Chapter 18 How to eat pig head?
Earning money is the most urgent thing. With money, it will be easier to repair relationships later, right?
Shen Qing winked at Jiang Xiangnan, who immediately understood, picked up his burden and strode towards home.
Inevitably, part of the pig's big ears were exposed in the bucket.
Being caught by Sun Xiaomai's glance, he secretly regretted that he shouldn't have been so sarcastic to Shen Qing right away. The fat meat that was about to be in his mouth was gone! Otherwise, he could have gotten a few more pieces of meat into his mouth.
She swallowed hard, thinking of the contemptuous and blaming looks the village women had given her just now, and said bitterly, "It's not a festival, you bought a big pig's head and lived like this. No wonder they threw away their granddaughter to save food!"
"Don't blame me for not reminding you. Once you run out of money and food, it's useless to come to me for help~"
Shen Qing wanted to laugh. Sun Xiaomai's family background was about the same as hers. She was so poor that she could only eat porridge twice a day, and yet she still begged her for help? He spoke as if begging her would give her food and money.
I really don't have a correct understanding of myself.
"My mother will never abandon her granddaughter. My mother is fine!" Jiang Xiangnan carried a large bucket of water, straightened his back, and shouted with full energy.
Sun Xiaomai didn't expect Jiang Xiangnan to speak.
Shen Qing's sons are ranked from top to bottom in terms of foolish filial piety and from bottom to top in terms of cleverness. Jiang Xiangnan is in the middle, being both clever and not foolishly filial.
When he heard her mocking his mother in the past, he acted as if he didn't hear it. Why is she speaking up to defend her today?
While Sun Xiaomai was stunned, Shen Qing and Jiang Xiangnan had already hurried back home.
She looked at the two men's straight backs and looked down on them from the bottom of her heart.
Eat, eat. This trip must have cost a lot of money. Let’s see how they will live in the future!
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"Mom, you're back. There's wild vegetable noodle dumpling soup in the pot. It's been kept warm. I'll go get it out." Huo Bing heard the sound and hurried out to say.
Shen Qing responded and slowly put down the backpack on his back.
Needless to say, a backpack full of leather is really heavy! It even left two marks on my shoulders.
But now was not the time to be pretentious, so she first found two wooden basins and sorted the leather materials.
Jiang Xiangnan also put down a large bucket. He first carefully took out the sesame oil and rapeseed oil and placed them on the dirt ground in the yard. Then he took out the pork fat and pork bones piled under the pork in another bucket.
Pork fat is expensive, so we can’t let the villagers see it.
Pork bones and pork fat are easy to wash. Just rinse them twice with well water. The pig's head, especially the ears and nose, must be carefully cut open and cleaned.
Huo Bing brought out two bowls of dumpling soup and was stunned to see what had been cleaned up.
Shen Qing made a gesture to keep quiet, and Huo Bing quickly nodded to show that he understood.
The houses in Qili Village are clustered together next to each other. The advantage of living in a group is that people can help each other in times of danger, but the disadvantage is also obvious, that is, there is no privacy at all.
In the past, the Jiang family was poor, and their two meals a day were either porridge or porridge with pancakes. There was no oil or water, so naturally there was not much smell. However, the smell of meat dishes cooked at home was difficult to cover up.
Shen Qing lowered his voice and said, "When we passed by the village entrance just now, many people saw the pig's head. There is no need to hide it today. We will talk about it later."
You can't stop eating meat just because you're afraid of what others say. Besides, there's no famine now, and we're not on the road to escape. Even if someone is jealous and greedy, they can just go to the city and cut a piece of meat to satisfy their craving. There's no need to rob.
After all, their family is the poorest in the village, and other families can certainly afford to have a meal of meat.
However, when I move to a new place in the future, I will definitely choose a remote location so that I can fry, stir-fry, and cook without worrying about the aroma of meat wafting away.
Jiang Xiangnan immediately took the wild vegetable noodle soup and rushed it into his mouth. After hearing this, he hurriedly said, "Sister-in-law, I'll wash it later. After I wash it, you can tell me how to cook it."
My mother said that my eldest sister-in-law is still in confinement after giving birth. She is willing to cook, but she absolutely cannot do laundry or dishes that involve cold water.
However, he had not originally planned to let his sister-in-law wash. He would be lazy and cunning in other things, but never when it came to food. Besides, since everyone in the family didn't work, he would be happy to work.
"Okay." Huo Bing agreed without hesitation, then looked at his mother-in-law and asked nervously, "Mom, how do we make this pig's head?"
After all, it's meat. If it doesn't taste good, it would be a waste. Not to mention that her brother-in-law and sister-in-law would blame her, she herself would also be in trouble.
Shen Qing does have many ways of cooking, the most common of which is braising, but many of the ingredients in the braising sauce are not cheap, even seasonings such as soy sauce and sugar are expensive. Nowadays, it is good to have meat to eat, and with the current economic situation, you can't be too particular about other things.
She thought for a moment and said, “Blanch the water first, add more ginger and garlic and stew them together. When they are cooked thoroughly, make a soup with the broth and the gray vegetables;
Thinly sliced pig ears and blanched water spinach salad;
Stir-fry half of the boneless meat with wild garlic and season with chili peppers;
Save half for tomorrow's lunch, and use the pig bones to make soup, and eat the pig snout and pig tongue for tomorrow's dinner."
It's cold now, so it's no problem to keep the meat for three or four days.
A pig's head can produce three or four pounds of meat. According to the appetite of the family, they can eat all of it in one meal, and it may not even be enough. However, everyone hasn't eaten meat for a long time, and they are afraid that eating too much at once will make their stomachs uncomfortable.
Secondly, if you eat too much, your body may not be able to absorb it. Now you have to eat slowly and steadily to allow your body to absorb as much nutrition as possible and store energy for escape.
Huo Bing's eyes widened when he heard this: "Mom, are we going to eat this big pig's head in two days?"
When Jiang Xiangnan heard his mother say that the meal could be finished in two days, he was so happy that he was full of energy!
Mom is so willing to do this!
Huo Bing still felt that it was too extravagant to finish it in two days, so he advised: "Mom, it's not good to keep the meat after removing the bones, but the pig ears and pig tongue can be pickled and dried. When you want to eat them in the future, cut a few slices and eat them with stir-fried dishes. The dishes are delicious with the taste of meat.
The pig's snout can be smoked and stored for half a year or a year without any problem;
I'll stew the bones early tomorrow morning so I can drink broth all day long."
Jiang Xiangnan intellectually felt that his sister-in-law was right, but emotionally he couldn't accept it. He wanted to eat meat, and he wanted to eat several pieces of meat in a row!
If he did as his sister-in-law said, and cut a few slices for cooking in the future, he would only be able to get one slice at most. However, his sister-in-law was also doing it for the good of the family, because in the past, the person least likely to get these slices of meat was his sister-in-law.
Shen Qing was also shocked.
What she thinks is little is a lot to the rest of the family...
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