Chapter 104 Fish balls! Fish steak on a windy day!
Zhao Dahai flexed his hands and feet. He was a little tired from squatting for a long time. He took a break after lunch and began to deal with the rotten fish.
The ordinary method of making rotten fish is not delicious, but the fish balls are top-notch.
Eviscerate the fish and clean it. Use a knife to cut across the tail of the fish and hit the fish bones. Change the vertical knife to a horizontal knife and push it up against the fish bones in the direction of the head. Cut off a whole piece. sliced fish, sliced another piece of fish in the same way.
Zhao Dahai took a spoon and a big bowl, laid the fish flat on the chopping board, and gently scraped the fish paste. When the spoon was full, he threw it into the big bowl and scraped it. Whenever you encounter a small thorn, pick it out.
Zhao Dahai didn't move quickly and unhurriedly. It took almost an hour to scrape off the two pieces of fish meat. What was left were two pieces of fish skin and a pile of small fish bones and a large fish bone beside the cutting board.
Zhao Dahai stretched out his hand and pinched the fish paste scraped into the bowl for a while. It was very smooth without any small thorns. He took some sweet potato flour and beat two eggs. The yolks were removed, leaving only the egg whites. , add a little more salt and stir evenly.
Zhao Dahai called his grandma Zhong Cuihua and asked someone to help him boil the fire and boil the water. The first was to control the fire. If the fire was too big, he had to add cold water to the pot. Make sure the water is not boiling, just a little bit hot is fine. If the fire is too high and the water is boiling hot, the fish balls will fall apart as soon as they are cooked. Use low heat to control the water temperature so that the fish balls can be shaped.
Zhao Dahai grabbed a handful of minced fish, squeezed it gently, and a fish ball popped out from the tiger's mouth. He took a spoon in his right hand, scraped it off and put it into the pot.
There are more and more fish balls in the pot, and they float in white.
It takes a lot of effort to shave the minced fish, and it only takes half an hour to squeeze the fish balls.
Zhong Cuihua added a handful of firewood to the stove, and the fire became louder. In less than a few minutes, the water boiled, and the white fish balls with a little gray in them kept rolling. The fish balls are not big and are cooked in about five minutes.
Zhao Dahai picked up the fish balls and soaked them in a large iron basin filled with cold water that had been prepared nearby.
Night falls.
The wind is getting stronger and stronger.
The treetops whined.
Zhao Dahai walked into the kitchen and started cooking dinner. Put the fish balls and fish bones that were just beaten an hour ago into the boiling water, put the seaweed in, cut a little ginger, add a little salt, and a large bowl of meatball and seaweed soup is ready. I cut some of the salted pork belly hanging on the kitchen stove and fried a green vegetable.
“Grandma!”
“These fish balls are good! It’s a pity that the seaweed is freshly dried and only half-dry.”
“The taste is a bit bad!”
Zhao Dahai filled a bowl of soup and placed it in front of Zhong Cuihua.
“Don’t you still have some fish balls? Keep it on ice. The seaweed will be delicious after another two days of drying.”
Zhong Cuihua took a fish ball and took a bite. It tasted really good. . People who go fishing at sea do not pay much attention to food. People who go out to fish during the holidays only just fill their stomachs and save time for work. If it is not specially made for himself, Zhao Dahai will not do this. Fish balls are too time-consuming.
Zhao Dahai nodded. It would indeed be much more delicious to dry the seaweed for two days before making soup.
Zhao Dahai walked out of the yard. The wind was blowing a little stronger than yesterday. He glanced at the sea in the distance. The white-headed waves were lined up next to each other, becoming denser and higher.
"Hey!"
"It's really troublesome!"
Zhao Dahai was very depressed. This was already the third day of rest at home. The sun was overhead and the sky was clear but there was a strong wind. There is no way to go out to sea. This is the most helpless weather for people who go fishing. What is even more helpless is that when fishing for sand pointed fish is very good and very profitable, they come to this weather and suffer heavy losses.
Wait until the weather is nice to go back and fish again?
I will definitely go back to fish, but I can’t tell if there will be any fish!
Zhao Dahai turned over the seaweed on the dustpan and dried it in the sun. It was ready to be put away. Sell for money? The amount of this thing is too small, it can't be sold for a few bucks, it's enough to satisfy the mouth.
Sleep? Can't sleep!
Who can sleep without making money?
It’s not okay to go on like this. I really can’t stand it anymore.
Zhao Dahai glanced at the Dongtou reef area. There were many people on it. They must be people from the village. They had too much time to do, so they just strolled along the beach. If they could pick up fish, they would at least stutter.
Zhao Dahai continued to look toward the east end of the reef zone and vaguely saw a piece of fish steak. He was stunned for a moment and patted the back of his head hard.
To the east of the reef zone is Paiwan Village. In front of the village is a bay, which is relatively low. When the tide is high, the water can be more than ten meters deep. When the tide goes out, the sea water left is five to six meters. As early as ten We started raising fish, shrimps and crabs last year, and our life is much better than in Langtou Village and other surrounding villages.
Fish, shrimp, and crabs are farmed in fish rafts, and feed is put in to attract fish, shrimps, and crabs that are naturally raised nearby, or fish that escape from the fish raft grid gather at the bottom of the fish raft grid. The owners don’t have the time to catch these fish, so they usually charge a pick-up fee of 30 yuan and let others catch them. No matter how much they catch, they can take them away.
It’s a windy day and I can’t go out to sea. I have nothing to do at home, so why not try fish steaks? If you can’t catch big fish, you can catch small fish and go home for two meals. Can you save money on grocery shopping?
It's only ten o'clock in the morning, so I have plenty of time, so just do it.
Zhao Dahai immediately turned around and walked back to the house, told his grandma, went to the pier to get on the fishing boat, took the fishing rod, and rode his motorcycle to the pier of Paiwan Village. As he looked around, there were fish steaks all over the place.
Zhao Dahai parked the car, asked someone, and found Zhang Defei, one of the fish steak owners.
"You look like this and you go out to sea to fish, right? How can you come here to fish?"
"It's impossible to go out to sea in this damn weather. It's really annoying to stay at home. Don't You can’t go anywhere except your Paiwan Village Fishing Pai.”
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“Hey!”
“This white-headed wave is really strong. Don’t look at the fish steaks in our village being in the bay, and many grids are broken.”
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“What kind of things are there here?”
"Red drum and bacon."
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Zhao Dahai took a ride on Zhang Defei's small fishing boat and loaded up the fish steaks. The impact of the white-headed waves was so great that the fish steaks in the bay were shaking. Maybe, if you are not careful, you may fall into the sea.
Zhang Defei tied his small fishing boat to the fish raft, walked into the small house, and never came out.
Zhao Dahai started fishing immediately without any hurry.
The fish steaks are framed with thick wooden boards and rough dianthus. There are floats one after another underneath. The large frame is divided into small frames. Each small frame is a square of five meters by five meters. The small frames are stretched with thick Fishing nets made of nylon thread with meshes that cannot be penetrated by chopstick heads are used to raise fish.
Zhang Defei's fish steak is relatively large, more than fifty meters long and wide, with a hundred grids, most of which are filled with fish, and only seven or eight are empty, scattered here and there. All over the fish fillet. This is a big deal. He looks inconspicuous and smells like fish, but he has a lot of money in his pocket, earning at least hundreds of thousands a year.
Zhao Dahai looked at the grid carefully. All the fish he raised were red drum. Some were over twenty kilograms, very big. They had been raised for a long time, and some were only the size of a palm. It wasn’t long after I started raising them.
Red drum fish grows very fast and can grow very large. It only has a large bone fish bone in the middle and no small burrs. The fish meat is relatively woody and does not have much flavor. It is not very delicious when eaten fresh. Pickled The dried salted fish is very good and large in size, so it looks very respectable as a gift.
Zhao Dahai remembered the one he picked up in the reef area some time ago and salted it into dried salted fish. Now there is only a small piece left.
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