Don't pretend, I'm the God of Cooking and I'll showdown!

Shen Guofu was dubious, and always felt that hot pot without meat was very unsatisfying.

He drove the car to the garage of the villa, and when he saw Lin Xu taking ingredients out of the trunk, he immediately came over to help, and then saw the bullfrogs.

"Hey, there are bullfrogs here? Then it's not vegetarian hot pot."

Lao Shen thought of the fat intestines and delicious frog pot he ate when he was traveling in Rongcheng, and the unhappiness in his heart was immediately thrown out of the sky.

Obviously there are bullfrogs who still talk about vegetarian hot pot. Why is the son-in-law like the daughter-in-law, full of lies?

It would be nice to have bullfrogs, haha, eat more later.

Seeing her dad's excited look, Shen Jiayue couldn't help pouring cold water on her:
"That bullfrog is thick. What we eat today is vegetarian hot pot, without meat."

Shen Guofu: "..."

For Dundun?

Good guy, I always joked that people are not as good as cats in the past, but now I finally see it.

Entering the villa, Han Shuzhen was showing Chen Yanren and his wife the vegetables grown in the yard. Beans, eggplants, tomatoes and other vegetables were growing gratifyingly. Shen Jiayue couldn't help but joked:
"My mother is the same as the experts from the Academy of Agricultural Sciences. I don't know if there is a big loofah that is three or four meters long."

When she was in middle school, the school organized a visit to the Academy of Agricultural Sciences every year. There, Shen Jiayue saw a super long loofah, a big winter melon that looked like a stone roller, and a flat pumpkin that was as big as a millstone.

Now when she sees her mother standing by the vegetable field and talking, she thinks of the experts in the Academy of Agricultural Sciences who give lectures to the students.

The vegetables in the yard were not actually grown by Han Shuzhen at all. The seeds she had been working for for a few days did not germinate. Aunt Liu bought the seeds to help plant them again. So when the daughter said this, Director Han blushed suddenly:
"If you don't speak, no one will treat you as dumb. There are many bugs outside, so take Dundun to play in the house."

There are many advantages of living in a villa, such as not being disturbed upstairs or downstairs, large area, front and back yards, and a strong sense of privacy.

But the disadvantages are also very prominent, such as the basement is prone to damp, and there are small bugs that can be seen everywhere in summer.

These bugs entered the house without paying attention, and even set up camp in the room, or bit people and pets, making it hard to guard against.

Han Shuzhen was afraid that Dundun would attract bugs, so she urged Shen Jiayue to take the little guy in.

Seeing that Lin Xu and Shen Guofu had brought a lot of ingredients, Ren Jie hurried over to help. The three of them entered the kitchen with various vegetables and began to prepare for today's dinner.

Aunt Liu greeted her with a smile and said:

"When Director Han came back just now, he said to eat vegetarian hot pot and boil vegetarian broth...Xiao Xu, are these difficult?"

"It's not difficult."

Seeing that she was cleaning a mandarin duck pot, Lin Xu asked curiously:

"Is this for hot pot?"

"Yes, I bought it at home before. I haven't used it a few times, so I'll brush it up in advance... What kind of hot pot do you have today?"

Originally, Lin Xu planned to make clear soup hot pot. Since it is mandarin duck pot, let's add another flavor.

He smiled and said:

"There are two flavors, vegetarian broth and tomato soup. I'll cook the broth first."

Lin Xu prepared the bean sprouts, eggs, mushrooms, celery, radishes and other ingredients for the thick soup. He fried the eggs first, and then put them into the pot to start cooking.

After finishing these tasks, I started to pack other ingredients.

Lao Shen and Ren Jie couldn't get along, so they went to the basement to play billiards. Today is the last day of Ren Jie's wedding leave, and tomorrow he will officially go to work. It will be difficult to have such a long rest time in the future.

Lin Xu changed all the ingredients into knives and soaked them. By the way, he used Sprite to make some sesame sauce that people in Beijing can't live without in hot pot, and boiled some sweet and spicy sauce.

After finishing all this, take a few tomatoes, use a kitchen knife to make a cross on the surface, and then pour hot water on it to scald the skin of the tomatoes.

Peel off the outer skin after curling, and cut into small cubes.

Heat the oil in a pan, add green onion and ginger and stir-fry when the oil is hot, then add half a bowl of tomato paste, continue to stir-fry until the tomato paste is sandy, pour in the diced tomatoes, and continue to stir-fry.

To make tomato pot bottom, fresh tomatoes are not enough, because the taste is not strong enough, and it is not long enough. In the end, it even becomes a boiled dish, and the tomato flavor is completely gone.

Only by adding some tomato paste or concentrated tomato paste, the taste will last long, and the soup is also very durable.

Stir-fry the diced tomatoes into a paste, add boiling water, and then add a few slices of raw tomatoes and mushrooms to cook, so that the fresh flavor of the tomato soup base is stronger.

When the tomato soup is almost ready, the vegetarian soup next to it is almost ready.

Pour some of the two kinds of soup into the mandarin duck pot respectively. Add salt, green onion, ginger slices, red dates, wolfberry and other ingredients into the broth to cook, while add onion ginger, tomato slices, shiitake mushrooms and salt to the tomato pot And other condiments.

When everything was ready, Lin Xu put in some cooking-resistant ingredients and cooked them together. At about the same time, he brought the mandarin duck pot to the table in the restaurant.

Then put all the prepared vegetables over one by one, and put on various small ingredients for dipping sauce.

"It's time to eat!"

Lin Xu rushed to the living room to say hello, Shi Wenqing's family of three and Han Shufen also came, and they all wanted to taste the taste of vegetarian hot pot.

If you can, you can learn it later. After all, on the premise of ensuring delicious food, who doesn’t want to eat healthier.

After greeting everyone, Lin Xu went back to the kitchen, peeled off the skin of several bullfrogs, cut the meat into small cubes, then mixed it with two egg yolks, crushed a salted duck egg yolk and mixed it in to add some flavor .

After finishing this, he put the bullfrog meat on a plate and put it in a steamer for steaming.

If you promise to give your child a double dinner, do what you say.

But as far as Dundun's appetite is concerned, it should be difficult to finish. After all, a cat's stomach is relatively small, about the size of a ping pong ball, and it can't eat much food at all.

Besides, it is difficult for Maomao to concentrate. Maybe when there is some movement next to him while eating, his mind will go astray.

After everyone sat down at the dining table, Aunt Liu poured everyone a glass of fruit and vegetable juice according to Lin Xu's instructions. This is the juice squeezed from celery, cucumber, pineapple, banana and other fruits and vegetables.

This kind of fruit and vegetable juice is not only delicious, but also relatively fat-free, and it is not easy to get angry, so it goes well with hot pot.

Although I ate vegetarian hot pot today, there are really many types of ingredients, including all vegetables that have nothing to do with meat, and there is even a limited delicacy in Yinzhou-skin dregs.

Old Shen sniffed, smelled the fresh fragrance from the pot and said:
"Hey, this little smell smells good, I'm really hungry."

Although there is no meat, after a while, put two pieces of skin dregs in the pot to gurgle, and then serve it with sesame sauce and chili oil. If you eat it so happily, you may also find the feeling of eating meat.

Han Shufen took a piece of gluten from the pot, dipped it in the plate and put it in his mouth, his eyes were full of surprise:
"Oh, this hot pot is fresher than those time-honored hot pot restaurants. It tastes really good. I'll have to ask my nanny to learn it tomorrow."

She has also had a vegan diet in the past.

There is nothing uncomfortable after eating, but there is a feeling of not wanting to live.

Today, I thought it was a tasteless vegetarian dish, but I didn't expect this hot pot to be delicious, even better than the ones in hot pot restaurants.

In this case, vegetarian dishes and meat dishes are actually not important anymore, as long as they are delicious.

Chen Yan, who originally wanted to have a bite and ate meat if it didn't taste good, now ate the dishes in the pot, feeling like going to a restaurant for the first time to eat hot pot.

"It's so delicious, I can show off this kind of hot pot for a year."

Eating two mouthfuls of hot pot and taking a sip of fruit and vegetable juice is really refreshing.

Shi Wenqing looked at Lin Xu and asked:

"Why is the fruit and vegetable juice I make at home so bad? Do you have any tricks here?"

"Just add a banana when juicing, and use the aroma of the banana to neutralize the blandness of the vegetables. If possible, it is best to use a ripe banana, which will have a stronger aroma and a better taste."

Upon hearing this, the others secretly memorized it, and planned to try it when they were not busy.

While eating, Lin Xu came to the kitchen, took out the steamed bullfrog from the pot, stirred it, and poured it into the plate that Dundun used for eating.

When it is not hot to the mouth, you can let the little guy eat it.

In order to speed up the cooling, he deliberately took out some ice cubes from the refrigerator and put the plate on it.

Before long, the meat on the plate has reached a lukewarm state.

In the living room, Dundun was getting impatient. Seeing Lin Xu coming out of the kitchen with a plate, he immediately rushed over to meet him.

"The double serving of steamed meat that I promised you can be spread out and eaten, but don't force yourself if you can't finish it, don't overstretch."

Dundun snorted, lowered his head and began to eat, and couldn't respond to Lin Xu's reminder.

Back at the restaurant again, Shen Jiayue was pouring crystal powder into the pot, and Lao Shen was busy blanching the spinach.

The fresh and juicy spinach is blanched in the tomato soup for a few times, and you can eat it directly without dipping it in anything. The taste is still fresh, sweet and delicious. It is crisp and tender mixed with the unique freshness of vegetables. It is very enjoyable to eat.

Lin Xu saw that there was not much soup in the pot, so he added some vegetarian broth and tomato puree, and sat down to continue eating.

At the beginning of eating, everyone felt that there was something missing without meat, but now, eating all kinds of vegetables and ingredients in the pot, dipped in sesame sauce or sweet and spicy sauce, I feel very comfortable.

Especially ingredients such as sweet potato chips, it is delicious to eat.

"Eating like this will definitely make your body very healthy. How about we eat vegan hot pot at least once a week?"

Lao Shen has fully entered the state at this time, and he also suggested to eat it frequently, which feels more satisfying than boiled mutton.

Han Shuzhen put the vegetables into Lao Shen's bowl:

"Don't just eat carbohydrates, eat more vegetables, it's good for your health."

She took two more bites, seeing that it was inconvenient for Shi Wenqing to hold the child in one hand and eat with the other, she got up and said:

"I'll hug Yulin for a while, Wenqing, eat more, so as not to splash the hot pot soup on the child."

Shi Wenqing was also polite:
"Thank you, auntie, I'll eat quickly, and I'll replace you after eating."

Luo Yulin looked at everyone eating in full swing, constantly babbling, only a few months old, the attributes of snack food are undoubtedly revealed.

Han Shuzhen carried her outside to watch Dundun eat, and Lao Shen in the restaurant listened with all his ears, and quickly picked up a few pieces of gluten from the pot.

Although vegetarian dishes are also delicious, relatively speaking, eating carbohydrates is more enjoyable.

After eating gluten, the dregs are almost cooked. This kind of food made of vermicelli is especially suitable for hot pot, especially after it is boiled in tomato soup, then dipped in sesame sauce topped with chili oil, it is fragrant and spicy. Go down, that's a beauty!

"Xiao Xu, will you still film the state banquet tomorrow?"

Han Shufen picked up a piece of old tofu for Shi Wenqing, and asked curiously.

"Shoot, it's time for the state banquet in Hangzhou tomorrow, and it may take a little longer, because there are many dishes for the state banquet in Hangzhou, and they are all famous local dishes, so they are more particular."

The dishes to be photographed tomorrow include flower basket cold dishes, eight-flavored small dishes, Hangzhou stewed chicken, West Lake vinegar fish, Longjing shrimp, crispy duck, fried chicken, braised winter bamboo shoots, ham and Sichuan scallops, chrysanthemum crisps, Shao-style egg buns, rock candy Lotus seeds, fruits.

Among them, Hangzhou stewed chicken is commonly known as beggar's chicken, which is more time-consuming.

As for the crispy duck, the duck is boiled first, then steamed, and then fried, which is also more cumbersome.

Lin Xu has already made braised winter bamboo shoots, West Lake vinegar fish, Longjing shrimp, chrysanthemum crisps, and Shao-style egg buns. In fact, he has also made beggar chicken, but he has never made state banquet-level ones.

The state banquet method of beggar chicken is not wrapped in yellow mud, but directly wrapped in lotus leaves with tin foil and baked in an oven.

Because the method of wrapping yellow mud is unhygienic in the eyes of foreigners, so it can only be baked with the "wooden soul" oven method.

Shen Jiayue showed her aunt the menu taken on her mobile phone:
"Auntie, is there anything you want to eat? If so, I'll drive to Fuwai tomorrow to deliver it to you."

Han Shufen read it carefully, and asked curiously:
"What kind of dish is Gongbao Chicken? Is it Kung Pao Chicken?"

Lin Xu dipped the lotus root slices in the sesame sauce, and said while eating:
"Almost, it's just that the burnt spicy taste is lighter, and the chicken is emphasized, so the real name of Kung Pao Chicken is not used. This is actually the taste that foreign countries like. The small lychee burnt spicy type eaten in our country is not very popular in the West. acceptable."

When foreigners eat Chinese food, they only like sweet and sour dishes, so this kind of dishes are popular all over the world. Almost all Chinese restaurants have a lot of sweet and sour dishes.

Han Shufen looked at it once, and felt that every dish was worth tasting.

It's a pity that she has to go to work tomorrow, she is the vice president and she is very busy, otherwise she would have to go to Yanjing Hotel for another meal.

Shi Wenqing said:
"We have eaten half of the dishes here, and they taste really good. Mom, which dish do you want to eat, I will tell you about the texture and taste."

Han Shufen glanced at her:
"Yo, then you are really filial."

She handed the phone to Shen Jiayue, and said to Lin Xu:
"Your grandpa's birthday is coming soon. You can make a table when the time comes, and we'll enjoy it too. Don't give me food from Yueyue. I might not have time to eat if I do."

The doctor is really busy, and he doesn't even have time to eat when he is busy.

This is even more evident in the Han family. Although the whole family works in the capital, due to their occupations, they can't have a few reunion dinners a year.

After Han Shufen finished eating, she went outside to hold her granddaughter, and Han Shuzhen came back to continue eating.

Lin Xu has almost eaten at the moment. Although there is no staple food, the starch content of ingredients such as gluten and skin dregs is quite high, and the feeling of fullness is very strong.

Seeing his mother-in-law sitting down to eat again, he asked:
"What else do you eat, I'll go to the kitchen to prepare some more?"

Han Shuzhen picked up a piece of dregs from the old Shen bowl:
"I'm almost done eating, just watch your father-in-law keep eating, and share with him...Old Shen, eat less carbohydrates and eat more vegetables. Eating too many carbohydrates is not friendly to blood sugar."

Although Lao Shen does not have diabetes and his uric acid is only a little higher than normal, he must take precautions and not take it lightly.

Many diseases are caused by not paying attention at ordinary times.

But if you pay more attention, it will not develop to the point of no return.

Chen Yan was full and didn't think about the meat any more. She drank the last bit of fruit and vegetable juice in the glass, looked at Lin Xu and asked:

"Tomorrow's dish, which one is the most complicated?"

most complicated?

Lin Xu said without hesitation:

"Flower basket cold dish, this dish not only needs to make various flower shapes, but also uses carrots, radishes, tomato skins and other ingredients to piece together colorful flowers. In addition, fish rolls are placed in the flower basket. Fish rolls are It is made of rolled sea fish fillets and other ingredients, plus the handles and edges of the flower basket, it is very troublesome."

The trouble with cold dishes in flower baskets is not only the matching of shapes and ingredients, but the most important thing is to cross the boundaries of language and culture, so that guests can feel the enthusiasm of welcome.

I have to say that the cold cuts in the flower basket did it.

Not only did it do it, but it also made foreigners never forget it. This dish also became the most artistic dish at the state banquet during Nixon’s visit to China. Even the butterfly platter at the Shanghai dinner was compared.

Although the butterfly platter is beautiful, and some people praise Nixon for flapping the butterfly wings to usher in a new chapter in Sino-US exchanges, but the meaning of the butterfly is too straightforward, and it is reminiscent of the butterfly effect at first glance.

The flower basket cold dish is different. As the first course of the banquet, it should not only convey the welcome and respect to the guests, but also affirm China's peace-loving stance.

You come here with peace, then we will greet you with a flower basket.

If you want to bring other ideas, then it's hard to say what we will greet you with.

After dinner, everyone chatted in the living room for a while, and then drove home. Old Shen was also carried by Han Shuzhen to the basement, and he would not come out if he didn't exercise for two hours.

After arriving home, Lin Xu turned on the TV for Dundun, and told the little guy to continue watching Detective Conan. He went to Chen Yan's house with Shen Jiayue, and checked the formaldehyde value again.

"Yanbao, the data are all within the standard range, and it's a long way from the warning line. The formaldehyde removal is quite clean, so let's forget about moving here next month, and I'll give you a chance to have breakfast."

When Chen Yan saw this message, she originally wanted to say who cares about your breakfast, but after thinking about it, the staff meals in the store are already beyond imagination, and the meals at home should be more meticulous, so she agreed:

"Go back and monitor a few times, if there is no problem, we will move there."

I haven't watched the 110-inch TV in the living room yet, and I haven't had a chance to play the newly bought Steinway. It's time to give the child some prenatal education.

When Chen Yan made up her mind, Lin Xu and Shen Jiayue also returned home, ready to play games, wash and sleep, and get ready for tomorrow's state banquet shooting!

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