Picking up a fool to farm

The kitchen was full of heat, Aunt Li and Aunt Li helped Yan Chenyi make steamed steamed buns, there were too many people today, so I made more steamed buns.

Yan Chenyi looked up at the sky and scratched his chin.

"Xiao Yan, what do you think!" Uncle Li was sitting at the stone table in the yard playing chess with Uncle Li, and the two of them were going to make a killing at this moment.

Sibo took Li Xiaopeng to run around in the yard, one big and one small were laughing and screaming, going crazy.

Yan Chenyi came back to his senses, clapped his hands and turned back to the kitchen.

Uncle Li and Uncle Li looked at each other with smiles in their eyes.

"There are so many fish, what are you going to do with Xiaoyan?" Aunt Li was smiling the whole time in the kitchen, and she was almost humming a little tune happily.

Yan Chenyi was squatting at the side cleaning the fish that Uncle Li had killed, and heard her talking and said with a smile: "Make a boiled fish that is spicy, and then a squirrel fish that is sweet, steam one, and make a fish ball soup .”

"Xiaoyan, you can make so many styles. This is only done by the chefs of those big restaurants in the county." Aunt Li was already stunned just hearing what he said. If you can do it more It's so delicious, I drool just thinking about it.

"Do you want us to help you with something?" Aunt Li turned to look at him, then glanced at a few fish in the basin beside her, "Cut it?"

Yan Chenyi waved his hands and pushed the two ladies out the door, "I'll do the rest, you all go and rest."

"Xiaoyan, it's all fish. Will you get tired of eating it? Do you want to make some other dishes?" Aunt Li was a little worried, and there were so many people that she was afraid that there would not be enough food.

Yan Chenyi also nodded, thinking that what Aunt Li said was right, glanced at the ripe red tomatoes and purple eggplants in his vegetable field, turned his head with a smile and said: "Let's fry tomatoes and eggs, and then have eggplants with sauce. "

"Tomatoes and eggs? Little Yan, these tomatoes are so sour, how can you use them to scramble eggs? They don't taste good." Aunt Li frowned. She was very puzzled when Yan Chenyi was planting tomatoes. What is the purpose of planting that thing?

Yan Chenyi was quite puzzled, "Why is it not delicious? Have you never eaten it?" He picked five or six red tomatoes from the vegetable field, and then picked some ripe long purple eggplants, " Auntie, why are there two varieties of eggplants in my field, the green ones on the other side are so slow to mature."

Aunt Li looked at him with a dry smile, and she didn't know why.

Yan Chenyi also asked casually, anyway, as long as it grows out, it doesn't matter if it matures sooner or later.

"Sibo! Come in." Yan Chenyi poked his head out and yelled at Sibohan who was sitting on the ground playing with Xiaopeng with stones.

"Hey!" Sibo agreed as soon as he heard Yan Chenyi calling him, threw down a large handful of stones he was holding, stood up and ran to the kitchen, "Chenchen, what did you ask me to do?"

"Go wash your hands and do me a favor." Yan Chenyi glanced at his two dirty paws, curled his lips in disgust.

Sibo ran to the well to fetch water and wash his hands with his help. The father and son of the Li family, who had already fought for a round, couldn't help nodding their heads in admiration when they saw him fetching water so neatly. He is a young man. Look at his strong arms. .

"Chenchen, what should I do?" Sibo returned to the kitchen after washing his hands, Aunt Li and Aunt Li went into the house, thinking of helping him tidy up, but they found that Yan Chenyi was really a clean person , the quilts on the bed are neatly folded, and there is no dust on the desk and cabinet.

"If this little banquet marries a daughter-in-law, his daughter-in-law will really enjoy it." Aunt Li muttered.

Aunt Li also nodded, that's really the case.

"You mash these with a rolling pin." Handed him a small basin, which contained his shaved fish and a few ingredients to remove the fishy smell.

Sibo nodded and rolled up his sleeves, took the small basin and put it aside, pressed the side of the basin with one hand and held the rolling pin in the other, and began to pound the fish in the basin with a bang.

Originally, Yan Chenyi planned to use a knife to chop it up, but he only had a knife at home, so he didn't need to say that the fish balls made from fish meat crushed with a rolling pin would be more elastic.

Hot oil was burning in the big pot, and Yan Chenyi put the fish on the plate on the cage drawer to steam on another stove at the side, and then turned around and put the two fish that had been modified into the oil pan for frying.

Put the two fish wrapped in batter and deep-fried until golden brown in a basin beside him, and put the excess oil aside for later use. He took a small bowl and poured all the ingredients such as pepper, pepper, star anise, and cinnamon into the pot. There, there was a stabbing sound, and white smoke rose instantly.

"Cough cough, Chenchen, cough cough, it's so choking!" Sibo coughed from the choking and choking oily smoke, and his eye circles were red.

"Take it out and pound it, and bring it back to me when you're done." Yan Chenyi threw the green onions and ginger into the pot and quickly stir-fried, then added water, and with another prick, covered the pot.

Sibo looked at the fish meat that had been mashed by himself and turned into a paste, tilted his head and asked, "Do you still want to mash it?"

Yan Chenyi looked at it and was dumbfounded, "So capable? That's fine, that's fine, you go out, help my aunt to set the table, and dinner can be served in a while."

Sibo nodded, and obediently left the kitchen.

There are two pots, one is boiling fish soup, and the other pot is cooking steamed fish. Yan Chenyi turned to the chopping board, cut up the washed tomatoes and eggplants, and took another big bowl After beating seven or eight eggs, he licked his lips when everything was ready, and scooped some miso from the sauce jar beside him.

This miso is a treasure given to him by Master Liu. It tastes so good that he can’t forget it once he has eaten it. Master Liu said that this is a unique craft that cannot be passed on to the outside world, so he has no choice but to be cheeky and ask for a small jar to go home. eat slowly.

One advantage is the big pot and the high fire. Everything can be done very quickly. Although it is a bit troublesome to control the heat, Yan Chenyi really likes this cooking method. How about if you use an induction cooker to stew a three-pound fish in modern times... ...I'm afraid it will take an hour or so to get the taste.

When the time for the steamed fish was almost up, Yan Chenyi opened the lid of the boiling fish soup pot, grabbed a handful of homemade bean sprouts and threw them into the pot, and then while the soup was boiling, Add the thinly sliced ​​fish meat one by one into the pot, put the washed vegetable leaves in after the fish meat turns white, sprinkle some salt into it to season when the water boils again, and then put it in the pot.

Turning around, he took the cage drawer out of the cauldron and put it aside. He didn't open the lid so that he could keep it for a little longer so that the heat wouldn't dissipate so quickly.

Pour out the water in the pot, add a small amount of yogurt, and then start cooking squirrel fish. This dish is very easy to cook, but Yan Chenyi thinks that Uncle Li and Uncle Li may not like sweet and sour taste, so he I made two sauces, exactly two fish, one made sweet and sour, and the other made salty.

He put clean water in the pot where he cooked the boiled fish just now. After the squirrel fish in this pot was ready, the water on the other side was also boiled, because it was added when Sibo mashed the fish. Fishy ingredients, so just squeeze the balls directly into the water at this moment.

The round, white and tender fish balls were put into the pot, rolling back and forth in the hot water. He moved quickly, and after a while, all the fish meat balls in a small pot were pinched and put into the pot, and then waited for the soup to boil. Sprinkle some coriander powder and green onion into the soup, and pick up the consistency of the soup with a little flour, so that it tastes better when drinking.

"Sibo! Come serve the dishes!" With a loud roar, he opened the drawer and brought out the plate of steamed fish and put it aside. Looking at the four dishes and one soup in front of him, Yan Chenyi felt a sense of accomplishment.

"Chenchen! It smells so good!" Sibo ran to the kitchen and started sniffing vigorously before entering the door. He was about to drool.

"Pass these dishes over, be careful not to burn them." Yan Chenyi pointed to a few plates and two basins that he put aside, then turned around and continued to scramble eggs and sauced eggplants, which are easy to cook. Turn the fire twice and it will be cooked.

It took Yan Chenyi less than half an hour to prepare a meal, six dishes and one soup, and the delicious smell could be smelled outside the courtyard wall.

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"Hey, are you hungry?" The man squatting outside the wall of Yan Chenyi's house nudged the man beside him with his elbow and asked in a low voice.

The man looked at him, took out a piece of dry pancake from his sleeve pocket and threw it to him, "Here, you won't be hungry after eating it."

He took a look at the pancakes, and sniffed the smell of food in the air, the man was even hungrier.

"Well, Xiaoyan's craftsmanship can be used to open a restaurant in the city!" Aunt Li took a fish ball and put it in her mouth, and she immediately admired it.

The fish balls are bouncy, chewy and delicious without any fishy smell.

Uncle Li likes spicy food. He is sucking air and stuffing boiled fish into his mouth. However, he has no time to talk. Instead, he gave Yan Chenyi a thumbs up to express his the meaning of.

"Xiaopeng eats this, you must like it." Put some sweet and sour squirrel fish on Li Xiaopeng's plate, Yan Chenyi looked at him with a smile.

Li Xiaopeng put the fish meat in his mouth and chewed it, his eyes lit up, and he nodded, "It's delicious! It's even better than my mother's cooking!"

Uncle Li was drinking wine at the side, sipping wine and eating vegetables, he was happy to eat, he hadn’t eaten such delicious fish for many years, his wife and daughter-in-law could only cook ordinary big pot stew, like This kind of stir-fried dishes that can only be eaten in restaurants is really rare.

Sibo was eating with his head down at the moment. He poured the leftover rice from yesterday into a big bowl, and then soaked the rice in spicy fish soup. The sweat dripped from his brow, and he didn't care to pick up the vegetables.

Yan Chenyi had to put a pile of food for Sibo into the bowl in front of him while eating two mouthfuls of food by himself, and he had to remind him not to make a sucking sound while eating, he was very busy.

"Honestly, Xiaoyan, if you go to a restaurant where you can be a chef, you will definitely earn more than this accountant. Don't you think about it?" Uncle Li was half full, and now he has time to talk.

"I'm not so good at this. I can only cook some home-cooked dishes at home. It's not as good as a master chef in a restaurant." He waved his hands and smiled, and reached out to take steamed buns for Sibo.

Sibo continued to eat with his head down, he didn't understand what they were talking about.

"Why are you so modest with us? Aren't you selling snacks? A while ago, people in the village said that the dim sum you make is very delicious." Uncle Li pointed at Sibo with a smile, "Look at Sibo. It’s grown a lot, and it’s not because you fed it.”

Yan Chenyi couldn't help laughing, he fed it—it sounded like he was saying that your pigs have been fed to fatten up a lot, and they can be raised for slaughter.

He turned his face and covered his mouth and coughed softly to suppress the laughter that had already reached his throat. Seeing that Sibo wiped his mouth and stood up, there was still half a steamed bun on the table uneaten, he asked in puzzlement, "Are you full?"

Sibo shook his head, picked up some fish and vegetables from an empty bowl, went in, and walked out under Yan Chenyi's puzzled eyes.

"Where are you going?" Yan Chenyi frowned.

"Hey cat, there are two big tabby cats outside, I'll be back in a while." Sibo raised his finger and pointed to the outside of the yard, and then went out.