Chapter Twenty-Four: The Knot
The Yu family's food has always lacked oil and water, and only when the Chinese New Year and the aftermath of the family's hopes come back, can they eat a trace of meat. Stewed cabbage with fatty meat was Yu Bo's favorite dish when he was a child.
After getting used to stir-frying in the town, the taste has long since changed. But in the face of his mother, who is dedicated to him, he can't say anything if he refuses.
Zhao glanced at him and entered the west room without squinting. As the only daughter of Xiucai, Zhao Meilan looks down on the Yu family. The mother-in-law is stingy, the sister-in-law is vulgar and lazy, the second sister-in-law is cowardly and incompetent, and the children in the family are not allowed to go on the stage......
If possible, she didn't want to stay in the Yu family for a quarter of an hour. But after all, this is her father-in-law's home, and the man's face still has to be taken into account.
When Zhang came back from cutting half a catty of fat from the butcher in the next village, Liu also washed his clothes and came back. Without allowing her to take a breath, Zhang said to Li, who was still walking around the yard with a broom: "You come to dry the clothes, and the second daughter-in-law will cook!" ”
Liu's cooking skills are recognized by the family.
Zhang personally washed the meat, cut it on the cutting board, counted the slices, and said to Liu: "San'er likes to eat your dishes the most, do it well, don't be lazy." A few of you, help you guys!! ”
Zhang didn't say it, and it was impossible for Sister Yu Xiaocao to let her mother work alone. After she went out, Xiaocao smiled and said, "Look! Uncles and aunts may not like fatty meat and stewed cabbage. Mother, why don't you let me make two dishes to try. I have several recipes in my head, but I haven't had a chance to try them! ”
"It's okay to cook, but you can't touch the meat. Your grandmother knows it! "But all the good ingredients, Zhang's have a number, and he is afraid that the cooks will steal them.
Most of the northern countryside is fashionable in large pot stews, and not all ingredients are suitable for a pot of stew. Yu Xiaocao had long wanted to stir-fry and eat it, but there was no oil. Zhang's was so slamming that he was reluctant to buy vegetable oil.
Xiaocao looked at the fat slices of meat, and pulled her mother to lean out some of the oil. The meat is used for stews, and with the leftover lard she has room to play.
Liu Duyun thought about it, although the fat meat will shrink a little bit by oil, as long as it is mastered, it will not be too ugly to stew. When the third brother and three brothers and sisters came back today, there was only one plate of meat dishes, and if there was no oil and water in the rest, it was really not enough to see. So he took it upon himself to make a small half bowl of oil.
There are many Yu families, and they usually cook with two stove holes: one stove hole to cook bean porridge, and one stove hole to stew vegetables and paste cakes. Today, Zhang is happy and mercifully "graciously appointed" that the cake can be mixed with half of the white flour.
She would rather tighten her belt and wronged herself than let her youngest son be wronged. I don't want the little daughter-in-law from Xiucai's family in the town to look down on her. She also pointed to her youngest son to earn her life and enjoy the blessings of her old son!
Yu Xiaocao saw that her mother was the same as before, stewing pork slices and cabbage in the pot together, afraid of being blind to a pot of meat dishes, so she hurriedly stopped: "Mother, let me make this dish." I promise it's better than my mother's cooking! ”
Liu was afraid that she would be scolded by the old lady if she didn't do well, so she didn't agree at first. Later, Xiaocao and Xiaolian took turns to intercede, so they relented. However, she had to watch from the sidelines.
Xiaocao had already instructed his younger brother to go to Zhao's house to borrow some chili peppers, the pork stewed cabbage was not spicy, and the taste was definitely much inferior.
The method she abandoned for stewing vegetables was to stir-fry shredded ginger, chopped green onions, chili peppers and peppercorns in an oil pot, then put the meat down and stir-fry, put salt and soy sauce, and then put in the cabbage and pasted the cake, thought about it and mixed it with some spiritual stone water. Xiaocao found that the spirit stone water has the effect of improving freshness! It is still cabbage stew, which can be cooked in different ways, and the taste is naturally one in the sky and one in the ground.
"It smells so good! Got meat to eat today? Yu Heizi, who had been playing outside for a long time, had a dog nose and smelled the fragrance and entered the kitchen.
didn't wait for him to "hack" the dish, but he was pulled out by the ears of Zhang, who followed up: "Eat, eat!" Just know how to eat!! What else do you say you can do but eat? Go, stay in the East House! Dare to steal and chop your paws! ”
After speaking, he stared at Li Shi who was dangling at the kitchen door with his eyes warningly. This lazy and slippery Li Guihua hurriedly lowered her head and swept the ground twice, and swayed away step by step.
Zhang glanced at the cabbage stew, sniffed it a few times, and left a sentence without being salty or light: "Well, the craftsmanship is good!" Do this in the future!! ”
Xiaocao replied: "Milk, if you come back with some soybean oil, you can do this every day." If you don't have oil, it's useless! ”
Zhang was distressed about the money to buy oil, but he took care of his face, turned around and left a scolding sentence: "Oil? Why don't I tear this old bone and tear it up and refine the oil for you to eat! ”
Xiaocao pursed her lips and muttered in a low voice: "You are willing to practice, are we still willing to eat?" You can refine a few taels of oil from your dry and lean cultivation......"
"Grass! So can you say this about the old people in the family? Can you still have a good reputation when you spread the word? Not in the future. Liu taught his daughter while brushing the pot.
Yu Xiaocao was silent, and she was indignant in her heart: Filial piety to the elderly, can't you be foolish?
Xiaocao turns grief and anger into cooking, whoosh! Soon, garlic eggplant, dry pot beans, green vegetables and mushrooms, plus cabbage stew, the four big dishes are completed.
In another pot, the delicious fish soup wafts with an enticing aroma. Even the Zhao family, who was taking a break in the west, was secretly surprised by the Yu family's "pig food", when did it taste so good?
"Let's eat!" The little stone, who has been obediently helping the fire, shouted excitedly. The second sister's craftsmanship is awesome, and he can't control his saliva.
Breakfast is still a table for men and a table for women. Today's food on a woman's table is no different from a man's table. The fragrant four pots of vegetables were quickly served on the table. Yes, there are many Yu families, and the dishes have always been served in pots.
"There's meat to eat, there's meat to eat!!" Yu Heizi sucked in the yellow pus snot and wiped it with his blackened cuffs from time to time. Li also wiped his black hand on the placket of his clothes, which he couldn't see the color, instead of washing his hands.
Zhao glanced at it and almost vomited in disgust. In the face of this buried mother and son, where can I still have the appetite to eat.
Zhang, who had been paying attention to his little daughter-in-law, followed her line of sight, frowned, took a bowl, took out some of each dish, and said to the Li family: "The table is too crowded, you two go back to the East House to eat!" ”
Li stared at Bai Huahua's fat, and said very indifferently: "There are two more people, it's a little crowded." Little cub under the age of ten, what kind of table is it! Why don't you hurry up and make room? ”
As he spoke, he couldn't hold back any longer, and raised his chopsticks towards the largest piece of fat. Halfway through, she was stopped by Zhang's family, she glared at her eldest daughter-in-law who didn't know each other, and said in an accentuated tone: "Let you go back to the house to eat, what so much nonsense!" If you don't serve children at the table, who are you squeezing? ”