Chapter 22 The weather is getting hotter
When I traveled to Yunnan Province before, I ate delicious flower cakes and Yunnan ham cakes at a local restaurant.
The taste is completely different from what she bought online. The flower cakes are smaller in size and still steaming from the fresh oven. When you bite into them, you can smell the rich floral fragrance and the sweetness is just right, not overwhelming.
Zhao Yeqing likes to eat fresh flowers. The edible flowers in spring are not only roses, but also the peach blossoms and osmanthus flowers picked today, but also one of her favorites, locust flowers.
Unfortunately, there are no locust trees or elm seeds in Meishan. Ever since her colleagues introduced these two foods to her, she has been going to the vegetable market to buy them every spring.
I’m afraid I won’t be able to eat it in the next few years.
This trip I harvested a big bag of osmanthus flowers, a small bag of peach blossoms, and a handful of chrysanthemums.
It is not a good idea to make wine with peach blossoms, but you can make peach blossom porridge. Just don't eat too much, as it will cause diarrhea.
She wants to make osmanthus flowers into osmanthus honey. After it is made, no matter it is a drink or a dessert, just one spoonful will be filled with the rich aroma of osmanthus.
Chrysanthemum brain is a wild vegetable that is a bit bitter and cool. It looks a bit old when the weather turns warmer.
Soak the peach blossoms in water, wash them, put them in a casserole, add a little rice and water, and simmer slowly.
Add a little salt to the osmanthus flowers, wash them clean, take them out and put them in a winnowing basket to dry.
The weather has suddenly turned warm recently, and the hens only lay one or two eggs every other day.
While the food in the pot was cooking, Zhao Yeqing went to the woods to dig some earthworms for them as a snack.
The sun was quite strong and the osmanthus flowers dried up soon. I found a jar and put a layer of osmanthus flowers in it, then sprinkled a layer of sugar, and so on. Finally, seal the jar with honey and then seal it.
The slowly cooked peach blossom porridge is ready. The rice grains inside have become rotten and shapeless, and the peach blossoms have melted into the porridge. The snow-white and soft porridge reveals a hint of pink when stirred. It can be eaten after drizzling a circle of honey on it.
Eating sweets after work is the best way to replenish energy.
Zhao Yeqing is an all-rounder in the food world, and he is not picky about sweet, sour, bitter, spicy, salty or sweet food.
In the past, in addition to cooking at home on weekends, I would also make cakes and Western pastries from time to time.
She hadn't eaten cake for a long time and even wanted to build an oven on the spot.
But then I thought about the flour I had stored and gave up the idea.
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A week later, the wall was completed. Standing in the yard, Zhao Yeqing wished she had a drone that would allow her to admire her masterpiece from the sky.
Torches are effective in deterring wild boars. Zhao Yeqing erected a wooden pillar at the four corners of the fence and inserted large torches on the pillars.
Her mind has been occupied by sweets recently, which makes her very excited about finding honey. Unfortunately, she can't buy a bee colony, otherwise she really wants to put beehives in all the vacant spaces left by felled trees.
The feeling of regret only lasted for a short while before she put it behind her.
It sounds like you won't be afraid of bees if you can buy a bee colony.
Many plants have bloomed recently, and Zhao Yeqing lifted the tarpaulin of the greenhouse to allow bees to fly in for pollination.
Zhao Yeqing took out a pair of scissors and could harvest the first batch of leeks and lettuce today.
Pinch off the outermost circle of lettuce leaves on a plant. You don't have to pull out the entire plant. Eat only the outer leaves each time and let the inner leaves continue to grow so you can harvest continuously.
For chives, just cut the leaves directly with scissors.
The hens that had recently received extra food started to lay eggs.
Every morning she wished she could wake up earlier than the rooster. Before she even opened her eyes, she could hear the constant "cluck, cluck, cluck" in the yard below.
There is a basket for storing eggs, and there are already more than a dozen eggs in it.
She missed it so much when she couldn't eat leek dumplings, but now that she can eat them, she can't bear to use flour.
After hesitating for a few minutes, I decided to eat it.
It's eating whether you eat it in the morning or in the evening.
After washing the lettuce and chives, set them aside to drain the water, then chop the chives and dry them.
Zhao Yeqing picked up an old-fashioned kettle, made of aluminum, with a long spout, and added boiled and then cooled water, about 80 or 90 degrees, to the flour.
Use chopsticks to stir the flour and water evenly. While enduring the heat, knead the dough with your hands until it is smooth. I am reluctant to use plastic wrap, so I find a pot lid to cover it and let the dough sit for twenty minutes.
Meanwhile, beat two eggs, fry them and cut into pieces with a spatula.
Add thirteen-spice salt and MSG to the dried chives, then pour in the crushed eggs and mix well.
After the dough has rested, roll it into long strips, cut it into small pieces, roll it into round dough sheets, and wrap the prepared fillings in them.
Close both sides and fry in a pan.
Boil water in another pot and add the finely chopped lettuce, then sprinkle with the few thin chopped green onions that had just sprouted from the vegetable garden and were ruthlessly chopped by Zhao Yeqing.
Chive dumplings with vegetable soup.
Zhao Yeqing didn't wait for the chive dumplings to cool down before picking them up and biting them by pinching the edge with his fingertips.
The bite point was steaming as she chewed and exhaled.
Cool.
The satisfaction of having a mouth full of food is irreplaceable.
Building a wall is not an option!
Two of the five leek dumplings were eaten, and the remaining two will be eaten in the evening and one will be eaten tomorrow morning.
Touching my belly, I walked to the yard.
Sure enough, the geese in the yard jumped into the basin of water next to her pond again.
This scene happens frequently when the weather gets hot.
I remember when I bought the goose, the boss said that geese are waterfowl, and it is best to let them go into the water for an hour or two every day, which is good for their physical and mental health.
It's good for it, but not so good for me.
Zhao Yeqing frowned and was in a dilemma, not knowing where to get it into the water.
Walking around the yard, I found that there was a width of two or three meters between the back of the house and the wall. It should be enough to raise these two geese and dig a small pond.
When the time comes, find a pipe to siphon the water.
It would be best to dig two ponds, one for the geese to swim and one for changing the water.
You don't need to use your mouth to siphon water. Just fill the water pipe with water first, then put one end of the pipe into the pool and release the water from the other end. However, the other end must be lower, otherwise the water will not come out.
So the water exchange pool does not need to be large but it should be deeper.
Zhao Yeqing took measurements and dug a small pond that was 1.5 meters wide, 2.0 meters long and 0.3 meters deep.
After filling the pond with water using a water pipe connected to the faucet, I drove the two geese in.
Since having this pond, she almost never sees the two big white geese in the yard.
After changing the water, there would be goose droppings at the bottom of the pond, which she would shovel up and pour to the wall to drive away the snakes.
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Maybe because the weather is getting warmer, the snakes in the mountains have been much more active than before recently.
Every time Zhao Yeqing came back from cutting bamboo, he could hear the sound of something running through the bushes.
She may not be completely used to it yet. She was frightened when she walked in the grass, and was also frightened when she went home to split the bamboo...
Inside there is a nest of white, tender and fat little bamboo worms.
After being frightened, Zhao Yeqing became furious. In a fit of rage, he fried all the creatures and used them as snacks.
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