Chapter 273 Roasted Vegetables
If I eat all of this, my teeth and stomach will probably be sour.
Zhao Yeqing divided the fruit pulp into two parts, a small half was made into preserved fruits, and a large half was made into canned fruits.
During the production process, some of them will be eliminated from time to time so that there won’t be too many finished products in the end.
It took Zhao Yeqing a week just to make these things.
In addition to helping out, Mu Xi also weeded, watered and fertilized the fields.
After Zhao Yeqing put away the small essential oil extraction equipment, he remembered that they had not processed the tea seeds. After bringing them back, they just dried them and put them away.
The process of pressing tea oil is similar to that of pressing rapeseed oil, except that there is an additional step of crushing the large tea seeds.
The tea seeds that have been fried and dried must be crushed before they can be made into tea cakes and pressed for oil.
The taste of tea oil is very overbearing and stronger than that of rapeseed oil.
It is a special smell of oil, which cannot be described as fragrant. Zhao Yeqing doesn't like this smell very much, but tea oil has so many benefits.
The nutritional content is far superior to peanut oil, soybean oil and rapeseed oil, and richer in nutritional content than expensive pure extra virgin olive oil.
It’s just that she personally is not used to it and thinks the taste is too strong and not suitable for cooking.
But in addition to oral administration, when I was a child, I would run and jump and bump into things from time to time. My grandmother would also rub tea oil on the bruises, and the bruises would disappear soon. It was very effective.
The remaining tea seed residue is tea dregs. Mu Xi had said earlier that she would get tea dregs to wash her hair. Now these large cakes of tea dregs are enough for her to use for a long time.
Washing your hair with tea leaves will make it soft, shiny and smooth, but there won’t be much foam. You may not be used to it at first, but the more you use it, the more you will like it.
Now that he has electrical appliances at home, he doesn't have to worry about electricity in the summer. He also has tea dregs, so Zhao Yeqing is slowly starting to let his long hair grow back.
After the tea oil is squeezed out, the wool drying in the yard can be collected.
These wools were previously used to make felt, but two people don’t need so much felt.
Zhao Yeqing: "Or we can make another piece and lay it on the ground as a carpet. It would be great if the rest can be turned into wool yarn."
There is too much wool to be used up, and it takes a lot of time and effort to preserve it, but it would be a pity to throw it away.
Mu Xi said: "Aren't we going to slaughter the sheep? Let's do it today."
The two men carried out the one that had not been shaved and killed it on the spot using the original method of slaughtering sheep.
Zhao Yeqing cut the food into pieces while it was still hot, keeping aside what he would eat today, putting what he would eat the next day and the day after in the refrigerator, and throwing the rest into the freezer.
Set aside a bowl of fresh sheep's blood, and use the rest to make blood sausage.
Zhao Yeqing thinks the most delicious by-products of lamb are blood sausage and tripe.
The only drawback is that the chives she planted have not yet bloomed, so she can’t make chive sauce, otherwise the taste would be even better.
After thinking it over, she gritted her teeth and resisted the urge to eat the tripe wrapped in meat. She planned to freeze it in the refrigerator first and take it out to eat after the chive sauce was ready.
Of course, the freshest lamb should be eaten with clear soup.
I don’t know if it’s because of the bad climate this year and the sheep are mostly fed feed at home, so there’s a distinct smell in the mutton, but it’s still much better than what you buy on the market.
The two of them ate a meal of plain mutton first, and did not make plain mutton the next day.
Zhao Yeqing took two teacups and planned to make Xinjiang Province's famous "jar meat" by putting large chunks of mutton and carrots in them.
The unused carrots were used to make pilaf with lamb.
The temperature at night is only 25 degrees. After work, the two of them only wear small vests at home. But mutton is nutritious, and sweat beads appear on the tip of their noses while eating.
The sheep are well fed, the meat is rich in fat, and it is stewed long enough that it melts in one sip.
Eat two bites of mutton and then a piece of carrot to relieve the greasiness, and finally drink the mutton soup in the jar, which still has the sweet taste of carrot.
The deliciousness of these farmed livestock cannot be compared to that of wild animals. Zhao Yeqing was thinking about the next meal while eating this one.
"It's not too hot now, let's have a small barbecue in the yard tomorrow night."
Large skewers of mutton with alternating fat and lean meat were roasted until they were sizzling with oil, and then sprinkled with cumin and chili powder. Zhao Yeqing touched his round belly and felt a little hungry again.
She smacked her lips and said, "Since we're going to eat grilled lamb kebabs, let's prepare some grilled naan as well."
She had eaten baked naan made by an aunt from Xinjiang before. It was crispy on the outside and chewy on the inside, not hard at all. It also had a rich milky flavor. She just didn’t know if she could replicate it.
"Okay, what else do you want to eat?"
Zhao Yeqing said a lot of things, and after Mu Xi memorized them one by one, he started preparing dinner early the next morning.
The first is naan. The dough needs to be fermented and kneaded, which takes a long time. It needs to be prepared in advance so that you can make it at noon and try it first. If it fails, you will have time to try it again.
Mu Xi said that the weather was still a little hot during the day, so she drove her out of the kitchen and told her to go to the basement and weed if she couldn't stay idle.
Now most of the things in the planting basement are bearing fruit, and the weather is not hot. Except for the hottest one or two hours at noon when we take into consideration the delicate strawberries and block the sunlight, the PC boards are open at other times.
It can save the power consumption of exhaust fans and planting lights.
The most common fruits grown in the basement now are beans, eggplants and peppers, which can be picked almost every one or two days.
Zhao Yeqing picked all the ripe ones to avoid wasting nutrients.
Tomatoes have been bearing fruit, but their yields are not as high as other fruits and vegetables. In addition to the large tomatoes for cooking, she also grows the small tomatoes that she planted last year.
Maybe it’s because they were moved to the basement this year, the cherry tomatoes are not as delicious as last year. But it may also be related to the season. Autumn tomatoes are not as sweet as spring tomatoes.
The pumpkins are now bearing fruit. The two of them can't eat so much pumpkin, so she picked the extra pumpkin flowers and planned to cook pumpkin flower soup in the evening, which is fragrant and refreshing.
Thinking of this, Zhao Yeqing thought that he couldn't just eat mutton, otherwise he would get tired of it after a while, and he had to pair it with some vegetarian food.
The first vegetable that came to her mind for roasting was leeks, but most of her leeks were kept for flowering and making sauce, so they were a bit old.
Leeks are very easy to get stuck in your teeth when they are roasted, and they will be even more unpalatable if they are a little older.
Zhao Yeqing turned his gaze to the green peppers and eggplants that had been picked in the basket and said, "Then it's you two."
He walked out of the basement with a handful of weeds in his right hand and a vegetable basket in his left hand, with his head slightly lowered.
When Mu Xi saw her coming out, he asked, "What did you pick?"
Zhao Yeqing handed him the basket and said that the eggplants and green peppers should be roasted in the evening, but the leeks were too old to be eaten.
Mu Xi pointed at the small wooden house behind Zhao Yeqing and said, "That one will work too, right?"
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