Chapter 42 Steamed Rice and Spring Bamboo Shoots
Lin Musen and Lin Zhen were chatting about the investment in Daao Village, while Pan Wei was touching the peach tree in the peach forest, patting the one, and looking like he was eager to take one away.
Da Mumu on the side had been looking at Pan Wei with vigilant eyes, and once he made any unusual moves, it would prove with his actions that he couldn't move these peach trees.
Although none of the peach trees in the yard bear fruit, it does not prevent Damumu from taking them as his own food.
Lin Zhen saw that the time was not early, and it was almost the same as what Lin Musen was going to say, and the apology was also said by Pan Wei, so he pulled the reluctant Pan Wei to say goodbye to Lin Musen.
Pan Wei was pulled, and on the other hand, he said to Lin Musen that he would come to visit next time, of course Lin Musen agreed, and after watching them leave, he sighed: These two people are so adults, and they are still like children, so frizzy.
Regardless of them, Lin Musen said to Da Mumu at his feet: "Remember these two people, they should be polite next time they come again, you know." ”
Da Mumu shook his head, and he didn't know if he understood it or not, so Lin Musen took the cup back to the kitchen and cleaned it up.
Seeing noon, Lin Musen didn't know what to eat, except for rice noodles and eggs at home, there were some snacks brought by the previous boss who didn't seem to have anything else to eat.
After thinking for a while, Lin Musen decided to eat steamed rice, there was rice, and the boss put two big bags in the car.
It's enough for him to eat for a while, steamed rice is the most common way to cook rice in the village, and it is also a kind of rice that Lin Musen has grown from a snack to a big one, and he thinks it's better than the rice cooker, so he prepared it and started to make it.
Lin Musen first washed the rice twice in a basin, put it in an iron pot, and added cold water, the water should cover the rice to an invisible position, the water should be about 3 times that of rice, and then used the remaining firewood picked up yesterday to start a fire to cook rice.
Originally, I still had to soak the rice for a while, so that the rice would be full and sweeter when cooked, but Lin Musen saw that the time was not too early, so he omitted this step, and began to cook in a hurry.
He stirred the rice from time to time to prevent it from sticking to the pot, and watched whether the fire in the stove should be filled with firewood until the rice grains were cooked until they were cooked through, then drained the water, and took out the wooden barrel for steaming rice to prepare the steamed rice.
The barrel was already washed when it was cleaned, so it could be used directly.
Add water in the iron pot, the water in the iron pot can not exceed the height of the internal compartment of the steamed rice bucket, otherwise the rice grains will be scattered, and then Lin Musen will cover the steamed rice barrel and put it in the iron pot, add some firewood, and cook for about half an hour.
Children in the countryside are in charge of the house early, and Lin Musen sees that his grandmother has done a lot of these things, and it will be natural to help him.
Taking advantage of this time of steaming rice, Lin Musen wanted to go to the bamboo forest to pick some spring bamboo shoots and make his dishes.
There should be quite a lot of this season, the firewood is almost the same, the fire in the stove is also very strong, Lin Musen set off with tools and baskets, before leaving, he also asked Da Mumu to watch the house, Da Mumu ran to the front yard, very smart and cute.
Lin Musen walked from the backyard, and after walking through a forest is the bamboo forest of Daao Village, where the bamboo grows all over the mountain, and there are at least several hills.
Most of them were planted by the villagers of Daao Village, which is considered the common property of the village, and the oldest one should be nearly 100 years old.
Bamboo is evergreen all year round, and can not only provide a variety of convenient materials for rural life, like what bamboo baskets, bamboo baskets, dustpans......
In addition to making these indispensable tools for rural people, it can also consolidate water and soil and conserve water sources, which is deeply loved by rural people, but Lin Musen feels that the most affordable thing for bamboo to give them should be regarded as "bamboo shoots".
There are many varieties of bamboo shoots, according to the season, there are spring bamboo shoots, summer bamboo shoots, autumn bamboo shoots and winter bamboo shoots, according to the variety can also be divided into a lot, here will not be explained one by one, Lin Musen is now to pick is 'spring bamboo shoots'.
Lin Musen came to the bamboo forest, and saw the tall and straight bamboos all over the mountain, his mind suddenly opened up, breathing the unique fragrance of bamboo, and he didn't have time to enjoy more beautiful scenery, Lin Musen began to look for spring bamboo shoots, after all, the pot was still steaming rice.
Spring bamboo shoots are still easy to find at this time, and some small cone-shaped plants pop up near some bamboo.
Mainly soft yellow and more yellow, after a while, Lin Musen picked half a basket, and when he saw enough to eat, he went back, and picked up some firewood along the way.
As soon as he returned to the backyard, Lin Musen smelled the aroma of rice, a very strong feeling, and it was still drifting, and even Da Mumu didn't know when he came to the kitchen when he looked at the door, staring at the rice bucket and swallowing his saliva.
Lin Musen also felt that the taste of the rice was a little too sweet and drifting too far, and he thought that it should be because he was cooking rice in diluted pool water.
Seeing that the rice was almost ready, he put the bamboo shoots and tools, brought the steamed rice bucket, and put it aside.
He was going to see how his cooking went, because he hadn't cooked it in a long time, but it smelled good, and it shouldn't be too bad to get there.
As soon as Lin Musen lifted the lid, a fragrance of rice that was more than ten times thicker than just now wafted out, which made Lin Musen and Da Mumu both intoxicated, it was really fragrant.
Lin Musen held back his desire to cover the wooden lid, and then began to cook, although he smelled the rich aroma of rice just now, he felt that he could eat ten bowls and eight bowls without vegetables, but if he didn't eat rice alone, it would make him feel very strange.
Take out some spring bamboo shoots from the basket and start peeling them, the spring bamboo shoots are not very big, they are tender yellow, about ten centimeters long, thick should be between the two fingers of adults, if they are too thick, they will not taste good when they are old, and Lin Musen did not pick those.
Peel off the skin of the bamboo shoots until the white bamboo shoot meat is exposed, you don't need to wash it, the bamboo shoot meat is actually very clean.
Pour a certain amount of oil into the cleaned pot, and then pour the bamboo shoots into it and start frying directly, his cooking skills are average, that is, he has watched his grandmother cook next to the stove since he was a child, and gradually saw a little bit, Lin Musen felt that it was no problem to feed himself, and the meal he cooked in Yangcheng before was purely accidental.
When frying, Lin Musen added a little salt and water and did not add other seasonings, because Lin Musen wanted to eat the sweet taste of the spring bamboo shoots themselves.
In just a few minutes, a plate of dry fried spring bamboo shoots is completed, and the spring bamboo shoots just out of the pot are oily and shiny, which makes people look very appetizing at a glance.
After cleaning up, he took the rice and vegetables to the wooden table in the hall to start eating.
Of course, Da Mumu is indispensable, and he put a big bowl of rice on the rice bowl containing dog food, and put a few spring bamboo shoots, he was afraid that Da Mumu would not like to eat it, so he put a little less.
The rice was made enough, it should be enough for them to eat, and as soon as the bowl was put on the ground, Da Mumu couldn't wait to eat it, and Lin Musen knew that it should taste good when he saw its virtue.
Lin Musen actually couldn't help it, and when he saw Da Mumu eating, he also sat down in his seat and picked up chopsticks to start.
First pick up a spring bamboo shoot and put it in your mouth, chew it, and suddenly the juice of the spring bamboo shoots will rush out, the spring bamboo shoots taste light and tender, it should be the reason for the pool water, so that the light taste of the spring bamboo shoots becomes more mellow, the more you chew it, the more fragrant it is, and you can't help but take a bite of rice.
For a while, the sweet aroma of the grainy rice and the sweetness of the spring bamboo shoots blended with each other, which made Lin Musen immediately move his index fingers, and the speed was comparable to that of Da Mumu's food.