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

This stage of human civilization has been long gone.

There is also a sink installed in the toilet. Mu Xi is a little worried about water leakage and plans to install one first. If it is sure that there is no leakage, he will install another sink on the first floor of the brick house. Then he will not have to leave the house to wash.

Zhao Yeqing looked at the shiny new stainless steel countertop in the kitchen and couldn't put it down and touched it again and again. Mu Xi checked the pipes from the toilet and found that Zhao Yeqing was still stroking the countertop back and forth in the kitchen.

I couldn't laugh or cry for a moment:

"What we're saying is, can we act a little more favorably and calmly?"

Zhao Yeqing didn't even raise his head: "No, don't do this. Your expression wasn't much better when you found out you could use tap water at home."

Mu Xi usually does more heavy physical labor at home. Sometimes he has to take two showers a day. It is troublesome to boil water. He also knows some theoretical knowledge about medicine. Unless he has no choice, he will not take a shower with cold water. .

Zhao Yeqing finished touching the countertop, finally left the cabinet, walked to the front of the refrigerator, and opened the door of the freezer area. He glanced back and forth, thinking that tonight was the first meal in the new kitchen, and what dishes would he have to cook to deserve this title? Luxurious kitchen.

I looked around and found nothing satisfactory. How can frozen food compare to fresh food?

Zhao Yeqing closed the refrigerator door: "Kill a chicken, a duck, and a fish. Let's have a good meal tonight."

There are many chickens at home, and I can kill one from time to time. There is no shortage of fish, except for the duck. I haven't eaten duck meat in many years. I must satisfy my appetite today.

When it comes to how to eat duck, Zhao Yeqing believes that the best way to eat it is roast duck. Slices of roast duck are wrapped in sweet bean paste, served with green onions and cucumbers and rolled into soft pancakes.

Or the way it is eaten in Guangdong Province, the duck just taken out of the oven is chopped into pieces and dipped in sweet and sour plum sauce, which is fresh and not greasy.

You can also eat it the way you eat it in Sichuan Province. The roast duck is chopped into pieces and slowly cooked in the red oil braised soup. The roasted duck skin is filled with the soup. The salty and slightly spicy flavor fills your mouth when you bite it.

Zhao Yeqing almost couldn't control his saliva, but if he wanted to make a delicious roast duck, he would definitely not be able to cook it for a while. Even if he didn't roast it in a hanging stove, it would still take several hours to use the electric oven in the kitchen. .

Now that dinner was only two hours away, Zhao Yeqing didn't want to make do with the roast duck, so he had to give up the idea and settle for the next best thing, planning to make sour radish and duck soup.

She also considered braised duck or made into three cups of duck, but these dishes require soy sauce and light soy sauce, which she no longer has at home, and the brewed soy sauce will not be available for a month.

In her mind, pickled radish duck soup ranks among the top five duck dishes. It is easy to make and the ingredients are available at home.

Mu Xi went out to kill ducks. Zhao Yeqing picked out three large pieces of sour radish from the pickle jar. The radish was soaked with chili peppers. The radish was picked up last winter and had been soaked for several months. It was sour and spicy. Just smelling the saliva causes rapid secretion.

With the soup, the remaining fish and chicken are turned into dishes.

Zhao Yeqing shouted to Mu Xi who was killing ducks outside: "Bring a tender chicken that is about three months old and fry it."

After that, he took out a bag of chestnuts from the freezer section of the refrigerator. This was last autumn. Mu Xi went to find the chestnut tree again, picked up some chestnuts, and put them in the refrigerator before eating them. .

When the two of them first encountered the group of monkeys, they were near the chestnut tree, but when Mu Xi went to look for chestnuts, he didn't meet them. He thought they never came back, but they unexpectedly caught him off guard.

She couldn't help laughing when she thought of how embarrassed Mu Xi was when he came back that day.

Mu Xi stood at the window, looking at the people inside who kept giggling. He didn't know why he was laughing. He raised his hand and knocked on the screen window: "The duck is taken care of, pick it up."

Zhao Yeqing quickly put away his smile, opened the window and took the duck in. Mu Xi turned around to kill the chicken again.

Chop the duck meat into pieces, blanch it in cold water, add ginger slices and pickled radish also chopped into pieces, and pour it into the pressure cooker.

The soup is best cooked slowly over firewood. The two of them moved the small brick stove that was left in the kitchen to the space between the brick walls. They can use it there when needed without making the kitchen dirty.

Zhao Yeqing thought for a while and decided to use an electric pressure cooker for cooking. After all, many small appliances were never used when they were brought back. They had to be plugged in for use occasionally, otherwise they would break easily.

Today, the new kitchen is open for cooking with some small appliances, which is more suitable for the occasion.

The chicken was braised chestnut chicken. Zhao Yeqing took out another piece of tofu from the refrigerator. Two days ago, while waiting for the tiles to dry, she took the time to grind some beans. She originally planned to use them to make moldy tofu after the kitchen was turned on. And fermented bean curd, now take one piece to cook the fish.

Fry the tofu until golden brown on both sides, then scoop it out and set aside. The fish is naked carp, with very few spines, so you don’t need to cut off the scales. Cut it into pieces and marinate it with onions and ginger to remove the smell.

You have to wait until right before eating to cook the fish, otherwise it will become fishy when it cools down.

The chicken had to be simmered in advance. Zhao Yeqing turned on the induction cooker, put the pot on the shelf, and used the chicken oil shaved off when handling the chicken to moisten the pot. After the golden chicken oil was squeezed out and the oil became shriveled, he took out the oil residue. , pour the chicken in and stir-fry.

Chicken that has not been blanched must be stir-fried until the water evaporates and the chicken skin turns slightly yellow, then add water and simmer with the lid on.

There is no soy sauce at home, but there is still a lot of dark soy sauce used for coloring. This stuff is not as fresh and fragrant as soy sauce and light soy sauce. It is rarely used except for coloring. Zhao Yeqing can only make do with a little bit of seasoning. color.

The chicken needs to be simmered for more than forty minutes, and the chestnuts should be put in during the last twenty minutes.

Mu Xi cleaned up the feathers from the chickens and ducks killed in the backyard. When he returned to the kitchen, he saw that the rice was not cooked yet, so he washed the rice and put it in the rice cooker.

Only now did he truly feel the joy of small appliances. In order to prevent the rice from steaming out, the two of them didn't dare to use an iron pot to cook rice directly in a large pot, so they used bowls to hold the rice and then ate it one bowl at a time. Simmer.

It was not cooked well at first and often had raw ingredients, but I didn’t want to waste it, so I had to bite the bullet and eat it, or just add some water and cook it into porridge, which was particularly painful to eat.

Now that we have a rice cooker, when we wash the rice, add water, cover the lid and plug in the power, we just hear a beeping sound and then we don’t have to worry about it anymore.

Not to mention, it’s really cool.

The rice is not set to cook quickly, so it will take more than forty minutes. The duck soup should be almost ready by then.

Zhao Yeqing looked at the time and planned to start frying the fish after putting down the chestnuts.

There also has to be a vegetarian dish.

There was no kitchen during this period, so the two of them could only cook at will in the house. Sometimes they would fry pancakes, sometimes they would cook noodles. The vegetarian dishes they ate were either rolled up with cucumber shreds when making pancakes, or thrown in when cooking noodles. Two vegetable leaves are really boring to eat.

Zhao Yeqing went out to the vegetable garden to see what was fresh.