Food starts with Mapo Tofu

Chapter 96
In this era, the grace of guidance is enough to make people remember for a lifetime.

What Chen Nian said to Fu Xin greatly increased Fu Xin's chances of passing the exam!
"It's not necessary." Chen Nian quickly helped the other party up, and said quickly.

After all, it’s modern people’s way of thinking, how can I get used to this kind of custom, kneel down every now and then, and everyone is the same age, although in the dormitory, my son would often call me a good boy, but no one would really make people kneel down .

"I'm not used to you like this, we can just go on as usual."

Fu Xin looked at Chen Nian with inexplicable complexity in his eyes.

When we met for the first time, his first impression of Chen Nian was that he liked to talk nonsense, but gradually he found that Chen Nian knew not many things, but quite a lot!
As long as Fu Xin can say it, there is basically nothing that Chen Nian doesn't know.

He is no worse than himself in terms of literary talent and composition. Even Fu Xin now feels that if Chen Nian also takes part in the imperial examination, he may get a higher ranking than himself!
"Brother Chen, since you have such profound knowledge, why are you willing to be confined to this tofu workshop? Are you willing to study this daily necessities?"

"Is there anything wrong with this?" Chen Nian asked, "For me, cooking is the happiest thing in the world. I can get satisfaction from cooking. 360 lines, every line is the best, you I became the number one scholar in the imperial court, and I can become the number one scholar in tofu, so why should you say that my number one scholar is not as good as yours?"

Chen Nian's words left Fu Xinwen speechless.

But in my heart, I still admire Chen Nian's leisurely heart, which is hidden in the city. It seems that no matter whether I can pass the exam next year, I will fall behind Brother Chen at the beginning!
At noon the next day, Fu Xin sat at the dining table happily, waiting for Chen Nian to have dinner.

Last night, Chen Nian said that he would no longer make tofu soup today.

"Finally a change of taste!"

When the old age brings the dishes.
"Come, tofu balls, cold tofu skin, mapo tofu!" The three dishes were served on the table, and Chen Nian not only sighed: "For your meal, I have paid a lot of money!"

But looking at the dishes on the table, Fu Xin lost control of his facial expressions.

"Isn't this still tofu!"

"No, no, this is totally different." Chen Nian stretched out an index finger and waved it: "Although there is tofu in the tofu balls, I also added flour, steamed buns, and then deep-fried them. ;Cold bean curd skin also uses the tofu skin that was just made yesterday, and then added some salt and vinegar, which tastes very delicious as a match. "

Listening to Chen Nian's introduction, Fu Xin looked at the Mapo Tofu next to him; "Then this dish. I just want to know who Mapo is?"

"Yes, there is a grandmother in our hometown who is very good at cooking."

Although this era is not the history of any dynasty that I am familiar with, the development is still roughly similar. There is no chili, pork is not edible, and eating beef is illegal, but there is sugar, salt, starch, pepper, and garlic.

Having garlic means having garlic seedlings.

Among them, pepper is the most expensive.

However, the prickly ash used in this dish was bought by Chen Nian on the way when he came back from Tianning Temple in the morning.

As for the spiciness in this mapo tofu dish.

Old age with cornel.

That is the place where the Yaozhi brothers climbed the heights, and there is one less dogwood planted all over the place. This dogwood is also called food dogwood, also known as Evodia, which was one of the main ingredients for spicy food when ancient people cooked.

Although there is some medicine in the taste, the aging has done some simple debittering to make it less heavy.

In this way, the scent of cornel itself can cover up the medicinal smell.

However, the taste is very unsatisfactory for aging. After all, many materials are really not available, and the second is that the color is not satisfactory.

After listening to Chen Nian's introduction, Fu Xin ate a meatball first.

His eyes lit up immediately!
The freshly fried meatballs are still steaming, and the outer skin of the steamed meatballs is even more crispy. When you bite open, the heat from the inside bursts out. Although it is mainly made of tofu, you can’t taste the taste of tofu at all. , On the contrary, it feels like eating meatballs!
Of course, it's the kind of meatballs that don't have too much meat.

"It's so delicious! Brother Chen! I didn't expect you to be so good at cooking!"

"I usually see that you don't look like a mountain. Since you have this cooking skill, why do you have to cut tofu to make tofu soup every day? My little brother is afraid when he hears tofu now."

Chen Nian also tasted a meatball.

In my heart, I felt that it was almost meaningless, probably because there were less steamed buns, and the frying time was a little longer.

Afterwards, Fu Xin tried the cornel version of mapo tofu.

"good to eat!"

"Can you do this with tofu? This is too good! I thought that tofu could only be made lighter, either steamed or boiled. I never thought that tofu could be made to taste like this. It's amazing! "

Fu Xin couldn't hide his admiration. This old plate of tofu opened the door to a new world for him.

He knew that in some restaurants in Yangzhou or private kitchens of wealthy businessmen, there must be many more ways to make tofu.

But Fu Xin is sure now that they will never know the aged mapo tofu!
So far, Fu Xin admires Chen Nian even more.

But for the cold tofu skin, Fu Xin thinks this cold dish is quite satisfactory.

However, when he proposed that he wanted to eat these two dishes at night, Chen Nian flatly refused.

"why?"

"No money." Chen Nian said coldly, "Do you know how much it cost me for lunch? It's enough to eat a meal. When will you be able to get a job, when will I make these for you, otherwise there will be no talk!"

While Chen Nian was talking, he cut the tofu into uniform filaments about three millimeters thick, and then put it into the pot.

Not surprisingly, the dish at night is tofu soup.

And being able to achieve the current level is also the result of continuous practice over the years.

Now it is still impossible to meditate as Wen Si said.

It is also impossible to read books without distraction on any occasion like Fu Xin.

Days go by.

On a certain day, Chen Nian and Fu Xin just jumped off the tree after watching Little Peony's performance and were about to go back.

Suddenly, a young looking girl in a green dress came over.

"You two, please stay. My lady asked me to deliver something for you."

The two stopped immediately.

"What? And who is your lady?"

The maid smiled and said, "You climb up the tree every day to see our young lady, how can you not know who she is?"

"As for this thing, it's an invitation~"

　Thank you Ni Nianhua for the reward of 1500 starting coins, the boss spent a lot of money, thank you very much~

　　
　
(End of this chapter)