Chapter 398: A Bit of a Brain Trouble
Tomorrow will be the time for Daliang officials to go on duty. No matter how special Shen Huazheng is, she cannot be absent on the first day.
Although going on duty doesn't require getting up before dawn like the morning court or the grand court meeting, you still have to prepare well.
Zhou Ying and Princess Lejia did not stay long and went back after having afternoon tea.
Some space must be left for Chen Huazheng to prepare the things she will take to the government office tomorrow.
Although Zhou Ying and Princess Lejia were not court officials, they understood some things.
Tomorrow is the first day of duty in the new year. As the highest official of the Shanglin Bureau, Shen Huazheng may have to assign some work to his subordinates.
This work may be related to the entire year ahead, or it may just be a small goal for one quarter.
But these are not something that can be thought up out of thin air.
They can't occupy all of Shen Huazheng's time and affect her work at the Shanglin Office, which is related to her career.
Don't be careless.
After Zhou Ying and Princess Lejia left, Chen Huazheng did not start racking her brains to think about the work tasks for the Forestry Bureau in the new year as they had expected. Instead, she picked up a storybook and read it while thinking about what to eat tonight.
Although tomorrow is the first day of work in the new year, Shen Huazheng really has nothing to prepare.
Qingzhi Qingtang had already prepared all the necessary things for tomorrow, including the court robes, and nothing else.
Just the same as usual.
As for the so-called New Year's work tasks, Shen Huazheng had already thought about them, and had even discussed them with Mr. Huang before the New Year.
Just waiting for the annual holiday to end and then assigning various tasks.
Besides, the Shanghai Forestry Bureau had already exceeded its target last year.
Under normal circumstances, various plans for this year could be slowed down a bit.
However, as an upright and motivated Daliang official, Shen Huazheng had no intention of taking the opportunity to slack off.
As long as she is working, her attitude is absolutely serious and correct.
Although we have exceeded our targets last year, the work of the Forestry Bureau will still proceed as planned this year, but there is no need to rush.
While it's not too busy yet, Shen Huazheng wants to make more delicious food.
Although she opened the storybook, her mind was not on it at all.
Instead, I was thinking about what to eat tonight.
Recently I have gotten used to having warm meals with soup for dinner.
When Shen Huazheng was thinking about what to eat for dinner, she naturally thought in that direction.
I ate some sweet and sticky candy in the afternoon and I wanted to eat something sour in the evening.
What kind of food is sour and comes with soup?
Making and tasting delicious food is a very enjoyable thing, but thinking about what to eat is a bit painful.
It's a bit brain-consuming.
Suddenly, Shen Huazheng's eyes lit up. Got it! !
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Chen Huazheng came to the kitchen and asked someone to bring fresh beef, enoki mushrooms, tomatoes, lettuce, rice noodles and other ingredients.
She asked someone to cut the beef into thin slices, then put the beef into a large bowl, beat in egg liquid, and mix well with her hands.
When grabbing and mixing the beef, Shen Huazheng would beat it a few times from time to time to make the beef taste smoother.
After the beef and egg liquid in the bowl were completely blended together, she dropped a little peanut oil into the bowl and simply stirred it a few times.
This will prevent the beef from sticking and will lock in the moisture in the meat.
While Shen Huazheng was mixing the beef, the other people in the kitchen were not idle either.
Use a knife to make a cross on the tomato skin, blanch it with boiling water, easily peel off the outer layer of skin, and then cut it into small cubes with a knife.
The cook also cut the pickled radish into shreds and processed the enoki mushrooms and lettuce.
Qingtang couldn't help but ask, "County Master, what are we going to do today?"
Chen Huazheng: "I'm going to make sour soup beef rice noodles today."
The beef rice noodles in sour soup are both sour and soupy.
It is delicious and nutritious, and you will feel warm all over after eating it.
Perfectly meets all requirements.
In sour soup beef rice noodles, besides the ingredients, the most important thing is the preparation of the sour soup.
Chen Huazheng asked someone to light a pot and add an appropriate amount of oil into it.
When the oil in the pan starts to smoke, add a little minced garlic and sauté until fragrant.
After smelling the fragrance, Shen Huazheng took the diced tomatoes handed over by Qingzhi, poured them into the pot, and fried them to release the juice.
Then pour in a large bowl of hot water and start seasoning.
She added a little salt to the pot and a little sugar to enhance the flavor.
The pickled radish that has been cut into thin strips is also poured into the pot.
Among the Shen family, only Shen Keheng could eat spicy food, so Shen Huazheng only added a little chili sauce to the pot.
All the seasonings needed for sour soup have been put into the pot and start to cook.
Shen Huazheng had been standing by and staring at the pot. She had a little method she had figured out on her own.
Put the ingredients in the order in which the sour soup in the pot boils, and the sour soup beef rice noodles will taste better.
When the soup in the pot boiled for the first time, Shen Huazheng put lettuce leaves and enoki mushrooms into the pot.
When the sour soup boils again, add the rice noodles.
During the cooking process, she also stirred it from time to time with long chopsticks to prevent the rice noodles from sticking to the bottom of the pot.
When the sour soup boiled for the third time, Shen Huazheng sprinkled the marinated beef slices evenly into the pot, silently counting ten in her mind, and the beef was cooked.
She sprinkled coriander into the pot and asked someone to take the pot off the heat.
After taking the dish out of the pot, the sour soup was still bubbling. The sour and spicy aroma and the complex aroma of the ingredients slowly spread in the air, making everyone in the kitchen drool.
Oh my god, this sour and spicy taste smells so appetizing.
Wow, every time the county princess cooks, she always makes people cry with hunger.
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Since the holiday ended today, the Shen family had dinner earlier than in previous days.
Tomorrow morning, everyone in the Shen family will have to go to work, some will go to school, and some will take care of business.
If you finish your dinner early today, you can go about your own business earlier.
In the side hall of the Shen Mansion, everyone in the Shen family was sitting at the dining table.
Maids came in one after another carrying trays and placed large bowls in front of everyone.
White rice noodles, emerald green lettuce and coriander, red diced tomatoes, yellow enoki mushrooms, and brown beef.
There is also bright red chili oil floating on the soup, which makes people's appetite just by looking at it.
Everyone smelled the tempting aroma lingering at their noses and swallowed their saliva subconsciously.
Smells so good!!
Looks delicious!!
"Zheng'er, what is this?"
Shen Huazheng: “This is beef rice noodles in sour soup.”
Beef rice noodles in sour soup??
No wonder it smells sour and spicy, making people's mouths water.
Shen Huazheng pointed to the chili sauce on the table and said, "If you think it's not spicy enough, you can add more chili sauce."
Shen Keheng:!!!
She is indeed his biological sister!!
Knowing that he likes spicy food, I specially asked someone to prepare chili sauce.
Originally, because of the end of the holiday, Shen Keheng was in a low mood.
But at this moment, he felt so happy that he was about to cry.
Shen Zhaonian looked at the rice noodles with beef in sour soup in front of him and felt like his stomach was about to be aroused.
He raised his chopsticks and said, "Come on, everyone, start eating. Let's finish eating earlier and go back to rest earlier."
During this Spring Festival holiday, the Shen family's life was quite fulfilling and happy, and they even went to bed later at night than before.
I need to rest early today and recharge my energy.
With enough sleep, you will be able to go to the government office and the Imperial College in high spirits tomorrow.
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