Returning to hometown to farm: The apocalypse system arrived ten years earlier?

Chapter 55: Making meatballs, the sound of horse hooves
In addition to making tofu, soybeans can also be used to make many dishes, such as braised eggplant with soybeans, braised beef tendon with soybeans, braised chicken feet with soybeans, and stewed pig's trotters with soybeans.

Li Xiang used to work in a big city. He cooked by himself and made pig's trotters stewed with soybeans. It is nourishing, moisturizing and beautifying, and the taste is absolutely delicious.

Because pig's trotters are rich in collagen, eating them regularly can increase skin elasticity. You can also add some peanuts, red dates and yam to reduce the greasiness of the trotters and make the nutrition more balanced.

This time he bought pig's front trotters, which are also called pig's hands in Cantonese. In Cantonese, "pig's hands" and "pig's feet" are not the same part. Pig's hands are the front trotters, while pig's feet are the hind trotters.

People in the south may be more particular and know how to make the distinction, but people in the north don’t care that much. It’s just pig trotters, so just get started.

However, people in the south believe that the front pig trotters have more lean meat, which is suitable for making braised pig trotters, stewed pig trotters, sauced pig trotters, etc. with good color, aroma and taste; while the hind pig trotters have more bones and thin skin, and are usually used to make pig trotter soups, such as pig's foot corn soup.

Li Xiang prefers to eat the front trotter, which can also be used to make soup.

In addition, I also bought sweet potato vermicelli, high-gluten flour, yeast, tube noodles, three small red clay stoves, and matching small iron pots. These stoves can be placed on the dining table to make a few small hot pots to eat hot food.

I saw some good pickles, so I bought some, five pounds of each different kind.

Sichuan Province has four famous pickled vegetables: Fuling Zhacai, Nanchong Dongcai, Neijiang Datoucai and Yibin Yacai. In fact, the regional restrictions are not so strict, and other places also have them. For example, Li Xiang's home is where all four pickled vegetables are produced, and the flavors are also very authentic, but those places are the most famous.

Of course, the source could also be from there.

The pickled vegetables sold in the market probably have too many additives. Li Xiang plans to pickle a few jars himself next year. As an authentic countryman, pickling vegetables does not require much technical skills.

I've seen it a long time ago.

Then I bought some melon seeds, peanuts, dates, walnuts, oranges, apples, grapefruits, pears, bananas, etc. I also bought a table for boiling tea around the stove, which the store owner said was made of old elm wood, with an iron stove embedded in the middle and a stainless steel mesh on top. The boss also gave me a special iron kettle for boiling water and a set of tea sets.

Li Xiang thought the tea set was not high-end enough, so he rode his tricycle to the street that specialized in selling tea sets and picked out a set of Ru kiln blue and white porcelain for just over 500 yuan, which included a Xishi teapot, two Naxiang covered bowls, a tea strainer, a fairness cup and six tea tasting cups.

There must be a tea shop near a shop selling tea sets. This is an industrial chain and may be run by the same company. So I went in and bought a few cans of Pu'er tea and black tea.

When brewing tea around the stove, you naturally need large-leaf tea with a relatively high degree of fermentation so that the aroma can be well released. Green tea, such as West Lake Longjing and Biluochun, are all young buds, relatively light, and have high requirements for water temperature, so they are only suitable for brewing.

I have to say that now that I have money, I have achieved the freedom of small things. This kind of ordinary eating, drinking and having fun will not ruin the family. What I am most afraid of is stock speculation, gambling, starting a business, and wanting to become big and strong.

He used to have a colleague who had been working for many years and had a high salary. I heard that he had saved 700,000 or 800,000 yuan and was planning to buy a small house in the suburbs as a down payment. He was very frugal in his food, clothing, housing and transportation, but he never bought the house. Later, when I asked him about it, I found out that he had lost all his money in stock trading and still owed hundreds of thousands of yuan in credit loans.

What do you call this? Spending money lavishly in the stock market, but being stingy in life.

It would be so great to use that 700,000 or 800,000 yuan on food and drink.

Li Xiang didn't know why he thought of that colleague. Anyway, he was feeling very happy now. He stuffed so much stuff into his three-wheeled motorcycle that it could not even fit any more. Then he slowly went home.

After experiencing the hardships of the end of the world and not having enough food to eat, I feel very happy when I see a tricycle full of food.

When he got home, grandma had already prepared dinner, a simple meal of four dishes and one soup, three meat dishes and two vegetable dishes. Now that the weather was getting cold, Li Xiang scooped out seven or eight taels of snake wine with a wine grape, put it in a small ceramic wine pot, warmed it with hot water, and then poured a small cup for grandma and himself.

He had drunk this medicinal wine before and it was very safe. His grandmother was old and would suffer from cold legs when the weather got cold. She had consulted an old Chinese doctor before, who said it was rheumatoid arthritis.

Snake wine has the effects of promoting blood circulation and dispelling wind, dispelling dampness and cold, nourishing yin and strengthening yang, and dispelling wind and activating collaterals. It also contains wolfberry and astragalus, which can warm your whole body. The wine scoop is not bought, but made of bamboo with a diameter of about five or six centimeters. It uses the natural shape of bamboo, with one end sealed and the other end cut into a handle of 30 to 40 centimeters in length. It is very simple and is also called "bamboo wine scoop".

Grandma only drank a small cup, about one ounce, and the remaining six ounces or so went into Li Xiang's stomach.

Li Xiang felt unsatisfied and drank more than a pound. Moreover, he did not use his spiritual power to control the alcohol. If he wanted, he could use his spiritual power to force the alcohol out of his little finger like Duan Yu did. Or he could use his spiritual power to gather the alcohol near his mouth and nose, and then vaporize it into invisible alcohol, and spit it out from his mouth and nose, or quietly disperse it from the pores of his body.

But Li Xiang didn't do that. If he did that, what difference would there be between drinking and not drinking?

The sorghum liquor has a 58% alcohol content. After drinking almost two kilograms, Li Xiang was tipsy. This is the state you want when drinking. It's not like you're competing with others.

Then, he went to work while drunk.

Seeing that he was a little unsteady when walking, grandma said, "Take a rest before you continue."

Li Xiang shook his head, burped, and said, "I bought a lot of meat today. It can't fit in the refrigerator. I'm afraid it will go bad if I don't process it soon."

There was already a lot of food stored in the refrigerator, and it couldn't hold much more at this time. Li Xiang even considered buying a large freezer. But today the tricycle was full and there was no place to put a freezer, so he didn't buy it for the time being.

Besides, it’s going to snow heavily in a few days, and this winter will be unusually cold, so it doesn’t seem so urgent.

He marinated half of the pork, half of the beef and spareribs with salt, then cut some of the beef into shreds and put them in the refrigerator. He planned to make meatballs with the rest of the pork and beef.

As for the pork trotters, I stuffed three of them into the refrigerator and braised the rest in the evening.

Whether the meatballs are delicious or not, apart from the ingredients of the meat, it actually has a lot to do with the knife skills.

The pork shoulder, pork belly, and beef foreleg selected by Li Xiang were of just the right amount of fat and lean, making them all good ingredients for making meatballs. The rest depended on his knife skills.

You can also use a meat grinder to grind it, but the meat will be too soft and not chewy enough. Usually most families would prefer to chop it with a knife.

The two kitchen knives I prepared earlier finally came in handy!
Li Xiang cleaned the meat, cut it into small pieces, and then started to chop it. However, he had never chopped meat before, so he felt a little "uncomfortable" at the beginning.

However, this kind of difficult technical work is nothing for a first-level transcendent who is proficient in physical skills and the use of strength. After trying a few times and figuring it out, he mastered the rhythm, and the sound of horse hooves gradually rang out.

"De de de, de de de~"

It sounds like a pony running briskly, pleasant to the ears.

Li Xiang practiced for a few minutes and mastered the technique, then he set up his phone and started recording the video.

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