The next morning, the Xu family began to make Spring Festival food.

Today is January 29, and tomorrow is January 30, which is the Chinese New Year's Eve.

The six members of the Xu family, including Sophia and Aunt Wu, all went into battle to make food.

There are not many types of food to make, there are fish balls, waving balls, and bone broth, but the production process is more cumbersome.

For example, in the production of fish balls, it is necessary to constantly beat the fish meat with a blunt knife to make it erosive, and then knead it into small balls, put them in boiling water, take them out to dry after they are formed, and finally freeze them.

The method of making waving balls is similar to that of fish balls, and the large bone broth is relatively simple, putting the best beef bones and prepared condiments into a large pot, boiling for nearly 30 hours, and you can drink the soup on Chinese New Year's Eve.

The Xu family makes these foods every year, and Xu Qing is already familiar with the road, which is nothing more than tired.

In the past, Xu Qing wanted to let the bodyguards do the places that needed strength in the food making process, but his grandfather stopped Xu Qing's behavior.

Only by saying that you can feel the preciousness of the food and truly taste the taste of the food, and you can make food together as a family to enhance your relationship.

Well, Xu Qing felt that what Grandpa said made sense.

Sophia was making Spring Festival food by herself for the first time, everything was curious, she followed Xu Qing's example and beat the fish with a blunt knife, it was fun at first, and then she was tired.

A two-pound piece of fish meat needs to be beaten at least 3,000 times to achieve the best taste.

In fact, there are machines that can make fish meat, which is fast, simple and convenient, but the taste of fish balls made by machines is not as good as that of handwork, which is not an illusion, but a real feeling.

Maybe people with insensitive taste buds can't feel it, but people like Xu Qing, who have eaten countless delicacies from the mountains and seas, only need to taste one bite to know the difference.

Therefore, the Xu family's fish balls and waving balls are all handmade.

Sophia rubbed her fingers, wrists, and arms after beating a two-pound piece of fish.

It seems like a simple thrashing, but it requires the use of fingers, wrists, and arms.

The fingers should hold the blunt knife, not too tight, not too loose, and the wrists and arms are the source of strength.

"Sophia, you don't have to beat the fish, just be responsible for kneading the fish dumplings. Xu Qing said with a smile.

Sophia pouted, pinching the fish gnocchi was the easiest and most relaxing, and she didn't want to do these things.

Xu Qing looked at the stubborn Sophia, and said helplessly: "Then you can pick the fish bones." ”

Because the fish used to make the fish balls is a river fish, which is more spiny, the fish bones need to be picked out during the production process.

It doesn't take much effort to pick the bones, but it requires patience and eyesight, and it's not an easy job.

Sure enough, Sophia was happy, she knew what kind of work it was to pick fish bones, and happily accepted Xu Qing's arrangement.

Throughout the morning, the villa kept ringing sounds, and when it was time to eat lunch, Xu Qing, grandfather, and father beat a total of more than 20 catties of fish.

After lunch, Xu Qing and the three of them kneaded the more than 20 catties of fish into balls and put them in boiling water, and the fish balls were quickly fixed and cooked in boiling water, and then fished out and put on the basket to dry the water.

After making the fish balls, they began to make the waving balls, and from the afternoon to 9 o'clock in the evening, Xu Qing and the three of them finally made the waving balls, and they hurriedly ate some dinner during the period.

At the end of the day's food making, Xu Qing lay on the bed in a large shape after taking a shower, tired.

Sophia is better, but also tired, today she not only picks fish bones, but also makes big bone broth with grandma and mother.

By the way, the bone broth is made with firewood, and the bone broth made in this way is better than the one made with coal and natural gas.

Because firewood is used, it is necessary to have someone add firewood to the fire from time to time.

In the evenings, servants keep the fire running.

Open your eyes and wake up, it's a new day, today is the Chinese New Year's Eve, that is, Chinese New Year's Eve.

The Xu family will continue to make food, this time it is tofu, and the raw material is soybeans from Kani Farm, which has been soaked in advance.

Put the soybeans in the machine and crush them to get out the white and yellow okara, then dilute them proportionally with boiling water, then put them in a net pocket and squeeze out the okara juice vigorously.

Until you can't squeeze it out, you pour the okara from the net pocket aside, put the okara juice you just squeezed out into a pot and boil, and then start ordering tofu with white vinegar and other things.

Then it comes out is the tofu brain, grandma beckoned people who want to eat tofu brain to eat, the condiments are sugar, salt, chili, each choose.

Xu Qing and Sophia packed a big bowl of tofu brain, both of them liked sweet, and added some sugar.

The rest of the Xu family, except for my mother, likes sweet tofu brain, and my mother likes salty.

Now there is no sweet party, salty party, everyone can eat whatever flavor they want.

Someone else put peppers, it's Carlyle.

He didn't like spicy food before, but later Xu Qing took him to a Sichuan restaurant to eat it, and he conquered his taste buds, and he liked spicy food ever since.

After eating the tofu brain, put the rest in a cube-shaped container, wrap it around with a cloth, and press it with two stones.

After more than 20 minutes, the stone was removed and the tofu was ready.

Cut the tofu into small cubes with a knife, serve the prepared filling, and start making the stuffed tofu.

Brewing tofu requires a certain amount of skill, and after so many years, Xu Qing still hasn't learned to brew tofu, and he will always break the tofu from time to time.

Xu Qing has given up making stuffed tofu, but Sophia wants to learn it, and her grandmother teaches her by hand.

Well, Sophia apparently underestimated the difficulty of brewing tofu, and after breaking 7 pieces of tofu, she retreated.

had to retreat, a total of hundreds of pieces of tofu, with Sophia's destructive ability, there may only be a few dozen pieces left to learn to make tofu.

Grandma didn't mind that all the hundreds of pieces of tofu were broken by Sophia, she asked Sophia to continue studying, Sophia thought for a while, nodded and continued to study.

Grandma's teaching level is very high, and Sophia's comprehension ability is also very strong, after breaking 12 pieces of tofu, Sophia can finally make a piece of stuffed tofu completely.

You have to ask why Xu Qing knows so well about the amount of broken tofu that Sophia has, because Xu Qing watched the whole process and was in a panic.

The ingredients made this morning are stuffed tofu and stuffed yellow rice dumplings, both of which Xu Qing can't know, and they are completely completed by grandma, mom, and Sophia.

Sophia made a total of 17 pieces of stuffed tofu, and she marked them all, thinking that she would be able to eat them tonight.

Xu Qing looked at Sophia's finished product and felt that it was not bad, at least better than his.

In the afternoon, Xu Qing and his grandfather, father and a group of bodyguards pasted Spring Festival couplets on various buildings on the farm, which was a patient job.

In particular, the couplets on both sides of the door should be neatly attached to the ground, and the couplets are fragile paper, so you need to be careful not to break them.

The farm has a total of 9 gates, and more than 60 rooms need to be pasted with Spring Festival couplets.

Fortunately, there are a lot of people, Xu Qing and grandpa, dad posted the most difficult Spring Festival couplets, and the bodyguards posted relatively simple Spring Festival couplets.

At 4 p.m., it's all done.

Start preparing the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner.