Chapter 341 Chapter 342: Mountain Delicacy
"How could you forget such a good thing!" Zhou Yiding rolled his eyes at him. "When we go down the mountain, let's go to Ning'an together and find a piece of good material. We can use badger skin to make a leather vest for my old man."
Zhou Huaian nodded repeatedly, "Yes, I'll make one for Grandpa too."
After hearing this, Yang Chunyan thought for a moment and said, "We need to buy thicker material and make it into a detachable coverall so that it will be easier to wash later."
Zhou Yiding hurriedly said after hearing this: "Sister-in-law, I don't understand anything at all, how about I leave it to you?"
Yang Chunyan remembered that there was a tailor shop in town that made good clothes. "Okay, you buy the materials and I'll go to town to find a tailor to make them."
"Yes, I'll buy it when I go down the mountain this time."
As they were talking, the three of them arrived at the forest farm. Zhou Yiding took out the key and opened the gate. The yard seemed much more spacious after the wood in the yard was taken away.
Zhou Yiding pointed to a few tree stumps and branches on the steps and said, "I had nothing to do, so I asked old man Li who was guarding the wood over there to go to the agarwood forest to dig them up. We brought half of them down the mountain for our family."
Zhou Huaian quickly shook his head, "That's enough, what we have at home is enough."
"You're still being polite to me!" Zhou Yiding smiled and kicked him, "If you don't want me to help you next time, I won't help you either."
Zhou Huaian looked at him and sighed, "I want it, I want it, is that not enough!"
Yang Chunyan looked at the two people fighting and felt that although they were uncles from different families, their feelings were no different from those of real brothers.
"That's good enough." Zhou Yiding was satisfied as he brought out two pheasants. "You kill the chickens, and I'll take the game to the cave and store it. I'll also get the mushrooms out so we can have a good lunch."
"Yes." Zhou Huaian picked up the pheasant and went to the kitchen. "Yan'er, do we want to blanch the chicken first?"
Yang Chunyan took out the rations she brought and poured them into the rice jar. She turned her head and took a look. "Well! Let's boil a pot of water first."
Zhou Huaian walked to the stove and saw that the pot was filled with bowls, chopsticks and plates. "Oh my god, Ding Dingmao is such a lazy dog. How many meals have you not washed the dishes?"
Zhou Yiding came in carrying mushrooms and said embarrassedly, "I haven't washed them for two days. I was planning to wash them today, but you guys came. Sister-in-law, go pick the mushrooms and I'll wash them."
"You are not used to it, so I will do it." Yang Chunyan rolled up her sleeves, picked up the apron hanging on the door latch, tied it up and started to wash.
Zhou Yiding took a colander and put a basket full of mushrooms into it. "Look, these are the chanterelles, chestnut mushrooms, big-foot mushrooms, sand mushrooms, green mushrooms... a few morels, and a few matsutake mushrooms that I found in the woods this morning."
He said, looking at the two of them with a smile, "Is our meal today considered to be a proper mountain delicacy?"
"Yes! They are all good stuff!" Zhou Huaian lit the fire and put two pieces of firewood in it, then went over and picked up a matsutake mushroom. "This stuff is good. Even these few can be sold for several dollars. It's the most comfortable way to stew chicken with it."
"It's good, but it won't last long." Zhou Yiding picked up a shalaobao. "There are a lot of shalaobao in the forest these days. Pick some up, slice them, dry them, and braise them with some pork belly."
The old man's head mushroom is named after its bald head that looks like an old man of longevity. It is also called the sand old mushroom. This mushroom is white and elastic. When it is not open, the whole mushroom is wrapped in the mushroom bag, so some people call it the sand old bag.
As long as the soil is fertile, this kind of mushroom can grow very large, and the largest cap can reach a diameter of 40cm. When eating fresh shalaobao, you need to tear off the white film on the cap.
But fresh sha lao bao tastes a bit earthy, but after being dried, it tastes pretty good when stewed with chicken, braised, or fried with green peppers.
Zhou Huaian smiled and nodded, "Go find some after you eat it, and dry some more to save for when it gets cold."
Zhou Yiding smiled and said, "The red mushrooms, shiitake mushrooms, green mushrooms, chanterelles, and black fungus that my sister-in-law dried last time are still here and we haven't brought them down the mountain yet!"
Zhou Huaian thought of Yang Chunyan's favorite foods and said, "Put them in your cave first. When we separate, you can bring them down with us."
Zhou Yiding looked at him cunningly, "I know, you want to keep it for yourself."
"Am I such a stingy person? It's mainly because I have too many nephews and nieces, and I only get a small amount for each family when I take them home. Besides, if I stew chicken or duck, I still have to invite my grandfather and his family to come over to eat!"
"And me!" Zhou Yiding looked at him with a smile, "When you split up the family, I'll go to your place to eat when I get down the mountain."
Zhou Huaian threw the bag of sand in his hand at him, "The food is all with you, how dare I not give it to you!"
Yang Chunyan saw that the two people had not cleaned the mushrooms thoroughly, "The water is boiling, you two go and beat the chicken, I will clean the mushrooms."
"Oh!" Zhou Huaian and the others immediately put the mushrooms in their hands back into the basket, "! It's better for you to do this."
Yang Chunyan took a small knife and scraped the mushroom stems that the two people had not cleaned up, and then cleaned a few matsutake mushrooms.
Grab a few chestnut mushrooms and pick off the base. This mushroom may not look good, but it tastes delicious. Because of its strange appearance, this mushroom is also called chicken skin mushroom in some places.
Although life is a bit harder these days, we can raise chickens, ducks and pigs freely, and the food we eat is all natural, without any genetically modified organisms, growth hormones, or those messy pesticides. No one pretends to know anything and tells the old farmers how to farm.
Zhou Huaian and his companion cleaned the two pheasants, chopped them into small pieces and handed them to Yang Chunyan, then they went to the back of the house to wash the mushrooms.
Only then did Yang Chunyan realize that the pheasants were really fat during this period. There were even some yellow chicken fat in the basin. She picked out the chicken fat and chicken offal and put them aside. After pouring the meat into the pot and blanching it, she washed it twice with clean water and poured it into a colander to drain the water.
After the chicken fat is refined, add some ginger and stir-fry until fragrant, add warm water, bring to a boil over high heat, skim off the floating residue, take two scallions, tie them up and put them into the pot, and simmer slowly.
Add two pieces of firewood into the stove, pour the chicken offal into a bowl, add two spoons of salt, rub it several times and then wash it clean. Prepare to stir-fry the pickled pepper chicken offal after the chicken is stewed.
Zhou Huaian and his friend squatted by the ditch in the backyard to wash the mushrooms, "Ding Ding Cat, why doesn't Xue Jiao come up to see you?"
Zhou Yiding smiled and said, "She said she knitted a sweater for me last time, so she brought it up to me today."
Zhou Huaian glanced at him and said, "You are a man who values women over friendship. No wonder you went into the forest to pick mushrooms so early in the morning. We are the ones who benefited from Xue Jiao's meal today!"
Zhou Yiding smiled awkwardly, "Hehe! Just wait until she comes up and pick it up."
"Let's go pick some together and pick some more dried mushrooms for your mother-in-law."
Zhou Yiding nodded, put the cleaned bigfoot mushrooms into the basket, stood up, took out two cigarettes, lit one, and gave one to Zhou Huaian:
"Let me tell you, the wild goats in the mountains are really fat these days. When Xuejiao comes, shall we go to Huoshaolin to take a look?"
(End of this chapter)
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