Chapter 144: Founding a Career
Chu Dan actually thought about it, and immediately said, "I want to be a waiter in a state-owned restaurant."
Talking about the benefits of being a waiter: "Not only can I learn from the chefs, but the job is also easy and I can eat delicious food."
Finally, he said with envy: "Even if I can't eat the meat, I can still smell the aroma of meat, right?"
Chu Hong didn't know what to say for a moment. After a moment of silence, she sighed, "You are really promising!"
Chu Dan didn't understand the meaning of her words and was very proud: "Actually, I would rather be a chef, but it's a pity that it's not easy to learn cooking now, so I can only settle for the next best thing."
Then he leaned closer to her and whispered, "Do you know how to cook seafood?"
"Last time, the second son of Grandpa He sent back some dried fish. It smelled fishy, and I didn't know what to do with it."
"I cooked salted hairtail once, and it was just salty, nothing else tasted."
"One small piece can go with a large bowl of porridge."
Chu Hong almost laughed when she heard this.
She actually knows a little about these things. She used to have a boyfriend who lived near the sea and cooked particularly authentic seafood.
After Chu Hong followed her to see, she found several packages of seafood, so she said to Chu Dan in detail: "These small shrimps can be fried with vegetables, or added to soup, and they will be especially delicious."
"This dried squid is also simple to make. After cleaning, just boil it in cold water for five or six minutes, then tear it into thin strips. It can be eaten with wine or as a snack."
"Put the pomfret directly into the pan, fry it slowly over low heat, add some garlic sprouts and light soy sauce for seasoning, then add some water to simmer until the sauce is reduced. It can be eaten with wine or rice."
"Soak the kelp and wash it clean. You can cook it with the bones, or blanch it and add some chili and sesame oil to mix it cold."
Oh, these are all good things. I haven’t eaten them for a long time. I feel greedy just looking at them.
Chu Hong began to wonder if she could exchange eggs or chickens for these seafood.
If possible, she would like to establish a relationship with He Er and others, whom she had never met before.
She had also heard from Grandma He that her second son was a navy man, and the sea was his home, which was like catching some seafood from her own home.
If I can get this, I won’t have to worry about having no seafood to eat in the future.
What a pity! If He Zhigang was the son of the second wife of the He family, she would definitely fulfill his wish.
Chu Dan was afraid that he would not be able to remember it, so he took a pen and paper to write it down. He also carefully asked about the heat again, and remembered the other methods very clearly.
After putting the palm-sized notebook into their pockets, the two sisters went back to washing the pig offal.
Chu Dan finally came to his senses and asked curiously, "Second sister, how do you know so much?"
Chu Hong had already thought of how to perfunctorily answer her: "I've read the food notes before, and I have a good memory, so I remembered it."
Chu Dan's eyes lit up: "There is such a good book? Can you lend it to me?"
Chu Hong also looked regretful: "I don't know where it was lost."
She couldn't tell her the truth, so she could only make up this excuse.
"That's such a pity." Chu Dan felt sorry for her and asked, "Does it contain pig offal?"
"Yes," Chu Hong also said what she knew: "This pig offal, in addition to cleaning it thoroughly, you also need onion, ginger and yellow wine to remove the bloody smell."
"It's best to have cloves, fennel, star anise, nutmeg, and cinnamon to add flavor and remove odor."
"The most important thing is to use a spoon to skim off the foam in all meat dishes..."
On the other side, time went back to half an hour ago, when Li Xun took Su Jinxiang to a room cleaned up by the brigade headquarters.
There were also two banquet tables set up here.
Of course, in order to save trouble, the dishes on the banquet were all brought from the Su family.
Zhang Jianming first picked up a piece of braised large intestine with chopsticks, took a bite, and his face turned strange.
He finally swallowed it, but did not pick up any more dishes. Instead, he leaned over to Gu Ci and whispered, "This dish seems to be a bit rotten, and has a strange taste."
"Maybe we bought it too early." Gu Ci was about to pick up some vegetables, but when he heard this, he picked up a piece of fish with chopsticks.
After eating, I found that the fish didn’t taste fresh enough.
But it's still edible, just the taste is a bit off.
The two tables on their side were all occupied by people from the educated youth site, but the bride and groom were sitting at the table with the female educated youth.
Normally, the male educated youth all have big appetites and the portions are not big, so they should be able to finish their meals quickly.
But the fried pork liver tastes a bit bitter, the braised large intestine has a bit of a strange smell, and the fried pork lungs have too strong a fishy smell and seem to be rotten.
After everyone picked up their chopsticks once, they were unwilling to pick up the next one.
Instead, he ate up all the stir-fried potato shreds, stir-fried vegetables, braised fish fillets, and bacon and tofu.
The educated youth also gave red envelopes of two yuan, and originally thought that they could have a big meal and at least take something back.
But I didn’t expect that there were few meat dishes and they didn’t taste that good.
For example, in the stewed bacon with tofu, the bacon is only about the size of a fingernail.
The portion size is not enough and the quantity is not large enough, which is really a bit stingy.
In particular, the male educated youth who had just gone to Lingxia Village for a banquet the other day were unhappy and could not help but murmured, "Isn't the quantity and quality of this banquet too different?"
"Even this Li Xun went there, and he boasted yesterday that the banquet he hosted would not be worse than Gu Ci's."
Some male educated youth also grumbled: "The cooking skills of the chef they hired to cook the banquet are not good enough."
"Don't you know that the chef they invited is the one from Lingzhong Village?" Zhang Jianming, who knew the inside story, complained: "For a chef, it's not just the cooking skills that count, but also the ingredients."
“No matter how good a chef is, he can’t cook tofu into meat, right?”
After Li Xun took a few bites of the food, his face looked bad.
Of course he knew that his father-in-law was afraid that he would not be able to buy pig offal, so he asked his eldest brother-in-law to buy pig offal three days in advance.
But the weather now is over 20 degrees at the hottest time at noon.
After three days, even if you change the water every day, there will still be a smell.
What's more, pig offal has a strong smell.
But he couldn't say anything, so he could only pretend that he didn't notice and warmly invited everyone to eat more vegetables.
When he and the bride came over to toast the male educated youth, their smiles became even more forced when they saw the few dishes left on the table.
Because Gu Ci was a live-in son-in-law, the female educated youth felt embarrassed to go, so they did not bring any gifts and did not attend the banquet.
There were five male educated youth who went there.
Since they had eaten at the banquet hosted by Secretary Song, they would naturally know that today's banquet was not as good as the one before.
Li Xun had no choice but to hold back his heartache and gave them all cigarettes, saying nicely: "Thank you all for coming to witness Jin Xiang and I's happy moment. Everyone must eat and drink well."
Su Jinxiang also saw Gu Ci, and felt a little upset. She couldn't help but ask for trouble: "Gu Zhiqing, why didn't Chu Hong come?"
Gu Ci said with a bit of boasting: "My Chu Hong went to the commune for a meeting today and didn't have time to come. She even asked me to eat more for her."
Continue read on readnovelmtl.com
