There are a lot of things to prepare for the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, in addition to chicken, duck and fish, there are also a variety of cooked food.

In the past, the economy and transportation were not developed, and it was rare to buy fresh vegetables from other places in the mountainous areas, and even if there were vegetable prices, they shouted to the sky, so the dinner table on Chinese New Year's Eve was still dominated by chicken, duck, fish, dried vegetables, and pickled vegetables.

Now the transportation is convenient, there are greenhouses everywhere, and out-of-season vegetables can be bought as long as you have money. There are many guests at home, Luo Qing drove directly to wholesale a large number of vegetables, lotus root and pepper are bought in sacks, and fruits are also taken by piece.

Luo's father and his family went to Hangzhou, and Luo Qing prepared food at home after receiving the order, for example, Luo Jiang and they came back at night yesterday, and Luo Qing made meatballs with ten catties of rice and eight catties of lean meat.

Then there are the dried grass carp fried the day before yesterday, the pork killed on the 22nd day of the lunar month, and the spicy sausage poured on the eighth day of the lunar month. This spicy sausage is spicy mixed with chili powder, which is authentic Funan spicy.

The chickens and ducks are all freshly killed, Luo Qing did not open the chicken coop in the morning, the chickens, ducks and geese are still locked in the cage, and when the time comes, just catch one, it was originally raised for the New Year.

When the main course of the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner is ready, let's talk about the snacks and snacks on the tea table. In addition to the famous cat ears, there are many specialties. Luo's mother had prepared some snacks before going to Hangzhou, and some things were even prepared from autumn, such as dried sweet potatoes.

Freshly dug sweet potatoes are usually put in the cellar to keep them fresh, and when you eat them, you will take a few out of them, and they will not dry out or spoil. On the day of the beginning of winter, Luo's mother picked out a large basket of yellow-core sweet potatoes from the cellar and put them on the ground in the house to dry. By this time, the sweet potatoes have evaporated the excess water, leaving behind all the starch and sugar.

The next thing is to dry the sweet potatoes, which is a big deal in the countryside, as long as they are not busy, the neighbors will help each other.

Luo's father looked at the weather forecast a week in advance, and began to dry sweet potatoes when he chose the clear soup for 4 consecutive days.

The first solar day is heavy on the ground, and it is generally a cleaning utensil. Dried sweet potatoes are food to be eaten directly, and it is not possible to dry them on the ground, so they need to be dried on a bamboo mat made of thick bamboo strips. Therefore, the bamboo mat must be brushed clean with a brush, and then scalded with boiling water to dry.

Then there is a large stove and steamer for steaming sweet potatoes, and chopping wood for the fire, all of which must be prepared in advance.

The next day, you can officially dry the sweet potatoes, peel the dried sweet potatoes, wash them and put them in the steamer, steam them on high heat until they can insert chopsticks, and then decide how to cut the sweet potatoes according to the eating method. If you want to eat fried or fried dried sweet potatoes, slice them, and if you want to eat them directly, cut the petals, spread the dried sweet potatoes with different cutting methods on a bamboo mat, and then move them to a sunny and well-ventilated place. The sweet potatoes are roasted by the sun, and the wet surface is blown away by the gusts of winter wind, and the women will sit next to the sun and chat with melon seeds, and get up from time to time to turn over the sweet potatoes, and most of the water can be evaporated by basking in the sun for three days.

Most of Luo's mother's dried sweet potato petals, you can eat them directly with them, spread camphor leaves and steam them for a while or directly put them in the rice pot to steam them are delicious, Luo Jiang likes this the most, and the children can also eat after eating.

Shredded sweet potatoes are put into flour or lump balls, and then thrown into the oil pan and fried until golden brown, and the appearance of teeth and claws is very similar to that of crabs, so it is called fried crabs. This is a special delicacy of his hometown, and Luo Jiang has never seen it anywhere else.

Of course, things related to sweet potatoes can't help but say that sweet potatoes are syrupy, and they are super sweet and delicious!

When Luo's mother steamed sweet potatoes, she specially left a dozen large and good-looking sweet potatoes, put them in a coarse cloth to squeeze out sweet water, and slowly boiled out a milk pot of sweet potato syrup in the kitchen. When you want to eat, you can use a spoon or chopsticks to wrap a small lump out, and it is also a good snack to add some dried fruits to the fine ones.

Luo Jiang is now taking Jin Hengsheng and his three nieces to squat in the warehouse and steal candy to eat.

"Auntie, let's get it for Uncle Jin first, we'll do it ourselves!" Luo Ying was very sensible and asked the guests to come first, the three of them had been eating sweet potatoes for several days, and they could bear it.

"I'll taste it first." Luo Jiang swallowed the overflowing saliva, carefully picked up a little syrup with his chopsticks, and then turned the chopsticks until the sweet potato sugar shredded and then stuffed it into his mouth. Whew, so sweet!

"It's delicious, grandma said it's too troublesome to do this, auntie, you have to come back this year for the New Year, she only did it, will you come back for the New Year next year?" Luo Jin likes to eat sweet potato syrup very much, but it's a pity that she has a mouth full of tooth decay, and all sweets need to be avoided, and she can only lick one drop at a time.

"Luo Jin, don't squeeze me, my aunt bought an electric toothbrush for the three of you, brush it twice in the morning and evening, and rinse your mouth as soon as you finish eating. Luo Jin: If you behave well, your aunt will give you a big spoonful of sweet potato syrup. Hengsheng, hurry up, hurry up and open your mouth! Luo Jiang scraped half a spoonful with a spoon, sprinkled a layer of peanuts and melon seeds, and waited for Jin Hengsheng to open his mouth with his hand.

"I'll do it myself." Jin Hengsheng was a little restrained in front of the children, and he couldn't teach the flowers and bones of the motherland!

"Uncle, hurry up, it's going to fall!" Luo Qi was anxious, and stretched out his hands to catch Luo Jiang's hand.

Jin Hengsheng could only hold it in his mouth. This is the sweetest sugar he has ever tasted, sweeter than eating white sugar directly, and it is almost the limit of Jin Hengsheng. Fortunately, it is not the limit, Jin Hengsheng slowly tasted the taste, sweet but not greasy, delicious.

Jin Hengsheng ate three small ones after eating, Luo Jiang dipped a little bit on Luo Jin's chopsticks, Luo Qi and Luo Ying's chopsticks both had a sweet potato syrup the size of a silkworm cocoon, and it was rare that Luo Jin had no opinion on Luo Jiang's differential treatment

Luo Jiang has been very strict with his three nieces since he was a child, and he is not allowed to rob or quarrel when he eats, and he has to take turns from childhood to adulthood. Luo Ying once protested, why not from big to small? Luo Jiang said that my sister is a few years younger and has eaten a few years less than you, so of course she should come from a young age. Luo Ying couldn't think of a reason to refute it, so she could only agree.

After eating it alone, Luo Jiang closed the lid and prepared to go downstairs, and the three Luo Ying sisters also grabbed a handful of peanuts and planned to be snacks when watching TV.

Where is Jin Hengsheng squatting and planning to eat it for the second time, how do you know that Luo Jiang will put away the things, and they will leave?

"Hengsheng, is your leg numb?" Luo Jiang counted the number of people only to find that there was one person missing, was Jin Hengsheng still squatting there and didn't get up?

"Ah, sort of." Jin Hengsheng looked at the three little beauties on the side, as if he understood a little. This is an example for children, not to be drunk and not to eat much?

"Let's go, my mother is making tea in the kitchen, and my brother is frying dried sweet potatoes, which is also delicious." Luo Jiang walked to the corridor and smelled the aroma, it must be dried sweet potatoes!

"Well, let's go!" Jin Hengsheng stared at four pairs of eyes, and slowly stood up against the wall.

Luo Jin knew that Uncle Jin would be his aunt and father in the future, so he jumped over and beat Jin Hengsheng's legs, squatting and numb.

Jin Hengsheng could only hold Luo Jin, and then Luo Jiang's other hand was also raised, is this to hug? Jin Hengsheng dragged Luo Jin's waist and hugged him, who knew that the bear child turned directly on his back and lay on his stomach, so frightened that Jin Hengsheng thought that she was about to fall to the ground, and squatted down in one step, Luo Jin was caught off guard and hit his chin.

"Haha......" Luo Jiang took the lead in laughing.

"Hahaha......" The other two little mushrooms also laughed, and ran down to the handrail of the stairs to tell grandma a joke.

Jin Hengsheng: The heart is really big......