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

Lin Xu turned to the elevated road and listened carefully to the content of the system prompts.

"The host is preparing a fishing association because of his hobby, triggering the side task [Establishing Association]: The host is asked to establish the Yingchun Street Fishing Association before December 31st, and obtain no less than 100 fishing members. Upon completion, the host will be rewarded with perfect Sichuan cuisine. One lottery draw."

What's the meaning?

Why am I suddenly asked to set up a fishing association?

Are you planning to gather the fishing guys from Yingchun Street to fight?

Lin Xu was a little surprised.

But it's okay to set up an association, so that Lao Suntou won't be able to control his emotions and beat someone up one day.

Well, the fishing guy is usually very kind.

But there are also some taboos that cannot be touched.

The first thing that bears the brunt is the location of the fishing spot.

Although the fishing spot for wild fishing seems to be an open space on the bank of the river, it may have been sorted out bit by bit by the fisherman with his hands.

If you come up and take advantage of the crowd, no one with the best temper can stand it.

Lin Xu drove to the North Fourth Ring Road, while Shen Jiayue started to invite everyone in the group to eat hotpot mutton in the store.

By the time they returned to Linji Food in full swing, the people eating the shabu-shabu had already arrived.

Brother Qiang, Panda, Wu Kexin, Yue Liyue and his friends, as well as Zeng Xiaoqi, Dou Wenjing, and Brother Feng, who had just finished handling some legal terms in the company, were all there.

Maybe it was because the temperature was too low, but now the sleet turned into heavy snow like goose feathers, flying all over the sky, as if we were in a fairy tale world.

Seeing the new car driven by Lin Xu, brother Pan Daqiang from Yueli and Guangdong came out to take pictures.

"Damn, this car is so handsome."

"It's the car of my dreams. This carbon fiber body and these headlights make you feel good just looking at it."

“It’s really the first choice for bombing the streets!”

Lin Xu smiled and said:

"This car is not qualified to blow up the streets. The cars that blow up the streets are usually cars with bigger brands and exaggerated shapes."

These days, high-end car companies are looking for ways to harvest the leeks of wealthy people.

Some 20th anniversary edition, some classic styling, some limited edition... Although the quality has not improved much, the price can be higher.

Cars worth tens of millions have become commonplace.

If this 5 million modified car wants to blow up the streets of Beijing, it's better to wait a little longer. It's almost enough to go to Yinzhou city to blow up the streets.

After getting off the car, we opened the trunk and everyone started to get their fishing bags.

"Haha, you guys went fishing as expected. Baby Yan caught a few fish, did you get rid of the Air Force hat?"

As Lin Ji's chief salt spreader, Zeng Xiaoqi came over with a smile and sprinkled a large amount of coarse salt on Chen Yan's wound.

Looking at her unflattering smile, Chen Yan said helplessly:

"My float moved. I was about to catch fish, but unexpectedly it started snowing. There was also a burst of sleet at the beginning... This time it doesn't count. I will definitely show you how good I am next time."

The three major misconceptions of fishermen: The protection will definitely explode today, the fish will float, and the big fish has entered the nest...

When Lao Suntou was carrying the fishing bag home, Lin Xu said:

"Uncle Sun, come as soon as the package is delivered to your home. Come with auntie, and let's have a lively meal of hot-pot meat."

"Okay, I'll put my bag home and change into clothes."

Lao Suntou is also a respectable man. It is somewhat rude to wear outdoor clothes for fishing when eating.

After everyone finished getting their things, Lin Xu locked the car door and was about to go in with Dundun in his arms, but the little guy suddenly broke out of his arms.

It circled around the snowflakes, and from time to time stretched out its little tongue to lick the snowflakes that floated to its mouth.

After playing for a while, it was not enough, so I jumped on the hood of the car next to me, and then jumped on the roof of the car, standing on it to chase the snowflakes falling from the sky.

When Lin Xu saw this, he thought it would be okay to let him have some fun, so he said to Shen Jiayue:

"You guys, let's play with it outside. I'll go in and prepare the shabu-shabu. We'll start eating later."

After saying that, he stamped his feet on the non-slip mat at the door, shook off the slush from the soles of his shoes, and strode into the store.

The lobby of the store has been paved with anti-slip carpets, which can effectively prevent customers from slipping on the marble floor tiles due to snow on their shoes and causing accidents.

When we came upstairs, there were two large copper pots placed on the dining table outside.

Lin Xu said:

"Don't eat here, send it to the banquet hall upstairs."

There is no one in the banquet hall today, and the windows inside are big enough, so you can sit by the window and enjoy the falling snow while eating hot shabu-shabu. ''

Moreover, the lunch rush will start soon. If a customer sees it and wants to eat hot-pot meat, he will have to explain it. It is better to find a quiet place and eat slowly without being disturbed.

After giving the instructions, he walked into the kitchen and saw several helpers cutting mutton.

Che Zai said:

"Lao Huang happened to be nearby just now. When he heard about eating hotpot mutton, he came over and took some mutton from the car and told us the delicious parts of hotpot mutton."

Lin Xu asked curiously:

"Won't he come to eat?"

"No, I'm saying that after I stopped eating and drinking recently, I slept better at night and became more energetic. I need to keep going and try to lose 20 pounds by the Spring Festival."

Good guy, this is working hard.

It’s also quite good. I’m pursuing health.

Speaking of this, Lin Xu remembered that the beef tartare that he promised Lao Huang had not been cooked yet, so he planned to take time to cook it so that Lao Huang could get over his meat addiction first.

Now that the mutton is almost ready, let’s start making the soul of mutton shabu, which is the sesame sauce dipping sauce.

Lin Xu brought a basin, poured four kilograms of sesame paste into it, and then poured about one kilogram of peanut butter into it.

Adding peanut butter can make the flavor more balanced, and the sesame butter also has a hint of sweetness.

In the early years, due to lack of supplies, the sesame paste that people in the capital loved to eat was not in supply, so state-owned sauce factories would mix peanut butter into sesame paste to make up for it.

This sauce is called Erba sauce.

Compared with the slightly bitter pure sesame sauce, Erbajiang has the sweetness of peanuts, which makes children love it more, and it has become a lingering delicacy in many people's memories.

In fact, now that supplies are abundant, there is no need to mix peanut butter into sesame paste to top up the supply.

But Lin Xu liked the sweet feeling of peanut butter, so he added some.

In addition to peanut butter, if you want sesame sauce to taste good, you can also add Sprite to it.

Sprite is sweet and rich in carbonic acid. When added to sesame paste, it can make the sesame paste rich in dense small bubbles. When these bubbles are eaten in the mouth, it gives people a strong sense of satisfaction.

It's like eating half a jar of tahini in one bite.

In fact after removing the foam, there wasn't much sauce at all.

In addition, you can also add sugar to give it a sweet taste.

After putting in the peanut butter, Lin Xu scooped up a few pieces of fermented bean curd, crushed the tofu with a small spoon, mixed it with the fermented bean curd soup, and poured it into the basin as well.

Then pour in one tablespoon of chive flower sauce, one tablespoon of braised shrimp oil, two tablespoons of pepper oil, two tablespoons of sesame sesame oil, and a little bit of soft white sugar for freshness.

After putting everything in, start stirring with chopsticks.

First stir all these ingredients evenly, then slowly pour in the brine made with pepper, star anise, cinnamon, cloves, cumin and other spices.

This brine is also used for flavoring.

However, be careful when using it. It must be cooled before adding it.

Otherwise, the sesame paste will produce oil when heated, and the taste and aroma will be greatly reduced.

In this way, slowly add the brine and stir until the sesame paste is in a creamy state. When you lift it with chopsticks, it will form a straight line. This sesame paste will be enjoyable to eat.

After mixing the sesame sauce, the driver started to pour it into the mixing bowl.

Lin Xu began to fry the pepper segments.

This is an essential ingredient for eating hotpot mutton.

Cut the dried chilies into sections and put them in a bowl. If you like spicy food, you can add some thick chili noodles and pour 50% hot peanut oil over it. The chili pepper segments are ready.

If you are afraid of frying and burning, you can soak the dried chilies in warm water first. This way, no matter how high the oil temperature is, they will not burn, and the chili segments will have a very crispy texture.

With sesame sauce and fried chili segments, the other ingredients are more casual.

Cut a bowl of chopped green onions, a bowl of cilantro segments, a bowl of minced garlic, a bowl of chive flower sauce, a few pieces of fermented bean curd...these individual ingredients are extra.

If you want to eat, leave it. If you don’t want to eat, leave it.

Once the dipping sauce is ready, the mutton shabu-shabu is ready to eat.

Che Zai asked curiously:

"Boss, what are you putting in the bottom of the pot?"

"Just chop some green onions and ginger, and grab a handful of dried shrimps to bring out the umami flavor."

The bottom of the pot for shabu-shabu mutton is super simple. Strictly speaking, you don’t put anything in it, just boil it in water. However, in order to taste better, it is better to add more or less small ingredients.

For the toppings at the bottom of the pot, crustacean seafood is preferred.

Those humble shrimps and crabs, when put in and cooked, the delicious flavor will spread immediately.

This kind of fresh flavor paired with mutton tastes amazing.

Everything is ready, let's start eating.

When Lin Xu came downstairs to call everyone to eat, he found that the snow outside was getting heavier and heavier, and there was a thin layer of snow on the ground.

Dundun was still outside, but had already got off the roof of the car. At this moment, she was being held in the arms of Han Shuzhen, who had come to eat hotpot mutton, and watched the snow.

"The pads are cold, what should I do if I catch a cold later?"

Shen Guofu, Cui Qingyuan, Geng Lishan, Geng Lele, Chen Yuejin, Ren Chongmo and Lao Suntou all came.

Everyone was enjoying the snow scenery and chatting casually.

The first snowfall in winter is so heavy, maybe next year will be a good harvest year.

Lin Xuchong said to everyone:

"Everything is ready upstairs. Let's go upstairs and enjoy the snowy view while cooking meat."

As soon as they heard that the boiled mutton was ready, everyone patted the snow on their bodies, stamped their feet, and followed the elders inside.

Seeing everyone go in, Dundun was about to jump out of Han Shuzhen's arms and continue playing in the snow when she was hugged by Han Shuzhen:

"Little naughty boy, don't even think about escaping from grandma's grasp... Let's go and eat boiled mutton with grandma. Later, I'll give you a taste of the delicacies that are best eaten in the snow."

The soup base for shabu-shabu mutton is pure water, so it doesn't matter if you eat the mutton in chunks.

But the dipping sauce is not good. The seasoning inside is not suitable for kittens to eat.

When they arrived at the banquet hall upstairs, Che had already added the soup base. At this moment, he and the two waiters closed the lid of the copper pot and were adding charcoal into it along the exhaust pipe above.

This kind of compressed fruit charcoal is more resistant to burning, and you can basically finish it after adding it once.

In order to prevent carbon monoxide poisoning, the windows on both sides were opened with slits to allow air convection without making people shiver from the cold.

Shen Guofu stood in front of the window and looked at the snowy scene outside, and said with a smile:

"It's such a good time to eat shabu-shabu right now. Mr. Tateyama, brother-in-law, Professor Ren, Professor Cui, Brother Sun, let's have some drinks together later."

Ren Chongmo nodded:

"How can we eat hotpot mutton on a snowy day without having a drink? Let's have a bottle of Erguotou. We old Yanjing people eat hotpot, and Erguotou is the standard."

Originally, Shen Guofu wanted to open two bottles of Wuliangye.

Now that Professor Ren had spoken to Erguotou, he said to Chen Yan:

"Xiaoyan, go get the bar and be diligent in front of your parents-in-law so that your parents-in-law won't be dissatisfied with you."

Tian Qinglan said immediately:

"Why are you so dissatisfied? Xiaoyan is such a good wife that you can't find even with a lantern. She is sensible and polite, and she often buys things for us secretly. She even told our old man yesterday that we did it I have learned a lot throughout my life and taught countless students, so God gave us such a perfect daughter-in-law."

Chen Yuejin:? ? ? ? ? ?

Old sister-in-law, is this our daughter you are talking about?

Why is it completely different from our impression?

Zeng Xiaoqi and the others also looked at each other in disbelief.

Baby Yan, who is usually two years old, can actually have such a high evaluation?

Sure enough, there are advantages to being sisters with your mother-in-law first.

When I'm not busy, I must find those aunts in their fifties to recognize as sisters. If there is a handsome nephew by then, isn't that...hehe!

When Chen Yan went to get the wine, the waiters filed in with mutton, plate after plate of sheep tail oil, followed by lamb brain, lamb crotch, lamb tendon, cucumber strips, lamb tendon, big three fork and other parts.

Basically, there are all types of meat suitable for shabu-shabu, and the portions are quite sufficient. A table was set up with ice cubes under the plates, so that the mutton can always stay fresh and tender and will not become old due to the rise in room temperature. .

In addition to mutton, there are also cabbage leaves, vermicelli, tofu and other matching ingredients.

Finally, various ingredients were brought. The sesame sauce was prepared, but the ingredients such as coriander, chopped green onion, minced garlic, fried pepper segments, chive sauce, fermented bean curd, and condiments such as light soy sauce and balsamic vinegar needed to be prepared according to the ingredients. Different tastes.

Chen Yan brought the wine and everyone sat down.

The elders sit at one table, and the younger ones sit at another table.

At Shen Guofu's table, the man drank Erguotou, and the woman drank red wine and yam juice for beauty.

As for the young people, it’s beer and various drinks.

Seeing that the water in the pot was boiling, Shen Jiayue hurriedly picked up a plate of mutton tendons and put it into the pot, but was stopped by Lin Xu:

"When eating mutton, you have to cook it in order from fat to lean. Let there be fat in the soup first, so that the lean meat tastes delicious. Just rinse the lean meat and eat the firewood."

This is actually the same as stir-frying. If it is pure lean meat, it is best to stir-fry it with lard, so that the meat will be more fragrant.

Geng Lishan at the table next to him said:

"Young Lin is right. No matter what kind of dish you want, if you want it to be fragrant, you have to add fat. If the fat is big, it will naturally taste better."

Lin Xu stood up, took the whole plate of sheep tail oil, and put it into the pot in a circle.

Put a chopstick in each position, which means two or three pieces.

In this way, it is dispersed into the pot so that the water temperature in the pot will not drop.

Brother Qiang asked curiously:

"I heard some gourmets say before that you have to eat a whole plate of mutton-boiled meat. Is this true or false? Last time I tried this, the water in the pot didn't boil for a long time, and the mutton was all rotten... …”

At this moment, the table next door was still pouring wine and no one was eating. Geng Lishan had nothing to do, so he said with a smile:

"This is all about fooling fools. Only poor people and ignorant locals eat like this. Eating boiled mutton in winter is a beautiful thing. A group of friends sit around in front of a copper pot, pick up two or three pieces of mutton and rinse it. Eat it with sesame sauce, drink some wine, and chat about life. If you want to pour it all into such a beautiful scene, the artistic conception will be gone, and the delicious taste of the mutton will be gone."

The most delicious way to cook mutton is to scald the mutton while the soup base continues to simmer, so that the moisture and flavor of the mutton are locked into the meat immediately.

This is how it tastes.

If you eat it all at once, the pot will no longer boil, and all the water in the mutton will be forced out by the heat. Not only will the umami and aroma be lost, but the texture of the mutton will also become stringy and woody, like chewing a piece of cloth.

Ren Chongmo agreed:

"Some people actually believed what an antiquities dealer told nonsense on the Internet. He also said that the poor people were robbed one by one, and the rich people were all in... The rich people he knew were probably on the same level as him."

When this topic came up, Tian Qinglan also chimed in:

"Celebrities such as Lin Yutang and Liang Shiqiu used to eat slowly, but those down-and-out bannermen, because they couldn't eat meat for a long time, would go all in for fear that they would eat less... As far as delicious food is concerned, Poor people like to chew peonies and gobble them up, but rich people pay more attention to taste and form."

Everyone talked and laughed, and the sheep tail oil in the pot was quickly cooked.

Pick it up with chopsticks and put it on a plate, pour some sesame sauce on it for dipping, and eat it deliciously, it's fragrant and satisfying.

Moreover, the umami flavor brought by the dried shrimps in the soup base gives the sheep tail oil a sweet aftertaste of seafood.

Before eating sheep tail oil, I always felt it would be greasy, but only after eating it can I feel the satisfaction brought by this rich aroma, which is something you can't get from other mutton.

You don’t need to drain the sheep tail oil too cleanly, so that the soup base in the pot will be more fragrant.

After finishing the lamb tail oil, everyone started to cook their favorite meat.

Dundun was lying on a chair next to him, carefully eating the mutton tendons that Han Shuzhen had boiled for him. While the little guy was eating, he kept looking at the flying snowflakes outside.

"Oh, this mutton tastes really delicious."

"This is much better than stores like Donglaishun."

"The meat is all different. This is the mutton that Boss Huang delivers to high-end stores, but we have cut it off. The quality of the mutton in ordinary mutton-shabu restaurants is not as good as this."

"I can eat this kind of mutton-shabu for a whole year."

“They say they’re eating mutton, but in fact they’re all sesame sauce… But should I say it, it’s really enjoyable!”

"..."

People at the two tables were eating and drinking, looking at the falling snow outside the window from time to time, and then staring at the sizzling mutton slices in the pot.

When the fat and thin mutton was flying up and down in the pot, my whole mood jumped up. I took a piece and dipped it in the dipping sauce and ate it warm. It was so satisfying.

After Shen Jiayue finished a big mouthful of meat, she pretended to touch Geng Lele with a glass of kvass, then drank tons and tons of it, and then complimented each other on their good drinking ability.

When she put down her wine glass, she looked at Lin Xu and asked:

"Xubao, it's rare for it to snow so heavily. Let's find a place to play later, shall we?"

Lin Xu saw that Dundun had always been interested in snow, so he said:

"Okay, let's find a place to take Dundun to have a snowball fight, let him have a good time and play. The little guy has never seen snow, let him have a good time today."

"Okay, okay, I like snowball fights the most. Yan Bao, are you going?"

In front of her father-in-law and mother-in-law, Chen Yan has always maintained her image as a quiet lady. She originally thought that ladies should not have snowball fights, but thinking that she could take the opportunity to bully Dundun and retaliate against Yueyue, she agreed:

"We haven't played in many years, so let's go together!"

Hey, don't cry then!

Hearing what she said, Zeng Xiaoqi and others also felt a burst of joy on their faces.

Okay, let's interrogate this Yan Baobao who is good at acting later to see how she can act so well in front of her parents-in-law.

As good sisters, we have to share our experiences.

If you don't say... hum, then feel the joy of stuffing snow dumplings into your collar.

In this way, when Chen Yan planned to take revenge on Dundun and her cousin, the "oriole" also focused on her...

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I really want to eat shabu-shabu. There is a restaurant nearby that is said to be good, but I don’t have time to eat it... This chapter has 5450 words. Please vote for me, brothers!