When Su Qingluan led his younger brothers and sisters home, he happened to meet Su Guangfu and Yang.
Now the weather is getting hotter, so everyone gets up and goes to work in the fields while the sky is dark at Yinshi. When the sky is bright and the heat is steaming at noon, those who are not too busy hide in the shade of trees to escape the heat, and more often go to other people's homes. Do the work for the helpers.
Su Guangfu did carpentry, and Yang did needlework.
At a glance, Yang saw the half-dead big fish held by Su Qingluan and hit by a "big boulder". He greeted with a smile: "Hey, this fish is not small! Let's eat this tonight. Fish stew!" Then he saw Su Qingluan's clothes and said, "Hey, why are you all wet? Go change and be careful to keep out the wind!"
Yang naturally knows that fish smells fishy, but unlike the children, for her, it doesn't matter whether it tastes bad as long as it satisfies her stomach.
Su Qingluan quickly answered: "Auntie, let me help you make this fish stew today. I have something I want to try!"
Yang was no longer surprised when her eldest daughter came up with novel ideas every now and then. She just said "as you like" and went to the kitchen to light the fire; while Su Guangfu went to the backyard to chop wood.
By the time Su Qingluan changed into a clean narrow-sleeved undershirt, wrung her hair and came out, Yang had already lit a fire, disemboweled and rinsed the fish she had brought back, and was about to put them into earthen pots to stew. .
"Mom!" Su Qingluan walked over quickly, "I'll do it!"
Yang turned around, looked at Su Qingluan holding a bowl of orange "Sour Hook", and asked curiously: "What did you do with this wild fruit?"
Su Qingluan blinked: "Auntie, this is the secret recipe to make the fish soup more delicious."
"What more roundabout ways." Yang smiled and shook her head, but she also knew that her eldest daughter's seemingly unbridled ideas often had unexpected surprises, and for a while, Su Qingluan was indeed more capable than she imagined, so she He left the fish stew to his daughter while he prepared other meals.
Su Qingluan took the carp and looked behind the gills. Sure enough, there was a white fishy line that had not been removed. So she took advantage of Yang being busy with other things and not noticing her, and quickly removed all the fishy threads.
If Ms. Yang turned around at this time, she would find that the narrow-blade kitchen knife in her daughter's hand was flying up and down on the fish as if it was alive. And Su Qingluan's movements were neat, precise, and fast, even more skillful than Yang, who had been around the stove for half his life.
After picking out the fishy thread, Su Qingluan started to decorate the fish body. After hitting two of them, she came back to her senses - the spacing and depth of the flower knives were as well-proportioned and beautiful as if they were copied, and it shouldn't be the work of a "novice in the kitchen".
So I had to put away my obsessive-compulsive disorder in cooking, and cut the remaining strips left and right, deep and shallow, and beat the knife so badly that I smacked my lips just looking at it, so I could only quickly cut the green onion, ginger, garlic and Wear "sour hooks", pound them into a paste with a stone mortar and marinate the fish until you see it.
After Su Qingluan helped Yang prepare other dishes and saw that the sorghum rice was about to be cooked in about a quarter of an hour, Su Qingluan simply rinsed the fish that had been marinated for a long time and put it into a clay pot to stew. .
After about half a quarter of an hour, add pepper, salt, dogwood and other spices ground into powder to taste, then immediately take the fish out and sprinkle with fresh wild vegetable sprouts.
"Here comes the fish stew~!" Su Qingluan brought up today's "heaviest" dish, the fish stew, in the expectant eyes of everyone, "Father, mother, and Snow Goose Xuanhe, try this How does the fish soup taste?”
For people like Su Guangfu and Yang who even ate bark grass roots in their early years during the famine, fish soup is still a good food no matter how fishy it is - it’s just that children didn’t like it in the past. Try not to do it.
And this is the eldest daughter's craftsmanship. No matter what, the two of them can't shake their minds.
Originally, the couple both thought that even if the fish soup was still earthy, they would drink a few more sips to cheer up their eldest daughter.
Unexpectedly, as soon as I took the fish soup into my mouth, the salty and slightly spicy soup would bloom on my tongue. Take another bite of fish, it is delicate and refreshing, and the original earthy smell is gone! The wild vegetables absorb the deliciousness of the fish soup, mixed with the original fragrance, and are even crispier when eaten, with a unique flavor!
Su Guangfu and Yang looked at each other: This river fish that seemed inconspicuous in the past is actually so delicious!
Seeing that her son and daughter were still hesitating to try the fish soup that they usually avoided, Mrs. Yang quickly called out, "Two Zhuang and Sanya, try this fish soup quickly. It's very fresh!"
Su Xuanhe whispered in a low voice: "Mom, you said the rough flour pancake is delicious..." But he and his sister had a hard time swallowing the pancake.
Although his voice was low, he couldn't resist Su Xuanhe sitting in front of Yang today, so he heard the words word for word, and was slapped on the back by Yang: "What are you mumbling about? You can't even keep your mouth shut!" "
This slap didn't take much force. Su Xuanhe was always making trouble, and being beaten was a common occurrence. To him, it didn't hurt at all.
However, he glanced at his parents' faces, then he obediently picked up the bowl, looked at the fish soup carefully, and then raised his head and took a big sip as if it was some kind of unpleasant medicinal soup.
, then he opened his eyes, came back to his senses, smacked his lips, and grinned: "It tastes really good!"
Su Xueyan, on the other hand, was completely blindly trusting her eldest sister. She drank it with relish without waiting for her parents to say hello. Seeing my brother drinking fish soup, he puffed up his small chest and said proudly: "Brother, look at it! Everything I make is delicious!"
Su Xuanhe smiled and rubbed his sister's furry little head: "You didn't do it, why are you so proud?"
"But we helped Sister make the fish-catching fence together!"
Su Qingluan smiled and nodded: "Isn't that true? We Xueyan also have great strength!"
"But sister forgot my garland~" the little girl said coquettishly.
"Sister, I will make up for it tomorrow!" As she said that, Su Qingluan distributed the fish meat with less spines on the belly of the fish in the bowl to her younger siblings, and then picked the part with more spines near the back from their bowls into her own bowl, " Be careful not to get pricked."
"Did Da Ya use that 'Sour Hook' to stew the soup?" Yang asked curiously, "But I've never seen that fruit in the soup."
Su Qingluan narrated the process of stewing fish soup to Mr. Yang, and finally said: "I had a bad smell on my hands before, but after crushing the 'Sour Gou'er', the smell disappeared as soon as the water was rinsed. So I thought if the wild fruit of 'Sour Gou'er' could remove the fishy smell of fish soup, so I tried it, and it was successful!"
In fact, the real reason is that Su Qingluan saw his sister's mouth was broken after eating wild fruits, and heard her brother's words, and knew that this kind of wild fruit may have biological enzymes that can break down meat protein tissue, just like modern pineapples.
Therefore, if you eat too much pineapple, your mouth will sting and even bleed. You must soak it in salt water before eating.
Therefore, in modern times, Su Qingluan often uses pineapple scraps to pickle various meats. This not only removes the fishy smell of various meats, but also makes the meat more tender due to the decomposition of meat proteins by biological enzymes.
This kind of wild fruit called "Sour Hook" should have similar effects to pineapple, so Su Qingluan thought of using it to pickle fish, but he didn't expect that it would be better than pineapple.
Yang sighed: "Da Ya can really make food look like flowers. It wouldn't be surprising if she could open a big restaurant like 'Hongfu Tower' in the future!"
Naturally, her words were partly to praise her daughter, but Su Qingluan was reminded by these words: "Mom, although the restaurant cannot be opened for a while, we can go to the town and set up a small stall to sell food! "
Yang was stunned for a moment, then suddenly realized: "You want to open a stall to sell this fish soup?"
But Su Qingluan shook his head.
