Food starts with noodles

This made Xu Zhuo a little confused, and Wei Junming was also a little confused: "This pumpkin doesn't aphrodisiac..."

Boss Xu coughed twice. Fortunately, he didn't participate in this topic just now, otherwise it would be a bit embarrassing.

Xu Wenhai smiled and said, "Brother, what are you thinking, that's not the case."

"Ever since Xiaozhuo started working hard, you two always make breakfast. Every time you eat, that girl Ke Ke still shows off in the circle of friends."

"As a result, Guifang forced me to make her breakfast too. In the end, the first thing I do when I wake up every morning is to ask her, what did you eat today, which makes me almost have a psychological shadow..."

Tsk tsk, there is such a thing.

The couple never cooked breakfast when they were in Linping City. It was okay before junior high school. The old lady was still in Linping City at that time, and she would cook breakfast for Xu Zhuo every day.

But since junior high school, Xu Zhuo's breakfast is all settled at the breakfast stand.

At that time, he thought that Xu Wenhai didn't know how to make breakfast or was not good at making breakfast. He didn't expect that now that he moved to the provincial capital, he would actually start making breakfast.

And it's done in different ways.

Am I so redundant at home?

"Dad, did my mother ask you to make breakfast according to our steps?"

Xu Wenhai looked helpless: "Yes, I have to do what you do, and it doesn't matter if it tastes bad. You must make breakfast simpler in the future, lest your mother force me to do it again."

Boss Xu nodded.

If Xu Wenhai hadn't reminded him, he wouldn't have remembered to make that cumbersome breakfast.

However, in order to improve his father's craftsmanship, Boss Xu felt that it was necessary to collect those methods that are cumbersome and work-intensive, preferably the kind of breakfast that takes four or five hours to cook.

For example, Hu spicy soup, this is a must, it doesn't matter whether it is good or not, the key is that the steps are cumbersome.

In addition, there are all kinds of Cantonese porridge, as well as the famous stewed stew in the capital.

And even if you can't make it yourself, it's okay, just buy it from another place and pretend that you did it yourself.

Anyway, that girl Yu Keke likes to post delicious food, so I will remind her a little at that time, and then let Li Hao edit the copy, so Chen Guifang won't be tempted.

Thinking of this, most of Xu Zhuo's resentment towards Xu Wenhai for not cooking him breakfast has disappeared.

Well, as a family, we have to understand each other.

After making wontons, Wei Junming and Xu Wenhai began to serve them to the restaurant, while Xu Zhuo put the oil pan on the stove again and heated it up.

Then put those pumpkin flowers into the frying pan for the second frying.

The re-frying time of pumpkin flowers is very short. The main purpose is to fry the outer skin with high-temperature hot oil. According to the degree of paste on the flowers, it is enough to fry with [-]% hot oil for more than ten seconds.

The fried pumpkin blossoms were golden in color. Xu Zhuo took one dipped in salt and pepper and bit it lightly. The crispy petals had a faint scent of flowers, as well as the fragrant and numbing taste of salt and pepper. The appetite was tickled.

This thing is too delicious, right?

After eating one, Li Hao had already urged him outside. Xu Zhuo grabbed the salt and pepper and sprinkled it evenly on the freshly fried pumpkin flowers, and then carried the basin to shake it twice, so that the salt and pepper and the pumpkin flowers were evenly coated.

Then he came out of the kitchen with a basin in his hand.

As soon as it was placed on the dining table, everyone started grabbing it with their chopsticks.

Xu Zhuo went back to the kitchen and took out the remaining salt and pepper. If anyone thinks the taste is bland, they can eat it with salt and pepper.

Eating soft and delicious pumpkin pancakes, paired with crispy and numbing salt and pepper pumpkin flowers, and occasionally having a mouthful of delicious wonton soup, this life is really beautiful.

"Why don't we sell pumpkin flowers in the Central Plains? It tastes so good after frying them, Wen Hai, I'll check if there are any for sale when I go back. If so, you can cook them for me once."

Chen Guifang was really addicted to eating.

What else could Xu Wenhai say, he could only nod his head and agree: "As long as you can buy it, it's fine, but we probably can't buy it over there..."

It's true that you can't buy this thing, but if you want to eat it, there is still a way.

Boss Xu took a sip of the wonton soup, and said with a knife, "You can drive directly to pick pumpkins in the fields where they grow pumpkins. You can pay a little money. Anyway, these are not female flowers, and they don't bear pumpkins. You can pick them and eat them."

When he said this, Chen Guifang immediately said: "That's right, the last time I went to the Yellow River beach area, it seems that someone planted a piece of pumpkin. I will drive to have a look after I go back, and pick more if I can..."

Xu Wenhai smiled a little reluctantly: "Really? If the relationship is good, then we can have a good time."

Boss Xu went on to make up the knife: "Pumpkin flowers are very delicate and cannot be stored for a long time. If there are too many of them, let my dad fry them all at once, put them in a fresh-keeping bag, and then fry them again when they are ready to eat..."

Chapter 226 Making Eight Treasure Stuffed Pears

As soon as Xu Zhuo finished speaking, Xu Wenhai glanced at him, his eyes full of doubts.

Thinking about it seriously, it seems that he didn't offend his son, why is he always making up for the knife here?

But Xu Zhuo's skill in making up the knife was very high, and his tone was completely planned for Chen Guifang, so Xu Wenhai couldn't stop it clearly, so he had to pretend to agree, and then changed the topic.

"What are your plans for today?"

Then everyone started talking one by one.

Yao Meixiang was going to sell the house, and Wei Junming just came, and the house they bought in the city center could be sold.

However, selling a house is not so easy, so I can only hang it up with a second-hand house sales company first, and let them help sell it. Although there are some handling fees and other fees, it is more worry-free, and it is easy to deal with any disputes.

Wei Junming intends to meet some old friends, and he may not come back next time. Some old masters who taught him their crafts may not be able to make it back next time, so it is necessary to pay a visit.

After finishing speaking, he looked at Xu Wenhai and asked, "Do you want to go with me? You will be in charge of Xu's restaurant in the future, and you will inevitably have to deal with colleagues. Today I will meet people who are highly respected in the Sichuan cuisine circle. If you It's nothing, you can follow the past to get to know each other and make a good relationship."

Xu Wenhai had nothing to do, so he agreed wholeheartedly.

Chen Guifang was going to go shopping, and she didn't enjoy shopping yesterday morning, so she happened to take Yu Keke, Sun Panpan and Zhou Wen there today, to take a good look around.

Then Xu Zhuo and Li Hao were left with no place to go.

It's not that there is no place to go, Yu Keke wanted to drag Xu Zhuo to go shopping, but in view of yesterday's situation, Boss Xu wisely chose to refuse, even if Yu Keke was cute.

Li Hao is only interested in the snack street, not in shopping for clothes.

So after the meal, only Li Hao and Boss Xu were left staring at each other.

Having nothing to do, Xu Zhuo prepared the ingredients for making eight-treasure stuffed pears, and then strolled to the supermarket.

He plans to try making eight-treasure stuffed pears at home first, to find out how he feels.

Although this is a skill given by the system, it will overturn if it is not kept properly, so it is better to do it first.

At this moment, the supermarket had just opened, so Xu Zhuo came to the fruit section and began to pick pears.

"These Sydney pears are all early-ripening pears pulled from Cangxi. They taste very sweet and have no dregs. They are very delicious..."

Seeing Xu Zhuo picking Sydney pears, the salesperson beside him was hard at work selling them.

The pears used in Babao stuffed pears are Cangxi pears, which are large in size, sweet in taste, delicate and slag-free.

But not all Cangxi pears can be made into eight-treasure stuffed pears, which pay attention to appearance.

Too big can’t be used, those big pears with a single fruit of three or four catties can’t be used, because the pears are too big to be steamed, and it is easy to cause the situation of raw inside and ripe outside.

Deformed pears cannot be used either, because deformed Sydney pears are not easy to peel and dig out their hearts.

The most suitable ones are moderate in size, round in shape, and obovate in shape.

It took Xu Zhuo a long time to choose five or six.

The salesperson was very curious: "You child, pick a pear based on its appearance..."

Xu Zhuo smiled: "This is for cooking, Auntie, is that all? Is there any more?"

The salesperson immediately understood: "Say it earlier, come, come, follow me, and I'll take you to the warehouse to pick."

So Xu Zhuo followed her to the warehouse behind the supermarket and picked twenty or thirty pears.

It's not that he plans to make so many eight-treasure stuffed pears, the main reason is that these Sydney pears are all perfect in appearance, which makes him want to choose involuntarily.

Although Boss Xu keeps saying that he doesn't like the profession of chef, now he is getting closer and closer to being a chef.

For example, when he has nothing to do to buy groceries, he would never be able to do it before.

In addition, he would not have worked so hard to select ingredients before.

Human growth comes step by step. Before Boss Xu himself realized what had changed in him, he had already become obsessed with cooking.

I bought too many pears, so the salesperson pushed the shopping cart and delivered them to Xu Zhuo's home.

Li Hao was taken aback by so many Sydney pears: "Fuck, buy so many Sydney pears, are you going to let us eat eight-treasure stuffed pears for a few days?"

Xu Zhuo shook his head: "No, it's just that these pears are very beautiful, and I picked so many without knowing it. I plan to ask my dad to make Shandong cuisine eight-treasure pear jars in the next two days, and see how they are similar to eight-treasure stuffed pears. Not much difference."

This made Li Haoxi smile: "That's a good relationship, I'll just wait to eat it."

Xu Zhuo came to the kitchen, washed the pears first, and then looked at the glutinous rice soaked in water.

This was soaked after I came back from dinner last night. I want to make eight-treasure stuffed pears myself. I didn’t just talk about it. That girl Yu Keke was waiting to eat yesterday, and asked again this morning.

If he doesn't do it again, Xu Zhuo is afraid that the girl will sue for cheating her feelings.

If you promise to others, you have to do it.

There are various ingredients for making eight-treasure stuffed pears. Except for glutinous rice, the other ingredients are not limited to specific types, and can be adjusted freely according to the ingredients.

For example, Xu Zhuo prepared lilies, lotus seeds, barley, walnuts, candied dates, chestnuts, raisins, wolfberries, longan, rock sugar and a can of sweet-scented osmanthus honey today.

In fact, the most suitable thing to add here is honey red beans, but unfortunately that has to be made in advance, Xu Zhuo was a little late today, so he didn't choose it.

When he was busy in the kitchen, Li Hao came over and looked at the dozen or so ingredients that Xu Zhuo had placed, and asked curiously: "Boss Xu, didn't you say eight treasures? Didn't you prepare a little too much?" ?”

Xu Zhuo smiled: "You can't stick to the eight kinds of ingredients. It doesn't matter how many. In fact, buy a few rice dumplings, boil them, open them, fill them with pears, and steam them. The taste is also very good."

"Let's eat it by ourselves. It must be delicious. It's just that the ingredients are not complete. After the flavors of these ingredients are blended together, even without sugar, the taste is very delicious."

After Li Hao went out, Xu Zhuo soaked the lotus seeds in water first, shelled the chestnuts and dug out the chestnut flesh.

Then he chopped the ripe walnuts he bought this morning into pieces.

For walnut kernels, it is best to process ripe walnuts by yourself, so that the taste will be better, and the processed ones are more crispy than the bought ones, but it is too troublesome, Xu Zhuo is worried that he can't do it well.

Remove the date pits from the candied dates and chop them up. Soak the raisins and wolfberries until soft. Dig out the longan meat and put them in a bowl for later use.

After doing all this, Xu Zhuo began to steam the glutinous rice that had been soaked overnight.

Just like steaming rice, Xu Zhuo poured the soaked glutinous rice into the rice cooker, and added a box of coconut milk and a handful of rock sugar to it.

The steamed ones are very sweet, and have a faint coconut fragrance, and the taste is better.

In order to prevent the rice grains from sticking, Xu Zhuo added a little peanut oil to it.

The glutinous rice steamed in this way has distinct grains, making it more attractive both in texture and taste.

Chapter 227

After finishing these, Xu Zhuo took a pear and started to practice.

First peel off the outer skin of the Sydney pear, and then cut it horizontally two centimeters below the pear handle. The upper half is the cover of the eight-treasure stuffed pear, and the lower half of the pear is dug into a jar shape with a spoon.

Although he already had the skills, Xu Zhuo was still cautious when digging, for fear of making mistakes.

The thickness of the dug pear can is about one centimeter, and it must be uniform in thickness, otherwise it is easy to crack or be broken by the filling during the steaming process.

Xu Zhuo soaked the dug pears in white vinegar with the jars and lids to prevent the pears from discoloring due to oxidation.

After one is done, Xu Zhuo has some experience, so he will continue to do it.

When the glutinous rice was steamed, Xu Zhuo made nine jars.

One for each person, this thing cannot be divided.

Although not being able to divide pears is just a homonym without evidence, but it should be observed and obeyed. Boss Xu has always followed the trend in this regard and does not like to be unconventional.

Putting the steamed glutinous rice aside to dry, he set up a steamer on the stove, cored the soaked lotus seeds, and steamed them together with the shelled chestnuts.

Li Hao had already visited the kitchen two or three times, and finally couldn't wait any longer, so he ate the leftover pumpkin flowers and pumpkin pies from the morning.

While eating, I also found reasons for myself: "Actually, I'm not hungry, but because I can't help but want to eat something because I see you cooking."

"Besides, these pumpkin flowers and pumpkin pies are not tasty when left over, and it would be a pity to throw them away. Why don't I kill them and save food from being wasted."