Chapter 1046: Chapter 431: High EQ: I Made the Mistake Every Foodie Makes! Low EQ: I Got Fat! [Subscription Request]
Seeing Lin Xu come out, Geng Lele excitedly asked:
"Xu Ge, are the bones ready?"
"If you like them rare, you can eat them now."
Little Mushroom Head shook her head as soon as she heard this:
"Then I better eat something to fill my stomach first. I didn’t even have breakfast this morning, just wanted to gnaw on a couple of big bones, didn’t expect I’d have to wait until noon."
There was still breakfast in the shop, Chezai brought her a bowl of hot and sour soup and two meat rolls.
Geng Lele asked while eating:
"Why didn’t Sister Yue come?"
"She’s building a snowman with Dundun on the rooftop, my father-in-law and mother-in-law are there too."
Building a snowman?
A few idle people immediately got interested upon hearing this:
"Shall we go too?"
"Yeah, yeah!"
"Lele, hurry up and drink your soup, take the meat rolls and eat them on the way, otherwise we won’t wait for you."
Hearing this, Geng Lele gulped down the hot and sour soup in just a few sips, stuffed the two meat rolls into a lunchbox, and followed a few innocent-hearted big sisters downstairs.
Lin Xu rested for a while, then went back to the kitchen to continue working.
An hour later, Lin Xu turned off the stove and opened the lid of the soup pot.
A pleasant aroma of snow pear wafted out.
At the start of the boil, the pot was full of snow pear pulp, but now there’s clearly more liquid, and the color had turned dark brown.
The temperature was too high now to filter, otherwise, it would easily cause burns.
He had to pour it out from the pot first, let it cool down until it wasn’t too hot to touch, and then filter it, which would yield better results.
Lin Xu poured the snow pear soup into two large stainless steel basins and placed them at the cold storage door to speed up the cooling of the pears.
The bones were almost ready too, so he turned off the heat and let them continue to soak.
When the snow pear soup in the basin was no longer too hot to handle, Lin Xu got a huge piece of filter cloth and began filtering.
He placed the filter cloth in an empty basin, with the edges hanging over the edge.
Then he scooped the snow pear soup in with a water ladle, and when the basin was almost full, he lifted the four corners to let the juice filter out.
The leftover residue wasn’t to be thrown away, but placed in a juicer to squeeze out as much moisture as possible.
Chezai, who was helping on the side, asked:
"Isn’t the squeezed residue useless?"
Ma Zhiqiang muttered:
"Not much use for us, but for some people, it’s very useful."
"What kind of people?"
"For florists, it’s top-notch fertilizer; for fishing enthusiasts, it’s the best bait; for..."
Before he could finish, Lin Xu said:
"Get a bag and pack it up, I’ll take it back home when I leave today, there’s a flowerbed on my rooftop, I plan to bury it in the snow, it will surely help the vegetables thrive next year."
The residue was not much today.
But when Sister Yan’s three thousand Jin of snow pears arrive, the entire rooftop flowerbed might be fertilized.
This residue isn’t good for planting flowers or vegetables in other seasons because its sweetness tends to attract bugs.
But it’s fine in winter; bury it in the soil, and by spring it’ll have all decomposed into nutrients.
All the juice was filtered out, resulting in a full large basin.
Lin Xu took a bowl and tasted it; it was sweet with a hint of medicinal flavor, reminiscent of drinking herbal tea.
He got the largest pot and poured in all the filtered juice; now it was time for the long simmering process.
Around ten o’clock, Xie Baomin drove over, bringing the whole family including Dashun and his wife to the store.
Just as they arrived upstairs, Chen Yuejin and his wife, Ren Chongmo and his wife, Cui Qingyuan, Geng Lishan’s family, Shen Jiayue’s uncle’s family, as well as Brother Qiang, Panda, Yue Liyue, Mi Lan, and others also arrived.
On a snowy weekend, a delicious pot of Braised Pork Ribs is an irresistible treat.
The banquet hall was empty in the morning, the waiter directly led everyone upstairs for tea and chatting.
Before long, the group building a snowman at the Lin Family also arrived.
Shen Guofu also went to the South Third Ring to pick up Grandma Shen.
When everyone had arrived, the meal began.
At this point, there’s a thick layer of fat atop the soup pot, all rendered lard and bone marrow oil; after removing the basin weighing down the top, and taking off the grate, the aroma of Braised Pork Ribs began to spread.
Lin Xu brought a basin, first skimming half of the fat from the surface, then switching basins to start ladling out the big bones with a slotted spoon.
After an hour and a half of stewing and more than an hour of soaking, these big bones were not only rosy in color but also tender and flavorful.
They wobbled while being scooped out; even the lean parts were tender and juicy, not dry or tough.
After serving a basin of meat, scooping some still-hot soup, and letting them simmer on the table while eating, you could even cook more vegetables in it afterward, which was very satisfying.
"Wow, these bones are truly exquisite!"
Wei Qian approached for a look and couldn’t take his eyes off.
Lin Xu scooped a piece into a bowl and said:
"Try it and see how the seasoning is, check the saltiness."
"Then I won’t stand on ceremony."
Wei Qian wasn’t afraid of the heat, and took a bite of a half pork shank:
"So hot, so hot... This tastes really good, the seasoning is just right, and the braised flavor is rich, delicious!"
He grabbed a couple of cloves of garlic from the prep table, praising the taste of the Braised Pork Ribs as he ate.
"Lin Xu, we should put Braised Pork Ribs on the menu later; customers will definitely love such a delicious taste."
