From selling box lunches to becoming a famous Chinese chef

Chapter 83 Making sweet-scented osmanthus meat for grandpa

Friday, just after ten o'clock in the morning.

Feng Zhengming's meat was already out of the pot, divided into three portions, and one portion was left in the canteen for sale.

Put the handful of meat left in the canteen in a basin, pour some braised soup on it, and take it out of the small kitchen to the canteen kitchen.

Then Feng Zhengming took some garlic, eggs, and lettuce from the kitchen.

Soaked black fungus, magnolia slices and day lily.

I picked up some more seasonings along the way, and also brought a small bowl of clear soup, a few peppercorns, onions, ginger and garlic.

Taking these things, Feng Zhengming quickly returned to the small kitchen.

Seeing that Feng Zhengming had taken so many things, Chang Xiuqin naturally couldn't help but complain to Zhang Lei's sister-in-law.

"Did you see that? Now we're getting things from the kitchen."

Although Zhang Lei told his sister-in-law privately when he returned home, he should not always talk about his junior uncle with Chang Xiuqin behind his back.

But after all, Zhang Lei's sister-in-law was about the same age as Chang Xiuqin, and the two worked together every day, so it was inevitable that she couldn't help but talk about Feng Zhengming with Chang Xiuqin.

Hearing Chang Xiuqin's words, Zhang Lei's sister-in-law said softly: "I see Chef Li is in the back kitchen, and Chef Li didn't say anything."

Chang Xiuqin said: "What can he say? After listening to the master's instructions to take care of this junior brother, and now that the meat cooked by the junior junior brother in the cafeteria is so popular, he dare not say anything."

Zhang Lei's sister-in-law said: "Sister, you should talk to them when you get home."

These words made Chang Xiuqin instantly speechless.

She naturally recalled the time when she talked about Feng Zhengming at home and her cousin lectured her.

But after being stunned for a moment, Chang Xiuqin still said stubbornly: "What should I tell them? The cafeteria does not belong to my family. I just work for them with money. I don't care about them."

When Zhang Lei's sister-in-law heard this, she was a little confused about what Chang Xiuqin meant.
  Why did he feel "angry" because he saw Feng Zhengming taking things from the kitchen?

After a while, he said that he was working part-time and didn’t want to worry about other people and things in the cafeteria.

Zhang Lei's sister-in-law murmured in her heart: Do you really want to take care of it? Still don’t want to take care of it?
  Feng Zhengming actually noticed that Chang Xiuqin was always staring at him, but he didn't care at all, and he didn't take the other party's attitude to heart at all.

After taking the things into the small kitchen room, Feng Zhengming immediately started matching.

First, shred all the magnolia slices and lettuce.

Then the fungus is also cut into small pieces.

Cut the daylily and garlic into small pieces.

Cut off the hard parts of the daylily roots.

Take out a specially reserved piece of ingot meat from the hind leg and cut it into shreds.

After cutting it, I felt it was a little short, so I took out a piece of pork belly and cut it into shreds to serve with it.

Then chop all the onions, ginger and garlic into small dices.

After the cutting and mixing is completed, break the three eggs you brought into a bowl and beat them into whole egg liquid.

So everything is ready to go.

Feng Zhengming scraped and wiped the cutting board and knife clean.

First blanch the day lily, shredded magnolia slices and fungus together in a pot of boiling water.

After blanching, filter out through a strainer and rinse with clean water.

Then Feng Zhengming took out the iron wok left by his master.

Heat the pot, pour in cold oil and moisten the pot several times.

Let the inner wall of the pot be covered with a film of oil, so that the iron pot will not stick when cooking.

After the pot is well moistened, add more oil. When the oil temperature is about [-]%, pour the beaten egg liquid into the pot.

Slowly slide the scrambled egg liquid into the pot, and let the egg liquid gradually solidify until it looks like a sweet-scented osmanthus flower. Then you can put the scrambled eggs out.

Add a small amount of oil to the pot, add a few Sichuan peppercorns to the pot, and slowly fry the Sichuan peppercorns over low heat until they become slightly charred, allowing the aroma of the Sichuan peppercorns to be released and blended into the oil.

Next, remove all the peppercorns.

Add the minced onion, ginger and garlic to the pan and saute until fragrant, then add the shredded pork to the pan and stir-fry.

Stir-fry until the shredded pork is translucent and the lean meat is white. Move the shredded pork to one side of the pot, put the sweet noodle sauce into the oil pan, and stir-fry the sweet noodle sauce thoroughly with a frying spoon until the water in the sweet noodle sauce is dry.

Then add soy sauce and sweet noodle sauce and stir-fry them thoroughly.

Then put the shredded pork back and stir-fry with sweet noodle sauce and soy sauce.

After the shredded meat is colored, first put the shredded lettuce into the pot and fry it.

Stir-fry the shredded lettuce. Add the day lily, shredded magnolia slices and fungus to the pot and stir-fry.

And cook some rice wine at this time.

After stir-frying, pour the small bowl of clear soup into the pot, add the fried eggs into the pot, and stir-fry together in the pot.

After tasting the saltiness, Feng Zhengming added a little more soy sauce.

Continue to stir-fry until the flavors are infused, and the various vegetables in the pot are evenly distributed under Feng Zhengming's stir-fry.

Finally, pour in a little oil, and the sweet-scented osmanthus meat is ready to be cooked.

Feng Zhengming poured all the fried osmanthus meat into the prepared aluminum lunch box.

The lunch box was just full.

Close the lid of the lunch box and put it into the cloth bag together with the rice, tofu and dried tofu in the meat pot that are already in the other lunch box.

Feng Zhengming took these things and walked out of the small kitchen, not forgetting to lock the door of the small kitchen.

I first went to the back kitchen and spoke to my senior brother.

"Brother, I'm going to deliver food to grandpa and ask Zhang Lei and Yang Peng to wait for me when I come back. I'll take them to the train station to get familiar with it today."

Li Huidong shouted in response: "Go ahead and pay attention to safety on the road."

Feng Zhengming responded, pushed his bicycle out of the backyard of the cafeteria, and rode his bicycle to Grandpa Feng's house.

Seeing Feng Zhengming go out, Chang Xiuqin said to Zhang Lei's sister-in-law and He Xiaona, "Did you see that? You used the things in the canteen to make stir-fries and send them to grandpa."

Zhang Lei's sister-in-law said nothing.

He Xiaona whispered: "My uncle's grandpa lives alone. He is so busy and still wants to deliver food to him. It shows that my uncle is a very filial person."

Chang Xiuqin said: "He is filial. If he is filial, can he give away things from the canteen?"

He Xiaona then said: "Doesn't the junior uncle also have shares in the canteen? Moreover, the junior junior uncle has done so much work in the cafeteria and only has little money to deliver meals to his grandfather."

Chang Xiuqin didn't expect that He Xiaona would dare to talk to her like this.

But she couldn't argue with what He Xiaona said.

In the end, Chang Xiuqin could only glare at He Xiaona and said, "Okay, work hard."

Feng Zhengming didn't know what happened in the canteen after he left. He rode his bicycle along the road outside Quancheng to reach Grandpa Feng's house.

When we entered the alley, we met some of Grandpa Feng’s old neighbors.

Everyone already has an impression of Feng Zhengming.

So they both nodded and smiled.

When Feng Zhengming walked over, several old neighbors of Grandpa Feng gathered together to praise him.

"I heard that he is a distant nephew of Lao Feng. The young man is very kind to his uncle Lao Feng. He has come here to deliver meals to Lao Feng at noon these two days."

"He is a good boy. After living alone for so many years, Lao Feng finally has a companion."

"Nowadays, there are fewer and fewer young people who are willing to deliver meals to the elderly every day and chat with them."

During the discussion, these old neighbors of Feng Zonggu were somewhat envious of him.

Feng Zhengming pushed his bicycle to the front of Grandpa Feng's small courtyard, stood outside the courtyard and shouted: "Grandpa, I'm here. I specially made sweet-scented osmanthus meat for you at noon today. One portion has meat and vegetables, and the nutrition is balanced."

Hearing the sound, Feng Zonggu pushed the door open and came out, his joy was beyond words.

However, the old man still complained: "I told you, if you are too busy, you don't have to make a special trip to deliver food to me at noon. You are wasting time by going back and forth."

Walking out with a smile on his face and complaints, he quickly opened the door for Feng Zhengming and welcomed him in.

(End of this chapter)