allonlinenovel Chapter 161 I feel like I am a spendthrift
Chapter 161 I feel like I am a spendthrift
It was almost 12:00 p.m. when they finally found their destination. This time they also found a cave, but it was different from the one they had spent the winter in before.
This is more like a passage. It is open from north to south, with openings on both sides. However, there is a large indentation in the cave wall in the middle of the east side.
It was a good time for them to rest. Shen Zhiqiu asked the men to build a barrier at the two entrances of the cave and cut more firewood and put it in the cave. They planned to burn the two barrier belts all night. It was estimated that the wild beasts would not dare to come in when seeing the fire.
Moreover, the cave is open from north to south, so they will not be poisoned by smoke.
The biggest surprise was that there was a spring in this cave. Although it did not form a large lake, it was enough for them to use.
At this time of the day, it was unrealistic to eat pork, so the women began to pick wild quinoa.
You should also be careful when picking the vegetables. When picking leaves, pinch the upper part of the Artemisia selengensis, and stroke it backwards from the tender tip to the root. Pick it carefully and don't damage the tender tip.
In the past, fried quinoa with bacon was a specialty home-cooked dish of Gan cuisine, and has always enjoyed the reputation of being "crispy and tender on the plate, and the best flavor among spring vegetables."
Moreover, the history of Jiangxi people eating quinoa is thousands of years old. "From the youngest three-year-old who can just walk to the ninth-nine-year-old" all love to eat quinoa fried with bacon.
Some people even joked that if an authentic Gan cuisine restaurant does not have "Fried Artemisia selengensis with Bacon", it is not authentic.
As the name of the dish "Fried Artemisia Sesame with Bacon" suggests, it is a dish made with Artemisia Sesame as the main ingredient and bacon as the secondary ingredient. The preparation is also very simple.
Remove the roots of the quinoa and cut the tender stems into sections, cut the bacon into shreds, fry the bacon first, then add the quinoa and scallion sections, stir-fry, add seasoning, and serve after a while.
It is said that among all combinations of vegetables and bacon, Artemisia selengensis reaches the highest level.
The salty, fragrant and soft bacon, with the unique aroma of Artemisia selengensis, is unforgettable after just one bite.
The golden red and slightly white color of bacon paired with the yellow and green color of Artemisia selengensis will also whet your appetite.
Of course, if there is no bacon, you can use sausage or pork belly instead. The key is to add some animal oil to make it more fragrant.
In fact, Shen Youyou and his family don’t have much cured meat, but they have a lot of cured fish. The cured fish fried with wild artemisia is absolutely delicious. I believe that even if they are tired of eating cured fish, they cannot resist the temptation of its special aroma.
With so many people picking the vegetables, the food for today was soon picked out.
Li Jingshu stood up and called a few women: "Let's just steam the kudzu root cake for dry food today. It's quick. Make one sweet and one salty. Add some purslane to the salty one."
A group of women responded, saying, "Okay, you decide, we'll do whatever you want us to do!"
When the kids heard about the sweet Pueraria lobata cake, their eyes lit up and they asked Shen Luming, "Lu Lu, have you ever eaten Pueraria lobata cake?"
Shen Luming shook his head and said: I haven't eaten it! But I have eaten mung bean cake, chestnut cake, date cake, and pea yellow!
As he said this, he swallowed his saliva, wondering if this Pueraria lobata cake would be as delicious as those cakes.
The little kids, especially Shen Nannan, cried and wiped their tears with their little hands: "I have eaten mung bean cakes before, made by grandma, they are so delicious, oooo! I want to eat them now."
The kids who had never eaten it felt even more wronged and started to cry: "We haven't eaten it, so shouldn't we be crying?"
When children are crying, no one should take the lead, otherwise there will be chaos. Even Shen Luming was very sad and shed tears.
When the little kids started crying, everyone was startled. The little sisters quickly pulled their younger brothers and sisters to their side and asked, "Why are you crying?"
After knowing the whole story, everyone, even Shen Youyou, who loved telling jokes, couldn't laugh because they wanted to eat too.
Shen Youyou’s thoughts: I’m even more miserable. I’ve eaten so many delicious foods in modern times. I don’t know how many of them I can eat again in this life?
Someone must have said, you have experienced it, how can you be miserable?
This makes us ponder a question: have you ever tasted it, and will you never taste misery again? Or have you never tasted it, and will you never know misery at all?
In Shen Youyou's opinion, it must be the former, because she had been thinking about the taste of the chili all the way.
But looking at the pitiful appearance of her brothers and sisters, Shen Youyou comforted them:
"In fact, kudzu root cake is more delicious than mung bean cake. It will be ready soon. When we settle down, sister will make you more delicious cakes. Stop crying!"
Shen Luming's eyes were wet, and even her long eyelashes were covered with tears: "Sister, what is the more delicious cake?"
Without waiting for Shen Youyou to answer, the old lady Hua, who was picking wild wormwood in her hand, had been paying attention to why her little grandson was crying. When she heard this, she quickly grabbed the wild wormwood in her hand and waved:
"Lulu, don't go ask your sister, or you won't be able to taste the sweetness of the kudzu root cake later!"
Good boy, the old lady learned her lesson and gave her grandson some preventive measures in advance.
Shen Youyou found it funny. It seemed that she had described the roast duck to her grandma very well. Even her grandma's stewed chicken didn't taste good.
The adults saw that their daughters had coaxed the younger ones well, so they didn't interrupt or ask any more questions. Sometimes they had to pretend not to hear, otherwise the more they asked, the more aggrieved the little ones would feel and cry.
And they had a lot of work to do, some chopped wood, some chopped bones,
Although I can't eat it tonight, I can stew it tonight and eat it early tomorrow morning. The meat can be stewed softer.
Li Jingshu was also sad. After listening to Lulu's words, he felt that the children in ancient times were really pitiful. They had to suffer hardships and had nothing to eat.
So she supervised the making of the Pueraria lobata cake herself, for she was afraid that other women would be reluctant to add sugar and the cake would not be sweet enough, which would disappoint the little kids even more.
It's not that she was worrying about nothing. There was so much icing sugar, but she only used some during the Chinese New Year and never touched it again after that. She even rarely added it to cooking. At most, she would add a little kudzu root powder to the kids every now and then to make their mouths sweet.
When they could save money, they really didn't want to touch candy, because it was too precious in ancient times.
After steaming the kudzu root cake, Li Jingshu went to discuss cooking with everyone. They wanted to have a big meal today because they had hunted wild boars. She was also worried that the kids wouldn't eat wild quinoa, so she planned to stir-fry pork and bamboo shoots.
There is also the fried bacon with quinoa that her daughter has been craving for, but there is not much bacon, so you can add some fried quinoa with cured fish.
Finally, add some Artemisia selengensis to the cold dish. As for Pueraria root powder, I won’t eat it today. I’ll just have some egg soup.
She personally made the fried bacon with quinoa, and Ma Zi's wife made fried bacon with quinoa. She fried more of this since there was more bacon anyway.
Shen Zhixia was in charge of making pork fried with bamboo shoots.
Mrs. Song and her wealthy wife cooked quinoa twice and also made egg soup.
The cold mixed quinoa is very simple and is also a common home-cooked dish in Shenjia Village in previous years.
Song cut the Artemisia selengensis stems into small pieces of uniform length, blanched them,
The wealthy daughter-in-law rinsed the blanched vegetables with cold stream water, and did not add any other seasonings, just sprinkled some salt and fruit vinegar. This time, there was a lot of oil, and she was willing to use it, putting more than half a spoonful of oil in each of the two full pots of cold dishes.
This was truly the most luxurious cold-mixed artemisia salad they had ever had. Their hands were shaking as they dug out the oil, and they felt like they were extremely wasteful.
But after looking at Li Jingshu, since the third son’s wife asked to put more, then let’s put more!
The cold-mixed artemisia was also recognized by everyone in the past as the best way to eat artemisia that reflects its deliciousness, and it is refreshing and appetizing.