Chapter 285
This year's New Year's Eve dinner was also eaten at my uncle's house. The relationship between several rooms in the Zhang family is still very good. You can't eat together, but you must eat together.
Everyone has a good life this year. The other rooms in the Zhang family have earned a lot because Zhang Chengchuan taught everyone to build biogas tanks and lay biogas lamp lines.
This year, everyone is very active in working in the fields, and because of the bumper harvest, they get a lot of food. They must make delicious food during the Chinese New Year to make everyone happy.
Chen Xiayue prepared braised elbows, and two large elbows, which combined were about 20 to 30 kilograms.
Chen Xiayue has to stew it from morning to afternoon big elbows. She added a lot of spices to stew it. It will definitely taste delicious at night and it will definitely taste delicious.
In addition to the elbow, Chen Xiayue also prepared the pork belly, fried the skin and put it in water to make the pig skin wrinkle, and then sliced it and steamed it together with the plum vegetables.
This year, Chen Xiayue prepared two dishes, and the rest of the dishes were prepared by several other rooms. It was already very good to be able to take out so much meat, and Chen Xiayue didn't want to prepare anything else.
Twenty or thirty pounds of elbows, plus ten pounds of buckles, all of which are already thirty or forty pounds of meat. Even if she doesn't take other dishes, others will definitely not say anything else.
Fortunately, everyone has a good life this year. The pigs raised in the brigade have grown to 200 or 300 kilograms. Although everyone doesn’t have that much meat, they must cook meat for the New Year. Therefore, the elbow stewed by Chen Xiayue and the steamed pork buckles are not very abrupt, and there is no unnecessary trouble because of the meat flavor.
"What's not abrupt? The meat you stewed is too fragrant, right?" Although he was busy with the dishes for the New Year's Eve dinner in the evening, Hu Xiaofang, who still liked to come to chat with Chen Xiayue, couldn't help complaining after hearing Chen Xiayue's words.
Is this meat so fragrant? Braised elbows are originally a dish with overbearing fragrance. Chen Xiayue has good cooking skills and the quality of ingredients is also very good. When stewing, the taste is not fragrant.
Of course, the fragrance is exaggerated, but at least it is also fragrant two or three miles away? It’s so fragrant that most of the Yunhe Brigade can smell it.
The reason why Hu Xiaofang rubbed over was because the braised elbow smelled so fragrant. She found it according to the fragrance after smelling it at home. Sure enough, this dish was really made by Chen Xiayue, and it was so fragrant.
"It's good to smell, it's good to taste, right?" Chen Xiayue said with a smile.
Today is New Year's Eve. Yu Xiujuan and Lu Zhanguo did not celebrate the New Year with Yunhe Brigade. Of course, they did not return to their hometown, but returned to the army to celebrate the New Year.
However, Zhang Chengchuan's protection was not removed. However, the married people among the protection personnel returned to the army to celebrate the New Year with their families, and those who remained were single people.
There were also unmarried soldiers of the age of Lu Zhanguo, so this time I sent a 27-year-old unmarried soldier here to lead the team. The other party was also a company commander and had good abilities, but he was not married yet.
Of course, Chen Xiayue, the soldiers who still want to protect Zhang Chengchuan during the Chinese New Year, would not treat them unfairly. One of the two elbows she stewed was for the soldiers, and she also planned to give them one to the soldier.
Of course, in addition to these two dishes, Chen Xiayue also prepared other dishes for the soldiers, such as pickled fish, braised fish and squirrel mandarin fish.
Originally, Chen Xiayue only planned to prepare two dishes this year, but because she wanted to prepare her New Year’s Eve dinner, she added a few more dishes.
Fish are provided by the soldier. If the elbow is given, the soldier will give Chen Xiayue some money tickets as they bought. After all, they cannot let Chen Xiayue give them such a big elbow for free.
Everyone was about to eat at around 6:00 p.m. on New Year's Eve. Chen Xiayue gave the elbows that had been stewed for the whole morning and afternoon. One of them was also sauerkraut fish, braised fish, and squirrel mandarin fish to the soldiers.
"Thank you sister-in-law." The young soldier took the dishes handed over by Chen Xiayue and thanked happily.
You should know that even if they are in the army, they may not be able to eat so much meat during the Chinese New Year. The army does not treat everyone badly, but they are all poor. The people in the kitchen are not very capable, but they feel that the dishes made by Chen Xiayue are more delicious.
"Happy New Year." Chen Xiayue said with a smile after handing over the squirrel mandarin fish to a young soldier, "I will prepare these dishes for you. You can only cook vegetables and other things by yourself."
"Don't worry, sister-in-law, we have prepared other dishes." The soldiers don't know how to cook anything, so they also prepared other dishes themselves for tonight's New Year's Eve dinner.
For example, when stewing taro with chicken heads, they made a large pot of taro by themselves, and put about five or six kilograms of taro in the two chickens and stewed them.
They also made fried vegetables, green peppers, tomatoes and eggs, etc., and they also ate them with the two elderly people who lived in the family during the Chinese New Year this year.
After Chen Xiayue sent away a few soldiers, she also found a large plate and put the remaining elbow on. She also took a plate of buckles. Two plates of meat were enough to be mouth-watering.
Zhang Chengchuan and Zhang Deping and his son brought the two meat dishes to Zhang Dexin's house, and Liu Guiying took away the braised fish. This fish was one of the fish sent by the soldiers. After Chen Xiayue finished cooking, the soldiers said they would stay for Chen Xiayue and the others to eat.
Chen Xiayue stayed this fish weighing about ten pounds without hesitation. Now that it has been made into braised fish, Liu Guiying will be taken to Zhang Dexin's house for a while and everyone will eat it.
Chen Xiayue packed up the things at home, and took the bread processed from the processing factory to her uncle's house to prepare for the New Year's Eve dinner together.
The tables and chairs were moved over before they were ready to eat. When they moved back tomorrow, they would definitely not be able to move back tonight after dinner. Everyone was over and drunk.
Zhang Dexin’s family.
The big elbow weighing more than ten pounds and the plum vegetable pork, and the braised fish weighing more than ten pounds were placed on the main table. This time, because there were big dishes that were difficult to divide, everyone put the tables together into a large table and then dozens of people sat together to eat.
In addition to braised elbow, plum vegetable buckle and braised fish, there are also dishes on the table full of dishes such as taro chicken stewed with pepper, fish stewed with tofu, eggs scrambled with tomatoes, eggs scrambled with green pepper, and various fried vegetables.
The table was full of people staring at the braised elbow and plum vegetable pork in the middle, waiting for Grandpa Zhang to eat the meat at the order.
"Our family is still thriving this year, and everyone has found a way out. This year is a bumper year." Grandpa Zhang said with a smile.
Chapter completed!