There's no particular order or cooking time; just stew it until it's tender and then take it out of the pot.
Moreover, my mom always adds salt as soon as the food hits the pan, and she adds an excessive amount of salt, so everything she cooks ends up very salty.
Mom, I've told you so many times that you're getting old and should eat a light diet with less oil and salt, but you just won't listen.
The doctors all said my dad has high blood pressure and shouldn't eat too much salt, it's bad for his health!
Chen Hong's mother tried to defend herself: "I'm very busy every day, how can I have so much free time to just stay in the kitchen?"
When you were little, I couldn't help you with anything, and your dad was often not home.
I have to do all the work inside and outside by myself. It's already a miracle that I can cook the food properly and not let you eat raw food.
We farmers need salty food to have the energy to work. Besides, back then we were so poor, who would cook meals regularly?
"Mustard, pancakes, and pickled vegetables—with these three things, and you can eat your fill every meal, that's a good life!"
Chen Hong: "Mom, it was one thing to be poor before, but now that life is better, we've handed over the land to others to farm."
You and my sister-in-law don't have much else to do at home, right? Our main tasks are cooking, taking care of the kids, and doing housework, aren't they?
Now we don't need you to make clothes for us, and we've prepared such good seafood and vegetables for you, so you're taking cooking seriously.
Even if it doesn't have to be perfect in color, aroma, and taste, it should at least be flavorful!
If the children don't like to eat in the future, they will buy snacks every day, which is not only expensive but also bad for their health. No matter how much work you do, it will be meaningless.
Besides, you and Dad are getting old. We don't eat well and our health isn't good. No amount of health supplements can make up for it.
Chen Hong has always disapproved of her mother's attitude towards life, believing that all she knows is to work hard all her life and that she will never improve her quality of life even if she works herself to death.
They don't care about food at all, and they just throw things away without any care.
During the Spring Festival, Chen Hong asked someone to send so much high-end seafood home, and her mother steamed it three times a day.
Whether it's shrimp, crab, or other fresh fish and squid, a little sauce makes it a dish.
Returning to Jinan on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, Chen Hong was speechless after hearing her mother's bizarre actions.
When she offered some advice, the old lady retorted with Chen Hong's words: "Didn't you say that seafood is the simplest to cook, even a fool could do it, and that steaming it is the most delicious way to prepare it?"
One sentence almost choked Chen Hong to death!
After a long pause, he finally managed to say, "But you're not stupid! Even dragon meat gets boring if you eat it the same way every day!"
What can you ask her to say about her mother? She can ignore a hundred other things, but she remembers only this one sentence, which is then used to criticize her.
Chen Hong didn't know how to evaluate her mother. The old lady wasn't a bad person; she had three children, but only favored her son.
People are often confused. They work hard all their lives, but they don't get any good from anyone.
He's stubborn and won't listen to anyone's opinions. He doesn't interfere in his daughter's life either. To put it nicely, he's open-minded; to put it bluntly, he's indifferent.
In her heart, once her daughter got married, she became an outsider! Only her son's family, who lived with her, were her closest family.
She was just an ordinary old woman from the countryside, and could only see what was right in front of her.
She never imagined that her son wouldn't give her a grandson, only two granddaughters.
According to her old-fashioned thinking, in less than twenty years, her two granddaughters will grow up, get married, and become so-called outsiders.
In her later years, the only people she considered family were her son and daughter-in-law. (And even her daughter-in-law wasn't on her side!)
In fact, Chen Hong couldn't understand what the old lady was thinking.
Aren't her son and daughter her own flesh and blood? Her relationship with her daughter-in-law and son-in-law should be equally close.
When a granddaughter grows up and gets married, isn't the relationship more distant than with a daughter?
Why distinguish between nephews and granddaughters, treating nephews as relatives while only treating granddaughters as one's own children?
After her rebirth, Chen Hong could never get close to her two nieces from her maternal family.
In her past life, the two sisters' heartless behavior hurt her. Although she had been reborn and those things had not yet happened, Chen Hong still felt somewhat uncomfortable when she saw her two nieces.
Chen Hong wondered if she was making another mistake by letting them stay, showing her soft heart.
That evening, her father and brother came to the villa, and Chen Hong prepared a large table of delicious dishes.
Braised eel, stewed Yellow River turtle, steamed snow crab, steamed mantis shrimp, sweet and sour pork ribs, braised beef, stir-fried bok choy with dried shrimp, and cold salad with wood ear mushrooms and lettuce.
For the main course, Chen Hong steamed a large pot of seaweed buns and cooked a pot of new millet porridge. Her parents couldn't live without porridge for breakfast and dinner; it was their eating habit for many years.
Watching the whole family enjoying a lively meal around the large dining table, Chen Hong's father was very happy: "Xiao Hong's family has a big dining table, and the whole family can sit down."
This is better, it's more lively with more people!
It's just that Zhou Yi and Xiao Yun are missing. I wonder when the whole family will be able to get together again?
Hopefully they can come back this summer vacation, and then all four families can get together—that would be a true family reunion!
Seeing his father so happy, Chen Yi couldn't resist having a couple of glasses of wine.
"Dad, let's work hard and try to buy a villa this big someday. When my sister's two families come back, we'll have room to squeeze in."
Chen Hong's father snorted: "If we're talking about filial piety, you're the one! You want to buy a villa, and you even drag your old man to work for you."
However, it's a good thing that you have ambition! As long as you're determined to make a living and work hard in the future, I'll go all out, even though I'm old, and help you as much as I can.
Chen Yi, you need to know this: our family is doing better this year than before, all thanks to your sister pulling you along.
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