Zhang Minghao gave two pig hind legs, one weighing more than three pounds, and two large pig trotters weighing six or seven pounds.
Add to that a large pig head weighing 27 or 28 kilograms, a set of pig intestines, and 20 kilograms of meat with bones, a total of 50 to 60 kilograms of meat. She was really embarrassed to ask them to buy more meat.
After receiving the meat, Su Yan signed the registration book and thanked them several times.
She packed the meat in a woven bag and tied it to the back seat of her bicycle. Halfway through her ride, she met Lu Ting who came to pick her up.
So Su Yan jumped out of the car and let him ride the bike, and she took the initiative to sit on the crossbar of the bike.
"Lu Ting, I want to braise the pig's head, trotters, and large intestines, and then braise another ten pounds of meat. I'll boil and deep-fry the remaining ten pounds of meat and save it for making braised pork belly for the New Year."
“We won’t eat at home during the Chinese New Year. We will go back to the courtyard to celebrate the New Year on New Year’s Eve and stay there for one night.
Come back at noon on the first day of the New Year, and then you will visit your parents on the second day. Then you will need to take some time off at noon on the third day to visit my grandparents. You haven’t met them yet.”
After getting married, no matter how many relatives and elders there are in both families, you always have to visit your grandparents.
Su Yan told Lu Ting, "My parents will go back to the countryside to spend the New Year with my grandparents. We may have to go to the countryside to pay New Year's greetings to Grandpa."
In fact, their military district troops are also located in the countryside, but the living facilities are more complete, with hospitals, schools, supply and marketing cooperatives, markets, and restaurants.
"Okay, I'll try to find some time to come out and pay them New Year's greetings at noon. Yanyan, are you cold?"
"The wind is like a knife, it hurts my face."
"I'll take some time to go to the supply and marketing cooperative tomorrow at noon to buy you a headscarf and a scarf. I guess it's going to snow in a few days."
The headscarves you buy from the supply and marketing cooperatives are either red or green. They wrap your whole head like a rice dumpling, and you look really tacky.
"No, I'll figure out how to knit a scarf myself."
Those big-brand scarves and silk scarves in the space are all used to match coats. It is better to take some time to knit some scarves and neckwear for yourself, and knit an earmuff woolen hat when you have time.
Fortunately, she had several pairs of leather gloves, and even woolen gloves were breathable when she rode a bicycle in the winter.
Lu Ting stretched out his left hand to hug Su Yan, and held the handlebars of the bicycle with his right hand. Back in the compound, he took the initiative to carry the large bag of buckles up.
Because she had to deal with the pork, Su Yan cooked one or two bowls of egg and lean meat noodles for lunch.
She used a rice bowl, and Lu Ting used a large bowl for soup.
Everyone knew that Su Yan had given a lot of meat as a reward, and the neighbors on the same floor wanted to pay her to return some of it. Su Yan explained to them that they wanted to save the meat for the New Year and also give some to both sets of parents. It was really not enough to share, so she asked them to go to the farm to buy some.
The farm has been slaughtering pigs these days, twenty to thirty pigs a day. In addition to supplying the canteen and the supply and marketing cooperative, they also sell some to the families of the soldiers.
Since everyone knew that she had so much meat, it was naturally difficult for her to take the meat to the space for processing, otherwise others would think that she had secretly sold the meat.
Su Yan was making braised food on her balcony with great fanfare. There were pig’s trotters, pig’s heads, spare ribs, pork belly... a whole pot full of it, and the whole garden was filled with fragrance, and everyone came to watch.
She first fished out the ribs, pork belly and pig's trotters, put them in a small dustpan and brought them into the house.
Continue to cook the pig's head, then pour in the soaked kelp knots, peeled potatoes, and half a basin of lotus root slices, and let them cook slowly together.
Then start to prepare the large intestines. Wait until all the others are braised before braising the pig large intestines to avoid the smell from mixing.
Unexpectedly, the sisters-in-law and aunts surrounding her began to care about her pot of marinade.
Sister Huang, wearing a green headscarf, asked, "Comrade Xiao Su, can these vegetarian dishes also be braised?"
Aunt Li, whose face was wrinkled like orange peel, said arrogantly: "Xiao Huang, you don't understand this. If you use the braising liquid used to braise meat to braise vegetarian dishes, the vegetarian dishes will all taste like meat." After saying this, she clicked her tongue a few times.
Fortunately, Su Yan covered the pot with a large wooden lid, otherwise their saliva would have fallen into it while they were talking.
"Comrade Su, could you lend us some of your marinade to use in some vegetarian dishes?"
Su Yan thought for a moment and said, "After I finish braising the pig intestines, I'll give you all the marinade in this pot!"
If she wasn't braising the pig intestines today, Su Yan planned to put away the braising liquid and soak it together with the braised dishes overnight.
However, Su Yan didn't like the braising liquid used to braise pig intestines to braise other foods.
Anyway, there were two 100-liter buckets of old brine in her space cafeteria, so today she used the old brine from the space to mix water and add the brine bag to make new brine.
"Comrade Su, are you really going to share all this brine with us?"
"Well, come back at five with your bowls and fill them up."
There's no point in standing here now. You look at me and I look at you, standing here in the northwest wind. It's impossible for her to go in and cut a plate of braised meat for them to sit down and enjoy together.
After the vegetables were braised, Su Yan took out the pig's head together with the vegetables, scooped out 10,000 grams of the braising liquid, and put the blanched pig intestines into the pot to cook slowly.
As soon as the pig intestines were fished out, someone came over with a basin. Su Yan was afraid that they would fight, so she took the initiative to share it among them, giving each of them a large ladle of the fragrant marinade.
As soon as they left, I boiled the remaining ten pounds of pork belly, fried it until golden brown, and then soaked it in cold water.
I looked up and saw that it was already six o'clock. I was going to my in-laws' house for dinner tonight on New Year's Eve.
She first packed half of the vegetables into a bag and put it into the backpack, then cut three pounds of pork head meat, took a pound of ribs and braised meat, sliced two braised pig ears and put them in a bowl for cold mixing, and left the pig's trotters and pig intestines for herself.
Su Yan went to Lu's house carrying a backpack and a bowl of clean brine in her hand.
Hua Min saw Su Yan coming over with a basket on her back and hurriedly took the bowl of marinade from her.
"Mom, I braised all the meat I gave you as a reward. I'll bring some over for you to try."
"Yan Yan, your father-in-law also gave you five kilograms of pork as a reward today. We bought another ten kilograms later. You can keep the meat you were rewarded with and eat it slowly."
It sounds like my parents-in-law bought a lot of meat. For Chinese New Year, each of the parents on both sides of the family got at least one cut of meat, right? Each cut could weigh two or three pounds, and then they'd wrap it in red paper to bring to New Year's greetings.
Su Yan brought so many braised dishes tonight, but in the end only a plate of mixed vegetables, a plate of cold pig ears, and a bowl of braised meat were served.
Hua Min collected all the remaining vegetables, braised pork head and spare ribs, saying that they would be saved for tomorrow's lunch.
Because before Su Yan came, she had already prepared four dishes, and she bought some meat today for the Little New Year, so she finally made stir-fried lean meat with lettuce, sauerkraut stewed with vermicelli, scrambled eggs with chili peppers, and pickled cabbage.
Lu Chen and Lu Yu were so happy to see two more dishes on the table.
Whenever my sister-in-law comes to eat, there will always be meat at home. Before my brother got married, it was considered good if he could eat meat two or three times a month.
After the eldest brother got married, their mother became much more generous. After the second brother came back, they could eat a few slices of meat every weekend.
Although today is the Little New Year, this dinner is so rich!
Lu Fengnian looked at the dishes on the table and smiled until his eyes narrowed slightly. "Jin'er, go to the room and get a bottle of vodka."
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