Chapter 142 Okara Cake

She said casually, "I'm selling it for a friend. She has a small family, so she built a greenhouse to grow vegetables. She thought this year would be a bad harvest, so she wanted to earn some food."

When you grow crops in the mountains, you are digging into the collective corner, but at home... no one will say anything.

Zhang Jinhua was a little envious and a little impressed when she heard this: "This is a good idea. This way, we can have fresh vegetables to eat in winter. Yinyin, besides eggplant, does your friend have any other vegetables?"

She and her husband are both doctors. They have high salaries, but the work is hard and they often have to stay up late.

If you don’t get enough nutrition, your body will suffer sooner or later.

Zhang Jinhua is not afraid of spending money, but is afraid of having no place to spend the money.

Liu Yinyin paused and said vaguely, "We don't grow many vegetables. Apart from the ones we eat, there aren't many vegetables we can sell. Aunt Zhang, can I bring you some next time?"

After all, it's not a serious business, so it's better to be careful.

"Okay, bring more next time. If I'm not at home, you can leave it at Xiaolian's house and I'll get it later."

Liu Yinyin doesn't come to the county town often. She is busy with work, so we really don't meet often.

Zhang Jinhua and Ma Xiaolian are good friends, so you can ask her for help.

After the transaction with Zhang Jinhua, Liu Yinyin never went to see Aunt Zhou again.

Apart from food, there is nothing missing at home for the time being.

I took a basket of vegetables to Aunt Li's place.

"Where did you get such fresh vegetables?" Like everyone else, Aunt Li was very surprised to see the basket of lush green vegetables.

Liu Yinyin still said the same thing: "A friend of mine in the countryside grew them. She built a greenhouse at home."

Greenhouses can indeed be used to grow vegetables, but housing is very tight, whether in the countryside or in the county, and most families do not have spare rooms to grow vegetables.

Moreover, this kind of thing is not so easy to succeed. Growing vegetables in a greenhouse has extremely high requirements for temperature and humidity.

If you are not careful, all your efforts will be wasted.

Aunt Li was well-informed and guessed that this was the case. She said, "How do you want to exchange these vegetables?"

You can buy supplies, exchange money or other things from her.

After much thought, Liu Yinyin decided to exchange food, of course, for Huang Xiaoyue.

In winter, the price of fresh vegetables is definitely higher than at other times.

Aunt Li said that at this time, one pound of vegetables can be exchanged for one pound of coarse grains.

Liu Yinyin brought over about twenty kilograms of vegetables, and she directly asked for twenty kilograms of cornmeal.

Finally, Liu Yinyin saw that she had fresh mutton for sale.

After returning, he smuggled ten kilograms of mutton out of the system.

There are also ten kilograms of millet and ten kilograms of brown rice.

Liu Yinyin sold the remaining thirty or so kilograms of vegetables directly to the system.

When she came, she brought 50 kilograms of vegetables, 20 eggs, and a rabbit.

He brought back ten pounds of mutton, forty pounds of grain, and twelve yuan.

She kept the money for herself and gave Huang Xiaoyue 40 kilograms of grain, 5 kilograms of mutton, and 50 kilograms of vegetables, which was about all she could exchange for.

Huang Xiaoyue was so happy to see so much food. Her eyes were filled with surprise: "How can I get so much food with just a basket of vegetables?"

There is still five pounds of mutton!

In Huang Xiaoyue's eyes, vegetables are definitely not as valuable as grains.

So...she couldn't believe her eyes.

Liu Yinyin smiled and said, "It's winter now, fresh vegetables are more valuable."

If it is summer or autumn, you will definitely not be able to exchange for even a few pounds of food.

Huang Xiaoyue's face was full of gratitude: "Yinyin, thank you so much."

If it weren't for her sister-in-law, no matter how valuable the vegetables were, she would have no place to exchange them for food.

There are still a lot of green vegetables in the fields. How much food can they exchange for?

Huang Xiaoyue got excited just thinking about it.

However, it is not appropriate to go to the county town every day to exchange food.

You have to go there at least every three to five days.

After a while, Huang Xiaoyue said cheerfully, "I'll go back to Shuangxi Village this afternoon and pick a basket of vegetables to eat. I'll bring some back to you later."

She had to take most of the food and mutton she got back to her father. After all, it was Huang Laizi who was taking care of the vegetables in the field.

It is impossible to give all the things from my mother's family to my husband's family. Huang Xiaoyue is not that ignorant.

Pick some vegetables by the way.

I guess my sister-in-law exchanged yesterday’s basket of vegetables for food.

Liu Yinyin was not polite either. She said that after all the trouble she had gone through, it was only right that she get some benefits.

Besides, apart from the tomatoes we ate yesterday, there were no other vegetables left at home; they had all been sold.

Liu Yinyin asked casually: "Do you want me to accompany you back?"

There are no bicycles, so we have to walk.

"No need." Huang Xiaoyue smiled shyly, "Mingyuan will accompany me back."

The couple had just gotten married and their relationship was good.

With someone accompanying her back, Liu Yinyin felt relieved.

Of the ten kilograms of mutton, five kilograms were given to Huang Xiaoyue, and the remaining five kilograms were not taken to the Liu family by Liu Yinyin, who kept them for herself.

This kind of weather is perfect for stewing mutton. In the afternoon, Liu Yinyin chopped half of the mutton, added some star anise to remove the fishy smell and a radish, and stewed it in a casserole.

It will take about two hours to stew the rake.

She cut some lean mutton and steamed a bowl of mutton and cabbage porridge for Gu Yanyan.

Huang Xiaoyue returned from Shuangxi Village before the mutton was cooked.

She gave Liu Yinyin a basket full of vegetables, including spinach, celery, eggplant, tomatoes and carrots.

The total weight is estimated to be about 7 or 8 kilograms.

In addition to vegetables, Huang Xiaoyue also gave Liu Yinyin a small bag of bean curd cakes.

The bean curd dregs cake is made by Huang Laizi himself.

He likes to make his own tofu, and he won’t waste the leftover bean curd dregs.

Huang Laizi would often think of delicious food to cook for his ladies, and bean curd cake was his specialty.

The method is not difficult. Put the bean dregs in a pot and fry until the moisture is dried out and slightly yellow. Then add glutinous rice flour, sugar, chili powder, salt, white sesame seeds and water and knead into a dough shape.

Finally, roll it into a ball, steam it and dry it, and the bean curd cake is ready.

The dried bean curd cake can be stored for several months.

When you want to eat it, you can steam it until soft, or stir-fry it. However, the best way to eat bean dregs cake is to fry it.

That taste...

Soft, glutinous, crispy and slightly spicy, fried bean curd cake has always been Huang Xiaoyue’s favorite snack since she was a child.

It's also because Huang Laizi loves his daughter. Otherwise, glutinous rice flour, sugar and sesame are all good things.

It also has to be fried, most people wouldn't be willing to eat it like this.

At least, the Liu family would definitely not be willing to fry the bean dregs cake, so Huang Xiaoyue gave most of the bean dregs cake to her sister-in-law.

A small half bag, at least five or six pounds.

Nowadays, bean curd cake is definitely considered a good thing.

There were vegetables and bean curd cakes, which made Liu Yinyin feel embarrassed to accept them.

After thinking about it, Liu Yinyin wrapped about two pounds of beef jerky in oil paper and gave it to Huang Xiaoyue.

The beef jerky was brought back from Beijing last time.