It is indeed lively at home when there are many people. We have to queue up to wash up in the morning and evening. There is a box of apples, and everyone takes one, and then there are no more.
Fortunately, the day after Su Yan moved, Lu Ting returned to the military compound. She sent the children out to buy things and moved a large amount of New Year's goods, New Year's dishes and fruits out of the space.
The meat dishes included two sheep, half a pig, 40 kilograms of fresh beef, two large basins of pig's trotters, ox trotters, pig offal, and beef bones, a cage of chickens and ducks, and a water tank with four grass carp, four carp, two bighead carp, and six large soft-shelled turtles...
Of course, she also took out all the dried seafood that was left over from the space this time, and added some if needed.
There were a dozen or so kinds of greens and other ingredients, some weighing about ten pounds, some a woven bag. Garlic, celery, coriander, onions, ginger, and so on also took ten pounds, and carrots, white radish, and cabbage also took a large bag. The rest weighed about twenty or thirty pounds each.
As for fruits, she took out tangerines, apples, pears and candied oranges, and brought out four boxes of each. She also took out a large bundle of purple sugarcane that she grew herself for the children to chew on.
These dishes were placed in the room next to the kitchen, while the fruits and New Year's goods in fruit plates were placed in the outer room of Su Yan and Lu Ting's suite.
On the 29th day of the lunar year, Hua Min took several daughters-in-law to prepare dishes for the New Year, stewing mutton, making braised food, frying meatballs, frying sweet potato balls, frying crispy pork, frying braised pork, frying fish, making bone soup, making dumplings... They were busy in full swing.
Prepare the meat and vegetables as semi-finished products in advance so that you don’t have to work so hard on New Year’s Eve.
One of the two sheep was stewed for hot pot, and the other was directly made into a roasted whole sheep. On the night of the 29th day of the lunar year, all the Lu family members were present. Su Yan prepared a roasted whole sheep for them, plus a beef hot pot.
He Na looked at the huge kitchen in her sister-in-law's house and couldn't help but envy her. She had never seen anyone's stove that could hold two big pots. There were also four or five small holes on the stove for small pots, which could be used for cooking rice, stewing soup, and steaming food.
Even the grill for roasting lamb is different from ordinary ones. When plugged in, it will slowly flip over by itself. It can be used to roast lamb as well as pig.
"Sister-in-law, how come every room in your front yard has a dining table? The big round table in the largest room can actually seat twenty people, and there's even a turntable in the middle..."
"Isn't this because there are so many people in the family? I specially asked a chef to help me make it."
Of course, Su Yan would not say that those rooms were reserved for private dining, and that the tables would not be delivered until after the Chinese New Year.
She smiled awkwardly and said, "There are only 22 people in our Lu family. Your front yard and back yard have more than 20 rooms. I see that dining tables are set up in five rooms."
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