Originally, Yue Qingsong thought steaming buns was nothing special, because every household in the village made them on a regular basis, and Yue Qingsong's own family would also steam a lot of them during festivals.
The steamed buns made by Feng Yifan didn’t look anything special.
So Yue Qingsong didn't take it seriously, but was thinking about the elbow meat he could get after it was served.
Finally, when the steamed buns were done and Feng Yifan had prepared the soup, the pork elbow in the casserole was also cooked.
Feng Yifan first reduced the fire in the furnace, and then he and Yue Qingsong pushed his father-in-law out.
At this time, the sun was setting outside. Because the Feng family's small courtyard faced south and north, the sunset glow was falling from the roof of the west house into the courtyard, illuminating half of the entire courtyard red. Combined with the ancient wooden color of the other half, it really had a unique sense of tranquility.
Feng Ruoruo placed her little duck on the small table, and then tried hard to pinch the dough to resemble the little duck in the box.
Yue Qihao next to him was also trying very hard to pinch the dough, and he had already managed to make it into the shape of a duck.
Feng Ruoruo turned her head and took a look. The little girl couldn't help but exclaimed: "Brother Haohao, you have made all the ducklings. The little ducklings you made are so beautiful."
Yue Qihao felt a little embarrassed after being praised by his sister.
Scratching his head, Yue Qihao said shyly: "Actually, I didn't do it very well. I couldn't make the duck's body, and the head didn't look very similar."
Feng Ruoruo continued: "Very good, I think it's very good."
Just at this moment, Feng Yifan and Yue Qingsong pushed Su Jinrong out of the kitchen together.
Feng Yifan shouted directly: "Okay, everyone, get ready to eat. We're going to have steamed buns tonight. I made fresh steamed buns."
When Feng Ruoruo saw her father coming out, the little girl quickly ran over and pulled her father over to see.
"Dad, look, brother Haohao made a little duck, but Ruoruo didn't make one at all."
Feng Yifan saw that the duck made by his daughter on the table was indeed crooked and looked unrecognizable, but the one made by Yue Qihao next to it did look a little like a duck.
He smiled and praised Yue Qihao: "Xiaohao, you are really good at kneading. Ruoruo, you should learn from your brother."
Yue Qihao felt even more embarrassed: "Uncle Feng, I didn't do it well. It doesn't look like the original at all."
Feng Ruoruo continued to praise: "It looks like it, it looks like it. Ruoruo thinks Brother Haohao made it look like it."
Feng Yifan smiled and said to his daughter, "Okay, you and your brother go wash your hands with mom and the others. We are going to prepare dinner. Hasn't Ruoruo been complaining about being hungry for a long time?"
Feng Ruoruo was a little excited when she heard her father's words: "Can we eat now? Dad, are we going to eat the meat you cooked tonight? The meat in the pot that smells so good."
Feng Yifan nodded: "Yes, we will eat that delicious meat tonight."
Feng Ruoruo immediately clapped her hands and cheered: "Great, we can eat delicious meat tonight. Brother Haohao, let's go quickly, wash our hands, and then eat the delicious meat made by daddy together."
Yue Qihao thought for a moment and corrected his sister: "That's not called fragrant meat, that's pork elbow."
Feng Ruoruo nodded and said, "Okay, pork elbow, um, it's very fragrant, so it should be called fragrant meat."
After hearing what his sister said, Yue Qihao really couldn't refute it for a moment.
Yue Qingsong patted his son and said, "Okay, go wash your hands, and then come and prepare to eat."
On the other side, the people chatting in the main room also came out. Su Ruoxi waved to the two children and said, "Okay, you two kids, come over and wash your hands. You have been playing for the whole afternoon. If you don't wash your hands, they will be full of bacteria and you can't eat, understand?"
Qi Yan smiled and said, "It's the aunties from the city who are good at telling people to come and wash their hands, Haohao."
The two children quickly ran to their two mothers and followed their mothers and grandparents to wash their hands.
While the children went to wash their hands, Feng Yifan also tidied up the things on the small table.
Then he went to the kitchen, washed his hands, and then brought out the prepared casserole and steamer one after another. The last thing he brought out was a very light egg drop soup.
Everything was ready, and everyone washed their hands and came back, bringing small stools to sit around the table under the persimmon tree in the courtyard.
Feng Yifan first opened the casserole, and instantly the rich aroma of meat rose up.
The rising hot steam made it difficult to see clearly what was in the pot.
Although it is not clear, the rich aroma of meat is still mouth-watering.
"Wow, it smells so good." Yue Qingsong's mother was the first to sigh, "It's been a long time since I smelled such delicious meat. I feel that the meat I eat now is not as delicious as when I was a child, but Yifan's pot of meat is really delicious."
Feng Yifan smiled and said, "If Auntie thinks it's delicious, then eat a few more pieces today."
Feng Jiandong added: "Now that our living standards are better, we can eat meat every meal, so it doesn't taste as good as when we were kids. Yifan's pot of meat is really delicious today."
Qi Yan then asked: "Brother Yifan, how did you cook this meat? Why is it so fragrant?"
Yue Qingsong quickly said, "These are my sister-in-law's family's secret recipes, you can't just ask about them casually."
Su Ruoxi was surprised and asked, "Is this our family's secret recipe?"
Feng Yifan smiled and said, "It's not an ancestral secret recipe yet, it should be called a lost secret recipe. I haven't fully recovered the ratio yet. If I can figure out the right ratio in the future, I can give a portion to my younger brother and sister-in-law, and you can also make it at home."
Qi Yan quickly waved her hand: "Well, then let's not do it."
Seeing this, Su Ruoxi took Qi Yan's hand and said, "It's okay. In fact, these recipes in our family are not really secret recipes now, and they are not completely forbidden to be passed on to others."
Su Jinrong also spoke up: "Yes, I can give you a simpler recipe. You can braise it at home and it won't taste bad."
By this time the heat had dissipated, and Feng Ruoruo saw the meat arranged in the casserole like a flower.
"Wow, this is so delicious. When can we eat it, Dad?"
Hearing her granddaughter's words, Lu Cuiling immediately said, "Okay, okay, let's start eating quickly. Our Ruoruo is hungry. You guys should stop chatting here. Let's all eat quickly."
When his mother spoke, Feng Yifan naturally smiled and told everyone that they could eat, and opened the steamer of steamed buns.
After the steamer was opened, Feng Yifan took out a small knife, then took out a steamed bun from the steamer and cut a slit on the horizontal surface of the bun with the knife.
When everyone thought that Feng Yifan was going to cut it open for everyone to pick the elbow meat.
But he saw that a small piece of dough was actually dug out from the cut made by Feng Yifan with a knife.
Afterwards, Feng Yifan cut a horizontal slit in the steamer one by one, took out a bunch of unleavened steamed buns from the slit, and placed the unleavened steamed buns in the steamer. He then placed the steamed buns with the slit in a separate plate.
"This way it will be easier for everyone to eat. Okay, everyone, eat it and put the pork elbow in the steamed buns."
Everyone was still a little surprised at this time. Perhaps except for Su Jinrong, no one had thought that this would be the case.
After a long while, Feng Ruoruo said loudly: "Dad, there is a small steamed bun inside your steamed bun, how did you do that?"
After being asked this by Ruoruo, everyone else also became curious.
Feng Yifan smiled and said, "It's very simple actually. Dad put some unleavened dough inside the leavened dough and smeared oil on the surface of the steamed buns when wrapping them. That's how they become like now after steaming. As for those small unleavened buns, we can eat them by soaking them in soup or stir-frying them with meat tomorrow."
Su Jinrong said at this time: "Don't worry about tomorrow, Yifan, go and fry a plate now. Steamed buns with steamed buns is also a specialty."
Seeing his father-in-law speak, Feng Yifan agreed and carried the steamed buns in the steamer into the kitchen.
While the sparks in the furnace are still there, quickly add firewood to light up the fire.
Then Feng Yifan cut the steamed buns made of unleavened dough into small dices, and took out some bacon that he had asked his parents to bring back, cut it into small dices as well, and stir-fried it in the pot with the steamed buns.
Soon a plate of fried bacon with steamed bun cubes was served, and finally sprinkled with a handful of chopped green onions and a little sesame oil.
When I walked out the door with the plate, everyone outside the kitchen looked over at me, smelling the fragrance.
Yue Qingsong looked at the plate of bacon and fried steamed buns and couldn't help swallowing his saliva: "I think this one looks better than the one in the casserole?"
Hearing Yue Qingsong's words, Feng Yifan smiled and said, "Why don't you just eat this? Don't eat the pork elbow in the casserole?"
Yue Qingsong quickly said: "Well, that won't work."
Everyone burst into laughter immediately.
Feng Ruoruo stood up and said, "Okay, Dad is here, let's eat."
Seeing her daughter's appearance, Su Ruoxi said to her husband, "Your good daughter, if you hadn't come, we wouldn't have been able to eat."
Feng Yifan smiled and said to his daughter, "Okay, Dad thanks Ruoruo."
Then he called out to everyone, "Okay, okay, come eat quickly and try this pot of Suzhou pork elbow that I made."
Feng Ruoruo reached out and pulled her father and said, "Dad, hurry up and pick some meat for Ruoruo."
After hearing this, Feng Yifan took out a hollow steamed bun and put a few slices of pork elbow from the casserole in it for his daughter.
When he was about to pass it to his daughter, she said, "Dad, there's this, and there's this, Ruoruo should also have this little bun."
Feng Ruoruo had a good memory and remembered that the dish her father fried was steamed buns.
Feng Yifan smiled and put some more on his daughter: "Okay, put some on Ruoruo too."
Others also started to pick up their chopsticks, picked up the hollow steamed buns, and put slices of Suzhou-style pork elbow from the casserole in them, as well as some diced steamed buns fried with bacon.
Feng Ruoruo was given a big steamed bun by her father. She held it with her two little hands, then opened her mouth wide and took a bite.
The moment her daughter bit her, Su Ruoxi quickly took out her cell phone and captured this scene.
After taking the photo, Su Ruoxi did not forget to post it on her circle of friends.
"My daughter has such a big mouth. Dad's steamed bun with pork elbow is so delicious."
Feng Ruoruo took a big bite and saw her mother patting her. Before she swallowed it, she yelled, "Mom, umm..."
Seeing her daughter's look, Su Ruoxi smiled and said, "Eat it in your mouth first before you talk."
The little girl was angry, but she listened to her mother and tried hard to eat what was in her mouth. Her cheeks gradually became flat.
After eating it, Feng Ruoruo shouted, "Mom, why did you slap me?"
Su Ruoxi smiled and responded, "Because mom likes it. Mom thinks the way Ruoruo ate just now is very funny, so mom took a picture and then posted it on WeChat Moments to show everyone how ugly our little foodie is when he eats with his big mouthfuls."
Hearing her mother say that she was ugly, Feng Ruoruo was immediately unhappy: "Ah, mom, you are so mean, Ruoruo is not ugly."
Su Ruoxi said with a smile: "But Ruoruo looked ugly when she was eating just now."
Feng Ruoruo was unhappy, so she stood up and ran over to her mother.
"Mom, please delete it quickly and stop saying Ruoruo is ugly."
Seeing the little girl making a fuss with her mother, the grandmother next to her smiled and reached out to pull her granddaughter over: "Okay, okay, mommy was just joking with Ruoruo. If Ruoruo is ugly, then isn't Ruoruo's mother ugly too? Grandma thinks Ruoruo looked very cute when she ate just now, and it's great that she ate with big mouthfuls."
Su Ruoxi was teased by her daughter for a while, and said with a smile: "Hahaha, good, Ruoruo is not ugly, not ugly."
After hearing her mother change her words, the little girl finally calmed down, but she didn't want to stay in her mother's arms. She still snuggled into her grandmother's arms and continued eating while sitting in her grandmother's arms.
Seeing the appearance of this family, Yue Qingsong's family was extremely happy.
Yue Qihao couldn't help but laugh secretly while eating.
At the same time, everyone also tasted the flavor of Feng Yifan's Suzhou-style pork elbow. It has to be said that it really tastes different. Because the pork elbow itself is first stewed with spices, it has a very rich aroma, and when paired with the subsequent seasonings, it can be said to be really delicious.
Just put a piece of it in the hollow bun, and you can finish the whole bun.
While Feng Yifan and his family were eating happily at home, the photo that Su Ruoxi sent soon attracted a lot of attention.
Many people commented on Su Ruoxi's Moments, asking what Su Zao Pork Knuckle is? Is it a new dish created by Chef Feng? When will they go back? When can they eat it at Su Ji
Various questions kept popping up, but Su Ruoxi was eating and didn't care.
Feng Yifan and his father-in-law savored this Suzhou-style pork elbow carefully.
After tasting it, Su Jinrong said, "Well, it tastes really good. Moreover, the elbow made in this way not only brings out the original meat aroma, but also contains the flavors of those spices, which adds a lot of flavor to the taste. Yifan, it seems that your Su-style soup has achieved initial results."
After listening to his father-in-law's words, Feng Yifan smiled and said, "Well, I have found a way. I need to try a few more times to see if there is room for adjustment in the ratio."
Su Jinrong nodded: "Well, it's better to try more and try to make the flavor unique, so that it can be unique to our Su Ji."
Feng Jiandong heard this and agreed, "Yifan, your father-in-law is right. If you want to do something, you have to be unique. Only in this way can your father-in-law's restaurant business be better."
Feng Yifan responded with a smile: "Dad, don't worry, I will definitely continue to try to improve it and do my best to restore it."