In an age when having enough food to eat is a problem, the best way to cook pork belly is to make it into braised pork.
We couldn't make a few pieces of pork belly from half a pound, so there wasn't much left. Fortunately, there were plenty of mushrooms, and the mushroom sauce was no worse than the meat.
Gu Xiufang was feeling sick because she hadn't eaten food made with ginger and jujube for several days.
"Let me help you. What kind of mushrooms should I use?"
Jiang Zao took a look and said, "Small gray mushrooms, potato mushrooms are used to stew chicken."
"Potato mushrooms have a more elastic texture and are very meaty. They're not as flavorful for making mushroom sauce, but they're perfect for stewing chicken. Even if you stew them with chicken for an hour or so, it won't feel like too long."
Gu Xiufang felt that what Jiang Zao said made sense: "You make the braised pork first, I'll wash the mushrooms."
The mushrooms picked up from the woods were covered with mud, leaves, and grass needles. There were many wrinkles inside the mushrooms and they needed to be cleaned thoroughly. Gu Xiufang found a large red basin, poured the mushrooms into it, added a large basin of clean water, and sat by the basin to scrub them one by one.
Throw the washed ones into a clean aluminum basin next to it, and rinse them several times to keep them clean without any mud or sand.
Jiang Zao took out the pork belly, heated the pan, put the pork belly skin on it and seared it, rubbed the pink skin with the hot pan, and the extremely high temperature made the surface of the skin brown, with small white dots.
When you think it's almost done, pick up the meat with ginger and jujube and put it in water to clean it. Use a knife to scrape off the top layer of skin. This step can remove the fishy smell.
Cut the processed meat into even-sized cubes and prepare to heat oil in a pan to stew the meat.
The sugar color of braised pork is very important. The sugar color fried with ginger and dates is thick and easy to color, and has no bitter taste. Gu Xiufang followed and learned from the master, but she could not master the technique.
In summary, the feel is different.
The touch of her beloved daughter-in-law is incomparable to that of ordinary people.
But it's also true that if everyone could have such an amazing touch, everyone could win first place in the cooking competition.
I felt that there was still not enough ginger and dates in the braised pork pot, so I boiled seven or eight eggs in another pot and put them in the meat pot to stew later.
Eggs are considered half a meat dish, and they can satisfy your appetite by adding the flavor of meat.
After boiling the eggs, put them in cold water to cool down, then peel them later. Next, make the mushroom sauce. The mushroom sauce is relatively simple. Chop them and blanch them in water, then squeeze out the water. Then fry the soybean paste. Fry the soybean paste with meat oil to bring out the aroma of the sauce. When it is almost fried, add the mushrooms.
It was time for dinner, but Xiao Ye'an and Xiao Yetong were too embarrassed to sit at the table and eat.
On average, everyone was given a piece of meat and an egg. Chen Hui tasted Jiang Zao's cooking for the first time and was so amazed that he opened his eyes wide and couldn't help but give a thumbs up: "Professor, you are so lucky! Your sister-in-law's cooking is amazing!"
"This is the first time I've eaten such delicious braised pork. It's tender and tender yet not greasy. It's better than the one my mom cooks."
"The mushroom sauce is good too. It's really delicious."
The three children were not very good at using chopsticks to pick up eggs, as they were slippery. Jiang Zao used chopsticks to poke the eggs for them. They bit through the egg skin and ate them bit by bit with the braised pork soup in the bowl.
Little An An couldn't help making "Mmmm" sounds while eating. Egg crumbs fell on the table and he picked them up with his fingers and stuffed them into his mouth. Don't look at his young age, the idea of respecting food is engraved in his bones!
Xiao Yetong ate carefully. After finishing the eggs, she went to eat the braised pork. The skin fell off when she bit it. The fat and lean meat were eaten together. There was no meat more delicious than this!
I want to see it eat so much that it becomes a little cat, with its little feet dangling.
Jiang Zao wiped the corner of her mouth from time to time, wanting to show her teeth and smile at her: "Thank you, auntie."
Xiao Wensheng was jealous and couldn't help but regret not divorcing Huo Xiaoman earlier, as he wished Huo Xiaoman had suffered so much.
It was dinner time. Ding Qiu came here to pick up her children after cooking. When she entered the house, she saw her two children eating here. She originally wanted to take advantage of them, but Gu Xiufang and Xiao Chengda were not divorced at that time. Now that they are divorced, she felt a little embarrassed that her children were taking advantage of her.
Xiao Ye'an ate slowly, leaving a piece of braised pork unfinished. He said happily, "Grandma and Auntie gave me meat to eat, and also bought me a pencil case, exercise books, pencils and erasers! And colored pens!"
The colored pens are watercolor pens, which Jiang Zao and Xiao Shuisheng bought when they went to the department store later.
Well, if you calculate it, each child would cost a few yuan, which is half a month's salary for Jiang Zao. Ding Qiu felt particularly embarrassed: "Tell me... why are you spending money on them? Children don't understand anything."
"You two, too. You come here every day to eat for free. Aren't you annoying?"
Xiao Yetong and Xiao Ye'an lowered their heads and stopped talking.
Jiang Zao didn't care much about eating a few bites of food: "It doesn't cost much for the children to eat a few bites. They can eat their fill here. Auntie, you should go home and eat too."
Jiang Zao is sensible and generous, and is Jiang Shan's cousin.
Since they both have the same surname, Jiang, Ding Qiu couldn't help but compare them.
No matter how you look at it, Jiang Shan is much worse than Jiang Zao.
Xiao Yetong knew her grandmother's worries. She often scolded her stepmother for not being as good as Aunt Jiang Zao. She pretended to be innocent and said, "Grandma, my aunt won first place this time. She's amazing!"
Who doesn’t care about face?
Ding Qiu also wanted to go out and tell everyone how awesome his daughter-in-law was.
She only has this one son, and she has no chance to brag about him at all. What can she say if she goes out?
She said that her daughter-in-law died, and she married another one who was lazy, greedy and good-for-nothing?
Upon hearing that Jiang Zao won first place, Ding Qiu became even more annoyed with Jiang Shan and looked down on her even more.
When Jiang Zao heard what Xiao Yetong said, she thought of the ending of Xiao Mingsheng's original second wife in her previous life, who was kicked out of the house by her and then died of domestic violence. She realized that the child was not talking casually. She knew that if she said that, Ding Qiu would compare her with Jiang Shan, so she became angry with Jiang Shan.
He is young, but really amazing.
Jiang Zao would feel pity for anyone else, except Jiang Shan. Sorry, he doesn't have any extra kindness to give her.
Ding Qiu felt uncomfortable standing there and watching them eat, so he turned around and went home.
Feng Miao helps take care of the children every day. When Jiang Shan is on vacation, she sends the children back to rest for two days. Jiang Shan didn't have to do laundry before she got married, but suddenly she had more children to take care of and looked much more haggard.
Seeing Ding Qiu come back and not see the children, he angrily said, "Where are those two damn kids? They didn't even come back at dinner time. Are they going to let the whole family starve with them?"
After saying that, she started crying in her arms.
The baby, who was a few months old, could not speak, and her way of expressing unhappiness and discomfort was to cry. She opened her mouth and cried loudly, and Jiang Shan's ears hurt.
She didn't know why the child was crying. His diaper wasn't wet, and he had just been fed. Everything was fine. But he just kept crying and wouldn't stop.
Ding Qiu saw that she didn't care about either of them and thought Jiang Shan was really a piece of shit: "You keep talking about killing your children. You didn't give birth to them. Everyone knows that those two children are pitiful and should lend a hand. You're the only one who can't stand this one and that one!"
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