Stop pretending, I am the God of Cooking and I am showing off my cards!

"Dad, this crystal skin jelly is made by Yue Yue."

Seeing that his baby was about to cry, Lin Xu quickly told his father-in-law the truth.

After saying that, he looked at his parents and couldn't help but praise them, "What a great acting skills. My father-in-law is so embarrassed, but you two still keep praising me without changing your expression."

Did you just come back from studying in Kua Kua Group?

"Did Yueyue do it?"

Shen Guofu couldn't believe his ears at all.

I never expected that my daughter, who was indifferent to all aspects of her body, could actually make her skin so translucent and perfect.

As for the dipping sauce...that has to be left aside of course.

"I originally wanted to give you a surprise...but..."

Shen Baobao was so frustrated. When he was studying in the morning, he thought he had opened up a new dimension in cooking. He even felt as if he had a kitchen knife in his hand.

And the compliment from her parents-in-law just now made this girl have the illusion that "it turns out that I am a delayed cooking genius."

Unexpectedly, the two elders were just trying to make me happy.

well!

Can I only live in the shadow of Xu Bao and be a carefree and beautiful girl for the rest of my life?

Shen Guofu quickly picked up a piece of skin jelly, dipped a little in the dipping sauce in the bowl, put it into his mouth and deliberately smacked it a few times, and extended his thumb to his daughter:

"I dipped too much in the dipping sauce just now. It tastes really good. My dear, it's a good thing that Chef Xie isn't here, otherwise he would have to dig you out to the Diaoyutai. This skill is really amazing."

Lao Shen's compliment made Baby Shen somewhat embarrassed:

"It's not as good as you said. If it's salty, it's salty. You've spoiled me..."

Growing up, it seemed that my father had never criticized himself. No matter what he did right or wrong, it was always worthy of praise in his eyes.

No wonder my grandpa always criticized my dad for being a slave to his daughter.

Lin Xu took the slightly cold tea next to him and poured some into the dipping sauce, stirred it twice with chopsticks, then picked up a piece of skin jelly and dipped it in to taste.

The taste is slightly better this time, but you can still taste the saltiness inside.

"How much salt do you put in?"

"Not much...Master Wei said it tastes better with some oyster sauce, Master Qin said it tastes better with some light soy sauce, Master Zhuang said it tastes better with some fish sauce, Master Zhu said it tastes better with some caviar..."

Lin Xu:? ? ? ? ? ?

So you put in all these salty seasonings?

No wonder it's so salty.

But it would be good to think of asking a few masters for advice.

Just ask them all next time, otherwise such mistakes will continue to be made.

"I think it's good. Maybe it's because I have a heavy mouth. Yueyue's was just right before, but when Xiaoxu added tea, it was a bit bland."

Chen Meijuan is still desperately looking for compensation for her daughter-in-law.

It's so rare to have a daughter-in-law willing to take the initiative to cook these days. Instead of saying a few words of praise, my silly son actually acted like a gourmet and commented here.

Have you gone crazy cooking?

Baby Shen embarrassedly sat down next to her mother-in-law:

"Mom, please stop praising it. If it's salty, it's salty. I'll make it for you again next time, and I promise it won't be salty anymore."

"Okay, okay, my old Lin family has really found the best daughter-in-law."

A good family background, good looks, good education... the key is that she is so filial and sensible. It's really hard to find such a daughter-in-law.

Shen Guofu asked curiously:

"Daughter, when did you learn about skin jelly?"

"I learned it with Sister Yan in the morning. She should be sitting at home right now waiting for praise."

Did you study in the morning?

My daughter’s talent is great!

Lao Shen picked up a piece of skin jelly and looked at it, and couldn't help but admire:

"It's crystal clear. If your mother saw this, she would probably eat a big bowl in one sitting."

Director Han has absolutely no resistance to this low-fat delicacy rich in collagen, especially the skin jelly with such a good-looking appearance, he simply loves it to the core.

In order to make his wife look forward to dinner, Shen Guofu picked up a piece of jelly, took a photo with his cell phone, and then sent it to Director Han:

"Our daughter has secretly learned how to make skin jelly. Do you believe that she is so good-looking that the master at the state banquet made her? In addition, fruit vinegar has also been shipped, and there are ten or twenty wild turtles. Come over early after your clinic is over. My parents-in-law, father-in-law and mother-in-law. They are all so busy, let’s have them go back and rest early after dinner.”

After sending it, he was going to praise his daughter a few more words, but unexpectedly, her daughter disappeared.

Not long after, Baby Shen came over from the kitchen carrying two steaming bowls on a tray.

"Come on, try the okra steamed eggs and diced chicken steamed eggs I made. I also learned this in the morning. The okra is just moistened with a little lard, and the diced chicken is moistened with chicken fat."

After saying that, she opened the lids of the two steaming bowls, revealing the steamed eggs full of delicious fragrance.

The okra should have been cut into slices when steamed. At this time, the surface of the steamed egg is looming, like a bunch of green five-pointed stars floating on the bright yellow pudding.

On the steamed egg with diced chicken next to it, the fresh aroma of chicken oil not only gives the steamed egg a more attractive aroma, but the bright yellow color also makes the color of the steamed egg more attractive.

"My daughter is so good at her craftsmanship!"

Shen Guofu took over the position of the leader of the Kua Kua group and started to praise it before eating.

Baby Shen took a spoon and handed it to several elders:

"Don't always praise me. Only if you give me more opinions can I improve. I'm still waiting to surpass Sister Yan in steamed eggs and become the first person under Xu Bao."

Everyone took a spoon and started tasting two portions of steamed eggs.

The taste is tender and smooth, and the aroma is fragrant. Even from a professional point of view, this steamed egg is well done.

"Daughter, you are really good at cooking, much better than your mother. She can only cook some home-cooked meals, but she still can't do it well."

"Ha, you dare to say that to my mother, are you afraid that she will force you to dance tonight?"

Shen Guofu glanced at the direction of the stairs guiltily, and then laughed dryly:

"Isn't it because she's not here..."

After Chen Meijuan and Lin Hongqi tasted the steamed eggs, they were full of praise.

This time it was a real compliment.

Because this steamed egg is perfect in terms of texture, taste, and presentation. Even if you go to an ordinary restaurant, you may not be able to eat such a good dish.

After all, restaurants have to consider costs and will not be able to use unlimited ingredients like Shen Baobao.

As for the oil-stripping step, she also has lard, chicken oil, shrimp oil and other seasoning oils for her to choose from.

After the meal, Shen Guofu and his daughter accompanied Lin Hongqi and his wife to the community behind, preparing to drink tea and chat while waiting for dinner to arrive.

After seeing off his parents, Lin Xuda was going upstairs to check on the preparations for dinner when Shu Yun came over with a smile:

"Boss, how do you drink that fruit vinegar? Please teach us."

teach?

I take it you want to try it?

"I'm not busy right now. Let me mix some for you. Don't drink too much. A small cup a day is enough."

"Okay, okay."

The fruit vinegar had been moved to the storage room upstairs, and Lin Xu filled a pot with a glass pot for pumpkin soup.

The fruit vinegar has a beautiful amber color, and it has a very high-end feel when packaged in a glass jug.

Lin Xu put a few spoons of honey in according to the amount of fruit vinegar, and then stirred it evenly with a long chopstick to let the honey spread evenly in the fruit vinegar.

After mixing it evenly, he poured out a small cup and tasted it.

The taste is sweet and sour, with a strong fruity flavor.

Lin Xu didn't know whether it was good for the body or not, but it was quite comfortable to drink.

"How are you, boss? Does it taste good?"

"It's pretty good. You can take it and let everyone try it. If everyone thinks it's good, I'll buy some good fruits and make some more later."

When Shu Yun heard this, a surprise expression appeared on his face:

"Ha, I must have done great things in my previous life. Otherwise, how could I have met such a good boss like you?"

"No, it should be because I did something great that I met such a good employee like you."

After the two exchanged business information, Shu Yun took the glass jug downstairs to share it with the waitress in the store.

A cup of fruit vinegar, even if you drink it every day, will have very little effect on your beauty.

But as long as it can bring a good mood to everyone and play a positive role in everyone's work, it's worth it.

Lin Xu planned to take some time to buy some better fruits and make some in his father-in-law's villa. The second floor below the villa was like a cellar, which was very suitable for making such fermented drinks.

After Shu Yun left, Wei Qian asked curiously:

"You can make fruit vinegar by yourself, and can you make fruit wine too?"

Lin Xu nodded and said to him:

"It's okay, but I don't recommend brewing it yourself, because homemade fruit wine is too easy to produce methanol. Relatively speaking, fruit vinegar is simpler. At most, it will go rancid and will have no other effects."

As soon as he heard about the presence of methanol, Wei Qian, who originally wanted to make some wine, gave up immediately.

Forget it, forget it, your life is at stake.

If you want to drink it in the future, it’s better to buy it.

"Ah, this fruit vinegar is sour and sweet, so delicious!"

"It feels different as soon as I drink it."

"That's right, look at how good Mr. Shu looks. It must be the effect of drinking the fruit vinegar."

"..."

In front of the service counter on the first floor, the waiters drank the fruit vinegar that Shu Yun brought over, feeling as if they had received a panacea.

Fruit vinegar is actually not important. What is important is that when the boss has something good, he does not forget to share it with his employees. This feeling of being valued is what everyone wants most.

From the moment I joined the company until now, the boss almost never takes advantage of Xiao Zao.

Whatever I want to eat, I will eat it with the employees.

Staff meals at other hotels usually cost no more than five yuan per person, or less, but Lin Ji's staff meals have never set a cost limit.

Who wouldn’t like a boss like this?

After each person drank a small cup, Shu Yun said to everyone:

"After drinking, work hard. I will try to make you a pot every day from now on."

Don't drink too much of this stuff. After one round of drinking, there was actually half a pot left in the pot. With this consumption, it is estimated that when the boss's new fruit vinegar is brewed, there will be a lot of this fruit vinegar left.

The waiters were even happier when they heard that it happened every day:

"Thank you Mr. Shu!"

"We will work hard!"

"Mr. Shu and the boss, please rest assured!"

Four p.m.

Xie Baomin opened the door and walked into the store.

After entering, he did not go upstairs, but went straight to the aquatic products area next to the waiter.

After seeing the turtle inside, I couldn't help but admire:

"Well, it looks like it's wild at first glance, and it's so big. It's the best of the wild!"

While he was watching, Lin Xu came over:

"My father-in-law wants to eat Farewell My Concubine and drink turtle soup. Senior brother, can you teach me?"

"Yes, yes, yes, that's great."

The so-called "Farewell My Concubine" is actually a dish cooked with soft-shell turtle and chicken. It can be found almost everywhere. The methods include braised in braised sauce, soup, stew, etc.

Xie Baomin used a net to fish out the largest turtle from the aquarium:

"This one is fat and big. I'll braise it with the chicken later."

Then he fished out another one that was not too big but quite solid:

"This is only suitable for making soup. Put it in a steaming cabinet and stew it with water. When stewing, add some angelica and wolfberry or something like that. Drinking it can make people nosebleed."

After fishing it out, he thought about it and fished out a few of the smallest ones:

"These are too small, not suitable for making soup or braised. Don't you have duck soup in your store? After blanching them, make some spicy soup for braised duck and stew them for half an hour. Spicy turtle eaten whole.”

Soon, these turtles were clearly arranged by Xie Baomin.

"Now that the arrangements are made, let's get started!"

Lin Xu understood the desire of his senior brother and father-in-law for such ingredients, so he directly carried the turtles upstairs and went to the kitchen to start cleaning up.

"It won't take that long to braise. Let's make turtle soup first."

Xie Baomin took a kitchen knife and taught Lin Xu how to kill a turtle.

This is a process that requires a lot of skill, because many people have the experience of being bitten by killing soft-shell turtles, and some people have cut their hands while avoiding being bitten by soft-shell turtles.

"When killing turtles bought in the market, it is best to chop off the heads, because most of the turtles are caught by fishing, and many of them still have fishing hooks in their heads. It is easy to hurt the mouth if you eat them... But this kind of knowledgeable people , there is no need to chop off the head, it is just a piece of meat after all, it would be a pity to throw it away."

Xie Baomin put the turtle on the chopping board, pressed it with his left hand, and scratched the turtle's tail a few times with his fingers, so that the turtle's head stuck out.

Putting your hands on your tail can also effectively prevent you from being bitten by turtles.

After the turtle's head was fully extended, Xie Baomin took a kitchen knife and tapped the turtle's neck with the tip of the kitchen knife.

Before Lin Xu could see the operation clearly, the turtle died.

Wei Qian, who was next to him and wanted to learn a trick, couldn't help but muttered:

"Chef Xie, what are you doing? How can you kill it with just a tap of the knife? Could it be that this turtle also has a fatal weakness?"

Xie Baomin grabbed the turtle's still struggling neck and showed the blade of the knife to Wei Gan:

"This part is the trachea. It can be broken by just pricking it with the tip of a kitchen knife. If the trachea is broken, the turtle will naturally die."

"This knife skill is so good, I almost cut a blood vessel... Oh no, Chef Xie, shouldn't this turtle be bled?"

"No, the blood of soft-shell turtles has a fresh taste. Keep it to improve the freshness."

There are many ways to cook soft-shell turtles, and there has always been debate about whether to bleed them. But for Xie Baomin, who is a food supplement sect, bleeding turtles must never be bled.

When the turtle stops struggling, use a kitchen knife to cut off the upper cover along the skirt of the turtle.

Remove the internal organs of the turtle and remove the large pieces of yellow oil from its belly. These oils have a strong fishy smell and are inedible.

After all the internal organs and oil are removed, place the turtle in a basin, pour in hot water of about 85 degrees Celsius and blanch the turtle.

There is a layer of mucous membrane on the surface of the turtle that resists bacteria and viruses. It has a strong smell. It needs to be scalded with hot water and then carefully torn off. However, do not use boiling water when scalding, otherwise the skirt will be burned.

Anyone who knows how to eat soft-shelled turtles knows that the hem of the skirt is a treasure on the soft-shelled turtle.

The gelatinous texture is no less than that of bird's nest and shark's fin, which is why the skirt ingredient is listed as one of the eight delicacies of water.

Soak the turtle in water at 85 degrees for one minute. When the black film on the back of the turtle comes off by rubbing it with your hands, it means the boil is in place and you can take the shell of the turtle and scrub it carefully.

But the soft-shelled turtle's stomach isn't ready yet, so it needs to be soaked for a while longer.

Because the membrane on the turtle's belly is thick and hard, it takes a while to soak it before it can be torn off.

After tearing off the outer membrane, Xie Baomin chopped the soft-shell turtle into large pieces, put it into the pot, added cooking wine and started to blanch it.

While the water was blanching, he took a stew pot, put a handful of washed wolfberries in it, and then added a handful of cordyceps, angelica and other medicinal materials.

Finally, add mountain spring water, two small spoons of salt, two small spoons of pepper, half a frying spoon of Huadiao wine and a few pieces of rock sugar. This is considered to be a good taste.

At this time, the water in the pot has also boiled.

Use a spoon to skim off the foam, take out the soft-shell turtle and wash it, then put it into the stew pot, cover it and put it into the steaming cabinet to start steaming.

"In an hour, the turtle will be ready."

Xie Baomin closed the steam cabinet door and said to Lin Xu:

"Blanching will actually cause the loss of nutrients. The best way is to use lard to put the turtle in, and use lard to fry the fishy smell of the turtle. This will make the soup better, but the cost is to ruin a pot of lard. ."

Turtle has a strong fishy smell, especially in the abdominal cavity. Even if it has been washed, the fishy smell will remain in the oil after being oiled.

So Xie Baomin didn't use this wasteful method.

As for soup, oily soup is not good either. It is better to drink clear soup.

After the turtle soup was stewed, free-range chicken was also delivered.

You can make a braised version of Farewell My Concubine.

Xie Baomin said to Lin Xu while he was busy:

"In the turtle soup just now, it would be better if there could be an old hen raised by the farmer himself. Unfortunately, it is difficult to buy it now. The so-called old hens are basically laying hens that have been eliminated by chicken farms."

While sighing that good ingredients are rare, he slaughtered the turtle quickly.

After slaughtering, cut the turtle into large pieces and divide the turtle shell into four, so that it can be easily arranged on the plate when serving.

As for the free-range chicken, he chopped it into pieces the same size as a turtle.

After the main ingredients are prepared, cut the ginger into large pieces, cut the garlic in half, cut the green onions into inch-inch sections, cut the green and red peppers into pepper rings, and prepare two star anise, a few Sichuan peppercorns, and a few fragrant leaves.

When everything is ready, start cooking.

Set up the wok, put a tablespoon of lard in the pan, heat it up, pour the turtle and chicken pieces into the pan, then add a handful of rock sugar and start stir-frying.

This stir-frying method allows the turtle to dissipate the fishy smell during stir-frying, and also allows the rock sugar to evenly color the ingredients during the stir-frying process.

By the time the soft-shell turtle and chicken nuggets are almost fried, the rock sugar has completely melted into sugar color and evenly hung on the soft-shell turtle and chicken nuggets.

Xie Baomin was stir-frying while fantasizing about eating wild soft-shell turtles, and even hummed "Shajiabang" proudly.

When I was getting excited, I turned my face and suddenly saw Guo Weidong standing to the side, and I was shocked:

"Why are you so stupid here?"

Guo Weidong pursed his lips behind him:

"Xinghai comes to the capital to attend the opening ceremony tomorrow. I sent him here to meet Master Lin first... Isn't it a turtle? Lao Xie, why did you come across the panacea? If you have any health problems, go and have a look. Don't be too hard. support."

Xie Baomin: "..."

If you beep again, do you believe that I will hit you on the head with a frying spoon?

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I searched for a long time and couldn't find any results on whether to bleed turtles before eating them. Everyone has their own reasons. Anyway, I always bleed and wash the turtles because they always feel fishy. This chapter has 5200 words. Please vote for me, brothers!