Chapter 120 A barbecue in the cold winter
The children were curious when they heard about barbecue, and Fan Jin's dark eyes were also curious.
Unlike the children's cheers, he just asked obediently: "What do you need me to do?"
Shui Qing calculated the ingredients needed for the barbecue, and said one by one: "First, prepare the ingredients."
She looked at the children of different sizes around her. The only advantage of having so many children is that there are more people to work!
And they are all people who are used to working, and their hands and feet are very nimble.
She first said to Fan Jin: "We have a lot of people, let's roast two rabbits, otherwise I'm afraid there won't be enough to eat. You are responsible for cleaning and cleaning."
The main reason is that rabbits are delicious.
The second reason is that they have a lot of rabbits.
Since they started giving birth a few days ago, there are already 40 or 50 rabbits of all sizes, and there are still several more rabbits that are likely to give birth.
Rabbits have a very fast reproduction ability and a short time to be marketed.
Although most of them are still small and have not been marketed yet, it doesn't matter. There are 20 fat rabbits bought last time, and they can always make up for it when they get the chance later.
Later, the big rabbit gave birth to the little rabbits, and the little rabbits grew up and gave birth to little rabbits again... and then exchanged with the villagers for local authentic old hens.
The freedom of the old hens and rabbits can be completely realized!
"Okay." Fan Jin did his job without any objection.
Shuiqing told Fan Jiang: "Go cut a bamboo and split it into thin bamboo sticks, which will be used to thread various meats later."
Fan Jiang has a lot of strength, doesn't like to use his brain and only likes to work. For the work assigned to him, he took the hatchet and ran to the bamboo mountain.
He had to go and come back quickly, so as not to delay the barbecue in the evening!
Although he had never eaten barbecue, he had eaten roasted potatoes and roasted cicadas.
Both were delicious!
Xinghui and Bai Ziqian went to wash meats such as pork belly and mutton, and went to the vegetable field to pull vegetables such as lettuce, onions, garlic seeds, fresh ginger and coriander.
Xinghui was afraid that Bai Ziqian would not wash it clean, so he asked him to go to the vegetable field to pull vegetables, which was a job with no technical content.
Bai Ziqian was very moved.
Then he resolutely refused!
"It's cold, I'll wash the meat, you go pick the vegetables!"
Xing Hui:...Big fool, don't you know there is something called hot water?
Now their family makes rice wine every day, and the fermentation of the wine requires temperature. There are also three stove holes in the wine shop, which need to be heated from time to time.
And there is a constant supply of hot water in the big iron pot.
However, thinking that Bai Ziqian is also kind-hearted, and refusing may hurt his heart, Xing Hui silently swallowed the words back to his mouth.
He picked up the bamboo basket at the corner and went to the vegetable field.
Bai Ziqian felt that he was really competent as a big brother!
Fan Jiang:...Why don't you switch with me?
Chopping bamboo and splitting bamboo sticks are not easy jobs!
Ling Ran over there is responsible for cutting meat.
Cut the washed pork belly and mutton into pieces of the same size.
Fan He and Fan Hu are responsible for stringing all the meat and vegetables that can be skewered into strings.
Shui Qing thinks that what she does is the most technical link-except her, no one can replace it.
Specifically, we first prepared cold dishes.
Yes, how can we eat barbecue without cold dishes?
After all, barbecue is not something that can be cooked right away, nor can it be kept for a long time.
Therefore, cold dishes are indispensable.
Preserved egg and tofu, braised peanuts, coriander and dried tofu, refreshing black fungus, spinach and egg skin, two portions of each, placed on both sides of the long table, so that everyone can easily pick up the dishes.
Then came the staple food.
There was no time for this, and it was time to fake again.
I secretly bought finished glutinous rice balls from the mall and made wolfberry wine glutinous rice balls;
I bought steamed buns and made pan-fried buns.
I also bought some steamed buns, rice cakes and glutinous rice cakes, and prepared to cut them into slices and string them together for roasting.
The new charcoal in the stove hole was burned to a bright red color, and it was picked out and put into the small red clay stove.
Similar to eating hot pot, various ingredients were placed around.
Four small red clay stoves were prepared, and Fan Jin, Ling Ran, and Yan Qiu were responsible for roasting other ingredients.
Shuiqing was solely responsible for roasting the rabbits.
As she turned the rabbits over, she carefully brushed honey on the two fat rabbits layer by layer, leaving no place untouched.
The sweet fragrance of honey and the sizzling fat rabbits made everyone swallow their saliva unconsciously.
These days, honey is a rare and extremely hard-to-get thing.
Generally, it can only be obtained by farmers who happen to find honey and sell it.
But Shuiqing doesn't need it.
Because she has a mall, this is a cheating artifact.
A bottle of honey costs more than 30 yuan, and she doesn't feel bad at all.
Over there, mutton skewers, pork belly, chicken wings, roasted steamed bread slices, roasted green peppers, roasted garlic, roasted leeks... are constantly coming out of the oven.
The rice cakes and glutinous rice cakes swelled up with brown bubbles, and then exploded with a "pop".
Yan Qiu took them down and put them on an empty plate beside him.
With the completion of the honey-roasted rabbit, the atmosphere reached its peak at once.
"It's sweet and delicious!"
"Look! My glutinous rice cake can be stretched so long!"
"The steamed bread slices are also delicious when baked."
"I still prefer to eat pork belly, it's oily and delicious!"
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Bai Ziqian was chewing on the rabbit meat, and suddenly sniffed, mumbling vaguely: "If only my parents were still here, they could also eat such delicious food."
Shui Qing:...Brother, you said this as if they are no longer here.
It was just a barbecue. It's not that exaggerated that you didn't get to eat it.
"Shuiqing, I'll grill the rest, you just eat it." Fan Jin put a rabbit leg in Shuiqing's bowl and bent down to whisper in her ear.
Shuiqing nodded.
It was just that when eating, she would put some of the skewers on the plate in front of Fan Jin from time to time.
This way, when others took over later, Fan Jin would not be left without food.
The years in the mountains are long.
Winter is the slack season for farming, and there is not much farm work. The cold wind is howling outside, and the dining room is warm. A group of people are eating barbecue leisurely.
Lively and warm.
Ling Ran chewed the rabbit leg in his mouth, looking at Fan Jiang who was chewing the pig's trotter seriously, Fan He who was eating the lamb skewers happily, Yan Qiu who was curiously trying to stretch the glutinous rice cake, and Fan Jin who was working hard and grilling the skewers without complaint. He felt that the scene in front of him was too beautiful to be real.
Since his mother passed away, there has been no warm scene.
They were never polite to him, but they never treated him harshly.
He worked, and they worked too;
Whatever they ate, no matter how expensive it was, he had a share, and because he was the oldest, his share was often the biggest and best.
The rabbit leg was sweet and chewy, and Ling Ran lowered his head while eating.
"What's wrong, Brother Ling?" Yan Qiu was close, and saw his abnormality, and asked with concern.
Ling Ran shook his head, his voice hoarse and low: "It's okay, the charcoal ash accidentally blinded me."