Chapter 279 Soup
Qinhuai and Qin Luo were the car of a enthusiastic elder brother who was not known to Qinhuai in the next village. The elder brother lived in the city and opened a rice noodle shop.
Originally, my elder brother had to go back to the city to do business on the fifth and sixth day of the lunar month, but because of the Qin family's Sixi Tangtuan delivery, and the village next door was too close. It was so close that I didn’t need to drive and walk for 8 minutes. My elder brother had to spend the New Year in the village in order to eat Sixi Tangtuan, so he could only get the qualification to travel to the city on the 16th morning.
This competition is very fierce.
I don’t know what happened in the morning, but many people in Qinjia Village and several nearby villages were inexplicably driving to the city.
"Master Xiao Qin, just send it here, right?" The eldest brother parked the car at the door of a well-known tea shop in the city.
"Yes, thank you Brother Liu. Let's add a WeChat message. Next time I go back to the village, I will tell you that you will come to my house for snacks when you have time." Qin Huai said with a smile, exchanged WeChat messages with Brother Liu, and led Luo Luo into the tea shop. .
Qin Luo couldn't figure out the situation and asked stupidly: "Brother, it turns out that Grandma Cao's house runs a tea shop."
"What kind of tea shops do we have to eat without hands, we have to bring something."
"Why don't you bring fruits? There are still a lot of fruits at home, and my grandparents can't finish them." Qin Luo asked again.
"It's so insincere to buy fruits. You have to bring tea when you go to the house of a master like Master Cao." After that, Qin Huai started to look at the store.
A middle-aged woman sat behind the counter. Seeing Qin Huai and Qin Luo coming in, two young men did not even raise their eyelids, and continued to play with their phones.
Qin Huai walked around and found that although he had drunk a lot of tea in Huang Ji's kitchen, he didn't understand tea at all and couldn't understand tea.
What he knows best is actually hand-made lemon tea.
Professional matters must be left to professionals. Qin Huai made no hesitation and called Tan Wei'an's video call.
The video call was answered almost instantly. Tan Wei'an was walking to Zhiweiju to work. When he saw Qin Huai asking for help, he asked about the general needs. He helped Qin Huai to pick two cans of tea remotely, and also helped Qin Huai bargain.
Finally, I told Qin Huai that if he wanted to buy tea, he had a lot of resources here. There are teas at auction levels ranging from a few dollars to tens of thousands of dollars, to auction-level tea, with a large supply of goods and guaranteed.
Qin Huai was very happy and said that he would contact Tan Wei'an as soon as possible if he had such a need next time. By the way, Tan Wei'an would like to buy two boxes of tea that he often made for him when he was in Huang Ji.
Very needed.
Every sip of tea I drink during the Chinese New Year in Qinhuai doesn’t taste the same, and I always feel it’s strange.
After buying the tea, Qin Huai took Qin Luo to the community where Cao Guixiang's house was.
Cao Guixiang lives in an old community, with no shopping malls next to it, and the location is not prosperous, but it is a school district house, which makes it convenient for children to go to school, and there are parks and vegetable markets. You can feel the atmosphere of life just by getting close to it.
The gateways of the community are basically not checked, and the doors for pedestrians are directly open. The security guard sits in the security booth and plays with his mobile phone. The leisurely work makes people yearn for it.
Qinhuai found Cao Guixiang's house based on the address. The unit door was also open. I don't know if it was deliberately opened during the day or it was broken at all. Qin Huai and Qin Luo walked to Cao Guixiang's door, and Qin Huai raised his hand to knock on the door.
Before knocking on the door, Qin Huai asked Qin Luo: "Luoluo, do you know what you are going to do when you enter the door later?"
"I know, call Grandma Cao first, then call Grandma Zhang. The voice of Grandma Cao must be bigger than Grandpa Zhang, which highlights the importance and respect for Grandma Cao."
Qin Huai nodded with satisfaction and knocked on the door.
The one who opened the door was Zhang Chu.
"Xiao Qin is here, this is Luoluo. I have an impression of that girl quarreling with Zhang Zhiyun on the sixth day of the lunar calendar. Before Zhang Zhiyun got off school, his father went to school to pick him up. Yunyun heard that you were coming. I was happy. I had been pestering his grandma since yesterday and insisting on making some specialties." Zhang Chu said with a smile.
"Hello Grandpa Zhang." Qin Luo Chao said hello politely. It would be even more polite if there was a smile on his face instead of a confused and excited expression, but this could not be blamed entirely on her.
It's so delicious!
From the moment Qin Huai and Qin Luo entered the door, a wonderful and intoxicating fragrance that hits the soul penetrated into their noses and hits their brains.
Not to mention that Qin Luo cannot be described, it is difficult for Qin Huai to describe this fragrance.
This is a smell that has never been smelled before, but it is obviously the aroma of the dish. Qinhuai smells it a bit like the fragrance of the stock, the very mellow aroma of the chicken stock and pork stock.
The soup was hung by Qinhuai, and Qinhuai also smelled a lot of the fragrance of the soup when he was in Huang Ji's kitchen.
Not so rich.
Qin Huai and Qin Luo swallowed a saliva almost unconsciously at the same time.
After taking a few deep breaths, Qin Huai came to his senses and began to look at the decoration of Cao Guixiang's house.
It is a very simple and simple homely decoration. Almost all the house is made of wooden furniture. The leather sofa looks a bit old and the leather is a bit faded. The TV is not big, it looks like I bought it many years ago and is playing news.
There are a few dolls on the sofa that you can tell at a glance were picked up from the doll machine, there are a few winter vacation homework for elementary school students that have been stored for many years under the coffee table, and there are some CDs and discs on the TV cabinet.
There is a family photo hanging on the wall. In the photo, Zhang Zhiyun should be taken three or four years ago. Zhang Zhiyun and Cao Guixiang's granddaughter Chang Qingqing stood in the C position, and the two children were smiling very happily. Yahuazi almost laughed and looked stupid.
Qin Huai sent tea, but Zhang Chu accepted it without much thought, and asked Qin Huai and Qin Luo to sit on the sofa for a while before he went to make tea.
Before the paper cup was taken out, Cao Guixiang's voice came from the kitchen: "Is it Xiao Qin here? Xiao Qin, do you come to the kitchen to help me with your time?"
"Yes!" Qin Huai said quickly, got up and pushed the door into the kitchen.
As soon as he entered the kitchen, Qin Huai was shocked again.
The kitchen is more fragrant.
But flavor is not the focus, food is the focus.
The kitchen of Cao Guixiang’s house is slightly larger than that of ordinary people, but it is only slightly larger, not as exaggerated as the kitchen of Zheng Da’s house.
In the limited space, Cao Guixiang applied the kitchen to the extreme.
There are three stoves in the kitchen, and three pots on the three stoves, and each pot has dishes.
The cooking counter is full of all the ingredients, all neatly placed in a small bowl. The seasonings are placed on a special seasoning rack, the knives are arranged in a regular manner on the tool rack, the plates are placed on the storage rack, and the untreated vegetables are placed on the vegetable rack.
Just looking at the kitchen, you know that the person in charge of cooking in this home must be a professional chef.
Cao Guixiang was slapping garlic. When she saw Qin Huai coming in, she signaled him to bring the kitchen door.
"Xiao Qin, I cook a lot of dishes today. Sankouguo is a little too busy to do it alone. Then I ask you to help you hand over the things you want." Cao Guixiang put on her sleeves, tied her hair up, and tied her body. The red apron looks like an ordinary housewife at first glance.
If Qinhuai didn't see the warm broth on the cooking table, Cao Guixiang would be more ordinary.
Qin Huai couldn't take his eyes off at all, and he wanted to rush up and taste the salty taste now.
To be honest, he really wanted to borrow two bowls of chicken soup from Cao Guixiang to cook the longevity noodles and try to cook the longevity noodles to level A.
Cao Guixiang noticed that Qin Huai had been staring at the broth and asked, "Xiao Qin, can you hang broth?"
"No...it's a little bit." Qin Huai didn't know how to describe his soup hanging skills.
If you want to say no, Qinhuai actually drank broth. When Huang Shengli was still teaching him online through video, Qinhuai was drank broth every day.
But if you want to say it, compared with the broth that Qin Huai hangs himself, compared with the broth in the kitchen now... that thing may not be called soup, that thing is soup.
Cao Guixiang smiled and said she understood.
"The old branch secretary should have told you about my relationship with your Grandpa Zhang?" Cao Guixiang opened the lid of the second pot, put it in, smelled the smell and covered it again, and then turned off the heat for the third pot.
Qin Huai didn't know what dishes Cao Guixiang was cooking at all. He just felt that they looked amazing and smelled very fragrant, and his eyes were not enough to see.
"I said that you and Grandpa Zhang were both educated youths from Peking, and they didn't return to the city back then, so they have been with us for so many years. The old branch secretary also told me that you seemed to be in Peking before. It is a very famous restaurant where you work, called Yong…yong…”
"Yongheju." Cao Guixiang said, picked up the soup spoon and scooped half a spoon from the stew pot containing the soup, and handed the soup spoon to Qinhuai, "Try it, this is chicken soup."
Qin Huai was flattered and took the spoon and tasted it carefully.
fresh!
Too fresh!
The old hens in Qinjia Village, I'm sorry, I cooked you into such ordinary chicken soup and you have died in vain this year.
"Can you taste what I added to the soup?" Cao Guixiang asked.
Qin Huai licked a little lightly again. He dangled the broth and also saw Huang Shengli and Huang Jia dang broth. He knew what ingredients should be added to normal chicken broth.
Since Cao Guixiang asked this, there must be some unusual ingredients in this broth.
No mistakes, one song, one content, one in 6, one book, one bar, one reading!
"Dried scallops, ham, mushrooms, pork bones..."
Qin Huai said a few things that can be tasted at once, and it can be guessed without having to taste them. He didn't know how to drink a small sip and a small sip.
It's finished drinking.
A total of only half a spoonful.
Qin Huai was so nervous that he was sweating a little.
"It seems there are... pigeons?"
"What else?" Cao Guixiang continued.
Seeing that I was right, Qin Huai was even more confident: "There should be longan meat, but I don't know what the longan meat will taste like when cooking soup. This is what I guess. I heard Master Huang say before that some chicken soup needs Add longan meat.”
"Why do you guess longan meat?"
"Because I have drunk a lot of chicken broth by Master Huang, the taste is a little different from yours, your taste is obviously richer and more mellow. I must have added some more ingredients, so I guess it may be longan meat. ”
Cao Guixiang nodded with a smile: "That's right, it's almost the same. Xiao Qin, although you are not good at knife skills and fire skills, and your basic knowledge is not broad enough, you are very smart."
Qin Huai thought Cao Guixiang was praising herself, and Master Cao said that he was praising herself.
"My master is the successor of Tanjiacai." Cao Guixiang suddenly began to introduce herself, "There are many big and good dishes in Tanjiacai, all of which are soup dishes, so the first thing you need to practice when learning Tanjiacai is to practice soup."
"Practicing hanging soup is actually practicing fireworks."
"I want to make the dishes well. It is not enough to have a pot of good soup. Knife skills are also very important. Knife skills are not simply chopping and cutting the vegetables well, chopping them into shredded meat, minced meat, cut them into pieces, and slice them. ”
"The knife skills actually make the ingredients more suitable for this dish, so that the ingredients can be absorbed better, and can be fully cooked."
"So knife skills are the basic skills. Every chef practices knife skills at the beginning. He has to learn how to cut vegetables before he can learn how to cook."
"Whether it is a chef in the Bai Cen or a chef in the Hong Cen need to practice knife skills. The process of practicing knife skills is to understand the ingredients. Knowing yourself and your enemy, you will never be defeated. If the chef does not even understand the ingredients enough, how can he cook them well?"
Qin Huai nodded with deep emotion. In fact, he had never thought that knife skills were particularly important before, especially on the white table.
But last time Cao Guixiang chopped some meat filling and chopped Sixi Tangtuo to level A. Qin Huai realized that it was not that the skill of the knife was not important, but that he had never seen any important skill of the knife.
Cao Guixiang continued: "You have a good tongue. Without systematic study, good basic skills, and learning from famous teachers since childhood, you can rely on your tongue, experience and guesses to make a new one. The raw materials of the broth are quite similar."
"If you had been born forty years, and you would have been discovered by my master when you went to Yongheju like me to steal food, my master would have chased you into your house and taken you as a closed disciple."
"If I were 30 years younger, I would definitely be shameless and report myself to my family, brag about the history of our Tan Family Cooking, and then accept you as your disciple."
"But you no longer need a master now. I, an old lady who has been retired for many years, don't have the time and energy to accept apprentices."
"But I can at least help you where I do best."
"Your knife skills are really bad, just like an apprentice who just went into the kitchen to do odd jobs. The apprentice's knife skills may be better than you. Back then, many apprentices in Yongheju also helped cut vegetables at home since childhood. of."
"Didn't your Master Huang and Master Zheng think about taking you to practice knife skills?"
Qin Huai felt that he needed to help Huang Shengli and Zheng Da defend: "Maybe because I have too many things to learn, Master Huang and Master Zheng didn't have time to teach me the sword skills."
"I heard that you are running a community canteen in Shan City now, so I guess you don't have much time to stay here to practice basic skills."
"But you are also a mature chef, and you don't need to start from scratch like an apprentice."
"Your Master Huang took online classes with you before, right?"
Qin Huai nodded: "Yes, I took online classes for a while first, and I will go to Gusu to exchange and learn offline teaching."
"Then I may have to do the other way around. You have to study with me for a few days before you can take online classes."
"I asked my Lao Zhang to make 6 cutting boards for you. If you cut all the 6 cutting boards into pieces, your knife skills will be ready."
Qin Huai was confused.
Master Cao took the initiative to make Xiao Qin not know what to say for a moment, so he could only open his mouth slightly and say:
"ah?"
In a place that Qinhuai could not see, Cao Guixiang turned her back and cursed herself silently in annoyance.
‘Cao Guixiang, Cao Guixiang, didn’t you compile all the lyrics last night? Why did you forget all of your words today? What did you say just now? ’
‘Xiao Qin wouldn’t think you are an old lady with a bad brain, right? ’
Cao Guixiang grinned and regretted for two seconds, and came up with a wonderful way to remedy it.
Cao Guixiang walked to the innermost part and never lifted the cover from beginning to end. She had already started simmering in low heat since the early morning of this morning, and had been in front of the braised shark fin that had been stuffed for at least 9 hours.
Removing the cover.
The fragrance ripples everywhere.
Cao Guixiang looked at Qin Huai with a smile, just like when her master wanted to accept her as his disciple and looked at her with a smile, she said the same words.
"Our Tan family food is delicious."
"Are you interested in learning?"
(End of this chapter)
