My Manor

It is said that Orientals like to flatter. In fact, flattering is a common human trait. Don't think that the American people, who are big and strong, shouting freedom, democracy, and rights all day long, do not flatter.

Now they eat Jiang Hai's food, live in Jiang Hai's house, and earn Jiang Hai's money. Of course, they have to work hard.

But under the current environment of the United States, in order to keep their current jobs, they will flatter Jiang Hai in some small things, such as food, which they are slowly improving.

Mrs. Philemon is a pure housewife. Because she doesn't need to go out to make money, she has a lot of time.

What she needs to do every day is actually very simple: get up in the morning, prepare breakfast, and go to the vegetable garden behind Jiang Hai's villa. Americans really don't eat vegetables. There are only three main ways to eat vegetables here. The first is to eat them raw, such as carrots, lettuce, tomatoes, cucumbers, etc. Vegetables that can be eaten raw are their favorite.

In addition, you can eat them by steaming. The most famous one is mashed potatoes. After steaming, mash them into a paste, and then add some things to it. Of course, in addition to potatoes, carrots, cauliflower, etc. can also be mashed.

The third way is to fry them. Apart from these three ways of eating, there is no other way to eat them.

So, in the supermarkets in the United States, except for Huaxia Supermarket, the number of vegetables sold is not small, but most of them are different from the vegetables in China. For example, in the supermarket in Winthrop that Jiang Hai had been to, there are many that Jiang Hai does not recognize.

For example, the most famous basil is both a vegetable and a spice. The rest are very common here, such as parsley, leeks, cabbage, chard, beets, kohlrabi (which is the pickled mustard in China, but it is not pickled here), windproof that looks similar to carrots, and vegetables such as rhubarb. In short, if you like to eat vegetables, and if you come to the United States and there is no Huaxia Supermarket around, you may starve to death.

There is a small vegetable garden behind Jiang Hai's villa, but Jiang Hai himself does not know how to grow vegetables. Compared with meat, he does not like vegetables very much, so he does not pay much attention to the vegetable garden. This small vegetable garden is now taken care of by Mrs. Philemon. Of course, it is cold now, and she has harvested all the vegetables that should be harvested and is waiting to plant them next year.

Today, the Philemon family specially prepared eight dishes, including fruits, appetizers, main dishes, and soup. The soup is naturally the most famous cheddar soup near Boston, which is made with shellfish caught yesterday.

These shellfish are cold-water deep-sea shellfish, and the taste is quite good. A fruit salad is inevitable. For vegetables, a fried vegetable dish is made, which includes raw flowers, cauliflower, eggplant, carrots, etc., and a plate of mashed potatoes. However, if it is made according to the habits of people in the United States, the taste of mashed potatoes is usually sour and sweet, but because of Jiang Hai, the taste of this mashed potato is salty.

In addition to these four dishes for a change of taste, the remaining four dishes are all meat dishes.

The main course is naturally steak. Today, Jiang Hai asked Burke-Daller to cut the premium-grade beef. Of course, most of the premium-grade beef was left in Jiang Hai's freezer by Burke-Daller. The premium-grade beef he cut was calculated by the head, one pound per person, but even so, it made these people very happy. In addition to these steaks, many other steaks were fried, but these steaks were all selected grade. Although one level lower, for the people here, there was no dissatisfaction. In their opinion, having beef for dozens of dollars a pound is already a great gift.

You have to know that they only earn about one hundred dollars a day.

Mrs. Philemon did not let go of the remaining meat that was not very suitable for making steaks but specially stewed a large pot of beef soup with basil in it. The taste was still okay for Jiang Hai.

In addition to these two beef dishes, the rest are seafood. The fish caught yesterday was cut into two pieces, the bones in the middle were shaved off, and then fried on both sides. Lemon juice was used to remove the fishy smell. The taste was sour and sweet with the sweet aroma of fish. It was still very good.

There was another seafood dish, which was the shrimp and crabs that Jiang Hai brought over. These fresh seafood did not need too much processing. They could be eaten after boiling in salt water. They were specially eaten for their sweet aroma.

In fact, the same seafood has different prices depending on the location.

Everyone knows that fish in warm and tropical areas are more numerous and grow faster than fish in cold zones, but of the four major fishing grounds in the world, except for the Peruvian fishing ground, the remaining three fishing grounds are all fishing grounds in the northern hemisphere, whether it is the North Sea fishing ground, the Hokkaido fishing ground, or the Newfoundland fishing ground very close to Jiang Hai's manor. Of course, Newfoundland is now finished, but it is undeniable that the current fishing industry is mainly in the northern hemisphere, or even near the cold zone. Even in China, the shipment volume may be higher in the south, but when it comes to delicious food, it has to be said that it is in the north.

There are reasons for this. First, the fish in the north are cold-water fish. The water is cold, so the fish do not grow fast. The fish that grow in one year in the south may need two, three, or even four or five years in the north. The accumulation of these four or five years naturally makes them taste better.

Second, the cold current in the north passes through in winter. In order to avoid the cold on the surface, the fish are more willing to go to the deep sea. The water pressure in the deep sea is higher. The higher the pressure outside, the firmer the fish meat. The same fish and shrimp may be a bit larger in the south than in the north, but the taste is slightly better in the north than in the south. Jiang Hai used to live in Bingcheng. Although it is not close to the sea, as a foodie, he is also very knowledgeable about this aspect.

The shrimps and crabs that Jiang Hai caught now were all from his fishery. They were seafood that had grown naturally for ten years. They tasted sweet and fresh, and the taste of the ocean made the meat very firm. Even Moses Adams, who had seen a lot of the world, was very happy eating them. As a lawyer, although he might pay attention to his appearance at ordinary times, as he said, he was just a tool. In order to make money from those rich people, he could sit at a western-style table in a tuxedo, like a gentleman, sipping red wine and cutting steak, and in the next second, he could become a street gangster, eating big chunks of meat and drinking large mouthfuls of wine.

For a "service" industry like his, pleasing the employer is the most important thing.

Of course, this also depends on whether the right person has the strength. Obviously, in his eyes, Jiang Hai is a person with strength.

The meal was naturally a great pleasure for both the host and the guests. As a lawyer, Moses Adams was not allowed to drink alcohol when handling a case, but he had to socialize after the case was handled, so he could drink quite well. As for Robbins and Burke-Daller, they were all at the level of wine barrels. Even though Jiang Hai's physical fitness had reached the human limit and his alcohol tolerance was not comparable to these people, after drinking red, white, and beer, it didn't take long for Jiang Hai to feel a little dizzy. He shook his head and decided to go outside to get some fresh air. He walked to the outside of the villa in three steps. Looking at the starry sky outside and the slightly salty sea breeze, Jiang Hai felt that his spirits were better. At this moment, it seemed that some quarreling sounds floated into his ears.

Listening to the quarreling voice, Jiang Hai frowned because he could roughly tell that one of the two quarreling voices came from Burke-Daller, an employee of his estate, and the other was a female voice. However, Mrs. Philemon was the only female in his estate, but it was obviously a young woman's voice, and she had nothing to do with Mrs. Philemon.

So it could only be the girl that Moses Adams brought over just now.

"Is there something wrong?" Thinking of this, Jiang Hai's spirits suddenly improved a lot. In fact, it was understandable that a man and a woman were quarreling outside in the dark. Thinking about it, he also felt that something seemed to be wrong. Was Burke-Daller out of his mind? If so, it would be troublesome. Although Moses Adams was trying to curry favor with him, he was not a pimp. If something really happened, Jiang Hai would have been sober by now.

With the subtle sound, Jiang Hai's five senses were brought into play to the extreme. Following the direction of the sound, he quickly walked to the back of the house. Sure enough, not far from the back of the house, Jiang Hai saw Burke-Daller and the girl brought by Moses Adams under the moonlight. However, seeing that there was at least two or three meters between the two of them, and their clothes were not messy, and there was no misleading movement, Jiang Hai temporarily put his heart back in his stomach. However, he then became interested in what these two people were talking about when they ran here alone in the middle of the night. Although Jiang Hai is a man, he is sometimes quite gossipy. He didn't say much at the moment, and turned around and hid in the corner next to him, watching the scene in front of him.

"Penelope, when did you return to Boston? You didn't tell me. I don't know if your mother has shown you the letters I wrote to you over the years..." The two people who were in the moonlight at this time did not notice Jiang Hai's existence. Burke-Daller looked at Penelope, who seemed to be a piece of ice in front of him and didn't look at him well at all. He took a deep breath, lowered his head, and spoke in a deep voice. It seemed that this guy really had something to do with this girl.

"What do you want to show me? How poor and destitute my father was? How hopeless he was? It's really hard for me to imagine what you were like when my mother and I left, and what you are like now. What can I say to you?" Hearing Burke-Daller's words, the woman opposite didn't even think about it and raised her head, saying coldly.