He was betrayed at the beginning, from a cake seller to a wealthy person

In a blink of an eye, it’s New Year’s Eve again, and it’s time to prepare for the New Year’s Eve dinner.

Although everyone eats very well this year, and there is no need to wait for the New Year to eat, and the anticipation is not so heavy, the New Year’s Eve dinner is still the most solemn meal of the year, and chicken, duck, and fish must still be included. .

Lu Yan decided to make honey-glazed roast chicken this time. Wash the chicken, remove the internal organs, pat it flat, and soak it in salt water for an hour. This is the key to making the chicken tender and juicy. After an hour, take out the chicken and dry the skin. Make a sauce with salt, sugar, honey, soy sauce, and pepper. Apply it evenly on the chicken, spread it thickly, and then leave it for three hours to marinate. Delicious. Marinate it after lunch, and it will be almost ready when cooking in the evening.

To make roasted chicken this time, Lu Yan decided to steam it first and then roast it. Steam the marinated chicken for ten minutes, take it out and brush the surface with honey, put it in the oven and bake it over high heat for a quarter of an hour, take it out and bake it again over high heat for a quarter of an hour, and the honey-glazed chicken is ready alright.

roast chicken

The duck plans to make radish duck soup, which can be stewed while the chicken is marinating. Wash the duck and cut it into pieces, blanch it in water, stir-fry out the fat, stir-fry the blanched duck over high heat until the color is brown, pour in water to cover the duck and start cooking. Cut the radish into hob pieces and boil them in water. Skim off the foam while cooking. After the water boils, pour the water and ingredients into a casserole and simmer over low heat for half an hour. Keep skimming off the grease and foam during the process. After half an hour, add the red dates and cook for a quarter of an hour. Add the wolfberry, then add salt and pepper to taste. After adjusting the taste, simmer for half a quarter of an hour before serving.

Laoya Tang

This time, Lu Yan did not prepare pork for chicken, duck, and fish, but mutton. I just got such a lamb from Zhuangzi, and I haven’t eaten enough yet. It is best to make cumin mutton.

Cut the mutton into dice-sized cubes, put it in a bowl, add onion and ginger water, salt, pepper, and starch, mix well and marinate. Separate the coriander flavor and stems, cut the coriander leaves into sections, and mince the coriander stems. Serve with coriander flavor and set aside. Heat the pot, add cumin seeds, chili powder and white sesame seeds, dry roast directly in the pot according to the ratio of 3:2:1, and stir-fry until fragrant.

When the oil is [-]% hot, small bubbles will appear when you put the chopsticks in it. Add in the diced mutton and fry until it is tender and then take it out. Pour oil into the pot, add the mutton cubes, add soy sauce and stir-fry, then add cumin chili pepper and minced coriander and stir-fry again, the cumin mutton is ready to serve.

Cumin Lamb

The preparation of fish is even simpler, making it a very labor-saving garlic fish fillet. Remove the bones from the fish, slice it into boneless fillets, marinate with cooking wine, onions and ginger to remove the fishy smell, and then use starch and egg white to make the fish paste. Boil water in a pot, add fish fillets when the water is boiling, blanch the fish fillets and immediately remove them and place them in a bowl for later use.

Add minced garlic and chopped chili pepper sauce to the pot and stir-fry until fragrant, add salt, sugar and soy sauce to taste, then pour the blanched fish fillets into the pot, stir-fry evenly and sprinkle a handful of chopped green onions before serving.

Garlic fish fillet

In addition to the four meat dishes, the others are various cold vegetable dishes, including cold spinach, cold shredded potatoes, cold white radish, sweet and sour cabbage (renamed Qianlong cabbage), meat and vegetarian dishes, and a large pot of soup. A table.

Mrs. Xu asked her two children to eat together on the spring equinox and winter solstice, but they refused for a long time. Lu Yan didn't force them. She set aside a little bit of each dish for them, and then told Chun Equinox: "You two can go directly to the kitchen to make whatever you want to eat. Use the materials in the kitchen as you like and don't waste it."

I was overjoyed at the Spring Equinox. After thanking Lu Yan, I took Dong Zhi to the kitchen. During the Chinese New Year, the two sisters also wanted to get together alone.

The four members of the Lu family sat around the table again, opened a jar of wine, and drank together. I put down my wine glass and couldn't wait to eat.

The roasted chicken this time is the highlight of the entire New Year's Eve dinner. The skin of the roasted chicken is golden and crispy, exuding an alluring sweet taste. When you break off a chicken leg, the plump and plump meat juice flows out from the break. You will know how tender and juicy it will be at a glance. When you bite into your mouth, the chicken skin is crispy and sweet, the chicken is soft and tender, and it falls off the bone with just one bite. The taste is sweet and salty, and the unique aroma of black pepper blends harmoniously with the sweet honey.

Lu Sheng took off one leg and handed it to Lu Yan, then took off the other leg and handed it to Xu.

Boss Lu glanced at him sideways: "Where's mine?"

Lu Sheng had no choice but to grab another wing and hand it to Boss Lu.

Boss Lu: "Give her legs and give me wings?"

Lu Sheng: "Aren't you making things difficult for me? There are only two legs in total!"

Lu Yan couldn't help but lower her head and smile.

Boss Lu was teasing him, so he couldn't help but laugh.

In addition to the roasted chicken, the quality of other dishes is also top-notch. Cumin and mutton are a perfect match. The taste of cumin mutton cubes is not inferior to that of mutton kebabs, exuding the unique aroma of mutton. The garlic fish fillet is extremely tender and smooth. It breaks into several cloves as soon as you put it in your mouth. It is tender and smooth and has a rich garlic flavor.

The soup of the old duck soup is clear and fragrant, and the seasoning is simple, only salt and pepper are added, but the taste is very delicious and mellow. The duck skin is glutinous and tender, the meat is thick but not greasy, tough but not crispy but not rotten. The radish in the old duck soup absorbs the soup juice, retaining its own sweetness, and at the same time absorbs the rich flavor of the duck soup. Red dates and wolfberries not only serve as beautiful embellishments, but also add a touch of sweet taste. In the cold winter months, drink a bowl of old duck soup to warm your whole body from your stomach.

The dishes were almost finished, and there were still dumplings left. The dumplings were made by Xu in the afternoon. Lu Yan specially prepared two kinds of fillings, pork, green onions and leeks and eggs. You can choose any of them, one meat and one vegetarian.

"Don't cook all the dumplings from now on. Eat as many as you can. The rest can be frozen in the courtyard." Lu Sheng said.

Mrs. Xu: "Dumplings, there are always leftovers, that's normal."

Lu Yan nodded: "The leftovers are fine. I'll fry the leftover dumplings tomorrow morning."

A few people were still eating vegetables and drinking wine slowly, trying to prolong the time so that they could survive the night.

Boss Lu was very emotional. Another year has passed and the Lu family is getting better and better. The job I found in the county town paid seventy cents a day, so I could earn two taels of silver a month, which was double what I got in the village. Mrs. Xu no longer has to do laundry and mending for others. She can occasionally sell clothes and make a lot of money. Needless to say, Lu Yan's business has grown so big in less than a year. Over a hundred taels of silver, which she had never seen before, Lu Yan could now earn in a month. Lu Sheng was also admitted as a scholar, and now he is a serious scholar. The magistrate has met him several times, and his family has been exempted from taxes.

Boss Lu looked up at Lu Sheng, who was pouring wine for Lu Yan, and Mrs. Xu looked at each other and smiled in unison.