He was betrayed at the beginning, from a cake seller to a wealthy person

New Year's Eve is here in a blink of an eye, and dumplings must be made.

There are really no fresh vegetables in winter. I ate steamed buns made with dried radish and lard residue again two days ago. The Lu family burped after eating the buns, which smelled like oily starch seeds. Everyone unanimously excluded radish again. So this time the dumplings with pork, green onions and cabbage and eggs came out on top.

The New Year's Eve dinner was also prepared early. The meat dishes prepared by Lu Yan included Sixi meatballs, cherry meat, saliva chicken, eight-treasure gourd duck, and steamed fish. The vegetarian dishes included cold shredded potatoes, stir-fried shredded radish, and vinegar-braised cabbage. A large table was set up.

These past few days have been a feast of fish and meat every day, and Lu Yan didn’t cook anything too greasy. When making meat, I hesitated between cherry meat and fermented bean curd meat. I still felt sorry for her jar of fermented bean curd, so I made cherry meat.

Cherry meat is a Qing Dynasty palace dish. Cut the pork belly into four cherry-sized cubes, add water and spices and cook until cooked. Drain the pork belly, wrap it in batter and fry it in a pan. The paste can be prepared by adding water to a ratio of flour to starch in a ratio of 1:1. In modern times, Lu Yan would add some baking soda, but now we don’t have it, so we have to leave it out.

The meat is fried twice, the first time to set it and the second time to make it crispier. Take the fried meat pieces out and set aside. Sauté sugar in a pot, add vinegar, and stir-fry the sweet and sour sauce until it turns red. Add the meat and stir-fry until all the soup is absorbed on the meat. Take it out of the pot. . Cherry meat is sweet and sour, with a fresh taste and is loved by everyone.

cherry flesh

Another dish worth mentioning is the eight-treasure gourd duck. Since she had roast duck two days ago, Lu Yan had already planned to make a fresh dish. The Babao Gourd Duck is beautiful in shape and is very suitable for plating during the Chinese New Year. Song Bowen just happened to give him glutinous rice, so he didn't use it in vain.

The biggest difficulty in this dish is taking the whole duck off the bones. While ensuring that the skin of the duck is not broken, remove the entire skeleton of the duck and leave no trace behind. It took Lu Yan an entire hour to complete this step, and she was extremely careful. When she finished, she was sweating.

The deboned duck skin is marinated in the prepared sauce, and then the eight treasures stuffed in the duck body are made. Steam the glutinous rice in the pot, and put whatever else is available. There was really nothing to do in the winter. Lu Yan cut the potatoes and sweet potatoes into small cubes and fried them. She also scrambled an egg and beat it into pieces. She cut two sausages and mixed the vegetables and diced meat with the steamed glutinous rice. Add seasoning.

Take out the marinated duck skin, sew the opening with needle thread, leaving only one opening, pour the mixed stuffing through the hole, fill the whole duck, and sew the opening with needle thread. Use hemp rope to tie the gourd shape in the middle, pass it through hot water to let it stretch, and then put it in the oven.

After taking it out of the oven, brush it with honey water and pour it over with oil. The skin will turn into a shiny brown-red color like the roast duck you had two days ago. After removing the hemp rope and thread, the whole duck is in the shape of a gourd. Cut it in the middle to reveal the stuffing inside. It is really beautiful. Take one bite, the duck meat is full of meaty aroma, the glutinous rice is soft and sticky, and the diced vegetables are mixed with the fresh aroma of duck meat, the taste is extremely rich.

Babao gourd duck

The other dishes are not unknown with no sense of existence. Four large meatballs are first fried, steamed and finally poured with sauce to make the Sixi meatballs, which are salty, crispy and soft. After the bones are removed and steamed, they are quickly put into ice water and then mixed with the cold sauce. The chicken is tender, sour and refreshing, and the steamed fish is The meat is white and delicious, and the vegetarian dishes are refreshing and soothing.

Sixi meatballs, saliva chicken, steamed fish

Of course, don’t forget the money. The cute puppy also needs to eat the New Year’s Eve dinner. When Lu Yan made pork, she cut a few pieces and boiled them. When making chicken, she cut a few pieces and boiled them. She also blanched a bunch of leftover offal from the duck after two days of cooking. She also boiled an egg just for it and put it in. A few cabbage leaves were added to supplement vitamins, and a large pot full of them was all for Yin Zi, whose tail was about to wag its shadow.

The Lu family has been eating the dishes cooked by Lu Yan for half a year, and they are still very happy on this New Year's day.

Lu Sheng also raised a very difficult question to answer: "You said this pork is obviously the same meat, and the seasoning is not much different. Why is it so different in taste when minced into balls and stewed directly? Woolen cloth?"

Lu Yan opened her mouth and then closed it. She really couldn't explain the different flavors brought about by the rupture of muscle fibers. She chose to pretend she didn't hear many of the questions Lu Sheng asked.

Boss Lu and Mrs. Xu were also very emotional.

"I have lived for more than thirty years, and I have never lived as well as this year." Mrs. Xu sighed while drinking Lu Yan's hawthorn water: "Lu Yan is really the little lucky star of our family. After she came, life became better and better." It gets better."

Lu Sheng and Boss Lu nodded sharply in agreement.

You have to stay up late on New Year's Eve and can't go to bed until midnight. The whole family had nothing to do while sitting in the main room, so they went back to their respective rooms.

Lu Yan stayed up late all day long in modern times. When she came here, she had to get up early to do business, so she usually went to bed very early. Lu Sheng was still reading when she slept. This was the first time I stayed up late, and I was still a little uncomfortable with it, and I kept yawning.

Lu Sheng was obviously used to it. He was still energetic while leaning on the kang, and he reminded Lu Yan not to sleep from time to time.

"I'm not going to sleep." Lu Yan looked listless and paralyzed Ge You.

Lu Sheng was obviously not sleepy at all. It was snowing outside the window again. Although it was late at night, the village was still lively. You could faintly hear the sounds of children crying, dogs barking and firecrackers being set off. Lu Sheng didn't know whether it was because he was older or if this year was particularly different. He felt that this year had caused a lot of emotions for no reason.

He turned to look at Lu Yan and felt very emotional. In the past, I always felt that there was no hope for life. I was neither good nor bad. I couldn't afford to go to school, and I couldn't farm. I could only read at home every day. In fact, I lived in a state of panic. But after Lu Yan came, the Lu family seemed to have changed in just six months, and so did she.

She likes to open a shop, so he will work hard to take the exam, go to the capital to become a high official, and open the biggest shop for her.