Qin Rou decided to cook a big meal in the kitchen. Yesterday, she steamed it, and today, she boiled it. The diet was too healthy. At night, she ate something unhealthy, stir-fried or fried.
There was no shortage of oil on Qiongzhou Island. There were many coconuts on the island, which meant there was also a lot of coconut oil. Coconut oil is now cheaper than soybean oil and rapeseed oil.
Perhaps in the eyes of later generations, coconut oil always sounds very high-end. In fact, in the 1970s and 1980s, for a long time, coconut oil was a cheap oil that only families who were too poor could eat.
Just like papaya now, before it was hyped by merchants, it was often used to feed pigs in rural areas. At this time, the bananas on Qiongzhou Island were also used to feed pigs. When in doubt, they were all fed to pigs. Second Brother ate everything and he would eat whatever he was fed.
The coarse grains that we were forced to eat at that time were later sold at a higher price than fine grains. This was a change of times.
The oil from the second senior brother’s body was the most valuable at this moment. After a few more decades, the oil from the second senior brother’s body would be too inferior to be discarded.
Qin Rou had also heard several aunts recalling the past, saying that their families were so poor that they could only eat coconut oil. Later, they wanted to vomit when they smelled the smell of coconut and refused to eat anything related to coconut. However, her daughter loved to drink coconut juice, which made her sigh.
Coconut is indeed a good thing. Coconut juice is sweet and the coconut meat inside can be used to extract oil. However, when traveling to the seaside in the past, most people bought coconuts and just drank some coconut juice. The coconut meat inside was thrown away directly, not to mention that many people thought that coconut only had coconut juice and ignored the layer of flesh inside.
This layer of flesh can also be used to extract oil, and the coconut oil extracted is very fragrant. However, coconut oil is indeed not suitable for consumption, because the coconut smell of this oil itself is too strong. It is indeed easy for people to accept it when mixed with ordinary dishes. In addition, when it is fried, the oil smoke is too big and it produces a lot of bubbles, which is not suitable for cooking.
However, coconut oil has a very fragrant smell and is very suitable for making pastry oil and handmade soap.
Pastries with coconut fragrance will not make people feel abrupt, and coconut-scented handmade soap is also very pleasant. Coconut oil can also be used for hair care.
There is a bottle of coconut oil in the kitchen, which was given by the family. I guess every family has a bottle of this oil. It is not an expensive thing. You can also make oil by refining coconut meat yourself.
Qin Rou opened it and smelled it. She felt that it would be easy to make mistakes if she was not careful when cooking with it. She would ask the local villagers of Qiongzhou Island for their experience in using it before cooking.
She bought some soybean oil in Guangzhou. Lu Yan's family cooked... no, he almost didn't use oil when steaming, so she could be a little more unrestrained when cooking.
Of course, Qin Rou didn't dare to be too unrestrained. Oil is expensive, so she had to be frugal! !
——A good cook cannot cook without rice.
In addition to seafood, there are eggs, vermicelli, and seaweed, and there is not even a scallion. Qin Rou is really overwhelmed by the simple ingredients.
Let's make some simple dishes. Fortunately, there are seafood.
No steamed food today.
Qin Rou plans to make scallops with vermicelli in garlic sauce. The green bean vermicelli was bought in Guangzhou. The quantity is really small, so she must eat it sparingly. She will also make seaweed shrimp soup and oyster omelette. It
is still quite laborious for her to make it herself, so Qin Rou went upstairs to catch Zhuang Ding, and pulled Lu Yan, who was chased out by her, back to let him open the oysters, while she took the two little guys to peel shrimps and go to the shrimp line.
These two children are naturally the shrimp peeling atmosphere group.
Qin Rou had practiced the technique of removing shrimp threads. She didn't like to leave the shrimp heads when she ate shrimp at home, and she was too lazy to pick the shrimp threads. Instead, she liked to remove the shrimp heads with her fingers when removing the heads of raw shrimps.
Soon she peeled a large bowl of shrimps, washed them all, chopped them into shrimp paste, added egg white, cooking wine and salt, and finally added starch. After mixing evenly, the shrimp balls were almost ready.
Roll the shrimp balls into small balls, and when making seaweed shrimp soup, break up the remaining egg yolks and add them. The seaweed shrimp soup is particularly beautiful.
The soup was bright, the floating seaweed was purple-green, the entangled egg yolks were bright yellow, and between the seaweed and the egg yolks were beautiful shrimp balls with white and pink inside.
Qin Rou rolled the big balls, cooked the soup first, and scooped a big shrimp ball into the bowl for each of the two little kids.
She tasted one herself and fed one to Lu Yan.
Lu Yan peeled a bowl of oyster meat and a bowl of scallop meat, which Qin Rou took away, and quickly made garlic scallop vermicelli and a pot of oyster omelette. Only the oyster omelette was fried in oil, fragrant and crispy, and the two children ate it very happily. There was no oil in the shrimp soup, and eating a piece of oyster omelette and drinking a sip of soup was fresh and sweet and refreshing.
Qin Rou originally thought that the kids would like to eat oyster omelette more, but unexpectedly Lu Yan liked it more. He was very supportive with the kids and ate without stopping.
Because she was used to eating alone, Qin Rou also ate while cooking.
She was frying oyster omelette here, and the two kids and the man were waiting to eat beside them. They didn't even need a table. It was a bit unruly, but at home, you can eat whatever you want.
The child was still young, so he ate two shrimp balls and tried some oyster omelette, and then went out to play happily.
The main food eater in the family was Lu Yan. Thinking of how many big steamed buns this guy ate yesterday, Qin Rou didn't know how many she should make to satisfy him.
Finally, Qin Rou made two simple clay pot rice, which was also called clay pot rice. The rice cooked in the clay pot was very fragrant and was cooked with lychee wood. Because the ingredients were simple, there was not much else added except rice. The snow-white rice was only covered with three or four slices of roasted basil, garnished with two plump shrimp balls, scallop vermicelli, and a few strands of seaweed egg yolk.
Although the ingredients are simple, you must try to arrange the dishes beautifully! ! !
Qin Rou picked up a dish of sauce and poured a small circle on the two clay pot rice, asked Lu Yan to take the clay pot rice out, and called the two kids to eat.
Two pots of hot clay pot rice, with a bowl of seaweed shrimp soup and a plate of oyster omelette on the side, were part of the meal.
The dinner was simple yet rich. At least two pots of clay pot rice looked particularly tempting and were beautifully presented. Lu Yan ate a large pot alone, while Qin Rou and the two children ate one pot.
Qin Rou smiled and said, "Try it. When I bought the clay pot, an aunt taught me how to cook rice."
She even pretended to take her husband and children to Xinhua Bookstore in Guangzhou to buy two cookbooks.
Lu Yan was a little at a loss when facing this large pot of clay pot rice. His wife was really a beautiful girl. The dishes she made, let alone the taste, were very beautiful just in appearance.
This rough old man had never eaten such a beautiful dish. It had snow-white rice at the bottom and was topped with shrimp balls, vermicelli, and scallops. It was packed full and had bright colors, making it very appetizing.
Qin Rou went to share the rice for herself and the children, one big meatball for each. She took a closer look and found that the aroma of garlic vermicelli was too overbearing. A lot of soup seeped into the rice. She divided small bowls of rice for the two children. The highlight was the pot cake at the bottom.
Qin Rou loved pot cake very much and was also very good at making pot cake for clay pot rice.
One person cannot eat all the delicious food alone, and the good pot cake should also be shared with the children. Qin Rou reluctantly divided the pot cake into three parts and shared it with the two children. When Lu Yan saw the pot cake, he was very curious and wanted to have a share. He tried to eat the pot cake of his nephew, but Qin Rou knocked his hand away.
"You have such a big pot yourself."
"Delicious!!!" The fat boy was particularly happy eating the shrimp meatballs. No child could resist the charm of meatballs.
"Aunt, I want some soup." Chen Jingyi sipped the soup in small sips. He was also very happy. Chen Jingyi liked to eat rice and vermicelli. The fragrant and soft clay pot rice cooked by Qin Rou was particularly in line with his taste. He ate a lot more tonight.
Lu Yan felt relieved while eating oyster omelette. His wife didn't make him mapo tofu and spicy shrimp...
He really got a treasure. His wife's cooking was so delicious! The only regret was that it would be better if there were steamed buns.
Qin Rou drank seaweed soup. Although the meals in the past two days tasted good, it was a pity that there were no green leaves. It would take a few days to stir-fry bean sprouts.
The family had a warm dinner, and after dinner they sat on the second-floor terrace, enjoying the breeze and looking at the stars. The sky of Qiongzhou Island was particularly clean and clear. Lu Yan pulled the electric wire over and hung a small light bulb for lighting.
Xia Mingxi's little mouth was always chattering. When his peer Chen Jingyi was beside him, he did not talk to the adults, but asked Chen Jingyi to talk with him to get his attention.
"Jingyi, look at this painting!"
Chen Jingyi: "?"
...
Qin Rou and Lu Yan sat on a long-legged bench. She held a coconut in her arms, and from time to time she lowered her head to take a sip of coconut juice, and threw it to Lu Yan when she didn't want to drink it anymore.
Qin Rou observed the coconut trees beside their house, then looked towards the yard, and suggested that they build a flower shed, a small pavilion, and a small swing in the yard in the future.
Lu Yan looked at her with a smile: "Wait until my carpentry work is better?"
Qin Rou supported her chin with her hand: "Then wait a little longer."
Lu Yan's family ate happily, but the Zhang family next door was miserable.
They had a big feast last night, but they couldn't stand eating like this every day. The landlord's family didn't have any leftovers. They had a good meal last night, and tonight they had porridge and rice with some pickled vegetables and cooked seafood to make ends meet.
Everyone's life is so simple and plain, and they live like this on weekdays, but I don't know what happened to the Lu family next door.
A strange fragrance penetrated into their house.
Especially when the aroma of rice with the smell of firewood came, it was even more amazing. The sliced roasted pork was steamed on the rice, and the aroma floated far away.
The Zhang couple, who were drinking porridge, swallowed their saliva.
They went downstairs for a walk and confirmed that it was coming from the Lu family next door. I don’t know what kind of rice this military officer Lu is cooking, why is it so fragrant, there is also a scent of lychee in the air, and the smell of the firewood rice is even more amazing...
"What are you cooking next door?"
"It’s been cooking for most of the day."
"It has come to our house."
...
Zhang Chengbei asked tentatively: "Do you want to knock on the door and ask what the Lu family is doing?"
Huang Xinying's face was not very good: "If you want to go, go, I won’t go."
Zhang Chengbei just said it, and he would not go if he was asked to go.
Such things never happened to their family before. It was always others who knocked on their door, not their family who knocked on other people's doors.
It seems that the Lu couple are good at cooking. It was not obvious yesterday, but today the food smells so good.
Zhang Chengbei swallowed his saliva and couldn't even drink the porridge in his mouth.
This aroma is really delicious. What are they cooking tonight?
The young wife of the Lu family is beautiful and seems to be a good cook? ! ! This young couple is different from the young couples they met before.
Huang Xinying felt a sense of crisis.
- Is there a better wife than her?