newbobooks Chapter 214 Mysterious Guest?
Chapter 214 Mysterious Guest?
"Haha, grandma is from the countryside? How come her habit of yelling is the same as my mom's?" Su Yuchen also laughed. "Then did you ask what fertilizer they used?"
"Yes, it's in the countryside, in Xin County below Jiangcheng. I asked, and grandma said it was farm manure, but only a small part."
"What does 'only a small part' mean?" Su Yuchen blew on the porridge, carefully tested the temperature, and asked.
"She said that although they live in a rural area, the city has expanded in the past two years and is getting closer and closer to the village, so pig farming is not allowed. Without a pig manure pit, the manure is not enough. She is old and lacks energy, so she only raises a dozen chickens. In addition, there are only two old people in the family, so the manure is only enough for her small piece of land. She also uses chemical fertilizers for the rest of the land.
She also said that the ten kilograms of radishes I bought the second time were grown on her land fertilized with manure. She originally brought two sacks, only one of which was intended to be sold, and the other was specially brought for her grandson to use as fertilizer, but they still disliked it and didn't want to eat it, so she sold it in anger.
No wonder she was so angry at the time.”
Zhao Xiaojing ate a soup dumpling in two or three bites. After being frozen overnight, the taste was not as extreme as yesterday. The pork was not as tender and juicy as before, and the water chestnuts were a little dry, but the soup was still fragrant. The two of them quickly ate up eight soup dumplings while the soup was still hot.
"What about the guy next door who grows radishes?"
"It was the same. She said she was in her seventies or eighties. I raised the price to two dollars and fifty cents. The grandmother helped to persuade her and she was willing to sell it to me. I said I would go over to get it, but she said it was not necessary. They could take the bus for free with their senior citizen cards. They just needed to take two buses. She was quite nice.
By the way, I also bought sesame oil. I asked my grandma about it. She said there was a family growing sesame seeds and they just harvested it in September this year.
Originally, I wanted to buy sesame seeds and find an oil mill to press them myself. However, when my grandmother asked, she found out that the sesame seeds had already been sold and they only kept a small portion for themselves, which had all been pressed into sesame oil.
I thought that would be more convenient, so I bought sesame oil. It's not expensive, it's made from black sesame seeds, and they say it has a better flavor. It's 30 yuan a bottle, about one pound. Tomorrow, the grandma next door will bring some radishes over."
"Not bad, not bad. The raw materials are all solved at once."
As they were talking, the duck egg was no longer so hot. Zhao Xiaojing cracked the shell and broke it in half, observing the yolk.
The color of duck egg yolk is a gradient color, gradually getting darker from the center to the periphery. The outermost yellow is close to orange, with a slightly sandy feeling, but not yet completely bright orange. The color in the middle is the lightest, only a few points darker than the normal egg yolk.
"Not bad! Delicious." On the other side, Su Yuchen and Zhao Xiaojing used the same method, picking out the salted egg yolk with chopsticks and stuffing it into their mouths to eat. "The taste is okay, but it seems that it needs to be marinated for a while longer before the sand is completely removed. But by then, it will probably be very salty."
Zhao Xiaojing also tried it after hearing this. The outermost layer of egg yolk was sandy and slightly salty, which was indeed good, but the inside was not fully marinated, so both the texture and taste were a little worse.
The egg white is saltier than the egg yolk. It tastes just right now, not too salty or too bland. But once it’s fully marinated, it will probably be too salty to eat.
The trouble with pickling duck eggs is that it takes time and needs to be dried in the sun, and you can't taste it immediately, so you can't do repeated experiments and adjust the taste in the virtual space. You can only pickle them in reality and rely on practical experience to make adjustments.
"Indeed, it will taste better if it is marinated for a while longer, but the taste will become choking again. Let's eat it slowly starting from today. In the first part, we will eat the taste, and in the second part, if it is too salty, we will mix it with porridge." Zhao Xiaojing said as she picked out all the egg yolks and ate them, and scooped out the remaining egg whites with chopsticks and poured them into the porridge.
Su Yuchen on the opposite side had also started mixing the porridge, but she mixed the egg yolks together. At this moment, she was crushing the salted duck eggs in the bowl with chopsticks and stirring them together with the porridge.
Salted duck eggs and white porridge are both simple foods, but they are a perfect match when put together. The fragrance of the white porridge is matched with the salty fragrance of the duck eggs. It is soft and smooth in the mouth while having the unique sandy and sticky taste of the salted duck eggs. The white porridge dilutes the saltiness of the egg white, and the egg white reduces the blandness of the white porridge. Take a sip and your stomach will immediately warm up.
"It smells so good! But the duck eggs are still bland now. They will taste better when they are marinated for a while and the oil comes out, then mixed into the porridge!" Su Yuchen gave a satisfied comment, and he was very happy eating the porridge and pickles.
The busy day began with a leisurely breakfast. After the two of them finished their meal leisurely, they immediately switched gears and plunged into busy food preparation.
It was nearly eleven o'clock, and Zhao Xiaojing had just finished preparing the food when her hand holding the kitchen knife suddenly stopped, because the system assigned her a confusing task.
【Ding~ Random tasks are assigned.】
[Random Task: Reserve four of the store's best-selling dishes, as well as one of each of the stewed pot dishes, and cook these dishes yourself, so that the mystery guest's clean plate rate reaches 65%]
???
Zhao Xiaojing was very confused.
A mysterious guest who is designated to cook by himself? A hidden boss? And the clean plate rate is only required to reach 65%?
You should know that since the launch of the "Clean Plate" campaign, the average clean plate rate in the store has reached 97.3%. And this 97.3% includes take-out with side dishes delivered directly as part of a gentleman's agreement.
Zhao Xiaojing accepted the task in confusion and began to look around at the prepared dishes on the workbench.
The best-selling dish is of course the pork trotter rice. Now we can sell three to four hundred servings of pork trotter rice in one meal. The number of braised pork trotters prepared every day is based on 650 servings of pork trotter rice. Every night, many late guests cannot buy it.
However, there is no way to solve this problem, because the pig's feet themselves have to be soaked overnight after braising. They will taste just right when eaten the next day, but if you cannot finish them and soak them until the third day, not only will the salty taste be too strong, but the long soaking will cause them to absorb too much brine, producing a bitter taste.
The same goes for braised dishes. Dishes braised early in the morning will reach their best taste after soaking for a few hours, especially for vegetarian dishes. A moderate amount of marinade will bring out the unique flavor of braised dishes, but too long a time will destroy the fragrance of the ingredients themselves.
Therefore, in order to maintain the best taste, pig's feet can only be braised on the first day and sold out on the second day, and the braised side dishes must be braised on the same day and sold out on the same day, so the prepared quantity will be less than the average sales quantity, resulting in daily supply and demand imbalance.
But it's noon now, and there are plenty of pork trotters and side dishes, so there's no need to reserve them.