Traveling through the famine, I stockpiled supplies like crazy

Chapter 144 Young Years

There are abundant ingredients at home, so you can prepare a few flavors, freeze them outside, and put them directly into the space without them sticking together.

They did it right away. Lu Chuan washed the meat and Xu Han washed the vegetables.

Make some sauerkraut beef filling, cabbage and mutton filling, beef and celery filling, leek and egg filling, beef and mutton mixed filling, etc.

The two of them spent the morning preparing the fillings. After all the fillings were prepared, each one came in a large bowl.

"Let's eat dumplings stuffed with sauerkraut and beef for lunch today! We haven't eaten it yet!" Xu Han asked.

"Sure! Let's have the sauerkraut beef one!"

Seeing that Lu Chuan had no objection, Xu Han started to knead the dough, kneading a little bit first and then wrapping out the food for lunch.

"I'll pack some other flavors too! Try to see if they're salty or bland. Don't pack them when they're done and then you won't be able to season them."

"Okay, you decide!"

After wrapping them, Lu Chuan started the fire while Xu Han began to knead the dough to make dumplings in the afternoon.

The dumplings cooked very quickly. Before Xu Han had even finished kneading the dough, the dumplings were already cooked.

Lu Chuan waited for Xu Han to knead the dough. This time he brought the dumplings into the room, sat on the warm kang and started eating.

"How does it taste?" Xu Han asked.

"It's delicious, but the chive and egg filling seems a bit salty. Try it."

Xu Han ate one and said, "It's a bit salty, I'll add some leeks and eggs later. The beef and celery are a bit hard, let's add some cooking oil and butter! It's more fragrant with more oil."

After eating, Xu Han had an idea in mind, so she adjusted the seasoning and then started making dumplings. She brought the stuffing and dough into the main room, and the two of them sat on the warm kang and slowly began to make dumplings.

Place the wrapped dumplings on the shelf outside to freeze them, and then store them in the storage space.

It won’t be good to have dumplings without glutinous rice balls. I didn’t have time to make them before, but now that I have some free time, I must make some.

So Xu Han said to Lu Chuan, "Let's grind some glutinous rice flour tomorrow and make some glutinous rice balls."

"Sure! Tangyuan is troublesome to make, and I haven't eaten them much. You should like them because they are sticky. Make more when the time comes."

After the two of them agreed, Lu Chuan went to soak the glutinous rice so that he could make water-ground glutinous rice flour the next day.

In the evening, I simply had some porridge with some side dishes and fried cakes, which was very delicious.

The next morning, today is the Little New Year, which is also an important festival and must not be celebrated carelessly.

After breakfast, Lu Chuan pulled out the corn to grind, and then the two of them began to prepare for today's lunch.

At least we have to have a good meal! We can’t just use the food in the space, it will lose the festive atmosphere.

Xu Han first stewed a beef rib. She cut the steak into large pieces, then blanched it in water to remove the blood foam, stir-fried it in a pot, added appropriate spices, and after boiling, put it in a clay pot and simmered it slowly.

I also used the pot outside to braise spicy lamb trotters and lamb heads. This was also very delicious. I put a lot of chili peppers and Sichuan peppercorns in it, and it was very spicy and refreshing.

There are already two more main dishes, and each portion is very generous. The leftovers are stored in the space.

It doesn't matter if there is less or more, it's better to do more at a time! Xu Han has nothing to fear as long as there is space!

Xu Han also steamed spicy dried fish and cooked salted chicken, which she tore by hand after cooking. It was salty and fragrant. It is an indispensable dish for the Chinese New Year.

Meat alone is not enough, Xu Han also stir-fried vegetables, made a cold salad of cucumbers and beans, and added some fruits.

We pieced together ten dishes and a mushroom soup, which was a rich meal for two people.

After cooking, Xu Han went to the warehouse to get some wine, and also got some white wine for Lu Chuan.

After everything is prepared, we start to enjoy today's sumptuous lunch.

This was the first time the two had such a grand meal together since the Mid-Autumn Festival.

After the Mid-Autumn Festival, I have been busy. If I want to have some real free time, I guess I have to wait until the drought becomes serious.

Lu Chuan and Xu Han rarely had such a leisurely meal. There was no work arranged for them today. Only glutinous rice needed to be ground into flour, but there was corn being ground! There was no need to keep an eye on it.

You just need to add water and glutinous rice in time, and pour it out when the bucket is full.

After the two of them finished their lunch, all the glutinous rice flour outside had been ground.

Xu Han added all the remaining ingredients in, then poured the ground glutinous rice paste into the cloth bag and pressed it with a heavy object to drain the moisture inside.

Use a new cloth bag to control the water of the remaining freshly ground ones. After draining the water, you can take them out and dry them tomorrow.

After finishing, take out all the lotus root powder made previously, put it on a dustpan to dry, and then you can store it.

Before they knew it, another day had passed. The next morning, after Xu Han finished her breakfast, Lu Chuan had also completed his boxing task for the day.

The two of them worked together to get the glutinous rice flour, chopped it up and spread it on a winnowing basket to dry.

Xu Han took another portion and started making dumplings, but before making the dumplings, she needed to make the filling first.

The most common filling for glutinous rice balls is black sesame, but there is no black sesame here, so Xu Han can only use white sesame instead.

After frying the white sesame seeds, crush them with a rolling pin. Add sugar and cooking oil to make small filling balls that can be held together. Set aside.

Xu Han used the same method to make peanut-filled ones, and then made various jam-filled ones. However, Lu Chuan definitely didn’t eat many fruit-filled glutinous rice balls, so he made fewer.

After preparing all the fillings, Xu Han began to prepare the glutinous rice flour. Glutinous rice flour is very easy to spread out, so you have to be quick when wrapping the dumplings.

In Xu Han’s hometown, people make glutinous rice balls to eat. They just press a hole in the glutinous rice dough, wrap the filling in it, and then squeeze it into a round shape.

After wrapping for a while, they felt it was too slow, so Xu Han said, "Let's try another way! This one is too slow."

"How to wrap it?" Lu Chuan asked curiously and puzzled.

"Wrap the filling with glutinous rice flour, then put it in water and continue rolling the filling. Repeat this several times and the glutinous rice balls will be ready," Xu Han said excitedly.

As I was talking, I suddenly thought of something.

Then he continued, "This requires dry glutinous rice flour, but our glutinous rice flour is not dry yet!"

"It doesn't matter. We can put the stuffing in the space first. It won't go bad. We can just wrap it up later, right?"

Xu Han's eyes lit up when she heard this. That's right! She did have her own space.

Then the two of them began to collect all the materials, and put the kneaded glutinous rice dough into the space first. They can make dumplings whenever they want, or make other foods.

I have to taste the dumplings I made today, so Xu Han cooked several dumplings with different flavors and added brown sugar to the pot, making it like a small dessert after dinner.

It would definitely not be enough to eat just this, so he took out some more food from the space.