"Dad, what are you and grandma doing in the back? Uncle Yang and I are here to learn how to cook from you."
Outside the bathroom, the voice of "Su Ji Little Overlord" Feng Ruoruo was heard. Feng Yifan quickly turned his head and responded to the outside: "I'm coming, I'm coming."
Feng Yifan responded and quickly turned around and walked out of the bathroom. He saw Feng Ruoruo, who had just woken up from her nap and had eaten snacks with her good friend, standing at the back door of the kitchen waiting with her pouty mouth.
Seeing her father coming out, Feng Ruoruo stepped forward and said, "Dad, why are you so slow?"
Feng Yifan quickly took two steps forward, squatted down, smiled and said to his daughter: "Dad is talking to the new dishwasher."
After listening to her father's explanation, Feng Ruoruo suddenly became curious: "Who is the new dishwasher?"
As she was talking, Lu Cuiling led Zhao Daxia out and introduced her to her granddaughter: "This is the auntie that grandma invited to help dad wash the dishes. Ruoruo can call her 'Auntie'."
Feng Ruoruo looked at Zhao Daxia, sized her up, and said confidently, "Hello, Auntie. Thank you for helping Dad wash the dishes."
Zhao Daxia saw that the little girl was very cute with her red lips and white teeth. When she heard the little girl greet her actively, she immediately thought that the little girl was very well-behaved.
"You're welcome too. Auntie washes the dishes for your father, and your father pays you."
Feng Ruoruo was still cheerful after hearing this and said, "Then I have to thank Auntie too. If you come to wash the dishes for Dad, Dad will have more time to play with Ruoruo and make snacks for her."
After hearing this, Zhao Daxia smiled and said, "This little girl is really smart."
Feng Ruoruo felt a little embarrassed by the compliment: "Thank you, Auntie."
Then, the little girl remembered that Xixi's father still wanted to learn cooking from him, so she quickly pulled his hand and said, "Dad, let's go in quickly. Xixi, Feifei, Uncle Yang, and Grandpa and Grandma are all waiting for you."
Feng Yifan held his daughter's hand and said to his mother and Zhao Daxia, "Mom, please take my elder sister to the front first to get familiar with it."
Lu Cuiling responded, "Okay, then let's go sit in the front first and not disturb you from learning how to cook."
Zhao Daxia followed Lu Cuiling through the kitchen and went to the restaurant in front. She also saw two little girls in the kitchen. The old couple and the talkative man she met before were also there.
Following Lu Cuiling out of the kitchen, Zhao Daxia couldn't help asking, "Auntie, I want to ask, are those people in the kitchen the boss's apprentices?"
Lu Cuiling calmly replied, "No, they are the parents of my granddaughter's kindergarten classmates."
Zhao Daxia was very surprised: "Why did the boss teach them how to cook? If others teach them, won't they stop coming to your house to eat?"
Su Ruoxi just happened to come over and was about to say something to her mother-in-law when she heard what Zhao Daxia said.
Su Ruoxi immediately said, "They are all friends, and they can't come to our house every day to eat out. Teaching them to cook is mainly so that they can cook for their children when they go home."
Zhao Daxia was still very surprised when she heard this: "Your restaurant is really weird. Other restaurants are eager to have more customers and make more money, but yours doesn't seem to care at all?"
Lu Cuiling said lightly: "It's enough to make money, there's no need to worry about everything."
Su Ruoxi explained with a smile: "We are all friends, there is no need to be so particular, big sister, you should sit down and take a rest, we are still early for business hours."
Zhao Daxia then asked, "Do we need to wait for the boss to teach us how to cook?"
Su Ruoxi looked at her watch and said, "We don't open for dinner until 5pm."
Zhao Daxia was also a little surprised: "What? You still have to wait until five o'clock?"
Lu Cuiling said impatiently, "It's too early, and no one is coming for dinner. Just find a place to sit down and rest. When the business opens, you can go to the back to help."
Upon hearing this, Zhao Daxia had no choice but to agree and found a seat to sit down and wait. After all, there was still nearly an hour until five o'clock.
In the kitchen, Feng Yifan has already started teaching the parents of both families how to cook.
"Today I'm going to make braised pork, a more homely method, so that everyone can go home and make it for their little ones at home."
Yang Xiaoxi immediately said, "Father Feng, you must teach my father."
When Yang Zhiyi heard his daughter's words, he couldn't help but say, "Yang Xiaoxi, do you really not think highly of Dad? Do you think Dad can't learn it?"
Yang Xiaoxi pouted and said, "Dad, you are a little bit stupid, so you must study hard."
Yang Zhiyi was very depressed by his daughter's words. After holding it in for a long time, he said, "Today, Dad must learn it once and for all. Let you know how good Dad is. I will make you the same braised pork as Dad Feng in the future."
When Grandpa Feifei heard this, he smiled and said, "Not bad, not bad. Today, Xixi's father finally showed some fighting spirit."
Feng Yifan also smiled and first carefully selected a piece of pork belly.
Seeing the beautiful three-layer pattern on the pork belly, Yang Zhiyi subconsciously couldn't help but slurp his saliva.
The three little girls heard it, and Yang Xiaoxi immediately said, "Dad, the meat isn't cooked yet, why are you drooling?"
Feng Ruoruo said seriously: "Uncle, you can't eat it if it's not cooked thoroughly. It will upset your stomach."
Chen Yaofei also agreed seriously: "Yes, Uncle Yang, you must cook it well before eating."
Yang Zhiyi blushed and could only say, "I just think this piece of meat is great, and I think it will taste good when cooked."
This conversation between the three little girls and Yang Zhiyi also made Feng Yifan and Feifei's grandparents very happy.
Feng Yifan put the meat on the chopping board and said, "I don't need to explain how to choose meat, right? For braised pork, you must use pork belly, the pork belly under the ribs, which has distinct layers. This is the best."
Next, Feng Yifan put the pot directly on the fire. After heating the empty pot, he put the selected square pork belly with the skin facing down in the iron pot and fried it.
Seeing this step, both Yang Zhiyi and Feifei's grandparents felt very strange.
Grandma Feifei asked curiously, "Ruoruo's father, what are you doing?"
Feng Yifan smiled and said: "This is actually to remove the smell of the pig skin. When you make it at home, you can also skip this step and cook it in boiling water instead."
After frying the pig skin until golden and even a little bit black, Feng Yifan put the pork belly into clean water to wash it.
"If you do this at home, make sure to wash the pig skin thoroughly, otherwise the bitter taste left by the fried pig skin will remain."
After washing it, Feng Ruoruo saw that the meat her father took out did not have any black or yellow spots. She clapped her hands and said, "Dad washed it clean. That's great."
With his daughter cheering beside him, Feng Yifan felt very happy and continued to the next step with a smile.
"The next step is to cook the meat. Many people may ignore this step when cooking at home, which will result in the meat not tasting good. Now the pork has a strong residual odor, so it must be cooked."
Put the pork into the pot with cold water, pour in some rice wine, scallion knots and a few slices of ginger.
When it boiled, Feng Yifan carefully skimmed off the foam with a spoon.
Yang Zhiyi looked at him in surprise and asked, "Chef Feng, you don't use the water for cooking meat, so why do you bother to skim off the foam?"
Feng Yifan smiled and said, "Think about it, the purpose of cooking meat is to cook out the impurities. Now that the impurities have been cooked out, if you don't clean them out, won't they be cooked back into the meat?"
When Yang Zhiyi heard this, he suddenly realized: "Oh, so that's how it is."
Yang Xiaoxi pouted and said, "Dad, you are stupid."
Yang Zhiyi listened to his daughter and said seriously: "Dad doesn't understand, so Dad has to ask clearly, otherwise how can I cook delicious food for you and mom when I get home?"
Yang Xiaoxi thought about it and felt that his father was right, then he said, "Well, then dad is not stupid, you have to study hard."
After skimming off the foam and cooking for a while, the meat was not completely cooked, so Feng Yifan took out the pork and put it in cold water to cool and wash it.
Then Feng Yifan took out the pork and started to cut it.
Seeing Feng Yifan cut the pork into four equal-sized cubes, both Yang Zhiyi and Feifei's grandparents were a little surprised.
Because of the seemingly casual change of the knife, the pieces of meat cut by Feng Yifan were almost the same size.
After cutting the meat, Feng Yifan saw that the three parents were a little surprised. He added: "If it's at home, it doesn't have to be cut into exactly the same size. It's okay to be a little more casual."
After cutting the meat into pieces, Feng Yifan put the pot back on the fire and added a little oil.
When adding the oil, Feng Yifan added: "I don't use pork oil, but scallion oil that I made myself, in order to enhance the flavor and better remove the odor of the meat."
Yang Zhiyi immediately said, "Chef Feng, then you need to tell us how to make this scallion oil."
Feng Yifan smiled and replied: "Don't worry, I will definitely tell you when I get back."
After saying that, Feng Yifan poured the meat into the pot and began to stir-fry it slowly over low heat, frying out the oil in the meat bit by bit.
"It is important to note that after the oil is fried, the meat should be poured out first, because you cannot use so much oil. This step is to fry off the excess oil in the meat so that it will not be greasy."
Hearing this, Grandma Feifei said, "So that's how it is. No wonder my family always cooks a lot of oil and makes us feel sick."
After serving the meat, Feng Yifan turned the heat down to a very low level and only put a little oil in the pot.
Seeing this, Yang Zhiyi asked curiously: "Chef Feng, what are you doing?"
Feng Yifan smiled and replied: "The next step is to stir-fry the sugar color."
Grandpa Feifei was surprised when he heard this: "Oh? So you're going to use sugar color to color it? This is a job that requires a lot of skills."
Feng Yifan put rock sugar into the pot and then added some water.
"I stir-fry it with water and oil, which is actually not that difficult. You just need to make sure to stir-fry it over low heat and don't be in a hurry. Use a spoon to push it gently in one direction and stir-fry it."
Stir-frying sugar color is indeed very time-consuming. Everyone stood by and watched carefully as the sugar color gradually changed color.
Feng Yifan also explained seriously: "When the big bubble turns into a small bubble, the color will gradually become darker. Wait until the small bubble is about to go down, then it's good."
As he said this, he added more water to the pot to dissolve the sticky sugar in the pot.
Although the sugar has been diluted, the sugar color is still there, a bit like soy sauce soup.
Feng Yifan also poured in a little rice wine, boiled it for a while, let the wine smell evaporate, and then poured out the sugar color soup.
"Now we are basically ready, let's start grilling the meat."
Yang Zhiyi was very surprised when he heard this: "What? This is the end of the preparations? Are we going to officially start burning now?"
Feng Yifan has to prepare all of the above carefully to ensure that the meat can be grilled perfectly in one go.
After saying that, without any further ado, he put a little oil in the pot, added the onion, ginger, bay leaves, star anise, and a white cardamom and stir-fried them.
After the aroma comes out, pour all the meat pieces into the pot and stir-fry together.
Then add hot water to cover the meat, add some rice wine, and then scoop a spoonful of sugar color soup in. The next step is seasoning.
Add some soy sauce, a little sugar, and a little salt.
"You have to be careful here. You can't add cold water. You have to add hot water to the pot to stew it."
After seasoning, Feng Yifan first cooked the meat over high heat and poured it directly into the pressure cooker with oil on the bottom.
"For this dish, the soup must be cooked completely. Now that we have a pressure cooker, it is much easier and saves a lot of time."
After pressing the meat in the pressure cooker, Feng Yifan said with a smile, "Okay, it's done now. We just need to press the meat out at the end."
Seeing this, Yang Zhiyi and Feifei's grandparents had watched the entire process.
Although it does not seem complicated, the many details in this process still make the three parents feel that they are very particular.
Feng Yifan then explained how to make scallion oil and prepared some boiled eggs: "You can make a cut on the surface of the egg, fry it a little in oil, and then cook it with the meat. It will taste better."
That being said, Feng Yifan also did the same.
When the eggs are almost fried and the meat is basically pressed, put the eggs in and simmer them together.
At this time, the fragrance has already come out, and the whole kitchen is filled with the aroma of meat, making people unable to help but drool.
Especially the three little girls can't wait.
"Dad, hurry up, I want to eat."
"Dad Feng, Xixi wants to eat too."
"Dad Feng, Feifei wants to eat too."
Feng Yifan smiled and comforted the little girls: "Don't worry, it will be ready soon. We need to cook the eggs to taste the flavor."
At this point, Feng Yifan said to Feifei's grandparents and Xixi's father: "If you make it at home and are not in a hurry, I suggest you don't use a pressure cooker. Use an iron pot to simmer slowly over low heat. It will taste better that way."
After a period of simmering, the pressure cooker finally released the steam and Feng Yifan opened the lid again.
In an instant, an even more fragrant smell rushed out.
Not to mention the three little girls and Yang Zhiyi, even Feifei's grandparents couldn't help but swallow their saliva several times.
Feng Yifan took the braised pork out of the pressure cooker, placed it piece by piece in a small black casserole, then poured the soup from the pot on it and sprinkled a little bit of chopped green onion on it for garnish.
A delicious dish of braised pork is ready.