You don't need to put meat in to make the soup. You just need to add the lamb thigh bone that Chen Xing prepared before and cook it for an hour along with the ingredients.
But with such a simple operation, she now had an impulse after discovering Chen Xing's true cooking skills.
That is to take out the bones and see if the blood has been removed.
However, this operation does hurt one's self-esteem.
Chen Jiaqian looked at Chen Xing who was eager to try, and scratched her head helplessly.
There is really no way.
After that, she decided what Chen Xing was going to do. She was actually very curious about the taste of the mutton soup that Chen Xing mentioned.
Chen Jiaqian is also a person who loves traveling, but that was when she was young. She went to university in the Netherlands and worked in Barcelona. Then the book she wrote became popular in China. Because of the economic downturn in Spain, she returned to China to work in Guangzhou.
She has been to many places, but she has never tasted the mutton soup that Chen Xing mentioned.
How is it different from Shang Hai’s?
"Okay, it's almost done." Chen Jiaqian said, "Let's sit in the living room. Do you want to watch a movie?"
"Ghost movie?"
It's still early, and it's less than four o'clock. The longer the soup base is simmered, the better it tastes. After a long time, the soup becomes milky white, which shows that all the flavor of the mutton bones has been integrated into it. Inside this pot of soup.
So I do have time to watch movies.
As a couple, would you like to try a ghost movie that you never dared to watch before?
Chen Jiaqian's whole body was covered with chills...
"Don't……"
She's afraid of this stuff too.
Chen Jiaqian's side is indeed a Nordic style, and she actually still uses discs at home. Nowadays, these backward things are no longer used in China, but as a developed country, Europe can still find a large number of discs.
Since you don’t watch ghost movies, then so be it.
Chen Xing searched among a pile of bags and saw an actor he had met before.
"Are you watching this? It happens to be Christmas." He pulled out the disc.
Chen Jiaqian was playing with a kitten who didn't know where it came from outside the window with a cat strip. When she heard Chen Xing talking, she came back and was surprised to see the CD that Chen Xing had found.
"Love Actually?"
"Yes, I have watched this movie several times."
Chen Jiaqian was even more surprised.
"Me too! Oh, what a coincidence, I watch this movie every Christmas!!"
We only met her boyfriend at the beginning of the year, but she came to Iceland alone in 2017.
Christmas is the most important holiday in Europe, equivalent to New Year's Eve in China. At that time, all the surrounding rooms are brightly lit, and there is laughter and laughter everywhere. Sometimes you can hear the sound of fireworks blooming. It is very lively, but she can only be alone at home. people.
In those years, she liked to turn off the lights every Christmas and watch Love Actually in a dark room.
She did not spend Christmas alone this year, but Chen Xing found this movie from her collection a few days before Christmas. What is this?
What a surprise!
She had an inexplicable fondness for Chen Xing from the first time she met him, and she felt like a biological brother. So when Chen Xing was in Iceland, she often found time to chat with him and wanted to take care of him. After all, she knew How tough the winters are in Iceland.
Now Chen Xing actually found out the movies he had watched every year in the past few years.
Oh my god, he understands me so well!
She really wants to say now, can you be my brother?
But Chen Xing probably wouldn't agree.
"well."
Before Chen Xing could speak, Chen Jiaqian said a few words quickly, and finally sighed.
"What's wrong?"
"It's nothing. You said you've watched it several times and you probably like the movie very much."
Chen Xing put the disc in and said:
"I like it. When I was doing commercial shooting in Paris, I took promotional photos of Liam Neeson. He is a very charming person. My assistant at the time was a young girl from our school. She was particularly obsessed with this old man, haha , so very impressed.”
"You know him?"
"I know him, but I'm not familiar with him. I have contact information."
Speaking of names directly, not many Chinese people know the name Liam Neeson, but the roles he played are all famous, such as the leading actor in Schindler's List and the ninja master in Batman. Anyway, he is a relatively famous person in China. Familiar European and American actors.
"I really envy you. You should know many celebrities, right?"
"Is it okay? I have contact information for French female stars, but we rarely chat. But I have a very good relationship with Sophie Marceau. She even wrote a preface to my book. She is a very cute elder, and she There is no generation gap at all when communicating.”
"You actually know Sophie Marceau!"
Chen Jiaqian clenched her hand!
But I quickly noticed another important point that Chen Xing said... "She wrote a preface to your book? You also wrote a book?"
Oops, I spilled the beans.
Chen Xing looked at the unopened gift she had brought back, nodded and said, "Well, I also wrote a book that is a travelogue, about France. That gift is, you can open it now."
She looked at Chen Xing and then at the gift box.
Chen Xing gave her a lot of surprises today.
"No, I'm going to save it for Christmas and then take it apart and read it." She thought about it, and finally decided to read it for Christmas, because she wasn't working during the holidays and had a lot of time to study Chen Xing's books. Book.
This is written by my brother...she thought.
The movie started, and familiar Christmas songs came from the TV.
Having said all that, Chen Xing actually likes this movie more because of the actress in it.
This movie is made up of multiple short stories that happened on Christmas Day. One of the storylines is that one of the male protagonist's good friends got married, but he has always had a crush on the bride and kept filming the bride during the wedding. , so much so that it was eventually discovered when someone came looking for the wedding video.
Chen Xing looked down upon such a man.
But he likes this actor named Keira Knightley. He fell in love with her immediately when he watched Pirates of the Caribbean when he was a child.
If he meets her in the future, he can also say that he grew up watching her movies.
Halfway through, he went to the kitchen to look at the simmering lamb bone soup. Seeing the color of the soup gradually changing from clear to milky white, Chen Xing still felt very accomplished. Although he used a simple seasoning packet, this was also the first pot he had made. Soup.
First try to see if it tastes good, and if possible, take a bag back to Paris from the uncle at the hot pot restaurant and make a meal for Hedwig.
When the movie ended, Chen Xing couldn't wait to take the mutton bones out of the soup pot, put all the chopped mutton in, and finally sprinkled with salt and chopped green onion.
As for MSG and chicken essence, of course there is it in the kitchen, but the mutton soup already has a natural umami flavor, isn't it superfluous to add MSG? You must know that the word "fresh" is composed of fish and sheep, so there is no need to add MSG when making mutton soup and fish soup.
Chen Jiaqian had been watching from the side. When she saw Chen Xing saying that it was OK, she drove Chen Xing out of the kitchen and found a soup bowl to scoop out the soup in the pot.
After bringing it to the table, I looked at the rice in the rice cooker.
Chen Xing sat on the sofa habitually, watching what weird things the Icelandic news said, and stayed busy for a few minutes watching Chen Jiaqian walking in and out.
Huh? Am I not the chef today?
Chen Xing thought about whether to help, but in the end he sat on the sofa and watched the news with peace of mind.
In addition to the mutton soup made by Chen Xing, Chen Jiaqian also cooked two new dishes, one was green vegetables and the other was scrambled eggs with tomatoes. Chen Xing secretly tasted them and they all tasted good.
Chen Jiaqian finally placed the dishes and chopsticks.
"Okay!" She clapped her hands and it was done.
In fact, looking at this mutton soup, Chen Jiaqian felt that it was similar to the one in their hometown, except that there were two more small bowls of chili.
"We, Shang Hai, didn't have any dipping sauce when we ate the mutton soup. We just ate it as it was. The soup tasted very fresh and sweet. Let me see what the difference is between the soup you highly recommend and the ones I have eaten before." She poured it into the bowl. I poured some soup and took a small sip first.
"Well, the smell is very strong."
"It's just thick."
Chen Xing didn't know what the ingredients were in the soup, but he knew that the dishes in Sichuan Province were basically like this.
More emphasis is placed on taste.
Xi'an's mutton steamed buns are very famous. In fact, the soup base is made from mutton bones. But when Chen Xing drank this, he felt it was bland. It's not that it's not delicious. Anyway, people's tastes vary from place to place. It's hard to eat in other places. People who are used to it can slowly adapt to Sichuan Province.
But I am used to eating in Sichuan Province, and I can only eat fresh food wherever I eat.
Not only Chen Xing, but every one of his friends who have been away from Sichuan Province for a long time must have an authentic hot pot meal when they return to Chengdu. They often say things like: "A bird comes out of their mouth."
The two of them were very quiet during the meal, and they could only hear the sound of bowls and chopsticks clashing. Chen Jiaqian originally said that she would also have a meal of glutinous rice balls today, and he had wrapped them all, but it seems that she can't eat them now, so she will save them for tomorrow morning. Bar.
Their meal today is actually the daily diet of many Chinese people during the Winter Solstice, and it is very Chinese.
But the two of them had such a meal on a small island far away from mainland China and even far away from European land.
There was heavy snow outside the window again, but it was very warm inside the room.
………………
Rejecting Chen Jiaqian's request to stay in the guest room of her house, Chen Xing walked out of here carrying a small bag of glutinous rice balls.
The security in Iceland is very good, which may be related to the fact that there are basically no refugees here. So there is no need to worry too much about danger at night. Chen Xing finally feels a little safer here.
But I still don’t feel at ease in my own country.
Chen Xing wore a down jacket hat and walked quickly towards the hotel where he was staying.
Compared with Norway, the winter temperature in Iceland is actually not too low. The lowest temperature today is only -2 degrees Celsius. However, maybe because the climate is relatively dry, you can still see a layer of heavy snow at the door every morning.
One day before, Chen Xing got up early, and the snow on the ground had not been trampled firmly.
So Chen Xing followed the example of those children and fell down to play in the snow... No one should have seen it, otherwise his idol image would have definitely collapsed.
It's a bit late now. The area where Sister Jiaqian lives is a residential area. There are not many people around at night. Unlike where Chen Xing lives downstairs, there are so many bars at night. Even at three or four in the morning, you can see some drunkards interacting with each other. Supported to go home.
"Fortunately, I didn't watch any ghost movies." Chen Xing suddenly thought for a moment.
Then I felt cold all over...
"It's okay, it's okay, China's Piao Piao can't reach Iceland."
Chen Xing thought like this all the way to the street.
There are more people here. Some tourists who haven't adapted to the polar nights in Iceland can't sleep at this time and come out to go shopping. However, at night, there are no shops open on the streets of Iceland, only 24-hour convenience stores and those bars.
Back at the hotel, Chen Xing put the dumplings into a small refrigerator in the bedroom.
"Huh? How can I cook glutinous rice balls if I don't have a pot?"
This problem is very serious.
Sister Jiaqian also said that she would cook it by herself tomorrow morning. It seems that these glutinous rice balls can only be taken back to China in a few days.
time flies.
There are more and more tourists in Iceland.
During Christmas, many foreigners will go to Northern Europe to experience Christmas. After all, this is the hometown of Santa Claus. There are many atmospheres that are not found in Asia and even many European countries. And Iceland is a relatively popular tourist destination after all. Place.
Every day, many tourists can be seen lining up at the whale pier to get on the boat, waiting to go out to sea to watch whales.
Chen Xing has been there once and can only say that there are whales, but people with poor eyesight may not be able to see clearly. Even if there are lights on the boat to illuminate you, the field of view is definitely not as wide as in the daytime, and even There is a sense of fear in the sea at night.
Iceland is still suitable for summer.
After Chen Xing was recognized again, he specially posted a video recorded in the hotel on Bizhan to talk to his fans about it.
If you want to participate in Christmas, go to Norway.
If you want to come to Iceland to see the black sand beaches, come in summer.
In Iceland in winter, Chen Xing feels that only the night views of the streets and the geysers are worth visiting. But if any tourists want to live here like Chen Xing, experience the customs and customs of Iceland, and meet some Icelandic friends, they can come at any time.
Otherwise, everyone will be deceived by his last video, and then the travel experience will be extremely poor, which will not be good.
The day before Christmas, Chen Xing saw on an Icelandic forum that there was a new citizen activity in Reykjavik, saying that they were going to the black beach where Chen Xing had gone before to collectively release the Kongming lanterns, so he talked about it. It was also posted to the news on Bizhan.
He has been recognized several times even though he is wearing a mask, and he probably has a lot of fans who have come to Iceland recently.
Chen Xing thought this matter was quite interesting, so he shared it with them.
At two or three o'clock in the afternoon, when the sky was still bright, Chen Xing took Sister Jiaqian's boyfriend's car to the black beach, and encountered a traffic jam on the road.
Chen Xing felt that it was normal, but for Icelanders, encountering a traffic jam when leaving Reykjavik was definitely a rare occurrence in ten years. Sister Jiaqian's boyfriend was so surprised that he got out of the car and took a video of the traffic jam on his mobile phone.
"Is this...what about it?" Chen Xing asked in Mandarin.
"Traffic jams are rare in Iceland. They are probably all people going to the black sand beach. It seems that there are many people participating in this event."
Chen Xing said: "When I went to my aunt's place for dinner yesterday, I saw a long queue in front of her store. They should all be buying Kongming lanterns. Alas, I should ask my friends to send me some. These days Don’t worry about selling at all.”
All the Chinese shops in Iceland are selling this stuff recently, and they are making crazy money.
It is estimated that the Kongming lanterns from all of Northern Europe and even Europe have been absorbed into Iceland. After all, this is not a very popular product in the first place. If Chen Xing’s hot search hadn’t made Icelanders find it very interesting, they might have known what Kongming Lanterns were until their death.
