Drink two sips of soup, eat a bite of pancake, and then eat a bite of snake meat with sweet cabbage. It is both greasy and filling. The hot snake soup is also very comfortable to drink.
It was time for the snake soup to be stewed. The snake meat had already melted and would break into pieces with a touch of the tongue.
Although the snake soup only contains simple soy sauce and salt.
But the taste is delicious enough. The ginger and scallion segments have removed the fishy smell of the snake meat. There is also a hint of spiciness from the ginger in the soup, which is delicious and can dispel the cold.
After finishing the meal, Tian Zhuo still felt unsatisfied. Although he didn't allow them to lick the plates after the meal, Tian Zhuo still used bean flour cakes and cabbage to wipe up the little bit of oil left in the bowl and ate it.
"Mom! Can we stew the pheasant tomorrow?" Chen Guihua licked her lips and said somewhat unsatisfiedly.
"Just eating all day long? What else can you do?" Old Mrs. Tian said unhappily.
However, she did not say that she would not cook the chicken. After all, the weather was getting warmer day by day, and the chicken could not be kept any longer. Besides, pheasants were rare, so it was better to cook it and eat it instead of letting it rot.
Chen Guihua was not angry after being told by Old Lady Tian. Seeing that Old Lady Tian did not refuse, she knew that she would definitely be able to eat the chicken tomorrow. She felt even happier and took the bowl from Old Lady Tian attentively. "Mom, you don't have to move. I'll clean it up!"
Old Mrs. Tian snorted softly and decided not to take over, leaving her two daughters-in-law to do it.
Tian Lisong and Tian Lilin helped them wash the dishes. After the smell here had almost dissipated, the two of them went out to tidy up the Ula grass outside.
The weather outside is pretty good, the sun is pretty big and warm, but there is a little wind. When the sun shines on it at noon, and you put the grass on the kang to dry at night, it will be almost dry.
Everyone was working when an aunt from the village suddenly came over to talk to Old Lady Tian. After she finished talking, she looked at Tian Yuan, who was chopping firewood, for several times. Seeing Tian Yuan's handsome appearance, tall stature, and strong body, she smiled with satisfaction and left.
After the aunt left, Old Lady Tian called Tian Yuan, who was chopping firewood, into the house. She said something to him, but when Tian Yuan came out, his face was a little red, but fortunately he recovered soon.
When we were eating chicken the next day, it happened to be the Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month.
Old Mrs. Tian plucked the pheasant early in the morning and stewed it.
The pheasant is not big, and after stewing it only takes up half a pot.
This was Tian Tian's first time eating pheasant, and she was curious about the difference between pheasant and domestic chicken. After all, old hens like those raised at home were a good thing that could not be bought in the future.
I was amazed by its sweet taste when I took the first bite of pheasant. Although the taste is similar, the pheasant is obviously much more tender than the domestic chicken.
Especially the chicken breast, which is the part that Tian Tian hates to eat the most. When stewing it, the vegetable flavor cannot be absorbed at all, and sometimes it even has a fishy smell.
But pheasant does not have this problem at all. It is not only very tasty, but also tender. You will not have the feeling of chewing a large lump in your mouth and not being able to swallow it.
The pheasant is small, and two pieces of chicken are enough for each person.
However, Grandma Tian put a lot of dried potatoes, previously dried hazel mushrooms and homemade vermicelli in it. Tian Tian liked everything in it. If she dipped the pancake in the soup, Tian Tian could finish the whole pancake.
Old Mrs. Tian put a lot of things in it, and they didn’t finish it all, so they could heat it up and eat it again at the next meal.
After dinner, everyone stayed in the house until the smell gradually dissipated, and then they opened the door and went out to work.
Tian Tian had originally planned to go to Gu Xingshu for class today, as she had already missed a lot of classes due to her previous fever. But Old Lady Tian was going to make Yuanxiao again today, so Tian Tian had to stay and help.
After washing the dishes, Grandma Tian started to busy herself in the house, digging out all the walnuts from last fall from the ground. The outer layer of skin had already rotted away, leaving only a black layer wrapped around the walnut shell.
Old Mrs. Tian and the others poured all the walnuts into a basin of water and rubbed them, grinding away the black film between the walnuts bit by bit, revealing the brown walnut shells. Then they washed the walnuts and took them out.
Then he smashed the walnuts one by one with a stone, picked out the walnut kernels and put them in a small bowl.
Picking walnuts is a laborious and time-consuming job. Tian Tian and several other people squatted together to pick walnuts for an entire morning before they managed to pick out three large bowls of walnuts.
Put the walnuts in the pan and fry them until dry. After they are fragrant, put them on the chopping board and crush them with a rolling pin. Then sprinkle sugar and a little flour on them and mix well. Then scoop a large spoonful of lard and stir it. When the lard has condensed everything together, Grandma Tian cut the fillings one by one into thumb-sized pieces and put them aside.
I went to the lower house and got some black sesame seeds to fry until fragrant. Then I ground the black sesame seeds into powder, added sugar and lard, and cut them into pieces.
Pour glutinous rice flour into the winnowing basket, sprinkle a layer of water on the walnut filling, and then put it in the glutinous rice flour and shake it.
In fact, there is a special tool for shaking Yuanxiao, but Mrs. Tian makes Yuanxiao for herself, so there is no need to be so particular about it. Just having some simple Yuanxiao that can be eaten is enough.
After shaking one layer, sprinkle some water and continue shaking. When the dough has reached a certain thickness, put the Yuanxiao outside to freeze.
Then I got some rhubarb rice flour and started to shake the black sesame filling, which I also put outside for storage.
The family worked until around three o'clock in the afternoon, and finally they finished making the two kinds of Yuanxiao. Old Mrs. Tian went back to the house, tore off a piece of oil paper, wrapped up a portion of Yuanxiao with both kinds of fillings, and called Tian Tian over.
"You should take these two portions of Yuanxiao to Gu Zhiqing. We can't eat his oranges for free. Today happens to be the Lantern Festival. I don't think he can make the Yuanxiao himself. You should give them to him. How can we not eat Yuanxiao on the Lantern Festival?" said Old Mrs. Tian.
Tian Tian took the Yuanxiao and nodded, then turned around and went out to look for Gu Zhao. Old Mrs. Tian was still standing in the yard, shouting at Tian Tian's back, "Come back after you've delivered the lanterns, don't go play somewhere else! We'll be delivering the lanterns soon, come back early!"
"I got it!" After agreeing, Tian Tian took her things and quickened her pace to find Gu Zhao.
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