Chapter 78077. Poor Zhou Yi was played by applause
They went there early, and there weren't many people buying meat at the pork shop yet. Zhou Yi picked out the most beautiful piece of pork belly.
Because it was going to be cooked for grandparents, a lot of oil was needed to make the braised pork look beautiful, so Lei Li bought a large piece of fat to fry lard, which could be used by grandpa's family for a long time after frying the braised pork.
Remembering Sister Huaer's coquettishness, Lei Li bought a large bag of malt sugar and two bags of pastries, which were mung bean and water chestnut cakes and red bean and brown sugar pies. Sister Huaer liked red beans, and Xiao Liumu liked mung beans and water chestnuts.
I also bought some cotton cloth.
It is now mid-October, and winter will come in more than a month. My grandpa's family should buy some cloth to make clothes, so Lei Li bought some.
There are also two sets of head flowers.
Sister Huaer is a little girl who loves beauty. There are no flowers on her braids, so she should like this gift.
Lei Li brought a small puppet for Xiao Liumu. Xiao Liumu liked this kind of woodworking toy. Lei Li's uncle also said that when Xiao Liumu grows up a little, he will send him to Lei Li's house to learn carpentry from Lei Dashan.
Lei Dashan liked his carpentry and had spent a lot of effort learning from his master, but Lei Li went to learn herbal medicine -
At that time, Lei Li wanted to learn so that he could treat his father's illness, but Lei Dashan thought that being a doctor was better than being a carpenter, so he didn't teach him. Later, when he saw that Li Ge'er was doing herbal medicine business and could butcher pigs, and being a carpenter would be too tiring, he gave up the idea.
It's fine now.
My nephew wants to learn, and Lei Dashan has a disciple who can inherit his skills. Xiao Liumu will also be able to have a skill to make money to support his family in the future.
"I'm just too shy."
Uncle Lei Li patted Xiao Liumu's head and said, "You don't talk much at home. You don't even know how to talk to people and do business when you grow up..."
"As a carpenter, the less you talk, the more meticulous your work will be."
Lei Dashan shook his head, put a piece of water chestnut cake in Xiao Liumu's hand, and smiled a little, "It's sweet. If you want to eat it, take it yourself."
"Thank you, Grandpa."
Xiao Liumu whispered shyly, took a small bite of the mung bean and water chestnut cake, and her black eyes suddenly lit up. She glanced at the water chestnut cake in the paper bag and hesitated.
"Take some and give it to Daddy."
Lei Li saw what Xiao Liumu was thinking and put a bag of mung bean cakes in his hand.
"Thank you, cousin."
Xiao Liumu gave a small smile, and ran to the inner room with the pastry package in her arms, her steps brisk.
Sister Huaer was not in the main room eating cakes with others.
The little girl got a new hair ornament and ran to the kitchen early. She happily fiddled with the beautiful hair ornament on her braid in the reflection of the water tank, sometimes tying it red and sometimes changing it to pink.
The more I looked at it, the more I liked it. I couldn't help but go out and show it off to my friends. I told my family, "I'm going out to play! I'll be back after dinner!"
She ran out of the door quickly, and her two pigtails with flowers on them bounced up and down like peach branches swaying in the wind.
"Sister Hua'er is so lively."
Liu Yeer looked at the clever and mischievous Sister Huaer and couldn't help laughing and said, "I want to have a pretty and lively little girl like this and braid her hair every day."
"Isn't this simple?"
Uncle Lei Li smiled and said, "Tell Li Ge'er and Zhou Yi to hurry up and have two or three children. If you have a little boy or girl, they can wear braids."
"I'm afraid that by then, you, an old lady, will find it unbearable. Sister Huaer was very noisy when she was little. She would laugh when she saw people and cry when she didn't see them. Haha..."
"It's still early."
Lei Li's grandmother said cheerfully, "Brother Li and Zhou Yi have only been married for a short time. Shouldn't they have a baby after some time to warm up a little?"
"Too."
Uncle Lei Li laughed heartily. "Everything will be much harder once we have a baby. If we had two at once, like his cousin and his wife, life would be even more lively!"
"It's better to have some fun."
Lei Li said without any worry, "Let Zhou Yi take care of them all. If there's any trouble, it's him."
"You're always so overbearing. Every man of your generation in the village was beaten by you when they were young..."
Uncle Lei Li laughed for a while and said, "You have to coax your husband too. He earns money, cooks, and takes care of the children. If you don't coax him, something will happen sooner or later."
"Yes."
Liu Ye'er also said, "Be nice to Zhou Yi. Don't always order him around when you can do things yourself..."
"I know."
Lei Li knew they were thinking about him, so he nodded and curled his lips, "I just want to be nice to him, but I'm afraid that my kindness to him will scare him."
Zhou Yi was used to being ordered around by Lei Li. Normally, he was either being defrauded of his salary or being teased... or toyed with, especially in bed.
Lei Li was suddenly gentle and considerate, and Zhou Yi was more likely to be frightened than happy.
Zhou Yi would suspect that Lei Li was possessed by a ghost, and it was most likely not a sex ghost, because Lei Li was the Lustful Emperor, and no ghost could be more lustful than him...
Grandpa Lei Li was not chatting and eating snacks in the main room. He couldn't sit idle at home. Knowing that Zhou Yi was going to cook, he came out to help him with firewood.
Lei Li's cousin Qishu also came to help. He was responsible for blanching the duck and controlling the fire. The duck was slaughtered as soon as Lei Li came back. No one was more skillful at dissecting than him.
Three grown men were enough, so Liu Ye'er, grandma, and uncle were not invited to come. Cooking would only make things messy if too many people were present.
Zhou Yi has already thought about what dish to cook today.
The meat dishes include taro braised pork, boiled duck, and stir-fried duck offal. The vegetarian dishes include stir-fried vegetables and radish belly. There is also a duck and mushroom soup, which is stewed with the less meaty parts of the duck, such as the duck head, duck feet, and duck wings, and a little duck skeleton.
certainly.
What is essential in the soup is the right amount of medicinal materials, which is the key to making the mushroom duck soup more fresh and sweet.
The other dishes are easy to make, but braised pork is more troublesome.
Wash the pork belly with distinct fat and lean parts first, then put it into a pot with cold water, add ginger, green onion and wine, boil it over high heat for 30 minutes, cover it with a lid and simmer for 30 minutes.
When the braised pork is cooked, take it out but do not pour out the remaining soup.
Zhou Yi used bamboo sticks to poke holes in the five meats, washed off the oil on the surface of the pig skin with white vinegar, and then applied salt. The salt was coarse salt because fine salt was expensive and his grandfather's family only bought coarse salt.
When applying salt, keep rubbing it to allow the coarse salt to penetrate into the pig skin. When frying the pork, it will burst and become crispy skin pork. Then use a few bamboo sticks to poke the skin and meat so that it will not stick to the bottom of the pan when frying.
The oil temperature is also important when frying.
Zhou Yi took a look at the oil pan, estimated that it was 70% hot, and then put the pork belly in.
The duck is being blanched, and there just needs to be enough firewood to keep the water boiling. Liu Qishu doesn't need to keep an eye on it all the time, so he comes over to watch Zhou Yi fry the braised pork belly.
A pot of golden and crispy oil residue was hanging on the stove, and the aroma of fat and oil wafted over. For people who didn't eat meat often, it was undoubtedly a great temptation.
Although Qishu was already an adult in his twenties, he couldn't help swallowing his saliva when he smelled the aroma of the oil residue and glanced over there a few times.
Ah Guo also likes to eat oil residue...
Sister Huaer likes it too, but Xiaomu doesn't. He likes taro and vegetables, but he likes fried vegetables with oil residue. Does cousin Yi add oil residue when he stir-fries vegetables?
Qi Shu thought to himself, his eyes fell on the oil pan, watching the two square pieces of pork belly slowly go along the edge of the pan into the oil, the high temperature turned into tiny bubbles and sizzling oil on the skin and meat.
Seeing that he was staring intently, Zhou Yi thought he wanted to learn, so he explained to him, "...you can't put the pork belly in the middle of the oil, because the oil will explode and splash people. Also, cover the lid when frying to prevent the oil from jumping around."
"When I lifted the lid, I found that the braised pork had also been fried out of oil. If there is too much oil in the pan, I scooped out the excess. Too much oil will make the braised pork overcooked and dry."
"Add clean water in two or three batches. This is called exploding the skin. The twisted pork skin will pop out. Then turn it over carefully so as not to startle the oil and splash yourself."
"You have to fry it slowly over low heat for about twenty minutes... or about a quarter of an hour. When the whole pig skin becomes twisted and cracks when you tap it with chopsticks, you can take it out."
Soak the fried braised pork in the previously blanched soup. Boil water over high heat, remove from heat, and soak for one or two hours.
While the braised pork was soaking in water, Zhou Yi chopped the garlic and ginger, and removed the seeds and chopped the lemon.
Because he was going to make braised pork, Zhou Yi brought a few local lemons. He liked sweet and sour braised pork, but he didn't know whether his grandparents would like it, so he planned to make two bowls, one sweet and sour, and one salty.
Zhou Yi said as he did it, "After chopping, add a little sugar, a spoonful of licorice powder, and an appropriate amount of soy sauce to the onion, garlic, and lemon. No salt is needed."
"If you have wine, add a little more wine, stir-fry in the pan until fragrant, then add a little water and mix well, then you can serve."
After the braised pork is soaked, remove the bamboo skewers and slice it into slices, not too thin or too thick, about one centimeter. Then put the washed and sliced taro and the braised pork together, put them in a large bowl and steam them for forty minutes.
One bowl contains local lemons, and the other bowl does not.
There are two stoves in my grandparents' house. While steaming the braised pork, Zhou Yi takes out the blanched duck, cuts it into pieces, separates the part with less meat, and stews it together with the blanching soup, adding appropriate medicinal materials.
I also set up a simple earthen stove and borrowed a pot from my neighbor to stir-fry duck offal and vegetables, adding oil residue to the vegetables.
After a busy meal, it was noon, or twelve o'clock, when the meal started.
When the adults saw the dishes on the table, they were shocked, not to mention Sister Huaer and Xiao Liumu, they had never smelled or seen such fragrant and beautiful dishes.
"Aunt, did you do all this?"
Sister Huaer's eyes were shining, and she looked at Zhou Yi as if she were looking at a great general, full of admiration.
"yes."
Zhou Yi smiled a little, "Try it and see if it tastes good."
"Aunt, uncle, I want to eat duck legs, can I?"
Sister Huaer is a smart girl. She knows that this meal was bought by her uncle and aunt and was also cooked by them. If they agree, her father and grandfather will definitely not stop her from eating it.
"Can."
Lei Li nodded, and then Sister Huaer asked, "Can you give Xiaomu the other duck leg? Xiaomu has never eaten a big duck leg!"
"I, I don't want to eat..."
Xiao Liumu quickly shook his head and whispered, "Give it to Daddy, Grandpa, Great-grandfather, and Great-grandmother..."
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