sjar Chapter 103 It’s time to eat
Chapter 103 It’s time to eat
Zheng Sisi asked Aunt Liu to cook more rice so that Dad could have a full meal today.
The few old women who helped cook were really touched and said that the boss was a living Bodhisattva because he was so kind, caring and loving to them, the hard-working servants.
Especially when they saw the host frying bamboo rat, he put in plenty of ingredients, including peppers that they didn't recognize and half a jar of white wine. No wonder it smelled so good.
In fact, Zheng Sisi also smuggled out half a bowl of cooking wine to remove the fishy smell and didn't let them see it.
They had caught bamboo rats before, but the meat they cooked tasted fishy and woody, hard to chew, not tasty and a waste of oil and salt, so no one caught them later. So there are still a lot of bamboo rats in the mountains, and Zheng Sisi and her friends can find two nests at a time.
It took a whole afternoon to prepare meals for more than a hundred people. When the stews were almost done, Zheng Sisi saw that it was almost time to get off work, so she started to fry the meat with bamboo shoots.
This dish is simple. Because the portion is large, I still stir-fry it in two pots. First, stir-fry the meat a little, then take it out of the pot and put it aside for later. Then put a lot of oil in to stir-fry the spring bamboo shoots. After the bamboo shoots are fragrant, put the meat in. There are no other ingredients, just garlic leaves and a little dried chili powder, and it’s ready in a short while.
Zheng Sisi didn't put too much chili powder, just a little to garnish it, for fear that too much would be too spicy for them, so she put a little less to let them get used to the taste first.
Smelling the fragrance, several maids who were helping with the cooking asked, "Master, the bamboo shoots we stir-fried are so bitter and astringent that they are inedible. How come yours smell so good?"
Zheng Sisi said: "You saw how I fried it just now. You need to add meat to stir-fry bamboo shoots to enhance the flavor of the bamboo shoots. Also, you can't wash the bamboo shoots with water after peeling them. If you wash them, they will be bitter and astringent."
Someone replied: "No wonder, the bamboo shoots got dirty after we peeled them, so we washed them with water, no wonder they didn't taste good. I learned something today, and there will be one more dish on the table in the future."
After frying bamboo shoots and meat, Zheng Sisi asked Aunt Liu to fry cabbage: "Aunt Liu, put more oil when frying cabbage. The more oil, the better the dish."
Zheng Sisi herself made cold houttuynia and Chinese toon salad. She washed the houttuynia with hot water and then chopped it up. The houttuynia here is all wild, unlike the modern ones that are artificially cultivated and contain harmful substances such as fertilizers, which need to be scalded with hot water.
Cut the Chinese toon into small sections, blanch them in a pot of hot water, then remove them from the water and drain.
Put the two ingredients in a bowl each, add oil, salt, sauce, vinegar, and chili powder, but unfortunately there is no chicken essence or MSG.
Heat some oil, and when it’s very hot, pour it on the chili powder, then use chopsticks to mix it evenly. Finally, Zheng Sisi added some sesame oil.
Zheng Sisi started drooling at the smell.
The dishes were already prepared, and several people were assigned to share the dishes. The dishes were placed on the dismantled door panels, and the guards were called to take the dishes to the threshing ground.
Zheng Sisi finally had to make a Chinese toon omelette, which was the dish she had promised to the third prince and his men.
By the time Zheng Sisi finished her work and arrived at the threshing ground, everyone had arrived. There were dishes on the table. Everyone was looking at it with wide eyes and swallowing their saliva, but no one picked up their chopsticks to eat, including the elderly and children.
Zheng Sisi felt bad, so she said, "Thank you for your hard work. I'm treating you to a meal today as a reward. You may have to work harder in the future, so I hope you won't complain. I won't say much today, let's eat first."
After hearing the host's words, everyone started to eat. Today's dishes were very rich, including meat, vegetables and white rice.
This was something they had not dared to hope for during the Chinese New Year or other festivals. During the Chinese New Year, there was only one meat dish on the table, but today the host treated them to four big meat dishes. They felt that the host was so nice and they were so happy.