This story will still be told to everyone from that summer. My parents went on summer vacation, and there were 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.
When my parents are not at home, my daughter-in-law and I will definitely cook in the kitchen. My daughter-in-law will have fewer meetings. Jiaozi can have the next bowl of bread, but she can't cook 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 cookbooks and my childlike innocence. So, that summer, I patted my chest and told my daughter-in-law, don't worry, my cooking 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 fat, all of which were well done, but I ignored the slow stew and was self-righteous. The time to fry meat in the pot is less than 65,438+
When I put the fried dishes on the coffee table and began to eat, I excitedly said to my daughter-in-law, how about trying the braised pork I cooked for you? My daughter-in-law picked up a piece of braised pork with chopsticks, then put it on a plate and said, "Your piece of meat is undercooked and hard;" I was still a little angry and said, "It must be cooked. Try it, take a bite, and spit it out if it doesn't taste good. " My daughter-in-law was a little angry, too, and said very grievance: This meat is undercooked and hard, so I won't eat it;
That day left a deep impression on me. We broke up in discord and didn't have enough to eat, but I am a considerate person. I carefully recalled what my daughter-in-law said. She said the meat was undercooked. You don't say! Must be cooked.
Then 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 is soft and rotten, and it melts in the 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 say 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, even if your cooking level is good, it's useless for your family not to like it;
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 other things have been forgotten. It was 1 hour later when I remembered. Every dark cloud has a ray of hope, which makes me understand that time is the best seasoning, especially for braised pork.
I can't eat braised pork every day, but I can also cook all kinds of vegetables, such as stir-fried Chinese cabbage and stir-fried Chinese cabbage. When my mother cooks, I often study nearby, but my own operation started that summer, so I prefer light cooking oil. So when frying vegetables, I will put very little cooking oil. After many times of practice, I found that the delicious vegetables need more oil. If a small amount of lard can be added with vegetable oil, the fried vegetables will be cooked.
4. Hubei people love to eat fish, especially braised crucian carp or Wuchang fish. They will fry the whole fish until golden on both sides before stewing. 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, after switching to a non-stick pan, I discovered that if I want to do a good job, I must sharpen my tools first.
Beer is a good helper in cooking. In summer, my daughter-in-law likes to eat crayfish, 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 is always 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 pan, so that the towel gourd is not easy to turn black;
7. When making steamed wuchang fish or steamed bass, if you want to steam Wuchang fish, you need to pour out the juice steamed from the plate in the 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. To blanch pork belly and ribs, you need to put cold water into the pot, add cooking wine and ginger slices, and remove 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 understood to greatly improve 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 trotters, which are similar; 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 practice, we should sum up our own shortcomings and learn from the experience of others for our own use.