After Grandma Tian finished cooking the chicken porridge, she stir-fried the remaining chicken in the pot, then added onions, ginger, garlic, soybean paste, soy sauce, a large ladle of water, and covered the pot.
Tian Tian moved a small stool to light the fire, and Old Lady Tian went to the cellar to get some potatoes, which she cut into pieces and soaked in water.
She didn't plan to make dry food today. She planned to put more potatoes in so that everyone could fill their stomachs with potatoes. This way she could save some food. Besides, everyone had already eaten meat, so there was no need to make other dry food cakes.
Old Mrs. Tian remembered that there were some dried potatoes left over from last year, so she took them and sprinkled them all into the pot.
After the autumn harvest, we will distribute a batch of new potatoes that were dug up in July this year. Then we can dry some new potato chips to eat.
This chicken is several years old. It has grown big and fat, and the meat is particularly firm. It needs to be stewed for a while, otherwise people with weak teeth won’t be able to bite it. It needs to be stewed until it is soft.
When the chicken pot started to boil, Grandma Tian poured all the potatoes in, and threw in the mushrooms that Tian Tian had soaked in advance, then added some water, covered the pot and continued to stew.
Tian Baobao and Tian Zhuo picked up a large basin of cicadas. Tian Tian and the other two worked together to scrub all the cicadas clean. Then they brought out the stone mortar and scrubbed it again. They poured all the cicadas into the mortar, and Tian Baobao began to pound the cicadas.
Tian Tian went back into the house and helped Old Lady Tian put all the chicken into a clay pot, which she placed on the brazier and simmered over low heat.
I went to the vegetable garden in the backyard and cut a handful of leeks, washed them, cut them into sections and prepared to put them into the crayfish tofu later.
All the lagua that Tian Baobao picked up before were made by Tian Tian. Since Tian Tian didn’t have time to make crayfish tofu, she cooked crayfish as crayfish. She steamed it or fried it every day, but in the end she found that it was still not as delicious as crayfish.
Because the crayfish were too small and the meat wasn't as thick as crayfish, it didn't taste satisfying at all. She didn't have that many seasonings on hand, so it was impossible to make it taste like crayfish.
And no one really had the time to peel the shells and enjoy them slowly. Everyone finished their meal quickly and went to work.
After tasting it overall, I found that the cicada tofu was indeed the best-tasting. The intelligence and wisdom of the ancient people were truly unimaginable.
After a long time, Tian Baobao and his friends stopped going to the river to pick crickets, and Tian Tian stopped being a cricket catcher either.
By the time the cicada tofu was ready, it was already dark and everyone was going home one after another.
Tian Tian's family had stewed cicada tofu and stewed chicken, and the whole yard was filled with the aroma of meat.
There were also many children gathered at the gate of the yard, drooling at it.
Some children who were familiar with Tian Baobao and Tian Zhuo even asked if they could be given a piece of meat.
"Tiantian! Have you cooked meat at home? You don't even know what day it is today? Your grandma was willing to kill the chickens at home." Someone who was passing by and was familiar with the Tian family asked with a smile.
"Isn't my eldest brother back? He hasn't been back for more than two years. My grandma must kill a chicken to nourish my brother's body." Tian Tian said.
This is the bad thing now. Supplies are too scarce. They have to get to the bottom of what to eat at home. They don't know how to be sensible at all.
They can kill the chickens they raise whenever they want, and they have to inform them.
After the meal was ready, Tian Tian originally wanted to go to the field to call them home, but she unexpectedly met Chen Guihua as soon as she went out.
"Tiantian! Are you calling us to eat? Have you prepared something delicious today? I heard people smell meat outside our house today." Chen Guihua said with a happy smile.
Thanks to those aunts who were particularly gossipy, Chen Guihua had known for a long time that chicken would be stewed for dinner tonight. As soon as it got dark, she couldn't wait to leave Lin Meiyu behind and come back alone.
Sure enough, before I even got home, I could smell chicken outside the yard.
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