Food starts with Mapo Tofu

"Anyway, it's already like this now. I told you. Anyway, you should prepare well when the time comes. However, Hongdou is easy to get along with. Although she is a singer, she is actually just a little girl." Chen Nian explained.

But no matter who the other party is, as her future daughter-in-law and now her son's girlfriend, how could she not be nervous if she wants to meet her?

"Oh...how can I do this?"

Feng Honghong went to the counter and took a mirror to look at her face: "I don't look good today, and I'm sweating all over..."

Chen Nian thought it was funny, he lay on the table and watched his mother look at a loss, and fell asleep with a smile on his face.

In the afternoon, it was still working as usual, but the weather outside was still the same, it was always cloudy, and no one knew when it would rain.

Therefore, there are not many guests at night.

Only [-]% of the seats in the restaurant are occupied, and no one needs to queue outside to eat the food of Honghong Restaurant.

In this way, after eight o'clock, there were only two or three people left in the store.

"I have something to do and I have to go home first. It's not busy here now. You can go back when there is no one in the store." Feng Honghong said.

But what is Feng Honghong going to do?
"Okay, mom, go back and change your clothes first, I'll watch in the store." Chen Nian added another sentence.

As a result, after Feng Honghong left, the others looked at Chen Nian curiously.

"Master, why are you going back, Auntie? Why do you have to change clothes?"

Chen Nian smiled: "Hongdou is coming to the store tonight. After all, this is the first time to formally meet the parents, so my mother wants to go back and dress more formally."

As soon as He Hai heard this, he immediately became energetic: "What? Mistress is coming! Why don't we make some delicious treats later?"

But as soon as the words were finished, Xie Yu said angrily from behind: "Why are you staying here? Be a light bulb, the whole family is mother-in-law seeing daughter-in-law, what are you doing here?"

"That's right, Xiao Hai, when there is no one in the store, let's leave quickly, so as not to get in the way here, you have a girlfriend, why don't you understand better than a bachelor like me?" Li Ting also laughed at the side said.

Thanks to the harmonious atmosphere in the Red Hotel, Li Ting has now integrated into it and started to joke with everyone.

"Oh, what a pity, I wanted to see my wife at first."

"Don't worry, there will be more opportunities in the future." Chen Nian said.

Just like this, seeing that there were gradually no people in the store, the others also cleaned up the area in the kitchen that they were in charge of one after another and left.

As for Chen Nian, he put up a closed sign at the door, and then went back to the kitchen to prepare some food.

But tonight, he didn't plan to make any big dishes. He planned to make some snacks. He just treated today as a tea party. If An Hongdou wasn't full afterward, he would just take her out to eat something else.

Just do it.

Chen Nian looked at the small tomatoes in the kitchen that Aunt Wen bought when Aunt Wen came over in the morning. Everyone hurriedly took some to eat, but there were still some left in the end.

Just right for a little dessert.

Chen Nian first went out to the convenience store next door and bought a bag of Jiuzhi plums.

After coming back, he took out those small tomatoes and started to boil water. After the water was boiled, he put those small tomatoes into the pot after the old age. After soaking in boiling water for a while, the skins of those small tomatoes also bloomed one after another.

At this time, Chen Nian fished out the small tomatoes and put them in a pot beside him.

Immediately afterwards, pour out the water in the pot first, and then add rock sugar to it after boiling on high heat. While heating the pot in this way, gently break the rock sugar with an iron spoon to facilitate melting.

After the rock sugar melted, Chen Nian went outside and took a can of Sprite and poured it into the pot.

After Sprite was poured into the pot, it first made the sound of countless bubbles bursting, but gradually the bubbles inside, that is, carbon dioxide, evaporated with heating.

After the Sprite rolled away, blisters appeared again below. At this time, Chen Nian threw eight of the plums he had bought earlier into it.

At this time, he turned to a small fire and continued to boil slowly, tasting the taste of the pot from time to time while cooking for a long time, and he turned off the fire when the plum flavor could be clearly tasted inside.

But the soup needs to be cooled before it can be used, so Chen Nian directly took out the fan used by Honghong Restaurant and started blowing it into the pot.

Taking advantage of this time, he went to the side to peel off the skin of the blanched tomatoes, and put them in a glass lunch box for later use.

This is the first snack that Chen Nian intends to make - plum tomatoes.

Although this is the first time Chen Nian has made it, it is not the first time he has eaten it. When he was in school, because of their major, they often needed to do experiments in the laboratory.

Sometimes I boil some beer, and sometimes I experiment with seasonings such as soy sauce and vinegar.

So basically all kinds of food are available in the laboratory.

Once they were in the lab, a second-year senior student secretly brought Sprite and small tomatoes, and made such plum tomatoes with rock sugar in the lab, and all the seniors in the lab ate them, so No one leaked this matter.

Only a few days after this incident, the brothers and sisters in another laboratory upstairs were not so lucky.

Of course, it may also be because the cooked instant noodles are too fragrant, and the smell wafts directly into the corridor, attracting the head of the department.

At that time, several students in the laboratory also failed the course directly because of this, which can be said to be particularly miserable.

So Chen Nian thought of this dish again this time, firstly because it is simple and secondly because the taste is so amazing.

Thinking back now, Chen Nian still felt his tongue was sour and sweet, and thinking about it, he even secreted saliva, quite a bit like Cao Mengde's demeanor of gazing at plum blossoms to quench his thirst.

"It seems that you can make this stuff if you have anything to do in the future. Before the weather is completely cold, let's eat it first."

Seeing that the soup over there hadn't completely cooled down, Chen Nian took out the corn kernels he bought earlier for making popcorn, which he originally planned to make for An Hongdou at night.

In the end, who knew that he would boldly confess his love to the other party halfway through, and the other party also agreed.

Just took it out today to make some snacks.

The popcorn bought by Chen Nian still had ingredients in it, so Chen Nian picked it up and took a look.

"A packet of white sugar?"

Just when he was curious, he saw that the name on it did not seem to say white sugar, but popcorn sugar.

So out of habit, he turned around and looked at the back, only to find that besides sugar, there were salt, lecithin and flavoring in this pack of popcorn.

"It turned out to be for a special purpose, no wonder I brought a special bag of this thing."

After putting down the pack of popcorn, Chen Nian picked up a small jar, which contained oil specially used for making popcorn.

Out of habit, Chen Nian turned to the back and looked at the list of ingredients: refined edible palm oil, coconut oil, food additives (food flavors, diglycerin fatty acid esters, tertiary butyl hydroquinone beta carotene)

No wonder the popcorn outside smells so delicious. It turns out that there are food flavors added in it.

Although I knew before aging that there are actually additives in many foods, or most of the foods bought from outside have additives, but this is the first time I have such a detailed understanding of popcorn.

And he also knows that many people actually have deep prejudices against food additives, but there is actually no big problem in using additives in compliance with national regulations.

Of course, some things with no additives as a selling point are still very attractive to consumers, including the aging itself. Food, aging will still subconsciously choose the one without additives.

Then there is the special beverage powder for milk tea, which is used to enhance the taste of popcorn.

Since I want to make it at home, I still want to make it delicious. Although I can make it with some sugar according to my own method, the taste is definitely not as fragrant and delicious as the high-tech one.

Then Chen Nian directly opened the pot, put the previous special oil for popcorn, popcorn sugar and strawberry-flavored milk tea powder into it, and slowly stir-fried on a low heat.

Just like this, after the oil melted slowly and the sugar and powder gradually melted into it, the fragrance began to waft out.

The very sweet and obvious strawberry flavor exudes, giving Chen Nian an urge to taste the sugar in it.

So he took a chopstick and dipped it in, then put it in his mouth.

Smack your lips, then raise your eyebrows.

"It's not bad, but it's a bit sweet to eat like this."

Then he put down his chopsticks and poured corn kernels into it.

Those corn kernels, which looked like corn kernels on the outside, lay quietly in the pot, and gradually began to make a small sizzling sound under the action of the oil.

Just like a fierce general charging at the front among thousands of troops, soon a popcorn popped first!

At this time, Chen Nian hurriedly put the lid on the pot. If he continued to leave the lid on, there would not be much popcorn left in the pot after the popcorn in the pot was popped.

Immediately afterwards, crackling sounds could be heard from inside.

Chen Nian covered the pot with one hand, and kept rolling the pot with the other, and the sound of popping corn inside became more and more intense.

Turn on the fire to the maximum, because only in this way can the pot continue to generate high temperature.

Old age can even feel the impact of those popcorn explosions, causing the popcorn to fly up and hit the lid of the pot.

The pot cover is like a soldier holding an explosion-proof shield at the front, and opposite him is the enemy with dense firepower.

In this way, Chen Nian kept tumbling the pot until there was no sound of explosion inside, and Chen Nian slowly lifted the lid of the pot.

At this time, the corn kernels that were just a layer of the bottom of the pot have turned into a half pot of popcorn.

A rich aroma of milk and strawberries came over his face, and this sweet feeling reminded him of the two of them holding hands and strolling through the streets of Chengdu that night.

Then pour the popcorn into a plate for aging.

At this time, Chen Nian ran to the side to look around again, and found that the plum syrup water he had said earlier had completely cooled down at this moment. He poured the plum syrup water into the lunch box containing the tomatoes, then covered it and put it in the refrigerator to cool down.

Then he chopped potatoes and onions.

"Chen Nian, why are you crying?"

Just as Chen Nian was weeping after cutting the onions, a voice suddenly came from outside.

Subconsciously looking up, it was An Hongdou.

"Hongdou, you're here." Chen Nian didn't want An Hongdou to see himself like this, so he subconsciously raised his hand to wipe it off, but the wipe made more tears flow from his eyes.

"Don't cry, don't cry, who bullied you, come and tell my sister, and my sister will help you beat him!" An Hongdou hurried over and said with concern, waving her small fist while talking.

"That's the onion." Chen Nian said with tears, pointing to the onion that had been cut and separated into circles on the chopping board.

When An Hongdou saw the onion, he took a big step back!
"No, I can't help you with this."

"I just put on a little makeup in the car. If I choked my eyes with this thing, I would have a painted face in no time."

An Hongdou was quite wary of this thing.

"By the way, where's Auntie?" An Hongdou just remembered that she didn't seem to see Feng Honghong when she came in just now.

"My mother went home to change clothes. She learned that you were more nervous than you. She went back four or ten minutes ago. Although she didn't say it clearly, I guess she must have gone back to get dressed."

"Auntie is so cute." An Hongdou couldn't help covering her mouth and chuckling.

Chen Nian went to the side first to wash his hands and eyes, and after finally washing off the irritating thing, he came back and quickly helped An Hongdou untie the big guitar on his back, and put it in an extremely safe place.

And at this moment, Feng Honghong also appeared at the door.

At this moment, Chen Nian felt that the air in the restaurant suddenly became tense.

This is the second time An Hongdou and Feng Honghong have met. The first time they just passed by and had a face-to-face meeting.

And I've only seen it once in a video before.

But when they met again, it was as if they had never met before.

But in the end, Feng Honghong, the elder, spoke first.

"The girl is here. Auntie went home just now. She was delayed for a while and kept you waiting."

An Hongdou was flattered by such an attitude and quickly said: "No auntie, I just entered the house just now, and I have a little work today, so I came back a bit late, and I still bother you at such a late hour."

"It's okay, it's the right time, it's neither cold nor hot outside, and as long as you come, we welcome you anytime."

In the communication between the two, Feng Honghong is obviously better.