Who knows! As soon as I returned to the mountains to farm, I encountered a natural disaster.

Zhao Yeqing smiled and said, "I won't tell you."

She reached out to pick off the rushes, picked up a spoon and scooped out a piece, only to find that there was filling between the waffles.

It was so yellow that I couldn't tell.

After chewing in the mouth, he could tell clearly, "Is this a pear?"

Mu Xi nodded, "The pears on the mountain are a bit astringent. I pickled them with sugar for two days before taking them out. Are they okay?"

Zhao Yeqing nodded vigorously. The candied pears were not so crisp, but sweet and soft, like the candied peach preserves she made last year.

The waffles are soft and delicious with the sweet pear filling.

Mu Xi also took a bite and then shook his head, "It's not as delicious as yours."

Zhao Yeqing's eyes were crooked as he picked up the bowl of muffins, "I think it's good, so don't eat it, it's all mine."

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After celebrating my birthday, New Year’s Eve is coming the next day.

Too many things have happened this year, and the two of them have hardly celebrated any holidays, so they thought they should be more particular about this day.

The weather was not very cold yet, and the dishes would easily spoil if cooked too much. Zhao Yeqing thought of just eating the soup pot.

Kill a chicken and make a mushroom and chicken soup pot with egg dumplings in it.

Fry some eggplant boxes, make some dumplings, steam a fish, and bacon and that's it.

There is no need to cook the rice, just eat some dumplings and vegetables and you will feel full.

I remember that during the Chinese New Year, it was hard to see big fish, meat, or vegetables on the table.

Zhao Yeqing feels that green vegetables are still necessary. There are not many vegetables left in the vegetable garden. The lettuce that has been eaten by breaking off the leaves has grown tall and has flowers.

Let me show you the lettuce I grow

It's time to let it die.

Cut all the eggplants and use one to make an eggplant box. The meat filling is innovatively made of rabbit meat.

She didn't want to be so innovative, but there were too many and she couldn't finish them.

The green leafy vegetables that are still growing well in the vegetable garden are chrysanthemum and spinach. Chrysanthemum can be put into the soup pot, and spinach can be mixed with meat croquettes.

Zhao Yeqing was thinking about the feasibility of rabbit meat and spinach balls when her thoughts were interrupted by the screams of the chicken that Mu Xi killed.

She lowered her head and continued to cut off the chrysanthemum.

The radish next to it is also growing well. Although it is not "shoulderless" yet, the radish leaves on it are already green.

Also dig it down and throw it to feed the rabbits.

The chicken is an old hen that has been raised for a year. The stew time cannot be shortened. It has to be stewed from now on at noon. The longer it is cooked in the casserole, the more delicious it will be.

She took the vegetables into the kitchen, washed them and set them aside. She kept the eggplant box and cut the rest into hob pieces.

These are to be made into dried eggplants. The eggplant flesh shrinks once it is dried, so it needs to be cut into slightly larger pieces.

Put it in a dustpan and place it on the baking rack outside.

The drying rack was set up a few days ago to dry the grass.

The silage is almost ready, and hay still needs to be prepared. Now that the weather is getting colder and the sun is not so strong, we still need to light a fire to dry all the grass.

And kiln-dried grass is better than sun-dried grass.

Mu Xi finished cooking the chicken, put it into a casserole and simmered it slowly.

The fried ones also had to be cooked in advance. Zhao Yeqing’s idea of ​​rabbit eggplant boxes was adopted by Mu Xi.

It’s all meat anyway, so there’s nothing wrong with it.

Zhao Yeqing asked Mu Xi to kill two more rabbits and give extra meals to a few dogs and two leopards tonight.

She was in the kitchen making egg dumplings.

To make egg dumplings, you need to pour egg liquid thinly into a large round spoon. Shake the spoon and the egg liquid inside will evenly cover the entire spoon. Then put it on the fire and turn it so that the egg liquid inside becomes a sheet. Thin egg skin.

Making egg dumpling wrappers is very time-consuming. In the past during Chinese New Year, my grandfather had to sit by the fire for more than an hour to finish making enough egg dumplings for two families.

Now that there are only two of them, Zhao Yeqing plans to make ten egg dumplings, with a perfect meaning.

After making the egg dumpling wrappers, she remembered that the fillings hadn't been made yet.

The egg dumplings are planned to be filled with fish meat, and Zhao Yeqing plans to use fish soup to prepare the filling.

In the bucket were two fish that were caught out in the morning. Zhao Yeqing picked up one and knocked it unconscious with the back of his knife before starting to handle it.

The fish meat is removed, and the fish heads and bones are used to make soup.

Mu Xi slid in two killed rabbits and left the job of chopping rabbit meat to him.

Zhao Yeqing took out the flour to make dumpling wrappers. This time he was more experienced in making dumpling wrappers than the last time. The dumpling wrappers became rounder and rounder.

He picked up the most perfect one and showed it off in front of Mu Xi, "Does it look like it was pressed by a machine?"

Seeing Mu Xi smiling and cheering, he went back to rolling out the dough.

Thinking of eating more meat at night, she planned to only eat six dumplings, and Mu Xi would eat fifteen. The dumpling wrappers would be ready in a while.

She stepped on a small stool and took out a piece of bacon with some fat from the fire pit.

This piece was the wild boar that was hunted later. The wild boar with some autumn fat on it was fatter than the one she shot and killed before.

The smoking time is not very long and the meat is not that tough.

Use a knife to scrape off the black color on the bacon, cut off a small half and boil it in water, and hang the other half back on the fire pit.

This small half is used to make dumplings. The cabbage and bacon dumplings are more fragrant than the ordinary cabbage and pork dumplings.

Pick another piece that has been smoked for a longer time, slice this piece and steam it.

The bacon filling for dumplings must be cut into fine dices and fried in a pan until the oil is slightly emitted and the fat becomes a little transparent. Then take it out and mix it with chopped cabbage.

By the time she finished wrapping the dumplings, Mu Xi's rabbit meat filling was also ready.

The eggplant has not been processed yet, as he is afraid that it will easily oxidize and turn black after being cut, so Zhao Yeqing plans to wait until it is almost out of the frying pan before starting to cook it.

Mu Xi also chopped the fish meat stuffing, and Zhao Yeqing opened the lid of the fish soup pot. The fire had boiled the milky white fish soup. Pour the fish soup into the bowl. Do not use the fish bones and meat, but keep the fish head. You can feed it in the evening. Gouzi.

Wait until the fish soup has cooled down a bit, then add it to the fish filling with starch and beat it vigorously.

If the egg dumpling skin and meat filling are prepared separately, you have to reheat them to make the skin close.

Put the egg skin in the soup spoon, put the meat filling in the egg skin, apply a circle of unused egg liquid around the edge, close the skin and bake it on the fire, then the egg dumplings are finished.

The sky outside slowly darkened, and Mu Xi heated the oil pan.

Zhao Yeqing cut the eggplant into a box, filled it with rabbit meat, covered it with flour and egg liquid, and slid it in from the edge of the oil pan.

Mu Xi was afraid that she would be splashed by the oil, so he took over and asked her to pour the chicken soup into the big pot and cook the egg dumplings.

Steam the last fish only when the stove is free.

Beside the kitchen door, Dahuang and a few cubs sat in a row obediently, with bright eyes and tongues sticking out in the row.

Zhao Yeqing smiled and scooped a few pieces of chicken from the chicken soup pot and gave them to them.

Guodu and Xuebing haven't come back yet, so it's time to start dinner.

The cup was filled with happy water that I had never been willing to drink. It had been left outside the house for a day in advance, and the cola became ice cold.

Zhao Yeqing raised his glass, his little face flushed under the firelight, his brows smiling, "Brother, happy New Year's Eve."