Potato pancakes, pickled pepper potato and shredded pork, potato and pork rib stew, pickled pepper potato slices, potato and vegetable soup, and a volcano mashed potato dish.
Although there are only six dishes, as long as the portions are generous, everyone will definitely be full.
Peel all the potatoes from the half-basket, slice some, shred some, and cut some into rolling chunks. Once cut, soak them in water.
For example, potato pancakes and mashed potatoes need to be steamed, so they are steamed in a pot.
For potato and vegetable soup, you need to chop the potatoes into small pieces.
There are eleven people in the family. Adding Grandma Xiao and Lu Zheng, that makes thirteen. Gu Nian plans to have ten people from each family, mainly because the Gu family members have particularly large appetites.
She also prepared enough of the other dishes.
Even so, Gu Nian felt it wasn't enough, so she asked Uncle Gu to take a hoe and dig up a few more holes. They would just boil the potatoes and eat them with the sauce, which would be quite nice.
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At lunchtime, there were six large plates of potato dishes on the table, and dozens of boiled potatoes in the pot.
"This pancake is good!" Grandpa Gu said with a smile after eating a pancake.
"Oh my, this thing is completely different when it's boiled compared to when it's raw! It's delicious!" Zhang ate the boiled one first, only taking a small bite, but after saying that, she started eating it in several bites.
"No wonder it's a family recipe, it's so delicious!" Uncle Gu also ate the boiled version, and after finishing one, he started picking at the potato and pork rib filling.
"Brother Yuan, Second Uncle said all the potatoes in the field belong to your family. Can you sell us some? They're so delicious!" Gu En ate quickly, trying everything, and then asked Lu Zheng.
“Enzi, these potatoes are for seed. We need to plant them one crop after another in our field so we have more seeds and won’t lack food,” Gu Xin said.
“Xinxin is right. Once we finish eating them, there are no more seeds, so we can’t eat them anymore. Potatoes are seeds, aren’t they?” Grandpa Gu said, looking at Lu Zheng.
“Yes, that’s exactly what I gave my second uncle. My great-uncle had people plant them in all four seasons, but they didn’t grow. They rotted in the ground, and there were only two bags left. I gave my second uncle one bag, and my great-uncle has one bag left.” Lu Zheng nodded and then said, “This spring, I’m going to learn from my second uncle and Aunt Lian how to grow potatoes. There’s also golden rice and red potatoes.”
“I’m carrying this bag because I’m worried that you, A-Yuan, are too used to city life to do farm work!” Cai Xiaolian said with a smile.
In the vegetable garden of the old house, they had already planted corn and sweet potatoes. Cai Xiaolian, who was a rich young lady in her previous life, now knew exactly how to grow sweet potatoes and corn.
"Aunt Lian, don't underestimate me. I've already talked to Grandma. I'll go with you to reclaim wasteland in a couple of days. There's a rule that you have to register the land you reclaim at the government office. I don't have any land in the village, so Uncle and Aunt Lian have to give me a small plot!" Lu Zheng said with a smile.
"Don't joke around, A-Yuan. You're Master Zhou's favored grand-nephew. Do you think you can look down on our little plot of land?" Zhang retorted immediately, still with food in her mouth.
If Lu Zheng weren't three years younger than Gu Hui, she would have wanted him to be her son-in-law.
"Elder sister, you're wrong about that. Old Wang and Old Zhou have grandchildren, how could they give anything to such distant relatives?" Grandma Xiao almost called him an old bastard.
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