kingnovel Chapter 167 Greenhouse (3)
Chapter 167 Greenhouse (3)
She was asked if twenty dishes would be too much. There were six people from the Zhang family, and He Xiaolu and a few male educated youth made up five people, which made eleven people in total. With her, there would be twelve people in total, so twenty dishes were not too many.
Because I had to make twenty dishes, I spent some time thinking about which dishes to make up the twenty.
In addition to making cold cucumber salad, cold kelp shreds, mouth-watering chicken and cold cabbage shreds, she also plans to make Dongpo pork, steamed fish, Kung Pao chicken, braised lion head, fried chicken blood, stewed whole chicken, spicy meat, sauerkraut and red bean soup, fried peanuts, braised eggplant, stir-fried chicken offal, stir-fried vegetables, tomato and yam shreds, yam with cap, garlic water spinach and pumpkin soup.
Because there are plenty of chickens and fish in the space, she doesn't have to worry about where to get the materials to make so many chickens and fish. As for the pork needed to make Dongpo pork, braised lion head, and spicy pork, she went on a big shopping spree before going to the countryside, and bought a lot of pork, so she doesn't have to worry about pork, it's all ready.
Originally, she wanted to use wolf meat to make two dishes, but she was afraid that the taste of wolf meat was too different from pork, and it would be easy to tell the difference, which would cause trouble.
The Zhang family knew it was wolf meat as soon as they tasted it, but they knew about wolf meat, so they didn't need to worry. However, the educated youth tasted different and asked what kind of meat it was. It was difficult to answer because they didn't know about wolf meat and it might cause trouble, so after thinking it over, she decided not to use wolf meat to cook to entertain guests.
As for the vegetarian dishes, some were given by the Zhang family, and some were bought from other villagers.
Every villager has a private plot of land where they grow some vegetables, so you can buy vegetables from them at a very cheap price.
She bought several kinds of vegetables and spent only one dollar and twenty-six cents in total.
So even though I had to cook so many dishes, I didn’t spend much money on buying groceries.
"Aunt, it's so kind of you to help me. I couldn't ask for more... I plan to cook so many dishes. I will be exhausted if I do it all by myself." Song Cenyue smiled at Dong Jinhua.
"We'll help you too." Zhao Xiaomeng and Zhang Xiaoyun, two kitchen experts, said immediately.
"I'll help too." Another female comrade, He Xiaolu, also shouted enthusiastically.
The other female comrades were all actively helping, so of course I couldn't just sit there and wait for others to prepare the delicious food, I had to help too.
"Okay, it's great that you all thank me!" Song Cenyue said with a smile.
"You male comrades can play and chat here, and we will have dinner after we prepare the food. We'll go to the kitchen to get busy first!" Song Cenyue turned to the men from the Zhang family and several male educated youth, and then took the female compatriots to the kitchen.
As soon as they entered the kitchen, the women of the Zhang family and He Xiaolu were all shocked.
"So many dishes...so much meat! Pork, chicken, fish, everything!"
"Girl Cen Yue, where did you get so many dishes?"
"Some were bought from villagers, and some were bought from the commune." Song Cenyue replied half-truthfully. Buying from villagers was true, and buying from the commune was false.
"So many dishes must cost a lot of money. The pork, chicken, and fish must cost more than ten yuan in total. You are really willing to spend money. You bought so much. It's too wasteful! Actually, there is no need to buy so many dishes..." Dong Jinhua felt sorry for Song Cenyue.
"It's okay, I have money, auntie, don't feel sorry for me." Song Cenyue said with a smile.
"Even if you have money, you have to spend it frugally and carefully. Sometimes you have to think about it all the time." Dong Jinhua teaches Song Cenyue.
How could she not know that this girl was rich, very rich? The apprenticeship fee her family gave her was three hundred yuan, and she still refused to take more. However, no matter how rich she was, she couldn't spend it lavishly. She still had to spend frugally and calculate her spending carefully so that she could have a steady income and always be rich.
Song Cenyue knew that she meant well, so she didn't mind her teaching her a lesson. She nodded and smiled, "Got it."
Seeing that she was very educated, Dong Jinhua did not educate her any further and decided to do something serious.
"Let's start cooking. What else do you want to cook? I see you've already made four dishes. How many more do you want to make? Have you decided which ones you want to make, or have you not decided yet? Let's watch and do it."
Dong Jinhua asked as she rolled up her sleeves. She glanced at the four cold dishes on the table, then opened the lid of the pot on the stove and saw the chicken stewing inside.
"It smells so good!" He Xiaolu smelled the rich chicken aroma coming from the pot, looked at the big chicken in the pot, and couldn't help swallowing and shouting, the glutton in her mouth was making a fuss.
She hasn't had chicken for a long time!
She had eaten chicken very rarely before, and she didn't expect her friend to stew chicken. She could enjoy a feast today.
Among the cold dishes on the table, there is a mouth-watering chicken. I am in such a treat today.
In addition to chicken, there are also fish and pork. Just looking at them makes you drool.
The Zhang family was well off, and they didn't eat as poorly as He Xiaolu, nor did they lack meat as much as He Xiaolu did. So although the women in the Zhang family also thought the food smelled good, they were not as greedy as she was.
"I plan to cook twenty dishes. After the chicken is stewed, I will cook another fifteen dishes. I have already thought about what dishes to cook. They are all simple dishes. You should all be able to cook them. I will tell you the names of the dishes and ask you to help me make them." Song Cenyue said, and then reported the names of the dishes to be made.
"Oh my god, so many dishes! It's too sumptuous... Even during the Chinese New Year, there weren't so many dishes!" He Xiaolu exclaimed. During the Chinese New Year, her family only had six dishes. I didn't expect Song Cenyue to actually plan to cook twenty dishes. It felt a bit extravagant!
"It's really sumptuous! We don't even have so many dishes during the Chinese New Year!" The women of the Zhang family also exclaimed.
"Girl Cenyue, isn't it too much to cook twenty dishes? Why not reduce it by half?" Dong Jinhua suggested. She was thinking about Song Cenyue and wanted to save money for her.
"There are so many of us, ten dishes are not enough... Don't worry, I have brought a lot of dishes, so it is no problem to make twenty dishes. Just help me cook, don't worry about anything else." Song Cenyue said with a smile.
Dong Jinhua wanted to persuade her again, but then she remembered that He Xiaolu was there too. If she persuaded her again, she was afraid that He Xiaolu would think that she was reluctant to give the food to the educated youth and would have some thoughts about her, which would not be good.
Anyway, Song Cenyue has already prepared so many materials, so there is no need to worry about not having enough materials. Just do it according to what Song Cenyue wants.
Dong Jinhua nodded and began to assign tasks to her daughter and daughter-in-law. "Xiaoyun, Xiaomeng, I see the fish hasn't been killed yet, and the pork hasn't been cut. One of you go kill the fish, and the other go cut the pork."
"Okay." Zhang Xiaoyun and Zhao Xiaomeng agreed immediately.
Zhang Xiaoyun went to kill the fish and Zhao Xiaomeng went to cut the meat.
"Aunt Jinhua, please tell me what I should cook... There are so many dishes to cook that I don't know what to cook." He Xiaolu said.
"Okay, go scrape the taro, wash it, and leave it for Xiao Meng to cut the meat. After scraping and washing the taro, scrape the pumpkin skin, wash the pumpkin and give it to Xiao Meng, and let her cut it later." Dong Jin agreed and ordered. "I'll make the chicken offal. The chicken offal needs to be marinated before frying. I'll marinate the chicken offal."
Miss Cen Yue had said earlier that she wanted to make fried chicken offal. She saw that the chicken offal had been taken out and placed on the plate, but it had not been marinated yet.
"Thank you for your hard work. I'll make sauerkraut and red bean soup." Song Cenyue said.
There are two stove burners, so even though one burner is used to stew the chicken, the other burner is empty and can be used to cook other dishes.
Several women were busy in the kitchen. As the saying goes, there is strength in numbers. Although there were many dishes to cook, because there were so many people cooking, the remaining dozen or so dishes were all ready in half an hour.