Chapter 535 Teaching Completed
Zhao Mei was full.
It is not strange for her to overeat. She has eaten a lot more since she was pregnant than before. For example, last night she overeat the pot of chicken noodle soup her husband cooked for him.
But this time it was different.
This time I was eating happily, eating with satisfaction, eating until I couldn't eat anymore, and I just regretted that I didn't have an extra stomach.
Zhao Mei's taste has changed a lot since she got pregnant. The snacks she used to love have stopped eating after she became pregnant. Sometimes she craves sour foods, and plums soaked in vinegar are not sour enough. Sometimes she craves sweet snacks. , the rice mixed with sugar and honey are not sweet enough.
Even the stewed chicken made by Tian Lin, which she once loved the most, she no longer likes it because she has to eat one every week for the past few months.
It had been a long time since she had been so happy and had such a big mouthful of meat.
Ordinary people get sleepy easily after eating a full meal, let alone pregnant women. Zhao Mei felt sleepy within two minutes after finishing her meal. This time she was really sleepy, not just pretending to be sleepy. Ha Qie's eyelids were fighting as she sat there for days.
So Zhao Mei was helped into the house by her husband and went to sleep.
Zhao Mei was eating so happily, and the happiest thing was that Tian Lin looked overjoyed when she was clearing away the dishes. While doing so, she looked at Jiang Feng from time to time, as if she had something to say to him.
Jiang Feng casually took a plate and entered the kitchen with Tian Lin.
"Xiao Feng, did you hear what Meimei said to me when we were eating?" Tian Lin said eagerly as soon as she entered the kitchen.
Jiang Feng didn't dare to talk. Zhao Mei said too many things, such as "Mom, I want to eat ribs", "Mom, give me two more pieces of meat", "Mom, I want to eat eggs" and the like. Just countless. He was a little confused as to which sentence touched Tian Lin's heart, whether it was ribs, meat or eggs.
"When Meimei was eating the lion's head, she told me that the fat meat is delicious. She hasn't said this to me for many years!"
"I told her why she doesn't eat much stewed meat this year, nor does she eat braised pork very much. It turns out that her taste has changed and she must eat the stewed lion's head!" Tian Lin finally found the dish her daughter wanted to eat, and she was very excited.
Jiang Feng:...
Auntie's stewed pork and braised pork are really not a matter of taste.
It's your problem.
"Yeah, I didn't expect Sister Meimei to like eating lion heads now." Jiang Feng nodded in agreement, with a sincere look on his face.
"Xiao Feng, you don't need to teach me braised pork and bamboo shoot stew. Just teach me the lion's head. Meimei likes to eat lion's head." Tian Lin felt that she had discovered the standard answer.
"Okay!"
Jiang Feng nodded in agreement, it was actually quite good to just teach the lion head. As long as Tian Lin is willing to follow the method he taught and season the meat honestly without adding salt or soy sauce, even if the techniques when chopping and beating the meat are not up to standard and cannot achieve the desired effect, it will at most affect the taste, and the resulting lion head will be It's just that if it's loose, it won't be able to lock in the gravy. It's definitely not going to taste bad.
When teaching Tian Lin how to cook, you can’t set too high a requirement, as long as you can eat it.
Seeing that Jiang Feng agreed, Tian Lin asked tentatively: "Xiao Feng, your grandma and the others will probably go back in a while. They also finished eating the lion head at noon today. Can you stay for a while and teach me this afternoon? Make it so that Meimei can have something to eat at night.”
Jiang Feng smiled and said, "Auntie, look at what you said. Is there anything I can do? Didn't I promise that I would teach you how to make it in the afternoon? Just rush back before the meal time and not delay the meal."
The mission is valuable, and the meal is more expensive.
Tian Lin was smiling from ear to ear. After washing the dishes, she always wanted to give Jiang Feng something to express her gratitude. After thinking about it, she found that the only way to express her gratitude was to give Jiang Feng a bowl of stew.
"Xiao Feng, there's still stew in the pot. Auntie will serve you a bowl of stew!" Tian Lin was a man of action, so she served the stew while Jiang Feng was distracted.
Because Jiang Feng was focused on the task, he was thinking about how to teach Tian Lin in the afternoon so that she could learn the lion's head better and faster. He forgot that he was actually on the most dangerous battlefield. He didn't realize the seriousness of the situation until the stew was served in front of him. .
"Auntie, I ate too much at lunch and I really can't eat anymore." Jiang Feng covered his stomach and pretended that he had really eaten a lot.
Tian Lin could only take the stew back with a look of regret and start eating by herself.
During lunch, she was so focused on picking up food for Zhao Mei that she didn't even take a bite.
Tian Lin ate two bowls of stew before putting down her chopsticks and began to learn how to make a lion head with Jiang Feng.
Jiang Feng started teaching him how to select pork belly.
For a fat lover like Tian Lin who only loves fat meat and has been obsessed with it for many years and firmly believes that oil and water are justice, Jiang Feng has reason to believe that when she chooses the pork belly to make the lion head, she will definitely choose what he can see with the naked eye. The fattest part.
In order to ensure Zhao Mei's diet for the next few days, Jiang Feng repeatedly emphasized that if he was not sure when choosing pork belly, he would rather choose the thin one than the fat one. If the meat is leaner, the stewed lion's head may be a little too spicy. If the meat is fatter, it may become the same stewed meat as before, but one is cut into cubes and kneaded into dumplings, and the other is stewed in one piece.
After teaching, picking meat means chopping it. When chopping the meat, Jiang Feng did not do it himself but asked Tian Lin to chop it by herself while he watched from the side.
Tian Lin is strong and careful, and is particularly patient when it comes to her daughter's diet. The meat is meticulously cut and the meat is chopped with full strength. The meat filling after fine and rough chop is very sticky. It is definitely a quality product.
Jiang Feng didn't do the seasoning step himself. He said Tian Lin did it and everything went very smoothly.
Jiang Feng didn't start until the time of whipping the meat. He didn't expect Tian Lin to learn this step. Most people couldn't do this step well. It may seem easy as nothing more than beating and stirring, but the strength, rhythm and mixing skills required require years of experience as a chef, and cannot be learned by looking at it with the naked eye or listening to other people's words.
Strong strength can only break the muscles of the meat, but how to throw it, where to throw it, and how it looks like cannot be solved by just strong strength. Stirring for a long time will break up the meat. Not only will your hands be covered with diced meat, but there will also be a lot of snowflake-like floating objects on the surface of the lion's head during the stew.
So Jiang Feng could only tell Tian Lin to just beat and stir casually. The time should not be too long, as long as the meaning is enough.
It doesn’t matter if the lion’s head falls apart when stewed, it will still fall apart when eaten in your mouth. It doesn't matter if you can't lock in the gravy, it will still be juicy if you pour it with chicken soup.
Jiang Feng believed that Zhao Mei would never mind this little problem when eating it.
After the meat is whipped, it is time to roll the meatballs. After the meatballs are rolled, they can be stewed in the pot. If you have time this time, you can stew slowly. In order to prevent Tian Lin from not being able to control the heat properly, Jiang Feng specially used the gas stove this time and told her to stew for three hours before serving.
Remember to add some salt to the soup before stewing. If the lion's head is stewed for such a long time, the salt in it will seep out. If you don't add salt, the lion's head will look a little bland after it comes out of the pot.
After all these instructions, Jiang Feng found that he seemed to be fine.
There was leftover chicken soup from lunch. When the lion's head was almost ready, Tian Lin heated up the chicken soup and poured it on directly after the lion's head came out of the pot.
Jiang Feng looked at the lion head that had put the lid on the stew pot and felt that he had finished his teaching work for the day.
The teaching work ended a little early. Grandma Jiang and the others had just left less than half an hour ago.
Jiang Feng tried hard to think about whether there was anything else he needed to tell Tian Lin. After thinking for a while, his eyes lit up: "One more thing, aunt, remember to pour the chicken soup after it is out of the pot..."
"Skip off the oil!" Tian Lin even learned to answer quickly.
Jiang Feng nodded with satisfaction, feeling that he really had nothing to tell Tian Lin this time.
"Auntie, the lion's head is almost like this. You only need to wait for three hours for it to stew and then it can be taken out of the pot. As long as I have nothing to do here..." Jiang Feng was about to leave.
He always felt uncomfortable staying at Zhao's house, fearing that a bowl of stew would suddenly appear from nowhere and invite him to eat.
"Xiao Feng has worked hard for you today. Go back and rest quickly. Auntie has almost learned the lesson here. Tomorrow, auntie will make lion heads for your sister Mei Mei to eat." Tian Lin said with a smile.
Hearing what Tian Lin said, Jiang Feng felt a little worried: "Auntie, how about I come back tomorrow morning? You will make the lion head tomorrow, and I will watch from the side to see how you do it. ”
"Well, please make one more trip." Tian Lin smiled brightly.
"No trouble, no trouble, not far, just a few steps away." Jiang Feng said with a smile, well aware of the hypocrisy of the adult world.
So the matter was decided happily. Jiang Feng went back to Happy Fat Mansion first, and would come back tomorrow morning to check on the teaching work and see how the lion head made by Tian Lin was.
Then Jiang Feng got up late the next day.
In fact, you can't blame him, Jiang Feng really got up early too many days. He has been getting up early since New Year's Eve, for four days in a row. He has not slept in for a day during the entire New Year. There is no basic respect for the holiday from him.
So on the sunny day when there was no alarm clock set on the morning of the fourth day of the Lunar New Year, and Grandma Jiang didn't have pancakes or fried spring rolls, Jiang Feng got up late as expected.
When he woke up, the time displayed on his phone was 10:43 am.
If he had woken up half an hour later, the Zhao family would have already started dinner.
Realizing that he had gotten up late, Jiang Feng quickly got dressed. He only brushed his teeth and didn't even have time to wash his face before he put on his down jacket and rushed to Zhao's house.
When he arrived, Tian Lin's dishes were almost ready for dinner. The kitchen was filled with the aroma of rice and the rich smell of chicken soup - it was rare for Tian Lin not to stew meat.
Everything smells normal.
Then Jiang Feng saw a scene that he would never forget.
"Auntie! You don't need to add chicken soup to the fried eggs with tomatoes!! You really don't need to!!!" (Note ①)
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Note ① Excerpted from this chapter published by Yue Ye Bingyan in Chapter 529 on December 8. (End of chapter)