Chapter 35 The kitchen head has a long friendship

Every time I transfer to Zhang Xueliang's house, Miss Zhao Si will show off her cooking skills.We have introduced before that Ms. Zhao Si's specialty dish is casserole fish head.This dish is a relatively common dish in the southwest region. Green vegetables, bamboo shoots, and vermicelli can be added to the casserole. The soup is delicious.When Zhang Xueliang was imprisoned in Guizhou, he liked fishing, so Ms. Zhao Si had a lot of fish heads to cook, so she learned the casserole fish head dish from local farmers.Later, Ms. Zhao Si brought this dish to Taiwan and the United States. If it catches up with summer, Ms. Zhao Si likes to cook an appetizer for everyone-clean roasted peas.The peas are bought directly from nearby farmers.Let me insert a sentence here, the freshness of the ingredients is very important to the quality of the dishes.One year when I went back to my hometown, after cooking the hot pot on the ground, I pulled out the vegetables from the ground, washed them and put them in the pot. The deliciousness was unimaginable.

Let’s talk about the dish of roasted peas. The method is as follows: soak the peas in cold soup before putting them into the pot. This soup can be chicken soup or duck soup, so that the taste can be soaked into the peas.Just before the peas are cooked, add the milk.This dish of peas is soft and delicious, and the soup is white and mellow. It is very popular on the summer table. I myself like to cook with peas.There is a dish that does this: dice carrots and cook them with fresh peas.When cooking, add a little oil and salt, add a little soup, slowly dry up, and add a little monosodium glutamate when cooking.This dish is red and green, rich in nutrition.I also like to fry peas with minced meat. The finished dish is very fragrant and can be served with rice and wine.

At the transfer meeting, Miss Zhao Si also likes to cook a housekeeping dish called Drunken Shrimp.Drunken Shrimp is a seafood dish that Ms. Zhao Si learned when she lived in Kaohsiung.Zhang Xueliang liked seafood very much. In 1954, Zhang moved to live in Xiziwan, Kaohsiung, near the seashore, where shrimps were plentiful and cheap.Peel off the shells of fresh sea prawns, soak them in wine for two hours, then stir-fry them in an oil pan, add salt, shredded ginger, diced meat, mashed garlic, chives and mustard, and then pour in the soup made from shallots and shredded kelp Sauce - Drunken Shrimp This dish is made.Miss Zhao Si's dish was highly praised by Zhang Daqian and Zhang Qun.

Taiwan's seafood is famous for its "freshness". In May 2011, I was invited by Taiwan’s Central University to attend an international food seminar in Taiwan, during which Mr. Jiao Tong, a famous Taiwanese gourmet and poet, took us to Taichung County to taste seafood.The restaurant I went to is very famous in Taiwan, called Fugong International Creative Cuisine, where I ate the best seafood.Among them, there is a sea prawn in a typhoon shelter, which made me open the "mouth world". This kind of freshness is something I have never tasted in my life. It really looks like it has just been fished out of the sea.Seafood is also common in the mainland, but I think it may be due to environmental protection issues along the coast of the mainland, which affects the quality of the ingredients, so the taste is far from what I eat in Taiwan.

Miss Zhao Si likes to cook hot pot in winter.Miss Zhao Si was originally from Hangzhou, maybe she fell in love with hot pot with Zhang Xueliang when she was living in Peiping.At that time, the hot pots of Donglaishun, Puyunlou and Tianfulou in Beiping were all famous all over the world.When Zhang Xueliang lived in seclusion in Guizhou, the local winter was extremely cold, and Ms. Zhao Si learned to cook hot pot with local charcoal.The hot pot in Guizhou is a clay-fired stove with an iron pot on it. The ingredients for cooking are generally game, fish and wild vegetables picked. When I was in my hometown in the Southwest before the 1990s, every winter, I used to burn charcoal in a brazier, put a tripod on it and put an antimony pot on it, put chicken and big bone soup in the pot, and three or five friends Sitting together, hot meat and vegetables.The wine is poured into the cup and placed on the side of the brazier to bake.It is warm and delicious to eat like this.We sometimes cook a pot of pig’s trotters first, then dip the trotters in seasonings to eat, and then add tofu, cabbage, kelp, etc. into the pig’s trotters soup to continue cooking, which is very delicious.Everyone drank and talked about poetry, and enjoyed it happily, which I still can't forget.

Taiwan's winter is cold and rainy, so Ms. Zhao Si often cooks hot pot for Zhang Xueliang.Because it is close to the sea, seafood is often used.In addition to seafood, Ms. Zhao Si also brings sauced elbow flower, carpaccio, fried belly, sausage, smoked chicken, sauced duck, etc. to the hot pot. Here is a mention of Huang Ke's family banquet in Wangjing, Beijing, which is known as "Contemporary Meng Changjun".In winter, he also often prepares seafood hot pot and Huang's beef soup pot. Among them, seafood hot pot is one of his representative dishes. Add all kinds of seafood one by one, rinse and eat, it is extremely delicious.

In addition to paying attention to the diversity of diet, Zhang Xueliang pays more attention to the balance of nutrition and the ratio of meat and vegetables.But I think that peace of mind is the reason for his longevity.He was imprisoned for fifty years and lived to be one hundred and one years old. It is unimaginable not to have such a mentality.Everyone will encounter many ups and downs in their life, so we must learn Zhang Xueliang's mentality.Zhang Xueliang's longevity should also be due to his inseparable relationship with Miss Zhao Si. On August 13, 1955, Miss Zhao Si was hospitalized due to illness.Zhang Xueliang, who is still under confinement, often writes letters to Miss Zhao Si, expressing his feelings.During the Mid-Autumn Festival of that year, Zhang Xueliang wrote: "At noon, the vice president of the bear team, Lao Xu, and the captain of the yellow division, the four of us shared the same table. Cabbage and chicken soup. In the afternoon, Xu and Xiong ate together again, including stewed duck, braised lion head, fried cabbage, stewed vegetables, and chicken soup. I ate the leftover chowder twice, and I loved it very much. On the night of the fifteenth Youyun, the moonlight is not good, and the kitten is not at home, so he probably went to find his girlfriend."

In just a short paragraph, we can see his attitude towards life, which is full of love and humor. These two points are the most basic elements of being a human being. With these two points, a person may have happiness.