Dad's Pastoral Life

Chapter 216 Celebrate

After half a day, Cheng He came back with a small basket of fish.

He asked Cheng Xinxin, "Honey, do you want to eat fish today?"

"Yes, yes!" Cheng Xinxin nodded.

In fact, she still likes to eat fish.Well, I also like to eat meat, but I don't like to eat vegetables, especially carrots.

Cheng He asked again: "What kind of fish do you want to eat?"

"A fish like jelly." The little girl replied crisply.

Uh, still fish jelly.

By the way, is this food that delicious?She wished she could eat that every meal.

Okay, if you want to eat, make it for her.

Now that the weather is cold, the cooked fish does not need to be stored in the refrigerator, but after a while on the stove, it will naturally become fish jelly.

Now the atmosphere of Chinese New Year is really strong, the New Year pig is also killed, and the fish is divided, there is fish and meat at home, and I can cook whatever I want.

If you want to eat some more vegetables and radishes, just go to the field and get one back.

However, if Cheng Xinxin wanted to eat fish jelly, the white meat other than the fish bones had to be made into other dishes.

Cheng He asked his daughter: "Baby, do you want to eat fish balls? They are delicious."

When Cheng Xinxin heard the word "delicious", her eyes lit up and she swallowed.She asked longingly, "Really?"

"Well, really."

"That wants to eat."

All right, eat whatever you want.

Fish balls are fish meat slices first, and then the meat on top is scraped into finely minced fish paste.In this way, the remaining fish bones can be boiled into fish jelly.

The fish ball soup has a slightly sour taste, which can not only appetizer, but also warm up the body.

In winter, unlike the north with heating, they rely on food to keep warm.

After the fish fillets came out, he tilted the knife and gently scraped out a thin layer of white meat on the fish, scraping one by one.

The white meat scraped out in this way is the most tender, without coarse grains, and the thorns are also pulled out and thrown away.

After scraping off the white meat, if the fish skin is left—add some parsley later, and serve it cold.Hot and sour, very flavorful.

On such a cold day, drink some wine to relax.

The scraped white meat is chopped into fine mince with a sharp knife, and then cornstarch and egg white are added and kneaded together, just like kneading dough.

Put ginger juice again, and put it while kneading until the paste is almost like running water, and then stir clockwise.

Well, it feels very professional.

Fish balls are also a ball in "Sanyuan Jidi".

Now that the standard of living has improved, these dishes, which were usually only available at seating, have now become home-cooked dishes.

Were you looking forward to having guests at home?Looking forward to it with all my heart, why doesn't anyone hold wedding banquets and birthday banquets?

Because there are guests at home, or another family holds a banquet, you can have a good meal once.

People are much happier now.

The dishes eaten during the Chinese New Year and the dishes at the banquets have become commonplace, so I have no feeling for the New Year dishes, I feel that the Chinese New Year is tasteless, and I have begun to be picky about the dishes for the banquets.

In a word, life is better.

Cheng He was thinking messily while stirring the fish batter.

He wondered if he was getting old.Only old people will recall the sadness of the past at every turn.He is obviously still young, why is he always thinking about the poor days when he was a child?

While they were stirring, Cheng Xinxin ran in with a book and said, "Father, I want to ask you a question."

Yo, this tone is quite formal.

While stirring, Cheng He said, "Okay, you ask."

Cheng He said he was not afraid to ask a question from a child who had only just entered kindergarten.

"If there is only one mirror for the two of us, but we both want to take a picture, what should we do?" Cheng Xinxin asked.

"Then... Dad won't take the picture, I'll leave it to you." Cheng He replied directly without thinking about it.

Cheng Xinxin was obviously taken aback for a moment, as if she didn't expect her father to answer like this.

She thought for a while, and then added: "Then if there are five more people, how about looking in the mirror?"

"Five people? Then... let's all line up. After one has finished taking pictures, the other will take pictures." Cheng He only thought about it for half a second.

Cheng Xinxin shook her head and said, "That's not right, if everyone doesn't want to line up, why are they all anxious to take pictures?"

"Wrong?" Cheng He was a little surprised. It turned out that the little girl didn't come to "ask" herself, but to "test" herself.

Only then did he start to face this problem seriously.

At this moment, he felt that the child's serious eyes seemed to be shining with light, and this light touched him.

So, Cheng He thought seriously for two seconds, and replied again: "That mirror is so big that five people can take a picture at the same time."

Cheng Xinxin pursed her lips, shook her head, and said, "Father, you're wrong again. You don't know, so I'll tell you. Just drop the mirror and break it into five pieces. Five people can take pictures at the same time." ?"

Cheng He was taken aback for a moment, surprised by the child's thinking, and asked, "Baby, how do you know?"

Cheng Xin said triumphantly, "I know it myself. Xiao Nan's mirror fell on the floor and broke. Each of us picked up a piece and we were able to take a picture."

So, because of this trivial matter, she came up with this reverse reasoning question to test her father?And her father didn't answer!
Cheng He really admired her.

What surprised him wasn't the "mirror" itself, but that the little girl had already started to learn to expand her thinking after encountering something.

Children will always give him great surprises inadvertently.

He seems to be getting to know his own child again.

Or, is the child already growing up?

Sometimes, the touch between the child and the child comes so suddenly and unexpectedly.

In the eyes of others, maybe this is just a trivial matter, but Cheng He was really surprised, or surprised.

There is quite a feeling of comfort.

He said to Cheng Xinxin, "Baby, it's really great that you came up with this method. But be careful, if the mirror is broken, it's easy to cut your hands, so don't take it next time, okay?"

Cheng Xinxin nodded obediently: "Okay."

Cheng He looked at her and thought in his heart that he couldn't treat her as a child in the future, she had already fully grown up.

I feel happy, and feel comfortable doing things with my hands, and the movements of stirring the fish batter have become much lighter.

Well, this is for kids, so hurry up.

Stir almost, feel that the texture of the fish batter is almost the same, add a little salt, and then continue to stir, adding salt while stirring.

After adding the salt, the batter will start to thicken.

Feeling that the consistency was almost there, he squeezed a fish ball and tried putting it in cold water.

Well, it didn't float very well, maybe it wasn't fluffy enough, so I added a little salt and continued to stir, and then I tried another one in the water, and this time it floated very well.

The practice of fish balls, which has been passed down for hundreds of years, has inadvertently incorporated physics knowledge.If the density is too high, it will sink. He needs to stir it for a while until it becomes fluffier and the density is lower, and it will naturally float up.

The fish balls are naturally fluffier and taste better.

Now, he can start pinching fish balls.

Kneading fish balls is very simple. When the fish batter is kneaded with your hands, a round fish ball will be squeezed out, and you can just put it in cold water and float it.

Today this fish is not small, it can make a big bowl of fish ball soup.

The previous preparations have been done, and now it is very easy to cook the soup.

Add more water to the pot, put warm water into the meatballs, bring to a boil over high heat, use the back of a spoon to keep paddling on the meatballs, let them be heated evenly and cook, add some seasonings and start the pot.

A little ginger foam removes the fishy smell, a little green onion foam enhances the aroma, and a little vinegar appetizers.

When the meal was ready, Cheng He shouted, "Xinxin, come and eat."

Until now, he was still thinking about the question his daughter asked him just now.

He felt more and more that the child was really about to grow up.

Cheng Xinxin hurried into the kitchen, not forgetting to talk to her little wild goose: "Jiujiu, I want to eat... I'll play with you after I eat..."

Well, eating is her favorite thing, put everything else aside first, this is her best idea.

As soon as she sat on the table, she saw her favorite fish jelly, laughed happily, and then picked up the spoon to scoop it up.

Cheng He looked at her anxious look, but couldn't help but said: "You just eat like this? Go and wipe your hands first, playing with toys is so dirty."

Cheng Xinxin had no choice but to climb down from the chair to wipe her hands before returning.

Cheng He really felt that his previous idea was good, and the cold fish skin was very good for drinking.

Well, seeing the girl grow up today, it's worth having a drink and celebrating.

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