Chapter 182: Sheep
There are many particularities in the Chinese New Year, and 30 is naturally a day for family reunion.
After thirty, it is the first day of the new year, and from the beginning of the new year, it is also a day to visit every family to pay New Year's greetings.
In addition to the fact that married daughters are not allowed to return to their parents' homes, every family is paying New Year's greetings, and in addition to New Year's greetings, there are many particularities.
For example, you can't drink porridge on the first day of the new year, because porridge was only drunk by poor families in the past, so drinking porridge on the first day of the new year means that you will be poor this year, and you can't eat meat, even eggs and milk, because the morning of the first day of the new year is also called the Pantheon, which means that all the gods will come out to pay New Year's greetings, so in order to show respect for these gods, you can't eat meat, you have to eat vegetarian, and you can't take medicine, even if it's supplements and the like, you can't eat it.
It is also not possible to call people by name to urge them to get up, as this will make the person being called be urged to work all year round.
It is also not allowed to give New Year's greetings to people who are still sleeping, because this will make the person being worshipped sick.
Do not wash clothes on the first and second days of the new year, because the birthday of the god of water is on these two days.
During the day, you are not allowed to take a nap, or you are allowed to pour out sewage, garbage, or sweep the floor, which will sweep away the wealth in the house.
You can't let anyone else take money out of your pocket, and you can't collect debts from others......
Of course, this is all an old saying, and now there are no old people in Jiang Hai's family, who cares about this?
It stands to reason that in addition to greeting the elders on the first day of junior high school, you can't go to other people's houses to play, and Jiang Hai is not wrong.
Hearing Fuyuan's words, Jiang Hai responded, then sat up from the bed in a daze, and went to the bathroom to wash his hair first. Wash. Brushing. Everything was packed up and I got dressed and went downstairs.
When he arrived downstairs, Jiang Hai saw Xu Wei's car from a distance, and there were already a lot of people sitting in the car at this time.
Jiang Hai took a casual look and found that there was still a vacant seat in the car, so he sat on it.
"Oh, I'll go, what's the way, come out with us and wear Versace. Fake it! As soon as Jiang Hai sat down, Fu Yuan here was already screaming and shouting, originally these people hadn't paid attention to it, but they all looked at it when they heard Fu Yuan's words.
But even if they look at it, it is estimated that they can't understand what the hell Versace is, in fact, even Jiang Hai is not too clear.
"Don't mention it, my daughter-in-law bought it." At this time, Jiang Hai noticed his body, and couldn't help but laugh at himself.
"Oh, I'll go, which daughter-in-law!" Listen to Jiang Hai's words. Xu Wei here also screamed strangely.
"Which other daughter-in-law, okay. Don't block me, this marriage is not divorced, come and come, open the way, what are we going to buy! patted Xu Wei in the driver's seat in front of him, and Jiang Hai also said with a smile.
"What to buy, today is the first day of the Lunar New Year, how can there be a place to open the door, people don't rest." Xiang Hua here also said behind at this time, hearing his words, Jiang Hai couldn't help but pout, Huaxia is like this, it's not easy to buy things after a year.
"I don't care what I eat, I just want to drink something, let's just order peanuts or something." At this time, another friend of Jiang Hai, Huang Yunfei, who had been playing with his mobile phone in the back, also interjected.
"Who drank with you, you person who mixed up in the hospital, every day except for eating and drinking, who drank you! My family is ready, my dad got two sheep back a few days ago, one shabu to eat, one to eat roast to eat, we eat shabu at noon, eat roast at night, after noon we will see if it is trouble, or play poker. Fuyuan listened to Huang Yunfei's words, gave him a contemptuous middle finger, and then said to Xu Wei, the group talked and laughed, drove the car, and quickly walked towards Fuyuan's home.
Fuyuan's home is not small, but in fact, it is not very big, a standard two-room and one kitchen, Jiang Hai usually doesn't go to play much, after all, he doesn't live alone, and his parents, but because his hometown is not from Bingcheng City, so during the New Year, his father and his mother will go back to their hometown for the New Year, and there is only him in the house, so naturally it will be hard.
In a small supermarket that was still open on the road, they bought five cases of beer, some grandmother-brand peanuts, and a few cans of Russian-style small pickled cucumbers, and then drove to the downstairs of Fuyuan's house.
Parked the car, everyone held a box of wine, Jiang Hai also took the peanuts and pickled cucumbers he bought, and came to Fuyuan's house, it was only about eight o'clock in the morning when they went to call Jiang Hai, but when they arrived here, it was already ten o'clock,
After cleaning up, everyone was ready to eat lunch, under the command of Fuyuan, they also put the table up, and the wine was put on the windowsill outside to freeze, at this time, Bingcheng drank and wanted to drink cold, so it could not be put in the refrigerator, how could there be an outside temperature in the refrigerator! In less than ten minutes, it was very cool.
Put the table, pour down the peanuts, the beef in the sauce I bought, and a plate of cucumbers, the induction cooker in the middle has also been opened, and a pot of clear soup in a small pot has begun to cook.
If you talk about shabu-shabu, there are actually two kinds, one is the hot pot that belongs to the land of Sichuan and Shu, the hot pot comes from the fog capital, according to legend, because the dock workers on the side of the fog capital, because the poor can't afford to eat delicious things, and some slaughterhouses in the upstream kill pigs, cattle people, after killing pigs, sheep, and cattle, the ancient people did not eat the water, these water they will throw into the river, drift away.
And the workers downstream picked these unwanted water, went home with chili peppers, peppercorns or something to remove the fishy smell, and boiled and eaten.
This is the origin of hot pot, and another way to eat it is shabu-shabu, which has a much longer history.
Legend has it that it was the time of the Song Dynasty, when the people of the Yuan Dynasty were fighting around, once they were about to bury the pot to make rice, suddenly the enemy killed, the chef at that time had an idea, used the soldiers' helmets as a pot, cooked a pot of mutton, after the soldiers finished eating, the morale was really shocked, and it felt delicious, and then it was handed down, this is the origin of the mutton shabu.
From a rough point of view, these two methods are not much different, but the fine integration will know that in fact, these are two ways to eat.
The hot pot is mainly spicy and fragrant, emphasizing the heavy mouth and heavy oil, and when eating, the oil dish is not the sauce plate, and the main shabu is also based on offal and beef, and it is almost impossible to eat sheep.
The shabu-shabu is more based on fresh soup, divided into seafood pot, bone broth pot, etc., emphasizing the original flavor of the soup, and when eating, the sauce dish is mixed with sesame sauce and other seasonings, and the main shabu is meat, mutton, and of course, beef will also be eaten.
Bingcheng is located in Longjiang Province, and next to it is Inner Mongolia, so their habit of eating shabu-shabu is more mutton, not hot pot, such as the soup base that Jiang Hai adjusted today, it is not the hot pot base bought in the supermarket, but really made by themselves, put the green onion and ginger cooking wine as the base, and put a few shrimp, a few small crabs, and a few shells, these seafood are used to adjust the seafood soup base, the soup rolls, the taste comes out, light and fragrant, but there is a smell of seafood, fish, sheep together is fresh, So if you use this soup base to shake the mutton, the taste will be crazy.
After a while, a smell of umami began to reverberate in the room, which couldn't help but make everyone's appetite move a little.
"Where's the meat?" Glancing at Fu Yuan, who was also swallowing saliva next to him, Jiang Hai on this side couldn't help but ask him.
"Oh, let's go get it!" Hearing Jiang Hai's words, then Fu Yuan remembered that the meat had not been taken out yet, so he immediately took Jiang Hai towards the freezer of his house, opened the freezer, and there was a bunch of steaks on one side, this is the steak sent by Jiang Hai, and there were two huge plastic bags on one side, but one black and one white.
Jiang Hai then opened the black one and found that it was a whole sheep inside, which made Jiang Hai a little spartan, how to eat this.
"It's not this, this is a black goat, it's used to roast at night, and that's what it's used to shabu today." Seeing Jiang Hai's expression, Fu Yuan knew that he had taken the wrong one, and after putting the mutton in his hand back down, he lifted another bag, and the other bag was full of mutton slices that had already been sliced, but compared to the mutton slices sold, the mutton slices here were a little different in size.
"Uh, what's the difference?" Glancing at the mutton he took out, Jiang Hai asked with some puzzlement.
"Of course there is a difference, this whole is a black goat, the meat of the black goat is firm, the growth is slow, and aggressive, because of the aggressive relationship, so more often it is raised in the mountains, the amount of exercise is large, and the meat quality is particularly good, uh, of course, compared with your beef, it is still a lot worse, but this mutton is also the best I have ever tasted." Hearing Jiang Hai's words, Fuyuan here began to speak, in fact, he had just checked these after his father got the sheep back.
"The mutton of this shabu is Wuzhumuqin sheep, which is produced in Inner Mongolia, and the imperial capital Donglai Shun do you know? This sheep is exclusively for Donglai Shun, a plate to sell for sixty-eight yuan, more expensive than the average Boer goat or something, the taste of our family tasted once, it is indeed more delicious than the mutton bought outside, the fat is not greasy, the lean meat is not firewood, it is hot in the water, the umami of the mutton plus the taste of seafood enters the mutton, I go, no, I have to take it out, and my saliva is about to flow down. Licking his lips, Fu Yuan took out three packs of mutton from the big bag of mutton and hurriedly walked to the living room, as for Jiang Hai, he also swallowed a mouthful of saliva, Westerners love to eat mutton, which can also be seen from the fact that many of their main meals are lamb chops, the little brother of the American imperialists, Canada, Australia, all like to eat mutton, especially Australia, the mutton and wool industry, can be regarded as the world's top existence, but the people of the American imperialists do not like to eat mutton very much.
Jiang Hai's manor also raised some in it, but he hasn't eaten mutton for so long, and now speaking of it, he really has some nostalgia, the taste of pork and mutton, listening to what Fuyuan said, he is a little hungry. (To be continued.) )
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