[Sherlock Holmes] Captured a detective

Chapter 96

It is Christmas in a blink of an eye. If the previous reception was a human relationship between partners, then the Christmas dinner is a reunion moment with family members.

Last year was a special occasion. Jenny did not invite Tom's family this year. After all, this kind of gathering is better with family members.And tonight's Christmas dinner is very special. This is not only the first Christmas Eve that Mycroft attended as a family member, but also the last Christmas Eve that John attended as 221b's "family".

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So, at such an important moment... in the morning, it's wrong to waste too much energy on some trivial matters!Jenny leaned on the bed and bit the quilt, thinking, Nima doesn't want to eat the big meal tonight in this situation?Still going to church!Nima, this is a terrible rhythm. Fortunately, I don’t have to go shopping today... Wait, I’m still thinking about this, it’s really virtuous qaq~

"Cough." Sherlock came in with a tray and put the breakfast on the bedside table, "I brought the breakfast, and ginger tea with honey, Fantine said you need this... can you still get up? There seems to be medicine for sprains..."

"No!" Jenny replied quickly.

Nima also went to ask people for medicine, because she was afraid that it would not be known?Where is the face?

Jenny took a deep breath, stretched her hands, and stretched her legs... She finally sat up... qaq, it felt like she really twisted her waist...

Jenny got up almost two hours later than usual today, and it was almost ten o'clock when she came downstairs, but no one said anything, and everyone pretended that nothing happened.

When Jenny came down, the boys were moving the tables in the dining room back, and Fantine had several bags of food at the ready: although they had been paid before, it was Christmas tomorrow, so how could there be no presents?Even if it's all dry bread and biscuits, it's pretty good stuff for these boys.

The boys took their bags and went away very happily, and Fantine took the tablecloth out of the cupboard and spread it on, and the table runner and vase, and the bouquet of flowers that Sherlock had brought back from going out this morning.

"Okay, we are about to start." Jenny said after putting on a full set of kitchen equipment.This year everyone is a little tight on money. Although Jenny didn't buy any high-end goods, she couldn't lower the grade of dinner.

In fact, the most time-consuming main course tonight-roasted turkey has been prepared, and the bread was also prepared yesterday, but everything else is almost just ingredients.

The habit in Europe has always been to eat cold food, but under the leadership of Jenny, the people of 221b are used to eating hot dishes, so Jenny and Fantine can only be regarded as preparing all the ingredients for cooking in the morning.

Onion, ginger, garlic, rosemary, white sesame, black pepper,... cut what should be cut, chop what should be chopped, grind what should be milled, and grind what should be ground.The seasonings alone cost about ten small dishes, not counting olive oil, peanut oil, lard, peanut butter, orange sauce, mayonnaise, starch, rice, salt, wine...

Jenny also cooked a pot of broth with chicken in advance. The fire has not stopped since yesterday, and the chicken, chicken skin and bones were all boiled to slag.

In short, looking at this posture, John and Charlotte immediately retreated to the second floor with a pot of tea/coffee each, and they would not come down even if they were killed.

For the first dish, Jenny is going to make beef soup. It’s a little bit worse without tofu. Jenny is going to use fish meat instead of tofu.Chop the beef into small pieces, put all the sauces for marinating in a small bowl, and marinate for about ten minutes when it is ready.

Cut the young leaves of Chinese cabbage and shiitake mushrooms into shreds, stir-fry them and put them on a plate.After the beef is marinated, add starch and rice, mix well with the minced fish meat, pour it into the pot and cook it, then pour the freshly fried shredded vegetables, boil it, beat an egg, sprinkle some green onion and vinegar, and serve I can cook.

This dish is smooth and delicious, almost no chewing is required, and vinegar is added at the end with a slight acidity, refreshing and appetizing.It's just that fish is added to this dish, and it will be a bit fishy when it's cold, so you have to wait until the afternoon to make it.

Because I made soup for the first dish, Jenny is going to make Stuffed Eggplant Box for the next dish.

First cut the eggplant into two "eggplant boxes" connected together.After the fish is minced, marinate it with salt, rosemary rice, and pepper rice for a while, then add starch rice and a small amount of water and stir, then fill it into the "eggplant box" and wrap it with rice.In order to increase the fragrance, it must be fried with lard, and when the fillings are all golden brown, they can be taken out.

This is not over yet. Finally, heat it up with a little vegetable oil, add salt and pepper, put the eggplant box in, add some water, and simmer until the eggplant is soft and rotten.

If that's not counting meat dishes, the next thing is pure meat.

Jenny is going to make braised pork.It's also a time-consuming dish and doesn't last long, which is why Jenny makes the roast turkey ahead of time.

When the pork belly is delivered, it is blanched in water to remove the blood. It cannot be cut and blanched, but it has to be blanched whole, otherwise it will not be neatly square.The next step is to stir-fry all kinds of spices, then put down the pieces of meat and stir-fry them together. When the meat is soft and oily, add sugar for coloring.Stir-fry until every piece of meat turns red, and the bubbles of sugar change from small to large, quickly turn off the heat, pour boiling water to saccharify some, put the meat in a large pot, add tea to remove the fishy smell, and then add salt.After boiling, skim off the froth twice first, and then simmer for an hour on low heat.Finally, it needs to be changed to a small pot to continue, adding sugar and cooking until the juice is collected before starting the pot.

In fact, there is still an easier way to make it, but Jenny uses such a troublesome method. First, it will be more delicious. Second, it is to make the shape and color look better. Third... it is to save some people from eating it. If she wants to eat, she can refuse it as "trouble"... What a smart young woman... Hehe...

Then there's the roast turkey with a rich interior.

Salads followed, along with the addition of pickled fruits and vegetables, which Mycroft strongly requested.

But these are not the most time-consuming, the most time-consuming dish ... is dessert.This dessert is Spanish style. Sherlock ate it once when he went to Europe. When he came back, he told Jenny about the taste, and Jenny wanted to try it by himself.The method is actually very simple. It is said to be time-consuming, but it is actually because this dessert is made of rice, and the rice needs to be soaked for three or four hours in advance, so that it can be cooked rotten.

Jenny didn't start soaking the rice until lunch, so it was almost ready by dinner time.First cook the rice in a pot, add a little more water to make it thinner, and then use a spoon to grind the rice into mud.

Boil the milk in a pot. In order to remove the fishy smell of the milk, Jenny put some chopped almonds.After the milk is boiled, put the rice puree in it, and then put some cinnamon rice noodles and nutmeg rice noodles.While cooking on low heat, keep stirring, not only to prevent the rice mud from sticking to the pot, but also to stir the rice mud without agglomeration.After the rice is completely stirred and becomes viscous and blended with the milk, it can be put into a bowl.When eating, add some cinnamon rice points, some mint, some cocoa rice points, some strawberry jam according to your personal taste...all can be

This is almost enough, that's what Jenny originally planned... "Mrs. Hudson, Mrs. Hudson, that fish...it, it's dead." Cosette ran to tell Jenny with fishy hands and a mournful face, "Just now it kept turning its belly, I didn't move it."

When shopping for vegetables two days ago, Jenny saw a fish seller, so she bought a live fish to see if it could be kept until the New Year. Because of the holiday, there were almost no people selling vegetables in the market during this time.But now it seems... really can't support the New Year~~

"Then get rid of it!" Jenny said proudly.Fortunately, I have plenty of time today, otherwise I would have to freeze the fish and make it tomorrow.

The fish is river fish, and Jenny is going to make it sweet and sour.

"Fantine, go and make tomato sauce," Jenny ordered, and she went to kill the fish herself.I don't know why, but Fantine never seems to descale the fish. Once Jenny asked Fantine to descale the fish before killing it. The result was a tragedy. I guess the fish wanted to die sooner.

Jenny worked quickly, and took out the fish guts in two and a half seconds. The fish intestines are also delicious, but Jenny didn't have the time to make them. Except for the fish float, she put the rest in small wooden bowls and put them on the window On the garbage can outside - the wild cats and dogs in the alleys often come to look for food, and this small wooden bowl is for them.

After washing her hands, Jenny cut open the fish, and sliced ​​it into thin slices on both sides, and removed some small thorns by the way.The flesh of the fish has not been cut, it still looks like a whole fish.Let the water boiled with scallions and ginger cool, soak the fish in it to remove the fishy smell, and when it is ready, spread a little high-quality wine and salt on it, roll it with rice, and fry it with half-ripe oil until the fish is all open When golden brown, remove and place on a large platter.

In addition, sugar and salt are added to the tomato sauce, and some stock and starch are added to make a seasoning sauce.Stir-fry pine nuts, diced shiitake mushrooms, peas and corn first, then add the seasoning sauce, and finally pour it over the fried fish, and it's done.

Sherlock likes sweet and sour tastes. At first, Jenny thought the dishes were overcooked, but after preparing them, she felt that the fish was done right.

John feels that every Christmas day since moving to 221b has been a torture (actually only once).The smell from upstairs not only wafts up from the gate, but also from the windows... However, their lunch turned out to be a simple sandwich...

Simply too much!

I was so angry that I decided to eat two more bowls of meat at night.

"Would you like to go for a walk, Holmes?" cried John.

"Go out? At this time? No." Sherlock sat by the window and said casually while flipping through the materials.Then he looked up at John, wondering why John suddenly wanted to go for a walk. "I remember you said you were going to finish that story today, Watson. If you finish it, can you read it to me?"

"Uh... I haven't finished writing." John said dejectedly, "I found that I overestimated myself. In this situation, I have no way to continue writing. Holmes, why are you not affected? Don't you smell Does it smell?" John twitched his nose a few times, "It feels like cooking meat with sugar in it. Oh, there's a fried smell, I don't know what it is. Oh, it's sour and sweet, it's really unbearable to smell it I can't help it~~"

Sherlock: "..." Couldn't bear to look directly.

Sherlock: "It's too ugly, Watson, it's too ugly." He looked at his watch, "If you want to go out for a walk, oh, it will take a while."