Chapter 214 Chinese New Year (4)
The croquettes were fried very quickly, and in a short while, a plate of meatballs were fried.
It is said that eggs are added to the meatballs, which should be fluffy after being fried. A small basin of fillings will not turn into a plate after being fried, but it cannot be kept from eating them all. It was time to have lunch, but when I was very hungry, there was a plate of particularly delicious fried meatballs in front of me, so of course I couldn't miss it. At the beginning, all the fried meatballs were eaten by Danica, and then Lin Ona, who was standing next to me, couldn't help it. Tyran also ate while frying the meatballs, and half of the fried meatballs were in their stomachs.
"It's not good to eat too much of this thing." Lin Ona said. Half of it was meat, but it was fried again. If you eat too much, you will feel a little greasy.
"It's not a good habit to scold the chef when you're full." Danica said dissatisfied. She was very satisfied with these meatballs and wouldn't feel tired of it if she ate them much. "Besides, I didn't see you eating less just now."
Taylan said from the side: "Okay, stop messing around with you two, Danica, is there any other way to eat this kind of meatball other than eating directly like we did just now?" Taylan speculated that this thing should not be eaten directly after the pot. If this is a dish, it seems that this dish has not been completed.
Danica said: "The meatballs are the same as stewed pork ribs. You can eat them directly or add a little while cooking soup and cooking. They are simply perfect food." It can be seen that Danica really likes eating meatballs. There are eggs she likes to eat, which have a strong meaty aroma but cannot eat meat, which is completely in line with her taste.
Why didn’t I think I could make a little bit? Danica thought to herself that these raw materials are not very difficult to find, and I had the conditions to make them before!
"Okay, if that happens, this plate of meatballs will be placed first, and add a little when cooking other dishes in the future." Danica is still eating now. Tyran is worried that if she doesn't stop her, she will finish the whole plate. Although the professionals have good physical fitness and digestive ability, eating so much, and eating all meat may not be beneficial to Danica's physical recovery, at least it's a little more even!
Taylan put the meatballs into a cabinet and said, "Lin Ona, you can keep cleaning the room, Danica, you can handle the meat with me!" After so much trouble, it was already past three o'clock. It was almost afternoon, so I had to do something.
Danica stuffed the last meatball in her hand into her mouth and said, "What are we doing?"
Tailan brought a pot of meat in and said, "Let's boil some lard first."
In Qingri Village, boiling lard is not a common method. The villagers still like to eat large pieces of fat meat directly, which is satisfying. However, Taylan doesn't like eating that. She thinks it's too greasy. After eating meatballs, Danica completely recalled her taste habits in her previous life. She didn't even want to eat meat. As for Lin Ona, his opinion is not important.
Since you don’t want to eat this kind of fat meat, the best way is to boil it into lard and add a little in it when cooking, so that the food can not be too greasy.
The method of boiling lard is also very simple. Pour a small bowl of water into the pot and then put the fat pork cut into pieces in it. It doesn’t even need to stir it, just turn it over occasionally. Tyran can do this by himself, but it’s the happiest thing for everyone to do it together during the Chinese New Year. What’s the point of leaving Danica alone in the room?
It doesn't take much time to boil lard, and you don't have to concentrate on watching it. You can check from time to time if it's frying to the bottom of the pot. Tailan looked around and said, "Let's deal with these next."
Looking at the miscellaneous things, Danica said hesitantly: "It's already late, why don't we do it tomorrow?" Although Danica ordered a stir-fried pork liver before, she didn't have a strong preference for miscellaneous things. The slippery things gave people a very disgusting feeling. It's not that Danica can't stand it, killing people, dismembering corpses, and anything disgusting she has never done, but "being able to bear" and "being willing to bear" are not the same concept. If possible, Danica doesn't want to touch those things.
"Don't talk nonsense, wash these things first." The sun has not set yet and there is still plenty of time. Besides, these miscellaneous pieces are best processed in time. They do not last long like meat.
"These things have been washed." Danica is still fighting for the final battle.
Taylan said, "This is something to eat. If you don't wash it a few more times, don't you feel free to swallow it? Okay, start working, it's not that easy to be a chef."
"Okay." Danica said helplessly. Seeing that Tyran had already started, she couldn't stand by and watch.
After actually starting, Danica found that things were not as bad as she thought. With Tyran teaching next to her, she learned very quickly, and she didn't feel disgusting.
Danica is now just because of injury and physical exhaustion. She has become an ordinary person. After a long time, she has an illusion, as if she has really become an ordinary person. In fact, whether it is the soul or the body, Danica is completely different from ordinary people now. Her body is very adaptable to killing, and she is not afraid of killing, let alone dealing with a little bit of pigs and messes?
After washing the basin of pigs carefully, Taylan also taught Danica to fill sausages. Danica still had an impression of the sausages. It tasted good and was delicious, but she didn't expect it to be so troublesome when she made it. The sausages were filled with minced meat mixed with spices into the casing, and Danica was stuck at the infusion step. The clean intestines were very thin. Every time Taylan poured in a little meat, Danica needed to use her hand to rush down through the casing. This force was not easy to control. The force used was too small and the meat would not go down. If the strength was too small, the casing would be broken. Every time Taylan broke a little, she had to use a thread to tick the mouth. As a result, the long strings of sausages that were supposed to have turned into very small sections, and they were twisted and very bad.
"Forget it, it's delicious." Tyran said, not knowing whether she was comforting Danica or herself, after all, the sausage she had poured before was very beautiful.
After filling, put the sausages in a cool and ventilated place and hang them for about ten days.
The most important thing during the Chinese New Year is to eat it. Over the past ten days, Tyran and Danica have been busy making all kinds of delicious foods, such as sausages and stewed pork ribs, and they have been eating them all after they are ready. This year, Danica generously bought a whole pig with a price of thirteen silver coins. This way, the supply of meat is sufficient, and their daily staple food is a variety of meat.
Of course, ordinary Qingri Village villagers cannot eat meat as luxuriously as Tailan and others. Of course, in order to have a good time, each family will buy a few pieces of meat, or several families will slaughter a pig together. Qingri Village also has several relatively difficult families, and Lin Ona will bring a few pieces of meat to deliver. Eating meat during the Chinese New Year is a very important thing for Qingri Village villagers, so that this year will have a good ending.
It is something Lin Ona has to consider for making every villager spend this New Year happily. Danica is thinking all day long about how to make all the delicious foods she eats during the New Year. This is not an easy task. First of all, Danica's memory is not complete, it is all very fragmented. In addition, her cooking skills are actually not very good, so many things are wasted, such as the steamed buns she steams.
The staple food of the villagers in Qingri Village is the flour made of potatoes and corn. The corn flour is not well-adhesive, so they cannot be made into noodles. They cannot be formed or made into steamed buns. They will break as soon as they are steamed. Therefore, Danica is made of wheat flour that is not common in Qingri Village. Danica was not a foodie in her previous life. The most complicated dish she would make is fried eggs with tomatoes, and she often fry the eggs. Just like this guy was fuzzy while steaming the buns. She forgot a very important thing. If the steamed buns are to be fluffy, it requires yeast fermentation, so what she steamed was more than a dozen hard gnocchi, and the surface was cooked and it was still raw inside.
From then on, Tyran restricted Danica's kitchen experiment. She wanted to try the newly-designed cooking method, but she could only make one or two. Then she would say it if she succeeded. However, the next few Danica was successfully completed. The fried oil cakes and pancakes were all well received. Although Lin Ona felt that the fried oil cakes were too wasteful, it was simply fried oil cakes. There were a lot of eggs added to the pancakes and it was too fluffy after making them, but these opinions did not affect Danica's interest.
More than a dozen days of happy days passed in a blink of an eye, and Danica ushered in her first New Year's Eve that she had really earnestly.
According to the custom of Qingri Village, the supper on the last night before the New Year is the most hearty, which represents the end of the year. After a year of hard work, people always hope to get a good return, and the last supper of the year is the best opportunity, an opportunity to prove that they have gained something this year.
After lunch, Taylan started to work hard for dinner. At the beginning, Danica was still helping in the kitchen. Later, Taylan thought she was in the way, so she asked her to wait in the living room. However, Danica seriously suspected that Taylan let her leave the light bulb in order to be alone with Lin Ona. For more than ten days, Danica has been studying recipes with Taylan in the kitchen. There were two girls who couldn't squeeze in at Lin Ona. Taylan had not cooked a meal with Lin Ona for a long time as before.
The fire in the living room was very hot, and the temperature in the room was almost ten degrees. At this time, the temperature outside was more than ten degrees below zero. It was the most comfortable to hide in a room with a warm fire in the cold winter. Danica hugged on the sofa, eating the nut snacks that Tyran had stir-fried before while sighing.
The reason why the fire is burned so strong is, on the one hand, of course, to keep warm, and on the other hand, I am worried that the food will cool too quickly if the temperature in the room is too low, which will greatly affect the taste.
As the weather was just getting dark, the food came one after another. First, there was a large plate of barbecue, then a variety of stir-fried meats, and a pot of Danica's favorite meatballs. Most of the table was meat, and there were no vegetables except cabbage and radish.
It is not that the Druids cannot grow off-season vegetables. In this magical world, it is not difficult to eat summer vegetables such as tomatoes and cucumbers in the middle of winter. Danica ate them when she was studying in Bunos. It is mainly because the Druids advocate nature and believe that artificial means should not be used to forcefully reverse the growth laws of nature. Therefore, the only vegetables that the entire Druids can buy in winter are radishes and cabbage.
Looking at the dishes served from plates, Danica felt a special sense of familiarity. She had been traveling to the mainland for several years and had seen many different civilizations. The living habits here are the most similar to the world she lived in in her previous life. Maybe it is because there is also a developed farming civilization here! Similar living habits and customs will always be born under similar forms of civilization.
Although there were only three people, Tyran did not save any reduction in the specifications of the meal. Finally, there were a total of sixteen oil dishes, and a pot of thick soup was heated on the heat, and they would serve it after they finished eating.
After filling the table, Tailan finally finished her work. She took out a small jar of rice wine she brewed and opened the sealing mud. The whole house was filled with the aroma of wine. This kind of rice wine brewed by the farm is very turbid, and if you drink it directly, there will be a lot of dregs. So before drinking it, you have to filter it with a gauze net. There is also a special word for this step, called "sieve wine". There is no need to drink this kind of turbid millet wine in a crystal cup like the fruit wine produced in Moonlight Forest. It only takes a small bowl.
Tailan sifted three bowls of wine for the three of them and said, "The new year is about to pass, I wish you all a happy new year."
Danica also followed Lin Ona's way, lifted the wine bowl and said, "Happy New Year."
After taking a sip, Tyran said, "Okay, everyone can have a meal."
"I'm going to have a meal now?" Danica asked strangely.
Tailan scooped himself a few pieces of boiled potatoes and said, "What do you want to do if you don't eat?"
Danica said, "I mean we don't need some celebrations?" This process is a bit simpler. Although the memory is not very clear, Danica remembers that it seems to have to go through a lot of processes.
Tyran said: "The celebration will only start tomorrow! If you are interested tomorrow morning, you can go out and have fun."
Chapter completed!