Chapter 100 Sauerkraut and Pork Hot Pot
If the heating lamps consume a lot of electricity, it's better to use this small heated kang (a traditional heated platform bed), which feels warmer and only uses more firewood.
There are mountains all around, and the dry trees are enough for me to use.
I was quite active today, and when I got home and changed my clothes, I realized I was sweating a lot.
Washing my face made me feel much more refreshed.
The pickled cabbage has been pickled for so long, it's ready to eat now. I'm planning to have a pickled cabbage hot pot today.
The fire in the kang (heated brick bed) was burning brightly. A large piece of pork with alternating layers of fat and lean meat was cut off, placed in a pot, and stewed with various spices such as star anise and cinnamon.
Take out a large sauerkraut. It is now pale yellow and has a slightly sour smell.
My mother is rather wasteful when cooking; she has a habit of throwing away the outermost leaves of the pickled cabbage.
After watching it for a long time, I also developed this habit, so I also broke off the outermost layer of leaves from the sauerkraut.
However, I couldn't bear to throw it away, so I cut it into small pieces and put it into the pig feed bucket.
When you mix it with cornmeal and other ingredients, the pigs will love it too.
The remaining pickled cabbage looked tender and yellow, and the smell alone made my mouth water.
I haven't had sauerkraut for months, and I'm really craving it now.
Squeeze the water out of the pickled cabbage by hand, then cut it into thin strips on a cutting board.
After the meat in the pot has been simmering for a while, skim off the foam on top.
Remove the meat when it's almost cooked.
Add the broth from stewing meat to a clay pot, add pickled cabbage, and then put it on the stove inside the house to stew.
Cut the meat into thin slices, revealing a pattern of pale pink lean meat and white fat interwoven on the slices.
Once it looked like enough to eat, I wrapped the uncut portion in plastic wrap and put it in the freezer.
Pick up the evenly sliced meat from the cutting board and arrange it in layers in the casserole.
Cover the pot and simmer for a while.
At this time, mash some garlic, add light soy sauce and aged vinegar, and stir well.
A small table was set up next to the stove, with a small condiment bowl and a bowl of rice on it.
Open the lid of the casserole and place a thin slice of meat into the seasoning bowl.
Dip the thin slices of meat lightly in the sauce, coat them with some minced garlic, blow on them, and then put them in your mouth.
The sliced meat was very tender, with a rich, oily aroma.
Eating fatty meat alone would be very greasy, but now the meat slices have the sour taste of sauerkraut and the minced garlic to cut through the greasiness, making them fragrant but not greasy.
Pick up a piece of pickled cabbage with your chopsticks, then place a slice of meat on top, lightly dip it in the sauce, and put it in your mouth.
The pickled cabbage is crisp and refreshing, making it very appetizing. It blends well with the aroma of the meat slices without feeling bland.
At this moment, taking a bite of rice brings out its full aroma.
I always feel that no matter how delicious a dish is, its aroma will be even more pronounced when paired with a bowl of rice.
After finishing a bowl of rice, and having eaten quite a bit of meat and pickled cabbage, it's time to move on to the second way of eating.
The soup in the pot has now turned white. Serve a bowl of rice and use a ladle to scoop the white soup into the rice.
Stir it with chopsticks, then gulp it down.
The tangy broth is even more appetizing than pickled cabbage. It's not too salty and has the aroma of meat and rice, making it more and more enjoyable to eat.
At this point, take some pickled vegetables from the refrigerator; they're tangy, spicy, and refreshing, making them even tastier.
After finishing another bowl of rice porridge, I felt full, a layer of sweat on my forehead.
Remove the casserole from the stove, ladle out the broth, soak the rice in it, then use a spoon to break up the remaining sliced meat and mix it into the soup and rice.
They divided it into two portions, giving the larger ones to the dogs and the smaller ones to the mother wolf, and they all ate with great relish.
We used to have a small dog at home. It was very delicate and pampered.
I didn't dare to eat whole sausages in big bites; my mother would break them into small pieces and feed them to me when I ate dumplings or sausages.
At the time, I thought this puppy was too difficult to take care of, like a little princess.
Now look at these gluttons I raise; they could swallow a whole sausage, or even a brick with a good aroma.
However, the mother wolf didn't have a good appetite today; she only ate half and then stopped. Judging from this, she's probably about to give birth.
At night, the stove in the breeding shed was turned up very high, and an extra honeycomb briquette was added, hoping that the wolf cubs wouldn't get cold if they gave birth at night.
Actually, wild wolves aren't that delicate, but since Sang Biao entrusted them, mother and cub, to me, I still want to do my best to take good care of them.
Sure enough, in the middle of the night, for some reason, the little melon sleeping on the ground became restless.
It didn't growl, so it's likely that no outsiders have broken in.
I sat up, forcing myself to stay awake for a while, then got dressed and opened the door to the breeding shed.
The room was still warm, even warmer than the bedroom in the east room.
I turned on the light and saw the wolf cubs under the mother wolf; there seemed to be only two.
The cotton pad is now quite wet, so I'm going to replace it.
Dogs and cats that have just given birth are very aggressive, so wolves are probably even more aggressive.
The book I read before said that after the queen wolf gives birth, the entire pack will take on the task of raising the cubs.
At this time, the wolf queen is exceptionally fierce. Although she is fed by the pack, she does not allow any wolf to approach the wolf cubs, not even the wolf king.
I moved a little closer to observe the mother wolf's behavior. If she showed any protective behavior towards her cubs, I would leave them wet for now.
The mother wolf was weak and lay helplessly on the mat. By this time, she had already licked the two wolf cubs, but the cubs were still wet.
I moved closer, and the mother wolf's eyes were noticeably different from before, carrying a maternal gentleness.
When it saw me approaching, it didn't show any aggression, but instead leaned back and made a slight belly-up gesture.
The expression on her face seemed to be showing me her newborn baby.
I felt a little relieved and went back to my room to get the cotton pad I had just made a few days ago.
If we suddenly attack the wolf cubs at this point, I'm still very afraid the mother wolf will change her attitude.
So I plan to attack the mother wolf and her cubs together.
Gently reaching out to the mother wolf, seeing that she seemed lifeless, I touched the surrounding cushions and moved the entire mother wolf and cubs to one side, leaving only the straw in place.
Place a warm, clean, new cotton pad on top.
Then, after stroking the mother wolf's head to calm her down, gently place her on the new cotton pad.
The mother wolf slightly raised her head on the new cotton mat, looking at her two cubs who were still on the old mat.
"Oh, oh, here you go."
The two newborn cubs were particularly ugly, somewhat resembling mice, so the mother wolf probably only cherished them.
She quickly turned around, gently picked up the two cubs, and placed them next to the mother wolf's belly.
The mother wolf raised her head, licked her two cubs, and then lay down with peace of mind.
I think the mother wolf must have exerted a lot of effort during childbirth, so let's give her some food to replenish her strength.
The simplest and most convenient way is with eggs. Boil some water in an electric cooker, cook a small handful of noodles, and add two poached eggs.
Before the poached egg solidifies, quickly stir it with chopsticks.
So the egg was broken into small pieces and mixed with the dough.
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