mtl008 Chapter 263: Sour Wild Rice Noodles
Chapter 263: Sour Wild Rice Noodles
These cassavas had not been harvested for a long time, and they grew more and more spontaneously. Xia Qingyue looked at them with joy in her eyes.
Han Zhibai said, "We'll come over this afternoon and dig some up and carry them back. Let's go for a walk and then go to the traps to see if we've caught any prey."
That's exactly what she meant.
He was familiar with the terrain, so he took Xia Qingyue for a walk nearby. There were trees along the way to block the sun, so they could walk around in the secluded place, which was not so hot and was relaxing and comfortable.
He led her to two trees with green fruit and said, "This fruit is like a plum, but it is sour and not tasty."
She took a look and said, "It's plums. They are crisp and sour. You can add some chili powder and mix them together. Yes, you can also add some green mangoes to make it together!"
Just thinking about it made her so greedy.
"Chili powder?" He wondered if he had heard it wrong.
"Yes, it tastes sour and spicy when mixed together. It's delicious. Let's pick some plums and green mangoes to take back."
"Okay." He had long arms, so he pulled the branches down and they picked them together.
After walking around for a while, they returned to the trap-setting area. They caught a total of four pheasants and two squirrels in eight traps.
The chickens were caught and the squirrels were let go.
Before leaving, he fixed the trap and put the trapped food back in. He said he could come back and take another look in the afternoon.
It was already past three in the afternoon and my stomach was growling with hunger, so I hurried home.
After returning home, Han Zhibai went to arrange the poultry, and Xia Qingyue went into the kitchen to cook lunch.
While washing the rice, she thought of a famous snack from a coastal city that she had eaten in her previous life, rice rolls.
Now that she lives by the sea, she wants to cook and eat with Han Zhibai, and there are various ways to eat seafood and fruits. With the conditions, she can cook different dishes every day.
Rice rolls are made of rice. She soaked some rice, put it aside, and cooked lunch.
The dish was simple. I cooked some bacon and dried fish, soaked some dried eggplant slices and boiled them, then rinsed them with water and served them cold. Then I killed three rabbits, boiled two for the two little ones, and made one into spicy stir-fried rabbit cubes.
They caught a total of twenty-three rabbits today, a number beyond her imagination.
Rabbits will reproduce very quickly as long as you take good care of them.
While the rabbit cubes were being fried slowly in the frying pan, she took some time out from her busy schedule to process the plums and mangoes. She peeled the green mangoes and cut the hard green flesh into strips. She flattened the plums with a knife, letting the juice splash out and a fresh sour flavor spread.
While swallowing her saliva, she poured the two kinds of fruits into a large bowl, added some not-so-spicy chili powder and an appropriate amount of brown sugar and mixed them well. The red chili powder enhanced the color and stimulated the appetite.
"It would be even better if there was sour plum powder."
As soon as it was ready, she was so greedy that she picked up a mango with chopsticks and put it in her mouth. It had a crisp taste. She picked up a plum and took a bite. Her mouth was full of juice and the sour taste was stronger. The overall taste was sour and spicy, very appetizing. After eating this, she became even hungrier.
When lunch was ready, she went to call Han Zhibai back to eat.
She put the food and dishes on the table, and he came over after washing his hands.
"Come, try this, it's delicious. It's called sour wild, and it's a snack made with fruits or vegetables such as radish and cucumber and seasonings." She picked up a green mango and fed him.
He opened his mouth naturally and smelled a sour and spicy taste. He took it in his mouth and found that the taste was better than he had imagined. It was just the taste...
Seeing the strange expression on his face, she picked up a plum coated with chili powder and said with a smile, "This plum tastes better."
He didn't doubt it and started eating. After just one bite, the food was so sour that his whole face wrinkled and his facial features were squeezed together.
"It's so sour!" Although he didn't like sour food, he knew that he couldn't waste the food once it was in his mouth, so he ate it whole and finally spit out the core.
She held Han Zhibai's arm and sat down, "Okay, let's sit down and eat. If you don't like this, just eat the vegetables. I like it. I can finish it after dinner."
In fact, when she was cooking, she tasted the sour and wild flavor, which instantly whetted her appetite. She ate a lot while cooking, and there was not much left in the bowl.
After lunch, Han Zhibai went to wash the dishes, while Xia Qingyue lay on the recliner in the main room and ate sour food.
It's sunny outside now, so it's not easy to go out to work or play. I packed up, washed up, and went back to my room for a nap.
Generally, I wake up after sleeping for half an hour. After a good sleep, I feel refreshed.
Recently, after waking up from a nap, they all ate dried fruits and read books in the main room, and only went out to work when the sun could no longer shine in front of the house. Today was no exception.
A few days ago, they trimmed the flowers and plants around the house, and the road was cleared, making it much more convenient.
In the evening, they took hoes, wooden buckets and sacks, carried baskets on their backs and went to the cassava fields to dig cassava.
After digging out a backpack, two sacks and two wooden barrels, Han Zhibai carried them back one by one.
After digging for about an hour, it was getting dark and less than one-third of the cassava had been dug.
They went back to the trap and opened it without much hope, only to find that they had caught seven chickens.
The two people went home happily with a lot of harvest.
As usual, one person fed the poultry and one cooked dinner.
A stone mill is needed to make rice rolls. In the afternoon, Han Zhibai learned that she wanted to make a delicacy and needed it, so he took out the small stone mill at home and cleaned it while washing dishes in the afternoon.
The soaked rice is whiter in color, a little more puffy than before, and breaks into pieces with a light pinch.
Mix the soaked rice and water in a ratio of 1:3, scoop it up one spoonful at a time with a wooden spoon and pour it into the stone mill to grind it into rice slurry. In the end, you will get more than a large bowl of rice slurry.
Add appropriate amount of salt and oil to the rice milk to enhance its toughness.
She found the largest round plate in the house as a steaming tool, spread a thin layer of oil on it, poured in the rice paste and spread it evenly, then added the ingredients prepared in advance, including mung bean sprouts, chopped wild onions, and diced bacon.
It’s a pity that there is no seafood, fresh pork or eggs at home, otherwise it would be more delicious if they were added.
Put it in a pot and steam it for about half a quarter of an hour. Take it out while it is hot and push it from the beginning to the end with a bamboo stick. The white rice roll is soft and slightly elastic, and it is wrinkled because of being squeezed, and it has become a strip.
Repeat the same procedure, adding all the rice paste to the ingredients and steaming until cooked.
After the rice rolls are ready, they need seasoning sauce. Due to limited conditions, she prepared some minced garlic, scallion roots, dried mushrooms and chopped shrimps. She first put the garlic and scallions in the pan and stir-fry them until fragrant, then added the mushrooms and shrimps and stir-fried them, and poured in the sauce that had been mixed in advance.
The sauce is made with soy sauce, a little salt, dried mushroom powder, water, and two pinches of sweet potato starch.
The sauce is cooked until it's a little thick.
Dinner was just ready. Han Zhibai came into the kitchen after finishing his work. He sniffed and said, "It smells so good!"
"It smells good, hurry up and wash your hands and have dinner." She carried the dishes and chopsticks to the main room.
After setting the table, she took out half of the rice rolls without adding any seasoning and gave them to Heihei and Xiaobai.
The two of them sat down, and she pointed at the small half bowl of garlic chili sauce and the bowl of black sauce on the table and said, "Add whatever flavor you want."
In front of them was a plate of arranged rice rolls. They were all the same size and looked very delicate. The white rice rolls were dotted with green bean sprouts and red bacon, which was very appetizing.
There is also a large plate of rice rolls in the middle of the table. You can add more if it is not enough.