Chapter 180 Braised Pork
Jiang Cuihua thought about it and it made sense. She said, "Why not just not sell it? I see the drought is getting worse and worse, and I don't know what the situation will be like next year. It's better to save more food."
Fresh sweet potatoes are difficult to preserve, but they can be dried into sweet potato slices or made into sweet potato vermicelli.
It's no problem to leave it for a year or two.
Liu Yinyin agreed: "What mother said makes sense."
The Huang family’s conditions are pretty good, so it doesn’t matter if they don’t exchange the sweet potatoes for money.
Huang Xiaoyue nodded and said, "I'll talk to my dad later."
If you can harvest thousands of kilograms of sweet potatoes from one acre of land, it is not impossible to store some of them.
"Eat!" Gu Yanyan's eyes lit up instantly when he saw the sweet potatoes.
The little guy seemed to still remember the roasted sweet potatoes he had eaten before...so fragrant and sweet.
Liu Yinyin glanced at him and said, "Didn't you just have breakfast?"
It was not long since I had breakfast.
The boy ate a lot in the morning, so Jiang Cuihua specially steamed a bowl of egg custard for him, put two eggs in it, and added sesame oil.
Even patient Liu Lai Fu doesn't receive such good treatment.
Gu Yanyan touched his stomach with his chubby hand. He had indeed eaten a full meal in the morning, but he thought of the fragrant and sweet roasted sweet potatoes.
The little guy smacked his lips and said to Liu Yinyin in a baby voice: "Mom, are you eating?"
Thinking about it, the boy stretched out another finger: "Eat...one."
He can still eat a baked sweet potato.
Liu Yinyin: “…”
The little guy is very shrewd.
When Jiang Cuihua saw that her eldest grandson wanted to eat roasted sweet potatoes, she immediately pulled him to the kitchen and said, "Good boy, grandma will take you to roast sweet potatoes now."
Sweet potatoes are not expensive things, her eldest grandson can eat as much as he wants.
Liu Yinyin ignored him and said to Huang Xiaoyue, "Sister-in-law, you and Brother San should stay for lunch. I'll go out and buy some food."
People came all the way to give her sweet potatoes, so it didn't make sense for her not to even offer them a meal.
Huang Xiaoyue did not agree: "......No, we can just go home and eat."
Everything you eat in the county town costs money, so it’s better to go home and eat.
Liu Yinyin smiled and said, "It's just a meal. It's your first time here, so how can I let you go back like this?"
Leaving them at home for a while, Liu Yinyin went out with her basket.
Gu Cheng said yesterday that he would be back for lunch, so she didn't have to go to the steel factory to look for him.
Liu Yinyin went directly to the supply and marketing cooperative, and as expected, there was nothing good inside. The pork, eggs, fish and other things had already been snatched away.
Liu Yinyin walked around and only bought two pounds of small potatoes and a piece of tofu.
I also bought a bag of red dates and a bag of walnut cookies and asked Huang Xiaoyue to take them back to eat later.
After thinking about it, Liu Yinyin took her basket and went to the state-owned hotel, where she ordered a portion of braised pork to take away.
Nearing home, she smuggled a bass out of the system.
We also have some sausages brought from the countryside yesterday, so these are enough for us.
Thinking that Liu Lai Fu was still sick, Liu Yinyin didn't buy any wine.
Liu Yinyin made lunch, including steamed sea bass, stir-fried pork intestines with garlic sprouts, scrambled eggs with leeks, braised tofu, and garlic-stirred water spinach.
Including the braised pork that we brought back from the state-owned hotel, there were six dishes in total, enough for so many people.
The staple food is corn steamed buns.
Liu Yinyin originally wanted to make white flour steamed buns, but was stopped by Jiang Cuihua.
It would be too luxurious to eat white flour steamed buns if it is not a New Year or any other festival. With so many people, how much white flour would be consumed!
"This braised pork is so delicious!" Liu Mingyuan couldn't help but shout out while eating.
Braised pork is delicious to begin with, and he hasn’t eaten pork for a long time, so every bite of it tastes like the most delicious food in the world to him!
The braised pork made by the state-owned hotel tastes really good, much better than what Liu Yinyin makes herself.
That’s why Liu Yinyin didn’t buy pork, but directly packed a portion of braised pork from the hotel.
Jiang Cuihua saw him eating so voraciously that she couldn't bear to watch him. She said unhappily, "Stop, look at the way you eat. It's like you haven't eaten meat in eight lifetimes."
Liu Mingyuan seemed not to understand what she meant. He chuckled and said, "Mom, we haven't eaten meat in a long time."
Jiang Cuihua rolled her eyes: "What? You still want to eat meat every day? Our family is well off, it's good enough to have a meal to eat."
The Liu family was originally a poor family in the village. If they had not spent all their savings to stock up on food last year, who knows what would have happened to them now.
"Mom, this braised pork is really delicious. I have never eaten such delicious braised pork in my life." Huang Xiaoyue couldn't help but say something for her man.
Liu Yinyin smiled and said, "When the weather gets better, I'll take you to a state-owned hotel for dinner."
"That's great." Liu Mingyuan responded impatiently.
State-owned hotel...few people in the village have ever eaten at the state-owned hotel.
The whole family enjoyed the meal very much. The table was full of food and even the soup was dipped up cleanly.
In the afternoon, Liu Mingyuan and Huang Xiaoyue left only when the sun was not so bright anymore.
Jiang Cuihua was quite happy today and had a smile on her face the whole time.
With her around, Liu Yinyin doesn't have to interfere with any housework.
"Yinyin, what should we do with these sweet potatoes? Should we exchange them for some cornmeal?" After washing the dishes, Jiang Cuihua whispered to her daughter.
This afternoon, several people ate more than twenty large steamed buns.
Especially Gu Cheng and Liu Mingyuan, who ate five or six each. Jiang Cuihua felt distressed just watching them.
So she thought about exchanging some cornmeal.
In Jiang Cuihua's eyes, no matter what, sweet potatoes cannot compare to corn steamed buns, and cornmeal steamed buns are delicious.
One hundred kilograms of sweet potatoes can at least exchange for twenty to thirty kilograms of cornmeal.
It’s enough for the lady to eat at home for a while.
Liu Yinyin didn't think so. Cornmeal was available at any time, but fresh sweet potatoes were not available at any time.
Besides, one hundred kilograms of sweet potatoes is not a lot.
Liu Yinyin was reluctant to change it. She said, "No need to change it. Keep it and eat it slowly. I like eating sweet potatoes very much. Yanyan likes to eat them too."
After eating these 100 kilograms of sweet potatoes, maybe he or she will exchange some more with Huang Laizi.
"You seem to like eating this stuff." Jiang Cuihua said in a flattering tone.
Most country people eat sweet potatoes to fill their stomachs. There are very few people like Liu Yinyin who eat them purely because they like eating sweet potatoes.
Jiang Cuihua has been eating sweet potatoes for most of her life, which is enough for her. If conditions permit, she would not want to eat this stuff anymore.
Liu Yinyin was reluctant to replace the 100 kilograms of sweet potatoes, but she did pack out 20 kilograms of sweet potatoes.
I carried the sweet potatoes and went next door to visit Aunt Zhou, but this time it was not to exchange supplies.
Last time, Aunt Zhou gave her a few kilograms of sesame seeds, and Liu Yinyin has not yet returned the favor.