"Hey, it's hot, it's hot! Little brother, you're so good, it's so delicious. Pen ~ Fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info" There is a stainless steel basin on the stove in the class, and inside is the boiling soup, and the water vapor rises, filling the room with the fragrance.

Ma Xiaodong and Yang Hailong sat around the stove, threw slices of mutton into the soup, blanched them, dipped them in some bean curd juice, and threw them into their mouths. The mutton killed by home, fed naturally, although it is not as good as those excellent fat sheep, but it is also delicious, the meat is tender, and the two people who eat it are full of fragrant mouths, and they can't stop.

This simple homemade hot pot, of course, was made by Ma Xiaodong, in fact, at this time, they have not yet eaten hot pot, and the general countryside may not have seen the novel way of eating hot pot. It wasn't until a few years later that hot pot became popular here and became a favorite on the dinner table in winter.

Yang Hailong ate it like this for the first time, and it felt delicious, originally these things Ma Xiaodong prepared for the little girl to celebrate the end of the exam, but I didn't expect the little girl to be embarrassed to have lunch with Ma Xiaodong in front of the whole class, and it turned out to be cheaper for this kid.

Seeing his cousin's unpromising appearance, Ma Xiaodong couldn't help but glance at him, "You slow down, don't overturn the pot." But obviously, Yang Hailong didn't listen to his words at all, and the speed of the chopsticks increased instead of decreasing.

Ma Xiaodong brought the mutton slices, but he wasted a lot of time last night to cut them out, if it weren't for the little girl, with his lazy character, how could he spend this effort.

The two of them ate refreshed, and the other students in the class looked at the brothers sitting next to the stove eating hot pot, and then smelled the fragrance of the room, and secretly swallowed saliva with envy, looking at the lunch box in their hands, the meals they were used to, how could they feel so unpalatable at this moment.

The classmates in the class are greedy, and Ma Xiaodong can't help it, just order mutton in total, he and Yang Hailong, a foodie, may not be enough, and there is no way to invite everyone to share it. In half a year, they will graduate, and everyone will definitely get together for a meal, and invite them to the biggest restaurant in town and have a big meal.

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In the first semester of Ma Xiaodong's rebirth, it was such a hot pot, the day of exams ended, and after school in the afternoon, he and his cousin walked home. Now the snow on the road has been stepped on smoothly and hard, as if it were a layer of ice, so the two-wheeled vehicle is no longer suitable for use.

When I returned home, as soon as I opened the door, suddenly the room was full of water vapor. "Mom, what are you doing? Why is there so much water vapor?" Looking at the situation at home as if it were in a fairyland, Ma Xiaodong asked his mother who was burning the fire suspiciously.

Yang Guizhi glanced up at his son who came back from school, and said casually: "What about Yang Douzi, why did you come back? Liu Wei and they have been back for a long time, and you and Xiaolong are fighting wolves in the back every day." ”

Of course, Ma Xiaodong couldn't say that he and the little girl were entangled in the classroom, so he could only talk nonsense casually, "Oh, clean up, what are you doing with the beans?"

"What do you say? Make sauce cubes. ”

As soon as my mother said the word sauce, Ma Xiaodong suddenly remembered that it was to make sauce. If you want to talk about Northeast people, there are two foods that are absolutely inseparable, one is sauerkraut in winter, and the other is miso in summer. These two things are indispensable on the rural dining table of Northeast people.

It is actually very troublesome to make a large sauce, first of all, you must pick out the soybeans, and there can be no stinky beans or rotten, shriveled and unripe beans. The selected beans, washed with water, and then put in a large pot to cook, this is a very time-consuming work, usually it takes a small day, to say the least, it takes three or four hours.

Until the beans are boiled soft and discolored, a touch of the degree of crushing is not finished, the finished beans, need to be mashed with a 'sauce pestle', this is a hard work, a large pot of soybeans are all crushed, it is not easy to see, even people with good physical strength will be tired and sweaty.

The mashed soybeans are broken into rectangular cubes about 30 cm long, 15 cm wide and about 15 cm high. This is the so-called 'sauce block', the detached 'sauce block' should be tight, and then wrapped in clean white paper, must be wrapped tightly, otherwise there will be insects, of course, the insects are fine, and it does not delay the use.

The wrapped sauce cubes should be placed in a cool and dry place, and let it dry slowly over time, until a winter passes, in the spring lunar calendar in April, which is the month of the sauce, and the day of the sauce is regular, absolutely not casual, generally choose in the days of 8, 18, and 28.

When the sauce is served, open the sauce blocks that have been dried for half a year, some of them will grow hairy, or insects, it doesn't matter, just wash them with water, use a small clay jar, according to the number of their own sauce pieces, add a certain amount of water and salt, the ratio is about 3 water, and the salt and sauce pieces are 1.

Once set, stir it, cover it with a clean cloth and place it in direct sunlight to allow it to ferment naturally. After a few days, open it, use a sauce rake to pound it up and down, and continue to cover it, so that in about a month of going back and forth, the miso is ready to eat.

But during the period, you must pay attention not to let the rain in, otherwise there will be maggots in the sauce jar, of course, the maggots are fine, the sauce can still be eaten, and it does not delay eating, and there is no harm to the human body. Bai Yang compared the Chinese to maggots in the sauce jar, saying that the Chinese will only climb in such a small world as the sauce jar, and they will arch each other randomly.

There is a saying in the Northeast scolding, "The maggots in the sauce jar don't respond to people." "Actually, most of the sauce jars have maggots, so you don't need to worry about it at all. (If I reveal this secret, will it hurt the sales of miso in the market?) ）

The fermentation of the sauce vat is long-lasting, and this time is almost a year or so, until the miso is eaten clean. There are many ways to eat miso, and it is generally eaten directly, such as shallots, coriander, green peppers, cucumbers, cabbage, and radish...... And many other vegetables can be dipped in sauces.

Ma Xiaodong didn't have any preference for the miso, it was okay to have it, it was okay not to have it, and when he saw his mother making the miso, he probably didn't need to help himself, so he took out his clothes and rummaged through them to see if there was anything suitable for going on a date in the street tomorrow.

Usually at home or at school, you can be casual, but if you go to the town, you can wear this body again, it's really a little embarrassing, but after rummaging for a long time, I didn't find a decent dress.