Chapter 30: Meat Floss
"I mean let you try it first and see if you can buy and sell."
This is already the biggest affirmation, Chun Tao suddenly felt that Zhou Kuiruo was not so terrible, but very reasonable.
"In two days, it will be the day of the market, you are ready to prepare, I will go with you first."
"You... Are you going? "Isn't everything inferior, only reading is high? Although he usually sells some calligraphy and paintings, he is not a merchant in the eyes of scholars, but he can set up a stall to buy things, and he is definitely a small trader.
"Although I read, I don't agree that 'everything is inferior, only reading is high.'" This is the case. I don't mind if a woman shows up, so don't think about it so much, just prepare well. ”
"You..." Chun Tao didn't expect Zhou Kuiruo's idea to be so modern. I didn't expect him to tell him this. Unconsciously said what was in my heart: "You are really different from what I thought. ”
"So what kind of person do you think I am?" Listening to the tone, it seems that he is not in a good mood.
When she realized that the words in her heart came out, Chun Tao knew that she might annoy him. "It's just... It's like... Majority... Read... Scholar... The same. ”
"Heh~ Sleep!" After saying this, Chun Tao heard the sound of "squirming" and arranging the quilt again, and then the room fell silent.
Chun Tao couldn't figure out what Zhou Kuiruo's last "he~" represented. Is it a mockery? Is it to laugh at what I say, or to laugh at yourself?
Chun Tao thought about it and didn't want to dwell on this issue. Let's go to bed first! Cheer up, and you'll be busy again tomorrow.
Since you want to make meat floss, you have to buy meat, and after breakfast, Chun Tao will enter the county seat with Kuiruo this week. No one spoke on the road, and Chun Tao was thinking about what to use to replace the mustard in the rice ball, because she had never made mustard before.
Its practical kimchi is also possible, but the jar has not yet been sitting, and it will be the day of the market in two days, and it will be too late to catch up with the market. It's better to replace it with something faster, and it must also be of the season.
"Hmm!" Chun Tao thought about it and suddenly crashed into a somewhat soft wall.
"You're not walking well, what are you thinking?" Zhou Kuiruo turned his head and looked at her with a frown.
"I... I... I'm thinking... What kind of dish do you want ... Cheap. ”
Zhou Kuiruo's brows furrowed even tighter, and he turned his head back to his original position and said, "In summer, there are the most people who grow courgettes and bracken, and naturally they are the cheapest. ”
"Oh!" Courgette, cucumber, then pickle cucumber! Crisp and refreshing.
"I... I'll wait... After buying, I'll first... Go back first. ”
"Okay, be careful on the road."
And when they entered the city, the two men separated.
Chun Tao first went to the grocery store to buy soy sauce and better rice, then went to the pork store to buy two catties of pork, and finally bought green onions, ginger, garlic, fresh peppers and cucumbers. It cost a total of about 150 Wen, which is equivalent to their living expenses for four or five days. If it is not sold this time, it will not only be a waste of time, but also a lot of money.
Shave off the skin and fat of the pork, leaving only the lean meat, and cut it into small pieces along the texture of the lean meat, so that the cooking time will be shorter.
Put cold water, sliced pork, green onion, ginger, garlic, star anise in a pot, and pour a little white wine. Fortunately, there was still some wine left over from the wedding party, otherwise I would have to go shopping for wine again.
When the meat is cooked, Chun Tao washes all the cucumbers and drains them on a cleaned bamboo sieve. After washing the cucumbers in a hurry, the water in the pot has already boiled, skim off the foam, and then continue to boil, until the meat is rotten when you pinch it.
The weather is very hot in the summer, and the moisture on the outside of the cucumber dries out after a while. Dry cucumbers into thumb-sized strips and marinate with salt for four to five hours.
Guda's salt is too expensive, and this cucumber is intended to be placed in the rice ball, which is not good if it is too salty, so the spring peach does not put a lot of salt.
But even so, Aunt Zhou was still very distressed when she saw it. "Spring peach! You, what are you doing here? ”
"Pickled... Pickle. ”
When Aunt Zhou heard this, a pair of beautiful eyebrows were tightly screwed together, "There are still a lot of pickles at home!" You're... After doing so much, how long will we eat and what month will we eat? ”
"It's... This, no... It's not us... Food. ”
"So you're... Made for the March family? Thinking of this, Aunt Zhou's expression improved a little. Also, you've been bothering people for so long, and you should send something. Then put more salt in it, so that it doesn't spoil. ”
If you eat it yourself, you feel that there is too much salt, and if you give it away, you have to put more salt, so what if I say I will buy it? Is that a little or a put? Chun Tao looked at Aunt Zhou, who was carrying a kettle into the house, and fell into deep thought.
I guess it's okay! Chun Tao picked up a piece of meat, pinched it with his hand, and it was broken.
Chun Tao hurriedly pulled out the firewood from the stove and took out the meat to control the water and let it cool. Wash the steaming cloth and rolling pin and let them dry.
After the meat has cooled, place it on a steaming cloth so that the sawdust from the cutting board does not get mixed in and crush it with a rolling pin. The spring peaches are crushed, and the finished product is more like minced meat.
Put oil in the pot, add a little less firewood, and fry over low heat, in fact, if the speed of spring peaches is fast, you don't need to regenerate the fire, just use the residual temperature. However, her left hand had not fully recovered from the previous injury and could not work for a long time, so her speed slowed down.
Pour in the minced meat, soy sauce, sugar and salt, stir-fry while using a spoon to crush the shredded meat to make them looser. When the meat is still a little damp, quickly remove the firewood, otherwise it will be too dry.
Sure enough, it's too dry, but the taste is not bad, it's not as good as the taste with curry powder, it seems that there is nothing wrong with my sense of taste, but Zhou Kuiruo is too sensitive to taste. Chun Tao tasted the finished product and felt that she had regained her sense of taste.
"You... You taste it. Chun Tao put the meat floss on a steaming cloth to cool, and brought a small plate of meat floss into the house.
"What is this?" Ask while holding with chopsticks. "Is this, is it meat? How did you do this? ”
"Just... Just cooked... And then... Crush and fry. ”
"It's that simple? I didn't think of that! I didn't expect Chun Tao to be so smart! Aunt Zhou grabbed Chun Tao's hand and looked at her, the more she looked, the more satisfied she became.
Chun Tao scratched the back of her head embarrassedly, but she was actually uncomfortable being touched by Aunt Zhou. "It's... It's a father-in-law... Taught. ”
Aunt Zhou smiled even more happily, "You are both smart children, and the children born must be smarter." ”
Chun Tao really didn't know how to answer this, so she could only say, "I... I'm going to clean up... Stove room. "I want to leave.
Aunt Zhou stopped her in time: "Wait, you take this out, wait for Kui'er to come back, and eat together." ”
"Good!" Chun Tao returned to the stove with the meat floss, poured the soy sauce into the pot and boiled the star anise, sugar and some water. Fortunately, Aunt Zhou didn't see the spring peach with sugar, otherwise she would have died of distress.
The soy sauce was boiling in the pot, so Chun Tao washed and put away the used steaming cloth and rolling pin, and then put the cold meat floss in a jar of washed and drained water.
After the soy sauce is boiled, it is also put in a washed and drained jar, and the cucumber can be put in directly after a while.
When Zhou Kuiruo came back soon, the time for the cucumber to come out of the water was almost over. Aunt Zhou saw that Chun Tao was still busy, so she went to the kitchen to cook by herself.
"Hemp... Troublesome... You've got it. ”
When Aunt Zhou heard this, she turned her head and looked at Chun Tao sternly, then turned back and said, "I treat you as a family, and you treat me as a stranger, and you will tell me all day long that 'trouble' is polite." It seems! It's because I'm not a good person that makes you dislike it so much. ”
As soon as Chun Tao heard this tone, she knew that Aunt Zhou was really angry. "No... No, I know... You... You've treated me well... Well, I... I was just... Just not used to it. I'm not used to having someone treat me so well. ”
Speaking of the back, she was close to talking to herself, but fortunately, Aunt Zhou and Chun Tao were very close, and they were listening very seriously, otherwise they wouldn't be able to hear it at all.
Also, the suffering she suffered before was given by people close to her, so she didn't dare to open her heart and accept us! In the final analysis, it is not her fault. Aunt Zhou wanted to understand this, looked at the top of Chun Tao's head and smiled slightly, and she didn't plan to worry about this matter anymore.