Chapter 883 Extra 3: The story of Jiang Taisun’s rise to power (5)
Jiang Feng prepared eighteen dishes for the New Year's Eve dinner, including six cold dishes and twelve hot dishes. Among the six cold dishes, except cucumber and five-spice chicken, the remaining four including the braised food platter were all taken by Jiang Jiankang and bought in town on the 30th day. of.
Don’t ask why there are cucumbers in the cold dishes, ask just don’t forget your original intention.
Cold dishes have always been used for conversation and entertainment at the Jiang family's dinner table. The appetizers while waiting for the meal are basically not eaten much. They are usually reserved for breakfast on the first and second days of the Lunar New Year, and the hot dishes are the bulk of the meal.
The twelve hot dishes prepared by Jiang Feng this time are definitely the best New Year's Eve dinners of the Jiang family in recent decades. Whether it is the grade of the ingredients, the difficulty of the dishes, or the quality of the dishes themselves, they are far superior to the dishes that the old man ordered before. If the old man had not voluntarily abdicated and given up power this year, I am afraid that some people would have suspected that Jiang Feng cooked such good dishes because he wanted to give the old man a show of authority and let everyone know who the new king of the Jiang family was.
In fact, Jiang Feng was able to make so many complicated products simply because of nervousness.
It was my first time to cook the New Year's Eve dinner. I was nervous, scared and excited at the same time. I didn't know what dishes to choose, so they were all big dishes. What's great is served. The concept is comparable to that of Yanqi Banquet. Any one of the hot menu items at the Yan Chi Banquet is a top dish, and when put together, it’s like a fight between gods. Fortunately, the dishes at the Yanji Banquet are served one after another. If they were served together, the diners would wish they had more mouths. One mouth would not be enough to eat.
Although the twelve dishes Jiang Feng prepared for the New Year's Eve dinner were not as luxurious as the Yan Chi Ban, the quality and taste of the dishes alone should be able to surpass the Yan Chi Ban.
Who said Jiang Feng's dishes had buffs?
Although a good buff cannot play a decisive role, it can be the icing on the cake and help the dish to reach a higher level.
The twelve dishes Jiang Feng prepared this time were: carrotted yam, Jiang's ginseng soup, fish head with chopped peppers, stewed beef with carrots, phoenix eggs, eight-treasure tofu, baked lobster in soup, pork with pickled vegetables, and lion's head with crab meat. , two-color prawns, apple scones and the finale of golden cabbage.
At first, Jiang Feng planned to cook dishes based on the idea of chicken, duck and fish, but then he thought about it and realized that the Jiang family never paid much attention to chicken, duck and fish at the dinner table. As long as there was fish, it would have the auspicious meaning of having more than enough every year.
Then Jiang Feng's idea became to do what he was good at, and based on what he was good at, find some good buffs or dishes that the elders in the family liked to eat.
Beef stew with carrots is the best luck of the year. Although using it in the New Year makes people feel that the steel is not used on the blade, it is also good to seek good luck during the New Year.
Babao Tofu got involved entirely because Jiang Feng felt that he had to eat some vegetables for the New Year's Eve dinner to be healthy.
As for the reason why there are two beet dishes, shredded yam and apple scones, it is even simpler. Grandma Jiang likes this bite - if she can bite it.
Jiang Feng knew very well that Grandma Jiang would like it more if he made glutinous rice lotus root, but if Grandma Jiang likes it, other people may not like it. The main reason is that he really can't stand the sweetness of glutinous rice lotus root. Who can bear this?
Among the twelve dishes, only Jiang's ginseng soup, baked lobster and golden cabbage require broth. The broth for golden cabbage was freshly made this morning, and the old man and Jiang Weiming took turns watching it. It seems that there are not many dishes that use broth, but in fact the amount is very large. This is mainly because Jiang's Ginseng Soup Jiang Feng is made per head, and the portion is doubled to cater to the taste of the family.
In theory, Jiang's ginseng soup can be simmered slowly in a small cup. Today, Jiang Feng cooked it directly in a casserole.
Casserole for making porridge.
After giving the neighbor some chickpea flowers to play with, Jiang Feng went back to the kitchen and concentrated on cooking.
Jiang's ginseng soup is simmering on the stove, and the aroma of rich soup mixed with seafood fills the air. During Jiang Feng's previous finals, the Jiang family members didn't feel much of anything when they were sitting in the front row. This time, whether they were changing plans in the room, doing homework, cleaning, or playing on their mobile phones and watching dramas They were all drooling from the fragrance.
There is such a big difference, mainly because the venue is large enough during the finals and the quantity is small. No matter how fragrant Jiang's ginseng soup is, there is only a limited amount of it that can overflow before the lid is removed. This time was different. This time the venue was small but the food was large. In addition, everyone knew that Jiang Feng was cooking in the kitchen. He was thinking about what he would eat tonight and couldn't help but smell it.
The Jiang family is extremely greedy, as is the Zhao family next door.
Zhao Liang moved a small stool and sat by the stove to watch the chicken soup.
Although Li Cuihua's cooking skills are far inferior to those of the Jiang family next door, her chicken raising skills are among the best in the village. The chickens raised are big, fat, tender and strong. Every year during the Chinese New Year, a two-year-old hen is stewed. The thick fat and fragrant chicken soup make Zhao Liang drink it every New Year's Eve. Two big bowls, like this every year.
Except this year.
After eating the chickpea pudding, Zhao Liang found the fragrant chicken soup tasteless.
Li Cuihua was chopping vegetables in the kitchen with a bored expression.
"Grandma, what on earth were the bean curds made of this morning? It looks like bean curds, but it tastes like chicken, which is better than stewed chicken." Zhao Liang was puzzled, "I was online I searched that the dish should be called chicken bean curd, but the pictures on the Internet are not the same as what we ate this morning. From the Internet, it doesn’t look like bean curd. What we ate this morning looks exactly like real bean curd.”
"You ask me who should I ask?" Li Cuihua was cutting the pork belly and thinking about the same question as Zhao Liang.
Li Cuihua was puzzled. They always said that children who are good at studying are the reincarnations of Wenquxing, but what kind of reincarnation is a child who is good at cooking? Is the Kitchen God the reincarnation? Does the Kitchen God care about the taste of the food?
"By the way, didn't Xiaofeng ask you to send some plates over? It's already past ten o'clock and they probably need them over there. Send the plates over quickly." Li Cuihua urged.
Zhao Liang got up and went to get the plates and basins. He took out all the unused items from the cupboard, put them in a big pile, and carried them away from the Jiang family.
When he walked to the living room, Zhao Liang was stopped by his father.
"Liangliang, why are you holding so many plates?"
"If the people next door are short of plates, ask us to borrow them. I will send them to them now." Zhao Liang said.
"How do you know? No one comes to borrow it from next door."
"Jiang Feng said it by the way when he delivered the things early in the morning. At that time, you and mom were not awake yet, and grandpa was still walking outside." Zhao Liang said.
"Send something, what to give?"
"Bean curd."
Zhao Liang's father was immediately happy: "The Jiang family is really interesting now. They actually eat tofu pudding early in the morning."
Zhao Liang didn't reply, gave his father a meaningful look, hugged the plate and ran away.
When Zhao Liang arrived at Jiang's house, Jiang Feng happened to be making apple scones.
Since there was no oven in the kitchen, Jiang Feng's behavior of making bonfire pancakes in the yard was not too weird, but simply felt unnecessary. The old man even briefly reflected on whether his own ideas were too old-fashioned and his unwillingness to buy an oven forced his grandson to be like this.
Although it was a bit strange to bake pancakes in the yard in the cold wind in the middle of winter, Jiang Feng quite enjoyed it.
This was his first time baking pancakes, so it was a novel attempt. As he was baking, he discovered that Xia Mubing's method of baking pancakes was quite interesting. It was completely different from the pie baked in the oven. However, the concept was closer to pie. It could be said that he was taking a different approach and becoming unique.
Seeing Zhao Liang coming, Jiang Feng asked Zhao Liang to send the plate to the kitchen and asked him to wait for a while before leaving. Zhao Liang could taste the cake while it was hot.
In this way, Zhao Liang successfully got a piece of pancake. After eating in the Jiang family yard, he chatted with Jiang Feng for a while and asked if the price and location of the dishes at Tai Feng Restaurant were good before going back.
It took a long time to bake a piece of cake. Jiang Feng baked two pieces in total. One piece was given to Zhao Liang and the other piece was given to Zhao Liang who kept peeking through the small window of the room. Within an hour, he wrote an English cloze to pay close attention to the dynamics of the yard. Jiang Junlian.
Jiang Juanlian's cake was first divided into half by her parents, and then half was divided between them and then given to Jiang Junqing. This was a typical cake-sharing behavior with Jiang Junqing's characteristics.
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The first half hour of New Year's Eve dinner is always the most difficult.
All the dishes are basically ready, and there are even many dishes that can be warmed out of the pot. The aromas of various dishes are mixed together and spread everywhere as long as the breeze blows.
But it happened that no one could eat at this time, so they could only gather around the table and stare at each other in front of the six plates of cold dishes. They jumped repeatedly between cucumbers and five-spice chicken. Tough choice between eating.
Jiang Feng was always the one who suffered in the past years.
This year he's been the one causing the suffering.
Jiang Junlian ate a quarter of a piece of scone for lunch, and her expectations for the New Year's Eve dinner were already at the highest level. From the moment it was served, her eyes never glanced at the table, and she kept craning her neck and keeping her head in the yard. Staring straight at the kitchen like a slaughtered goose.
The elders of the Jiang family still had to guess what Jiang Feng had cooked this year as before, and they had an extra advantage in guessing the dishes. Although everyone has lived in the same building in the past two years, there are not many opportunities to eat together. Everyone has his own work to do.
Only Jiang Jiankang is different. He works with Jiang Feng every day, cooks with Jiang Feng across the stove, and eats work meals with Jiang Feng. He knew Jiang Feng's specialty dishes very well, and he could guess most of them even if he couldn't smell them.
"There must be Jiang's ginseng soup, I can smell it." Jiang Jianshe said confidently.
"You still need to smell it? You can guess it, but this dish doesn't count." Jiang Jiandang objected directly, "I can also guess that there must be golden cabbage."
Everyone has watched "Zhiwei", so who doesn't know the origin of these two dishes?
Jiang Jianguo remained silent, closing his eyes and taking a deep breath: "I seem to smell the smell of beef stew. Carrot beef stew! Yes, it should be carrot beef stew."
Jiang Jiankang also took a deep breath and found that the smell was too complex to detect the smell of beef. He didn't know how his elder brother smelled it. Carrot stewed beef was not within the scope of his guess.
Jiang Jiankang could only imitate Jiang Jianguo's appearance just now, take a deep breath and shout: "Phoenix egg!"
Jiang Jianguo smelled it hard and looked suspicious: "There is no smell of phoenix eggs, and there are still about twenty minutes before dinner starts. How can you cook phoenix eggs now?"
"It definitely smells like phoenix eggs. I'm in the kitchen every day with Jiang Feng just across the stove, and I always smell this smell. Besides, why can't the phoenix eggs be cooked now? What if there are several queues behind Xiao Feng? What about the dish that can’t be delayed for even a moment? The taste of the phoenix eggs will not change after being left for ten minutes.” Jiang Jiankang began to argue.
Although he was messing around, it was impossible for the smell of phoenix eggs to come out from Jiang Feng's cooking fish balls, but he was right in saying that there was vegetables behind the phoenix eggs.
Shredded yam and golden cabbage.
The reason why the shredded yam is ranked behind the phoenix egg is that this dish must be eaten while it is hot. Once it is cold, the shredded yam cannot be pulled out.
As for golden cabbage, because this dish is a real table-top dish, it is also the dish that should appear on the Jiang family’s New Year’s Eve dinner table.
This dish must be cooked last and served first. With this dish, the Jiang family’s New Year’s Eve dinner is complete.
As one dish after another was completed, covered and kept warm, the sea cucumber and abalone soup was also brought down from the stove. Jiang Feng began to make golden cabbage under the watchful eyes of the two old men.
In fact, since the day after the finals, Jiang Feng had been waiting for the two old men to ask him how he learned how to learn Jinyu Cabbage. He had already made up a set of excuses, but the two men never came to ask.
Until he told Xu Cheng that Xu Cheng had finished writing the article "Zhiwei" and "Zhiwei" was published, neither of the two old men asked.
They seemed to have so easily acquiesced and accepted that Jiang Feng could cook golden jade cabbage, even though they had only seen it before tasting it, and they did not ask Jiang Feng to cook golden jade cabbage in front of them again.
But Jiang Feng knew that the two of them were far from as calm as they appeared.
Because from the moment the cabbage was put into the pot, the two of them had been staring at the pot and his hands, with burning eyes that they could not ignore.
He didn't even have to look back to imagine the two old men looking intently, a little nervous and even looking forward to it.
This is indeed the case for these two old men.
Jiang Weiguo's memory of Jinyu cabbage is very limited. He only remembers such a fresh herb-flavored cabbage with an extremely complicated production process. The specific production process and roughly how it is made are actually vague, and he can't even remember the taste clearly. .
Jiang Weiguo doesn't remember, but Jiang Weiming does.
He had eaten Jinyu Cabbage for more than ten years more than Jiang Weiguo. His somewhat forgotten memories became extremely clear from the moment Jiang Feng cooked Jinyu Cabbage in the finals. It was so clear that he clearly understood Jiang Feng’s process of making Jinyu Cabbage and that year. Jiang Chengde and Jiang Huiqin are almost identical, exactly the same, at least that's how it seems.
He once thought that he would never be able to eat this dish again, and like Jiang Weiguo, he almost forgot about it.
But Jiang Feng, who had almost never heard of this dish and was unlikely to be able to cook it, recreated the dish in front of him.
He did not ask Jiang Feng how he knew this dish or where he learned the steps. Even if it was dictated, it would be impossible to copy and present it so perfectly.
Because he didn't think it was necessary.
It's enough that Jiang Feng can cook it. It would be better if the taste could be the same or very close.
From a long time ago, Jiang Weiming felt that Jiang Feng, his nephew, was a gift from God. His sudden appearance made him realize one dream after another, make up for one regret after another, and even some extravagant hopes that he could not even imagine. , all came true one after another after meeting Jiang Feng.
So many magical things happened to Jiang Feng, so much that he could accept all the unreasonable things that happened to Jiang Feng, including Jin Jade Cabbage.
He would be surprised if anyone made golden cabbage, but Jiang Feng would not.
Because Jiang Feng himself, at least to him, was a miracle.
A miracle given to him by God.
Jiang Weiming looked at the pot.
Apply lard.
stir fry.
Pour in sea cucumber and abalone soup.
Continue to stir-fry.
Collect the juice.
Exactly the same as in memory.
"Grandpa, the third grandpa's food is ready. It's time to prepare the meal." Jiang Feng said.
Jiang Weiming smiled and nodded.
"It's up to you to decide." The old man stared at the golden cabbage.
Carrying two plates of golden cabbage, Jiang Feng poked his head out of the kitchen and shouted to the hall: "Dad, Brother De, Cheng, Brother Ran, come and serve the dishes!"
"Okay!" (End of this chapter)