In the previous article, we mentioned that Su Shi can always discover the hidden beauty of the world in the troubles of the world. The delicacies on the tip of his tongue are not precious mountain treasures and seafood, but Su Shi can turn ordinary things into colorful delicacies and invent several famous dishes that have been passed down through the ages.
For example, Su Shi found that the lamb in Huangzhou is expensive, the pork is cheap, the rich look down on it, and the poor will not eat it. So he bought the pork back and cooked it using the method of his hometown of Meizhou in Sichuan. One day, when a guest came from home, Su Shi was excited to cook pork for guests, he put the pork in a pot with water and put the seasoning, slowly simmered it with a low heat, and then played chess with the guests.
The two played against each other, playing chess against each other, until the end of the game, Su Shi remembered that there was still meat boiling in the pot. He originally thought that a pot of pork would be burnt, did not expect to go into the kitchen to smell, but it was a fragrant meat, Su Shi opened the pot to taste, did not expect that the pork was actually thick and mellow, sticky but not greasy, won the high appreciation of guests, Su Shi also got inspiration from cooking pork.
Since then, Su Shi has concocted this pork delicacy as the law, with guests entertaining guests and no guests eating themselves, and also wrote the method of this dish into the "Ode to Pork": "Wash the bell, less water, the firewood head smoke can not afford." When it matures, it is not necessary to urge it, and when it is full of fire, it is self-beautiful. Huangzhou good pork, the price is as cheap as dirt. The rich refuse to eat, and the poor do not cook. Get up in the morning to play two bowls, and be full of your own junmo. ”
It is said that a few years later, Su Shi served as the Zhizhou of Hangzhou and led the people to dredge the West Lake, and in order to thank him, the people heard that he liked to eat pork when he was in Huangzhou, so he specially sent a lot of pork wine. After Su Shi asked the chef to cook the pork, he gave it to the people along with the wine, and the chef heard "even the wine together" as "even the wine is burned together".
As a result, it is roasted into pork with a wine flavor, but it is surprisingly more crisp and delicious. In order to thank Su Shi for his contribution, the people named this dish "Dongpo Meat", which has been widely circulated since then and has become a famous dish in Hangzhou. In addition to Dongpo meat, Su Shi also invented another popular delicacy.
One day, Su Shi was playing chess with a high-ranking monk's friend, and in the middle of the night, Su Shi suddenly felt very hungry. The monk asked the little monk to make some food, and when the little monk found that there was still half a bowl of noodles left in the kitchen, he put the noodles in sesame oil and fried them. But unconsciously, the little monk actually snoozed and snoozed.
Su Shi was so hungry that he didn't see the food for half a day, so he had to run to the kitchen to see it himself, and found that the little monk was asleep, and the noodles in the pot had been pasted into bread, and the little monk knew that he had run into trouble, and he was worried. However, Su Shi was not angry, for him as an optimist, there was always a solution to all problems.
Su Shi picked up the burnt yellow dough with chopsticks, tasted it, and it was crispy and delicious, so he ate it with relish. The next day, Su Shi excitedly told the street about the method of this pasta cake, and did not expect that the cake made by Su Shi's method was crisp and delicious, and it was very popular, and later, the people passed it on by word of mouth and called this kind of cake "Dongpo cake".