Chapter 403(1/2)
When grandma entered the kitchen, she realized that she had blamed three little girls wrongly.
The kitchen is very quiet today. The three little girls did not open up and kept nagging to their father Feng, but instead focused on watching father Feng cook.
Feng Yifan was cooking while explaining to his apprentice Lin Ruifeng.
So when Feng Ruoruo led his friends in, he happened to see his father teaching Uncle Xiaolin.
The three little girls thought that Father Feng was very interesting in class, so they simply stayed to listen carefully.
As a result, because I was listening to the class, I naturally forgot about what needed to be passed on the menu.
Feng Yifan taught Lin Ruifeng how to slaughter eels, and some of the processes of how to change the knife of eels.
Before the daughters came back, Feng Yifan had demonstrated two ways to slaughter eels to Lin Ruifeng.
One of them is naturally very bloody, and requires bleeding first and then disintegrating the belly.
Although the second type is not so bloody, the process is actually equally cruel. It is to burn the eels to death in a boiling pot. During the blanching process, cooking wine and green onion and ginger should be added to the boiling water pot.
This way, remove some of the odors of the eels during blanching.
No matter which slaughter method is, it is not suitable for little girls to watch, so Feng Yifan finished the demonstration to his apprentice before his daughter came back.
At this time, Feng Yifan was demonstrating to his apprentice how to change the eel.
"Did you see this? This bamboo stick knife is a must-have tool for us. Because the meat of these blanched eels is very delicate and must not be cut with metal knives. This will destroy the eels and lead to deviations in shape and taste."
As he said that, Feng Yifan pinched out an eel and pierced the entire eel with a bamboo stick knife.
The eels were broken from it, and after they were divided into two, the complete eel spine in the middle was removed.
"Look, take a knife from here, then cut it like this, and then hold it like this. After taking a knife, it will be the end all at once. Look, this complete bone will separate out."
Lin Ruifeng looked at it very seriously and didn't even dare to show off his anger. He came to the master and looked very carefully.
Feng Ruoru, Yang Xiaoxi and Chen Yaofei also stretched their heads, and wanted to take a closer look.
When Lu Cuiling saw this situation, she hurried over and reached out to hold the three little girls: "Oh, okay, what's so good about this fish killing process? If you watch it, you will be scared at night, and then you three will not be able to sleep well."
Feng Ruoruo was stopped by his grandmother and refused to let go.
"No, Grandma, Xixi and Feifei want to see it, Grandma, don't pull me, let Ruruo take a look."
My daughter's yelled, naturally alarmed everyone in the kitchen.
When Zhao Daxia heard the movement, she also leaned into the water room outside. When she saw the situation in the room, she smiled and said, "Actually, you can see that there is nothing wrong with this. If you come back early and see your father killing eels, that would really make you three dare not sleep at night."
When Feng Ruoru heard Aunt Zhao's words, he turned his head and curled his lips and said, "Auntie, you are so bad that you want to scare us so that we can't sleep at night."
Zhao Daxia smiled and said, "Isn't this what you want to see yourself? How can you blame the aunt?"
Yang Xiaoxi immediately said: "We don't want to watch what scares the child. We have to see how Dad Feng cooks."
Chen Yaofei also said, "Yes, we have to see how Father Feng cooks."
Seeing that he couldn't hold back the three little girls, Lu Cuiling had to wave the menu in her hand: "Look at it, what's in grandma's hand?"
When they saw the menu, the three little girls exclaimed almost in unison.
"Oh, we forgot to pass the menu."
Lu Cuiling put down the menu and said, "Look, if grandma didn't send it in in time, how could dad do business? So should you three go out quickly?"
Grandma's words were obviously very effective. Almost instantly, the three little girls shouted that they wanted to go out.
As for the process of father Feng teaching Uncle Xiaolin to make eels, the little girls are no longer interested.
Seeing the three little girls being coaxed out, a smile suddenly appeared on Lin Ruifeng's face, thinking that the three little girls were really interesting.
But seeing his smile, Feng Yifan said seriously: "You are still laughing, are you paying attention to what I teach?"
Lin Ruifeng immediately restrained his smile, quickly lowered his head and said humbly: "Master, I must take a look at it seriously."
Next, Feng Yifan stabbed the eel under the head with a bamboo stick knife, then stroked the eel's spine inside and directly to the tail, and cut the eel into its complete section.
Although Lin Ruifeng has seen this process many times, this is the first time he has seen his master demonstrated so carefully.
After cutting the eel, Feng Yifan seized the time to explain to his apprentice.
"Did you see it? The completely black one here is the back, and then the other side of the spine inside is pressed down on the other side of the spine, and the spine is completely removed. In this way, an eel is divided into three parts. The bones are used to make soup, the back is necessary to make eel back dishes, and the abdomen is used to make abdomen dishes."
Feng Yifan took this time to take a look at the menu, and then directly asked to take the apprentice exam.
"Take a test of what dishes can be made of eel back?"
Lin Ruifeng also immediately said: "There are stir-fried tiger tails, pot stickers, and fried soft pockets..."
When his apprentice said that he used eel backs to make dishes, Feng Yifan nodded with satisfaction.
"In fact, in the past, the eel back was only used, but later it was not so particular, so this method of direct scalding can best separate the eel back and abdomen."
While talking, Feng Yifan took another kind of slaughtered eel.
"Today's main dish: stewed raw, you can't use the method of scalding. You must use the method of bloodletting and caesarean section that I gave you before, and you must remember to clean up the bones.
You see, after getting such a complete eel, spread it out, and then gently tap it with the back of a knife or a small wooden hammer, this is the stewed and knocked in it."
Lin Ruifeng nodded and watched carefully as the master gently tapped the eel from the inside with the back of the knife.
"Don't be afraid to use force. You can put a little more effort. Remember to make the eel meat beaten up, but you must not break the skin. Take it slowly and be patient."
After beating for a while, Feng Yifan asked Lin Ruifeng to learn how to do it, and he turned on the stove and sat on the pot.
Although Feng Yifan had done some of it in advance in order to save time, he was still taking all the steps.
On the one hand, we need to let the apprentice see clearly, and on the other hand, it is because many people ordered it, and they still need to take over one pot of success.
First, pour in the bottom oil into the pot, then add onion, ginger and seasoning to stir-fry, then put in the pork belly cut into a flower knife.
"Look, this step requires stir-frying out the fat of the pork belly with high heat."
Seeing the pork belly in the pot being stir-fried and the oil being constantly forced out, Lin Ruifeng also wrote it down very seriously.
After stir-frying for a while, Feng Yifan added yellow mayonnaise and soy sauce to the pot for seasoning. After stir-frying, the broth should be infused, and then the pre-fried eel segments and the fairy eggs should be boiled together. Add salt, sugar and pepper to season, and then stew it in the pot and finish the sauce.
When the soup starts to be sticky, transfer the steamer's stew to a casserole.
First pick out the eel segments and place them in a casserole with oil on the bottom, then place the pork belly around, and the outermost part is the fairy egg. Finally, filter the soup and pour it into the casserole.
Turn on the heat and boil the casserole, then place the minced garlic on the eel section and sprinkle with hot oil to let the minced garlic smell come out.
As soon as the fragrance comes out, quickly cover the lid of the casserole, and then you need to stew in the casserole for a while.
During this stewing process, Feng Yifan also made full use of his time to make some other dishes on the diners' menu.
In this way, when the other dishes are basically prepared, the stewed and beaten is finally done.
Uncover the lid of the casserole, and the fragrance instantly wafted out, and a rich fragrance filled the entire kitchen.
Even Zhao Daxia smelled it and couldn't help but exclaim: "Wow, this one is really fragrant."
After Feng Yifan finally sprinkled with fine chopped green onions, the stewed pot was completed.
The residual heat of the casserole is still stewing, and the soup in the pot is gusting, the eel section in the middle, the pork belly next to it, and the fairy eggs in the outermost circle really form a rosy and attractive pot.
With the addition of chopped green onion and garlic, people want to have a feast immediately.
Feng Yifan closed the lid of the casserole again and patted his apprentice in a daze: "Okay, hurry up and serve the food in front. It has been delayed for a long time. When you come back after serving, you can continue the steps later."
Lin Ruifeng suddenly woke up and quickly put the dishes on the tray as they were, then took the tray out to serve the dishes.
At this moment, in the restaurant ahead, all the diners were waiting patiently.
Then, while waiting, some diners were chatting.
There were diners who were curious about asking the boss Su Ruoxi because the door was not opened on Children's Day.
"Boss, why didn't you open the door yesterday on Children's Day?"
"Yes, I said yesterday that I was bringing the kids to eat."
"No, I didn't eat yesterday, so today my child comes to make up for it after school."
Feng Ruoru quickly helped his mother answer: "Yesterday was Children's Day. There were programs in Ruoru's kindergarten. Both his father and mother had to participate in games, so no one was cooking, so the door was not opened."
And a table came over last night and saw the diners who were celebrating someone’s birthday. Then, he said, “I heard that yesterday was the birthday of our little boss Feng Ruoruo?”
Feng Ruoru nodded with a smile: "Yes, yesterday was Ruoru's birthday."
The diners then asked, "Did Ruoru eat cake yesterday?"
Feng Ruoru immediately said: "I'll eat it. Yesterday's cake was made by my father and two of my good friends, Xixi and Feifei, for Ruoru. It's a big castle cake."
While speaking, the little girl opened her arms wide and made a big move.
When the diners saw the little girl's movements, they all laughed immediately, thinking that the little girl told everyone that it was really interesting and cute.
The boss lady Su Ruoxi couldn't get into the conversation at all, so she could only watch her daughter talking.
When his daughter was talking, Su Ruoxi also recorded another menu and waved to her daughter: "Boss Ruoruo, you are going to deliver the menu to your father."
Feng Ruoruo jumped happily to her mother and reached out to take the menu on her mother's hand.
As soon as Feng Ruoruo took the menu, Lin Ruifeng brought out the first table of dishes from it.
To be continued...