It was nothing to worry about. The two of them took their bowls and basins of rice and went to the dining table, waiting for Gu Zhao to bring the last dish.
Gu Zhao moved very quickly. He stir-fried the dish twice, then served it and brought it to the table.
"Okay! Let's eat quickly!" said Gu Zhao.
Tian Tian looked at the table full of food prepared by Gu Zhao and had been wanting to eat for a long time.
After getting married, Gu Zhao was busy. Usually he either came back from the canteen to get food or cooked some home-cooked meals. Later, when Tian Tian went to work, the two of them would go home after eating in the canteen. Sometimes Tian Tian went to Gu Zhao's canteen, and sometimes Gu Zhao went to Tian Tian's canteen. This could be considered as eating together at night.
After dinner, the two went home together. There was no need to cook and eat at home. Tian Tian took this opportunity to write all the lesson plans and prepare all the work for the next day. Then she sat down with Gu Zhao to chat and went out for a walk together in the evening.
Anyway, Gu Zhao hasn't cooked since Tian Tian went to work.
To be honest, although Tian Tian was married to Gu Zhao, she had only eaten the meals cooked by Gu Zhao a few times.
Before getting married, they went to Gu Zhao's house. Gu Zhao cooked a few times occasionally, but most of the meals were cooked by Gu Shuyun.
After getting married, Gu Zhao was busy with work and only occasionally cooked dinner at home. I don’t know about breakfast, he would buy it from outside or just make a simple bowl of noodles. For lunch, Tian Tian basically went out to make it herself.
Now that Gu Zhao had finally had a break and had time to cook at home, he naturally prepared a big table, and started putting all sorts of famous Northeastern dishes on the table from noon.
Although it was a bit exaggerated, after all, supplies were relatively scarce at that time, but Gu Zhao still tried his best to prepare a large table of dishes, such as the famous Northeastern dish Pan Bao Rou, and Braised Pork with Braised Pork. This was the season when the last batch of leeks could be eaten, so Gu Zhao made a plate of scrambled eggs with leeks.
Some time ago, Lin Meiyu and her friends sent over a package of wild produce, including mushrooms, black fungus and so on. Gu Zhao pieced together a dish of meat and vegetables fried with mushrooms, carrots and black fungus, the broth for stewing braised pork, and also fried a dish of vermicelli.
I don’t know how Gu Zhao cooked it, but the vermicelli was stewed very dry and chewy. It looked a bit like ants climbing a tree, but there was no minced meat in the vermicelli.
There is also a sweet dish of pine nut corn and three fresh vegetables.
Tian Tian had been here for such a long time, and she had only eaten sweet and sour pork in restaurants, but because she went to restaurants less often and pork was not available every day, she ate it less often. More than ten years had passed, and she could count the number of times she had eaten sweet and sour pork on one hand.
When Tian Tian saw the sweet and sour pork on the table, she wanted to put a bite of it immediately.
After Gu Zhao came to the table, he sorted out the dishes and brought the sweet and sour pork, the sweet corn with pine nuts, the three fresh vegetables that Tian Tian liked, and the dish of vermicelli stewed in meat broth that Tian Tian had been very interested in from the beginning, to Tian Tian.
Ladies' dishes are popular here, and all dishes with sweet taste are collectively called ladies' dishes. If a large table of people orders ladies' dishes, everyone will put the ladies' dishes in front of the ladies by default.
Most of the dishes for ladies are sweet. This is not because of gender discrimination, but because sugar was very precious at that time. Ladies also played an important role in labor construction. The number of female workers in Northeast China was not less than that of male workers. Everyone believed that sugar was very good for women's bodies and could nourish the body, so some sweet dishes were prepared, which were specially made for women.
And most of the time, ladies order first.
However, with the development of the times, there was no such thing as ladies' dishes anymore. The ladies' dishes made at this time became the must-order dishes in restaurants, suitable for all ages, and both adults and children like to eat them.
Tian Tian had eaten ladies' dishes once before, but at that time she was out with her classmates, both boys and girls. They booked a table of dishes at a state-owned restaurant, and the class monitor at the time, Xiang Baichuan, ordered a few ladies' dishes and put them for the female classmates.
The ladies' dish in that restaurant was cooked just right, with a sweet and sour taste but not too sweet. Overall, it had a sour, sweet and salty taste.
Tian Tian had a particularly deep impression. At that time, there was a plate of snow cotton bean paste on the table. Tian Tian had known that dish for a long time, but that was the first time Tian Tian had eaten it.
This dish is a test of the chef's skills, and not every chef can make it. Tian Tian tasted the snow-soft bean paste, which melted in her mouth. The bean paste inside was also very fresh, soft and sweet. She couldn't forget it after eating it once, so she went to the restaurant specially and ordered the snow-soft bean paste again.
It's a pity that although the dish is delicious, it's a bit too expensive, and the portion is small. I didn't feel anything in my stomach after eating it. Tian Tian felt a little pain in her stomach after eating it, so she rarely went to that restaurant and only went there to eat when she was really hungry.
"Okay, let's eat!" Gu Zhao said after all the dishes were placed in front of Tian Tian.
"Gu Zhao has worked hard today and prepared a large table of food for us. Let's both of us toast Gu Zhao first!" Tian Tian picked up the bottle of soda and said to Tian Zhuo.
I always felt that it would be a bit weird to cook a large table of food without something to drink, but drinking alcohol didn’t feel right either, so Tian Tian went to buy a few bottles of soda to serve as wine.
Tian Zhuo also cooperated and picked up the soda, "Thank you, brother-in-law, you have worked hard today, we will definitely try our best to eat all the food!"
Gu Zhao also raised his drink and clinked glasses with them. What is the happiest thing about being a cook? The happiest thing is that others like the food he cooks and eat it all up. Gu Zhao also knew Tian Zhuo since childhood, and he didn't want Tian Zhuo to be too restrained at home.
"Then the three of us have to work harder. If we can't finish this big table of food, it won't taste good if we cook it again." Gu Zhao was afraid that Tian Zhuo would feel embarrassed and eat more, so he advised, "You have to work harder to eat more. Your sister and I don't have much time to eat at home during work. If we can't finish today's meal, it will probably go bad by then!"
Tian Zhuo nodded. He would try to eat more. He was not as reserved as Gu Zhao imagined. If elders like Ge Huiyun were present, Tian Zhuo might be a little nervous.
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