"That dream was actually very simple. In the dream, an old man taught me to cook porridge and soup. When I woke up, I felt like there was something in my head." After buying all kinds of things, he asked, "What do you want to eat, mother? Let me show you a hand."
Gu Yin is best at cooking porridge and soup, and other dim sum dishes are also very good.
Seeing her calm demeanor, Wang Shi's heart dropped halfway.
She looked at the thing in her hand, gritted her teeth, closed her eyes, and ruthlessly, shoved it into Gu Yin's hand: "Do whatever you want, you can use it!"
Seeing Wang Shi's appearance as if he was dying, Gu Yin smiled and nodded in response, turned around and entered the kitchen room.
Wang bought a lot of food, most of which was flour, a large bag, and then a small bag of rice, a small piece of pork the size of a palm, two small fish, a small basket of eggs, onion and ginger.
Gu Yin decided to make fish ravioli.
She took out a large pot and kneaded the dough, kneaded it into a smooth dough, put the large pot aside and covered it with a dry cloth to wake up the noodles, and then first sliced off the large pieces of fish with fewer fish bones, chopped them, and chopped them. Fry the remaining fish bone and fish head over low heat for a while and add water to make soup.
Add the minced fish meat, pork belly, eggs, chopped green onion, minced ginger, a little rice wine and other seasonings that are also minced into meat fillings, stir in one direction for a while, and the filling is ready.
At this time, the noodles were almost awake. Gu Yin kneaded a large dough sheet, folded the dough in half like origami a few times, cut out a square shape of wonton skin with a kitchen knife, and then put the prepared filling on the wonton skin. With a swipe of it, it is a small "yuanbao" when you pinch it.
On Wang's side, she said she was going to pack up. In fact, she put the baggage in the main room, and she couldn't worry about folding it back and peeking at the crack of the window.
Xiao Wu'an saw his mother's strange behavior, and squatted with her to look in.
The two people, one big and one small, met each other and saw that Gu Yin’s movements were as skilled and swift as running clouds and water. Wang finally calmed down, while Xiao Wu’an smelled the smell of fish soup, drooling, and looked at Gu Yin with glowing eyes. .
"Mother, sister-in-law is amazing, she looks so good." Xiao Wu'an whispered with saliva.
Wang Shi laughed, "How old are you, you know what's good-looking and what's not good-looking?"
Naturally, Xiao Wu'an didn't look at Gu Yin with the eyes of a man appreciating a woman, but smiled shyly: "I just think that my sister-in-law is so serious when she cooks, it seems to shine!"
Gu Yin's expression was focused and serious, and she exuded a kind of confidence in her chest, which really seemed to have changed her personality.
"You brat before you eat it!" Mrs Wang laughed and scolded in a low voice.
Gu Yin of course knew that Wang was looking at herself, and she didn't point it out, she just snickered slightly while doing the work in her hands.
The wrapped wontons were put into the boiling fish soup for a while, and they floated up in a whirl after a while.
"Mother, come and have a taste." Gu Yin scooped the wontons with the soup and water into a large bowl with a fence, sprinkled with a small rub of green chopped green onions, and the aroma was immediately overflowing.
Wang hurriedly pulled Xiao Wu'an back, pretending to be still far from the kitchen and shouting, "Come here!"
The hot wontons are brought to the hands. The thin wonton skins are translucent, revealing the looming fillings, white fish soup and green chopped green onions. Just looking at them makes people's appetite greatly increase.
Watching the whole process, Wang's knowingly asked, "What is this for?"
"It's a fish ravioli." Gu Yin also answered cooperatively.
"Fish meat is very fishy if it is not cooked well." Mr. Wang didn't mean to pick on the thorns, but the general people's handling of fish is not in place, so everyone prefers pork. Wang was also trying to save money, so he bought two less valuable fish after buying pork.
When they were talking, Xiao Wu'an had already eaten it, and before a wonton could taste the taste, he exhaled the heat and said it was delicious!
"Little bunny looks like he has never seen the world before, eat slowly!" Mrs Wang gave him a funny look, and then started eating.
Wang Shi had eaten a lot of good things when she was young, but when she entered a wonton, she also widened her eyes in surprise - it's not that her youngest son is ignorant, but this wonton is really delicious!
Wonton skins as thin as cicada wings melt in your mouth, the fillings are salty, fragrant and tender. Not to mention the fish soup, it's so fresh that people can't wait to swallow their tongues!
It's even better than the one made by the master Bai An of the big restaurant that her parents took her to eat when she was a child!
One big and one small bury their heads and eat hard, and the two bowls of wontons were destroyed in less than a quarter of an hour, and even the fish soup in the bowls was drank clean.
Gu Yin looked at their appearance, one big and one small, and suddenly remembered what her grandfather had said to her in her previous life.
The grandfather said: "Girl, you are the most talented in our family. You don't need anyone to teach you the recipe. You can make similar things according to it. Although your father was a child, I was detained. I learned it in the kitchen, but his talent is far inferior to yours. Until he passed away, it is not as good as you have learned for so many years. But grandpa has to say, you are too crafty in cooking. I hope you can make a real difference one day. People feel happy food comes."
Gu Yin grew up in a culinary home, and she really started to learn cooking after her parents passed away. Knowing that she will inherit her grandfather's mantle in the future, she spends the winter and summer vacations in the kitchen every year as if she had completed her tasks. After graduation, she practiced in the kitchen day and night for several years.
Cooking is not difficult in her opinion. As long as you memorize the recipe, note the characteristics of each ingredient, the required cooking time and the amount of seasoning, and follow the instructions, the effect will not be much worse.
As for the "happy food" that Grandpa said, she always thought that it only existed in novels and TV series.
But at this time, seeing Wang Shi and Xiao Wu'an's brows and eyes, Gu Yin only felt a softness in her heart, and suddenly seemed to understand a little bit.
After the wind and the clouds passed, Wang Shi contentedly touched his belly and said excitedly: "Son, you really didn't lie, this craft is really violent without doing business... What's the violence, it's a pity anyway! Alas, the one in your dream The old immortal didn't tell you anything about it? For example, where is the treasure buried?"
Gu Yin felt helpless for a while, "No, the immortals only taught me the craft. Mother, it is better to teach a man to fish than to give him a fish. A large amount of wealth will be eaten by the mountains, and it will last a long time by relying on craftsmanship to eat."
Wang Shi also thought about it, if the ancestors really gave a large sum of money directly, the troops outside are in chaos, and the orphans, widows and mothers can't keep it!
"It's my fault for a while, it would be great to have this skill!"
"Actually, what I'm best at is cooking porridge. Would you like to try it, mother?"
Wang Shi no longer believed her, but after thinking about it, he still said, "You can't chew too much. Let's try selling wontons first. If they sell well, let's do other things."
Wang's remarks coincided with the idea of trial opening of new stores in later generations, and it is true that every additional type, the corresponding cost will increase, Gu Yin did not say any more, anyway, as long as the wontons sell well, they will be their own in the future. You can completely let go.
After it was settled, the Wang family went out to buy things in a hurry.
Xiao Wuan was still licking the bottom of the bowl, Gu Yin felt distressed and asked him if he wanted another bowl.
When he was growing up, a bowl of wontons was enough, but he could still eat it.
But just now he heard what his mother and sister-in-law meant to say that the wontons were going to be sold for money, so he immediately shook his head and said no.
Seeing his greedy and obedient appearance, Gu Yin felt distressed, and scooped out a bowl of fish soup for him to drink.
Xiao Wu'an took a small mouthful of the soup bowl and drank it very cherishly.
Half an hour later, Wang Shi also came back from outside.
She bought the ingredients she needed and put them home, and then knocked on the door next door and called Xu's name.
Xu Shi had smelled the fragrance from the next door earlier, and stood in the yard and sniffed it for a long time.
Hearing Wang's loud voice, she thought it was Wang's gift to bring food to herself, but she happily opened the door and saw that Wang's hands were empty.
"Why are you looking for me?" Xu shi asked her in a bad tone, frowning and akimbo.
Wang Shi didn't quarrel with her this time, and asked her in a good voice: "My family wants to do a small business of food. It's just that I haven't come back for many years, and I have no time to craft. I don't know the current market, so I have to ask you about it. ."
"Can you do business with your craftsmanship?" Mrs. Xu sneered, but she was in a good mood when Mrs. Wang looked low and small, and continued, "I only know that there is a lot of traffic at the wharf, and many small vendors are there. place."
Hearing that, Mrs Wang nodded again and again, and asked him again, "Are you going to buy ready-made or custom-made utensils for the stalls?"
Xu said, "You really think I know everything? Why don't you go to the town and ask?!"
Seeing that she really didn't know, Wang Shi also took a good face and said with his hands on his hips: "I don't know what you are doing?!"
"You bastard, I kindly made fried rice cakes for you. You don't want to send some of the delicious ones. Come up and scold you, right?"
"I won't give you any food, I'll kill you!" Mrs Wang raised her chin proudly and went to the town to ask.
By the evening of this day, Mrs. Wang picked up a set of utensils for setting up the stall from outside.
Because it is ready-made, the price is naturally more expensive than that made of wood, especially if there is a new large iron pot in it, you can directly add firewood and charcoal below, and fire it directly on the stall, which is even more expensive. Low tables, benches, pots and pans, all kinds of things, cost her twenty taels of silver.
Of course, there are other products that are cheaper, but firstly, other products are not so complete and upright, and secondly, this is the Laozi number in the town. The owner declares that as long as it is his family's products, it can be sold back at a discount if it is not needed. of. This is more fair than others.
Gu Yin saw that she was busy outside all day, carrying a burden and sweating all over her head, so she quickly poured water for her, and then wringed a sweaty towel to wipe her face.
"Mother should let me go with you, it's not good to keep you busy all the time."
Mrs Wang poured a large gulp of hot water, "The doctor said that you don't know about resting? Just stay at home. Besides, if this business is done, there will be times when you are busy in the future, and you will be free for half a day. ."
Gu Yin did not persuade him any further, and went into the kitchen to do the preparatory work.
Early the next morning, Gu Yin's wonton stall was placed on the pier in Hanshan Town.