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Chapter 733 Dundun: Translation translation, what is fishing law enforcement!Delicious mirror-mounted tofu! 【Subscribe】

"Mom, you... what are you doing in Yinzhou?"

Chen Yan tentatively asked, just about to sing that the sky in the liberated area is a sunny day, and then a blow was received. If my parents come to Yinzhou, will my baby Yan still have a chance to have fun?

Shen Guofang said:
"Grandma Lin is going to have her [-]th birthday. I'm going to celebrate with your dad. Your uncle and your grandma are both there. We missed the opening of the racecourse because of business matters, so we'll come here and take a look at it by the way. landscape."

Chen Yan: "..."

Are you sure it wasn't aimed at me?
No matter, let's play first!

"Mom, after you buy the ticket, send me the arrival time. I will pick you up by car when the time comes, and let you have a taste of the beautiful Yinzhou..."

Before he finished speaking, Shen Guofang interrupted:

"What kind of car do you drive when you are pregnant? We can just take a taxi to the scenic spot when we arrive. We don't need to run back and forth, just stay in the scenic spot honestly, don't run around, don't make a fuss, have you listened to the prenatal education class I posted on WeChat? Listen more, expert Saying that it has the effect of enlightening wisdom can't be perfunctory..."

Chen Yan:? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
Sure enough, he is here to control me, right?
Woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

After hanging up the phone, Chen Yan, who was originally in high spirits, immediately became depressed. Shen Jiayue held a small basket of freshly washed Meizao cherries and asked curiously:
"What's the matter? Did the baby kick you in the stomach?"

Chen Yan gave her cousin a helpless look:
"It's still in the embryonic state, it's kicking a fart, it's my parents who are coming... My good life hasn't started yet, it's coming to an end!"

"It's okay, it's okay, do you think my parents don't care about you? Eat cherries. This is a gift from my uncle's friend. It's super big and super sweet."

Chen Yan squeezed one and put it in her mouth:

"It's okay, food can relieve my depression now..."

In the kitchen, Lin Xu heard the "sizzling" sound from the pot, and slowly turned down the fire.

When braising for the second time, the cooking time should be slightly longer, so that the aroma of the meat will be more intense.

In addition, the water in the pot is boiled dry, and the honey dripping from the pork will vaporize at the bottom of the pot, forming an effect similar to smoke, and giving the pork a layer of red.

This method seems to be very simple, just two fires, it can not only cook the meat, but also color the meat, but the actual operation is not so difficult.

Because not only the amount of water and rice wine has to be adjusted according to the size of the meat, but also the length of cooking time, the matching of seasonings, etc., all have very high requirements. If one is not careful, the dishes may be overturned.

If it wasn't for Lin Xu's direct acquisition of cooking skills, it would have been impossible to make it.

This is actually the reason why the pot-simmering technique has been lost. The threshold is too high and the difficulty is too great. In the past, the material was not abundant, and it was hard to eat a piece of meat. Who would dare to do so badly?
So this technique disappeared in the long river of history.

Heat the casserole on low heat for a while, then Lin Xu turns off the fire and let the casserole cool down slowly. When the temperature drops completely, you can take it out and slice it.

Walking out of the kitchen, mom and dad went to the tourist service center to deal with scenic spots, father-in-law and mother-in-law went to climb mountains, and other elders should also work and take a walk.

Seeing Chen Yan eating big cherries dejectedly, Lin Xu asked curiously:
"There are no elders now, why don't you go play?"

Shen Jiayue at the side said sympathetically:
"Don't mention it, my aunt and uncle are coming to Yinzhou, and Yan Bao will be nagged by the elders again...Xu Bao, will I be like this when I give birth in the future?"

Lin Xu smiled:
"Just keep quiet for the first few months, and you won't be able to see it anyway."

Shen Jiayue's eyes brightened, that's right, as long as you keep quiet, the elders won't nag, and when you have a big belly, you should also enjoy the care of the elders.

Chen Yan on the side opened her mouth, and the cherry in her mouth suddenly became less sweet.

Ahhhhh why didn't I think of this?

At that time, Yueyue reminded her to buy a pregnancy test stick first, but she didn't listen, and even took her mother-in-law to Xiehe for a checkup...

Well now, it's all tears.

Worried, Shen Jiayue picked up a cherry and fed it to her mouth:

"Okay, okay, don't be sad, think about the good, you at least provide us with experience and lessons, let us know the correct way to deal with pregnancy, we will always be grateful to you."

Chen Yan opened her mouth:

"Can you stop talking?"

One of you two is adding salt to the wound, and the other is adding fuel to the fire. You really answered that sentence:

"It's not a family, don't enter a family!"

Ever since she became pregnant, Chen Yan has been suffering from excessive care and concern from her elders, and she finally understands why depression during pregnancy is so common, most of it is probably caused by the excessive care of her elders.

In order to prevent his sister-in-law from collapsing again, Lin Xu asked:

"What would Sister Yan want to eat tonight? I'll make it for you."

I can't help you with other things, but I can still use food to relieve my worries.

When it comes to food, Chen Yan regained her spirits:
"I want to eat that kind of tofu stuffed with meat. I ate it at Fengzeyuan before and thought it was delicious, but I ate it a few times in other places and I was not satisfied... You two just made me feel bad. Hurt, so use this dish to make up for me."

For such a request, Lin Xu naturally would not refuse:
"Okay, I'll start cooking later, my aunt and uncle are coming for dinner, so I need to prepare a bigger meal."

Shen Jiayue asked:
"Xubao, what's the name of the dish stuffed with meat in tofu?"

"There are many names. In Shandong cuisine, it is called Tofu Box, in Sichuan cuisine, it is called pregnant tofu, in Cantonese cuisine, it is called stuffed tofu, and in Huaiyang cuisine, it is called Jingxiang tofu... The recipe is similar, and it is a high-end banquet dish."

Although it is generally a type of dish, in terms of practice, different cuisines have different forms.

Relatively speaking, stuffed tofu in Cantonese cuisine is the most common. Cut the tofu into pieces, hollow out the center with a spoon, stuff it with meat stuffing, and steam it directly in the pot. After steaming, pour some soup on it. That's it.

If you are more particular, you will use egg yolk or quail eggs to seal the meat when stuffing the meat, so that the meat is more tender and the visual effect is better.

In the field of Cantonese cuisine, this is a home-cooked dish from Hakka, and it is not difficult.

For pregnant tofu in Sichuan cuisine, you need to carefully remove a complete cover from the surface of the tofu, then dig out the excess tofu inside, stuff it with meat, and then put the cover back to keep the tofu as it is.

In terms of appearance, it is more beautiful than Cantonese cuisine, and it is a surprise to eat the meat stuffing when you bite open the tofu.

But among these methods, Huaiyang Cuisine's mirror-inlaid tofu is the ceiling level.

Mirror inlaid tofu, also called mirror box tofu, is made of tofu in the shape of a box, and the open side should be the same as the lid of the box, which can be opened gently.

After opening, you can put meat stuffing inside.

This is a test of skill, especially the soft tofu is not easy to handle, and the requirements for knife skills are even higher.

But the more this is the case, the more you can exercise your skills. In addition, the cost of tofu is not high, no matter what kind of carving it is, you can eat it, so cooking apprentices have basically practiced knife skills with tofu.

At four o'clock in the afternoon, Lin Xu returned to the kitchen again and began to make the mirror-mounted tofu that his sister-in-law ordered.

He first took a piece of front leg meat, chopped it into minced meat according to the proportion of three parts fat and seven parts lean, chopped it well and put it in a basin, added condiments such as onion and ginger salt water, pepper water, light soy sauce, dark soy sauce, egg white, etc. Start whisking to get the meat stuffing going.

When the meat filling is adjusted, cover it with plastic wrap and put it in the refrigerator for marinating.

Taking advantage of this time, I brought the tofu, first sliced ​​off the old skin on the tofu, then cut into tofu pieces slightly larger than mahjong, and soaked it in salted boiling water for about ten minutes.

The reason for soaking in hot water is to remove the beany smell of tofu. At the same time, soaking in salt water can make the tofu more soft and tender.

But doing so will also increase the difficulty of changing tofu into a knife.

However, Lin Xuyi is a bold person, as long as the taste and taste can be improved, he doesn't care about the difficulty of knife skills.

After the tofu is soaked, take it out and control the water. By the way, bring the marinated meat filling, cut some water chestnuts and shrimps into it, stir well, and then prepare some starch water to start making.

Lin Xu held a piece of tofu in his hand, and held a small knife in the other hand to modify the knife on the front of the tofu.

For a cuboid block of tofu, cut off both the upper and lower short sides, and then cut off the long side on one side, tilt the knife, and cut the whole side of the tofu to form a door shape.

Open the door carefully, take off the excess tofu slices on the door, and then hollow out the inside of the tofu to make a box with a thickness of four or five millimeters.

Do this step well, stuff the marinated minced meat directly into the box, the minced meat can be filled a little bit, because the minced meat will shrink, so don’t worry about bursting the box.

Fill the meat stuffing, spread a layer of starch water on it, and close the door of the box again.

In this way, a raw embryo of mirror-mounted tofu is completed.

In the past, when making this dish for dignitaries, patterns were carved on the surface of the tofu and made according to the shape of a real box.

But now it's just to taste the delicious food, and steps such as carving flowers can be avoided.

With this skill, it is better to make a few more and let the family try more.

Lin Xu made the tofu piece by piece, and his cousin Jia Xingwang was stunned:

"This tofu really takes a lot of work, what are you going to do later?"

Lin Xu said:

"After a while, pat a layer of dry powder on the surface and fry it first, then put it into the pot and simmer with broth and shrimp roe, and then you can take it out of the pot and put it on a plate."

There are actually many ways to make this kind of tofu. It can be made in a pot, or it can be cooked by simmering, stewing, stewing, and so on.

Tofu is a versatile ingredient, no matter how it is cooked, the taste will not be much different, so this gives more possibilities for mirror-mounted tofu.

When the meat stuffing was used up, Lin Xu crushed the remaining tofu, added some pork fat and egg whites smashed into a meat paste, and remade Yipin tofu.

The elderly in the family love this dish, so I took the opportunity to make some.

It tastes delicious and nutritious, and it can also effectively supplement protein. If eaten in moderation, it is only good for the body and not harmful.

After mixing the tofu with lard and egg whites, Lin Xu didn't start cooking immediately, but went outside and carefully asked Chen Yuejin and Shen Guofang about their arrival time.

It's a basic courtesy to start the table when the guests arrive, and you can't let people come to eat leftovers.

"Arrive at East Yinzhou at [-]:[-], and Yueyue and I will drive to pick you up later...Brother-in-law, prepare as you should. My parents are not outsiders, so you don't need to be so polite."

Although she knew that her parents would be nagged when they came, Chen Yan still acted positively. After all, she could always be a child in front of her parents.

Lin Xu looked at the time and said:
"Okay, then I'll cook other dishes first, and I'll start dinner when you arrive."

He went back to the kitchen, took out an air-dried duck from the refrigerator, served it with a chicken and a piece of cured pig's foot, chopped it into large pieces, splashed it with water, and then put it into a pot for stewing.

This method is more common in the south. It combines the taste of ham, the umami of chicken and the taste of air-dried duck.

The whole dish can be eaten with meat, soup, and rice. There are many ways to eat it. In addition, the method is simple, and even the steps of seasoning can be omitted, which is more popular.

Not long after, Shen Jiayue drove to the high-speed rail station with Chen Yan.

As soon as the two left, Dundun sneaked out of the restaurant with his grasshopper cage in his mouth.

Lin Xu smiled and asked after seeing it:

"Why, do you want to catch grasshoppers and put them in? It's a pity that it's not the season, so I can't help you catch them."

Dundun didn't care about these things, he just hoped not to be noticed by his aunt, as long as Chen Yuejin and his wife came over, the little guy would have a backer.

At this time, if she took out the grasshopper cage and fiddled with it in front of Chen Yan, if she ran and kicked like a crazy woman, she would definitely be punished, and if she didn't kick, she would definitely not be able to bear it.

To put it bluntly, the little guy just wants to use this grasshopper cage to fish and enforce the law.

Don't worry about my aunt not taking the bait!
Lin Xu naturally didn't understand the little baby's mind. He thought that Dundun had slept in the dining room all afternoon and was probably hungry, so he fished out a big yellow loach from the pool, cleaned it up quickly, and scrubbed the mucus on the surface with salt. one time.

Then pick out the loach meat, cut it into diced meat, mix it with egg yolk, and put it in a steamer for steaming.

Eating a loach will probably fill up the kitty's satiety directly.

After the loach is steamed, pour it into a solid dinner plate and spread it out to dry. When it is not hot, take it outside. The little guy who is kicking the grasshopper cage like a football immediately flies away from a distance like a wild boar going down the mountain to look for food. come rushing.

It is now used to eating meat mixed with egg yolk, and when it pokes its head into the plate, it turns on the dazzling rice mode.

After finishing his meal, Dundun squatted comfortably at the door of the kitchen to wash his face.

Lin Xu put away the plates, washed them, and went back to the kitchen to prepare dinner.

He first put Yipin tofu into the pot for steaming, then set up the frying pan, put some lard in the pot, heated it up, and brought over the mirror-mounted tofu stuffed with meat, with a thin layer of tofu hanging on the surface. Dried powder, put into the frying pan for frying.

Fry until golden brown on the bottom, then carefully flip over.

When the surface of the tofu is fully fried, add a large bowl of broth, then add some shrimp roe, pour in a little dark soy sauce, two pieces of rock sugar, and start to simmer.

While busy, Shen Guofu returned from climbing the mountain.

He hadn't climbed to Longshou Peak yet, but he wasn't to blame. The main reason was that there were too many tourists on the mountain, and they couldn't speed up, so they climbed to the viewing pavilion halfway up the mountain. After discussing it, the couple decided to climb the mountain again tomorrow morning.

"Huh...there are too many tourists, and there is an urgent need for expansion."

For a businessman, tourists represent income, as long as the tourists are served well, the money will not keep coming.

Although Longshou Peak is not big, it has all the steepness and beauty that it should have. With the cheap tickets, it is no wonder that tourists come here.

Old Shen took a sip of water and asked Lin Xu
"What's for dinner tonight?"

"Yipin tofu, mirror-mounted tofu, phoenix duck and live chicken stewed with fire heel..."

Just as Lin Xu was talking, Shen Guofu couldn't wait to ask:

"Is the stewed meat in the pot ready to eat?"

"Okay."

These words reassured Lao Shen, and he just waited to taste it, hoping to enjoy it.

Lin Xu returned to the kitchen and touched the casserole with his hands. It was slightly warm, but he didn't feel hot at all. He removed the jade button paper that sealed the casserole, opened the lid, and the faint scent of wine and bamboo came out. Float out of the pot.

The smell of the meat is slightly inaudible, but it does not mean that it is not delicious. On the contrary, it is the expression that the aroma is completely absorbed in the meat.

At this time, the pork belly in the pot has been smoked red, especially the skin part. After the excess fat is steamed out, and the smoked red color, it looks crystal clear and very attractive.

Take out the pork belly and smell it carefully, you can smell the rich meaty aroma in the wine aroma, mixed with the fragrance of bamboo and the sweetness of honey, it makes people feel greedy.

The bamboo grate in the pot also changed color at this moment, from the original emerald green to slightly yellowish, with fine drops of water still hanging on the surface.

Obviously, when the temperature in the pot is high, these bamboo grates are also slightly sweated by the smoke.

Take out the bamboo grate, and you can see that there is a thin layer of fat on the bottom of the pot. These are all steamed from the meat and can be kept for cooking.

Shi Wenming was a little surprised when he looked at the braised meat in the pot:
"Hey, this meat looks really good, do you just slice it like this, Xiao Xu?"

Lin Xu nodded:

"Yes, it can be sliced ​​and eaten directly, or it can be spread on hot rice, or sandwiched with hot steamed buns, so as to stimulate the aroma before eating."

Now the aroma of the meat is all condensed in the meat, only when it encounters heat, the aroma of the meat will come out again.

After speaking, he cut the pork belly into one-inch-wide strips, and then changed the knife to slice the meat. When cutting, he could clearly feel that the meat had become porcelain.

After the meat was cut, Lin Xu pinched a piece and put it into his mouth. The skin of the meat was more chewy and the texture of the meat was more dense.

Fuck it, it's delicious!
Today is not in vain!

The meat slices are salty and delicious, and the sweet taste of honey is really super delicious.

I was afraid of overturning the car when I made it, so I used a piece of pork belly. Now it seems that I have made less, and I guess it is not enough to eat today.

But it doesn't matter, just continue to do it tomorrow. With the technology in hand, it is very easy to eat pot stewed meat.

When it was almost six o'clock, Shen Jiayue drove Chen Yuejin and his wife to the scenic spot.

When the relatives got together and were busy greeting, Dundun ran up to his aunt with the grasshopper cage in his mouth, deliberately kicked her lightly with his paws, and looked at her provocatively.

Just as Chen Yan was about to kick him away, he suddenly realized that his parents were there, and immediately understood the little guy's sinister intentions.

She gave Dundun a hard look:
Little Fat Cat, just wait for me, if you have the chance, I will definitely let you feel, Auntie's love for you!

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