Chapter 17: Chicken Stew with Chestnuts
"I understand. Go and peel the chestnuts." Shi Luo took the chicken and drove Xie Chen away.
Xie Chen sat back on the bench and sighed. Alas, since he couldn't cook, he could only peel chestnuts silently.
Shi Luo took a knife and chopped the chicken into small pieces. "This chicken is much fatter than I thought after I plucked its feathers."
"Anyway, these two are definitely enough to satisfy the three of us." Li Zhe and Wan Mian started to light the fire very tactfully.
Shi Luo cut the chicken into pieces and cleaned it, then began to pour oil into the pot. When the oil was hot, he added the chicken pieces and ginger slices, stir-frying them back and forth until the oil came out of the bottom of the pot. He then added green onions and various seasonings, and continued to stir-fry until they were colored. After each piece of chicken was evenly colored, he added water and then put in the peeled chestnuts.
After stewing the chestnuts and chicken for about ten minutes, Shi Luo wet his hands, took out a piece of the dough that Li Zhe had kneaded, rolled it into a ball on his hands, and pressed the dough against the edge of the pot and then around the pot. Looking at the remaining dough, he took another steamer and put it on the pot, and put the steamed buns made of the dough on the steamer one by one. After everything was done, he covered it with a lid and continued stewing.
Li Zhe looked at the covered pot with a little greedy "How long will this stew?"
Shi Luo: "About twenty minutes, why are you so anxious?"
Li Zhe nodded. "How can I not be anxious? Not to mention that I've been waiting all day, just the fact that there's meat stewing in this pot is enough to make me anxious. You don't know, I used to only eat meat once or twice a month at home."
Xie Chen was also a little greedy. "My family is the same. The main reason is that the portion is too small. My mother wants to buy fatty meat to make oil with the meat coupons she has. This way, I can eat even less meat."
"By the way, Shi Luo, I see you've prepared quite a bit, including the pot, seasonings, and even onions and ginger." Li Zhe wanted to ask just now, but seeing that Shi Luo was busy cooking, he didn't have time to ask.
"I've already told you that I have no one at home, so I brought everything I could with me this time. I don't need much, except for some seasonings, which I don't need in large quantities. I'll have to go to the supply and marketing cooperative when I have time."
"Let's wait until we have stockpiled enough firewood before going. Li Zhe and I brought quite a lot of things when we came here, but in a few days we plan to pickle some vegetables for the winter, so we have to buy a jar and coarse-grained salt." Xie Chen also planned to go to the supply and marketing cooperative, but there was no rush.
"Okay, let's do it together then. But, can you pickle vegetables?" Shi Luo was very skeptical. After all, Xie Chen couldn't even cook.
"He can't, but I can. My mother was from Heilongjiang Province. She met my father when she was fleeing famine. My family pickles vegetables every year, and my younger brother and I help. The ones I pickle are delicious." Li Zhe said proudly.
"Okay, then I'll leave this job to you when the time comes." Luo was still very happy when someone helped him with the work.
Twenty minutes passed as the three of them chatted.
Shi Luo opened the lid, took the steamer down and placed it on the cupboard, then took out the tortillas on a plate.
Seeing that the tortillas were served, Li Zhe quickly took them and put them on the cupboard.
"Your pancake is really well-made, with a nice burnt layer. It looks delicious."
The cabinet that Shi Luo bought is more than one meter high. It can hold things and can also be used as a table.
Shi Luo filled each of the three people's lunch boxes with a box of chestnut stewed chicken. "Hurry up and eat. After you finish, help yourself. There's still plenty in the pot. If you want to drink water, pour it yourself. There's water in the kettle."
The three of them put their lunch boxes on the cupboard, sat down on stools, and started eating around the cupboard.
"Your stewed chicken is so fragrant, and the chestnuts are so soft. It's really delicious."
Li Zhe ate and praised at the same time.
"It's delicious, right? You're the one who caught the chicken today. You're a great contributor, so you have to eat more." Shi Luo also felt that his cooking skills were pretty good.
While the two of them were praising each other, Xie Chen had already eaten most of his lunch box.
All three of them ate until their bellies were full, but they still didn't finish the chicken in the pot. After all, there were two chickens and a lot of chestnuts.
Shi Luo packed the remaining chicken into lunch boxes, spread it out, and put it almost evenly into three lunch boxes. Looking at the six steamed buns left on the cupboard, he also divided them into three portions. "These two portions are for you two. You can heat them up and eat them tomorrow morning. Okay, let's go."
Xie Chen took the two lunch boxes and the steamed buns and said, "Thank you. This is definitely the best meal I've had in the past 19 years."
Li Zhe also agreed, "I'll wash the pot before I leave. Next time, if the three of us can find something good, we can eat together."
"Okay, you wash the pot first." Luo felt relieved when someone was willing to wash the pot.
Xie Chen waited until Li Zhe finished washing the pot before returning to the room together.
Shi Luo saw that the people had left, smelled the pot and found that there was no smell, so he added water to the pot and started to boil it.
The water boiled and the smell in the room was almost gone. I locked the door, filled the thermos, turned around and went into the space to take a shower.
I was chopping wood and picking chestnuts all day, and I was exhausted.
Seeing that the bathtub was full, Shi Luo threw a tea tree scented explosive bath salt ball into it before slowly lying down in it. It turned out that taking a bath was the best way to relieve fatigue.
While Shi Luo was enjoying a nice bath in the space, the educated youth in the front yard who had just had their meal were about to go crazy.
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