Food starts with Mapo Tofu

Chapter 217
After the matter was resolved, the bad guys got their due punishment, and after they returned to the theater, Chen Nian showed Bai Yueshuang the money he got back during the day.

"This time, you have to keep the money well, and you have to think about your future. Needless to say, Sister Xiangyun doesn't have a penny in her hands now, but as a man, you can't be without money.

But let me give you a suggestion, that is, try to exchange all the money into gold, a value-preserving thing. If there is a real war in the future, the money may have to be exchanged after a while. It is the most valuable. "

"Okay, that's all for now, it's getting late, go back to sleep, we have to get up early tomorrow, the day after tomorrow is the class leader's [-]th birthday, we have to prepare well."

In the evening, Chen Nian didn't hear the rooster crowing next door. Probably after that incident, the news of the war came before they had time to buy new chickens, and more and more people escaped from there during this period. Therefore, people in Kunshan are becoming more and more panicked.

That is, the kind of bad gamblers and local hooligans who don't want to leave yet.

Gamblers don't want to leave because they are lazy, and they don't have much money to move home, but those hooligans are probably because after they leave here, they will not be able to show off their power like they are here, and go to a new site. It is to re-worship the pier.

In the end, people like Li Fuchun were left, who didn't want to leave home, and didn't want to abandon this piece of homeland.

Chen Nian couldn't sleep at night, because he still didn't know what conditions he had to meet to go back, so he took out the recipes that Jin Dachuan gave during the day, and looked at them one by one.

These dishes can be regarded as more classic Huaiyang dishes, and some of them are representatives of some regions.

After reading almost every dish, Chen Nian gradually began to feel sleepy. Sure enough, reading these densely packed characters is an excellent way to hypnotize.

But reading it once in the old age is different from reading it once for ordinary people. Instead of reading it once, he will think about why these ingredients are put in these dishes after seeing a certain ingredient or after watching a dish.

Only when you understand it can you remember it faster, otherwise, if you memorize it by rote, you can even memorize all the recipes, but how do you understand the small amount and the right amount?

There is no clear quantified number at all.

No wonder Jin Dachuan said before that he read these first to deepen his impression, and he only learned seriously when he did it.

But even so, Chen Nian still has many questions after reading it, and some of them can't understand in his heart. After all, he has never cooked it. Although he has some cooking experience, different cuisines have different methods.

For example, in Hunan cuisine, thickening is not used much. On the other hand, in Sichuan cuisine, the dishes that need to be thickened may account for more than 60%.

Therefore, if a cook of Hunan cuisine wants to learn Sichuan cuisine, no matter how high the level is, he will have to adapt for a period of time and practice more before he can do it well.

When the upper and lower eyelids are really unbearable to bear the pain of parting, and they insist on being involved in a tight hug, Chen Nian simply fulfills them, carefully refolding those recipes, and then put them under the pillow and go to sleep like this up.

In the early morning of the next day, Chen Nian was awakened again by a voice, but it was not a rooster crowing but Jin Dachuan's voice.

"Let's go, let's go shopping!"

Many dishes need to be prepared in advance, some need to be marinated in advance, and some need to be prepared in advance to avoid having to buy them temporarily if they want to use them.

Chen Nian woke up and quickly opened his eyes, went down to the ground and put on his clothes, then when he passed by the water tank, he directly scooped a scoop of cold water in it, then warmed it up, wiped his face with clean water, and finally dried it with a towel Throw the towel on the rack.

The towel that was thrown back hit the shelf and couldn't help but feel dizzy, but in the end, he trembled and didn't fall down.

After all, it is the kind of pot stand made of twisted iron wire. Although it is not so stable, it is not so easy to fall.

Then he picked up another piece of paper from the table, opened the door and walked out of the room.

"Why are you getting up so late? Go out with me today, we'll buy some things for tomorrow, some things have to go early, I'm afraid they won't be gone if we go late."

Many of the dishes used to make such a banquet are not very common, so even if there is a vegetable market, there must not be many prepared. If you arrive late and are bought by others, then you will cry without tears .

"Isn't it something that happened last night? I went to bed a little late, and I looked at the recipe you gave me while I was sleeping."

"So that's the case, then you have to cheer up, let's go grocery shopping today, and I'll tell you how to choose some vegetables."

Chen Nian nodded, this Huaiyang cuisine is still very particular, and since the Tang Dynasty, many emperors have come here more than once.

Therefore, even if these dishes are prepared, they are very particular, but this has been known for a long time. After all, it was not so easy when I first learned Wensi tofu, and I even had a few of these dishes that Jin Dachuan brought out this time. Never heard of it.

But it doesn't matter, anyway, the formal teaching has not started yet, but when they pushed a wooden flatbed cart to the original vegetable market, they found that there were no people coming to the vegetable market even in the morning. , Even those vegetable sellers put out a lot less dishes.

Including many familiar faces who would greet each other when they met in the past.

Obviously they know that this business is difficult to do now, but they have to do it.

After carefully selecting a lot of vegetables and meat, they put these ingredients on the flatbed cart and pushed them back.

Since it was still early, Chen Nian made breakfast for them.

After breakfast, he and Jin Dachuan started to work together.

When he was busy, Jin Dachuan said directly: "Master Chen, you will cook the two dishes of Wensi tofu and boiled dried shredded rice. After all, your knife skills are better than mine. I will share the money with you at that time." How much will I give you, don't worry, in this regard, I, Jin Dachuan, will not be picked out by anyone."

"no problem."

Chen Nian nodded.

Then Jin Dachuan began to tell the aging little by little how to deal with each ingredient?What materials do I need to put in if I marinate in advance?What is the ratio of water to seasoning?Under what kind of environment should pickling be carried out?
Soon it was afternoon, and in the evening they were going to test dishes, that is, the dishes to be eaten at the banquet the next day, and they had to try them the day before, so that they could make adjustments conveniently.

(End of this chapter)