kingnovel Chapter 550 Pickled Fish
Chapter 550 Pickled Fish
The old man helped to scoop the net bag silently.
Zhou Guo smiled so hard that his teeth were showing. He thought fishing was really fun. He couldn't understand why the old man sat there for so long but could only catch one or two grass carps. This shouldn't be easy.
He sat down happily and stared at the fishing rod intently. A quarter of an hour later, he caught a big grass carp. Although it was not a shadowless fish, Zhou Guo was very happy. He went back to buy some tofu and stew it with some sauerkraut in the jar. It would be delicious.
After fishing for about an hour and a half, Zhou Guo caught three shadowless fish and six large grass carps. The bucket was full of them, so he had to string them together with grass ropes and put them in the water.
After fishing for a long time, the old man only caught a grass carp that weighed only two kilograms.
This fish was caught only later when he was sitting far away from Zhou Guo, otherwise he might not have caught any.
Zhou Guo looked at the fish and said to the old man happily, "Master, I will come fishing with you tomorrow."
The old man said nothing.
The group returned home before dark, returning earlier today than yesterday.
The main reason was that the old doctor was very happy to see so many fish, and he couldn't help but look at the old man several times.
The old man looked away.
Li and his friends were surprised to see so many Shadowless Fish again. "Why did they catch three more today? Are there so many Shadowless Fish in the pond already?"
Zhou Guo described her fishing process with great excitement, "Mom, I will follow you into the mountains tomorrow to go fishing. Fishing is really fun. No wonder Master likes fishing so much and can sit there for a whole day."
The old man still didn't speak.
When she came back, she took a detour to the mountains and gave some wood to Wu Jiang, asking him to put them in several places in the mountains.
The Li family members were also very happy to see so many fish, and they gathered together to discuss how to eat them.
Zhou Guo said, "Isn't there a tofu vendor in town? I'll go buy two pieces of tofu and stew them with the pickled cabbage at home. A big pot of it will be the main dish for tonight."
Zhou Xing smiled and said, "No need to buy it. We already have tofu at home. We have nothing to do at home today, so we made a lot of tofu and shavings. We won't be short of tofu for the next three or four days."
Zhou Guo stared, "How come I didn't know that my family knew how to make tofu? No one has made tofu in the past two years?"
With this skill, why didn’t your family have enough food before?
Li said, "I learned it from the women in the mountains. Last time I went there, I saw some of them making tofu, so I learned from them. I heard that this and the residue are also delicious."
After saying that, he sighed, "In the past, there was an old saying that if you have a skill, your ancestors will never lack food and drink. Now look at them, it's useless to know how to make tofu, they still became refugees, and now it's even better, they have become servants in our family and sold themselves into slavery."
Zhou Mi said: "Second Aunt, in this world, even ordinary wealthy families can't survive, let alone craftsmen, there is no way to make a living!"
Yes, in this chaotic world, even small landlords have no way to survive.
Today's fish are much more energetic than yesterday's, and they should be able to survive a day or two in the tank.
I grilled two in the evening. This is what the old man is best at. He set up a brazier in the yard.
When Zhou Guo walked into the kitchen, the first thing he saw was a plate of tofu and a large bowl of porridge on the chopping board, which seemed to contain some vegetable leaves.
Li said, "I originally made three plates of tofu and gave some to everyone. Now there is only this one plate left. It can last for several days."
Zhou Guo pointed at the contents of the bowl and said, "This is the residue? How do I eat it?"
Li said, "Put some oil in it, pour it in and cook it, then add some salt and boil it and you can eat it."
"It's quite simple." I seriously doubt whether it will taste good. How delicious can it be if it's just ground beans and added with some vegetables?
"Then I'll cook the fish." He rolled up his sleeves and planned to make sauerkraut fish. Although there was no chili pepper, there were sauerkraut and tofu, so he thought it wouldn't be particularly unpalatable.
Li wanted to do it herself, but seeing her rolling up her sleeves, she had no choice but to let her cook the dish.
I cleaned the pheasants myself.
Zhou Xing and Zhou Suli were washing vegetables by the well. They had planted a large area of cabbage and radish this year, not only in the vegetable garden. Later, Li also moved half an acre of seedlings from the field, half an acre of cabbage and half an acre of radishes and carrots, for fear that they would have no vegetables to eat in winter.
Because there is enough fertilizer, the growth is quite good.
There will be no more vegetable shortage this winter.
Although we expanded the vegetable garden last year, the winter was too long, so we had to eat beans in a different way.
The old man was grilling fish, and several soldiers were processing the musk deer with great interest. They would have musk deer meat to eat tonight.
Zhou Guo scooped out some sauerkraut from the jar. There was also some wild celery in the jar, which he also scooped out and chopped.
Prepare the garlic, ginger, pepper and onion.
Considering that there would be a lot of people, I picked three grass carps weighing about five or six pounds, sliced them into slices, and marinated them with salt, soy sauce, pine mushroom powder and egg white. The clay pot was half full, so I thought it would be enough.
Li stood aside and watched, finding it novel. She had never seen anyone prepare fish in this way, and it even required eggs.
When the oil starts to smoke, add half a bowl of seasoning into the pan and stir-fry until fragrant, then add the sauerkraut and a few drops of wine.
The fire was so big that flames instantly shot up in the pot, and the aroma was also stimulated, filling the whole yard with the strong fragrance.
Everyone couldn't help but peek outside the kitchen, wanting to see what was being cooked, it smelled so good!
The old man handed the grilled fish to Zhou Su and walked towards the kitchen.
Seeing Zhou Guo waving the spatula to stir-fry the vegetables, he leaned into the pot and saw that it was sauerkraut. He didn't know what to do with it, so he just stood there and watched. After a while, the old doctor who was cleaning the medicinal materials also came.
The two old brothers stood together and watched Zhou Guo cook.
The flame went out and the aroma came out. Pour the fish bones in and stir-fry together. Add two scoops of water to the pot.
Add salt, soy sauce, pine mushroom and dried shrimp powder all at once.
Cut four pieces of tofu into small cubes and throw them in. If there are many people and the fish is not enough, just eat more tofu. Anyway, tofu cooked with fish will also have fish flavor and is very delicious.
After the water has been boiling for a while, add the fish fillets. After the fish fillets change color, scoop them out and place them in two ceramic pots respectively.
Sprinkle chopped green onions on it and it will look both attractive and delicious.
The old man nodded. He had never eaten fish like this before. It looked good.
Li frowned as she looked at the two pottery pots, "There are still a few dishes that will take a while to be ready. By the time those two dishes are ready, this one will be cold."
Zhou Guo said, "It's okay. I'll go set up two small stoves and simmer it on low heat."
Zhou Gu came in and heard this and said, "No need, I heated the kang, so it won't be cold if you put it on the kang."
"Let's set up two. The longer the tofu is cooked, the more flavorful it will be." Zhou Guo still set up two charcoal stoves. The only drawback was that the sauerkraut fish slices were too thin. It would be better to chop them into pieces tomorrow.
The days have become colder these past two days, and we started heating the kang at night.
Zhou Dacang's kang was always on.
In order to save firewood, Zhou Guo and Zhou Xing both went to the east end to sleep.
Li made a dish of pheasant stewed with mushrooms and put two carrots in it. The deer meat was chopped into small pieces and stewed together with the carrots.
With the fish and roe deer meat grilled by the old man, the dinner was very sumptuous.