Hearing that his daughter-in-law left his eldest brother to eat, Lingchuan said at the right time, "Momo, what kind of food do you want to eat for lunch? I'll buy it."
"Let's go together, we need to buy some seasonings."
"good."
After going out, when passing by a small store, Yun Mo turned in, called Zeng Fang, and invited her to come over for lunch.
When she arrived at the vegetable market, Yun Mo went straight to the meat stall and chose five pounds of beef belly and five pounds of lamb tenderloin.
Knowing that she was making hot pot, the owner of the butcher stall generously gave her two beef leg bones to take home to make the soup.
After buying the meat, Yunmo went to the vegetable stall and bought radishes, cabbage, bean sprouts, coriander, and green onions to make side dishes and condiments.
After shopping for groceries, the couple went to the grain and oil station and bought sesame paste, sesame oil, and charcoal.
When he returned to the courtyard, he saw her and Lingchuan carrying meat and vegetables in large and small bags. Ling Jiang quickly stepped forward to help.
"Brother and sister, why did you buy so much meat? How can you eat it all?"
Yun Mo explained with a smile: "If you can't finish your meal, you can still eat it at night. Brother, please go to the ice factory and buy a piece of whole ice. I can use it."
"Okay, I'll go right away."
In the kitchen, Yun Mo directed Ling Chuan to cut the beef and mutton into long strips of meat. When Shi Bing bought it, he used ice kung fu to freeze it hard so that it could be cut into thin slices for hot pot.
While Lingchuan was cutting the meat, she washed the beef leg bones sent by the butcher stall owner, put them into an iron pot, and added spices such as ginger, green onions, and white peppercorns to make a base soup.
After all the meat was cut, Lingjiang also bought the ice cubes, which were a square piece. Yun Mo asked Lingchuan to use a sharp knife to hollow out the middle of the ice cubes, and then stuffed the long strips of beef and lamb into it.
Freeze it and seal it with crushed ice to freeze it faster.
It would be nice if there was a refrigerator at home, but refrigerators in this era are hard to buy, and they require tickets and connections.
When the beef bone soup in the iron pot was boiling and turned white, Zeng Fang also arrived.
As soon as he arrived, he went into the kitchen and said, "Momo, it smells so good. What's delicious for lunch?"
Yun Mo deliberately teased her, "Hey, it's simmering in the pot. Please chew the big bones to replenish your calcium."
"Ah?" Zeng Fang looked at the steaming iron pot, a little unwilling to give up, "Is it just the bones? Nothing else?"
"What do you want to eat?"
"Then, there must be some meat. These bones are dry and have no meat. Just drinking soup won't make them full. Besides, I'm in good health. I don't need to supplement. If I supplement any more, I'll be over-nutritional."
This is true, Zeng Fang is already plump, and if she adds more supplements, she will become too plump.
Yun Mo pointed at the ice cubes on the stone platform in a funny way, "The meat is there, don't worry, I guarantee you'll be full."
Zeng Fang ran to the ice cube, bent down and looked at it excitedly, "This is mutton? Why did you freeze it? Just put it in the pot and stew it."
"Instead of stewing, we eat shabu-shabu mutton and beef. Eating mutton alone is too irritating."
"Shabu-shabu mutton? What is that?"
Shabu-shabu mutton is a way of eating in the north, and Jiangshi is a southern city. In this era, information was relatively limited, and the spread of humanistic diet was not as widespread as in later generations. Zeng Fang has never been to the north, so she didn't know that mutton-shabu-shabu is normal.
"You'll find out later."
"All right."
After Yunmo prepared the seasonings needed for the flavor dish, the beef and mutton in the ice cubes were almost frozen.
Lingchuan had worked as Dunzi in the back kitchen of a hotel before. Slicing meat was not difficult for him. The long strips of beef and mutton quickly turned into paper-like slices under the sharp kitchen knife.
Lingchuan concentrated on slicing the meat, while Yunmo folded the meat into small rolls and placed them neatly on a vegetable plate covered with crushed ice.
Zeng Fang was not idle either, helping to carry the meat and vegetables to the stone table in the yard outside.
Without much effort, ten pounds of beef and mutton turned into ten plates of beautiful meat rolls.
Yun Mo put the charcoal into the coal stove and lit it, and then found a copper pot for boiling mutton.
She bought the copper pot when she passed by an iron shop a few days ago. When she saw the pot, the first thing she thought about was to buy it and take it home to cook mutton.
Place the cleaned copper pot on the stone table, pour in the boiled beef bone soup, and put the red-hot charcoal into the base of the copper pot.
The copper pot conducts heat very quickly. After a while, the white beef bone soup in the pot began to steam.
Yun Mo brought out the seasonings prepared in advance, "You can put a little of each seasoning, and you can put more sesame sauce, which makes it more fragrant. If you like it saltier, you can add a little more soy sauce."
After mixing the sauce, Yunmo taught everyone how to cook the meat slices.
Put a whole plate of meat rolls into a copper pot, spread them out with clean chopsticks, wait until the meat slices turn gray-white, put them into a bowl, and eat them with seasonings.
Zeng Fang had been starving for a long time. After hearing Yun Mo say that the meat was cooked, she immediately stretched out her chopsticks to pick it up.
Lingchuan also stretched out his chopsticks, but instead of putting the meat he picked up into his own bowl, he put it all into Yun Mo's bowl.
"Phew, it's so hot and delicious..."
Except for Zeng Fang and Yun Mo, everyone else comes from a lower-class background and lives a tight life, and it is hard to see even a trace of meat.
Suddenly a table full of meat was placed in front of them, and everyone was so flattered that they didn't dare to move their chopsticks.
This is a scene that I have never even dared to dream about.
Seeing everyone's restraint and discomfort, Yun Mo greeted with a smile: "Eat all of them, the mutton-boiled meat is delicious. After the meat slices are put into the pot, you should pick them up immediately when they are cooked. After they are cooked, they will lose the taste.
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Everyone was already so greedy that after hearing her words, they all reached into the pot to fish out the meat with their chopsticks.
Even though their teeth were burned and their mouths were cracked, everyone still stuffed the meat into their mouths.
For Ling Jiang and Zhou Xiaowei, this is the most delicious meat they have ever eaten in their lives.
In Lingchuan's heart, this hot pot meal has become his most delicacy, and he will never forget it no matter how many years pass.
After everyone finished scooping out the meat slices in the pot, Yunmo threw in a few more pieces of radish and cooked them slowly.
The hotpot meal lasted until 2 o'clock.
Ten pounds of meat were eaten cleanly by six people.
Zeng Fang burped with endless aftertaste, "Momo, I've eaten braised mutton, roasted mutton, braised mutton, but I have never eaten hot-boiled mutton. Where did you learn this way of eating?"
"I saw it in a book."
In her previous life, Yun Mo lived in a northern city. Every winter, her family would gather together to eat hotpot mutton.
In order to eat the best mutton, her grandfather bought a farm and raised dozens of alt big-tail sheep.
This kind of sheep grows in lush forests in deep mountains, drinks mountain spring water, and eats wild pastures. The meat is tender and has no fishy smell. It has the best meat quality and taste among the hot-pot muttons.
Zeng Fang didn't know that Yun Mo had traveled from another world. She really thought she learned it from a book and couldn't help but praise her sincerely.
"Momo, you are so amazing. You can learn how to cook delicious food just by reading about it in books. I can't do that. My nanny taught me step by step for half a month. I couldn't even cook a single dish and almost burned down the kitchen.