After returning home, Father Xia first buried the perishable meats and froze them in a vat outside the house.
The top should also be covered with something to prevent wild cats or mice from outside from getting in and contaminating the food.
After putting all those things away, they took out the things they were going to make in the evening and put them in the house, and then put the pastries they bought in the cupboard.
Xia Jin and his second brother were processing the chicken offal, chicken feet and duck feet they had bought. They would stew them in a pot and eat together.
After braising, you can also put it outside to freeze, and then bring it into the house to thaw when you want to eat it. It can be regarded as a dish during the Chinese New Year.
This is the only advantage this winter. No matter what you buy, you can put it outside, which becomes a natural big refrigerator.
No matter how long it is stored, it will not go bad as long as it is not frozen. You can buy as much as you want, and it is very convenient.
They have to cut the nails off chicken feet and other items, otherwise it will be difficult to eat them.
There was only one pair of scissors in the house, which was the one used for making clothes. When they wanted to use it, Aunt Xia was reluctant to give it away.
After all, it doesn't seem right to cut chicken feet and then make clothes.
But seeing that they bought so many things, if they were not used, they would be broken, so I had no choice but to give the scissors to them.
The two of them were dealing with the things they bought, and after the others had packed up, they went back into the house.
Inside the house, others were talking about what was happening in the fields outside while watching the two of them dealing with those things. No one else could help, after all, they didn't have the tools.
The task of cutting nails was left to Xia Jin, and Xia Yanbin could only clean those things.
After everything was done and it was time for lunch, they put their work aside and prepared to have lunch.
After lunch, they started to make these things. First they washed them clean and then put them in the pot to stew.
The whole family worked together, so they finished the job quickly. They put the pot on the stove and let it cook slowly, and then they could go back and rest.
After the stew was ready in the evening, they could have lunch. Aunt Xia prepared a large table of delicious food.
There were sweet and sour sweet and sour pork, braised pork, and cabbage stewed with pork. The whole table was filled with food, as if they were afraid that the two of them would not have enough to eat.
The food prepared by Xia Jin was also served on the table. Everyone was very polite and picked up the dishes he made with their first chopsticks. After all, they had been smelling the fragrance all afternoon and were really curious about the taste.
Look at the difference between this and what they usually make. Usually, only those who are so poor that they can barely afford to eat will buy some from the slaughterhouse and then eat it.
If a family has some extra money, no one would sell these things just to buy chickens, but some people are unwilling to do so, let alone buy them.
Fortunately, no one else knows about this. If others knew, they would definitely think that their family members are fools.
But if someone can make it so delicious, it doesn't seem to be a bad thing to buy the right thing. After all, the taste is incomparable to anything else.
It is also very good to drink with wine. It is so relaxing and comfortable to drink while eating.
If people outside don't know how to make it, of course they will think that their family members are fools. Even before they made this dish, they were afraid that Xia Jin was wasting money.
After all, they had never eaten like this before, and everything they ate was very unpalatable. It was not so difficult to bite it, but the main problem was that it had a fishy smell and could not be cleaned.
This family was poor, so people were scrambling to eat this thing in those two years. But after they became rich, no one ate it anymore.
After all, men can still eat pork once every one or two months.
This thing wastes oil and seasonings, and most importantly, it doesn’t taste good. Isn’t it a pure waste?
"Xiao Jin made this very well. It's very flavorful and delicious. Why didn't others think of it? Only our Xiao Jin would think of it."
"If word of this method gets out, slaughterhouses won't have to worry about not being able to sell their products. After all, if they can be made so delicious and cheaper than meat, everyone will definitely rush to buy them."
"I think so too. It's just that no one knows how to make it delicious. The ones we make are hard and fishy, and we can't even eat them."
"It seems that Xiao Jin is quite talented in cooking. After all, something that tastes terrible to us turns out to be so delicious in her hands."
"It's delicious, everyone, eat more. There's still a lot left. If you finish it, we can buy more. It's cheap anyway, but it's a bit troublesome to handle."
"If you can't finish it, put it outside and freeze it with the brine, and then thaw it when you want to eat it."
After hearing what she said, Grandpa Xia happily took a sip of wine and said:
"Okay, okay, after the Chinese New Year, we'll have this dish for our New Year's Eve dinner."
"And when people come to pay New Year's greetings, we let them taste our Xiaojin's cooking, mainly to let them see how good Xiaojin is."
"Everyone else's food is not tasty, but in his hands it can become so delicious. If others knew about this, who wouldn't be envious?"
"Okay, Grandpa, I'll make it when the time comes. When big brother comes, we'll make it again so he can have a taste too. He hasn't tried it yet."
Xia Jin's braised food is novel to everyone, and Aunt Xia's cooking skills are still as stable as ever.
Xia Jin and his friends had been away from home for several months and hadn't eaten authentic farm food here for a long time, so both of them ate two large bowls of rice.
The two of them were so exhausted that they could not even walk. Fortunately, they bought some hawthorn slices today, and after dinner they had no choice but to eat several slices.
Just like that, I kept walking around in the house. After all, my aunt's cooking skills are really amazing, and the food she cooks is really delicious.
Grandpa Xia and the others didn't eat much. They watched the two of them wandering around the house. They also brought a plate of braised food and ate while watching them digest the food.
Time passed quickly, and by the next day, the news of Xia Jin and the others' return had spread throughout the village.
After all, even if it is too cold outside, there are still some people who like to visit. Otherwise, it would be so boring to be alone at home. Of course, you would go to the home of someone you are good friends with and talk about gossip in the village.
Those who were gossiping about other people spread the news of their return to everyone, including those who had seen Xia Jin yesterday.
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