Siheyuan: Fatty’s Counterattack

Director Wang is becoming more and more proud now, and he looks several years younger.

Fatty, him, and Master Zhou who was driving the car were all old acquaintances.

Considering that there are children, Director Wang even sat in the passenger seat today, which shows the relationship.

The fat man teased him as soon as he got in the car: "Director Wang, what makes you so happy? Are you having an affair?"

Angry, Director Wang turned around and scolded him: "You're the one who's having an affair!"

When he was done, he said to Master Zhou: "By the way, Lao Zhou, let me tell you, the last time this guy came to my place to help receive foreign guests, he hugged that blond beauty with big hair! Good guy, I'll let someone I can’t even tear it apart!”

The fat man explained angrily: "Slander! You are purely slandering! That is the etiquette of Da Mao's people. Besides, I just stretched out my hand to touch it, but I didn't dare to tell the truth. There are so many people watching!"

Director Wang winked: "Oh~ It turns out that you hugged her because we were not here. We are the ones who hindered you, right? It doesn't matter. Do you still want to see Martha? I can help you arrange it."

The fat man found another way to take it out: "Director Wang won't do this with you, my girl is still in the car!"

Director Wang scratched his nose in embarrassment and turned to make a face at Chen Mengqi.

Who knows that the little girl is not easy to fool, so she asked the fat man in a crisp voice: "Dad, what is Martha?"

The fat man explained to her: "Martha means the goddess of the sea. Their name of Martha is not only one thousand but also eight hundred, just like the green flowers here."

Martha\u003d Cuihua; What kind of fallacy is this? Not to mention that Director Wang made Fatty laugh, even Chen Mengqi, a little girl who had never seen a foreigner, giggled.

The fat man got through easily.

Speaking of Martha, even in winter, she wears a long dress that exposes her shoulders, so she is not afraid of contracting frozen shoulder.

And he doesn’t even talk about martial ethics! When he came up, he hit someone with the ball and took advantage of the fat man's unpreparedness to sneak attack him with the "flaming red lips" move!

"..."

Arriving at the big leader’s house is just like when you were a kid and giving New Year greetings to adults.

My face was numb from laughter. Everyone was the leader and no one could be offended.

As soon as the big leader saw him, he said happily: "Master is here, you are in for a treat today. Fatty has prepared several dishes that you may not have eaten before."

Everyone present was acquaintances, and the fat man was not too restrained. He patted the satchel on his waist and said, "There are really good things in this. In order to deal with it, I started preparing it three days ago."

As he was talking, he saw Chen Mengqi. It's freezing outside, and the little girl is wearing thick clothes. The upper body was covered with a cyan satin jacket, as if it was too big, and the long hem covered the gray trousers. Only a pair of fluffy little cotton shoes on her feet were exposed.

The little girl also had a small satchel made of wool slung across her shoulder. She laughed when she saw the big boss; her "Hello Grandpa~" almost made the big boss' heart melt.

Regardless of the fact that there were so many leaders present today, the senior leader stepped forward and hugged the little girl, deliberately teasing her: "Why do I feel like you've gained weight?"

The little girl protested anxiously: "Not fat, not fat, grandpa is bad."

Tong Yan Wuji made everyone laugh.

After entering the kitchen with her aunt, she asked curiously: "What did you bring today?"

The fat man took out a plastic box from his bag, opened it and saw that it was sea cucumber!

"This is the sea cucumber I asked for from you before. I took it back and distributed it thoroughly. Today I dare to make this braised sea cucumber with green onion in front of the leaders."

The aunt exclaimed when she heard this: "The sea cucumber roasted with green onion in Fengze Garden?"

The fat man nodded: "I can't say it's exactly the same, but it's certainly not inferior to him."

The aunt picked up the box curiously, smelled it, and asked in surprise: "There's no fishy smell at all, fat man, how did you do that?"

The fat man explained to her: "The most difficult part of this dish is the process of swelling the sea cucumber."

Named after sea cucumber, ginseng and bird's nest, it is one of the eight treasures in ancient and modern times.

In particular, sea cucumbers grown along the coast of Shandong like to move on the sandy and muddy bottoms of shallow reefs. They only grow in areas with luxuriant seagrass. Their flesh is thick and plump. It is difficult to burn the stuff into the flavor!

The fat man and his aunt said: "The container used when growing sea cucumbers must be clean, and the hands must be washed clean. No oil particles can be seen; the oil will melt away before the sea cucumbers are completely swollen... Secondly, this Before putting the dried sea cucumber in the pot, you need to "sweat" it. That is to put ginger slices under the basket and steam it for 50 minutes. Then pour it into clean water and cook it for a few more minutes to let the sea cucumber gradually absorb the water. When it cools down, you can cut it open and remove the mouth of the sea cucumber."

The fat man chattered a lot, and the aunt's eyes were almost filled with mosquito repellent coils: "My dear, is it so laborious to make this?"

The fat man said happily: "Where is this? If you want this sea cucumber to swell well, you have to freeze it. That is to say, put it in ice water and soak it overnight. It will slowly expand in the low temperature environment. , this is a water grinding process, so don’t rush it. Get up the next morning, put it in a pot and boil it, prepare ice water next to it, put it directly into the ice water while it is hot, and let it cool down quickly. Then once during the day and at night Once, it’s just hot and cold bathing alternately.”

The aunt counted the numbers and exclaimed: "Doesn't it take three days just to soak it?"

The fat man took the box and said to his aunt: "The sea cucumber produced using my method is big and beautiful, and it doesn't have a fishy smell. And if you look at how big it is now, it will still be the same size when it is served on the table."

The aunt stretched out her hand curiously and compared the sea cucumber: "It's as big as my hand. It's hard to imagine that it was so small before."

As the saying goes, the flavorful ones are brought out, and the tasteless ones are brought in. This is exactly the most important thing in making this dish.

Now that the "taste" of the sea cucumber is done, it's time to enter the second step of thinking of ways to make it "taste".

In order for sea cucumbers, which are inherently tasteless, to infiltrate the flavor of other ingredients, it is necessary to use stock to introduce the flavor for the first time.

Hearing the fat man mention soup stock again, the aunt couldn't help but ask him: "You bring your own stock every time. What's the secret in this?"

The fat man chuckled: "Actually, there is no secret. Just put whatever you have. Like last time you gave me ham, chicken, duck and elbows. I will use these four things to make a big pot of soup."

"Anything to say?"

"The ham is used to add saltiness and umami to the soup; the chicken is used to add flavor; the duck is used to enhance the freshness; the elbow is used to make the soup thicker... Anyway, it depends on what you are doing, different things require different ingredients. Ingredients to make soup.”