Chapter 135 Rabbit Stew

The two of them walked and talked about their plans for the future, and they both seemed to have great expectations for this matter.

Boys are taught from a young age that they should take responsibility for the family, so they cherish any opportunity to help their family improve living conditions.

The brothers believe that even the slightest possibility is worth trying to see if it can be achieved.

More importantly, as the breadwinner of the family, if I cannot provide a good living environment for my wife and children in the future, it will not only be embarrassing to be laughed at by the outside world, but also a great disappointment and guilt to myself.

When Tang Jianxi arrived at the door of the house, he was standing in the yard waiting. He found that only Shu Yixian came back with a basket, and he couldn't help feeling a little strange.

However, thinking that the pregnancy was not very stable this time, and considering that if I let my second brother raise the rabbits first, even if something unexpected happened, it would not affect the upcoming new life in the belly, I felt that doing so might not be a bad idea.

After Zhao Chunhua handed the basket to the Shu brothers, she felt a lot more relaxed, as if a huge stone had been lifted from her heart.

Then she immediately ran to the kitchen to wash her hands, preparing to use the fresh rabbit to make a delicious braised rabbit meat to reward her family tonight.

In order to add layers of flavor, she even took out the only bottle of bean paste in the house and placed it on the desk for use.

If you want to enjoy this bottle of seasoning again after you finish it, you will have to go out and buy it yourself.

She had heard before that this kind of thing can actually be made at home with simple ingredients, so she thought that if she had some time next year, she might as well try it herself.

Why wait until next year?

The reason is actually very simple - I am just too lazy to move this year.

Let’s wait until next year and see if we can really grow broad beans. If not, we’ll just pretend nothing happened.

Spring is always full of expectations and unknowns, and this mood also makes her feel that the future is full of possibilities.

After all, you won’t know if it works until you try it.

When thinking about next year, I naturally think about the Chinese New Year.

When talking about the Chinese New Year, one can't help but think of pea tips. Those tender green leaves not only brighten people's eyes, but are also an indispensable touch of green in the New Year's Eve dinner.

Pea tips also existed in this era, but it seemed that they could only be found in wealthy families. The price of seeds was not cheap at all, and the starting price was at least three digits.

It is usually a dish eaten by royal nobles.

Because ordinary people simply cannot afford such high costs.

At this time, the grocery store where Zhao Chunhua worked was out of stock, so she went up to ask the owner if he could help solve the problem. The owner was very easy to talk to and immediately expressed his willingness to help her get some seeds.

In fact, the price difference between pea tips and broad beans is not that big, but why are pea tips not widely popular?

This is mainly because it is not easy to survive the winter.

Once encountering cold, frosty and snowy weather, these fragile lives often cannot escape the fate of death, and eventually the whole plant will be frozen.

Only in a greenhouse as warm as spring can they successfully survive this severe cold test.

For an ordinary family, when they already have to spend a lot of effort to ensure that they and their families are not cold in winter, how can they have the extra energy to build an insulated house for some vegetables?

As a person who has been particularly picky about food since childhood, I especially miss the feeling of eating hot pot with fresh and tender green pea tips when winter comes. Without it, it is like losing the soul of the hot pot, just like eating spicy food without red peppers.

Because of this, despite the many difficulties, Zhao Chunhua still wanted to try to grow this beloved thing with her own hands.

What's more, pea tips do not only grow in the cold winter season, it's just that their market value will be higher at that time.

However, the plant itself is extremely picky and difficult to care for: it cannot be exposed to too much water to avoid root rot; at the same time, the leaves must be kept moist at all times to prevent them from drying out. This contradictory nature does pose a great challenge to its preservation.

But this is not a big problem for people who are good at thinking and solving problems.

Therefore, Zhao Chunhua secretly vowed in her heart that she would conduct a bold experiment in her own yard no matter what, so as to taste the first batch of harvests she had cultivated with her own hands as soon as possible.

Haha, I went off topic without realizing it.

After realizing that her mind had begun to drift, she quickly brought her attention back to the task at hand and began the cooking process with full concentration.

Cut the cleaned rabbit meat into small pieces, then put it into the pot and add the seasonings needed to remove the fishy smell - an appropriate amount of salt and a small amount of pepper, and stir gently to remove the fishy smell from the meat.

After marinating for ten minutes, add sweet potato starch and stir evenly to coat each piece of meat with starch. Finally, lightly drip rapeseed oil to lock in the gravy.

Then carefully pick out the ginger slices and green onion segments.

Use more oil when frying the meat to ensure that the rabbit meat does not become too dry.

When the hot oil in the pan starts to smoke slightly, put the processed rabbit meat into the pan piece by piece and stir-fry quickly.

When the moisture on the surface of the meat gradually dries up and you can see that the meat begins to tighten gradually, you can add the prepared bean paste, spices, soy sauce and peeled garlic cloves, and keep turning the rabbit meat in the hot oil until you smell a rich aroma.

Then add the freshly chopped green and red peppers and continue to stir-fry until the peppers become slightly soft. At this time, add the washed and chopped green onions, and adjust the amount of salt according to personal taste. In this way, the braised rabbit meat with color, aroma and taste is ready.

This method is adopted because the rabbit prepared today is relatively young and has tender meat. If it is an old rabbit, then in order to ensure the taste, you need to add some water to the pot and stew it slowly.

The rice we had for dinner tonight was made from new rice that was recently harvested.

Zhao Chunhua specifically found an acquaintance to help her pound the rice, because she herself was not proficient in this skill - if she used too much force, it would easily damage the rice and cause it to break; on the contrary, if she did not use enough force, she would not be able to completely remove the shell covering the outside.

For this, she paid thirty cents as a reward and asked the other party to bring the rice directly to her home for processing and then send it back. Considering the quality of the finished product and the time cost, Zhao Chunhua thought that spending the money was very cost-effective.

Paired with delicious dishes made from fresh rice, the meal left her very satisfied.

In her spare time after dinner, Zhao Chunhua picked up the charcoal pencil that had been placed on the corner of the table for a long time and began to sketch out the hairpin pattern design that had been brewing in her mind for a long time on the paper.