Stop pretending, I am the God of Cooking and I am showing off my cards! - Chapter 809

c809 Shen Guofu: I never thought vegetarian hotpot was so delicious

Shen Guofu was dubious, always feeling that hot pot without meat was very unsatisfactory.

He drove the car to the garage of the villa. When he saw Lin Xu taking ingredients out of the trunk, he immediately came over to help. Then he saw the bullfrogs.

“Hey, there are bullfrogs here? That doesn’t count as vegetarian hotpot.”

Lao Shen thought of the fat sausage and beautiful frog pot he had eaten during his trip to Chengdu, and his unhappiness was immediately thrown out of his mind.

Even though there are bullfrogs, he still talks about vegetarian hotpot. Why is my son-in-law acting like my daughter and telling the truth?

It’s good to have bullfrogs, haha, I’ll eat more later.

Seeing her father’s excitement, Shen Jiayue couldn’t help but pour cold water on her:

“That bullfrog is thick. What we are eating today is vegetarian hot pot, without meat.”

Shen Guofu: “…”

For Dundun?

Good guy, I used to joke that people are not as good as cats, but now I finally see it.

Walking into the villa, Han Shuzhen was showing Chen Yan and Renjie the vegetables grown in the yard. Beans, eggplants, tomatoes and other vegetables were growing very well. Shen Jiayue couldn’t help but joked:

“Mom, like the experts from the Academy of Agricultural Sciences, doesn’t know if there are any big loofahs that are three to four meters long.”

When she was in middle school, the school organized a visit to the Academy of Agricultural Sciences every year. There, Shen Jiayue saw super long loofahs, large winter melons that looked like stone rollers, and flat pumpkins as big as millstones.

Now seeing her mother standing by the vegetable patch talking, she thought of the experts at the Academy of Agricultural Sciences who gave lectures to the students.

In fact, Han Shuzhen did not grow the vegetables in the yard at all. The seeds she had been working on for several days did not germinate. Aunt Liu bought new seeds and helped plant them. So when her daughter said this, Director Han suddenly blushed:

“No one will think you are mute if you don’t speak. There are many bugs outside. Let’s take Dundun inside to play.”

There are many advantages to living in a villa, including not being disturbed upstairs and downstairs, a large area, a yard at the front and back, and a strong sense of privacy.

But the disadvantages are also very prominent, such as the basement is prone to moisture, and there are small bugs that can be seen everywhere in summer.

These bugs enter the house without noticing, and even set up camp in the room, or bite people and pets, making it difficult for people to prevent them.

Han Shuzhen was afraid that Dundun would attract insects, so she urged Shen Jiayue to take the little guy in.

Seeing that Lin Xu and Shen Guofu had brought a lot of ingredients, Ren Jie hurried over to help. The three of them entered the kitchen carrying various vegetables and began to prepare today’s dinner.

Aunt Liu came over and said with a smile:

“Director Han just came back and said he wanted to eat vegetarian hot pot and make vegetarian soup… Xiaoxu, is this difficult?”

“It’s not difficult.”

Lin Xu saw her cleaning a mandarin duck pot and asked curiously:

“Is this for hot pot?”

“Yes, I bought it at home before. I haven’t used it a few times, so I just brushed it in advance… What flavor are you going to have for today’s hot pot?”

Originally, Lin Xu planned to make clear soup hot pot. Since it is a mandarin duck pot, let’s add another flavor.

He smiled and said:

“There are two flavors: vegetarian soup and tomato soup. I’ll make the soup first.”

Lin Xu prepared bean sprouts, eggs, mushrooms, celery, radishes and other ingredients for making thick soup. He first fried the eggs, then put them in the pot and started cooking.

After finishing this, I started to pack other ingredients.

Lao Shen and Ren Jie couldn’t get along, so they went to the basement to play billiards. Today is the last day of Ren Jie’s wedding leave. He will officially go to work tomorrow. It will be difficult to have such a long rest in the future.

Lin Xu changed all the ingredients that needed to be cut and soaked. By the way, he used Sprite to make some sesame sauce that people in the capital cannot live without when eating hot pot, and boiled some sweet and spicy sauce. If he wanted to change the taste, he could add sweet and spicy sauce.

After finishing this work, bring a few tomatoes over, make a cross on the surface with a kitchen knife, then pour hot water on them and scald the skin of the tomatoes.

After the outer skin is rolled, peel off and cut into small dices.

Heat oil in a pan, stir-fry green onions and ginger, then add half a bowl of tomato paste, continue to stir-fry until the tomato paste becomes sandy, pour in the diced tomatoes, and continue to stir-fry.

When making tomato pot base, fresh tomatoes alone are not enough, because the flavor is not strong enough and not long-lasting enough. In the end, it even becomes a boiled dish, and the tomato flavor is completely gone.

Only by adding some tomato paste or concentrated tomato paste will the flavor last long and the soup be very durable.

Fry the diced tomatoes into a paste, add boiling water, and then add a few slices of raw tomatoes and mushrooms to cook to make the tomato soup base more fragrant.

When the tomato soup is almost done, the vegetarian stock next to it is almost done too.

Pour some of the two kinds of soup into the Yuanyang pot respectively. Add salt, green onion slices, ginger slices, red dates, wolfberry and other ingredients to the soup stock to cook, while add onion, ginger, tomato slices, shiitake mushrooms and salt to the tomato pot. Waiting for condiments.

When everything was ready, Lin Xu put some hard-to-cook ingredients in and cooked them together. At about the same time, he brought the mandarin duck pot to the restaurant table.

Then bring the prepared vegetables one by one and put on various toppings for dipping the sauce.

“It’s time to eat!”

Lin Xu called to the living room. At this moment, Shi Wenqing’s family of three and Han Shufen also came, all wanting to try the taste of vegan hot pot.

If possible, learn from it later. After all, who doesn’t want to eat healthier while ensuring delicious food?

After greeting everyone, Lin Xu returned to the kitchen. He peeled off the skins of several bullfrogs, cut the meat into small cubes, and mixed it with two egg yolks. After mixing well, he crushed a salted duck egg yolk and mixed it in to add some flavor. .

After doing this, he put the bullfrog meat on a plate and put it in a steamer for steaming.

If you promise to give your children a double dinner, you must keep your promise.

But in terms of Dundun’s appetite, it should be difficult to finish it. After all, cats’ stomachs are relatively small, about the size of a ping pong ball, and they can’t eat much food at all.

Besides, cats have a hard time concentrating. Maybe when they are eating, there is some movement nearby, and their thoughts will wander off.

After everyone sat down at the dining table, Aunt Liu followed Lin Xu’s instructions and poured everyone a glass of fruit and vegetable juice. This is juice squeezed from celery, cucumber, pineapple, banana and other fruits and vegetables.

This kind of fruit and vegetable juice is not only delicious, but also more fat-free and less likely to cause internal heat. It is a good match for hot pot.

Although we had a vegetarian hot pot today, there were a lot of ingredients, including vegetables that had nothing to do with meat, and even Yinzhou’s limited delicacy – Pi Zha.

Lao Shen sniffed and smelled the delicious aroma wafting from the pot and said:

“Hey, this smells good. I’m really greedy.”

Although there is no meat, if you add two pieces of skin dregs and put them in the pot, add sesame sauce and chili oil, and eat them happily, you will probably feel like eating meat.

Han Shufen picked up a piece of gluten from the pot, dipped it in the plate and put it in her mouth, her eyes full of surprise:

“Oh, this hot pot is fresher than those time-honored hot pot restaurants. It tastes really good. I have to ask my nanny at home to learn how to make it tomorrow.”

She has also eaten vegan fat-reducing meals in the past.

I didn’t feel any discomfort after eating, but I just felt like I didn’t want to live.

Today I thought it would be a tasteless vegetarian dish, but I didn’t expect that this hot pot is full of flavor, even better than the ones in hot pot restaurants.

In this case, vegetarian or meat dishes are actually not important anymore, as long as they are delicious.

Chen Yan, who originally wanted to take a bite and eat meat if it didn’t taste good, was now devouring the dishes in the pot, feeling like she was eating hot pot in a restaurant for the first time.

“It’s so delicious. I can show off this hotpot for a year.”

After eating two bites of hot pot, and then taking a sip of fruit and vegetable juice, it is really enjoyable.

Shi Wenqing looked at Lin Xu and asked:

“Why do the fruit and vegetable juices I make at home taste so bad? Do you have any tips here?”

“Just add a banana when juicing. Use the aroma of the banana to offset the blandness of the vegetables. If possible, it is best to use ripe bananas, which will have a stronger aroma and better taste.”

Upon hearing this, everyone else secretly remembered it and planned to try it when they were not busy.

While eating, Lin Xu came to the kitchen, took out the steamed bullfrog from the pot, stirred it, and poured it into Dundun’s eating plate.

When it is dry and no longer burns your mouth, you can let the little one enjoy it.

In order to speed up the cooling, he deliberately took out some ice cubes from the refrigerator and put the plate on it.

Soon, the meat on the plate had reached a warm state.

In the living room, Dundun was already impatient with waiting. When she saw Lin Xu coming out of the kitchen with a plate, she immediately rushed towards him.

“I promised you the double portion of steamed pork. You can spread it out and eat it, but don’t force it if you can’t finish it. Don’t overeat it.”

Dundun snorted, lowered his head and started to take a big mouthful of rice, no longer caring about responding to Lin Xu’s reminder.

Returning to the restaurant again, Shen Jiayue was putting crystal powder into the pot, and Lao Shen was busy blanching spinach.

Blanch the fresh and juicy spinach in tomato soup for a few times, take it out, and eat it directly without dipping anything. It still tastes sweet and delicious, and is crisp and tender with the unique freshness of vegetables. It is very enjoyable to eat.

Lin Xu saw that there was not much soup in the pot, so he added some vegetarian stock and tomato soup, then sat down and continued eating.

When we first ate it, everyone felt that something was missing without meat, but now, eating various vegetables and ingredients in the pot, dipping it in sesame sauce or sweet and spicy sauce, I feel very comfortable.

Especially ingredients such as sweet potato chips are delicious when eaten.

“Eating this way will definitely make your body very healthy. How about we eat vegan hotpot at least once a week?”

Lao Shen was completely in the mood at this time, and suggested that he should eat it more often, as it felt more satisfying than boiled mutton.

Han Shuzhen put the vegetables into Lao Shen’s bowl:

“Don’t just eat carbs, eat more vegetables. This is good for your health.”

She took two more bites. Seeing that it was inconvenient for Shi Wenqing to hold the child with one hand and eat with the other, she stood up and said:

“I’ll hold Yulin for a while, and Wen Qingqing should eat more to avoid splashing the hot pot soup on the child.”

Shi Wenqing was not polite either:

“Thank you, auntie. I’ll eat quickly and take my place for you after I finish.”

Luo Yulin watched everyone eating enthusiastically and kept mouthing. At only a few months old, his snack food attributes were clearly revealed.

Han Shuzhen carried her outside to watch Dundun eat, while Old Shen in the restaurant pricked up his ears and listened, quickly picking up a few pieces of gluten from the pot.

Although vegetarian dishes are also delicious, relatively speaking, eating carbohydrates is more enjoyable.

After eating the gluten, the skin residue is almost cooked. This kind of delicacy made of vermicelli is especially suitable for hot pot, especially after it is cooked in tomato soup until soft, and then dipped in sesame sauce drizzled with chili oil, it is delicious and spicy. Go down, that’s a beauty!

“Xiao Xu, will you still shoot the state banquet tomorrow?”

Han Shufen gave Shi Wenqing a piece of old tofu and asked curiously.

“Shoot, it’s the state banquet in Hangzhou tomorrow. It will probably take a little longer, because there are more dishes at the state banquet in Hangzhou, and they are all famous local dishes, which are quite particular.”

The dishes to be photographed tomorrow include flower basket cold dishes, eight-flavored small plates, Hangzhou braised chicken, West Lake vinegar fish, Longjing shrimps, crispy duck, diced chicken, braised winter bamboo shoots, ham and Sichuan scallops, chrysanthemum cakes, Shao-style egg buns, rock sugar Lotus seeds, fruits.

Among them, Hangzhou braised chicken is commonly known as beggar’s chicken, which is relatively time-consuming.

As for the crispy duck, the duck is first boiled, then steamed, and finally deboned and fried in batter, which is also more cumbersome.

Lin Xu has already made braised winter bamboo shoots, West Lake vinegar fish, Longjing shrimps, chrysanthemum cakes, and Shao-style egg buns. In fact, he has also made beggar’s chicken, but he has never made it to the state banquet level.

The state banquet recipe for beggar’s chicken is not to wrap it in yellow mud, but to wrap it in lotus leaves with tinfoil and bake it in the oven.

Because the method of wrapping it in yellow mud is considered unhygienic by foreigners, it can only be baked using the “wooden soul” oven method.

Shen Jiayue showed the menu she took on her phone to her aunt:

“Auntie, is there anything you want to eat? If so, I will drive to Fuwai tomorrow to deliver it to you.”

Han Shufen looked at it carefully and asked curiously:

“What kind of dish is Gongbao Chicken? Is it Kung Pao Chicken?”

Lin Xu dipped lotus root slices in sesame sauce and said while eating:

“It’s almost the same, except that the spicy flavor is lighter, and the emphasis is on the chicken, so the real name of Kung Pao Chicken is not used. This is actually the taste that foreign countries like. Westerners don’t like the spicy flavor of small lychees that we eat in our country.” acceptable.”

When foreigners eat Chinese food, they only like sweet and sour dishes, so this type of dish is popular all over the world. Almost everywhere there are Chinese restaurants, there are many sweet and sour dishes.

Han Shufen read it over and felt that every dish was worth tasting.

It’s a pity that she has to go to work tomorrow. She is the deputy dean and is very busy, otherwise she would have to go to Yanjing Hotel for another meal.

Shi Wenqing said:

“We have eaten half of the dishes here, and they taste really good. Mom, which dish do you want to eat? I will tell you about the texture and taste.”

Han Shufen glanced at her:

“Oh, then you are really filial.”

She handed the phone to Shen Jiayue and said to Lin Xu:

“Your grandpa’s birthday is coming soon. Then you can prepare a table for us, and we will also take advantage of it. Yueyue should not bring me food. If you do, I may not have time to eat.”

Doctors are really busy, and they don’t even bother to eat when they are busy.

This is even more obvious for the Han family. Although the whole family works in the capital, they cannot have reunion dinners several times a year due to their careers.

After Han Shufen finished eating, she went outside to hug her granddaughter. Han Shuzhen came back and continued eating.

Lin Xu has almost eaten by now. Although there is no staple food, the starch content of ingredients such as gluten crust is quite high, which makes him feel full.

When he saw his mother-in-law sitting down to eat again, he asked:

“What else do you want to eat? I’ll go to the kitchen to prepare some more?”

Han Shuzhen took a piece of skin dregs from Old Shen’s bowl:

“I’ve almost eaten. I just watched your father-in-law eat non-stop, so I want to share some with him…Old Shen, you should eat less carbohydrates and more vegetables. Eating too many carbohydrates is not good for blood sugar.”

Although Lao Shen does not have diabetes and his uric acid is only slightly higher than normal, he still needs to take precautions and cannot take them lightly.

Many diseases are caused by not paying attention at ordinary times.

As long as you pay more attention, it will not develop to the point of no return.

Chen Yan was full and no longer thought about meat. She drank the last bit of fruit and vegetable juice in the cup, looked at Lin Xu and asked:

“Which of tomorrow’s dishes is the most complicated?”

The most complicated?

Lin Xu said without hesitation:

“Flower basket cold dish, this dish not only needs to be made into various flower shapes, but also uses carrots, Xinmei radish, tomato peel and other ingredients to make colorful flowers. In addition, fish rolls must be placed in the flower basket. The fish rolls are It is made by rolling up fish fillets and other ingredients, and the handles and edges of the flower basket are very troublesome.”

The trouble with the flower basket cold dishes is not only the shape and the matching of ingredients, but the most important thing is to cross the boundaries of language and culture and make the guests feel the warmth of welcome.

I have to say that the flower basket of cold dishes did the trick.

Not only did it work, but it also made foreigners never forget it. This dish also became the most artistic dish at the state banquet during Nixon’s visit to China. Even the butterfly platter at the Shanghai dinner was compared.

Although the butterfly platter is beautiful, and some people praise Nixon for flapping the butterfly wings to usher in a new chapter of Sino-US exchanges, the meaning of the butterfly is too straightforward, and at first glance it reminds people of the butterfly effect.

The flower basket with cold dishes is different. As the first course of the banquet, it not only conveys welcome and respect to the guests, but also affirms China’s peace-loving stance.

If you come with peace, we will greet you with flower baskets.

If you want to bring other ideas, it’s hard to say how we will greet you.

After dinner, everyone chatted in the living room for a while, and then drove home. Lao Shen was also carried to the basement by Han Shuzhen. He couldn’t come out without exercising for two hours.

After arriving home, Lin Xu turned on the TV for Dundun and asked the little kid to continue watching Detective Conan. He and Shen Jiayue went to Chen Yan’s house and measured the formaldehyde level again.

“Yanbao, the data are within the standard range. It’s a long way from the warning line. The formaldehyde has been removed very cleanly. Why don’t we move here next month and give you a chance to have breakfast.”

When Chen Yan saw this message, she originally wanted to say who cares about your breakfast, but then she thought about it and realized that the staff meals in the store were beyond imagination. The meals cooked at home should be more meticulous, so she agreed:

“We will monitor it a few more times. If there are no problems, we will move there.”

I haven’t watched the 110-inch TV in the living room yet, and I haven’t had a chance to play on the newly purchased Steinway. It’s time to give my child some prenatal education.

When Chen Yan made up her mind, Lin Xuye and Shen Jiayue returned home, ready to play games, wash off their sleep, and get ready for the state banquet shooting tomorrow!

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