Shen Gongqi is helping with the children at home these days, so she can do it in her free time.
Otherwise, Shen Gongqi would go to Qingxue in a few days, and she would have no help.
She spent more than ten days making cotton clothes and pants for each of the Fang family. She also packed up a large bag of things and put a family photo of their west entrance among the things. Shen Gongqi dragged them to the town by himself. Went to the post office and sent it.
Not long after, they received a reply from Father Fang and the others, letting them spend the New Year at home with peace of mind and that everything was fine over there.
Several people were happy that they had a new child, and Grandpa Fang also asked the whole family to go to their place for a reunion next year.
In the following days, Fang Nuo slept at home every day.
In the first month of the year, everyone in the village became busy.
As the New Year gets closer, the village prepares to kill the New Year pig. This year, Fang Nuo did not cook the pig meat because he couldn't leave with his two children.
But there were pig-killing dishes cooked by Aunt Dahua and other aunts, and the taste was not that bad.
Anyway, it tastes better than before, mainly because all the internal organs in the soup have been cleaned.
This year, Fang Nuo asked Shen Gongqi to bring back some pig blood, and asked for a pair of pig blood. She planned to make the blood sausage at home by herself.
When the time comes, I will share some with a few familiar friends, as a favor.
Their family also bought more than ten kilograms of meat this year, and Fang Nuo’s family also bought all the pig accessories this year.
Some people in the village knew that Fang Nuo was good at cooking and could make these delicious things.
They wanted to come to ask for advice, but with Shen Gongqi around, they all stopped thinking about coming to ask for advice in vain.
It is impossible for them to give something to ask for advice, because they feel that the recipe is not as important as what they give.
"Daughter-in-law, have we done too much this year?" Shen Gongqi said, looking at the things he had moved back twice.
"Not much, just this little food, our family will need to eat it for almost two months. If the snow melts late in spring, we can eat it for even longer," Fang Nuo said
"Okay then, tell me how to can the blood sausage. I'll wash the can. The water is cold today, so don't touch it," Shen Gongqi said.
"Let's boil some hot water and wash it. Let's do it together. It will go faster. I can't bear to wash it with cold water yourself. I feel sorry for you because of the cold." Fang Nuo said
"Then you first season the blood to be filled with blood sausage. I'll clean the pig intestines first, and you can can them and cook them," Shen Gongqi said.
He still couldn't bear to let his wife do such work. It was already very hard to take care of the children at home all day long.
"Okay, let's boil the water first. Take these things to the kitchen first and cook them there later." Fang Nuo said, and left first with the pork and pig's trotters.
Shen Gongqi followed with two pig heads, moved everything to the kitchen, boiled two pots of hot water, and the two of them cleaned the pig's waste water first.
This year, their family also bought some raw lard. Fang Nuo washed it first, cut it into pieces and boiled it in a pot.
While Shen Gongqi was cleaning the pig intestines, she went to mix the pig blood to taste and put eggs in it to make it easier to shape.
She also chopped some green onions and coriander and mixed them evenly. After Shen Gongqi washed the pig intestines, she used the small intestine can first, and then used the large intestine when the cans were finished.
There are only two sections of large intestine in the can. Put the canned blood sausage in the pot under cold water and start boiling it. After the water boils, lower the heat and cook slowly until cooked.
Halfway through, I hold a needle in my hand and prick the airy areas in the blood sausage to prevent it from boiling.
Take out the cooked blood sausage and let it cool. When eating, just cut it out and put it on top of the stewed sauerkraut.
Or just cut it and heat it first, make a bowl of garlic water, it will be delicious when eaten with it.
The blood sausage is cooked here, and the lard in the other pot is also cooked. Fang Nuo filters out the oil residue and scoops the lard into the oil tank.
She mixed a ball of dough with the oil at the bottom of the pot, then wiped the oil out of the pot, kneaded it evenly, got some chopped green onion, rolled it out in a bag, and then put it in the pot and cooked it. This is what their family had at noon today The staple food.
With the staple food in hand, Fang Nuo cooked another pork, cabbage and vermicelli soup and asked Shen Gongqi to cook a few chili peppers.
After everything was done, the two boiled two pots of water and went back to the house to have lunch.
Yaya over there has also woken up, but when the little girl wakes up in winter, she likes to stay under the quilt and look after her younger brother.
After Fang Nuo put the food on the table, he went to catch Yaya, put her clothes on, washed her, put her on the kang and sat down, and the family started to have lunch.
The second child just finished feeding and is still sleeping soundly.
After eating, Yaya followed them to the kitchen. Shen Gongqi got a skewer with some pieces of meat skewered on it, and Yaya took it and grilled it on the side.
When it was cooked, Fang Nuo also brushed it with some soy sauce. She tasted it first and gave it to Yaya to eat when it was cooked.
One day the two of them were busy in the kitchen, cleaning the pig's head and trotters.
After finishing it, it was too late, so Fang Nuo thought about doing it again the next day.
After dinner, the family washed up and went to bed early.
The next day, Fang Nuo marinated the two pig heads and stewed a small pot of pig skin jelly using the pig skin removed from the purchased meat.
Yaya was lovely to eat, but it was too cold and she was worried that she would have a stomachache if she ate too much, so Fang Nuo only gave her a small piece for each meal.
If the frozen pork rinds had not melted, Fang Nuo would have wanted to heat it up and eat it.
Fang Nuo took out half of the pig blood sausage made by their family and asked Shen Gongqi to give some to people in the village who had helped their family.
Fang Nuo only prepared a portion of the remaining items and asked Shen Gongqi to send them to Aunt Dahua's house. Others did not send them.
Time passed quickly, and after Laba, Fang Nuo began to clean up the house.
After doing a little work a day, it soon arrived on the 26th of the twelfth lunar month. During this period, the village also caught fish and divided the fish among them.
After twenty-six, Fang Nuo began to prepare several big dishes for the New Year's Eve dinner, and fried everything to be fried in advance.
After a few more busy days, it's New Year's Eve.
After getting up early, Shen Gongqi went to the kitchen to prepare breakfast before calling Fang Nuo to get up for breakfast.
After taking a break after breakfast, Shen Gongqi began to boil water and kill the chicken, and then stew the chicken.
The pig's trotters saved earlier should also be stewed with soaked kidney beans.
All the big vegetables are stewed, and several big vegetables prepared in advance are steamed.
The others are some soups and stir-fries, all relatively simple.
When all the dishes were out of the pot, Fang Nuo stir-fried the prepared vegetables, and finally made a soup, and everything was ready.
Before eating, Shen Gongqi set off firecrackers before the family started eating.
The two little waiters were also carried to the table by Fang Nuo. The child was now full day, so Fang Nuo dipped his chopsticks into some relatively light vegetable juice, gave him a taste, and then ate it. It’s New Year’s Eve dinner.
When Shen Gongqi saw her holding the child, he ate a lot slower, fearing that the food would be cold and not taste good.
