After washing up, Kang Mingyuan returned to the bedroom and saw that she was already asleep. He took off his coat, shoes and socks, gently lay down beside her, held her in his arms and closed his eyes.
After waking up from a nap, Qiao Mo and Kang Mingyuan began to prepare dinner: this was the day they had invited the Kang brothers and sisters to come over to play, so they had to treat them to dinner.
"Brother Yuan, I still have some mutton here. How about making a mutton hotpot?" Qiao Mo suggested, thinking that there was still a lot of mutton in the space.
"Well, now is the time to eat hot pot, so let's make some." Kang Mingyuan nodded.
The two of them ordered a menu based on the ingredients available in this season: in addition to mutton hotpot, they also planned to make stir-fried winter bamboo shoots with bacon, pickled fish, braised prawns in oil, and three-cup chicken. Since they had hotpot, they did not need to stir-fry other vegetables. The staple food would be rice and corn buns, the snacks would be four-happiness dumplings and pumpkin cakes, and the fruits after the meal would be oranges and grapefruits.
After the menu was decided, Qiao Mo took out the necessary ingredients from the storage bag (actually from the space) and gave them to Kang Mingyuan to prepare, while she went to the backyard to pick vegetables.
Donghai is located in the eastern region and belongs to the temperate zone. There are many vegetables even in winter. In order to make it easier to eat vegetables, Qiao Mo has all the vegetables in the backyard. She pulled out a big radish and used a small shovel to scoop some Chinese cabbage, coriander, spinach, green onions, etc. to go with the hot pot.
Thinking that there were no vegetables growing at the old house, she took out a knife and chopped a few cabbages, a dozen lettuces, a handful of celery and garlic sprouts, picked a handful of winter vegetables, pulled out a few big radishes, and shoveled a handful of cilantro that the old man liked and spinach that the old lady liked. She tied them up with straw, put them all in a sack, and put it on the corridor at the door.
When she returned to the kitchen, Kang Mingyuan had already washed the mutton and chopped it into large pieces, and was washing the bacon. She put the large pieces of mutton into a casserole, added ginger, cinnamon, star anise and other spices and an appropriate amount of water, put it on the fire, first boiled it over high heat, and then simmered it over low heat.
Taking advantage of this break, she peeled two large winter bamboo shoots, washed them and cut them into thin slices. She also washed a large radish, cut it into thick slices about a finger thick, and placed them in a bowl for later use.
Thinking of making hot pot, she took out a few wild boar leg bones from the space, washed them, and asked Kang Mingyuan to cut them into pieces. She put them in the pot and blanched them, then took them out and drained the water. She took some dried mushrooms and sweet potato vermicelli from the storage room and soaked them in hot water respectively.
At this time, Kang Mingyuan's hands and feet were numb. He washed the chicken and chopped it into pieces, cut the bacon into slices, killed the fish and chopped it into pieces, and his hands were still quickly picking out the shrimp thread and peeling the shrimp shells.
Qiao Mo peeled garlic, washed ginger, onions and vegetables.
"Momo, you take a rest first. I'll wash the vegetables later." Kang Mingyuan stopped her quickly when he saw that she was about to wash the vegetables.
"I'll pick the vegetables first, and then you can wash them after you finish with the shrimp."
"No, these vegetables were just shoveled back from the snow and are very cold. Be good, it's still early, I'll cook them later."
"If you don't let me do such a small thing, you will ruin me." Qiao Mo had no choice but to put down the work in his hands and talk to him in the kitchen.
When the mutton was stewed to 70% done, she removed the firewood from the stove, fished out the mutton, removed the bones, cut into pieces and placed in a bowl for later use. She also put the previously blanched pork shanks into the casserole, added ginger slices, cooking wine and water, brought to a boil over high heat, and then simmered over low heat.
The dishes were washed and prepared, and the guests arrived. At three o'clock in the afternoon, the Kang brothers arrived on time with their wives and sons.
"Brother, sister-in-law, sister, brother-in-law, please come in."
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