Make a list, except for daily seasonings such as sugar and salt, try to make it clear and buy it according to the list.
Of course, this is not necessary for a very experienced and skilled chef, because she is experienced and can flexibly master the collocation of dishes, so she will not worry. However, for many post-90s generation, it is necessary to have a detailed plan to prepare a gathering of six or seven friends.
According to the number of guests, sex ratio, eating habits, plan to cook several dishes, which dishes to cook first. If there are more men, you can prepare more appetizers, mainly cold dishes. If there are more women, you can prepare more vegetarian dishes to enrich the dishes. If some guests have taboos, such as Hui friends, try to respect other people's eating habits and make reasonable arrangements.
How many people do you invite to dinner at home? If you invite 10 ~ 12 people, 6 cold dishes, 2 plates of braised pork, 2 plates of fried shredded pork, 2 plates of seafood, 1 pot of soup, 4 plates of meat dishes, 2 plates of fully fried vegetarian dishes, 1 pot of sweet soup, 65438 pots of fruit. It's good to eat enough food, but you can't eat too much, otherwise it will be wasted.
In the cold winter in Wuhan, you can really feel the feeling of being frozen and crying for a second at any time. Not to mention the time of cooking, often when you just cook a dish, put it on the table and turn around to cook the next dish, the dish in front of you has already frozen into ice.
Prepare cold dishes such as sauce beef and trotters one day in advance. Prepare vegetables and meat for cold and hot dishes three hours in advance. For example, cold dishes are mixed with three shreds, and the ingredients prepared are bean sprouts and potato shreds. Just take out the bean skin from the bean sprouts and copy the water. Soak the shredded potatoes in cold water for ten minutes, then boil them in water, and soak the vermicelli in hot water.
I cooked almost all the dishes the day before, and all the cooking was ready. I cooked the cold dishes that morning, and steamed all the hot dishes that needed to be steamed the day before. I started cooking at eleven o'clock and basically finished it before twelve o'clock. I did everything alone.
There are many fresh choices for cooking in summer and autumn. Basically, I do it the same day I buy it, and I don't like to do it every other day. I'd rather not stay in bed and buy the necessary ingredients early. To cook for 6 to 8 people, first buy the ingredients home, and then cook the ingredients that have been cooked for a long time, such as soup, pig's hands/feet, mutton and so on. And then cook fast food. Usually you can cook a small dinner at home;
First determine the number of people, how many dishes are needed, and plan the types of dishes, such as several kinds of meat dishes, what is meat dishes, what needs to be stewed for a long time, what is faster meat dishes, what is vegetarian dishes, and what is meat dishes? What are available? We must know what we are doing.
Stew things early, such as pork knuckle soup and sparerib soup. This can be done in a pressure cooker. Generally, there are two natural gas stoves at home. One wok cooks time-consuming dishes similar to braised pork, and the other wok cooks other dishes, which is not easy to cool. It takes time to cook first, and simple dishes such as vegetables and scrambled eggs are cooked last. If you need to cook hot dishes, can you use the induction cooker next to you, so that you can cook at least 8- 10 hot dishes in almost the same time?