Let’s put the reply aside for now. Since we have seafood today, we will naturally have this for lunch.
Stir-fried dried shrimp with chili peppers, salted fish and eggplant stew, and scallop and cabbage soup.
When Xu Manman cooks, she is very willing to use more oil, and with the special flavor of seafood, the aroma that comes out is very overbearing.
Li Min looked at the sweet potato porridge in the bowl and the mixed vegetables in the vegetable bowl with only a little salt and soy sauce, and found it difficult to swallow for a moment.
"Can't you use more oil when cooking? Didn't I give you all the tickets? It's not like we can't afford it, so why are you so stingy? The food you cook is terrible."
Chen Meizhi lowered her head and drank her porridge. She had been given a ticket, but she still hadn't found a chance to go to the commune. Even with the ticket, she couldn't do anything.
If she had the same good conditions as those old educated youth, would she still be so petty? Why would she need to cling to you, Li Min, all day long?
On the surface, he could only smile and coax people, "I understand. Next time I have a holiday, I will go to the commune to buy more oil."
Li Min took out another meat ticket and said, "Let's get some more meat. I haven't eaten in a long time."
Chen Meizhi took it happily. This was the benefit. Just think of it as coaxing a naughty child. There was meat to eat, so a few scoldings was no big deal.
The two brothers and sisters here are eating like crazy. The fried shrimps with chili peppers are appetizing. The dried shrimps not only have the freshness of shrimps, but also have a little more toughness than fresh shrimps.
Salted fish and eggplant are simply a magical dish that goes well with rice. The taste of salted fish is completely integrated into the soup, and the soft eggplant is soaked in the soup. The two are blended together and paired with rice. One bite gives you a rich and salty flavor.
Paired with the delicious and light scallop and cabbage soup, the two siblings successfully filled their stomachs again.
Every dish bowl on the table was scraped clean, not even a drop of soup was left.
"Manman, your cooking is so delicious. In comparison, what I've been eating these days is simply pig food." Chen Ming was still sighing while washing dishes.
Xu Manman laughed and said, "How about this, later this afternoon, you help me with work, and I'll make you a few bottles of sauce. You can bring it back and have it with steamed buns or noodles."
Anyway, he was free anyway, so he might as well do some more work after eating. Everyone went to work in the afternoon, and there was no one at the educated youth site, so it wouldn't make any difference if he made something with a strong smell.
"Okay, okay. You're going to work with Mao's wife, right?"
"Well, just let her take you there later."
So, in the afternoon, Xu Manman asked Wan Fang to take Chen Ming to work, while she stayed at the educated youth site to make sauce.
Soak the scallops until soft and grind them into shreds. Heat oil in a pan and add minced garlic and onion to stir-fry until fragrant. Add the scallop shreds and dried shrimps and stir-fry until golden brown. Add Xu Manman's special seasoning powder and chili peppers, serve and let cool.
She also made dried shrimp and mushroom sauce with diced dried shrimp and soaked mushrooms.
Wash the cans you have saved these days, sterilize them in boiling water, put the cooled sauce in them, and seal the bottles.
I made 6 bottles of each flavor. My cousin took two bottles home and the rest were sent home.
There were limited bottles and some of the sauce was still left, so Xu Manman took a small jar to fill it. Since she was going to eat it herself anyway, she didn't care about it.
Prepare dinner before leaving work.
Dried squid stewed with radish, sprinkled with a handful of dried shrimp before serving, served with cold kelp shreds, and noodles with mushrooms and shrimp paste.
After finishing his work, Chen Ming happily had dinner and returned home contentedly with four bottles of sauce and a large bag of dry goods that his cousin had given him.
They finally had a holiday in two days. Xu Manman went to the commune early in the morning with the things she had prepared.
The aunt had said in a letter that she had sent seafood home, so Xu Manman didn't send any more. She just sent back the sauce she made, and also the clothes she made for her parents and younger brother.
I sent money directly to my aunt through the post office, and also made a set of clothes for my uncle and aunt.
After signing in, I went to the supply and marketing cooperative to buy some seasonings and daily necessities. I was lucky today, and Xu Manman also bought 2 kilograms of meat and 2 large bones.
Thinking that it would be lunchtime if I rushed there at noon, I simply went to a state-owned restaurant and packed up a portion of braised pork, a portion of braised fish with sauce, and 6 steamed buns.
When she arrived at the state-owned restaurant, she ran into Li Min and Chen Meizhi, but Xu Manman didn't have much interaction with these two on weekdays, so she didn't go over to say hello and just left with the packed food.
Chen Meizhi watched her retreating figure and sighed, "This educated young man Xu's family is quite well off."
The last time I cooked, the whole yard of the educated youth camp was filled with the fragrance. Today, I even came to the state-owned restaurant to take away my food. Apart from anything else, I really spend a lot of money on food.
Li Min's face was full of disdain. "Let's go cut some meat later. It's just for the stuttering."
Buy it! Of course I have to buy it. I have the meat ticket Chen Meizhi in my hand.
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