This story will be told to everyone from that summer. My parents went on summer vacation, and there was only me and my wife at home. My mother used to cook. Although there are all kinds of disappointments, it seems that going to the kitchen really has nothing to do with me.
My parents are not at home, so my daughter-in-law and I are definitely going to cook in the kitchen. My wife has fewer meetings. It's ok to have jiaozi for the next bread, but she can't help cooking in the kitchen.
Although I was not very proficient at that time, at least I have accumulated a lot of experience since I was a child. When my mother is cooking in the kitchen, I am good at observing and reading more. I am a person who likes reading, accompanied by recipes and my childlike innocence. So, that summer, I patted my chest and told my daughter-in-law, don't worry, the food I cooked won't taste bad;
My daughter-in-law likes to eat soft and rotten braised pork, so the first hard dish I learned began with cooking braised pork. In the first week, I cooked a dish of braised pork, fried with sugar, seasoned with soy sauce and fried with fat, all of which were well done, but I ignored the slow stew and was self-righteous The time to fry the meat in the pot is less than 65438+
When I put the fried dishes on the coffee table and began to eat, I excitedly said to my daughter-in-law, try the braised pork I made for you? Daughter-in-law picked up a piece of braised pork with chopsticks, and then put it on a plate and said, "Your meat is not ripe and hard;" I was still a little angry and said, "It must be cooked. Taste it, take a bite, and spit it out if it doesn't taste good. " My daughter-in-law was also a little angry and said very grievance: This meat is undercooked and hard, so I won't eat it;
I was deeply impressed that day. We broke up in discord and didn't have enough to eat, but I am a thoughtful person. I carefully recalled what my daughter-in-law said. She said the meat was undercooked. You don't say! Must be cooked.
Later, I figured it out. Her understanding of cooked meat is that the meat is hard or undercooked, because the braised pork she ate in the restaurant was soft and rotten and melted in her mouth. So, from that day on, I understood something:
1, cooking is one thing, and hearing the needs of your family is another. Generally speaking, what I want to express is that only when you fully understand the needs of your family and what they want can I make targeted improvements. When we can't understand or don't want to know your family's needs, it's no use if your cooking level is no matter how good.
Although this truth is very important, it is not enough. You must also improve your cooking skills. Braised pork is still delicious. Stewing braised pork with small fire is an unconscious opportunity, because everything else is forgotten. It's already 1 hour later when I think of it. Every cloud has a good side, which makes me understand that time is the best seasoning, especially braised pork.
I can't eat braised pork every day, but I can also make all kinds of vegetables, such as fried cabbage, fried cabbage. When my mother cooks, I often study nearby, but my own operation started that summer, so I prefer light cooking oil. So when cooking, I will put very little cooking oil. After many times of practice, I found that the delicacy of vegetables needs more oil. If a small amount of lard and vegetable oil can be added, the fried vegetables will be fried.
4. Hubei people love to eat fish, especially braised crucian carp or Wuchang fish. Before stewing in the pot, they will fry the whole fish until golden on both sides. The benefits of doing this are obvious, but it is very difficult to operate. My parents use an iron pan, which is easy to stick when frying fish. Later, I changed the non-stick pan, and I found that if I want to do a good job, I must sharpen my knife first.
Beer is a good helper for cooking. Daughter-in-law likes to eat crayfish in summer, especially braised prawns. The first few times, she could hardly eat. Later, I used beer instead of water, and the taste of the whole braised prawns was sublimated, and the effect of removing fishy smell and enhancing fragrance was obvious.
6, towel gourd scrambled eggs, my mother's towel gourd has always been black, and later I learned the method from the recipe, marinate the towel gourd with salt for a while, marinate the juice, then clean it, and then fry it in the pot, so that the towel gourd is not easy to turn black;
7. To make steamed wuchang fish or steamed bass, if you want steamed wuchang fish, you need to pour out the juice steamed from the plate in a steamer, put the steamed fish in a clean plate, and then pour the steamed fish with soy sauce. It doesn't smell at all;
8. Blanch pork belly and ribs, you need to put cold water in the pot, add cooking wine and ginger slices, and remove the floating foam after boiling. After such an operation, the fishy smell of pork is completely gone;
Finally, I want to say a few words. What basic principles have you learned, which greatly improved your cooking skills? When I learned to cook braised pork, people seemed to understand, and then many dishes could be said to be handy;
Learning braised pork is equivalent to learning how to cook braised pork dishes, and then cooking braised pork ribs and braised pig's feet, which are almost the same; To tell the truth, I think we should be good at studying, reading more books, practicing more and accumulating more experience. It is often useless to talk on paper. In the process of practice, we should sum up our own shortcomings and learn from the experience of others for our own use.