Chapter 106 A sumptuous lunch
While the potatoes were being steamed, Yang Ruoqing slaughtered the quail couple again.
The hair was removed, the belly was disemboweled, the internal organs were washed, and then the quail was chopped into pieces and carried back to the kitchen.
At this time, the water in the pot boiled and bubbled happily.
Yang Ruoqing took out two cooked potatoes and set them aside to dry in a bowl. Then, while the hot water was still boiling in the pot, she poured the quail pieces into the water.
Use a bamboo fence to remove the layer of foam on top, and then fish out the quail pieces.
Fifteen quail eggs were put in with their shells and boiled.
When the quail pieces and quail offal are cooked, take them out of the pot and the quail eggs are also cooked.
Take them out together and put them in another earthenware bowl to dry. Peel off the shell of the quail eggs and set aside.
Next, Yang Ruoqing washed the cabbage, spinach and lettuce. When everything was ready, she started to cook lunch.
Just as he was about to go to the next door room to call Daan to come over and stuff firewood, Daan happened to come in by himself.
"Sister, let me help you stuff the firewood!" Da'an said.
"Okay!" Yang Ruoqing responded.
She picked up the cold potatoes and used something similar to a rolling pin to mash the potatoes into mashed potatoes.
"Sister, what are you going to cook?" Da'an stood aside and asked curiously.
In Da'an's previous knowledge, there were only two ways to eat potatoes, stewed with meat, or stir-fried with some dry spicy paste.
Yang Ruoqing said without raising her head while pounding: "I'll make you some potato pancakes at noon!"
"What? Potatoes can also be made into pancakes?" Da'an was also curious.
Yang Ruoqing nodded, "Not only potatoes, but also sweet potatoes and taro can be used! These ingredients are ever-changing. One thing can be eaten in various ways, it depends on whether you can think about it."
Daan nodded and stood aside to watch carefully.
When the mashed potatoes were almost done, Yang Ruoqing turned around and went into the wheat flour bag, scooped out an appropriate amount of wheat flour, and mixed it with the mashed potatoes in a certain proportion.
Put some salt star seeds and an appropriate amount of water into it, mix it evenly with chopsticks while mixing it with water.
The next step is to knead.
When the dough was kneaded until it was soft and soft but not sticky, Yang Ruoqing gave an order and Daan immediately lit the fire in the stove.
Heat the pot, dip some loofah naan in some rapeseed oil, and spread it evenly in the pot.
Yang Ruoqing started to make potato cakes.
It is super easy to knead potato cakes, just like Xiao An playing house with mud, knead them into a round shape, pat them into flat shapes, and finally stick them into the pot.
Yang Ruoqing counted in her mind as she posted them. After she had posted them all, there were fifteen potato cakes in total that were as big as her palm.
There are seven people eating at noon, including Uncle Chang Geng. If each person eats two, there will still be one left!
After all the potato cakes were pasted, Yang Ruoqing added a little water to the pot, then covered the pot and simmered.
Cut the washed green onions into green foam. When you open the lid of the pot and turn the potato pancakes over, sprinkle the green onions evenly, cover the pot and simmer over low heat for a while.
When Sun and Chang Geng carried the plow and the old cow into the yard, they smelled the fragrance wafting from the kitchen.
“What makes it so fun?” Chang Geng asked with a smile.
Sun said: "They look like potatoes! Chang Geng, wash your hands and go into the house to drink tea. You are so tired all day long that you plowed the field all over in one breath!"
“Nothing, nothing.”
Taking the water from the well in the yard, Chang Geng washed his hands and went to Yang Huazhong's house.
Ms. Sun turned around and entered the kitchen, "Qing'er, your potatoes are so delicious!" "Mom, come and see, the potato pancakes made by my sister are so beautiful, golden. It's yellow!" Da'an held up the potato cakes freshly baked on the cooking table for Sun to see.
Sun's eyes lit up as she glanced over.
"Ah, it's really beautiful. Just looking at the appearance and smelling the fragrance, it's delicious!" said Sun.
"Mom, why don't you try it first?" Yang Ruoqing said.
"That can't be done, wait until it's on the table before eating!" Sun said, starting to put on an apron, ready to help Yang Ruoqing.
"Da'an, go ahead, mother will put in the firewood."
"Yes!" Da'an stood up and gave up his seat, but he didn't leave either. He stood by the pot and watched his sister cooking. .
Yang Ruoqing took the time to go to the next door room, said hello to Chang Geng, and poured a bowl of tea. When she returned to the kitchen, she turned Xiao An over.
Pick up the largest potato pancake and break it in half in the middle.
The place where it was opened was filled with fragrant heat, which almost made Xiao An salivate.
"Sister, what is this?" Xiao An asked.
"Xiao An and Da An are here to help sister taste the potato cakes made by my sister!"
Yang Ruoqing smiled and gave the two halves of the potato cakes to her two brothers respectively.
"Is it delicious?" she asked.
Da Ansi took a bite politely, and then nodded: "It's delicious."
Xiao An gave Yang Ruoqing the answer by gobbling it down.
"Okay, let's go play outside. The smell of smoke in the kitchen is strong, but you can't run too far. I'll call you after dinner!"
Yang Ruoqing touched it Touching Xiao An's head, he sent the two of them out of the kitchen, then stood up and started cooking the next dish.
Mrs. Sun was sitting at the door of the stove holding a fire stick, watching Yang Ruoqing do all this with a smile. The woman's eyes were full of joy.
Eldest sister, my eldest sister, Qing’er, really doesn’t have a choice when it comes to making this!
With Qing'er here, if I were gone that day, brothers Da'an and Xiaoan would not suffer.
Sun thought to herself. When she realized what she was thinking, Sun sighed several times in her heart.
How could I not be there? I want to live a good life, accompany my children, and watch them grow up safely!
"Qing'er, today your uncle Chang Geng is helping our family plow the fields. Mom asked you to go to butcher Chen's house in the village to cut some pork this morning. Have you gone?" asked Sun instead.
Yang Ruoqing shook her head, "Butcher Chen sent a lot of pork to the town's tile market to sell at a stall. The meat his mother-in-law sold in the meat shed at the entrance of the village was all pork belly that could not be sold in the town. I don’t want to go to their meat shed and waste that copper money if I’m still short of money!”
When Mrs. Sun heard this, she became a little anxious, "Then we don't have any meat or vegetables at noon, how can we entertain Uncle Chang Geng?"
"Mom, don't be anxious, what do you think this is?"
Yang Ruoqing opened an upside-down bowl next to her and handed the quail pieces in the bowl to Sun.
"Ah? Quail? And quail eggs?" Mrs. Sun's face was full of surprise.
"Qing'er, where did this thing come from? This is much better than pork!"
"Hey, I went to catch it in the woods behind the village."
< br>Yang Ruoqing was talking without delaying her work at all, mincing garlic, cutting shredded ginger, and cutting chives into sections.
"Mom, let's get started!" she ordered.
"Okay!" Mrs. Sun sat back, stuffed a handful of firewood into the small stove, and stoked the fire.
(End of this chapter)