The Northern Stories of Chef Lao Tan

Chapter 414
In addition to making good buns, Yingzi also cooks homemade dishes.

It's what she's practiced over the years.

With little money in my pocket, I can't afford meat. Most of them are vegetables such as eggplants, potatoes, peppers, beans, celery, and soy products.In order to make children love to eat, they can only work hard on the practice, and they have developed their own martial arts after going back and forth.

Today she made steamed buns with diced beef, shiitake mushrooms, celery and carrots.

Selected fatty beef top knife cut into rice-sized grains; parsley and carrots cut into rice; shiitake mushrooms boiled and cut into rice; thick dry tofu shredded first and then cut into rice; green peppers cut into cubes; parsley cut into rice.

Feed the beef cubes first, and then put all kinds of ingredients together to make stuffing. The steamed buns are fragrant and not greasy. There are mushrooms, celery, carrots and dried tofu. Son, in the Northeast dialect - it's delicious.

Four stir-fries.

Stir-fried garlic sprouts with diced chicken, dried tofu in oil, stir-fried celery with beef vermicelli, and roasted eggplant with beans.

Chicken diced stir-fried garlic sprouts choose chicken drumsticks.First cut the meat into cubes, put it in the pot and cook until it is half mature, then add the chopped garlic sprouts, and stir-fry slowly over low heat.The diced chicken legs are cooked, and the garlic sprouts are also cooked, and the heat is just right.The seasoning is also simple, just soy sauce and chicken essence, the taste is not generally good.

Dried tofu in oil is simply an upgraded version of dried tofu with sharp peppers.Since the thick dry tofu is used, it takes a long time to simmer, and all the taste is eaten.

After the plate is ready, sprinkle dried chili segments and minced garlic on top, pour hot oil, and it looks like boiled dried tofu. Yingzi named it dried tofu with oil.

"Ruoxi can eat spicy food, especially boiled pork slices. There was no money to buy meat at that time, so I fooled her with this thick dry tofu. It was delicious after all." Yingzi said with a smile, Lao Tan Listening to the root of the nose sour.

Stir-fried celery with beef and vermicelli. This dish is a multi-purpose raw material for steamed buns. It can be seen that Yingzi is careful and careful, and does not waste at all.

Yingzi handled the beef cubes very well, and the fried beef was as dry as jerky, and it was dry and chewy in the mouth.The celery is not cut into pieces but diced, decorated like green onion, and has a celery flavor.

If the diced celery is removed, this dish is "ants climbing a tree". When the fire is in place, the vermicelli is soft and chewy, bright red and transparent, not sticky or sticky, and ordinary cooks can't do this.

The roasted eggplant with beans is purple eggplant and Jiadouwang. It looks like it is roasted, but it is actually braised. The sauce is rich and delicious, and it is a delicious dish.

I also made two cold dishes, one is cucumber peeling and the other is shredded vegetables, both of which are refreshing dishes in summer.

Besides Lao Tan and his son, Zhang Li and his wife came to Yingzi's house for dinner. Yingzi had wanted to invite Zhang Li and his mother to dinner for a long time, but he never had the chance, mainly because Zhang Li didn't want her to spend money.

It happened to be today, Lao Tan came back from Suzhou, and the two families invited him together.

Zhang Li put another steamed stuffed bun into the bowl, and Lao Huang said, "Okay, you're the third one, you can't help but let it go if it's delicious."

"Don't talk about me, you eat more than anyone else." Zhang Li gave him a white look, and ate it unceremoniously.

"The steamed buns made by Aunt Yingzi are delicious, and I eat them every time." Jiaheng said.

"That means you are worthless." Old Tan said.

"Don't talk about children, buns are really delicious, I love them." Zhang Li said while eating.

Yingzi said: "You can eat it if you like it. I'm afraid you don't like it. There is not much meat."

"This is just right, too much meat is bad for you." Zhang Li said, and turned to Lao Huang, "Old Huang, learn from others and see how they make buns."

Lao Huang smiled without saying a word, picked up the cup and drank with Lao Tan.

The two children went back to the house to play after eating, leaving four adults.

Seeing that Zhang Li was full, she lifted her chopsticks to fill up the wine glass, held it up and said, "I'm full, and I'm a little bit stuffed. Let's start drinking now. It's better not to drink."

Four people toasted.

"Old Tan, let me tell you something. When you have time to beat Huaqing, it's a little drifting." Zhang Li put down her wine glass and said.

"Old problem again?" Old Tan asked.

"almost."

"how?"

"Do you still remember Meng Meng's classmate? The one who learned pastry with her first worked in the old shop and then transferred to the Huangshan Road shop." Zhang Li said.

"I know, isn't it called Wu Min?"

"Okay, I still remember the name." Zhang Li said with some sarcasm.

"Get down to business." Old Tan said.

"The two of you should be fine. I heard that his wife is making trouble again."

Old Tan thought for a while and said, "Yes, I see."

"Also, Fang Jianjun hasn't been feeling well recently. I heard from Wang Hong that it's 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, who happens to come to the Medical University on Monday, and I'll take her to make a diagnosis."

"Old Fang is in good health." Old Tan muttered.

"Hey, eating whole grains doesn't prevent you from getting sick and getting sick. I still think I'm pretty good. Who knew that if I got that disease, I wouldn't die if I didn't die.

I guess Lao Fang is timid, and the doctor gets scared when he says there is something wrong with his kidneys.The same is true for doctors now. If you are not sick, say you are sick, and if you have a minor illness, you will say it is serious. "Zhang Li grumbled.

"I'll go and have a look tomorrow," Old Tan said.

"The only bad things are these two things. Nothing else is left. Everything else is normal and stable. The profit is less, not as much as last year."

"It's normal to have less profit, not like ours. I expect it will be fine after October [-]st." Old Tan said.

"Almost, the price of pork has started to drop now, and the price of beef and mutton must also drop. If it doesn't go down, ordinary people can't afford it."

Zhang Li thought of something again, and said: "By the way, there is one more thing. You have read the plan of the cooking competition. I suggest not to hold it in October. Our family is busy in October every year. Push it back a month, November The month is just right."

A week ago, Zhou Xiaomei sent the plan of the cooking competition 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 again. As for the competition time, he didn’t pay much attention to it. .

"You're right. October is busy, and November is just right." Old Tan said, "I've seen the plan, and there are a few things that have been changed. You and her will decide on the time."

"I don't care about what you mean?"

"do not care."

"No matter what, tell them to get it. You don't know how far you can walk without putting the child on the road. It's also good to exercise. Besides, you should take a rest, don't be too tired."

At this time, Lao Huang said to Zhang Li: "I will retire in January of the Chinese New Year, so don't do it at that time. My pension is more than [-], which is enough for the two of us. If you have nothing to do, go travel and wander around."

Zhang Li said, "Who is going out with you? You haven't even received your certificate yet, so I'm sorry to say so."

"Aren't you unwilling to take it?" Lao Huang was a little aggrieved.

"I said I don't want to take it, so you won't take it? Can't I be reserved?"

"Can't I listen to you?"

"Are you listening to everything?"

Lao Huang had no choice but to drink with Lao Tan.

(End of this chapter)