In the next few days, she didn't go out again. Instead, she stayed at home, knitting sweaters, or taking out the fruits in the space and studying various ways to eat them.
When the 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month began, she began to prepare dishes for the New Year every day.
Because there are many things happening on New Year’s Day, the annual New Year’s Eve meals, including steamed vegetables and meatballs that can be prepared in advance, are all prepared a few days in advance.
In this way, you can save some time to do other things on New Year's Eve.
Twenty-three Yesterday, Fang Nuo first cleaned the inside and outside of the house. He also cleaned the blind spots that were not usually cleaned.
It only took her two days to clean up. After cleaning up the inside and outside of the house, she started preparing croquettes, tofu, eggplant boxes and the like.
Half of the small fish and shrimps that Fang Nuo had saved a few days ago were also going to be fried in oil today.
On the early morning of the 25th day of the twelfth lunar month, she got up, cleaned herself up, and went out with the basket. Since she wouldn't be there for long, she didn't carry Yaya out to play.
She went so early because she was afraid that someone else in the village would want fried tofu today, so she thought of going early to avoid having to wait for the next plate of tofu to come out of the pan.
When she arrived, the Wu family, which makes tofu, had already sold two plates of tofu. Fortunately, everyone came to buy and leave, and no one lined up at this time.
Fang Nuo ordered six pieces of tofu and waited for Aunt Wu to pack them.
While Aunt Wu was pretending to be tofu, she also said to Fang Nuo on the side: "Fang Zhiqing, I didn't expect that what you said is really right. My grandson, I asked my daughter-in-law to feed him during this time, both day and night. There’s no more fuss, and the child seems to have gained a lot of weight.”
"As long as it's useful, I'm a child raised by my own family, so I'll tell you what to say," Fang Nuo asked with a smile.
"If you hadn't told me this, we all only know that breast milk is nutritious, and we only want to feed him for a long time. We have never thought about whether he will be hungry just from breastfeeding." Aunt Wu said, giving Fang Nuo I took an extra half piece of tofu and said thank you to her.
Seeing that he couldn't refuse, Fang Nuo accepted it. After thanking him, thinking that Yaya was still at home alone, he went back with his things.
When I got home, I went into the house and saw that Yaya hadn't woken up yet, so she went to the kitchen to take out the tofu she bought.
She cooked breakfast again and started preparing what she would fry today.
Today she is preparing to fry some shredded radish balls, cabbage balls, wild vegetable balls, tofu balls, and then fried tofu, fried fish pieces, fried small fish, and fried shrimps.
There is also the need to cook and fry the pork belly that will be used as pork belly tomorrow.
Thinking about what she was going to blow up today, she knew that she had a heavy task and might have to be busy all day.
I made a simple pimple soup for breakfast and cooked a bowl of noodles for Yaya.
After eating, I went back to the house and took a look. Seeing that she wasn't awake yet, I went back to the kitchen and started working.
Fang Nuo first chopped out all the ingredients for the croquettes and mixed them together. Then he cut the piece of pork belly into two pieces, burned the skin, cleaned it, and boiled it until cooked.
Then I took out the big grass carp I bought two days ago, which had been cleaned and processed.
Chop the fish into large pieces and marinate with some ginger, green onions and cooking wine.
She also chopped some minced pork, added some to the ingredients of the wild vegetable balls and tofu balls, and stirred evenly.
After everything was ready, Yaya finally woke up in the room.
She washed her hands and went back to the house. She fed Yaya breakfast first, and then moved out her crib and put it in the kitchen. In case she was cold, she also lit a fire on the side.
After arranging Yaya, Fang Nuo started to pour oil into the pot. Put half of the oil in the pot. When the oil was hot, he started to put meatballs in it.
She ordered some vegetarian meatballs first, then the meatballs.
After the next pot of meatballs was fried, she took out a few lotus roots from the space, peeled them, sliced them and soaked them in water.
Take out a few long eggplants, cut them into two long slices, and soak them in water.
Stir a batter and use it to wrap eggplant and lotus root boxes.
After finishing here, the meatballs in the pot on the other side had already come out of two pots. She used the free time in between to deal with these two things.
After frying all kinds of meatballs, she left some meat fillings, mixed them with seasonings, and started making lotus root boxes.
This thing is very simple. Just put the mixed meat filling between two lotus root slices, and finally wrap it in batter. After frying it in the pan, flip it over and continue frying until the surface is golden brown, and then it is ready to serve.
The eggplant box is similar to this, and both of them were fried in a short time.
Next came the fried pork. The cooked pork belly had been left aside for so long that the water on the surface had dried. She took a tool from the space, poked the skin of the meat, and then poured dark soy sauce and rice wine juice on it.
Then put it into the oil pan and fry until the meat skin bubbles, then take it out and soak it in cold water.
After frying all the tasteless fish, Fang Nuo began to fry the fish pieces. He picked out all the ginger and green onion from the pickled fish and added them to the pot piece by piece.
When the fish just comes out of the pot, don't rush to flip it. After the fish is slightly set, use a spoon to push it along the bottom of the pot a few times to prevent it from sticking to the pot.
After the fish turns golden brown, fry it on the other side for another two to three minutes and take it out.
When the temperature of the oil pan is hotter, put the fish down and fry for another two minutes, then you can take it out of the pan.
Fang Nuo knew that there was a famous delicacy called smoked fish in a place. She read it in the space last night and found that it was not difficult to make, so she cooked the sauce in the space.
As soon as the fish was fried out of the pan, she took out the prepared sauce from the space, put the fried fish pieces into a large crisper, and waited for the soup inside to soak.
There were still some unsoaked fish pieces, so she kept them to see how to cook them later.
The soaked smoked fish is stored in the space and taken out when eating to avoid being soaked for a long time and the smell will be too strong.
After that, fry the small fish until crispy. If you want to eat the fish later, fry it again with some oil. Sprinkle some barbecue seasoning and it will be a dish.
Shrimps are also simple. Just fry them until they change color, take them out and fry them again when the oil is hot.
There wasn't much oil left after frying things, so Fang Nuo put it in a clay pot alone. Thinking about frying fish later, he continued to use this oil.
She was busy in the kitchen like this all day, and when she left the kitchen, she took Yaya back to the house to take a nap before leaving for a while.
After a busy day, the kitchen cupboards are filled with the things that were fried today.
After finishing everything, it was getting dark outside. Fang Nuo, who had smelled the oil all day, didn’t want to eat anything too oily for dinner, so he steamed some tofu bought today, put some green onions after steaming, and poured some soy sauce to make a dish of green onions. Stir in tofu.
Then there is an egg sauce, paired with some fresh vegetables she picked from the vegetable patch in the backyard, and it is a dipping dish.
