Chapter 237: Hanging Pot Banquet
They want to open a rattan weaving company, and it's no problem for Zhou Heng to make some rattan weaving, anyway, aren't they doing it now.
And just like Jiang Xiaoxuan said, if someone really buys it, with a batch order, it is not difficult to find someone in the village to do it.
They may have an older concept and the aesthetic is stuck in the style of a few decades ago, but if there is a new style, as long as the technique remains the same, they will do it.
If there is such a deal, then there is money. Anyone who has money is willing to do it.
Not to mention, using the drive of the market, maybe it can really make the rattan weaving technology in this area famous.
The premise is that someone really buys it.
Jiang Xiaoxuan opened some business stations, showed them to Zhou Heng, and said: "Boss Zhou, your thinking is too outdated, you don't know how popular this kind of rattan and straw products are now." The most important thing is actually operation. ”
This is what makes her angry, today's rattan products, the most expensive ones, are products from other countries, and the sales are quite good, and the products in their own country have reached the point where no one cares.
So, she was really speechless about this reality and decided to do something to break it.
Zhou Heng thought, maybe this is what makes her different.
She thinks about things, but she is different from others.
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The sun was in the west, Zhang Yunxi and Wang Caijun drove the sheep back, the two of them did not understand the language very well, and there were talking and laughing.
Zhou Heng also finished work, the bamboo pavilion is half completed, and he will work slowly tomorrow.
He made a hanging pot rack and planned to eat something different tonight.
There are also some ways to eat hanging pots occasionally in the restaurant outside, but that is too gentle, not authentic at all, just put a pot of charcoal on the table, hang a small pot on it, and burn it slowly.
It's too gentle, and it can't reach the artistic conception at all.
This way of eating is to be rougher, eat meat in large pieces, and drink a lot of wine to be refreshing.
His bamboo pavilion is not in a hurry - Hu Jinhua is in a hurry to do the cornice carving every day, very slowly, and he has to wait when it is done, so it is better to simply slow down and do something else.
The hanging pot shelf is very simple, find a few long dead woods, and set up a shelf, with an iron chain hanging down on it, and you have to hang a pot for a while.
Below the ground, he made a circle of stones, and filled the middle with firewood, ready to light it.
Zhang Dewang brought a pot and a bucket containing some dishes that would be used later.
Zhou Heng saw him coming alone, so he said, "Big brother, didn't you ask your sister-in-law to come with the children?"
"She doesn't come, she's at home waiting for the kids to get out of school. Zhang Dewang said with a smile.
After the Lantern Festival, the children have to go back to school, and it is not yet out of school.
He heard that Zhou Heng wanted to eat hanging pot dishes, so he said that there were just some dishes at home, and he could make up some points by taking them. The bucket contains washed vegetables, as well as some things like acorn tofu, lazy tofu, winter bamboo shoots, goldenrod, and so on.
These are very traditional practices.
After Zhou Heng stacked the simple stove, he was ready to cut the meat. The old lady brought him all the beef and mutton that were not used up during the New Year, as well as a whole pickled goose, a few sausages, and more bacon, several, one with a few catties.
It's like he's going to be here for a year.
He cut some of each of these, stir-fried them in a pot until fragrant, added ingredients, and stacked them into the hanging pot.
A layer of vegetables has been laid under the hanging pot, such as general vegetables, bracken, stone fungus, green radish, dried golden needle vegetables, winter bamboo shoots, dried mushrooms, etc., which can increase the flavor of the bottom of the pot and prevent pasting in the pot, and it is also delicious to eat after absorbing oil.
These dishes were just brought by Zhang Dewang, and it was the Chinese New Year, and there would be them at home, with a lot of tricks.
Jiang Xiaoxuan saw that his hanging pot was still formal, and she was a little impressed, so she came over to watch what he did on the side.
Zhou Heng pointed to a kind of dried vegetable in the pot and said, "This dish is called a general's dish, do you know why?"
"General dish, isn't this just dried vegetables?" Jiang Xiaoxuan picked one from the pot, looked at it closely, and recognized that it should be some kind of green vegetable that was scalded in water and dried.
Zhou Heng said: "This dish has a origin! In the past, when there was a war, there was no food or drink in the mountainous areas, but later when the Red Army came, the villagers had nothing to entertain, so they brought these dried wild vegetables to entertain them. Later, the Red Army won the victory and went back to become generals, and they still remembered these life-saving wild vegetables, so everyone here called this dish 'general's dish'. ”
"Really?" Jiang Xiaoxuan had really never heard of this before, and listened very carefully.
In fact, this is a wild vegetable, called bitter leaf vegetable, and it is indeed a life-saving dish when there are no years to eat and drink. It's just that now that life is better, many people don't see this kind of thing on their dinner tables.
But as people's pursuit has become more basic, many wild vegetables have been put on the table again, and some people have begun to grow them, and they are not cheap.
This kind of bitter herb, when it is fresh, can be blanched and eaten cold, and can also be dried and stored after eating, and there are dried vegetables to eat all year round, which has a unique flavor.
Its practical use of this wild vegetable to make dried vegetables and meat, it is also very fragrant.
Jiang Xiaoxuan looked at the yellow-brown fresh tofu at the bottom of the pot and asked, "Do I remember that the konjac tofu you have here is not autumn?
She really doesn't know every type of small ingredient in a small place.
Zhou Heng said: "This is acorn tofu, not konjac tofu." The colors are not the same. ”
Zhang Dewang also explained with a smile: "Yes, we have fallen from the wild trees here, and when we have nothing to do, we pick them up and make tofu to eat." ”
Leaning on the mountain to eat the mountain.
Zhou Heng said: "This is very good, what kind of nutrition does it contain, it can improve intelligence." Some people have started to plant and sell. ”
Zhang Dewang smiled: "Yes, yes, everything is about nutritional effects now, in fact, I said, as long as you eat it in your stomach, it is nutritious." In the past, you could survive eating wild grass bark, and there must be nutrients as well. ”
Zhou Heng put the fried meat dishes in the pot, filled a large pot, covered the pot, and then lit the fire.
A bunch of people added firewood to the ri.
Wang Caijun, who had just helped take care of the sheepfold, also washed his hands and walked over to help add firewood. This is the first time he has seen such a way of eating.
It's completely different from watching it in the video.
In the video, cooking a meal in the wild, that is, two or three minutes, from washing the vegetables to cutting to finishing the meal, it is just a while, but this is a long time to wait slowly.
After a while, the fragrance wafts out, making people salivate.
But this is only the aroma of meat and vegetables, and it is still far from cooking.
Hu Jinhua was concentrating on carving his works from a distance, but when he smelled the fragrance, he came over and asked, "Can you eat it?"
Several people laughed.
Hu Jinhua also simply rested for a while, sat by the hanging pot to roast the fire, and smelled the meat.
The aroma of several kinds of meat has been cooked, and the smell is really mouth-watering.
Zhou Heng said: "This hanging pot dish, there is a place that has applied for intangible cultural heritage, and a few years ago, a 5,000-person hanging pot banquet was held, and a Guinness record was made. Now these things, everyone else pays attention to them. ”
A few people haven't paid attention to this, it feels very fresh, and a dish can also be applied for intangible cultural heritage?
Thinking about the hanging pot banquet of thousands of people, it should be a big scene, but this Guinness record should be of little practical use, right?
Jiang Xiaoxuan disagreed with his opinion: "It's not just fun, it's also famous." Do you think, whoever mentions this banquet in the future, people will recommend it first, won't the fame come out?"
Otherwise, why would they still apply for the World Heritage Site?
Zhou Heng smiled: "Why don't we have rattan weaving here, and we also apply for an intangible cultural heritage to try?"
"I think you can, as long as it is distinctive and has protection value, you can apply for this. Jiang Xiaoxuan said very seriously.
The rest of the crowd chimed in.
It seems that she has really injected feelings into the rattan weaving here.
The fire under the hanging pot is burning, the gusts of wind blow the flames crookedly, the pot is gurgling, and the aroma of meat bursts out from the lid of the pot, making it difficult to calm down.
Finally, just as they were looking to see through, the meat in the pot began to cook.
Zhou Heng lifted the lid and said, "You can start eating, come, taste, and see what else to add?"
It's his chef today, and it's still quite a bit of a sense of accomplishment.
As the fragrance spread, even he didn't know how much saliva he had swallowed.
Zhang Dewang brought a wine jug over and said, "Come on, I'll pour it for you, or will you pour it yourself?" ”
He still poured a big cup for Zhou Heng first.
Hu Jinhua also poured a glass, and Wang Caijun asked, "Is this wine high?"
"Not high, not high. Zhang Dewang said seriously.
As soon as he heard it, Wang Caijun also poured a glass.
The hot meat in the pot, eaten with chopsticks, is fat but not greasy, mixed with the fragrance of the rest of the dishes, and the taste is full. With another sip of wine, it is refreshing.
Wang Caijun said: "This wine tastes good, I haven't drunk it before." ”
Since the beginning of this year, he has been living in the sheep farm, neither celebrating the New Year at Zhou Heng's house nor at Zhang Dewang's house, what he wants is to be quiet.
This kind of only him and these sheep are left in the world, which is very in line with his mood during this time, and he thinks it is not bad.
If you like to be lively, you won't choose to come out to relax during the New Year, isn't it good to spend the New Year at home?
Seeing that he spent the New Year here, accompanied by sheep during the day, and kept vigil here with Zhang Dewang at night, he looked very lonely, so Zhang Dewang would often bring him some New Year's dishes to eat and improve his food.
I ate with me, but I didn't bring wine, so this is the first time I've tasted such sake.
Zhang Dewang watched him gulp and laugh, feeling that he might be drunk.
Zhou Hengmei took a big bite of meat, his mouth was oily, he picked up the wine glass, and said, "Come, let's drink one, thank you for this time." ”
During the Chinese New Year, the sheep farm cannot be taken care of, and there are always people here to take care of it, and he should invite people to eat a meal of meat.
A few people just put down the cup, quickly picked it up again, touched one, and then took another big sip.
The fire under the hanging pot is still burning, the soup in the pot is still gurgling, the aroma is overflowing, and everyone is happy to eat.
Jiang Xiaoxuan and Li Li, two people who don't drink, you give me some food, I'll give you some food, and I will find vegetables under the meat to eat.