60s Splendid Life

The freshly made tofu flower was still warm, Lu Jin scooped a bowl of tofu flower for one person, and then poured it with sweet syrup.Several children sat around the table and ate tofu flower together. The sweet syrup was served with tofu flower, and they all had smiles on their little faces.

"Is sweetness acceptable?" Lu Jin asked Shen Yu and the other two guests the last question.

"Yes, it's delicious. We eat sweet bean curd in our hometown." The driver is from the south, and he likes to eat sweet bean curd.But the other little soldier is from the north. It is the first time he has eaten sweet tofu flower at such a big age. Although it tastes a bit strange, it is not annoying, and it is acceptable.

Shen Yu took a mouthful of tofu flower with a spoon and put it into his mouth. The tofu flower in his mouth was smooth and tender, and it was even tastier than the tofu flower he had eaten in the past.

"How is it? Is it delicious? I made it all morning." Lu Jin watched Shen Yu eat the tofu flower into his mouth, and asked him how it tasted.The beans he soaked before going to bed last night, the beans he got up early this morning to grind, and the tofu flower and tofu that he made after a morning of work, the tofu is still pressed and the board has not been removed, but it should be almost the same.

"Delicious." Shen Yu nodded, affirming Lu Jin's craftsmanship.

"It's fine if you like it. I'll send some to my sister-in-law's house next door. You can eat first." Lu Jin couldn't catch up with a bite of tofu flower by himself. Seeing that there were still a lot of tofu flower in the wooden barrel, they might not eat it after a while. Don't eat tofu flowers.He went to the kitchen to find a pot, made a pot of tofu flowers, went to the kitchen to get a few pieces of tofu and put them in a basket, then went out with a basket and sent it to Aunt Qin's house next door.

Before Mrs. Qin could react, she saw Lu Jin coming to their house with a basket, put down the basket and left, and turned to ask her daughter-in-law after he left, "Just now Xiaojin said what did you bring?" ?”

"He said it was tofu flower and tofu. He made it himself." Wang Xiumei went to open the lid, and saw a large bowl of tofu flower and a large bowl of tofu in the basket, both still hot, and took them to her mother-in-law to see.

"This kid can also make bean curd and tofu... why did you bring us so much? They don't have enough left at home." Aunt Qin looked at the things in the basket, and then at the doorway where there was no one. , I wanted to pull Lu Jin back and say a few words, but I couldn't catch anyone, so I had to say to my daughter-in-law: "Forget it, Axiu, take out the tofu flower, take the tofu to the kitchen and put it away, and take a few more bowls." Come here, let's have a bowl of tofu flower too. I haven't eaten tofu flower for a long time, today is thanks to Xiaojin."

"That's right, Xiao Jin's hands are so skillful, he can do everything."

Hearing this, Wang Xiumei took out the tofu flower from the basket and put it on the table. The two sons followed her out to the door, but she kept them in the room and refused to follow them. They quickly came over with a few more bowls.

Soon, they also ate the hot tofu flower, leaving half of the bowl for the men at home to eat.

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At this time, Lu Jin returned home and drank a bowl of tofu flower before going to the kitchen to cook.

As soon as there are more children in the family, the house becomes lively.

When Shen Xing's child came to their house, Chenchen was also accompanied by someone to make a fuss. Usually at home, his sister and younger brother didn't often accompany him to make a fuss, but now it's different. Having an extra Shen Xing in the house is like having an extra group.Lu Jin, who was busy in the kitchen, could hear the giggling and laughing noises clearly, as if they were ringing in his ears. Fortunately, he ran to the kitchen to cook at this moment, otherwise he suspected that he would be killed. Those two little fellows were having a headache.

Originally, if there were several people in their family, they would have a relatively simple lunch, but now that there are guests, the dishes must be prepared more generously.

He made a lot of tofu himself in the morning, both old and tender.There is also a lot of food in the gift from Shen Yu, there is a bag of pork, there are two big strips of pork belly and a small half of ribs.

There are quite a lot of people eating today. With four of their family and four guests, there will be eight people eating, so he plans to cook all the meat, and if he can't finish it, he can eat it at night.

He cut the two pieces of pork belly into several small pieces, set aside two pieces for cooking, and threw the rest into the pot for cooking.Put the pork into the pot under cold water, add a few slices of ginger, garlic, star anise, fennel, peppercorns and cinnamon to cook together.

"Brother, what are we going to cook?" Lu Qinglian squatted in front of the stove to help light the fire, and asked when she saw her brother throw a whole piece of pork into the pot.

"This is for braised pork, and I will fry mapo tofu and sauerkraut fried pork later. My brother bought fish in the morning, and then I will make fish head tofu soup. The remaining fish meat will be made into fried fish nuggets, right? And pork ribs Fry them together, and the ribs will be made into garlic ribs for you." Lu Jin went through the dishes that he was going to cook later in his mind, and he didn't stop chopping vegetables, and turned to ask how their little girl was doing.

"Wow, so many dishes!" Lu Qinglian couldn't help drooling just hearing her brother's name of the dish, their family had never cooked so many dishes before!

The braised pork needs to be stewed for a long time, so Lu Jin processed the braised pork first.

When the meat is cooking in the pot, he first adjusts the sauce, two spoonfuls of light soy sauce, two spoonfuls of dark soy sauce, then half a spoonful of cooking wine, a little salt, and stir well.Boil the water in the pot, cook for 1 minute, then remove the meat, cut the meat into small pieces, fry in the pot until the skin is slightly browned, and remove the meat.

There is still oil in the pot, put star anise, cinnamon, fragrant leaves and peppercorns into it, stir-fry over low heat, then add rock sugar, pour in the fried meat just now, pour in the prepared sauce, stir-fry a few times, wait for the meat to be cooked When the color is gone, scoop out the meat and put it into a small casserole, pour in an appropriate amount of water, just enough to cover the meat, put the casserole on another small stove and simmer slowly.

perfect!

The stew over there takes a long time, put the meat on the stove to stew, Lu Jin went to work on other things, first marinate the ribs that will be fried later, cut the tofu into small pieces and put them in the bowl, and the rest All the green onions, ginger, garlic and peppers are chopped and placed in a small bowl for later use.

"I smelled the aroma when I was outside. What kind of dishes are you cooking? Do you need our help?" The driver Xiao Liu smelled the aroma in the house, so he couldn't help but came to the kitchen and asked the station through the window. A young man working inside.

The other soldier was younger and was dragged by Shen Xing and Chen Chen to play together.

"There are quite a lot of dishes. There are braised pork, garlic pork ribs, mapo tofu, fried pork, soup and rice... Brother Liu, you can just sit in the room over there for a while, and I can wait a little longer here Dinner is ready." The kitchen is relatively small, and if one more person enters it, it will be too busy, and Lu Jin is too embarrassed to ask the guests who came to their house to help with the work, and Shen Yu didn't ask Shen Yu to help until he saw him.

He was very happy to have a friend come all the way to find them, so he was very attentive when cooking.

"It seems that we are lucky today." But brother Liu didn't leave, he stood outside the kitchen and watched Lu Jin busy, while talking to Lu Jin.

Shen Yu, who was in the opposite room, was standing at the door, looking towards the direction of the kitchen across half of the courtyard, staring at the back figure standing in front of the kitchen window, standing there for so long without moving away, blocking his sight, only Occasionally when Lu Jin walked away, he saw a figure passing by.

"Fuck-"

Before frying the pork ribs and fish, you need to fry tofu first. The tofu is first coated with a layer of cornstarch, and then coated with a layer of egg liquid. Put it in the oil pan for frying. When the sound of sizzling oil is heard, Lu Jin backs away. After a while, put the second pot of tofu into the pot.

Fried food is delicious, but if you accidentally splash it with oil when frying, it will hurt you to death!

The tofu cubes in the pot floated up, and Lu Jin stirred them with chopsticks to prevent the tofu cubes from sticking together. The tofu cubes were a little swollen when they were full of oil, and their appearance was slightly golden, which means they were fried.

He scooped up the fried tofu cubes with a colander.

He fried a lot of tofu just now, so he found a clean bowl and put it in a bowl, sprinkled some salt and pepper and a handful of shallots in it, and handed it to the person standing in front of the window looking at him, "Brother Liu, bring this to Go to the house over there for everyone to taste, the freshly fried ones are delicious. Be careful of being hot."

"Good!" Brother Liu took the bowl and carried it to the opposite room.

Soon the children's cheers could be heard from the room over there, among which Shen Xing and Chenchen from their family were the loudest.

Lu Jin glanced out through the window and saw the young man in white standing at the door of the house over there looking towards him. Their eyes met. He smiled at Shen Yu and waved to him.

But at the moment he is still busy, and after saying hello to someone, he continues to work on his work.

Shen Yuyu, who was standing opposite, turned away when Lu Jin waved to him.

After frying the tofu, Lu Jin put the ribs into the pot to fry. The ribs were fried once, and then fried again, so that the ribs were more crispy.After the ribs are fried, the fish is the last thing to be fried. The fish is coated with a layer of cornstarch and then a layer of egg liquid and then fried, so that the fried fish will be more delicious.

When all the dishes are ready, the cooking will be done soon.

One of the great advantages of cooking with a large stove is that the fire is large, and the cooking is fast. The dishes can be cooked in one pot and two stoves.

The mapo tofu was fried first, and the spicy aroma of pepper and meat permeated the whole kitchen and wafted outside.The second one is stir-fried meat with pickled cabbage. Stir-fry the meat first, take it out, put the sauerkraut in and fry for a while, then pour in the meat and stir-fry together.Let's have another fried tofu block, pour the fried tofu block into the prepared sauce, cover it and simmer for a while, then open the lid, scoop it out with a shovel, and sprinkle a handful of chopped green onion on it.

The scallion-flavored pork ribs have been marinated and have a taste. Sprinkle some shallots on top and serve it out.

Lu Jin didn't know that when he was cooking in the kitchen, the scent wafted from the yard of their house to the outside, and the members of the commune who came home from work at noon for lunch could smell the scent wafting from their house.