I'll miss it after a while, Lion's Head

"Mom, my plane tomorrow afternoon, to Shanghai is the day after tomorrow, it is also the afternoon, the domestic time is about two o'clock in the afternoon."

"Oh, okay, I'll pick you up with your dad and send your flight number."

"No, I'll take the high-speed train back by myself, or call a ride."

"Oops, you have so much luggage, let's pick you up!" Son, what do you want to eat? Mom prepares you. ”

"There's nothing special you want to eat, oh, or you can burn a lion's head."

"Okay, okay, be careful on your way."

After hanging up her son's phone, Xiao Ling immediately got busy. My son has been in France for the third year, studying architecture, a school that never admits Asian students, and recruited three that year, one from Hong Kong, one from Tsinghua, and one from him. In fact, the school that his son was admitted to in China was not very good, but he also had a spirit of research, when traveling through the cities on the border between France and Switzerland, he photographed a lot of buildings and designs that ordinary people would not pay attention to, as well as some niche handmade design objects, made into a PPT, and was photographed by the examiner teacher who happened to be born in that city, so he was lucky enough to enter this school for further study. Xiao Ling's mouth is dismissive of her son, and her heart is actually very proud of her son, an ordinary family, supporting her only son to go abroad, hoping that he can become an elite family after completing his studies.

Xiao Ling is very good at cooking, and has a good reputation among friends and classmates, if invited by her, family banquet, is the highest treatment. She made pork claw marinated duck, fried shrimp in oil, steamed white striped fish, braised lion's head, pineapple fritter shrimp... There are many dishes, and there are also buns, dumplings, and various cakes, which are very delicious anyway. The first recommended braised lion's head, people who have eaten it, will miss it every once in a while.

On the morning of her son's return, Xiao Ling got up earlier than usual, went to the vegetable market to buy vegetables, and ate fresh food on the same day. To make a lion's head, it is best to be pork belly, there is fine and fat to be delicious, she does not let the meat seller use the meat grinder to stir, but go home and chop it herself, because the meat stirred by the machine will be loose and not delicious.

I bought a lot of dishes, the others that should be washed, and the ones that should be put in the refrigerator. The pork belly rinsed, she began to put on the apron to cut, and then chopped, the sound of ding-dong in the kitchen came: "Are you tired, who is still chopping the meat now?" Let them break up, take them back and do it, save more trouble. "Xiao Ling's husband came back from outside." No, my son likes to eat the lion's head I made, because I chopped it myself, it is delicious. ”

In the minced meat, add some starch and salt, starch can not put more, otherwise like the lion's head in the restaurant, the noodles are whirring, and then add some water and cooking wine, constantly stirring, this degree should also be grasped, otherwise the lion's head is easy to scatter. The rest is not put, but when kneaded into a ball, it is outdated, and a little ginger, soy sauce, soy sauce, sugar, cinnamon, fennel, cover the pot and simmer. After about twenty minutes, the smell of meat wafted from the kitchen, and the husband in the room leaned out: "It should be fine, I'll try it." "No, it's delicious to roll for a while, cook it well, put it away first, and then come back from the airport and heat it up and eat it."

Xiao Ling's lion head is different from some places, they will put ginger, root and green onion in the lion's head, and eat it without the aroma of pure meat. Huaiyang cuisine lion head is even more different, known as the "state banquet lion head", in addition to ginger, minced onion, will also put horseshoe diced, shrimp, egg white, etc., and is put soup white roast, not bad, different flavor, horseshoe can be greasy, tender, melt in the mouth, but still like Xiao Ling's braised lion head.

I drool when I think about it

Sometimes, Xiao Ling cooks too much and will give it to the neighbors, who love to eat. Later, the neighbor's children also went abroad to study, and when they came back in the first year, they wanted to eat the lion's head made by the aunt next door, saying that they missed this for more than half a year abroad, and sometimes they drooled when they thought about it. The neighbor said to Xiao Ling, she immediately went to buy meat, made a plate to send over, the neighbor said thanks, directly took out the incubator box, loaded it and rushed to the airport...

Have you been in a foreign land, especially missed, thinking of dishes to drool? Or, a dish that you miss after a while? Let's share it.