I had just eaten buckwheat buns in the morning, and I have to eat wild vegetables and steamed buns for lunch.
There is no dish that is difficult for her to cook. The only thing that stumps her is how to knead and ferment the dough.
Fortunately, she had learned how to bake cakes before. Although she couldn't steam buns, she knew how to make the batter for corn pancakes. She thought that the cornmeal might taste better if she cooked it a different way.
Xu Zhaodi took a bowl of corn flour, added water to it three times, stirred it into a batter and set it aside.
In the past, she would definitely add milk, eggs, and sugar to it.
But right now, if your family is short of food and clothing, you should not have such high demands.
Set the batter aside, blanch the shepherd's purse and place it in cold water, blanch the bracken and place it in cold water to pull it apart.
As for the Chubujiu, this thing looks like a caterpillar. After washing it clean in clean water, sprinkle it with an appropriate amount of corn flour to prevent the Chubujiu from sticking together. Steam it in a pot for ten minutes. After taking it out of the pot, sprinkle it with chopped green onion and minced garlic and pour it with hot oil, or add oil to the pot and stir-fry it.
Cold dishes waste oil. Since we don’t have much oil at home, we’d better save some.
After the pan is hot, put a little oil in the pan, stir-fry the steamed wild onions with salt and serve.
After doing all this, Xu Zhaodi washed the wild onions, cut them into small pieces, took a pheasant egg and beat it into a bowl, then thought about it and put two more eggs, making a total of four.
Soon, four dishes were placed on the table.
There was a dish of fried pheasant eggs with wild onions, a dish of cold shepherd's purse, a dish of stir-fried chubuji, and a plate of cold fern.
After the dishes were prepared, Xu Zhaodi calmly made pancakes in the pan.
Cornmeal is rough and easy to spread out, while flour has basically no gluten. When putting the batter in the pot, it should not be too much or too little.
If there is too much batter, the pancakes will be big and easy to break when turning over; if there is too little, they will easily burn.
Fortunately, Xu Zhaodi was good-tempered and took her time. After the pot was hot, she placed her palm at a certain distance from the pot to feel the temperature.
Make sure the temperature is right, add a spoonful of batter to the pan, lift the pan over the stove and gently turn it around so that it heats evenly.
After the pancake in the pan is formed, turn the pan over and wait for a minute or two, and a palm-sized cornmeal pancake of appropriate thickness will be out of the pan.
At first she was worried that she wouldn't do it well, but after making a few in a row, she became more and more adept at it.
After making more than twenty pancakes, she also cooked a pot of cabbage soup and sprinkled a handful of wild onions on it. It was green and looked very appetizing.
She looked at the time and thought Chen Jianguo should be here soon.
While he was still there, Xu Zhaodi took the bedding from her room to the railing downstairs to dry it. After going upstairs, she went straight to the balcony to collect the clothes that had been hung out to dry yesterday.
Chen Jianguo came here with Feng Xiujuan's husband Jiang Dahai.
The two men appeared downstairs and saw Xu Zhaodi collecting clothes. Jiang Dahai was shocked and asked, "Old Chen, is this still your wife?
She won't take the initiative to wash clothes at this time, right?"
Chen Jianguo said with a sullen face: "Ding ding ding, you should just take care of yourself."
"Hey, kid, is your wife giving you a cold shoulder again?"
"No, you know nothing. Let's go to the family for dinner."
Jiang Dahai chuckled and teased deliberately, "Eat at my house? Your wife doesn't eat from the same pot as you, so why don't you eat at my house? Why don't you come to my house and eat."
Chen Jianguo gritted his teeth and raised his foot to kick Jiang Dahai, but Jiang Dahai smiled and jumped far to the side to avoid it.
Even though Feng Xiujuan and Xu Zhaodi fought to the death at that time, it did not affect their brotherhood at all.
Jiang Dahai opened the door and a scent of food wafted out of the room. He knew it was potatoes fried with lard as soon as he smelled it.
Jiang Dahai teased, "You really won't come to my house?"
Chen Jianguo rolled over and strode upstairs.
Chen Jianguo’s mind was still filled with the sturdy figure who was collecting clothes on the balcony just now.
She's been really weird these past few days.
When I pushed the door open, the room was filled with a strong aroma of food, a smell I had never smelled before.
Just as he was wondering, Xu Zhaodi came out of her room. Seeing Chen Jianguo's expression, she paused, then she forced a faint smile: "You're here. I've already prepared lunch. Hurry up and wash your hands and eat."
Chen Jianguo looked confused, thinking back to when he walked in yesterday, he was also shocked.
In the past, there wasn't even a bowl of slop on the dining table, let alone four dishes and a soup, because he cooked everything himself.
He has become the object of ridicule in this family compound.
Xu Zhaodi took out two sets of bowls and chopsticks, poured soup into the bowls, and arranged them calmly.
Chen Jianguo walked towards the table. He was shocked by the four dishes on the table.
Especially this plate of scrambled eggs with green onions.
He remembered that he didn't give her a ticket, so where did the eggs come from?
Seeing his confusion, Xu Zhaodi explained, "Ah... there's nothing to eat at home, so I went to the woods opposite the compound this morning. There are more wild vegetables this season, so I picked a basket of them and brought them back.
I'm lucky enough to have picked up a nest of pheasant eggs. Let's eat them quickly."
It had been a long time since I had seen such a sumptuous meal. Chen Jianguo swallowed instinctively, nodded, and went into the bathroom.
When he came out, he had already washed his hands.
The two sat face to face in silence, and Chen Jianguo pushed the scrambled eggs with green onions in front of Xu Zhaodi.
"I don't like eggs. You eat this one. I'll eat the others first. You can eat them if you're fine."
Chen Jianguo picked up a corn tortilla. It was the first time he had seen such a thin tortilla. He took a bite and it tasted the same as a cornmeal bun, except that it was very chewy.
Xu Zhaodi couldn't help laughing at his words.
These days, when there’s a shortage of food, who doesn’t like to eat eggs?
He let himself eat wild vegetables later because he was afraid that the vegetables he picked were poisonous.
Puff——
Xu Zhaodi couldn't help laughing.
Chen Jianguo had sharp ears and sharp eyes. When he heard her laughter, he paused with his hand picking up the food and looked up at the person opposite him who was trying not to laugh.
In fact, she doesn't look bad, she just looks too sloppy sometimes.
With this appearance, after washing clean, you will feel blessed no matter how you look at it.
In their village, they want to marry a fat and strong wife.
The older generation said that whether life is prosperous or not depends on whether the wife is fat.
Chen Jianguo's ears secretly turned red, and he frowned and asked, "What are you laughing at?"
"Don't worry, these wild vegetables are not poisonous. My grandmother used to dig them for me to eat when I was a child."
As Xu Zhaodi spoke, she pushed the plate of scrambled eggs with green onions to the middle of the table.
Chen Jianguo just glanced at the dish in front of him, picked up a piece of wild vegetable with chopsticks and put it in his mouth. After chewing it twice, his eyes suddenly lit up.
This wild vegetable...
It’s so delicious.
Can wild vegetables taste like this?
I really didn't expect that she had this skill.
Having been hungry for the whole morning, he didn't care whether the delicious food in front of him was poisonous or not. He started eating it in big mouthfuls.
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