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The annual 30's reunion dinner must include fish, which means there will be more than enough every year.

Tonight's spoon belongs to Zhang Taiping. His taste is very strong, which is similar to that of Sichuan people. Generally speaking, the dishes made by cooks will focus on that taste. He naturally likes spicy food.

Yes, but considering that there were still children, I made two kinds of fish.

One is pickled fish, which is a Sichuan cuisine and is particularly spicy. The other is braised fish, which is made with sweet sauce and has a sweet and sour taste. It is very suitable for people who don't like spicy food.

Yaya looked at her father, grandfather and aunt eating the pickled fish again, and asked curiously: "Dad, is that also a fish?"

"It's also a fish." Zhang Taiping nodded.

"Is it spicy?" Yaya asked.

"Don't you know after you taste it yourself?" Zhang Taiping said with a smile.

Cai Yazhi quickly said: "Just eat this one, that one is very spicy." Then he gave her a piece of sweet and sour braised fish.

However, Yaya still obeyed her father's words and dipped her chopsticks into the pickled fish soup. Then she stretched out her little tongue and licked the head of the chopsticks. She immediately fanned her mouth with her little hands and inhaled, saying, "It's so spicy, so spicy."

!" His little face turned red.

In order to make the authentic Sichuan flavor, Zhang Taiping made it exactly according to the steps in the recipe, and the chili peppers used were the extremely spicy small upward chili peppers produced by Lu Feng's family before. It is definitely a spicy flavor that can make people shed tears.

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"This is sweet, eat a piece of this and squeeze it." Zhang Taiping gave the little girl a piece of "wine stewed pear".

There was originally a dish called red wine stewed pears, but I couldn’t make authentic red wine stewed pears without red wine at home. However, the wine at home was no worse than any other red wine, and when analyzing the ingredients, red wine and wine are both made from grapes.

, the taste was just different, so I used wine instead of red wine to make a wine stewed pear dish.

There are antioxidant substances in grapes, so wine and red wine also have this effect, so this wine stewed pear is not only delicious, but also has anti-wrinkle, anti-aging and beauty effects.

The taste is sweet and has a slight cooling feeling. After eating a piece, the little girl immediately suppressed the burning sensation on the tip of her tongue.

We have chicken, duck, fish and rabbit at home, so there are dishes made from these items on the table. I used rabbit meat to make spicy stir-fried diced rabbit and hand-shredded rabbit meat.

Zhang Taiping naturally ate the spicy stir-fried diced rabbit. When he saw the little girl looking at him again, he asked with a smile: "Do you want to give it a try?"

The little girl quickly shook her head and said, "No, all the food dad eats are spicy."

"I learned smarter this time." Zhang Taiping laughed and said, "Then eat this, it's not spicy, just tear it up with your hands."

The little girl was still a little afraid to take action, so Fan Ming said first, "Look at me." He rolled up his sleeves and tore off a piece of rabbit breast.

Zhang Taiping smiled and tore off a rabbit leg for each of the two little girls, Yaya and Tiantian, and let them take it in their hands and chew on it.

The old man first looked at a plate of chicken dishes, then picked up a piece and tasted it, and asked in slight surprise: "Taiping, did you make this dish?"

Zhang Taiping nodded and said, "I'll take charge tonight."

"I didn't expect you to know how to make 'General Tso's Chicken'," the old man said.

"Zongtang Zuo's chicken?" Fan Ming's curiosity was aroused and she asked the old man, "Grandpa Zhang, is there a story behind the name of this dish?"

The old man smiled and stroked his beard and said: "There is a story in this, but although this dish is called 'General Tso's Chicken', it has nothing to do with Zuo Zongtang."

"Grandpa Zhang, tell me, tell me."

"Okay, let me tell you about it." The old man began to tell the origin of this dish. "One day in the 1970s, Chiang Ching-kuo, then Taiwan's executive president, got off work very late and took his entourage to dine at Peng Yuan Restaurant opened by Peng Changgui. The restaurant was originally

Just as we were about to close, all the high-end ingredients were used up that day, and only the chicken legs were left. Peng Changgui made an on-the-spot creation, removing the bones from the chicken legs and dicing them, removing the seeds from the peppers and cutting them into sections. He fried the chicken pieces first, drained them, and then added them with peppers.

, chicken nuggets, soy sauce, vinegar, minced garlic, and minced ginger, stir-fry evenly, and finally thicken the sauce and drizzle with sesame oil to make a new dish. Chiang Kai-shek was very impressed by the delicious food and asked about the name of the dish. Peng Changgui responded randomly and borrowed the name from Zuo Zongtang.

This dish was named, so the dish was called 'Zongtang Zuo's Chicken' and became Peng Yuan's signature dish."

After listening to the old man's story, Zhang Taiping was very surprised. He was surprised that the old man who had lived in the mountains for a long time knew what happened in Taiwan in the 1970s after the founding of New China, but he wisely did not ask.

"It turns out that it was the first dish that Chiang Kai-shek's son, Chiang Ching-kuo, ever tasted." Fan Ming said with a smile, "You have to try it."

However, her taste was on the bland side. This was another very spicy dish. After eating a piece, the result was the same as Yaya's before. It was so spicy that she could only stick out her tongue, her face was pink, and the tip of her nose was covered with a thin layer of sweat.

He quickly picked up the glass of wine in front of him and took a big sip.

Zhang Taiping said: "You drank like this and you got drunk in no time!"

"It's okay, it's okay, I have a good drinking capacity." Fan Ming said nonchalantly, "It's okay to drink a few bottles of beer, and even less problematic to drink wine."

In fact, although this kind of wine tastes sweet, it is because Zhang Taiping put honey in it when brewing. In fact, the wine is much stronger than beer, and when drinking this kind of wine, it seems

It doesn't have much punch, but it has a lot of stamina. Once the alcohol kicks in, it will be like a turbulent wave, making people drunk immediately.

Everyone had seen Fan Ming look so drunk when she was drunk, and they all burst out laughing when they saw her bragging now.

A reunion New Year's Eve dinner ended in a cheerful atmosphere with everyone chatting, laughing, and reflecting on past experiences.

Fan Ming was a little drunk now, and her face was like the red clouds in the sky. She took Xiaoxue's hand and came to Zhang Taiping and said, "Brother, are you going to stay up tonight for New Year's Eve?"

Zhang Taiping nodded and said: "It's important, but if you are really tired, you can rest in advance."

Fan Ming waved his hand and said: "How can I sleep on this night of saying goodbye to the old and welcoming the new? I have to stay up until tomorrow morning." After a pause, he said, "Then are there any programs to watch today?"

Zhang Taiping said: "You can watch the Spring Festival Gala, or you can invite a few people to play cards together. It's all fine."

"Watching the Spring Festival Gala is so boring." Fan Ming said, "Brother, let's go and play cards together."

Zhang Taiping smiled and shook his head and said: "You guys go ahead and play, I won't play anymore. I still need to prepare dumpling fillings to make dumplings for tomorrow morning."

There are several kinds of dumpling fillings prepared, including radish and meat fillings, scallions and meat fillings, toon and egg, and shepherd's purse and egg fillings. Whoever likes to eat can eat whatever they like.

Zhang Taiping brought the rolled out dough and mixed stuffing to the edge of the kang. When he saw Cai Yazhi and Zhang Xiuxiu sitting there, he said to Cai Yazhi, "Don't stay up late. Take a rest in the morning."

Cai Yazhi shook her head and said with a smile: "It's okay. I went to bed after making the dumplings. I have been sleeping for several hours during the day these past few days. It's only around nine o'clock now. I can't sleep even if I lie there. It's still uncomfortable."

Zhang Taiping said: "Then sit for a while. If you are tired, go and take a rest quickly. Don't hold on."

Cai Yazhi nodded.

After making the dumplings, it was almost twelve o'clock. The children had already gone to bed. Even Fan Ming, who claimed to be a good drinker, was already drunk and fell asleep. At this time, someone probably packed her away in a sack.

She didn't respond either.

Zhang Taiping arranged the fireworks he bought in a row outside the yard and shouted into the house: "Come out and watch the fireworks!"

All the people who were not asleep ran out of the house and stood under the eaves. Zhang Taiping lit several barrels of fireworks together, then returned to the eaves and watched with everyone.

With a bang, several rays of light shot into the sky and then exploded, blooming in the sky. Some were like blooming flowers, and some were like stars in the sky, extremely beautiful. In this silent night, the new year was ushered in.

meteorological.

All the fireworks were set off in a short period of time, which reminds people of the phrase "fireworks get cold easily".

Zhang Taiping looked at the calm sky and sighed in his heart, "Sometimes life is just like these fireworks, fleeting. The same is true for happiness. You still need to cherish and enjoy it!"