But then again, since Madam Xia wants to buy it, even a firewood stick can make a wonderful taste.
Butcher Hong licked his lips as he thought about it.
Suddenly I was curious about what Mrs. Xia did and what she should do.
However, it seems that I can only continue to be curious...
After Xia Mingyue brought this large amount of pork belly and tenderloin home, she and Lu started to get busy.
Cut the pork belly into one-inch square pieces, stir-fry in water to remove the foam, and stir-fry the sugar color. Heat the water, star anise, cinnamon, and bay leaves in a casserole, bring to a boil over high heat, and simmer over low heat.
In order to make the braised pork richer in flavor and brighter in color, Xia Mingyue specially added some fermented bean curd and some soy sauce. After simmering, she added some honey to enhance the flavor.
As soon as you lift the lid, you can smell its rich aroma. It looks soft and delicious. Just smelling and looking at it is enough to make people drool. Xia Mingyue stews the braised pork in three casseroles.
Put two of the pots into earthen jars, close the lids, tie them tightly with hemp rope, and pack them with small baskets woven from cotyledon leaves, and bring them to Lu Qiyan and Zhao Youcai respectively.
As for the last pot, Xia Mingyue kept Jiang Zhuguo and Zhao Dahu and Zhao Erhu to eat slowly over the past two days.
The braised pork is soft and tender, and the soup is thick. When the time comes, whether you steam some rice, stir-fry a vegetarian dish, scoop a few pieces of braised pork into a bowl for each person, mix the braised pork soup with rice rice bowl, or cook some wide noodles, Use the braised pork meat and soup to make fragrant and delicious noodles, or even simply heat it up and eat it directly with steamed buns, both of which are extremely delicious.
But for the casserole full of braised pork, Zhao Dahu and Zhao Erhu discussed with Jiang Zhuguo, heating up two pieces each in the morning and evening, mincing them, sandwiching them with sesame seed cakes, and eating. Eat rice porridge and mixed vegetables.
The rest is paired with some soaked dried beans, Chinese cabbage, potatoes, yuba, vermicelli, etc. to make a big pot of braised pork.
As for the reason for eating like this...
"To be honest with Aunt Jiang, we two brothers only have enough food to eat. If we only eat meat, let alone the braised pork in this casserole. Even if we add half a pot, it won’t be enough for the two of us to eat for a day.”
Zhao Dahu looked serious, "Add some other things to stew it into a pot and eat it slowly. You can have two more meals."
They say that a young man will eat it to death.
Zhao Dahu and Zhao Erhu were just growing taller, and their appetite was really amazing.
Jiang Zhuguo thought it made sense, so he nodded in agreement.
Zhao Erhu on the side said, "Actually, it's not necessary. I only scoop out two spoons for each meal and heat them up, and eat slowly."
Such original braised pork tastes the most delicious. If you add other things...
Even if Xia Mingyue’s braised pork is used as the base, the taste will not be bad. But it’s far from as satisfying as the most essential deliciousness.
As for the issue of insufficient portions, each meal is rationed, so how can there not be enough?
Seeing Zhao Erhu's different opinions, Zhao Dahu tilted his head, "You can actually eat the braised pork cooked by Aunt Xia slowly? Tsk, if it were me, just seeing that casserole The braised pork makes me want to eat the casserole together.”
“Erhu, maybe you don’t like the braised pork cooked by Aunt Xia...”
Zhao Erhu, "..."
Why is it that this rare intelligence is used in such an inappropriate way?
Jiang Zhuguo saw the two of them bickering here and smiled. He just planned to divide the braised pork in this casserole into two parts. One part can be eaten alone, and the other part can be served with the side. Eat together.
But... this braised pork is very delicious. She also tasted it when Xia Mingyue asked her to taste it just now. It melts in your mouth, fat but not greasy, lean but not woody, and extremely fragrant. Slightly sweet...
At that time, I ate several pieces of Jiangzhuguo before I felt satisfied.
And the braised pork in this casserole was reserved by Sister Xia for the three of them to eat.
So, she can also decide how to eat this part of the braised pork!
Jiang Zhuguo raised his chin when he thought of this. He just thought that he must boil some eggs and stew them with the braised pork soup. When the time comes, take it out, cut it in half, and pour some braised pork soup on it...
These two days are a good time to grow meat on your body!
Xia Mingyue and Lu didn't know anything about Jiang Zhuguo's plans, and were only busy processing the tenderloins of good quality.
Cut them all into finger-thick, three-inch long strips, and mix well with cumin powder, soy sauce, rice wine, minced ginger, bay leaves, salt, chili powder, etc.
The meat was marinated all night. When she got up the next morning, Xia Mingyue spread the marinated meat strips one by one on the bamboo basket, placed them under the sun, and dried them for half a day.
When the skin of the meat was no longer soft and sticky and became somewhat solidified and hard, Xia Mingyue took it back and passed a bamboo skewer through one end of each meat strip.
Thread four or five meat strips on a bamboo skewer, place them horizontally on the shelf set up on the charcoal stove, let the meat strips hang down, and let them be smoked by the charcoal fire.
Under the heat of the charcoal fire, the moisture in the meat strips began to gradually lose, and the meat strips, which were originally light yellow-brown due to marinating, gradually turned into dark red-brown...
Three or four hours later , the dried meat was basically cooked, Xia Mingyue began to replace the second batch of dressed tenderloin strips.
The number of charcoal stoves at home is limited, and the size of each charcoal stove is also limited, so that when the coachman Su Yongfu came to pick him up, Xia Mingyue had only finished baking a small bundle of dried meat.
It seems that we still have to ask Liu Caisheng to come as soon as possible and repair a large oven at home, so that it will be much more convenient to use in the future.
As for this trip, I didn’t bring much dried meat...
With these two big jars of braised pork as support, the dried meat can only be used as a daily snack for teeth grinding.
Xia Mingyue thought like this and started to load everything into the carriage.
Jiang Zhuguo and others helped send Xia Mingyue and Lu's carriage out of Xinghua Lane.
After giving Jiang Zhuguo and everyone some more instructions, Xia Mingyue and Lu got on the carriage.
Su Yongfu shook his whip, and the carriage moved forward slowly, heading west.
After Jiang Zhuguo and a few others watched the carriage leave, they turned back and headed home.
Everyone started busy with their own affairs, and Zhao Dahu and Zhao Erhu also helped with things they could do, such as choosing vegetables and fetching water.
After sweeping the entire yard and placing the big broom back by the yard wall, Zhao Erhu saw Wu Jin's earthen jar basin.
Inside is the meal for Wu Jin in the morning - white flour pancakes, rice porridge, and some fresh meat skin and meat strips.
At that time, Zhao Dahu personally gave Wu Jin a meat bone and rubbed Wu Jin's forehead.
Wu Jin was also devouring his meal at that time. (End of this chapter)