Chapter 106: Making Braised Vegetables
After discussing with the king's shopkeeper, Mu Zhen took the little bun to the city tower.
Uncle Guigen came to the mother and son from afar, hurriedly trotted to Mu Zhen, and said with a smile: "Zhen Niang is not going back to the town, and it is like moving when she comes." As he spoke, he reached out to pick up the basket on Mu Zhen's shoulder.
There is still a short distance from Yipintang to the city gate, Mu Zhen said that there is Uncle Lao Guigen, and gave the basket to the other party, and then replied: "I don't have anything to do on weekdays, I just don't bother to run, and it is more convenient to buy something at one time." ”
Uncle Guigen said as he walked forward: "If you want me to say, those daughters-in-law in our village can be regarded as you can live." You say, how many people are poor in the house, and they can't eat a mouthful of meat all year round, but you think of it, get the pork offal to eat, and if you want me to say, those people are poor and exquisite, and the miscellaneous is also meat, why can't you eat it? ”
Mu Zhen has done Uncle Guigen's car several times, and she also knows that this uncle has a lively temperament, anyway, there is nothing to do on the road, so she chats with Uncle Guigen while looking at the scenery.
This time I went to the town, one was to grab medicine for He Laosan, and the other was to discuss the matter of braised vegetables with the shopkeeper Wang, so I didn't have time to eat.
When the mother and son arrived at Pingyao Village, the sun was on the temple (that is, it means more than twelve o'clock, and the story of this temple will be told to everyone in the future). They are all autumn tigers and autumn tigers, they wear a lot, plus they are hungry, and they think about climbing such a high mountain, Mu Zhen's legs and stomach tremble.
It's not a way to live on this mountain all the time, and it's not good to do anything, so it's convenient to find an opportunity to move down.
"Zhenniang, wait for the old man, I'll send you up."
Xu saw Mu Zhen's frowning appearance, and Uncle Guigen, who was supposed to be rushing home, came up from behind again.
This is completely a charcoal in the snow, Mu Zhen couldn't care about it, and said with a smile: "I really want to thank my uncle today, if it weren't for our mother and son, it is estimated that the sun would have set when I arrived at the house." ”
Uncle Guigen knotted the basket on Mu Zhen's shoulder, waved his hand nonchalantly, and said with a smile: "Hey, look at what you said, it's been two days, and I haven't had anything to do." ”
Mu Zhen knew that the people who did farm work had nothing to do, and they were crawling in the fields all year round, "Uncle didn't grow sugarcane in the field? ”
At this time, there is nothing else in the field except sugar cane, and the wheat is sown into the ground in August, and it is estimated that it will bud at this time.
However, the sugarcane that Mu Zhen is talking about here is not the same as the purple-black coarse sugarcane in her previous life.
This kind of sugarcane looks very much like sorghum, the stalk is relatively thin, generally the thickness of a thumb, and the skin is green.
This cane is also sweet, but not as hard as that coarse cane, and the sugar content is not as high as that of coarse cane.
Therefore, there is a big difference between these two types of sugarcane is that the kind of coarse sugarcane, in addition to being sold as a fruit, is mainly used to make sugar.
And this kind of green-skinned fine sugarcane is mainly used to make wine.
Although Yiqing is very sensible, but after all, he is a child, as soon as he heard the word sugarcane, a pair of big watery eyes narrowed, and he looked at Mu Zhen with a smile and said: "Mother, sugarcane is delicious, very sweet." ”
Mu Zhen looked at Xiao Baozi with a greedy look, and felt a little distressed, although the child said that he has his own care now, but compared with many children in his previous life, life is not so rich.
However, this is not up to you, after all, the materials in this era are still relatively scarce.
In fact, Mu Zhen is a little motherly at this time, but this is generally the case for mothers. And Mu Zhen's, as long as Xiao Baozi's request is reasonable, she will generally try her best to meet it.
At this time, her son was blind to even a mouthful of sugarcane, and Mu Zhen couldn't help but feel a little indebted.
However, what she didn't expect was that although Xiao Baozi didn't eat this mouthful of sugarcane, he ate a delicacy that many children in this era had never eaten.
Just when Mu Zhen was thinking that the Jinshan family should have planted it, why should they ask Yiqing for two another day, Uncle Guigen smiled and said, "Baby, you want to eat sugarcane for this?" It's okay, wait for the sugarcane of the grandfather's family to be cut another day, and the grandfather will send you a bundle of it. It's not me who blows, this Pingyao Village, my Guigen is the best at growing sugarcane, the water is sweet and sweet, and no one is unconvinced. ”
This was said to Xiao Baozi in the front, and it was said to Mu Zhen in the back.
Mu Zhen smiled: "Uncle Guigen is an expert at doing work at a glance, we don't want to make crops, I won't say goodbye to you, uncle, you have helped me so much today, I don't have anything good, you also saw it, I went to the mayor today to buy some pig offal, and when it is done, I will send you some tasting." ”
Uncle Guigen has long heard that the third daughter-in-law is actually a powerful person, and she is a leader in cooking, this time Mu Zhen took the initiative to say, where does Uncle Guigen still dislike? smiled and said, "Okay, okay, then I'll wait." ”
When Uncle Guigen sent Mu Zhen back, he didn't even care about eating, so he hurried away, it's almost November, it snows in Pingyao Village every November, and the sugarcane is still in the ground, how can there be time to eat? Besides, they are all croppers, and they are two meals a day.
After sending Uncle Guigen away, Mu Zhen went to see Mo Xiaocai first, and after asking Dr. Xu how his father-in-law was doing, he went to eat.
"Sister-in-law, what are you buying these miscellaneous things for?"
Baozhu separated all the contents of the basket, and asked when he saw these miscellaneous things.
"Wait a minute, you have to make food, you send these wrapped medicines to my godfather, and the rest of the bulk ones will be placed there."
"Did you get some of the details back? I've been to the small ash (that is, the ash of plants and trees, and use a colander to sieve the big dregs of the ash to come out, so as not to puncture the intestines and make it difficult to wash), and then wash it out. Qi Niang had just cleaned up the stove house, and when she heard that Mu Zhen had bought something small, she said while wiping her hands.
Mu Zhen has bought many miscellaneous items, Qi Niang also knows how to wash them, and Mu Zhen is also relieved, "That's okay, you wait to wash out the small intestine and pork belly, and I'll be busy with other things." ”
"Do you want to wash the pork liver? I'm going to wash the pork liver. The orb that had just put the medicine away interjected.
Mu Zhen nodded and said, "Well, it's also going to be washed, first wash off the blood, and then shoot while drifting." ”
"Okay, then I'll take it and wash it first." So saying, Baozhu got up and went to the stove house to get the pot.
"Remember to wash it cleanly, it should be heavier when shooting, and it will be clean until the blood is almost gone." In the past, when she ate pork liver, Mu Zhen used to use water for at least one night, but this time she was in a hurry to use this method, afraid that Baozhu would not know, so she instructed.
"You know, you don't know what I'm doing." Listening to Mu Zhen's continued instructions, Baozhu said angrily.
"Okay, okay, it's my mistake, our orb is the most diligent and powerful."
Hearing Mu Zhen say this, Baozhu said arrogantly: "It's pretty much the same. With that, he got up and went to get his home.
Qi Niang looked at the two of them and said with a smile: "Seeing you giggling all day long, people feel a lot younger." ”
Mu Zhen smiled: "You are only in your thirties, and you are already young. ”
Qi Niang shook her head and said with a smile: "Your mouth is just good at coaxing people." Without further ado, I'll go wash things. ”
The things that need to be marinated are all washed, and Mu Zhen is not easy here, let Xiao Baozi go to see this ink effect, and Mu Zhen began to burn the fire.
After the fire is boiling, add most of the pot with water and cover the pot.
Then, Mu Zhen grabbed some of the ingredients she bought from the town and put them in the old bowl for later use (it is a kind of large bowl, fired in a folk kiln, with a rough texture, the bottom of the bowl is the color of clay, and the body of the bowl is gilded black).
However, because there are two flavors to make, all Muzhen is half of the seasoning in one bowl.
As for the peppers to use, Mu Zhen planted chili peppers when she planted green beans, but the maturity period of spicy beans was later than that of green beans.
And there are several catties of spicy seeds, and hundreds of catties of spicy seeds are grown.
At that time, when I was picking up spicy seeds, the people in the Geumsan house came to help. A few women, just the rope used to wear spicy peppers have been rubbed several times.
There is a red plum in the words, "In front of the door under the rock of the house, there are buds and valley mounds, and there are strings of red peppers hanging in front of your door. ”
Therefore, for these spices of spicy seeds, Mu Zhen is not worried. However, if you want to do this for a long time in the future, pepper is essential, but there are no pepper trees in the house now, and I will wait for the next year, where to find some pepper trees.
Once you've got all of this done, it's time to put all the spices in the pot.
Then, when it is almost cooked, it is usually boiled and discolored, and you can put the pork liver in the pot.
Of course, soy sauce is essential when it comes to putting it in the pan.
Generally, soy sauce and meat are cooked together, and the role of soy sauce is not only to absorb the flavor, but also to color.
After the first batch, that is, only half of the marinade was put into the pot, Mu Zhen added a few scoops of water to the pot and put the other half of the ingredients into the pot.
It's still the same, after cooking for a while, put the meat in the pot.
However, after the braised pork came out, Mu Zhen was not very satisfied.
Because if you look at the braised vegetables in your previous life, you will know that the general braised vegetables not only taste good, but also have beautiful colors. Of course, this is also because there are dyes used in some places.
For this kind of thing, Mu Zhen won't use it, and she doesn't have it now.
But the color of this dish is black, and it doesn't look good in the first place.
But it's okay now, because the pork liver and pork belly are cooked, the color is dark, and these things can be used with soy sauce, but what if you buy other things in the future? The color can't be black.
"What are you doing with this girl? Old man, I boiled medicine outside, and the smell was so strong that the smell of your kitchen was obscured. ”
Just when Mu Zhen was thinking about how to solve the color of the braised vegetables, Dr. Xu ran in from the outside in a hurry.
Mu Zhen felt a pain in her eyes when she looked at her godfather's gluttony, and cut a small piece of pork liver for him, "This is not delicious, let's go out first, wait for the next pot." ”