Qiao Lan doesn't care much about what other people think.
She is holding a small sickle and happily harvesting the first handful of leeks in her life!
Qiao Lan didn't do much with the staple food in the fields, but she personally controlled the vegetables at home, watching what was planted in each pit.
All seeds are carefully selected by Qiao Lan, and leeks are no exception.
Spring has just begun. The temperature is suitable, the light is pleasant, and the suitable growing environment coupled with scientific planting methods can cultivate green and lush leeks.
Qiao Lan grabbed the leek with one hand and the sickle with the other. The sharp blade broke through the crisp and tender stems and leaves of the leek, exuding the rich fragrance unique to the leek in the field.
After a while, Qiao Lan cut half of the basket of leeks and turned to Mrs. Wang behind her, "Let's go back and make leek and egg dumplings today!"
"Hey, Mom, these leeks look really good!" Wang praised and hurriedly picked up the basket. It wasn't that she didn't want to help Qiao Lan, but Qiao Lan had said in advance that she would do it by herself.
Qiao Lan smiled and didn't say much. She was very happy without the need for others to praise her.
In addition to the monitoring function of the system, Qiao Lan will often come to the fields to see how the vegetables are growing, observe the growth status of the crops, and make timely adjustments to facilitate subsequent breeding.
These are the contents of the second period of strengthening the country. Although it is a bit tiring, Qiao Lan is very happy after doing it for a while, especially when watching the vegetables grow. It may be the planting gene that is unique to Chinese people carried deep in her soul.
, made her fall in love with farming!
After traveling to this world, Qiao Lan has been a little anxious about traveling through time.
When she was in the office, she heard from her colleagues that raising some green plants could relieve anxiety. Qiao Lan had no time to raise them at that time. Now in the fields, looking at the neat crops in the fields and the green leeks in the basket, Qiao Lan
Lan is in a good mood!
Sure enough, raising green plants can relieve anxiety!
Of course, the deeper relief comes from the stomach!
Wash the dirt from the roots of fresh leeks picked from the ground, cut them into small sections with a knife, and stir in eggs fried in oil. Just the process of making the filling fills the kitchen with aroma.
Not only Qiao Lan is looking forward to the first plate of chive dumplings, but so are the children at home!
They fed the chickens at home many times and watched them grow up day by day. They even went to the back mountain to pick up the eggs one by one!
Amid the hazy boiling steam on the stove, the first plate of dumplings came out of the pan.
Mrs. Wang picked up the dumplings from the pot, drained the water and put them out.
After each person picked up a chopstick, the first plate of dumplings was almost empty.
With good ingredients, the simplest cooking methods can often bring out the most deliciousness!
The children held the hot dumplings and took a few deep breaths, then stuffed them into their mouths and chewed them into their stomachs. After the dumplings were lightly bitten, the flavor of eggs and leeks wrapped inside burst out instantly and flooded their taste buds.
Qiao Lan took one and tasted it herself. She was not a food critic, nor was Mrs. Wang boasting about selling her own melons! The stuffing of this dumpling was really good and could taste fresh.
She looked back at the happy expressions on her children's faces, as if what they were eating was not leek and egg dumplings, but spring.
Qiao Lan could only sigh, it's all because of poverty!
One winter, I was eating pickles, stir-fried cabbage and rice porridge. Occasionally, there was fried bacon and roasted duck soup. Those dishes are certainly good, but stir-fried bacon and boiled duck can only be regarded as meat dishes and cannot be treated as meat dishes.
Very delicious food.
These fresh leek and egg dumplings can be considered delicious. In addition, they have participated in the labor of making this pot of dumplings, which made a group of people so amazed.
There are many members of the Duan family, with more than a dozen mouths looking at each other, and it takes several pots to cook dumplings.
Fortunately, these ingredients are all homemade, so rounding them up is free of charge and allows the family to eat with open stomachs.
Duan Mingjing finished two and a half bowls of dumplings and burped with satisfaction!
Woohoo! So delicious!
When the leeks are almost grown, other green vegetables in the field also slowly grow out.
Occasionally, the Duan family would go to the county to buy a few kilograms of fresh meat and bring it back for cooking. The chickens at home were getting bigger and bigger every day, and they began to lay eggs. Together with the various fresh vegetables in the yard, they really couldn't eat them all from morning to night.
There was so much food in the garden that it was a pity to feed the chickens. Qiao Lan asked her daughter-in-law to share some with the neighbors. The rest was chopped, washed, salted, and sealed in jars to make pickles and sauerkraut.
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In the earthen house next door, after today's whole-grain cornmeal was served, the woman in the kitchen brought out two large plates of spinach mixed with pickles.
Farmers seldom had access to oil and water, and most of their cooking was done by steaming. Seeing that the spinach was very tender, the woman was afraid that the leaves would rot if it was over-steamed, so she just blanched it with boiling water, added some pickles, mixed it and served it to the table.
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There are many people in the family, so I made two plates of spinach mixed with pickles.
With the steamed buns in the bowl, the old man who was in charge of the family picked up a chopstick of spinach, stuffed it into his mouth and chewed it quickly. After finishing the chopsticks of spinach, he said, "Why is this spinach sweet?"
Sweet?
Hearing this, everyone at the table picked up a piece of food with chopsticks.
After flicking up and down with more than a dozen pairs of chopsticks, most of the dishes on the plate were instantly empty.
They had eaten vegetables for so many years, but they had never tasted sweet vegetables, and they were curious.
It was only after entering that I realized that this was true!
The sweetness of this spinach is not the sweetness of candy! It is the unique sweetness of vegetables. Against the background of pickles, it becomes more tender, crispy, and delicious.
My sister-in-law, who is usually the most picky, started to praise: "This dish is delicious!"
The woman who was cooking had a slight smile on her face.
"Don't we grow spinach at home? Where did this spinach come from?" my mother-in-law asked. Spinach seeds are expensive, but their family did not buy them.
Woman: "It was sent by the Duan family next door! They said they couldn't finish the vegetables in their field, so they gave us some."
Everyone suddenly realized that it was the food sent by the Duan family!
Because the spinach was so delicious, everyone in the family, old and young, ate up the two plates without much effort, leaving not even a drop of soup at the bottom of the plate.
“Mom, let’s grow some spinach in our house from now on!”
Spinach seeds were expensive and the old woman was reluctant to buy them. After tasting the Duan family’s spinach, she nodded in agreement, “Grow them!”
This kind of thing also happened in Duan Kunshan's house.
Duan Kunshan's daughter-in-law made spinach and egg drop soup using the spinach sent by the Duan family.
After this dish was put on the table, everyone in the family snatched it away.
"This crop of spinach is pretty good!" Duan Kunshan boasted.
Daughter-in-law: "This vegetable was sent by the Duan family. The Duan family's spinach grows well, but our family's spinach will still be available for a few days."
Duan Kunshan nodded after hearing this, "Now that I have collected his food, you can send some eggs to his family another day."
Unexpectedly, the daughter-in-law refused, "Dad, the Duan family has a lot of chickens! I passed by the hill behind the Duan family and saw hundreds of chickens, and their children were carrying baskets to pick eggs on the mountain."