Chapter 342 Light Rain

Compared with the thin Meicai Kourou, the slices of this kind of Kourou are thicker. If it is not cooked well, it will easily taste greasy, so you must ensure that the steaming time is long enough so that it will melt in your mouth.

It would take more than one to two hours to steam it in an iron pot, while it would take about forty minutes in a pressure cooker. Zhao Yeqing decisively chose the pressure cooker as it would save firewood.

Eating only taro braised pork for dinner is a bit too oily, so you have to find some small green vegetables to go with it.

There are not many cold-resistant vegetables, and Zhao Yeqing is tired of most of them, so he found a special vegetable among the seeds.

She had never seen this kind of vegetable in her hometown before. After eating it by chance in Sichuan Province, she found it very special. When she bought seeds from her nephew, she saw that he had it, so she specially brought two extra packets.

She had sown the seeds of this vegetable in the basement after the polar night passed, and now it was almost time to harvest.

Mu Xi had never eaten such vegetables before. Looking at the appearance of the vegetable, he thought that the leaves had not yet grown out. He confirmed with Zhao Yeqing that it was already grown, and then pulled it out of the basement.

This vegetable is small and huddled together. Its scientific name is Baozijie. It seems to be called Ercai in Sichuan Province. It can be sliced ​​and cooked into soup, or broken into small pieces and boiled directly in water. When it is soft, take it out and dip it in the water to eat. It can also be used to stir-fry meat.

Zhao Yeqing prefers the second way of eating. Each small piece of vegetable is about the size of a bite, and the larger ones are two bites. After being cooked, it has a sweet taste with a hint of bitterness and is very refreshing.

When the taro braised pork is almost done steaming, throw the baby vegetables into the water to cook one by one. The two dishes are served at almost the same time. Each person holds a big bowl of rice, and the chopsticks are all directed towards the taro.

The taro in this braised pork with taro is famously more delicious than the meat. After being steamed and cooked with the meat for such a long time, the taro fibers are already full of the aroma of the meat, mixed with the taro's own fragrance, and it melts in your mouth soft and sticky.

Zhao Yeqing ate two pieces of taro before he stretched out his chopsticks to the braised pork. The braised pork had been steamed until it was very soft and it broke when he picked it up with chopsticks. The fried pork skin that had been soaked in water was fluffy and soft, with a very unique taste, and the hollow bubbles were filled with sauce.

The sauce explodes in your mouth as you bite into it, and at that moment you can understand why such a complex dish is so popular among the locals.

If its taste did not make people feel that it was worth the money, such a complicated dish would not appear on the tables of Guangxi people, whether at banquets or family dinners.

After eating a big piece of meat, it is time to eat something refreshing to change the taste. I cut a few chili rings into the sauce prepared with onions, garlic and light soy sauce, and dipped the boiled baby vegetables in it before eating. The sweet and refreshing aftertaste with a hint of bitterness neutralized the greasiness left in my mouth by the braised pork.

Zhao Yeqing felt that she was too happy tonight and was afraid that everything she ate tomorrow would be bland.

Mu Xi looked at the small portion of taro braised pork left in the bowl and said, "No, I'll make you some taro braised pork noodles tomorrow."

As soon as these words were spoken, Zhao Yeqing began to look forward to the arrival of tomorrow.

Early the next morning, Zhao Yeqing took out the choy seeds from the original owner's house and sowed them in the greenhouse in the yard. The vegetables grown outdoors tasted better than those in the basement. She was addicted to them yesterday, and she was afraid that she would have nothing to eat after they were all eaten, so she hurried to sow some more.

During the day, there is no need to put charcoal blocks and heat insulation covers in the greenhouse in the yard. Just open it to let in the natural light above your head, and then pull out the little grass shoots that grew quietly last night.

It is very important to pull out weeds during the early stages of vegetable growth. Their root systems are not yet stable. If the weeds are not pulled out, they will not be able to compete for nutrients, leading to malnutrition in the subsequent plants.

The biggest worry when growing vegetables in the yard is that the chickens will come in and steal the food, so after planting crops in the greenhouse in the yard in the spring, the chickens have never been able to come out to roam around, and Zhao Yeqing doesn't want them to stay in the front yard.

After all, the front yard is paved with cement, and if the chickens wander around on it for a while, the ground will become dirty and have to be cleaned.

When Mu Xi finished cooking breakfast and called her to the kitchen to eat, Zhao Yeqing told Mu Xi about this matter. He wanted to cut some bamboo to make a fence today.

But the weeds in the grain field had not been pulled out yet, so Mu Xi said, "You can pull out the weeds at home while I go cut them. I'll do it after you come back. Two sides of the greenhouse in the yard are against the wall, so we just need to build two more fences. It won't take much time and it will be done in a short time."

Breakfast is cooked noodles mixed with hot taro pork. The taro pork has been cut into small pieces and mixed with the sauce, then wrapped in the noodles, making it sticky.

Zhao Yeqing sometimes likes to eat these sticky noodles, which taste much richer than soup noodles.

After breakfast, Mu Xi went to cut bamboo. Zhao Yeqing took out the chaga that he had collected last night to continue drying, and then went to the field to start weeding.

After a heavy snow last year, there are many insects this year, but the insect pests in the soil seem to have decreased. Although there were not many insect pests in previous years, there were always some small insects such as aphids and planthoppers in the early stage of seedlings.

This year, even at this stage when insects are most likely to attract insects, there have not been many insects. Occasionally, I picked a few with my hands and never saw them again.

When Zhao Yeqing came out of the field, his feet felt much heavier. He looked down and saw that the soles of his shoes were covered with mud.

I don't know why, it rains every now and then recently. It's okay to walk on the meadow because there is grass, so your shoes don't feel muddy when you walk on the ground. But the mud that has been turned over and planted with something has been soaked in water, and when you step on it again, all the mud sticks to your shoes.

Before Zhao Yeqing walked to the edge of the field and prepared to go home, he first plucked a handful of grass from the meadow and scraped off the mud on the soles of his shoes. He then rinsed the soles of his shoes lightly by the fish pond before walking into the yard to prevent the mud on the soles of his shoes from dirtying the yard floor.

Weeding in the early stages was not an easy task. The several plots added up to several acres of land, and it all had to be done manually. It took a whole day to squat and pull out the weeds bit by bit, and that was still considered fast.

Zhao Yeqing started pulling out the bamboos in the morning and worked all morning. He ate something at noon and then continued. He didn't finish work and go home until the evening. Mu Xi's bamboo fence was already finished and the dishes for today were already stewed in the pot.

After taking a shower and eating, before they went to bed, they heard the sound of drizzling rain outside the window again.

The rain this year is different from previous years. In previous years, it either didn't rain or it rained heavily all of a sudden for several days in a row. This year, it rained for a while and then stopped. After it stopped, the sun came out again, but after a few days of sunshine it started raining again.

The rain was not heavy and the drizzle did not cause any impact, except that it always made the floor wet. The sun was very mild in this season, and although it would dry up the water vapor on the ground when the sun came out during the day, the humidity in the air was always very high.

However, this year's climate is quite mild compared to previous years.

At least that's what it looks like for now.