The Garden Life of a Little Gardener

When I got back to the second floor of Zhou’s small house, the waterproofing project on the top floor had been completed, and the yard was filled with various materials that the construction party would use. The pit has also been dug and waited there.

They wandered around the city all morning, and it was already lunch time when they came back.

The workers were not in the yard, but had gone to the town for lunch, presumably.

Originally, on their side of the village, those who came to help build houses, the main family had to take care of the food.

But those are basically relatives and friends of his own family, but these people invited by Baoyan are professional design and construction teams.

It is estimated that all the circumstances have been taken into consideration when quoting over there. I heard that the person in charge of the construction team has relatives in the town, rented a house there, and signed a catering agreement with the restaurant.

The money should all be counted as costs over there, but Chef Bao didn't care about the cost for peace of mind.

After returning home, Chef Bao went straight to Zhou's kitchen with the things he bought, while Zhou Quan, who couldn't help much, went back to the back room, clicked on the computer and started contacting the school.

After the video was connected, Zhou Quan put on the headset and said, "Mr. Zhang, I have mailed all the samples of the soil and water quality of the flower shed that you asked me to collect. Please pay attention to check them in the near future."

Professor Zhang, who has been studying Rosaceae plants for many years, said he knew about it, then he seemed to think of something, adjusted the direction of the camera, pointed at a flower garden outside and said, "I heard from Xiaoding that you need some fast-growing roses over there? Xiao Zhou, there are a batch of cardinal seedlings in our school, which were specially planted by our school for the rose garden. But they miscalculated the area, and there are more than 2000 more flower seedlings. If you need it It can be bought and used directly.”

In order to let Zhou Quan see more clearly, the old professor specially supported the camera and gave Zhou Quan a close-up shot.

Zhou Quan saw the vigorously growing rose seedlings in the flower garden. Most of them had grown to about knee height, with straight branches and intact leaves, without wilting or signs of pests and diseases.

The school has its own flower garden and nursery. In most cases, the various plants grown here are for teaching and research, but it also undertakes foreign business, which is a way for the school to increase income.

After making sure Zhou Quan looked carefully, the old professor turned the camera back, blinked and said to him: "How? They are all excellent varieties carefully cultivated by the school. Not to mention cold and drought resistant, they are also more resistant to diseases and insect pests than ordinary ones. Cardinal is much stronger. Although it is not a fast-growing variety, you know, Cardinal, that fresh-cut gardens can be used. This batch has been grown enough to be transplanted directly. After taking care of it in the flower shed for more than a month, it will definitely bloom. "

Hearing this, Zhou Quan silently calculated in his heart that if there were more than 2000 flower seedlings, the smaller flower shed on his side would just be able to plant them.

Moreover, he is very familiar with the variety of Cardinal. His grandfather used to grow this variety in the flower shed. He has learned a lot from him, and he knows all the processes of planting Cardinal and the problems that he may face.

Thinking about it this way, the cardinal is still suitable for me, and the batch of flower seedlings are considered half-sized seedlings. After buying them, they can start to bloom in about a month, and they should enter the full flowering period after two months.

At that time, the renovation of Brother Baozhen's old house should also be completed, and the two sides can be connected smoothly without delaying time.

Moreover, the quality of the flower seedlings given by the school is definitely not a problem. As long as the flower seedlings are expensive, the price can be accepted. After all, a flower seedling needs to be planted for at least four or five years, and most of the later benefits will depend on the quality of the flower seedlings. .

The more I thought about it, the more thoughtful it became, and I immediately wanted to order this batch of flower seedlings.

The old professor said that the sale of flower seedlings was not his business, and asked Zhou Quan to contact the college himself. He was still waiting for the soil and water samples mailed by Zhou Quan. After testing, he could choose the dyed rose varieties for their planting. .

It just so happened that the person in charge of this batch of flower seedlings was Zhou Quan's classmate who had stayed at school, and his old classmate was reliable in his work. After a few minutes, Zhou Quan transferred the reservation money into the college's account, and this batch of flower seedlings was considered Zhou Quan's.

In order to take care of Zhou Quan's business, the old classmate promised Hua Miao free shipping, Zhou Quan thanked her happily, and now just wait at home obediently.

After finishing the contact with the school, Zhou Quan stood up and walked towards the outhouse. When he came to the kitchen and looked up, he saw that Chef Bao was marinating the half lamb chop in the old aluminum pot used for laundry in their house.

Seeing Zhou Quan come over, Chef Bao said while smearing his secret sauce on the lamb chops, "The lamb chops need to be marinated for at least four hours, and I have already stewed the lamb bone and mutton soup, but I want to get the essence of the bone and meat." It will take more than ten hours to stew it all. So today at noon we will eat the stew first, and I will take some mutton from the lamb chops, and I will skewer them into kebabs for you to roast."

While talking, the smearing of the lamb chops was over. Chef Bao washed his hands and began to prepare lunch for Fa Xiao.

"Is there anything I can do for you?" Zhou Quan asked as he looked at the busy Chef Bao and held on to the door frame of the kitchen.

"Oh, if you have time, please help me cut up the carrots and celery over there. It doesn't matter what shape it is. I will use it when I make kebabs later."

Why are celery and carrots used in kebabs?

Although he couldn't figure it out, Zhou Quan followed suit. After all, the chef is a young chef, so it's always right to listen to the professionals.

Zhou Quan was chopping vegetables, and Chef Bao was actually chopping vegetables too, but the vegetables he chopped were prepared for stewing.

The random stew in Northeast China is probably the most arbitrary dish to cook.

Random stewing, as the name suggests, is irregular, and everything can be stewed together.

Eggplants, hot peppers, potatoes, beans, tofu, tender corn, pumpkin, pork, Chef Bao who knows the taste are all his favorite things. Did not like to eat and was given up.

Nearly 20 years of pier-cutting experience has given Chef Bao a top-notch knife skill. Within a few minutes in his hands, those fragmented vegetables turned into chunks, strips, and slices of appropriate size.

Holding the raw materials he cut and the various ingredients he will use, Chef Bao came to the outhouse, and he planned to use the iron pot in the outhouse to make this northeast stew.

The fire in the stove had already been ignited. Chef Bao poured base oil into the iron pan, put in the sliced ​​meat and quickly stir-fried for a few times, then poured cooking wine and light soy sauce to remove the fishy smell and enhance the flavor.

When the meat changes color, shovel it out, pour the bottom oil into the pot, and stir fry two spoons of Northeastern miso.

The first thing to go into the pot is tofu and potatoes. These two things are stew-resistant and not easy to taste.

After that, there are beans, pumpkin, eggplant, tender corn and big peppers. Add salt, light soy sauce and dark soy sauce to enhance the color and flavor, and then cover the pot and wait for stewing.

While the other party was doing this, Zhou Quan's celery and carrots had already been chopped. Chef Bao came over to check and said that there was no problem and could be used. After that, Mr. Chef went to the refrigerator to get half an onion out.

Zhou Quan glanced at the outer room and saw that the half-cooked meat was still in the ceramic white bowl, so he couldn't help reminding: "Brother Baoyan, you forgot to add the meat that was stewed randomly."

Chef Bao, who was chopping onions, replied: "If it's pork belly, or cut it into large pieces, I put it in the pot with other vegetables and stew it together. But lean meat is different. Lean meat without fat is not durable. Stewing for a long time, the salt in the soup will shrink the meat of the lean meat, and the flaky meat cannot hide the gravy. If the stewing time is too long, it will taste very bad. So wait until it is almost out of the pot. Put this kind of sliced ​​meat into it to ensure that the taste is mature, so that the taste will be better."

Zhou Quan, who seemed to understand half understood, nodded when he heard the words, thinking that there is so much attention to cooking in a pot, and the chef is really not an easy job.

Cut the refrigerated onion into fine pieces, mix it with celery and carrots, add light soy sauce, salt, pepper and oil, and put the previously cut lamb ribs into it to marinate.

Seeing Zhou Quan staring at him curiously, Chef Bao patiently explained to Cooking Xiaobai: "Cut the onion after freezing at low temperature to reduce the irritation to the eyes, and use the chopped onion to stew the mutton , can make the mutton soft and tender, and remove the fishy smell on it. Celery has the same effect on mutton. When adding carrots, celery can provide fragrance to mutton, and carrots can increase the sweetness of mutton. It is a very good match Combination. Salt and light soy sauce are used to enhance the flavor, and the oil can make the lamb smooth, and it will not burn when grilled. Just a few simple ingredients can make the lamb very delicious.”

Seeing the other party's hard work, Zhou Quan couldn't help asking a question that had puzzled him for a long time after thinking about it: "Uh, brother Baoyan, my house doesn't have a grill or an oven, how do you make kebabs?"

After hearing this, Chef Bao took out the metal skewer for skewering meat, and while skewering the simmered mutton on the skewer, he said, "Zhou Zhou, can I do a magic trick for you? There is no need for charcoal fire on the rack, and I will make fragrant kebabs for you in your kitchen."

The author has something to say:

Random stew can really be stewed with anything, and the ingredients are completely up to the hobbies of the cook. You can stew whatever you want, and you can stew it however you want.The experience of frying lean meat slices is my own discovery. For lean meat, the thinner the meat is, the shorter the cooking time is. It is good when it is cooked and tasty, otherwise it will taste too bad, which is not good for the teeth. For me, too much meat is really not easy to bite....