Seeing Xie Xia standing all the time, Ling Chunhua very sensible helped her move a stool.
Xie Xia sat on the stool and rubbed Ling Chunhua's head in a good mood, "Thank you."
Ling Chunhua smiled shyly, turned around and ran to the kitchen again. Xie Xia didn't pay much attention, turned around and continued to watch Yunmo frying snowflake cake.
After a while, a steaming cup of tea suddenly appeared in front of her.
Xie Xia turned her head in surprise and looked at Ling Chunhua's clean and clear eyes, feeling soft in her heart.
"Pour me some water?"
Ling Chunhua nodded.
"So good."
Seeing Yun Mo finish frying one pot and then another, her face turned red from exhaustion without taking a break, Xie Xia couldn't help but wonder.
"When do you want to do it? Can't you do it next time after eating?"
Yun Mo wiped the sweat from her forehead with a tissue, "There are still three flavors left. Once finished, we can hand over."
Xie Xia raised her eyebrows, "Did someone else book these for you?"
"yes."
"I'll help you."
"OK."
After frying seven pots of snowflake cakes in a row, Yun Mo's arms were sore and numb, so Xie Xia took the initiative to help. Of course she was asking for it.
With Xie Xia's help, the next three pots of snowflake cake came out of the pot smoothly.
Although in her previous life, Yun Mo would occasionally make snowflake cakes as snacks when she had nothing to do, but this was the first time she made so many at once.
Ten flavors of snowflake cakes were neatly placed on ten large discs. Just looking at them gave her a full sense of accomplishment. In this era, there were no mobile phones, otherwise she would have to take pictures of Jiugongge and post them on WeChat Moments.
After resting enough, Yun Mo found two paper boxes for snacks, picked four pieces of each flavor of snowflake cake, and neatly stacked them in the snack boxes.
Xie Xia thought it was prepared for her. There were exactly four people in her family, so each person had a piece of each flavor, which was just right.
As a result, Yunmo turned around and asked Ling Chunhua to send the two packed boxes of snowflake cakes to the next door.
It doesn't matter, there are still so many on the table.
Xie Xia thought calmly.
"Sister Xia, would you like to have dinner at my house tonight?"
Thinking of going back alone, Xie Xia agreed without hesitation.
Yun Mo took Xuehua Cake into the house and immediately took Xie Xia to the vegetable market to buy vegetables.
Before entering the vegetable market, I met an old man with black mud on his trouser legs, carrying a bamboo cage. He would approach everyone and sell the things in the bamboo cage.
The old man quickly sold the money to Yun Mo and Xie Xia.
"Girls, do you want to buy eels? Big, fat, live eels, just caught from the fields, they cost one yuan a pound."
In winter, the water is cold, and the prices of aquatic products are relatively high. Grass carp is sold for 1.5 yuan. This wild eel is rarer than grass carp. One yuan is really not expensive.
Yun Mo looked into the bamboo cage and saw several round and slippery eels entangled together, squirming constantly. It looked a little uncomfortable, but thinking about the delicious taste of wild eels, Yun Mo was a little moved.
"Sister Xia, do you eat yellow worms?"
"Except for snakes, I can do anything."
Yun Mo decisively took down the bamboo cage and all the eels in it.
After buying the eel, Yunmo began to think about how to make the eel.
It’s so cold that we can have claypot eel rice. It’s one pot per person and you can also eat crispy rice after the meal. It’s nice to think about it.
The eel in the bamboo cage weighs about 7 kilograms. After cooking the clay pot rice, the rest will be enough to cook the dry-roasted eel.
After buying the side dishes and ingredients, Yunmo went to the grocery store and bought ten pairs of small casseroles and a casserole stove.
The reason why I bought so many is because the boss would only deliver them to my door after buying ten pairs.
The owner of the grocery store had timed it very accurately. Yun Mo had just entered the door, and the owner on the back rode a tricycle to deliver the casserole and stove. Seeing that there was no man at home, he enthusiastically helped move the food into the yard.
The tools and materials are all gathered and ready to make dinner.
Seeing Yun Mo holding the knife and staring at the eel in the bamboo cage without moving for a long time, Xie Xia couldn't help but raise her eyebrows.
"Don't you know how to kill eels?"
Yun Mo raised her eyes and looked at her, "Can you do it?"
Xie Xia: "...No."
The two stared at each other for a while, then Xie Xia couldn't help but said: "If you don't know how to kill, why did you buy it?"
"I didn't think about this problem when I bought it. Others took care of it before, and I only had to cook."
Xie Xia rubbed her forehead, turned around and walked out.
Yun Mo stood up quickly, "Sister Xia, are you leaving? Are you not going to eat at my house?"
Xie Xia turned around, with a half-smiling look on her face, "What do you plan to treat me to? Eat the eel raw?"
Yun Mo explained guiltily: "Lingchuan will be back later, and he will kill him."
"Forget it, I'll find a helper."
"oh."
Xie Xia soon came back with a helper, Aunt Gao, Uncle Luo's nanny next door, and Uncle Luo came with her.
"Little Moya, my nanny comes to your place to work, and no one can cook for me, so I can only come to your place to have a meal."
Yun Mo smiled and said, "No problem, nothing else. I'll definitely take care of enough food."
Aunt Gao was indeed an expert. She managed to clean up a big eel in just a few seconds, which made Yun Mo click her tongue in surprise.
Seeing her interest, the nanny said with a smile: "Killing an eel is very simple as long as you master the method. First hit its head with a stick to knock it unconscious, and then use hot salt water to make its body slippery.
Wash the eel's mucus cleanly, which can not only remove the muddy smell from the eel, but also make it easier to slaughter."
It sounded simple, but Yunmo still didn't dare to get started.
The nanny smiled and sighed, "I was the same when I was your age. I felt disgusted and dirty when I saw people killing chickens and pigs. Later, when I got married and had children, in order to feed the children, I would kill chickens and fish, let alone fish.
, even digging food out of the garbage pit doesn’t feel like anything.”
Yun Mo wrinkled her nose, "It's not that I don't think it's dirty, but I just don't dare."
"Once you are alive, you will become familiar again. If you kill a few times, you will get used to it."
Yun Mo shuddered, "Then it's better not to eat it. I'd rather not eat it."
Just as he was talking, there was a movement outside the gate. It was Lingchuan who was back.
Seeing so many people in the yard, Lingchuan was stunned for a moment, then quickly parked his bicycle and strode towards Yunmo.
"Aunt Gao, let me do it."
Aunt Gao looked at him with a smile and said, "It's okay, that's all. Xiaoling, go get a bucket of water and flush the ground later to avoid leaving a fishy smell."
"good."
Lingchuan first went back to the house and changed into old clothes, and then took the bucket to the well to fetch water.
After the eels are killed, it’s Yunmo’s turn to get busy.
She picked two eels of even size and planned to save them for dry roasting. Lingchuan asked Lingchuan to cut the remaining eels into small pieces and tear out the eel bones.
Blanch the eel bones with wine and ginger to remove the fishy smell, then put them into an iron pot and cook the soup over high heat.
While the soup was cooking, Yunmo marinated the eel fillets with salt, cooking wine, pepper, ginger and green onion, light soy sauce, oyster sauce, starch, etc.
Lingchuan was not idle either. He changed the knife pattern for the dry-roasted eel and washed all the newly purchased casseroles.
When the pottery bone soup in the iron pot boiled to an off-white color, Yun Mo found a bamboo filter, filtered the soup to remove the bone residue, and poured it into a large basin, ready to be used to cook clay pot rice.
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Second update~
The eel clay pot rice is really delicious, I can only eat three big bowls of it.