Chapter 238
We agreed on the menu yesterday, there are twenty-two dishes in total.
Every place has fixed dishes, and Wuxi Village is no exception. Because the owner doesn't know what dishes are good, he lets the chef decide for himself. After choosing, there are only a few dishes, so the dishes are fixed.
Lin Nan thought that everyone might be tired of such dishes. Anyway, she didn’t know whether others knew it or not, but she was definitely tired of it, so it was time to change the menu.
In the past, banquets were the same whether they were for weddings or funerals. Crispy pork was fried and cooked into soup, large bones were stewed with radishes, braised pork without soup, stir-fried meat, cold kelp salad, and some steamed meat, but everything else was relatively ordinary.
The busy people in the kitchen basically already knew what to do, but they were still a little uncomfortable with the sudden change. However, Lin Nanzhi and Lin Nanxuan felt it was not a good idea and prepared to ask the chef of a hotel or motel to do it, but were rejected by Lin's father and others.
There is only one thing to say: since you are hosting the party at home, there is no need to hire a chef.
Finally we decided to prepare the banquet in the evening, and leave it to the chef to prepare in the morning and the next morning.
Because of this, in the afternoon Lin Nanzhi and Lin Nanxuan put on their clothes and went into the kitchen to help prepare all the side dishes for tomorrow. Otherwise, there would be too many people the next day and it would be too late to cut vegetables.
"I regret it. If I had known, I would have let them do whatever they wanted."
"You can't just do it casually. Not only your relatives and friends are coming to your wedding, but also your colleagues, leaders, and Yu Ze's friends. You can't be careless."
"I think there is nothing wrong with what Zhizhi said. It's not that I discriminate, but in the village, everyone is a neighbor, and we all know what we eat. And if you eat the same way all the time, you won't think it's a big deal. But the man is not like that, so I'm giving you some face."
Lin Nanxuan stopped talking and started cutting vegetables seriously.
"Come to my place in the evening and I'll give you a manicure that's really nice."
"OK."
There were eighteen dishes, including eleven hot dishes including mint spare ribs, braised seafood, braised pork, Dongpo pork elbow, stir-fried broccoli with shrimp, milkfish ball soup, fried crispy pork, braised lion's head, ginkgo pork belly soup, lotus seed and lily soup and shredded duck soup, six cold dishes including mouth-watering chicken, brine platter, cold mixed black fungus, husband and wife lung slices and brine white goose, and five steamed dishes including braised pork with preserved vegetable, steamed egg with clams, cabbage and chicken rolls, steamed white pigeon and eight-treasure rice.
Finally, there is a fruit platter before the meal.
Rural buffets usually involve cooking a whole pot of dishes all at once, then putting it in a thermos bucket and serving a portion when needed. After the guests have finished eating, the dish is returned to the heat and another portion is served, which is not very healthy.
So I don’t plan to do that at the moment.
Except for steamed dishes, cold dishes, dishes with soup, and dishes that take a long time to prepare, it is best to cook each dish in batches, just like a hotel. You don’t need to make too much for each portion, but it must be exquisite and not re-cooked.
There are only four dishes that need to be cooked, and four chefs are needed. It is too easy to find four chefs in the village. Moreover, the inn is closed for the past two days, so the employees also come to help. There are two master chefs in the kitchen, and three people who prepare buffets in the village, a total of five people, which is more than enough.
There is a lot of preparation work.
In addition to the side dishes, cold dishes and steamed dishes also need to be prepared today. Prepare the cold dishes first and put them on the plate the next morning. They can be prepared in the afternoon and eaten in the evening.
Because the presentation of the dishes must be exquisite, all dishes except the bowls used for the soup must be served on plates.
There was a store nearby that specialized in buying kitchen utensils so that they could rent them when they had banquets. Lin Nan felt that it was unnecessary to rent them because most of the utensils they rented were deep bowls and there were relatively few plates. He could just ask his father to buy the same bowls and chopsticks according to the dishes he wanted. He would not have to pay for any broken utensils or anything else.
I was busy like this until after nine o'clock. After putting things away temporarily, I went home to sleep and prepare for the next day's work.
Early the next morning, Lin Nanzhi was woken up by the sound of a horn. He rubbed his eyes, got out of bed, opened the curtains and walked out, only to find that it was the sound of a band.
Yes, the band!
Lin's parents were planning a big party, so they invited a singing and dancing group to liven up the party. They set up the stage yesterday and started playing music early this morning.
Lin Nanzhi shook his head, turned around, changed his clothes, washed up, and went to Lin Nanxuan's room.
Today is the 24th, and the bride's family is having a banquet. Although Lin Nanxuan is not wearing a wedding dress, she is wearing a red Xiuhe dress. Wan Baobao also came early and is putting makeup on Lin Nanxuan.
Lin Nanzhi took a look and did not disturb them. Instead, he went downstairs and took out a few red envelopes from the drawer, then went upstairs, took out a bag of change from the bedroom, and went to the sun room.
Close the windows of the sunroom, turn on the air conditioner, and then take out all the change. There are fifty-dollar notes, twenty-dollar notes, ten-dollar notes, five-dollar notes, one-dollar notes, and ten-cent notes. The one-dollar notes are the most numerous.
They give red envelopes for every event they do here. Happy events are to bring in good luck, and sad events are to get rid of bad luck.
There are also some differences in red envelopes.
For example, the chef's package is 66.6 yuan for smokers, and they also give a pack of cigarettes priced between 100 and 200 yuan and a box of tea. The non-smokers' package is 128 yuan, and they also give two boxes of tea. This is the chef's package.
The other helpers were all charged about the same, 16.6 yuan, plus a pack of cigarettes and a box of tea.
Both Lin's father and mother felt that this time the event would be different from the previous ones and would be a little more tiring, so they increased the red envelopes a little, from 66.6 yuan to 88.8 yuan, and from 18.8 yuan to 29.9 yuan, and added a bottle of wine or specially made pastries.
As for the five-yuan notes, they are used to make small red envelopes for those who come to curry favor.
For this purpose, the Lin family went to the bank to exchange a lot of one-yuan and one-cent banknotes for the red envelopes.
The red envelopes were of different sizes, all purchased according to the required quantity. Lin Nanzhi counted the money one by one and put it into the red envelopes, and before he knew it, he had a big bag full of them.
When she went out, Lin Nanxuan also came out with Wan Baobao. Lin Nanzhi gave Lin Nanxuan a bag with some red envelopes in it: "This is the prepared red envelope. Just give it to your friend when she comes."
"Um."
"Sister Wan, just follow my sister. I'm going to the kitchen."
"OK."
Lin Nanzhi took the remaining red envelopes and went downstairs. Then he took out a floral apron from the kitchen, put it on, changed his shoes and went out.
The weather was hot, her hair was long, and she would be in the kitchen soon, so Lin Nanzhi took a ginkgo hairpin and pinned her hair up.
When we arrived at the kitchen, many people had already arrived.
The person in charge of washing dishes has nothing to do, while the person in charge of washing vegetables is already working.
The first two rooms on the first floor were used as kitchens. Although they had just been renovated, they were still a bit damp, so using fire inside was just the right way to get rid of the moldy smell.
The vegetable cutters in the kitchen were already chopping vegetables. The main ingredients for the cold dishes were ready and they were just waiting for Lin Nanzhi to cook because none of them knew how to cook.
Lin Nanzhi was not in a hurry. He went to find Lin's father first and gave him the red envelope.
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