tutorials on the Internet.”

As a result, after Chen Nian heard his cousin's suggestion, his face became even darker: "Sister, what does this mean? I really can't think of it."

"Isn't that simple?" Lu Xiao looked at Chen Nian with disgust, "I remember that your academic performance was pretty good back then, and your Chinese scores were not low. Why can't you think of this? Fried liver, that's the meaning Thinking that you are my heart and soul, what a good subject!"

But Chen Nian thought about the taste and couldn't relate to those sweet couples outside: "Sister, why don't you say shredded pork liver, wouldn't it have a better meaning?"

"It's okay." Lu Xiao nodded seriously after thinking for a while, "Although I haven't eaten it, I can make candied apples and candied sweet potatoes, and candied pork liver, right?"

"Come on, banana spicy stick!" Chen Nian couldn't help but turn dark, "And this dish isn't too hard, is it?"

But when it comes to pig liver, Chen Nian suddenly thought of the pig's trotters for some reason, and suddenly he had an idea: "Why don't you make a braised pig's trotter, choose the pig's front trotter, which is the pig's hand, this way The dish is firm enough and tastes good.”

"Okay, that's it! It's just that I have been working hard these few days. I eat some good supplements, and there is a lot of collagen in it, which can also protect the skin. Recently, I have worked too hard, and my face and hair feel a little dry. .”

"Sister, why are you suddenly full of witty words, are you going to take the postgraduate entrance examination or something?" Chen Nian couldn't hold back a few words.

As a result, as soon as he finished speaking, his cousin rolled his eyes: "What else do I have to do?"

But now that the dishes have been determined: "Sister, I have to trouble you to buy something. If you want to make these, most of the ingredients are available in the store, but Yuanyang milk tea needs evaporated milk and coffee beans to make braised pork knuckles. Need to buy trotters."

"No problem, I'll go buy it right away. Evaporated milk and pork knuckle can probably be bought in supermarkets. I also came across a place selling coffee beans when I went out to do market research some time ago. It should not be closed yet. "

"Okay, then I'll leave these things to you. I'll prepare couple's lung slices first, which will take a lot of time."

"It's okay, isn't the most important thing for lonely old people like us is time?"

"Hahaha, cousin, if you say that, I will be too sad." Chen Nian laughed.

Then Lu Xiao went out to buy ingredients, while Chen Nian was at home preparing the ingredients for the couple's lung slices.

Husband and wife lung slices look like a cold dish, that is, the cows are boiled and then mixed with seasoning, but it is actually quite troublesome to make.

Because the taste must also be considered, the meat must be cooked thoroughly to taste, so that it will taste delicious.

But it happened that Chen Nian vaguely remembered that his father had made this cold dish, so relying on his memory and Chen Nian's understanding of Sichuan cuisine, he was able to make it.

First, take out the beef tongue and tripe in the freezer and soak them in water, and add some salt to defrost them.

Then put these into the pot after washing, add water, green onion, ginger, pepper, and cooking wine to blanch.

After waiting for the pot to boil gradually, the blood in it was also boiled out.

While looking at the gurgling pot, Chen Nian thought that this couple's lung slices are really interesting, just like wife cakes.

There is neither a husband nor a lung in the husband and wife lung.

However, he still knows the origin of this dish. At the beginning, this dish was created by a husband and wife, and the husband and wife lung slices were not called this name before, but the waste slices of husband and wife. They were made from some leftovers of beef offal. The main reason is that the leftovers are cheap, and rich people don't bother to put these offal on the dining table, so many people from poorer families buy them back.

But later, with the evolution of the times, in the 30s, a couple who made and sold cold beef lung slices took it up, and it was at this time that the couple’s waste film gradually became husband and wife lung. piece.

But they found that the taste of using lungs is not particularly good, so they took the beef lungs out of the husband and wife's lung slices, and it is with their continuous improvement that this dish is becoming more and more popular , Just like the original mapo tofu, many porters, laborers and poor students like to eat here, so their business is getting better and better.

Later, after several changes, their store grew bigger and bigger, and even got a signboard nominated for them by Zhao Yunyu, a calligrapher at the time.

As the business continued to expand, they also added beef to it to improve the grade. As for later, they added a new product, beef noodles, which will not be mentioned for the time being.

But Chen Nian knew that this dish used to have at least beef lungs, but it was canceled because of the taste.

(End of this chapter)