Chapter 55: Making meatballs, the sound of horse hooves is heard
In addition to grinding tofu, soybeans can also be used to make many dishes, such as soybean-roasted eggplant, soybean-roasted beef tendon, soybean-roasted chicken feet, and soybean-roasted pig trotters.
Li Xiang used to work in a big city and cooked his own rice. He made soybean stewed pig's trotters, which was nourishing, moisturizing and beautifying, and tasted amazing.
Because pig's trotters are rich in collagen, eating them regularly can increase skin elasticity. You can also add some peanuts, red dates and yam to reduce the greasiness of pig's trotters and make the nutrition more balanced.
What he bought this time was pig's front hooves, also called pig's trotters in Cantonese. "Pig's hand" and "pig's foot" in Cantonese are not the same part. Pig's hand is the front hoof, and pig's foot is the back hoof.
People in the south may be more particular and know how to distinguish, but people in the north don't care so much.
But southerners believe that pig’s front hooves contain more lean meat and are suitable for making braised pig’s trotters, braised pig’s trotters, sauced pig’s trotters, etc. that are full of color and flavor; while pig’s hind hooves have many bones and thin skin, so they are usually used for making Pig's trotter soup, such as pig's trotters and corn soup.
Li Xiang prefers to eat the front hooves, which can also be used to make soup.
In addition, I also bought sweet potato vermicelli, high-gluten flour, yeast, canned noodles, three small red clay stoves, and matching small iron pots. These stoves can be placed on the dining table to make a few small hot pots for hot meals.
I saw some good pickles, so I bought some, five kilograms of each variety.
There are four famous pickles in Sichuan Province: Fuling pickled mustard, Nanchong winter vegetables, Neijiang kohlrabi and Yibin sprouts. In fact, geographical restrictions are not that strict. There are also other places, such as Li Xiang's house, where all four kinds of pickles are produced and the flavors are very authentic, but those places are the most famous.
Of course, the source may also come from over there.
The pickles sold in the market probably have too many additives. Li Xiang plans to pick a few jars of them himself next year. As an authentic rural person, there is really not much technical content in pickling pickles.
I've already watched it.
Then I bought some melon seeds, peanuts, jujubes, walnuts, oranges, apples, grapefruits, pears, bananas, etc. I also bought a table for making tea by the stove. The store said it was made of old elm wood with an iron plate embedded in the middle. Stove, with stainless steel mesh on it. The boss also presented a special iron kettle for boiling water and a tea set.
Li Xiang felt that the tea set was not of high quality, so he rode a tricycle to the street where tea sets were sold, and picked out a Ru kiln blue and white porcelain set, which cost only more than 500 yuan. It included a Xi Shi pot, two incense bowls, and a tea drain. , a fair cup and six tea cups.
There must be a tea shop near the place that sells tea sets. This is an industrial chain, and maybe it is opened by the same company, so I went in and bought a few cans of Pu'er tea and black tea.
When making tea around the stove, naturally you need large-leaf tea with a relatively high degree of fermentation, so that the aroma can be spread out well. Green tea, West Lake Longjing, Biluochun, etc. are all buds, relatively light, and require high water temperature, so they are only suitable for brewing.
I have to say that now that I have money, I have achieved the freedom of small things. This kind of ordinary eating, drinking and having fun cannot defeat the family. They are most afraid of stock trading, gambling, starting a business, and wanting to become bigger and stronger.
He once had a colleague who had worked for many years and earned a very high salary. He had saved seven or eight hundred thousand yuan and was planning to pay a down payment on a small house in the suburbs. He was usually very frugal in food, clothing, housing and transportation, but he never bought the house. Ask, let me go, I have lost all my money in the stock market, and I still owe hundreds of thousands in credit loans.
What is this called? In the stock market, money is spent like water, but in life, there is so much searching.
I don’t know how cool it would be to use those seven or eight hundred thousand to eat and drink.
Li Xiang also remembered that colleague for some reason. Anyway, he was very happy now. He couldn't hold the three buns anymore, so he walked back home slowly.
Having experienced the hardships of the last days and not having enough to eat, looking at a tricycle full of food made me feel very happy.
When he got home, his grandma had already prepared a meal, which was a simple meal of four dishes and one soup, three meat and two vegetables. Now that the weather was getting colder, Li Xiang scooped out seven or eight liang of snake wine with wine grapes and put it in a small ceramic flask. , warmed it with hot water, and then poured a small cup each for grandma and myself.
He had drunk this medicinal wine before and it was very safe. Grandma was old and her legs would get cold when the weather got cold. She had seen an old Chinese doctor before and said it was rheumatoid arthritis.
Snake wine has the effects of promoting blood circulation and dispelling wind, dispelling dampness and cold, nourishing yin and strengthening yang, dispelling wind and activating collaterals. It also contains wolfberry and astragalus, so drink it to warm your whole body. The wine grapes are not bought, but made of bamboo about five or six centimeters in diameter. The natural shape of the bamboo is used, one end is sealed, and a handle of thirty to forty centimeters in length is cut out from the other end. It is very simple, also called "Bamboo wine ladle".
Grandma only drank a small cup, about one tael, and the remaining six taels or so went into Li Xiang's belly.
Li Xiang felt unsatisfied and drank more than a kilogram again. Moreover, he did not deliberately use his spiritual power to control the alcohol. If he wanted, he could use his spiritual power to force the alcohol out from his little finger like Duan Yu did. Or use spiritual power to collect alcohol near the mouth and nose, and then vaporize it into invisible alcohol odor, spit it out from the mouth and nose, or quietly disperse from the pores of the body.
But Li Xiang didn't do this. If you do this, what's the difference between drinking and not drinking?
The sorghum shochu has a full 58 degrees, which is almost two pounds. Li Xiang feels tipsy. Drinking is what you want. It's not like drinking with others.
Then, drunk and drunk, he went to work.
Grandma saw that he was a little unsteady when walking, so she said, "You can rest for a while."
Li Xiang shook his head, burped, and said, "I bought a lot of meat today. I can't put it in the refrigerator. I'm afraid it will spoil if I don't process it early."
There was already a lot of food stored in the refrigerator, but it really couldn't hold much at this time. Li Xiang was even considering buying a large freezer. It’s just that the tricycle was full today and there was no way to put it in the freezer, so I didn’t buy it yet.
Besides, it's going to snow heavily in a few days. It's going to be extremely cold this winter, but it doesn't seem to be that urgent.
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He salted half of the pork, half of the beef, and ribs, then cut some shredded beef and put it in the refrigerator. The rest of the pork and beef were all planned to be made into meatballs.
As for the pork knuckles, I stuffed three of them into the refrigerator and braised them all for the rest of the night.
Whether the meatballs are delicious or not depends not only on the ingredients used in the meat, but also on your knife skills.
Li Xiang selected pork shoulder, pork belly, and beef forelegs. They were both fat and lean, and were good ingredients for making meatballs. The rest depended on his knife skills.
You can also grind it with a meat grinder, but the minced meat is too soft and not chewy enough. Usually, most families will give priority to using a knife to chop it.
The two kitchen knives I prepared earlier finally came in handy!
Li Xiang cleaned the meat, cut it into small pieces, and then began to chop it. It's just that he has never chopped meat before, so he was a little "uncomfortable" at the beginning.
However, this kind of difficult technical work is really nothing to a first-level transcendent who is proficient in physical skills and luck. After trying it a few times, thinking about it, and mastering the rhythm, the sound of horseshoes gradually began to sound. It rang.
"Gotta, gotta, gotta~"
Just like a pony running briskly, it sounds sweet to the ear.
Li Xiang practiced for a few minutes and mastered the technique, then set up his mobile phone and started recording videos.
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