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

After the skins of several fish were peeled off, only the white fish meat was left. Two pieces of fish meat were cut completely along the fish bones and set aside to marinate with ginger and garlic to remove the smell.

The fish skin had been caught with ginger juice in advance, and Mu Xi placed the delicate little clay oven that he had brought back from the village with the charcoal on the kitchen floor.

Zhao Yeqing placed the fish skin on the metal grid and slowly grilled it until the skin blistered slightly and finally turned golden and crispy, then put it on a plate and let it cool.

This is not difficult, the main thing is to test your patience. If the fire is too high, the fish skin will be all gelatin. If the fire is too high, it will be charred in a short time. If the fire is too low, it will not be fluffy and crispy enough, and it will become hard.

You have to be very patient and sit aside and keep turning over.

The two of them have been trained to be very patient over the past few years, and it is not difficult for them to sit and chat while grilling, and the time passes in a short time.

When the fish fillets were grilled, there was some moisture in them, and when it dropped into the charcoal fire, a burst of white smoke would appear. Mu Xi rushed Zhao Yeqing to sit at the dining table, and continued to grill the fish next to the cooking table.

Worried that the smell of smoke would be too great, he took off his shirt. But as soon as he took off the charcoal fire, the sparks flying off when it broke and exploded just landed on his chest, and Mu Xi put on the apron again.

Zhao Yeqing rushed out of the kitchen when he was naked and went to get the apron. Thinking of his head that kept rising and falling at the end of the bed that night, her breathing became confused.

After half an hour, I poked my head in from the door and saw that Mu Xi had already put on his clothes and was washing the metal mesh with grilled fish and fish skin in the sink.

She coughed slightly and walked in, taking away the plate of fish fillets.

This is not the finished product yet. The finished product has to be dried after being baked.

There is a big temperature difference between morning and evening now. It is almost evening now. If the weather is not hot, hang it outside in the cool breeze and let it dry for two days before you can eat it.

The fish skin can be eaten directly. Mu Xi scooped a spoonful of sweet wine from the jar and boiled it before placing an ice cube to cool down. Zhao Yeqing sprinkled the fish skin with chili noodles that added salt and homemade five-spice powder. The fish skin was crispy. The combination of the golden color and the bright red color of the chili will make your mouth water before you even eat it.

The sweet wine is slightly warm to the touch, which is the perfect time to eat it.

They simply cooked noodles for dinner, and then the two of them sat in the kitchen eating fish skin while drinking wine.

The fish skin was so popular that one plate was gone before two glasses of wine were finished. Zhao Yeqing was still interested and thought about whether to continue killing fish to make it tomorrow?

But she didn't want to eat the fish meat. How many fish would have to be killed to eat just the skin?

Mu Xi didn't like fish either. He would get tired of eating something that wasn't too chewy. It was not as good as the beef jerky they made before.

When they were smoking beef sausage this time, the two of them also made some beef jerky but didn't eat it. During that time, they couldn't eat the fresh beef that couldn't be put in the freezer, so they put the dried beef jerky away if they could.

Until now, the two of them had almost forgotten.

Mu Xi hurriedly took out the sealed beef jerky from the cabinet, checked around and breathed a sigh of relief when there was no mold.

What they made this time was semi-dry beef jerky, not the fully dry beef jerky before. It didn't hold up as well, but I remembered it.

This beef jerky looked very tempting on this greedy night. When Zhao Yeqing made it, he chose semi-fat and lean beef. After it was made, she tasted a piece. The lean beef was juicy and had a hint of butter when she bit it. When I eat it, my mouth is full of fragrance, full of milk flavor.

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Beef jerky with butter, delicious and fragrant

It tastes much better than ordinary all-lean beef jerky, and it doesn't look dry at all with some fat.

But the quantity is really not much, a big piece of beef brisket only got a small bag of beef jerky.

It is best to heat the jerky with butter before eating it. Put it in the microwave and turn it on low heat for 30 seconds. The lean meat will not burn, and the fat meat will be just sizzling and oily.

Not only is it a suitable snack, but when making clear soup noodles in the morning, cut the heated beef jerky into small pieces and put it on the noodles. The combination of carbohydrates and fat will make you full of energy all day long.

When you get up in the morning, the food you cook first is definitely not for people to eat, but for pigs to eat.

Since childhood, I have seen people in the village feed pigs cooked food, and occasionally feed them raw pigweed a few times. If there is a good harvest of sweet potato vines, they will feed them raw food for a period of time.

Some time ago, the pigs didn't like to eat very much. After the two cut down the banana tree, they fed the heart of the banana tree to the pigs. During this period, the pigs had a great appetite for eating, and they were still unsatisfied after eating a large pot.

The heart of a banana tree or plantain tree is white and tender. It can be broken with just a hand and has plenty of water. Farmers in my hometown use this method if their pigs don't eat.

The tree only bears fruit once. After it was cut down, the small banana tree growing out of the same root system next to it began to grow rapidly, and the leaves seemed to have grown larger in a few days.

There were two banana trees left in the yard. The previous one was eaten out, and only one was left with fruit. This one matured a little later, and now the fruit has just begun to turn yellow.

Zhao Yeqing picked a few green ones and left them in the kitchen for a few days before turning yellow. He chopped them into pieces and mixed them with honey to make banana jam. When he made it, he suddenly remembered -

Ah, I forgot to make melon bean paste.

Fortunately, now that I think about it, there are still two uneaten things in the watermelon field, so I quickly fermented the needed soybeans.

The process of fermenting soybeans is very easy. As long as the weather is not abnormal, she can successfully ferment the soybeans with her eyes closed.

After fermenting the soybeans, she opened the jar of the bean paste she had made before. She had eaten it twice before, but it was still not as fragrant as now, and there was a faint smell of alcohol in it.

I scooped out a small bowl and used it to roast the duck tonight.

When it comes to roasting duck, Zhao Yeqing is greedy for the roast duck with its crystal clear and translucent skin. He wanted to build the roast duck oven next to the brick kiln. There happened to be materials under the shed there. The ducks at home are breeding more and more, and they will definitely be there in the future. It can be used.

Zhao Yeqing was preparing dinner in the kitchen and called Mu Xi outside to kill the ducks. Mu Xi just emerged from the sheep pen, dragged two baskets of wool to the kitchen window and asked, "Do you want to get some for cooking this year?"

Zhao Yeqing felt a big headache when he looked at these wools. It was a bit troublesome to deal with the wool. The wool was dirty and smelly, and it took a lot of time to clean it. Now that the weather is warm all year round, it is really hard to use it.

The felt blankets made before were now placed in the cabinet. There was also a lot of wool stored in the original owner's house. Zhao Yeqing waved his hand: "No more, just dump them all into the compost bin."

The main component of wool is keratin, which is composed of amino acids. It is a good material for composting. Since humans cannot use it, it can be converted into food.

When Zhao Yeqing used to work in the city, most of the money he earned throughout the year was spent on food and drink. He spent money while eating and losing weight, feeling pain and happiness at the same time.