At 11:00 a.m. on December 17, 64-year-old Cai Jiankang, as usual, carried a large pot of soup downstairs from Building 123 of Guihua New Village in Suzhou Gusu District to the first floor of Building 113 opposite, knocked on the door of neighbor Zhou Lixiu's house, and personally delivered the freshly cooked nutritious soup to her wife. For more than a month, "cooking soup and delivering vegetables for sick neighbors at noon every day" has become Cai Jiankang's daily routine. Before retiring, Cai Jiankang was a "head chef", since learning that the neighbor was hospitalized for treatment due to tumors, the family was busy, Cai Jiankang and his lover decided to charter the task of "delivering food" to the neighbor. The careful "Chef Cai" is also a "nutritionist", in the love meal he made, each meal must have a good soup, "let Aunt Zhou supplement the body, only by enhancing her own resistance, can we overcome the disease." ”
Cai Jiankang is making soup
Every day, I changed the style of meat and vegetarian collocation, and "enjoyed the treatment of a high-end restaurant"
"Yesterday Aunt Zhou was just admitted to the hospital for examination, ready to start the first phase of chemotherapy, today stewed pigeon rib soup, increase some vitality, cheer her up," took the steaming pigeon soup brought by Cai Jiankang and her lover Zhang Man, Zhou Lixiu's wife excitedly said: "Thank you so much!" The reporter saw that the pigeon soup was clear to the bottom, and there were side dishes such as green vegetables, radishes, carrots, and sea cucumbers, and the nutritional collocation was very exquisite.
Turtle soup
"The patient's taste is more picky, Master Cai's dishes are good in color and flavor, and there is an appetite when he sees it," Zhou Lixiu's wife told reporters, the lover is 70 years old this year, and he was found to have cancer not long ago, and he began to panic a little, and his heart was difficult to accept for a while. Fortunately, the opportunity of the operation was seized, and the lesions had all been removed. "Watching me run back and forth, Master Cai volunteered to bring food to her wife, help her supplement nutrition before surgery, enhance her physique, and recover early," Zhou Lixiu's wife sighed, did not expect to send more than a month now, changing patterns every day, with meat ingredients, the general family is not willing to spend this effort, enjoy the treatment of high-end restaurants, "the real snow charcoal, I also seem to share this blessing of my wife." ”
chicken soup
All kinds of nutritious soups "strive not to be heavy", and occasionally make some "heavy taste" to stimulate appetite
Zhang Manyi and Zhou Lixiu usually work together to do "learning to strengthen the country", in early November, the careful Zhang Manyi noticed that Zhou Lixiu's performance suddenly dropped a lot, it seemed to be some abnormality, after questioning, I learned that Zhou Lixiu suffered from tumor hospitalization. For many years, the "old neighbor" suddenly fell ill, Zhang Manyu told his lover Cai Jiankang about this matter, thinking that the old couple only had one son, the work was relatively busy, and the patient's diet was a very important part of the treatment of tumors, Cai Jiankang decided to continue to play a "skill" to help the neighbor family "reduce the burden".
Pork liver soup
Starting from November 8th, Cai Jiankang's "buying jiggyaki" has an extra task, buying vegetable soup! Every night, he calculated the ingredients he would buy the next day, how to match, the reporter saw on the menu recorded by Cai Jiankang, yellow eel, turtle, beef, eel, pork liver, old goose, hoof bristle, blackfish, old duck... All kinds of nutritious soups strive not to be repeated every day. Considering that long-term drinking soup will make patients feel dull and tasteless, Cai Jiankang will occasionally make some "heavy flavor" braised dishes for Zhou Lixiu to stimulate her sense of taste, stimulate her appetite, and better supplement various nutrients. Not long ago, Cai Jiankang Wujiang's relatives sent a big goose, he stewed the goose soup, because the patient's diet after the operation is best to be light, after stewing, Cai Jiankang specially skimmed off the oil foam and sent it to Zhou Lixiu to replenish his vitality.
Braised eel
The identity of "nutritionist" is blessed, and the proportion of ingredients is carefully adjusted according to the stage
After 40 years as a chef, Cai Jiankang obtained the "First Class Chef Certificate" very early, and in April 2010, he was awarded the honorary title of "Chinese Culinary Master" by the China Cuisine Association. In addition to his culinary skills, Cai Jiankang also showed reporters a "Senior Nutritionist Certificate of International Informatization Talent Qualification Certification", which he obtained in 2008. Today, after retirement, Cai Jiankang still has a status, he is the secretary of the fourth branch of the Guihua Community in Canglang Street, "Cooking vegetables is a 'show of hands' for me, and it is a very happy thing to be able to use the old line to help others," Cai Jiankang said with a smile.
Cai Jiankang won the title of "Chinese Culinary Master"
With the blessing of the "nutritionist" identity, Cai Jiankang is particularly careful for the patient's "meal", "protein, fat, sugar, vitamins, inorganic salts, amino acids must be covered, meat, seafood river fresh cross-consumption, repeated eating, must be helpful to the body, at the same time, on the basis of ensuring nutrition, we must pay attention to the daily intake can not exceed the standard." Cai Jiankang for Zhou Lixiu to make nutritious meals divided into preoperative, intraoperative, postoperative three stages, and now Zhou Lixiu to the "postoperative" period, "after surgery to a large number of protein to help body tissue repair, but also to supplement iron elements to restore hematopoietic function," these days, Zhou Lixiu entered the preparation stage before chemotherapy, Cai Jiankang pondered the need to eat more broccoli, tomato, celery and other anti-radiation ingredients, these have become the key options for vegetable collocation in the recipe.
Cai Jiankang
"There is a chef at home, what do you want to eat and send weChat to us"
At noon on December 17, Cai Jiankang and his lover Zhang Manyu dialed a video phone and chatted with Zhou Lixiu, who was preparing to start chemotherapy. "The pigeon soup is so fresh, Master Cai thank you, thanks to your good craftsmanship, my body recovers quickly," hearing Zhou Lixiu express his gratitude to the couple, Cai Jiankang told her: "Don't have a psychological burden, as long as you are in good health, we are all happy." Zhou Lixiu said movingly that Master Cai worked hard to get up early every day to buy vegetables and spend his time making soup for himself, but he did not receive anything. In the end, Zhou Lixiu insisted repeatedly, he just accepted the money to buy vegetables. Under the careful conditioning of Cai Jiankang, he recovered well after surgery and is currently undergoing various examinations and evaluations before chemotherapy.
Cai Jiankang greeted Zhou Lixiu, who was hospitalized, via video call
Seeing zhou Lixiu's voice at the end of the video was loud and his laughter was cheerful, Zhang Manyu said to her: "It looks like you look good, what dishes you want to eat sent to me through WeChat, there is a chef at home!" Zhou Lixiu said: "With you as my strong backing, give me courage, give me strength, I will be able to overcome the disease, recover as soon as possible, and then we will sing together and learn together." ”
Yangzi Evening News/Purple Cow News reporter Zhou Xiaoqing
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