Chapter 340 With their friendship, don't they deserve a box of snowflakes?
"It smells so good, sister-in-law, I heard you bought eel?"
Ling Jiang returned home at some point and went into the kitchen in search of the scent.
Yun Mo smiled and replied, "Yes, we will eat eel tonight."
Looking at the plump eel meat, Ling Jiang couldn't help but sigh, "Not to mention, I haven't eaten eel in many years. When I was young, I used to go to the fields in the countryside with Chuanzi to catch eels and loaches.
Frogs, anything edible can’t escape the eyes of me and Kawako.”
Yun Mo laughed and said, "Brother, I bought six big eels today, I will make sure you can eat them to your heart's content."
Ling Jiang chuckled, "Brother and sister, is there anything I can do to help you?"
"Just in time, brother, please go and light up the stove outside. There are seven people in total, and we will light seven stoves. Use the unused charcoal from the last time we ate mutton-boiled meat. I put it in the first warehouse on the left."
"OK."
After Ling Jiang went out, Yun Mo glanced at Ling Chuan who was picking celery leaves, and couldn't help laughing when she thought of what Ling Jiang said just now.
"Lingchuan, you had such a hard time when you were a child and couldn't even fill your stomach. How can you still grow so tall?"
Lingchuan's face was slightly red, "Actually, when I was very young, life wasn't that hard."
Seeing her curiosity, Lingchuan began to talk about his family situation when he was a child.
"When my great-grandfather was still alive, my family was a well-known and wealthy family with dozens of acres of fertile land, as well as a grain store and a cloth farm. Later, when the world was not peaceful, my great-grandfather was worried about being targeted by the family property, so he signed the deed to the land.
All the money and shops were transferred out, all converted into gold, and the family was divided among my grandfather and uncles.
When I was born, my family still had some wealth. Although it was not as rich as my great-grandfather, it was no problem to have enough to eat.
Later, when I met wg, everything at home and the house were set on fire. My father was forced to have no choice but to live in his hometown, so he had to take my mother and us to hide in the city. At first
I lived in the north of the city, and later moved to the old street in the east of the city, and I have lived there ever since."
This was the first time Yun Mo heard Lingchuan talk about this, and she felt a little unsatisfied.
"What happened next?"
"Actually, we had a younger sister. We were so poor back then. The bark of the trees in the countryside had been stripped off, and the family had no food for several days. My father finally went to the tree to dig out a nest of bird eggs and boiled them.
I gave it to my mother to eat, but she was reluctant to eat it and gave the eggs to my eldest brother and me.
My eldest brother was less than 10 years old at that time and didn't understand anything. He forgot everything after seeing the bird's egg. As a result, my eldest brother and I finished eating the bird's egg. My mother's legs were so weak from hunger that she fell down while walking and suffered from bleeding.
There was blood all over the ground, and my sister was just gone."
The man's tone was full of loss, guilt, and regret.
No wonder the two brothers seemed to love their daughter (niece) Ling Chunhua more than Ling Jiale, probably with a bit of guilt for their unborn sister.
After chatting for a while, Ling Jiang had already lit up the charcoal fires in all seven stoves.
Yun Mo placed seven casseroles in a row on the stove, scooped two ladles of eel bone soup into each casserole, then grabbed two handfuls of soaked oil-glutinous rice, and finally put a little lard and fine salt.
After that, put the seven casseroles on the stove and start cooking.
To prevent the rice grains from sticking to the pot, stir occasionally with a spoon during the cooking process.
Within a few minutes, the rice and bone soup in the casserole began to boil, and bursts of fragrance wafted through the yard, attracting everyone to come around and watch.
Uncle Luo: "In all my life, this is the first time I've seen someone cooking like this. There are seven of us eating, and there are exactly seven pots, one for each person. It's interesting!"
Yun Mo continued to stir the rice soup in the casserole while explaining: "This is called clay pot rice. It is a traditional Cantonese delicacy. This method not only retains the aroma of the rice itself, but also allows you to eat the bottom of the pot.
Burnt fragrant crispy rice.”
Listening to Yun Mo's introduction and smelling the rich aroma of rice in the air, everyone swallowed in silence.
"Little Moya, how long does it take for your rice to be ready?"
Yun Mo picked up some rice grains with a rice spoon and looked at it, "Now it's almost half cooked. When it's half cooked, spread the marinated eel fillets evenly on the rice, cover the pot and cook over low heat.
It simmers for four to five minutes and is ready to eat.”
"Okay, okay, that should be soon."
Seeing that everyone was a little hungry, Yun Mo turned around and asked Lingchuan to fry the eel that had been cut into pieces. "Make the eel dry and fry it with some cabbage."
"good."
Lingchuan used to work as a cook in a restaurant, so cooking a dish of dry-roasted eel was not a problem.
First fry the cut eel in rapeseed oil until both ends are rolled up and the skin is slightly charred, then remove it from the pot, drain the oil and set aside.
After that, pour an appropriate amount of new oil into the pot again. After a small amount of green smoke comes out from the oil, add ginger, onion, garlic, peppercorns, and tempeh in order. Stir-fry until fragrant, then add bean paste and kimchi, continue to stir-fry, and finally
Pour the fried eel segments into the pot and stir-fry.
After the panfish segments are fully and evenly coated with the sauce, add the onions, celery, garlic sprouts and other side dishes into the pot.
As the sky gradually turned dark, Yun Mo turned down the heat in the stove, then spread the marinated fish fillets on top of the rice in each casserole pot, and covered the pot lids one by one.
"Ouch-ouch-"
"Quack!"
I don’t know whether it was because of the smell of claypot rice or because I was hungry, but the dog and the goose were restless and noisy.
"Chunhua, haven't you fed the dogs and geese today?"
Ling Chunhua blushed and stuck out her tongue, "Aunt, I forgot, I'm going now!"
"good."
After Ling Chunhua finished feeding the dogs and geese, the claypot rice on the stove began to emit the aroma of burning rice cakes. If you listened closely, you could hear the sizzling sound of rice cakes condensing on the bottom of the pot.
Yun Mo used the tongs to take out all the charcoal that had not been burned in the stove and put it into the baking basin for everyone to keep warm.
When the casserole in the casserole completely disappeared, Yun Mo put on gloves and put the casserole on the plate, and then brought it to the table one by one.
"dinner time!"
Each person had a pot of meaty claypot rice, together with the dry-roasted eel, vinegared cabbage, and three fresh egg drop soup on the table, it was a simple but not delicious meal.
After eating and drinking enough, everyone went back to their homes to find their mothers.
Yunmo sent Xie Xia to take a taxi at the intersection and take a walk to eat.
Seeing that she was about to walk out of the courtyard door, Xie Xia couldn't help turning her head and reminding Yun Mo, "Have you forgotten anything?"
Yun Mo thought seriously, "No? What's wrong?"
No matter how thick-skinned Xie Xia was, she was too embarrassed to take the initiative to ask for the snowflake cake, "...it's okay."
"Then let's go."
"..."
Seeing Xie Xia's deflated look, Yun Mo almost couldn't help laughing.
Those snowflake cakes were originally planned to be sent to Xie's family tomorrow, so there was no need to give an extra portion for Xie Xia to take back.
But Xie Xia didn't know the inside story and was secretly depressed when she returned.
Based on their friendship, don’t they deserve a box of snowflake cakes?