Rebirth starts with small money

Chapter 535 New Year's Eve
"Shua~ Shua~ Shua!"

"Boom~boom~boom!"

"Bang~bang~bang!"

"Hey~ Miscalculation!"

On the morning of New Year's Eve, Chen Li prepared all the side dishes for today's reunion dinner. After feeling what it means to have back pain, Chen Li sighed helplessly.

Ever since he showed off his cooking skills on the 28th day before, the chef who cooks at home has not changed in the past few days.

The most important thing is that Chen Li can't even refute, or even dare to refute.

Because Ms. Wang suspected that his culinary skills were practiced by cooking for Liu Qingqing in Yanjing.

Then Ms. Wang began to blame Chen Li, saying that he knew how to cook for his girlfriend, but as a result, her mother hadn't eaten a few meals made by Chen Li.

As soon as Wang Dongmei said this~ what else can Chen Li say, just cook!
But later, Chen Li came back to it. It seemed that his mother usually liked Liu Qingqing so much, so how could he be jealous because of this kind of thing?
So. In fact, Chen Li's mother didn't want to cook. It happened that Chen Li showed his cooking skills before, and then Ms. Wang found an excuse to hand over the cooking to Chen Li.

Of course~ Cooking a few meals for the family is actually a small matter, and even Chen Li is actually quite willing to do it.

But recently there are too many people at home!
There are only four people in Chen Li's family~three people in his second father's family~there are also three people in his second mother's family.

It is equivalent to Chen Li needing to cook meals for ten people for every meal!

That's all, but Chen Li is still a person who is not so ambiguous about food, so Chen Li dare not say that he will try his best to do his best every meal, but at least he will never make do with it.

And to be honest~ Chen Li also intends to show off his cooking skills in front of his family. This is probably a little problem that everyone who knows how to cook has.

And this~ caused Chen Li to manipulate all kinds of dishes in different ways in the past two days.

But~ to be honest, it was really too difficult for Chen Li, who was not a professional chef in the first place.

He did learn a few cooking skills from a chef in his previous life, and later learned a lot of dishes on the short video platform.

But in any case, amateurs are amateurs. Chen Li may be as good as ordinary little chefs in cooking certain dishes, but compared to those chefs who can cook several tables of different meals at will, Chen Li will is still too little.

Although his family is not picky~ Chen Li is still worrying about what to cook every day!
Of course~ Except for the reunion dinner on the [-]th day of the year today.

Because most of the dishes for this reunion dinner are fixed.

On the Spring Festival dinner table in Erlong Town, the first must be fish, because it is a symbol of surplus every year!

The second is the chicken~ Chen Li doesn't know what to say about the chicken, but there must be one.

Next is a variety of cured meat platters, pork belly~pig ears~pork liver~heart tongue~pig tail~waxed pork ribs~waxed pig's feet and so on.

Then~ there will be one or two special dishes, for example, what Chen Li prepares today is braised lamb chops and braised oxtail.

Finally, there is the first vegetarian dish on CD-ROM during the Spring Festival, and this vegetarian dish is indeed a special feature of Sichuan Province.

Stir-fried pea tips!
That's right~ It was later circulated on the Internet that the only pea tip that can make people in Sichuan accept mandarin duck pot when eating hot pot.

This is a favorite of people in Sichuan Province. Whether it is cooking noodles or making crispy broth, it is a perfect match.

Hmm. Speaking of crispy pea broth, okay~ Chen Li is about to start frying the crispy meat right now.

In fact, Chen Li's father had already fried the crispy meat once years ago, but the fried crispy meat had already been eaten that time, and the crispy meat is also an indispensable delicacy on the dinner table of Sichuan people during the Spring Festival, so Chen Li is now ready to start frying the crispy meat.

Different from the strips of crispy meat sold in restaurants and restaurants, Chen's fried crispy pork must be much larger in portion.

Since it is fried crispy meat, meat must be the main ingredient.

Chen Li prepared two kinds of meat, one was skinless pork belly and the other was beef tenderloin.

And these two are from the ideal series produced by the system!

Chen Li marinated the meat first, and then took out the batter that was prepared yesterday from the refrigerator.

Fried crispy meat ~ In fact, the batter is definitely the most critical part.

Many people make the batter for the sake of convenience ~ usually fresh batter, in addition to starch, some people will add some flour into it.

But Chen Li’s fried crispy pork is different. The batter he uses is pure sweet potato flour.

But even if it is sweet potato flour, it is not freshly prepared, but after adding water and stirring well, put it in the refrigerator to settle overnight.

When using it ~ Pour off the excess water in the bowl, leaving only the sweet potato powder that has settled at the bottom of the bowl.

And this~ is the ready-made batter.

Of course~ this kind of batter is a bit dry, so Chen Li will add a few eggs into it at this time, and then mix the prepared meat and batter evenly.

After that, it's time for regular frying.

According to experts ~ frying is probably one of the cooking methods that cause the most nutritional loss in food.

But one thing to say, fried food is really delicious!
As for Chen Li's fried crispy meat, Chen Xue and Chen Tingting entered the kitchen frequently, and their purpose~ was naturally Chen Li's freshly fried crispy meat.

"Hey~ eat less, or you will lose your stomach when the dinner is over!"

"I gave it to the old man!"

"I gave it to Sister Ling!"

The two girls had surprisingly consistent excuses. The two who were the funniest blurted out almost at the same time. After speaking, they looked at each other and smiled and ran out of the kitchen with the crispy meat in their hands.

As for Chen Li in the kitchen, he was speechless looking at the empty Shau Kei.

He is really speechless~ because the crispy meat he fried is not as fast as his family.

He left it there for a while, but there was nothing in the Shau Kei at the moment, which made Chen Li feel lonely.

But~ Fortunately, everyone tasted the taste at the beginning. After all, the taste of crispy meat is actually the best when it is just fried.

And in the end~ after the two little girls were half full, and the rest of the people tasted the taste one after another, the crispy meat in Shau Kei began to increase visible to the naked eye.

Fried crispy pork is actually a very time-consuming thing. In fact, this dish almost takes up the general production time of the entire reunion dinner.

While Chen Li was frying crispy meat, Chen Li's father and second father also brought out their special dishes.

What Chen Guofu cooked was a pickled fish dish~ This dish did not use the naked sturgeon that Chen Li ordered from the system, but black fish bought from outside.

As for Chen Li's second dad, well, how should I say it?

Chen Li once wanted to drive this outlier man from Sichuan Province out of the kitchen, but in fact~ the final result was that Chen Guoqiang was kicked out by his own wife.

Originally~Chen Li's second father wanted to make a big dish of Xijiang gourmet chicken.

But unlike the traditional Sichuan men who can cook, Chen Guoqiang basically didn't cook when he was in Xijiang.

Of course~ He definitely knows how to cook. In fact, there are very few people in their generation who can't cook.

It's just that it's just a matter of whether it's delicious or not!
Obviously ~ Chen Guoqiang belongs to the kind who can cook, but doesn't cook well.

In addition, in Xijiang~ Chen Guoqiang doesn’t need to cook by himself at all, and only occasionally makes one or two Sichuan dishes when he misses the taste of his hometown’s food.

In short, the big plate chicken he made was in danger of being smashed, but in the end Chen Li's second mother made a timely move and saved the dish.

As for Chen Li, after frying the crispy meat, he immediately started cooking other dishes.

Fortunately, the kitchen of the Chen family's new house is big enough~ Otherwise, it would be a hassle to prepare a reunion dinner for so many people.

"Second Uncle~ Are you ready to peel the garlic?"

"Okay, okay~ Have you seen enough?"

Chen Li's second uncle~ is a middle school teacher by profession. His culinary skills are basically not enough for Chen Li and his son, but it's okay to start with.

Uh~ That's right, in the kitchen of today's reunion dinner, except for Chen Li's second mother who came to save the big plate chicken, it was all men.

"Not enough~ I have to peel some more."

"I'm going to cook sturgeon with garlic. In fact, the most delicious thing is the garlic. Peel it more."

"Get it!"

Chen Li's second uncle went to peel garlic again, there was no other way~ Since his cooking skills were not as good as it was, he could only do this kind of layman's work.

"Dang~dang~!"

"Sister Ling~Xueer~Tingting, come in and serve the food!"

Chen Li shouted as he used a large frying spoon to eject the braised lamb out of the pot.

After shouting ~ he went to the side of the burn to have a look at the braised oxtail.

"Well, this oxtail is also ready, it can be taken out."

"Even serve the casserole together, and put a mat on the table!"

"I'll serve~!"

The second uncle on the side hurried over, because the casserole was directly served, and the temperature of this thing was relatively high, he was worried that the children would be burned.

But when he went to serve the casserole, no one would peel the garlic, but it was not without a solution.

Chen Li picked up a head of garlic~ with the other hand, he directly took the end of the garlic and cut it.

Immediately pinch it with your hands ~ then rub it again, most of the garlic skin fell off, then Chen Li threw the garlic into the water and rubbed it again, the whole head of garlic was basically peeled off.

Of course ~ although peeling garlic like this is very efficient ~ but it is somewhat wasteful, but at this time Chen Li can't care about this waste.

What about his second uncle?

In terms of personality, Chen Li's second uncle belongs to the kind of gentle~gentle~even bookish man.

In addition, I am a teacher~ so I have a lot of patience.

But. To be blunt, it is probably this person. No matter what he does or how he behaves, his personality is actually a bit meek.

This point is exactly the opposite of Chen Li's second aunt.

Chen Li's second aunt is the kind of person who acts in a hurry.

So the combination of the two of them is called complementary.

As a matter of fact~ it is indeed true, the second uncle and second aunt of Chen Li in the previous life have lived like this for most of their lives, but the relationship in the end is still very good.

But this is normal, and probably only someone like his second uncle can stand his hot-tempered second aunt.

However, at this moment, the efficiency of his second uncle's attack really made Chen Li a little helpless.

But what can he do?There is nothing he can do!
Using the same trick, Chen Li directly peeled three heads of garlic, plus the ones his second uncle had peeled earlier, it was almost enough to cook garlic-roasted sturgeon.

Of course~ the consequence of doing this is that there are a lot of garlic cloves floating in the pool and some garlic cloves that did not fall off successfully.

But Chen Li didn't care about this anymore, he directly started cooking oil again, and started the penultimate dish of the day.

Sturgeon with garlic!

Before Chen Li was frying the crispy pork, he had already processed and deep-fried the sturgeon in advance, so at this moment, Chen Li was missing a process.

Burn oil at the bottom of the pot~Chen Li added another piece of lard into it. If you are cooking fish~adding a little lard will make it more fragrant.

And when the oil temperature is [-]% hot~ Chen Li added a lot of garlic cloves.

The garlic cloves in this garlic-roasted sturgeon are very delicious. When Chen Li ate this dish, he often didn't finish the fish, but he couldn't find a single garlic clove.

And the fried garlic cloves taste more fragrant, which can be regarded as a little experience accumulated by Chen Li in his previous cooking.

After all, chefs outside have their own methods, but Chen Li naturally only chooses the method he is more accustomed to.

Under the high temperature of the gas stove~ this garlic-roasted sturgeon also came out of the pot very quickly.

Over there, Chen Li's father and mother's specialty dishes were already on the table, and at this moment, the dishes outside were almost ready.

But Chen Li still needs to cook the last dish!

Stir-fried pea tips!
Of course~ it is said to be stir-fried, but in fact, a lot of dried chili is added to it, and the stir-fried with dried chili is the stir-fried that people in Sichuan Province recognize.

And when the dish was fried, Chen Li put it on the plate and carried it out of the kitchen.

At the moment, on the first floor, a mahogany red round table is already filled with various dishes.

"Okay~ It's time to eat!"

"By the way~ cannon, where should the cannon go?"

"Chen Li let it go!"

"Look at the time, there are still 2 minutes to 12 o'clock."

"Son, go and set off the cannon."

Cannon actually means firecrackers, and the so-called 12 o'clock is actually 12 o'clock at noon.

The reunion dinner of the Chen family on New Year's Eve every year is always served at 12 noon.

This is why the kitchen was so busy before!
Different from the New Year's Eve dinner that many people understood later, in Erlong Town, the meal at noon is actually the main meal on New Year's Eve.

Usually at night ~ everyone basically just eats leftovers from the reunion dinner at noon or something, and then watches the Spring Festival Gala together ~ or plays mahjong.

And unlike northerners who are used to eating dumplings on this day, Erlong Town does not eat dumplings on New Year's Eve.

Of course~ Dumplings must be eaten, but that has to wait until the first day of junior high school.

As the saying goes ~ dumplings in the first grade of junior high school, noodles in the second grade of junior high school.

There is no way~ Huaxia is really too big, and there are customs everywhere.

After Chen Li took off his apron, he hurried out of the room. He lit a cigarette for himself first, and after taking a few puffs, he almost took the time to light the firecrackers.

After confirming that the firecrackers were all burned out, Chen Li slapped Chen Xue and Chen Tingting on the heads beside him, turned around and went back home, and then closed the door!
That's right~ Chen Li doesn't know why, but the New Year's custom in Erlong Town is to close the door for dinner.

Basically, on New Year's Eve, as long as you see someone's door is still closed, it means that the family is either not at home, or they are still having reunion dinner.

And at this time~ it means that the family is not receiving guests for the time being.

After closing the door, Chen Li led the two girls over and sat down.

As the current head of the Chen family, Chen Guofu poured Chen Li a glass of Moutai, and then raised his own glass.

"It's Chinese New Year~ I wish you all a happy new year!"

(End of this chapter)