317. Chapter 316 Homemade Kabayaki Eel (1/2)

The next day, after dawn.

Li Duoyu squatted on the stone bar and brushed his teeth. Little Fatty got up reluctantly, with dark circles under his eyes.

He doesn't seem to be in very good spirits, and he looks dull.

"The light in your room was on last night. Did you stay up late doing your winter vacation homework?"

Li Haoran said helplessly:

"It's done."

"Your winter vacation homework is about thirty pages. You can finish it in one night. You are also interested. You didn't doodle, right?"

Li Haoran was very good at calculations. He could finish one page in ten minutes and thirty pages in five hours. However, the math problems were so difficult that it was too late to calculate them one by one.

Sitting in the back, he wrote the answers to almost all the math questions in random order. When his aunt corrected his homework, he would definitely be angry.

"Uncle, can you give me my winter vacation homework when aunt brings it back tonight?"

Li Duoyu, whose mouth was full of toothpaste foam, rinsed his mouth and said, "I had a lot of fun during the winter vacation, but now I know I'm scared."

Little Fatty smiled bitterly and said: "Uncle, I know I was wrong. Now I can only rely on you. If aunt finds out, I will be scolded to death."

Li Duoyu glanced at this little chubby guy and couldn't help but sigh. Not everyone is suitable for studying and becoming successful.

With his procrastinating personality, if he wants to do something big in the future, he will probably do it only on the last step.

As an elder, there is nothing to teach him except some correct values ​​in life.

"Haoran, as men, since we have done something wrong, we must be brave enough to take responsibility. There is nothing to be afraid of being criticized. The only thing we are afraid of is knowing the mistake but not correcting it."

Li Haoran looked aggrieved as if he had been struck by lightning.

"Uncle, that's not what you taught me before. When you stole Mrs. Wang's chicken and blew up the old Lu's water tank, you said you would be fine if you were not discovered."

Seeing Li Haoran speaking so loudly, Li Duoyu looked around suddenly. Fortunately, the neighbors were not around, otherwise it would be quite embarrassing if they heard him.

After all, he is still a village director and an advanced individual at the county level. He still wants to save face. How can he let these petty thieves ruin his image.

"Haoran, don't talk about this kind of thing again in the future. Do you know that our two things are of different natures?"

"What's the difference?"

Li Duoyu was really confused by the question and had to say seriously: "I am an adult and you are a child. Can we be the same?"

"Uncle, please help me take out my homework tonight."

The corners of Li Duoyu's mouth twitched.

"It's useless to take it out for you. Your aunt will definitely pay special attention to your winter vacation homework by then. If she doesn't find it by then, she'll think you didn't turn it in. Wouldn't it be even worse?"

Li Haoran said: "Auntie is not that quick to correct the winter vacation homework. Normally it takes about a week. I just want to take it out and redo the scribbled part."

"real?"

Li Haoran swept away the previous haze, opened his eyes wide, and nodded like a chicken pecking at rice.

"When the time comes, I'll help you take a look."

"Thank you, uncle."

What Li Haoran didn't expect was that his uncle sold him in the blink of an eye. After Li Duoyu returned to the bedroom, he saw Zhou Xiaoying who was about to go to school and said directly:

"When you come back in the evening, give me Haoran's winter vacation homework book."

Zhou Xiaoying frowned, her whole aura changed, and she instantly showed the majesty of being a teacher.

"Did he scribble the answers again?"

Li Duoyu nodded: "However, my attitude towards admitting my mistake this time is not bad. I still want to take it back and do it again."

"But Haoran is always like this, there's no other way. There are so many days in winter vacation, why do you always have to do your homework on the last night?"

Li Duoyu smiled awkwardly: "It seems that I was like him before."

"That's why you got a graduation certificate from junior high school."

Li Duoyu murmured softly: "Although I am a graduate, I am still doing well now."

Zhou Xiaoying said seriously: "Reading good books is equivalent to one more way out. For us, this is the easiest way out."

Li Duoyu also felt that what Zhou Xiaoying said was very reasonable, but for poor students like them, studying was really too painful.

"I also think Teacher Zhou is right."

Seeing Li Duoyu's careless look, Zhou Xiaoying couldn't help but twist his arm: "You can't teach Tutu like this in the future, do you know?"

"It hurts, I know."

At this moment, Old Man Mi's voice came from the courtyard.

"Duoyu, are you at home?"

After Li Duoyu heard it, he quickly replied: "If you are here, I will come right away."

Li Duoyu rubbed his twisted arm and pursed his lips: "You must have used too much force. Now the bruise will fall off."

After Li Duoyu went out, he found Old Mi carrying a sack: "Old Mi, thank you for your hard work. Just ask me to get it. Why do you have to go there yourself?"

"It's just a small thing, just something convenient."

Old Man Mi continued: "These eels were caught temporarily, and only eight were caught. Seven of them were small. Fortunately, there was a big one inside, weighing about three kilograms, which is pretty good."

"It's okay, I just want a small one. By the way, how much do these cost in total?"

"Exactly fifteen dollars."

Zhou Xiaoying, who was just about to go out, couldn't help frowning when she heard the price: "How can you buy such an expensive thing?"

Old man Mi smiled and said, "Teacher Zhou, you don't understand this, right? This thing is a bit expensive, but it's good for men. Director Li is so busy every day, he should really replenish it."

Zhou Xiaoying suddenly remembered what Li Duoyu said yesterday, saying that he wanted to change something to replenish it. Could it be this thing?

She just said it casually, why is he so serious, and really buy something to replenish it.

She occasionally chats with female colleagues about some bed topics. Compared with other men, Duoyu is already very good.

The one in Shanshan's family is Xiao Weidong who was imprisoned. He beats his wife very well, but when it comes to that, it is said that it takes no more than two minutes from start to finish each time.

The two have been married for five years, and she has never experienced a full orgasm.

After giving Old Man Mi fifteen yuan.

Li Duoyu poured the wild eels in the sack into a wooden barrel, and then took it to the well to clean it.

The eels are very energetic and difficult to catch. It seems that just like what Old Man Mi said, they were really just caught.

There is not much difference between wild eels and the ones he farmed, except for the color.

The ones he farmed looked very obvious in black and white, while some of these wild eels were yellower and some were cyan.

To really distinguish whether an eel is wild or farmed, it is not the body color that matters, but some details.

Wild eels have smaller eyes, and because they actively hunt, their mouths look wider, and their fins are slightly larger, with obvious bloodshot, and their bellies are gold-rimmed.

Li Duoyu still remembers very clearly that in his previous life, the price of wild eels in Rongcheng was often five to ten times that of farmed eels, and this huge profit made many farmers have crooked thoughts.

In order to pass farmed eels off as wild, some farmers have developed something called "ecological eels".

That is, farmed eels are taken to a specific stream area and raised for a period of time, so that they change color, and then they are starved for a period of time, and then sold as wild eels.

It is the same as taking hairy crabs to Yangcheng Lake to "pass water".

The only difference is that the eel's body color will change due to different environments, making it look more like a wild eel. However, for grilled eels, the difference between wild and farmed is not very big. The most important thing is the kabayaki sauce needed for grilled eels.

That is the soul of kabayaki eels.

During the years of working illegally, Li Duoyu didn't know how many times he had prepared kabayaki sauce, and the recipe had long been deeply engraved in his mind.

The main ingredients of kabayaki sauce are mirin, sake, sugar and soy sauce.

Sugar and soy sauce, these two things must be available at home, but the more troublesome ones are mirin and sake.

Mirin is a kind of rice wine-like seasoning in the island country, which is brewed with sweet glutinous rice and koji.

In the Japanese food system, mirin has a similar status to domestic cooking wine. It is also used to remove fishy smell and enhance freshness, and it is also a very widely used seasoning wine.

Fortunately, it is not difficult to brew mirin. It can be brewed in just a few days. In addition, if there is no mirin, local rice wine and brown sugar can be used as a substitute.

Sake can also be replaced with local yellow wine, and the green wine brewed by my father happens to be a kind of yellow wine.

After sorting out his thoughts, Li Duoyu asked Chen Huiying, who was feeding rice paste to Xiao Tutu in the room, "Mom, do you have rice wine and brown sugar at home?"

Chen Huiying replied, "There is brown sugar, but no rice wine."

"Okay, I know. I will go to the supply and marketing cooperative to buy things later. Is there anything to buy?"

"Nothing to buy."

After a while, Li Duoyu bought all the ingredients needed for making the sauce and started to make the sauce directly.

The recipe of Kabayaki sauce is very simple, but if you want to make a good sauce, it is very challenging for the chef's skills.

Even though Li Duoyu is very familiar with Kabayaki sauce, he has made Kabayaki sauce five or six times with different raw materials.

Only then did he make a satisfactory sauce. Although it was impossible to be exactly the same as the one he had in his previous life in the island country, the overall flavor was at least 80% similar.

After the kabayaki sauce was ready.

The next step.

It was to kill the eel and grill the eel.

In the island country, they would use ice cubes to freeze the eel before killing it, so that it would be easier to kill it.

Where can I find ice cubes on Dandan Island?

Li Duoyu grabbed an eel weighing about 7 taels and threw it directly on the chopping board. Then he pointed the back of the knife at its head and hit it twice.

As the eel's body kept twisting and rolling, the eel gave up struggling in less than a minute.

Li Duoyu took a clean iron nail and nailed the eel's head directly on the chopping board.

The kitchen knife gently scratched the eel's gills, and the actions of opening the belly and removing the bones were smooth.

In less than a minute, he had cleaned up an eel, and his fastest speed was 20 seconds.

After processing the eel.

Next is the most important charcoal grilling process. When grilling eels, it is very important to control the heat.

The eel skin is a very critical part. If it is grilled too much, it will lose its elasticity, and if it is not grilled enough, it will produce a fishy smell.

Generally, it is best to grill the skin until it is slightly charred and grease oozes out. During the grilling process, the sauce should be repeatedly brushed four or five times.

In fact, grilling eels is not particularly difficult. It is similar to domestic barbecue. Just control the heat.

It took most of the day.

Li Duoyu finally grilled an eel. After smelling it, it smelled especially fragrant when grilled over charcoal.

Li Duoyu tried it first and found it was really delicious. The wild eel seemed to taste better, with firmer and more elastic meat.

"Aniang, come out and help me eat something to see how it tastes."

Chen Huiying came out with Xiao Tutu on her back. After seeing that the fourth child had messed up the kitchen, she said a little angrily:

"If you love cooking so much, you might as well go to the city and be a chef."

"Try it first. How does my grilled eel taste?"

Chen Huiying glanced at the grilled eel and frowned slightly, but still picked up the chopsticks and picked up a piece of eel meat into her mouth.

The moment she put it in her mouth.

Chen Huiying was stunned in place. She had never eaten such delicious food before, and she instantly became energetic.

"Duoyu, where did you learn this dish?"

Li Duoyu grinned and said, "I learned it from the Japanese."

He did learn it from the Japanese. Li Duoyu didn't lie to her about this.

Chen Huiying was speechless. This brat had always said that he wanted to go to the Japanese to be a chef. He didn't expect that he would really learn it when he went out for an inspection last time.

"Mother, is this grilled eel delicious?"

Chen Huiying nodded: "It's delicious, very delicious."

"It's delicious, you eat more."

But after eating a piece, Chen Huiying put down her chopsticks: "I'll wait until everyone comes back in the evening and eat together."

"There are a lot of eels, you eat them first, and I'll grill them."

But no matter what Li Duoyu said.

Chen Huiying still couldn't bear to eat it.

Seeing that he couldn't persuade her, Li Duoyu stopped persuading her. Their generation was used to suffering. From childhood to adulthood, food and clothing were always a problem, not to mention eating delicious food.

But even if there were delicious things, they often couldn't bear to eat alone, and had to wait for everyone to come back to eat together.

This reminded Li Duoyu of a watermelon given to his family when he was in junior high school.

Lao Li and his mother were reluctant to eat it, so they hid it in the cabinet, hoping that he and Xiaoying would come back to eat it together.

As a result, the watermelon was bitten by a mouse, and when they found it, it was half rotten.

The mother was so angry that she chased and beat the mouse whenever she saw it that year, and she would not stop until she caught it.

When Li Duoyu held Tutu.

This guy was quite restless, biting his shoulder directly and making sucking movements.

It seemed that he wanted to drink milk.

Li Duoyu took a chopstick, dipped it in the juice on the grilled fish, and put it in front of little Tutu.

After the guy smelled the smell, he sucked it directly.

"Dad~ Dad~"

Li Duoyu got a small piece of rotten, boneless eel meat and put it in his mouth.

Little Tutu's eyes were wide open, with a look of enjoyment on his face.

"Dad~ Delicious~"

When little Tutu said the word delicious, Li Duoyu was stunned. Is this the process of accompanying a child to grow up?

Before, he could only call dad and mom, but now he can actually say delicious. It is true that children change a lot every time. (End of this chapter)