Qin Rou took the passion fruit vine seedlings home and planted them under thatched umbrellas, and set up a trellis so that they could climb the vines freely. According to Aunt Fu, the passion fruit vines are cheap and easy to feed, and they can be planted casually They can live, even simple stems can live, and they can grow in one year. They can bloom several times in a year, and bear three or four batches of fruits. The flowers they bloom are very strange, neither good-looking nor ugly , It just looks a little fierce.
Qin Rou felt that the passion fruit bloomed, which looked like the piranha in the game. The passion fruit flower was a little purple, and the petals opened, just like the piranha opened its mouth.
When the flowers wither, they turn into beautiful passion fruits.
"You must make a living."
If these passion fruits are planted in the yard, there will be no shortage of passion fruits in the next year, and you can drink a cup of passion fruit tea from time to time.
Lu Yan was not sensitive to this kind of fruit, because he secretly opened and tasted one, and it was so sour that he felt like vomiting, and the sparse yellow pulp and black seeds really couldn't stimulate people's appetite.
"What delicious things can this fruit do? Don't ask me to eat it."
Zhouzhou and Jiaozi don’t want to eat sour fruits either, they are on the side of Dad, “Mom, let’s eat sweet fruits.”
"Sweet fruit is delicious."
Tropical and subtropical climates are most suitable for planting fruit trees. Tropical fruits are particularly sweet and greasy. Qiongzhou Island has plenty of sunshine during the day and a large temperature difference between day and night. The fruits naturally accumulate a lot of cyclamate. Even the wild fruits on the mountain are easy to be ridiculously sweet.
There are so many overripe sweet fruits rotten on the mountain in the wild, why eat sour fruits
There are many delicious fruits on the mountain all year round, and the small animals live very comfortably, which is one of the reasons why there are more animals such as monkeys and squirrels.
"Wait a few days and you will know how delicious it is." Some freshly picked passion fruits are indeed sour, and they will become sour and sweet after being left for a few days. When the skin is slightly wrinkled due to lack of water, the flesh inside Will be sweeter.
Qin Rou waited for two or three days, and when the peel was slightly wrinkled, she cut open seven or eight passion fruits, poured all the pulp inside into their huge enamel jar, and added warm water and sugar according to the proportion.
Passion fruit juice does not need too much operation at all, simply add water and sugar, it can become a cup of sweet and sour refreshing drink, the fragrance is extremely strong, this juice also naturally has "black pearls", absorbing sour The sweet and greasy juice chews the crunchy black seeds, not to mention how comfortable it is.
When Qin Rou used to drink passion fruit juice, she liked to chew passion fruit seeds.
After soaking the passion fruit juice, Qin Rou scooped out a small cup with a spoon. She smelled the rich and attractive fruit aroma, and raised her head to take a sip. As soon as she took the sweet and sour juice, she felt that the whole mouth was covered with fruit. The incense has taken over.
The reason why passion fruit can be called passion fruit is because its juice is extremely rich, like the juice of hundreds of fruits mixed together, you can taste all kinds of wonderful flavors.
It's so delicious! !
The only downside is that the juice is warm. If it has been chilled, it will definitely be more sweet and pleasant. Qin Rou put the enamel jar filled with passion fruit juice together with the lid into the freezer, and it doesn't need to be frozen for a long time, one or two hours You can take it out and drink it.
Qin Rou was thinking about making some square molds? It is used to make small ice cubes in the freezer. Of course, this kind of thing is not urgent. The two cubs in their family are still young, so they can’t eat too much ice. When the cubs grow up, it’s hot You must be greedy for ice cream and popsicles.
After freezing the juice, Qin Rou went to cook a few dishes. Her family wanted to eat some exotic dishes today, pan-fried octopus topped with green kumquat juice, lychee stuffed shrimp, lychee shrimp balls, and pineapple rice, served with a glass of Fragrant passion fruit juice.
Are the two dishes of lychee stuffed shrimp and lychee shrimp balls scary just by their names? Ordinary people probably have never thought that lychees can be used for cooking. Yes, fresh lychees are served with fresh shrimps! ! Everyone said it was delicious! !
It is not difficult to make lychee stuffed shrimp. Fresh shrimp is mixed with cucumber and radish, all of which are mashed into shrimp paste, starch and seasoning are added, and the shrimp paste is stuffed into the plump and beautiful lychee, and the shrimp tail is inserted, and finally it is full Put a plate on the pot to steam, and the steamed beautiful little white rabbits come out one by one.
The lychee meat is bulging, the surface is crystal clear, and the shrimp paste inside seems to be squeezed out. The forked shrimp tails are like the two long ears of a bunny. The meat is plump. This dish is very beautiful. It takes a lot of workmanship. Filling fresh lychees with shrimp paste is a test of operation, so Qin Rou only made eleven in total.
Qin Rou tasted one first, and it tasted very delicious without overturning.
It is much easier to make lychee shrimp balls. After frying the shrimp balls, add fresh lychees and fry for a while. Sprinkle white sesame seeds on the plate. It smells very fragrant.
Qin Rou has prepared all the dishes.
It's just that the food she cooked, Lu Yan, Xia Mingxi, and Zhou Zhou Dumplings, all regarded them as dark dishes.
Lu Yan swallowed hard: "Can lychees still be fried?"
What a weird taste is this
Forgive Captain Lu for not being able to imagine the taste of fried lychee meat.
"Daughter-in-law, since you planted that strange fruit in the yard, your cooking skills have also become strange..."
Even if you want to innovate, it is not such a way to do it.
Xia Mingxi also swallowed: "Little aunt, can I really eat it?"
The uncle and nephew have the same idea, can these dishes be eaten? How to cook tonight, it seems that the pan-fried octopus on the side can barely be eaten, as for others
What about that weird pineapple rice? ? ! !
"Old Wang and his comrade-in-arms sent pineapple from Qianning, you... did you bring it for fried rice?"
Qin Rou was very puzzled: "Can't fried rice work?"
Lu Yan: "..."
Lu Yan, who only loves steamed buns and can accept claypot rice, did not expect that one day he would eat strange fruit fried rice.
Qin Rou brought out another large glass of passion fruit juice, and poured a glass for each of the family members, "There is also a glass of egg juice, you can taste it to know whether it is good or not."
Lu Yan: "..." Terrible...
Xia Mingxi: "..." Terrible...
Zhouzhou and Jiaozi saw the diced carrots in the pineapple rice, and suddenly felt like their father and cousin that tonight was very difficult.
Mom started cooking weird meals.
Little Jiaozi couldn't help tugging at her father's trouser legs: "Dad, I want to eat steamed buns."
Zhouzhou: "I also want to..."
Xia Mingxi: "I also want to..."
It was the first time for Qin Rou to see such a disapproving scene of her family members.
"Sit down for me, Lu Yan, you take the lead!"
"Brother Xixi must set a good example."
"Zhou Zhou and Dumplings eat well."
Lu Yan, who was named, grabbed the two children and put Zhou Zhou and Dumpling Brothers on the bench. Qin Rou scooped up a large bowl of pineapple fried rice for each of them, and also put beautiful lychee stuffed shrimp and fried hairtail on them.
The honest and resigned brother Zhouzhou picked up the spoon, scooped up a mouthful of rice and ate it into his mouth. He found that the sweet rice had a pineapple aroma, and it tasted very good in summer.
Lu Yan eats pan-fried hairtail.
Xia Mingxi had the spirit of experimenting with fresh and poisonous things, and took the initiative to eat shrimp stuffed with lychee. After chewing a few times, his eyes lit up immediately.
It's very yummy! !
Unexpectedly, lychee can be paired with shrimp meat, Xia Mingxi went to try lychee shrimp balls again, and found that it was even more delicious! ! "Little aunt, your craftsmanship is very good, little uncle, the lychee shrimp is delicious!!"
Now he is no longer the little chubby boy when he was four or five years old, but has grown into a "strong" elementary school student. He usually carries an army green schoolbag and wears a red scarf on his chest. He is the three-good monitor in the school.
If you find something good, you must actively promote it and share it with everyone.
but-
At this time, the credit of the squad leader Sanhao was not trusted by anyone. His little uncle Lu Yan ate fried octopus all the time, and resolutely refused to touch the evil boiled lychees.
Zhouzhou and Dumplings eat small fried rice honestly, ignoring the diced carrots in the pineapple fried rice, this fried rice is sour and sweet, and it is especially delicious! !
Zhou Zhou ate the fried rice with a spoonful, while Xiao Dumpling pulled the diced carrot aside and scooped up the rest of the fried rice. Only the diced carrot was left, "Mom, I'm done eating!"
Qin Rou took the bowl in his hand, scooped up a large spoonful of diced carrots and fed it to his mouth.
Little Dumpling looked at her pitifully, and finally ate it with tears in her eyes.
Qin Rou hugged him and kissed his cheek, "What a good son for mother."
Zhou Zhou said: "Mom, I want to kiss you too."
Qin Rou kissed him again.
Qin Rou served the passion fruit juice to the two of them, and the two brothers drank a couple of sips, and said in amazement: "Mom, it's sweet!!"
"Sweet juice."
Xia Mingxi also found that the passion fruit juice was particularly delicious.
Lu Yan finally started to eat lychee stuffed shrimp. Although he was mentally prepared, it didn't seem as bad as he imagined...
Stir-fried prawns with lychees look weird, but they are surprisingly delicious, and the pineapple rice is not bad either.
Qin Rou raised her eyebrows at him: "It's not bad, is it?"
"It's okay to eat once in a while, but don't cook this every day." Lu Yan said that he couldn't accept it.
Qin Rou: "..."
Little Dumpling suddenly frightened: "Mom, Shuishui's stone, I ate it!!"
Zhou Zhou said: "It will take root and sprout in your stomach."
"Mother… "
"Brother, don't scare younger brother. It's okay. Those are the seeds of the fruit, which can be eaten."
"Lu Yan, come and taste this juice, is it good?"
Lu Yan looked at the black seeds floating in the light yellow juice, and refused all over his face: "It is said that to grab a man's heart is to grab a man's stomach, daughter-in-law, can you stop your man's heart?" Throw it away."
Lu Yan found out that although his daughter-in-law can't cook mapo tofu boiled pork slices like the neighbor next door, she can cook some weird meals...
Today she fried shrimp with lychee, fried rice with pineapple, next time, will she cook mango fried rice, stewed pig's trotters with lychee, and make some mango, squid, sea oyster and vermicelli soup... She must not condone her evil behavior.
Qin Rou couldn't help laughing: "It's obviously delicious, but you really bite Lu Dongbin and don't know good people."
"Little aunt, this juice is delicious and smells so good! I'll bring some for Jing Yi to drink tomorrow."
"Tomorrow, we will make fresh fruit juice and bring it to Jing Yi to drink. We have egg fruit at home, so we can make it if we want to drink it in the future."
…
Captain Lu Yan, who said he didn't want it, finally acted as the backbone of the family and finished the weird meals cooked by his wife.
He went to wash the dishes, and Qin Rou asked him, "Has my man's heart returned yet?"
"This is not an example." Lu Yan looked at her with a smile.
"Just tell me if you want to eat next time?"
"eat."
"Comrade Xiao Qin, let's have a discussion, can you not be too whimsical next time..." Lu Yan discussed with her daughter-in-law with her arms around her shoulders.
Qin Rou tilted her head and raised her eyebrows to look at him, her beautiful eyes rose like crescent moons, "What do you mean?"
Lu Yan gritted his teeth and said, "I don't want such weird things as mango stewed pig's trotters, lychee oyster soup, banana fried bitter gourd, etc. to appear on our family's dining table in the future..."
Stewed pork trotters with mango? Lychee oyster soup? … Fried bitter gourd with bananas
Qin Rou: "..."
It's better than your Brother Lu, thanks to you, can you figure it out
Qin Rou blinked, and she smiled and snuggled into Lu Yan's arms, "Brother Lu, your family's ability to create wild things is better than Brother Lu, really, why don't we try fried bitter gourd with bananas? It’s too exciting to wake up.”
Lu Yan pinched her ear punitively, and said with a smile: "Don't be naughty."
"You also said that the child is a Pippi shrimp, and the biggest Pippi shrimp in our family is you."
Qin Rou smiled and kissed him, "We've been married for several years, you still don't trust my cooking skills, I'm hurt..."
Lu Yan picked her up by the waist, "Take you back to the house to heal your wounds."
"Help, where are our two monkeys? Master is about to be captured by a goblin."
"Stop nagging, your sons are playing with their cousin."
Xia Mingxi called her mother, Lu Xuan: "Mom! I have a good time here with my little uncle. Recently, there are a lot of lychees on the mountain, which made me get angry and have a nosebleed. Mom, do you know how delicious lychees are? Here The lychee is so big and fresh, the flesh is so sweet and juicy, I still lick my fingers after eating it... "
"My aunt made very delicious pineapple rice and lychee stuffed shrimp. Mom, do you know how delicious it is? There is also lychee fried shrimp, sprinkled with sesame seeds. I ate it once and wanted to eat it again , little aunt, she won't do it..."
"The weather is getting hot recently, and my aunt also made iced juice. There is a strange fruit here. The smell is so fragrant, sweet and sour, and the smell makes people drool..."
…
Third Sister Lu had a blank face, and heard her son chattering on the other end of the phone. Fortunately, this time they were not talking about leek boxes, braised pig's trotters, eggplant stew... and other meals.
Stir-fried shrimp with lychees, this thing sounds unappetizing.
hehe.
This little brat eats and drinks spicy food at his little uncle's house. Every time he calls his mother, he has to report on the phone what delicious food he has eaten recently, how delicious the little aunt's dishes are, how delicious the dishes cooked by Aunt Qin Mian, How fragrant is the pork stew vermicelli...
She could hear her saliva flow down three thousand feet.
My mother, Lu Xuan, was very injured. She thought that she ate canteen dishes with shallots mixed with tofu every day. The taste of the cooked dishes all depended on the mood of the chef in the cooking team, and sometimes they would be messed up! !
And what does her son eat
I'm really going to piss my mother off! She doesn't want this son anymore.
Fortunately, the pineapple rice and lychee shrimp that I talked about this time made people lose their appetite at all.
"Next time, ask your little aunt to cook more dishes like lychee shrimp, fried eggplant with mango, braised bananas and so on." Lu Xuan encouraged on the other end of the phone.
Xia Mingxi: "..."
Xixi thinks that if he really wants to find a stepfather, it's better that the stepfather is better at cooking, and don't let his mother take the cooking.
Fried eggplant with mango
Can such an unappetizing combination be eaten? It's a pity that Uncle Lu doesn't want to be his father.
As a three-good old squad leader, Xia Mingxi pleaded earnestly on the phone: "Mom, if you are looking for a man, you must find a man who can cook, just like my aunt."
"Don't worry, Smelly Xiaoming, your mother and I are much smarter than you."
Now that the family has such a successful experience as Lu Yan, Third Sister Lu certainly remembers that when looking for a partner, she must find someone who can cook.
Find someone who can cook, if you can't find it, forget it.
"Mom, can you stop calling me Xiao Ming, the Xiao Ming in the textbook is an idiot, he needs me to help him figure out how much it costs to buy stationery every day."
"My name is Xia Mingxi. It's better to call me Xiaoxia, Xiaoxi, and Xixi than to call me Xiaoming... Xiaoming has nothing to do all day long. He only makes problems for students."
Lu Xuan said: "But your mother thinks Xiao Ming is kind, you are mother's Xiao Ming."
After failing to reach an agreement on the phone, the mother and son hung up the phone.
Before going back to the dormitory, Lu Xuan went to pick up her own letters, and her pen pal Lu Qing sent her a letter. The two of them are now communicating with each other. Lu Xuan thinks it's good to know him as a friend.
only…
In the letters that his younger brother Lu Yan wrote to him, he and his daughter-in-law Qin Rou were discussing math problems, while... Lu Qing would record the recipes in detail in the letters.
He is a veteran. After being demobilized, he was arranged in a state-run restaurant to learn cooking skills from a master chef in the restaurant. A master chef liked him very much and wanted to give him his life's unique skills, so he worked in a restaurant except on weekdays. In addition, he will practice his cooking skills hard.
Lu Qing wrote down the steps and techniques of cooking in the letter, and some of his food knowledge in Guangcheng restaurants will be recorded on the letter paper, such as how to make rice rolls in Guangcheng, and how the master's craftsmanship is. How about it, how tricky the old gluttons in the city used to be, what materials to choose...
What kind of chicken is the best choice for white-cut chicken, and how to cut the chicken is also very particular... Here, the pork is smoked in winter, and what kind of pork should be selected for what steps... When making moon cakes on August 15th, you must How to make the filling…
This time, he wrote in the letter in detail a dish of scallion-oiled chicken, what kind of farm chicken he chose, how to steam it, how to cut the chicken piece by piece, how to arrange it in the restaurant, and how to pour it on the plate. Serve with scallion oil...
…
Although he didn't describe in detail how delicious this scallion oil chicken is, how it tastes like, but Lu Xuan can keep imagining the cooking process and the aroma of cooking in Lu Xuan's mind, and then the more delicious it is. The more she thinks about it, the more hungry she becomes, the more she drools...
Tossing and turning at night and unable to sleep, all she could think about was the chicken dish. Lu Xuan fantasized that she was cooking chicken in her dream, and when she woke up in the morning, there were traces of dried saliva on the corner of her mouth.
Third Sister Lu rationally thought that she should cut off contact with this pen pal who was a cook, but she couldn't help but want to know what other dishes would be on the next letter she sent. I have cooked countless times in my mind without actually doing it...
I'm so greedy, I'd better continue to receive his letters.
— This is drinking poison to quench thirst.
Why doesn't this guy talk to her about math problems
In late August 1975, Lu Yan planned to take a one-month vacation, take his wife and three children back to his hometown, and visit their grandparents (grandparents) in Jiaodao.
Zhao Jianghong's marriage application report was approved, and he just asked for a marriage, so he decided to take Ye Mingxiu back to Lu Province to meet his parents. Ye Mingxiu thought that he had to meet his parents earlier, and she was worried that she would be rejected by his parents.
The Zhao family heard that the two of them were married and the deal was done, so they assured Zhao Jianghong to take Ye Mingxiu back.
Zhao Jianghong told Lu Yan that the two families would go back together, and they had decided on a date. They would first arrive in Guangcheng by ship, and then take a train from Guangcheng to Lu Province. The journey back and forth was long and would take several days.
Qin Rou has not experienced such a long-distance trek for several years. Thinking of the last time she went south from Bincheng to Qiongzhou Island, she felt sad. Fortunately, Qiongzhou Island is a little closer to Jiaodao than Bincheng.
The two families packed their luggage and took a ship to Guangcheng at the port of Lucheng.