After saying that, she called Lu Chuan into the kitchen to help start the fire, and the two of them began to prepare dinner.
Take out the beef from the space; Xu Han plans to make boiled beef today.
First, take out the pure beef without any fat, slice it thinly, wash it with water, squeeze out the water, and then start preparing to marinate the beef.
Put the scallions and ginger in a bowl, add a little water, and rub them to extract the juice. This juice will be used later to remove the gamey smell from the beef.
Add pepper, salt, egg white, and cornstarch to the beef, along with a little light soy sauce. Then, gradually add scallions, ginger, and garlic, stirring until the mixture becomes sticky.
This method produces exceptionally tender and juicy beef, without any gamey smell.
After the beef was marinated, Xu Han first prepared the diced chili peppers that would be needed for making boiled beef later.
Put the dried chilies in a pot. The heat shouldn't be too high, or the chilies will burn easily. Roast them over low heat for a while, making sure they develop a fragrant aroma.
Then roast the sesame seeds in a pan; roasted sesame seeds taste even better.
Blanch the pre-washed side dishes. You can add your favorite vegetables to the boiled beef according to your own taste.
Today, Xu Han added celery, tofu skin, enoki mushrooms, and a little bit of lettuce.
After blanching, take them out and put them in a bowl to set aside.
Then, heat oil in a separate pot, add some hot pot base and fermented bean paste and stir-fry until the oil turns red. Then add water and appropriate seasonings and bring to a boil over high heat.
Then scoop out the bits of food inside, so you won't eat any bits of food when you eat it.
Place the marinated beef slices one by one into the pot and cook until the beef changes color. Then quickly remove them and add them to the blanched side dishes.
You should also ladle out the broth from cooking the beef and put it in. The flavor depends entirely on this broth!
Finally, chop the freshly roasted chilies and add them to the boiled beef, along with the roasted sesame seeds. Pour hot oil over it, and the aroma will be released instantly.
Sprinkle some cilantro, and it's ready to eat! Today's staple food is, of course, rice!
They ate in silence, and only started talking after they were both full.
"This boiled beef is so delicious today! It's so satisfying!" Lu Chuan praised while wiping his mouth.
"It's delicious! I'd never thought of making it before!" Xu Han agreed.
After resting for a while, Lu Chuan got up and started clearing away the dishes.
Xu Han then prepared to process the ice jelly fruit she had picked that day.
It's only July, and there aren't many ripe ice jelly fruits yet. Xu Han picked them all day today, and although the harvest was quite good, there probably won't be many left after drying.
Pour the picked ice jelly fruit onto the ground, then take a large winnowing basket, crush the ice jelly fruit, and shake out the ice jelly seeds inside.
The seeds for ice jelly are very small; you can make a lot of ice jelly with just a small bowl!
After washing the dishes, Lu Chuan came to help make the ice jelly. The two baskets of ice jelly yielded about ten pounds of ice jelly seeds.
These aren't enough to eat. Xu Han plans to get more when the ice jelly fruit is ripe in large quantities. These are just for tasting first.
After finishing everything, it was time to rest. The two washed up and went back to their room to rest...
After getting up in the morning, I first took out the ice jelly seeds I made yesterday to dry, then took yesterday's clothes from the room, carried them to the backyard and started washing them.
The two didn't have many clothes, and since they were all summer clothes, they were easier to wash. After hanging the clothes in the front yard to dry, they started washing their shoes.
Lu Chuan runs around in the mountains every day, and he sweats a lot, so his shoes get very dirty. If he doesn't wash them regularly, they'll start to smell.
Taking advantage of the nice weather, Xu Han brought out the winter clothes and quilts that the two of them had worn in winter from the room. They had been stored in the room all summer and were a bit damp.
The blankets the two are currently using are the air-conditioning blankets from Xu Han's space. There is also a thin blanket and a thick blanket in the space.
Xu Han bought a lot of cotton last time and plans to make several more quilts! That way, she can have two quilts to cover herself when it gets colder.
The blankets that Lu Chuan used to use had become black and stiff. Xu Han planned to take out the cotton inside and wash it, so that it could be used as doghouses for Hei Feng, Hei Dian, and the puppy in the winter.
With that in mind, I decided to take action and wash the cotton while the weather was nice.
Otherwise, it will be even busier in the fall, and there will be no time to do these things at all.
They went into Lu's parents' room, took out the old quilt and Lu Chuan's old cotton clothes, put them in the main room, and began to take them apart.
Take all the cotton out of the quilt, pile them together, and don't throw away the lining either, wash it and you can still use it!
After disassembling everything, I took it to the stream and started cleaning. The stream was shady, so I wouldn't be exposed to the sun. It wasn't too hot while washing.
Put the cotton in a large basin, add stream water, but don't add laundry detergent or anything like that, otherwise it will just be foam and won't rinse properly.
Just put it in a basin, add water, and step on it with your feet.
After rinsing repeatedly, the cotton was finally clean. Xu Han placed the entire quilt of cotton on a clean stone, stood on it, and stomped the water out.
When cotton absorbs water, it becomes extremely heavy and impossible to lift.
After stepping on it, she rolled it up and continued stepping on it until almost all the water inside the cotton came out before Xu Han stopped.
I took the quilt home and started airing it out.
In her previous life, Xu Han's hometown did not wash cotton quilt cores. It was said that washing cotton quilt cores would make them less warm.
If the quilt becomes stiff, take it to a cotton-fluffing place and fluff it up again to make it soft again.
However, since there was no cotton carding service here, and the cotton quilt filling was very dirty, Xu Han decided to wash it.
After it dries, try tearing it a bit to see if it becomes softer!
After washing, Xu Han was too tired to move anymore. Washing this was really exhausting; the wet cotton was too heavy to lift.
I'll rest in bed for a while, and then have lunch.
As she lay there, sleepiness came over her, and Xu Han fell asleep without realizing it.
When Xu Han woke up again, it was already past 2 p.m. She was woken up by hunger.
I got up, took out the food from my storage space, ate a quick bite, and didn't want to cook anything more since I was hungry.
After all, it would take a while to prepare it first. It's much more convenient and faster to just eat what's in the space. You can eat it right away without having to take it out!
After finishing the meal, I washed the dishes and went to the backyard to fertilize the vegetables.
First, dig up some earthworm castings. Nowadays, earthworm farming sites are getting bigger and bigger, and chickens eat a lot of earthworms every day, but earthworms also reproduce very quickly.
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