Chapter 1481 - 575: Making Savory Porridge with Soy Sauce Duck! What’s It Like Having a Social Butterfly Cat at Home?

Chapter 1481: Chapter 575: Making Savory Porridge with Soy Sauce Duck! What’s It Like Having a Social Butterfly Cat at Home?

"Grandma, we’ve come to bring you some food!"

Shen Jiayue, holding Dundun, and Chen Yan, carrying a package of snowy bean paste, arrived at Grandma Shen’s house in South Third Ring. As soon as she entered the door, Shen Jiayue started shouting excitedly.

She’s been chatty since she was a child, and even now, as a married woman, she hasn’t changed this habit.

"What delicious food has my grandson-in-law made this time?"

Grandma Shen was just about to head out to play cards. Seeing her granddaughter and great-granddaughter arriving, she quickly came to greet them, and scooped Dundun up into her arms:

"Why is our beloved Dundun wearing a bow tie?"

Chen Yan chuckled:

"He’s come to visit relatives, so he needs to be properly dressed."

The family entered the living room, and Chen Yan opened the lunchbox, laying the snowy bean paste before Grandma Shen:

"My brother-in-law made a lot of snowy bean paste this afternoon, with all kinds of fillings. Grandma, please try some, they’re delicious."

Though Grandma Shen has lived in Beijing for decades, she is indeed a girl who grew up in Northeast China. Seeing this dessert, a nostalgic expression appeared on her face, and she looked a bit lost:

"This snowy bean paste... is really pretty."

Northeast people have a sentimental attachment to this delicacy. Even this elderly lady who has witnessed many storms was a bit surprised at first, but soon, the surprise turned into delight:

"My grandson-in-law’s skills are really good; this snowy bean paste looks delicious..."

She picked one up to try. Though not freshly fried, it was still quite warm thanks to the insulated lunchbox, and the filling inside was even a bit scalding.

The soft egg white dough and the delicious filling inside made Grandma Shen eat contentedly.

"Delicious, really delicious, you both should eat too, don’t just watch me."

"We’ve eaten already, had quite a few, and we’re stuffed."

After speaking, Shen Jiayue picked up a walnut from the table and rolled it twice on the coffee table, playing with Dundun.

Dundun is completely uninterested in these childish interactions. He jumped onto the sofa, pushed over a plush pillow, then lay on it, expressing enjoyment.

Cats are very interested in soft and fluffy things, possibly subconsciously considering them as siblings they competed with for milk when they were young.

"Do you like this pillow? If you like it, take it home, and you can lie on it at night."

Grandma Shen finished the snowy bean paste with red bean paste filling and tried one with date paste, thinking the taste was truly great, and even better than the snowy bean paste in her memory.

Her grandson-in-law’s skills are truly top-notch.

Shen Jiayue said:

"We have quite a few of these plush pillows at home; he just likes fluffy things, like a girl."

Upon hearing this, Dundun grumbled, expressing dissatisfaction.

This cat is a manly boy, not a girl.

Shen Jiayue and Chen Yan didn’t stay long, chatted casually for a couple of sentences, then got up to leave. They had other relatives to deliver to, and these would cool down soon.

The two left with Dundun, making a big turn, delivering to all the relatives.

Passing by Chen Yan’s grandma’s house, Shen Jiayue deliberately turned in to give Chen Yan’s grandma a portion too.

Back at the shop, it’s almost dinner time.

Dundun happily ate a dish of chopped beef tenderloin mixed with egg yolk and steamed, then diligently washed his face, tidying the bow tie around his neck in front of the mirror.

Upstairs, everyone was eating dinner - pickled cabbage buns and minced meat mushroom porridge.

The store had bought a whole package of pickled cabbage before but hadn’t finished it. Seeing the hot weather coming, they were too lazy to pickle new ones, so they just cleaned, chopped, washed again, and mixed with the chopped soy sauce meat, making a pickled cabbage soy sauce meat filling, wrapped with leavened dough into buns.

While prepping the filling, Lin Xu specially chopped more fatty meat, worrying the juices might be too much, and added some cellophane noodles.

After steaming, the buns were aromatic and tasty, the flavor of the soy sauce meat perfectly combined with the sour aroma of pickled cabbage, and the cellophane noodles soaked up the meat juices, making it incredibly flavorful.

This kind of pickled cabbage bun is quite common in Northeast China, but it seems not much eaten elsewhere.

Originally thought it was like pickled cabbage and pork stewed with cellophane noodles wrapped up, but upon eating, found it’s quite different from stewed dishes, with a richer aroma, and no broth.

This kind of filling paired with the soft and fluffy bun dough is really quite enjoyable.

The people who came after work to have dinner all ate with oil dripping from their mouths, even the smallest in the restaurant, Dou Wenjing, ate three big buns and drank a big bowl of savory porridge.

"This savory porridge is really nice, Xu-bao, can we make porridge with our soy sauce duck too?"

Today’s savory porridge was made with air-dried chicken, first simmered over low heat for more than an hour, making the chicken tender and fully cooked, then adding soaked rice and slow-cooking it.

This kind of porridge has a fresh aromatic taste, smooth rice grains, tender chicken, and a broth full of the unique aroma of savory chicken, even tasting more enjoyable than the pickled cabbage soy sauce meat buns.

Lin Xu said:

"It should be possible; I’ll try tomorrow morning. If it’s tasty, I’ll bring a couple of ducks to the shop, and everyone can try some."

Soy sauce duck and soy sauce meat can be kept for a long time, and the longer it’s kept, the better it tastes.

Lin Xu plans to make some more in his spare time to have at home, so that if he wants a lazy and convenient meal someday, he can just steam it and have a good dish for meals or drinks.

Qi Panpan and Qiang-ge, a couple who came over for dinner together after work, especially enjoyed tonight’s dinner:

"Didn’t expect pickled cabbage wrapped into buns to be so delicious, and air-dried chicken can be made into porridge."

"If I keep eating like this, I think I’ll quickly reach a hundred and ten pounds."