Chapter 148 148. Continued Lettuce
But it’s Qingming Festival now, and the mint has only grown a fresh and tender clump. Plus, it’s a new arrival and I didn’t prepare any chicken blood...
The seventh cousin sighed sadly and decided to put this dish in the summer.
Here, Zhang Yanping had picked up a large handful of the blooming rapeseed flowers, gathered them in his arms, and then threw them into the basket.
Cousin Seventh glanced down and jumped to his feet:
"Why do you choose the ones that are in full bloom? Aren't the ones with buds more fresh?"
Zhang Yanping was at a loss for a moment. He didn't cook either, so how could he know that when he wanted rapeseed flowers, he wanted buds instead of flowers?
But this does not prevent him from being confident:
“Seventh cousin,” he didn’t know what to call, so he just followed Tantan: “The bees here are collecting honey, leave the buds to them, we can eat what they left, I won’t pick.”
Seventh Cousin:…
The chef cannot listen to this!
"Don't say this out loud. It's not shabby enough. What kind of family is it? You have to pick out the leftovers from bees to eat a rapeseed flower..."
But thinking about the sweetness of the honey water he tasted yesterday, he couldn't help but smack his lips:
“Old lady, did you drink the honey water last night?”
"Drink." Grandma Qi replied simply and neatly: "Don't tell me, I slept very soundly at night, and I went to the toilet this morning so smoothly."
As you get older, your gastrointestinal function is actually not as good as when you were young, and constipation is a common thing.
Having just been back for one night, I feel so comfortable in my bones. Let Grandma Qi tell me: I feel comfortable everywhere in my body.
Hearing this, the seventh cousin also touched his belly and remembered the wanton grain cycle this morning...
Looking at the blooming rapeseed flowers in the basket, just eat the leftovers. I really don’t dislike them anymore.
Zhang Yanping followed behind with a basket in hand and wandered around. Not far away, he saw his seventh cousin stopping at the edge of someone else’s vegetable garden to look at the coriander that was crawling all over the ground.
He looked over and immediately asked excitedly: "Do you want to eat fish for lunch?"
Oh, the wild crucian carp his uncle caught was especially sweet when stewed in soup and braised, and I never got tired of it no matter how much I ate it.
But I’ve been eating a lot at home during this period. How many fish did I catch? Why haven't you finished eating yet?
Just as this thought passed through my mind, I saw the seventh cousin shaking his head: "I rummaged through the refrigerator yesterday, and there was no crucian carp left, leaving only a pack of salted fish cubes. This coriander is growing quite well. When I get back, go to Brother Dig more coriander in the garden, and I roasted the remaining beef with coriander peppers."
Zhang Yanping didn’t know what was going on, but just hearing the name made his mouth water.
I thought about this taste carefully and realized that I have lived in vain for more than twenty years. It’s okay if I haven’t eaten the rapeseed flowers in front of me. Why haven’t I eaten this coriander roast beef?
My stomach is full and bloated, but my mouth is full of saliva. This feeling is particularly unpleasant!
The three of them walked around half the mountain. The seventh cousin felt refreshed and strong, and he wanted to show off his cooking skills on everything he saw.
When I was about to go home, I saw a clump of newly sprouted wolfberry trees at the edge of the woods.
So he commanded unceremoniously:
“Yan Ping, go pick some wolfberry buds.”
Then he took out his phone and called Song Tan:
"Song Tan, have you been to the city? Remember to weigh a pound of pears when you come back! I will pick some wolfberry sprouts and make egg-shredded wolfberry sprouts for you at noon with eggs and pork hind legs. ball."
The seventh cousin said that the ground pear is a common saying here. The scientific name of this thing is water chestnut. When I was a child, my family grew rice, and I could always dig out a lot of it when plowing the fields.
Song Tan also likes to eat it, but it is round like a glutinous rice dumpling, and peeling it is very troublesome. Therefore, when she was working in Ningcheng, she would always enjoy herself by buying a bagful of fruits peeled from the fruit stall for five yuan.
So he responded in one breath.
While carefully picking the wolfberry buds, and being careful not to be pricked by the thorns, he drooled more and more: What should I say?
Suddenly I felt like the manager of the royal kitchen.…
Meanwhile, uncle Song Dafang lost his temper at home:
“If you don’t want to cook, tell me as soon as possible. I’ll buy it from the restaurant at the door. I won’t be hungry.”
“That’s it!” Sun Yanyan, the daughter-in-law, saw her mother-in-law sitting at the door of the kitchen again, peeling lettuce, and her head got big:
“Mom, no matter how much lettuce you have, you can’t eat it all at once! Ziyi cried because of it last night.”
Didn't this happen when I returned to my hometown two days ago and brought back all the lettuce from Sanlong District?
I thought it would be as delicious as milkvetch, and I was planning to see if I could sell it for a higher price...
Who knew that when it was stir-fried that night, it would be no different from the lettuce from my hometown, or even from the vegetable market.
Mao Li’s face turned dark at that time:
“You dare to sell this thing for twenty-one pounds? Even a dog won’t be fooled!”
Uncle Song's face suddenly darkened, and he clapped his chopsticks: "No dog is fooled, why are you two doing such a big basket?"
Mao Li:…
She said to herself that I didn’t scold myself, but you brought the scolding on yourself!
But she only dared to whisper: "Then you didn't stop us when we went digging."
Look at the dozens of strong lettuce trees in the kitchen, for God’s sake! How should their family of five eat?
It's impossible to throw it away. If you give it away...why give it away? Why should I ask others to take advantage of me?
So, when I got home that day, in addition to a meal of stir-fried shredded lettuce that night, Ziyi's porridge had diced lettuce in it the next morning.
Mao Li’s cooking skills are average. She put the lettuce directly into the porridge without blanching it. The child pushed the bowl and said, “It tastes worse than grass.”
It’s noon, and the pork ribs are stewed with lettuce, which is okay, the pork ribs are still quite fragrant.
Everyone was full after eating.
At night, in addition to the stewed pork ribs with lettuce left over from lunch, I added an extra plate of stir-fried shredded pork with lettuce.
The whole family looked like lettuce, and the grass was green, and they had to endure it and finished eating.
Unexpectedly, early this morning, Mao Li served Ziyi an egg pancake. As a child, she loves to look pretty, so she usually adds slices of lettuce, tomatoes, and bacon.
Whether it’s delicious or not, it must be bright and ceremonial.
It was no trouble today. The lettuce was shredded very finely and rolled in when it was cooked.
Including the meal I had for lunch when I returned to my hometown, this was several meals of lettuce.
Children go to kindergarten crying.
Finally got there in the morning, and saw her sitting at the door of the kitchen again, watching TV and peeling lettuce. The whole family couldn't bear it anymore.
Mao Li was also angry: "If Tan Tan hadn't been evil and deliberately asked us to get these unpalatable lettuces, why would there be so many piles in the kitchen?"
Why don’t you just throw it away if you don’t eat it quickly? It costs two yuan a pound at this vegetable market!
They were both farmers. The uncle didn't say throw it away, but said with a dark expression, "Then you give it away! Give more to the red plums, and give more to the neighbors. If it doesn't work, I will take them to the store and give them to the left and right."
“That won’t work.”
Mao Li thought about it: What should I give as a gift for the holidays? "
This lettuce is very strong. One lettuce weighs several kilograms. Two lettuces can cost more than ten yuan. But they are not going to survive anymore? "
Sigh, I feel hungry when I write... My mouth is dripping with saliva.
(End of this chapter)