Zhang Wenliang and Team Leader Yang didn't go into the room either. They moved their chairs outside to bask in the sun. They sat smoking while watching Chen Fan busy working.
After opening and cleaning, Jiang Lili took out all the big bowls and basins in the kitchen, and Chen Fan put them into bowls one by one according to different parts.
The two large tables moved out of the house were soon filled with large and small bowls and dishes.
Captain Yang smacked his lips and was still commenting, "Xiao Chen can't be a master craftsman."
Accountant Liu nodded with deep conviction, "If you do things too carefully, it will not be fast enough."
The keeper Huang also said, "It only takes more than an hour for Mr. Liu to prepare six or seven tables of food. I'm afraid that he can only prepare one table in this way."
Zhang Wenliang put forward a different opinion, "But it's delicious."
The three people beside them were stunned, and they all nodded, "That's true!"
With Jiang Lili's help, Chen Fan quickly prepared the side dishes.
However, at this time, there was a problem that the pot was not enough.
I don't know what the first batch of educated youth thought. They just had a stove in the kitchen. When there were many people, they could do nothing but cook.
Now Chen Fan has to cook, and he has to stew, fry, stew, fry and boil. Which pot does he rely on?
There is also a pot for cooking pig food behind him, but that's in the back. He can't run from both sides.
We must renovate the kitchen when we get the chance.
In the future, I will be the householder here. How can I do without a decent kitchen?
Chen Fan shakes his head. He doesn't think about those things that are too far away. It's important to solve the immediate problems.
Fortunately, there are not enough pots here, but there are enough bowls and coils. There are several casseroles of all sizes.
After a little calculation, Chen Fan knew what to do.
First, prepare all the dishes to be steamed, put them in the steaming tray, and take them to the back for steaming.
Other dishes are cooked in the kitchen.
In addition, he built some bricks at the kitchen door.
The play quartet has been discussing on the side.
"There are four ways to cut a white radish?"
"Diced radish, diced cabbage, diced bacon, chopped garlic sprouts, and chopped ginger are mixed with rice? What's the trick?"
"Ah, I know that. Steamed rice with salted fish, shredded ginger, garlic sprouts and chopped chilli?"
"Eh? What are you doing here with earth bricks?"
Several people looked at each other, and Captain Yang smacked his lips. "Is it possible to take the opportunity to build a kitchen now?"
Zhang Wenliang looked up and smiled, "Ha ha ha, this meal is very interesting, very interesting."
Keeper Huang said with a smile, "You didn't come here suddenly, and you didn't have any preparation. You should say half a day in advance that he would not go fishing temporarily, but also set up a cooking stove. At least the fish and cooking stove are ready."
Zhang Wenliang was still smiling. "That's why it's interesting."
Then he turned his head and smiled at the three men. "It's the same as when our militiamen were doing exercises. They are fishing and cooking. It's interesting to eat like this."
Captain Yang pointed at him, laughed and scolded, "You can lose it."
Zhang Wenliang was still quibbling, "I'm not a loser, mainly because I can't help him, or I'll make a pot of fish soup, and you can barely eat?"
The three waved their hands together, and their feelings of disgust were expressed in words.
In addition to those who specialize in cooking, there are only one person in the whole brigade. How many men can cook? Even if there is, Zhang Wenliang is definitely not one of them!
When they talked, Chen Fan didn't stop working.
After the stove was built, he put a casserole on it, then ignited it and stuffed it into the stove.
Only then did he exhale a long breath, lift his hands seriously, and "fire, fire!"
Jiang Lili pursed her mouth on the side, tried hard to suppress a smile, bowed her head and turned into the kitchen.
Then there was the sound of the spatula colliding with the iron pan.
The lid of the urn next to it was lifted, and a small steaming cage was placed on it. Every dish was cooked, it was put into the steaming cage. The hot water in the urn would keep the dishes warm.
In a twinkling of an eye, it was four o'clock in the afternoon. Chen Fan echoed, "Ready for dinner."
Counting from the courtyard wall to the kitchen, Chen Fan now lives in Room 1, Jiang Lili lives in Room 3, and the other two rooms are empty, so he placed the table in Room 2.
Accountant Liu and keeper Huang carried the square table in, and Jiang Lili quickly arranged the dishes and began to serve.
Soon, a table full of vegetables was set in front of everyone.
Chen Fan said with a smile, "Fish head soup, braised fish in brown sauce, fish slices, steamed fish slices, and fish in casserole. I don't know whether you have eaten this, pickled fish."
Thanks to the size of the fish and the addition of many side dishes, otherwise we would not be able to make so many dishes.
Zhang Wenliang looked at this dish. There were many diced pickles under a layer of fish slices. The fish meat was sprinkled with a lot of dry chili and scallions, and then poured a layer of hot oil on it, which made people drool.
He looked up at Chen Fan and said, "You take pickles to do this?"
Chen Fan smiled and nodded, "Yes, there is also rice."
Dinner?
The interest in the eyes of the four people has greatly increased. Can pickles cook?
Although Jiangnan doesn't have the northeast pickles, it also has its own pickles, which are also sour. Get a small jar to mix some sour water, put the cleaned vegetables in, and you can eat them in three or five days.
Generally, pepper, white radish, carrots and cowpeas are the main ingredients. There are also some pickled cabbage and cabbage, but only a few leaves are put at a time, which is very different from the vat of pickled cabbage in the Northeast.
Without sauerkraut, Chen Fan uses sauerkraut to make sauerkraut fish, which also has a unique flavor.
Looking at this pickled fish, several people couldn't help but move their fingers, but they didn't move their chopsticks before they shouted to start.
In addition to several courses of fish, there are also several local common dishes, such as fried bacon with garlic sprouts, fried cabbage with fat skin, fried red vegetable moss with oil residue, and hand shredded preserved fish. There are eight dishes in total, one soup, and three casseroles on the table beside.
Chen Fan walked over and opened the lid. A strong aroma rose and soon filled the whole house.
A simplified version of Yangzhou fried rice, a pot of preserved fish braised rice, and a pot of assorted braised rice.
Chen Fan pointed to the three pots of rice and said with a smile, "There are also diced pickles here. If there is not enough food, we can only use rice to make up for it."
Zhang Wenliang shook his head and said with a sigh, "You are not good enough? A rich man can't marry a daughter as rich as you are. Besides, your meal is not simple. It seems that only rich people can eat it. We can't do it. We only know how to cook with sweet potatoes."
Chen Fan laughed. In fact, the dishes used the most fish. As for the rest, he cut only a small piece of bacon and a small piece of preserved fish. The rest were all vegetables. It is the rapeseed oil that has consumed three or four liang, so it does not cost much.
But eight dishes, one soup and three pots of rice make it very rich.
Zhang Wenliang suddenly raised his head, "Alas, where's Xiao Jiang? Let's invite her to eat together."
Although everyone keeps a distance with her tacitly, she has been busy for a long time and can't eat or call her. What's the matter?
Chen Fan laughed and said, "She is a girl. She has to sit at the table with some of our elders. She is also awkward, so I prepared another for her. She can eat alone."
Captain Yang looked at him and asked, "Are you ready?"
Chen Fan said with a smile, "Can it be fake? Why don't you check it?"
Hearing what he said, Captain Yang would not say more.
Then Chen Fan also took a seat, and after some concessions, he began to change the cup.
On the other side, Jiang Lili was sitting in the kitchen with a large bowl of Yangzhou fried rice in her hand and three dishes and one soup in front of her.
A bowl of pickled fish, a bowl of braised fish, a bowl of bacon fried with red cabbage moss, and finally a bowl of fish head soup. She could see clearly that these were prepared by Chen Fan for her alone when she was cooking, not from the bowl.
Every time she takes a bite, she smiles. The corners of her mouth are always tilted, and she can't stop laughing.