【346】Steam cooker
Nuannuan’s family is preparing to make a steamer for New Year’s Eve dinner, so they started preparing all kinds of ingredients tonight early in the morning. They all have to process the ingredients, otherwise they will be in a mess at that time, right?
It just so happened that Nuannuan’s family and four elders all came this year. Su Qiao also took a vacation on New Year’s Eve, but he would go to the hospital to work on duty on the first day of the New Year. It was because his wife was still in confinement that she could get her vacation on New Year’s Eve.
There are a lot of ingredients to prepare in the steamer, and there are a lot of ingredients that can be steamed. The most common one is a variety of seafood. Because Chen Xunyang sent people fresh seafood, there are a lot of fish, shrimps and crabs.
Everyone is cleaning the ingredients all day today, such as crabs that need to be cleaned. Chen Xunyang sent not only sling crabs, flower crabs, stone crabs, bread crabs, king crabs, treasure crabs, emperor crabs and other crabs.
Especially the three types of crabs, king crabs, emperor crabs and bread crabs are very large in size. Su Qiao and others disassembled these crabs, and it was impossible for a whole crab to steam them. So they disassembled the crab's crab legs and then cleaned the crab's internal organs and so on.
Su Qiao and the others cleaned all kinds of crabs for a long time. Although Nuannuan cannot eat crabs, others can still eat them? The crab tastes very good. Although Nuannuan cannot eat them, she cannot deprive others of her right to eat them. She cannot let her relatives eat them by herself, right?
In addition to crabs, there are of course various large lobsters, such as Cialis, Pipi shrimp, Chinese Jinxiu lobster, Australian lobster, Boston lobster, etc., and all of them are available in small shrimps. These are edible.
There are also seafood such as abalone, clams, 600, scallops, and various edible conchs. Then there are various sea fish such as fish, tuna, salmon, grouper, Sumei, pomfret, cod, etc., which are also slaughtered and cleaned up and then sliced the meat.
Of course, it is impossible to put the whole fish in the steamer to steam it, so when Su Qiao and Su Shi and his son showed their skills, the father and son sliced various fish, connected the fish skin and other things, and put them in a large pot to add the seasoning they prepared themselves to marinate.
In addition to these seafood porridge, there are beef, mutton, pork, beef, etc. The buffalo she summoned this time is of course not a big type. One will probably kill the adult buffalo and then break down the beef.
This cow also has about hundreds of kilograms of meat and internal organs. After the process is done, it is frozen by Chen Tiezheng and taken home with snow. All of them are put into the space by Nuannuan. Chen Tiezheng and the others cannot stay with Nuannuan forever, so Chen Tiezheng may have this cow kept for Nuannuan and then eaten for a long time.
However, Nuannuan felt that Su Shi could make the unfinished beef into braised beef or jerky beef, so that his elders could take it back when they returned to Beijing. Anyway, Nuannuan had everything she wanted to eat, and she was not worried at all that she could not satisfy her cravings when she was greedy.
In addition to beef, there are mutton and pork, and they are still animals summoned by Nuannuan. She did not buy them from others. Now everyone raises livestock, because there is no revolution here for ten years, so every household raises animals and limits the number of animals, so Nuannuan can buy them if she wants to buy them.
However, even so, everyone did not raise a lot of mutton and pork. So Nuannuan didn't plan to fight with the troops. She asked her father to go up the mountain directly and brought back a yellow sheep and a group of wild boars.
Nuannuan's family left a wild boar of more than 100 kilograms, and the remaining several wild boars were sold to the army at low prices. Nuannuan's brothers did often send things to the army, but they were given in the name of the enterprise. Nuannuan didn't want to deliver meat to the army's logistics in the name of the individual.
The beef, mutton and pork are also sliced into pieces. Except for the tenderest part of the beef and mutton that was not marinated, the remaining meat was marinated with seasonings, and some of the marinated without seasonings were prepared for Nuannuan.
After all, Nuannuan is still in confinement and breastfeeding, so she cannot eat too much seasoning.
After handling the meat dishes, you also need to prepare a lot of vegetarian dishes, such as tofu, bean curd, dried tofu, gluten, etc., as well as bean curd... bean sprouts, leeks, and some green leafy vegetables, lettuce, cabbage, and oil-bean vegetables that Nuannuan and Yu's mother and daughter gave birth to various vegetables.
After a busy day, Nuannuan's house also decorated the lights and hung the big red lanterns that had been prepared long ago outside her home.
Nuannuan’s house is a typical farmyard in the north, so there are two red lanterns hanging on the gate of Nuannuan’s house, and wires and lights are connected. Turning on the lights at night can also illuminate the road.
The two lights at the door of Nuannuan’s house are actually solar street lights, so these two lights will light up every time it’s dark and will turn off when it’s dawn. Now lanterns are hung, which are very festive and can be illuminated.
In addition to the two lamps at the entrance of the courtyard, Chen Tiezheng and Yu also hung four lanterns under the eaves. Of course, there were no candles or electric lights in the lanterns. After all, it cost much more to put candles or electric lights in the four lanterns? There was no one scurried outside in the middle of winter, so there was no need for so much lighting. It was already very good to have two street lights.
After hanging up the lanterns, Nuannuan's house also closed the door to prepare for the New Year's Eve dinner. Su Qiao has already started preparing the steam pot.
Because there is no steam energy pot like later generations, today's steam pot at Nuannuan's house is an ordinary steamer. Put water in and boil it and use steam to steam the food. So today's rice is eaten around the stove.
Because they had already prepared a steam pot today, Su Qiao and Chen Tiezheng had already prepared a table suitable for steam pots or hot pot. The middle part was empty, just the kind that could put a pot in.
Hot water was boiled in the pot in the middle, and various ingredients were placed on the table next to it, as well as diners' bowls and chopsticks.
Seeing that the water in the pot was almost open, Su Qiao put a few lotus leaves on the steamer, so she could just put the ingredients on the lotus leaves and steam them. This would ensure that the ingredients would not stick to the steamer and absorb the aroma of the lotus leaves.
Chapter completed!