Feng Yifan's unique way of preparing oyster mushrooms really makes everyone feel amazing.
At this time, when everyone was enjoying the shredded oyster mushrooms with gusto, he was looking at the various wild vegetables and thinking about how to make them into suitable dishes
Soon an idea emerged in Feng Yifan's mind, and he quickly outlined an interesting dish.
Su Ruoxi was left playing with her daughter at Han Wenwen's house, while Feng Yifan pushed his father-in-law and took Ning Cheng with him to say goodbye and go home.
Feng Ruoruo didn't make a fuss about asking her father to stay or go with her father.
Because the little girl knew very well that her father went home to research new dishes.
Feng Ruoruo sent her father out the door, waved her hand and said, "Bye, Dad. You have to give Ruoruo the new dish you made at noon. It must be delicious."
Feng Yifan smiled and nodded, then stretched out his hand and high-fived his daughter's hand.
"Well, we high-fived. Dad will definitely use the wild delicacies I bought from Sister Wenwen's house today to make a delicious lunch for Ruoruo."
Feng Ruoruo smiled happily and nodded: "Well, come on, Dad."
Afterwards, Feng Yifan said goodbye to his wife and other members of the Han family, and pushed his father-in-law and took Ning Cheng back.
As for the purchased wild delicacies, they were all in the small basket in Ning Cheng's arms.
After watching Feng Yifan and the others leave and looking at Feng Yifan's back, Mr. Han said, "It seems that Yifan has made great progress over the years. Yifan was not so serious before. When he was a child, he was more like a naughty and extremely rebellious boy."
After hearing what her grandfather said, Han Wenwen couldn't help but become curious about Uncle Yifan's childhood.
"Grandpa, was Uncle Yifan very rebellious when he was a child? Was he disobedient?"
Grandma rushed to answer, "When Ruoruo's father was a child, he was not as obedient as Ruoruo is now. At that time, he often quarreled with Ruoruo's grandparents, but Ruoruo's grandparents rarely beat him. Maybe the only time was when he did something very outrageous and was severely beaten by Ruoruo's grandfather."
When Feng Ruoruo heard what Wenwen's sister and grandmother said, she quickly asked, "Grandma, has my dad been beaten by my grandfather? Did my dad disobey his will and my grandfather spanked him?"
Grandma Wenwen smiled and shook her head: "It's not just a spanking. Grandpa Ruoruo took a stick and beat your dad so hard that your dad had to have his arm in a cast. After that, your grandparents didn't beat your dad again, but your dad became much more obedient."
Su Ruoxi had heard her husband and her parents-in-law mention more than once that her husband was rebellious when he was a child.
But I have never heard that my husband was beaten so badly by his parents.
Su Ruoxi thought for a moment and asked, "Then what on earth was the reason for the beating?"
Old Man Han said, "Because Ruoruo's father took Yue Qingsong and a few children from the village and almost burned down the forest in the mountains north of the village."
Su Ruoxi was very surprised when she heard this, and Han Wenwen and Yue Qihao, who had just arrived at the woods, were also very surprised.
Yue Qihao couldn't help but ask: "My father is also involved?"
Grandma Wenwen smiled and said, "Your father was also beaten when he got home, but not as severely as Ruoruo's father, because at that time Ruoruo's father said that he was the one who started the fire, so Ruoruo's father was beaten the worst by Ruoruo's grandfather."
Su Ruoxi was really a little surprised, but she had another idea in her mind. It seemed that neither her husband nor her parents-in-law mentioned that matter. She vaguely felt that there might be another hidden story, so no one in the family mentioned it. Maybe her husband deliberately took full responsibility at the time
Old Man Han spoke again: "Well, that's all in the past. Now Ruoruo's father is a responsible husband and a good father, right?"
Feng Ruoruo saw Grandpa Han asking her and nodded with a smile: "Yes, my dad is the best."
Su Ruoxi came back to her senses, smiled and touched her daughter's head: "Don't always praise your father like this, it will make others laugh at you, thinking that Ruoruo is always clinging to her father and is a little baby."
After hearing what her mother said, Feng Ruoruo looked at her in surprise and said, "Ruoruo is already a baby."
The conversation between the mother and daughter instantly made everyone laugh.
Su Ruoxi could only say helplessly: "Okay, you are a baby."
Feng Ruoruo smiled happily, stretched out her hand and pulled Sister Wenwen and said, "Okay, Sister Wenwen, Brother Haohao, let's go play together. We don't have to go to Grandpa and Grandma's vegetable garden today. Let's go to the village and play with the children in the village, okay?"
When Su Ruoxi heard her daughter say this, she smiled and said, "Then Ruoruo can go play with her sister and brother. Mom will go home first."
Feng Ruoruo immediately grabbed her mother's hand and said, "No, Mom, come play with us."
Su Ruoxi heard her daughter's words and said with a smile, "How can a mother follow you when you are a group of little kids going out to play? Besides, look at your older sister, older brother, and other children, didn't they let their parents follow them? So you have to go with your older sister and older brother, too."
Feng Ruoruo still didn't let go, and pulled her mother and said, "But Ruoruo wants mom to go with her. Otherwise, if you go home, dad won't be able to accompany mom, and mom will have no one to play with."
After hearing what her daughter said, Su Ruoxi really had the illusion that she was an empty-nest elderly.
But then she changed her mind and smiled and said, "Mom can go find someone else to play with. Mom can go find your Aunt Hu Yan, right?"
After hearing what her mother said, Feng Ruoruo thought for a moment and said, "Okay, then mom, you go find Aunt Hu, and I'll go play with Sister Wenwen and Brother Haohao. When we're done playing, I'll go find you at Aunt Hu's house? Then we'll go home together for dinner, okay, mom?"
Her daughter arranged everything, and Su Ruoxi thought it was a good idea, so she nodded and agreed.
"Okay, Mom will wait for Ruoruo at Aunt Hu Yan's house."
Afterwards, Su Ruoxi and the three children also said goodbye to Han Wenwen's grandparents and walked to the fork in the road in the village. The three children went to the village to play with other children, while Su Ruoxi went to Hu Yan's house.
During this period, Su Ruoxi was relatively relaxed in the village and was not familiar with most of the villagers.
The only ones I am relatively familiar with are Qi Yan and Hu Yan.
Among them, she might be able to chat with Hu Yan better, so she still prefers to chat with Hu Yan, and by the way, she can feed the ducks with her at Hu Yan's house.
Feng Ruoruo was pulled by her sister and brother and walked towards the village together, calling all the children in the village who had played with her before.
The children in the village were quite repulsive to Feng Ruoruo at the beginning, but now they are willing to play with her.
So when Feng Ruoruo and her sister and brother called out, many children in the village soon came running over.
It’s not a lot, but in fact there are quite a few people, about ten children.
This group of children, like a small team, ran towards the grassland and small woods at the foot of the mountain north of the village. That place was where the children went out to play.
Although it is summer and the sun is quite strong overhead, the children don't have to worry about being sunburned in such a small forest with lush branches and leaves.
Feng Yifan pushed his father-in-law back and told him his thoughts on the way.
"Dad, what do you think of a dish like this? I use river fish, mash it into a paste, and then make it into a dough, wrap it around the fern, and then fry or pan-fry it to make small meat patties?"
Su Jinrong seemed to have guessed what Feng Yifan was thinking. After thinking for a while, he asked, "Are you going to stew the bracken in the Su Zao soup? Wrap it in the middle of the river meat paste?"
Feng Yifan immediately said: "Yes, and we only use the front end of the fern, so the shape will be better."
After another period of contemplation, Su Jinrong gave some suggestions again.
"Well, we can use different meat pastes instead of mixing them together to make individual small cakes. This way the taste will vary. Then we can call this dish 'The Taste of Mountains and Rivers'. What do you think?"
After listening to the advice given by his father-in-law, Feng Yifan felt that it was indeed feasible.
Use different river seafood to make a paste and use it as a dough to wrap the ferns.
In this way, it is even possible to shape them into the shape of flowers on the plate, or into the shape of a dragon of mountains and rivers. Feng Yifan can freely play with these.
Of course, the first and most important point is to ensure that it tastes good.
Moreover, the processing of bracken is a very tedious process.
It usually takes multiple cookings to ensure that the toxins in the bracken are removed. Otherwise, if it is eaten directly, it may cause poisoning.
Along the way, Ning Cheng listened to the discussion between Feng Yifan and Su Jinrong, and he was also very curious. What would Feng Yifan cook the bracken and river fish like? He really couldn't think of it.
After returning home, Feng Yifan immediately began to prepare.
First, boil water in a large pot and put all the bracken into the pot for the first cooking. And during the cooking process, be sure to cover the pot and simmer.
After cooking for about ten minutes, take out all the ferns and wash them several times with clean water.
Then cut off all the hard parts of the bracken, split the bracken into two halves with a knife, and then wash it in clean water.
Then put it in the pot and cook it. You can add some salt during this process.
Still need to cover the pot and simmer.
After the final cooking is completed, it is still necessary to wash it to ensure that all the sticky substances inside the fern are cleaned up. However, such fern cannot be used directly for cooking. It needs to be put aside and soaked in running water overnight to completely remove the toxins in the fern.
Of course, you can also soak it by changing the water continuously.
Although the process is very cumbersome, it is to ensure that there will be no problems when people eat it.
Once everything is done, soak the fern in a basin of water and place it under the spring in the backyard so that it can be slowly soaked by the running water.
Feng Yifan returned to the kitchen and smiled helplessly: "Looks like we can't do it today?"
Hearing this, Su Jinrong smiled and said, "If you can't make bracken, then you can make something else. Aren't there still a lot of mountain products?"
Feng Yifan nodded and said, "Well, let's make something else first, and study that dish tomorrow."
Then Feng Yifan thought of the failed dish he had made before. Considering that he now had a lot of mountain products on hand, he had some new ideas and decided to make some improvements.
He still used Suzhou meat, but this time he didn't wrap it with dried tofu. Instead, he used the bamboo fungus that Han Wenwen picked, which is not very common.
After soaking the dried bamboo fungus that Han Wenwen had prepared in water, she washed it thoroughly, cut it into small pieces, and then cut it all in half.
Afterwards, Feng Yifan stuffed all the chopped Su Zao meat into the cut bamboo fungus.
Next, Feng Yifan placed all the bamboo fungus stuffed with Suzhou meat on a plate, poured a little Suzhou soup at the bottom of the plate, and put it in a pot to steam.
While the steaming process was going on, Feng Yifan was cooking a sauce in another small pot.
A little bit of base oil, then add a little chicken oil, after blending, add salt, sugar, pepper and soy sauce and stir-fry, finally add some thin glass starch.
When the sauce is prepared, the bamboo fungus in the pot has also been steamed. Take it out and pour out the soup at the bottom of the plate. After rearranging the dish, pour the sauce on it.
In this way, a dish of bamboo fungus stuffed with meat is ready.
Different from the usual bamboo fungus stuffed meat, Feng Yifan's meat is braised in Suzhou, and Suzhou soup is added when steaming, so the flavor has penetrated into the bamboo fungus. Pour the final sauce on top, and the aroma is very tempting.
Feng Yifan still only made a little, and then let his father-in-law and Ning Cheng taste it together.
This time, after taking a bite, the previous taste problems seemed to be solved all at once, and it can be said to be delicious and juicy.
And it tastes really unique.
After tasting it, Su Jinrong said, "Well, this idea is really great. It doesn't lose the flavor of the meat and the original flavor of the bamboo fungus, and at the same time it has the flavor of Suzhou soup. And the sauce you added at the end is really the finishing touch, which enhances the taste experience of the whole dish. It is really a delicious mountain delicacy."
Ning Cheng also thought it was delicious, but he couldn't express himself as professionally as Su Jinrong.
He demonstrated the deliciousness with his actions by eating two or three in a row.
But at the end of the meal, Ning Cheng suddenly asked: "Uncle Yifan, this is just stuffed meat. Can we add some river food to the meat filling? For example, shrimp? Or add snail meat, which is in season now? Will it taste better this way?"
Ning Cheng's words made Feng Yifan and Su Jinrong look at each other in surprise.
Then Feng Yifan smiled and said, "Not bad, Ning Cheng has made great progress. He even thought of adding some river fish to it. Very good. I'll give you credit for this idea."
Ning Cheng felt a little embarrassed to receive such praise.
"No, Uncle Yifan, I, I just said it casually, you, I hope you don't think I'm talking nonsense, I, I don't need any credit."
Su Jinrong also laughed: "Don't be nervous, I'll remember your achievement. Aren't you one step closer to becoming my disciple?"
Hearing this, Ning Cheng quickly said excitedly: "Well, okay, okay, I want this skill."
Suddenly, a burst of laughter broke out in the Feng family’s kitchen.