Dressed as a cute kid with a farm: Pick up a brother to farm

In about half an hour, the originally plain thatched house had been decorated with a brand new look.

The red spring couplets, the majestic door gods, the festive lanterns, and the big "Fu" character in the house, every detail is festive.

"nice!"

Ye Yaoyao smiled so much that her big eyes almost narrowed into slits.

Even though there were only two of them, she felt like she was at home.

Warm and reassuring.

"Ah."

Meng Huaishao rubbed her little head out of habit.

"The chicken should be cooked, I'll go check it out!"

The whole chicken is used to worship heaven and earth, so it doesn’t need to be stewed too much.

In addition to chicken, there is also tofu.

As agreed before, Meng Huaishao and Ye Yaoyao went to Niu Nainai's house last night and exchanged soybeans for a lump of soybeans, waiting to use it today.

Ye Yaoyao had no habit of worshipping anyone, so she just stood by and watched Meng Huaishao busy himself.

Meng Huaishao didn't force her to do anything.

In his eyes, Ye Yaoyao is a genuine little fairy, who can resist worshipping her!

Only when it came to worshipping Meng Huaishao's parents did Ye Yaoyao take the initiative to step forward and bow in a proper manner.

Respect should be given due respect.

Ye Yaoyao understood this truth.

After the worship was completed, Meng Huaishao made a simple lunch to fill his stomach.

Generally speaking, New Year’s Eve dinner is the main meal.

This is also the time when the dishes are the most abundant.

Not only must there be plenty of food, but there must also be fish.

May you have surplus every year!

Taking Ye Yaoyao's appetite into consideration, Meng Huaishao cooked the dish using three times the usual amount of ingredients.

You can't sacrifice the baby's stomach just for the sake of having some "surplus"!

Anyway, with warehouses and refrigerators, we don’t have to worry about spoiling no matter how much we make.

Although there were only two of us, the New Year's Eve dinner was still very sumptuous.

Meng Huaishao planned a total of nine dishes and one soup.

Steamed sea bass, garlic spare ribs, roast chicken with potatoes, steamed chicken wings, purple sweet potato meatballs, lean meat meatballs, stir-fried lotus root slices, crucian carp meatballs, stir-fried cabbage with lard and soybean pig's trotter soup.

As for tofu?

Because Ye Yaoyao can't eat, he doesn't plan to cook today.

After all, for the New Year’s Eve dinner, you have to eat something of every dish!

There are so many dishes that Meng Huaishao is very busy.

In addition, the work is done in a thatched hut with limited space and tools, making it even more difficult.

Considering the limited conditions, mincing the meat and cooking the rice were all done in the farm kitchen.

Otherwise, this small kitchen would be unusable.

Meng Huaishao was busy, and Ye Yaoyao was not idle either.

Although she couldn't help much, she could still tear cabbage and operate a machine.

The meat paste was made by her using her mind to guard the kitchen.

Meng Huaishao has a lot of things to do, and it would be difficult for him to take care of the meatballs if he didn't stay in the farm kitchen all the time.

Soybean and pig's trotter soup takes the longest time to cook and the ingredients also take a long time to prepare.

The soybeans were soaked last night.

When Meng Huaishao was stewing pig's trotters, he scooped out a bowl of soaked soybeans, rinsed them, and put them into the pot to stew together.

Also added are scallion and ginger slices.

After boiling, Chao transferred the pig's trotter soup into a clay pot, turned it on a small stove, and simmered it slowly over low heat.

Half an hour before serving, add a few red dates and a little salt for seasoning and it will be delicious.

At the same time, the empty stove can be used to continue cooking.

The second most time-consuming thing is the roast chicken with potatoes and steamed chicken wings.

In order to celebrate the New Year and because the number of chickens was already quite large, Meng Huaishao killed several chickens at one time, so he didn't feel bad about eating them now.

Meng Huaishao planned to make roast chicken with potatoes first.

He cut half a chicken into pieces, washed it, marinated it with scallion and ginger water, and then put it in a pot with cold water.

Put some onion, ginger and seasoning into the pot, take it out after it boils, wash off the foam attached to the chicken, and then put it in a drain basket to drain the water before use.

After finishing, Meng Huaishao went to process the chicken wings, potatoes, and carrots for making steamed chicken wings.

After the side dishes are prepared, continue with the main dish.

Ye Yaoyao, with a hat on her head, was adding firewood to the stove, while Meng Huaishao started cooking.

After the pot was boiled dry, Meng Huaishao put oil and rock sugar into the pot. The sizzling sound continued to be heard, causing Ye Yaoyao to stand on tiptoe to watch.

Unfortunately, I can’t see it!

Meng Huaishao concentrated on frying the base ingredients, and when it turned into soy sauce color, he added the freshly cooked chicken pieces and stir-fried them evenly to color the chicken pieces.

After stir-frying evenly, add an appropriate amount of soy sauce, add boiling water, cover the pot and simmer.

After cooking for a while, a rich aroma emanated from the pot.

Ye Yaoyao sniffed, her face full of drooling?

"It's delicious!"

Meng Huaishao had just brought over the side dishes when he saw the greedy little baby.

He put down the basin and went to the room to get a piece of maltose.

Just when he was about to give Meng Huaishao Ye Yaoyao, he saw that her little hands and face were all black, and he couldn't help laughing.

Under Ye Yaoyao's puzzled gaze, Meng Huaishao wrung out a hot towel to wash her hands and face. After she was clean, he handed the maltose to Ye Yaoyao.

"Eat a piece of candy first, and then eat later!"

"Uh-huh!"

Ye Yaoyao got the candy and smiled so well that her dimples appeared.

She ate candy and added firewood.

You have to take care of your mouth and don't forget to add fire.

This is related to tonight’s dinner!

Ye Yaoyao would never do something like picking up sesame seeds and losing watermelons[Note 1].

After the chicken pieces were cooked, Meng Huaishao added potato cubes and a small amount of salt and stir-fried them evenly.

After cooking for a while, when the potatoes were cooked, he reminded Ye Yaoyao to increase the heat.

During the uninterrupted stir-frying process, use high heat to collect the sauce.

When there is almost no soup left, you can remove from the heat directly.

After taking the food off the stove, Meng Huaishao placed the large bowl of the dish on the table, covered it with another bowl to keep it warm, and then returned to continue cooking.

This was not the first time Meng Huaishao had made steamed chicken wings, and he heated the oil in a skillful manner.

Because the potato stewed chicken already has potatoes, Meng Huaishao chose to add diced sweet potatoes and diced carrots to the steamed chicken wings

Heat the iron pan, pour in oil and bring to a boil, then add diced carrots and sweet potatoes, stir-fry evenly and remove from heat.

Then place the fried carrots and sweet potatoes in a bowl, put the marinated chicken wings on top, and pour all the sauce made from scallion, ginger and soy sauce on top without wasting it.

Then, steam it until cooked.

The next dish Meng Huaishao was going to make was garlic pork ribs.

The finished garlic ribs are crispy on the outside and tender on the inside, and are very delicious.

The only two disadvantages are that the crispy surface is not convenient for Ye Yaoyao to chew, and eating too much can easily cause sore throat.

Therefore, Meng Huaishao only prepared to make a small plate.

The first thing to do is to marinate the ribs.

Meng Huaishao washed the ribs, drained the water, added a little salt, a little sugar, a spoonful of soy sauce, an egg yolk, and an appropriate amount of minced garlic, mixed them well and marinated for a quarter of an hour.

After marinating, add starch and mix well.

Meat mixed with starch will be more tender, smoother and taste more fragrant.

[Note 1]: Picking up sesame seeds and losing watermelons: Liang Bin’s “Records of Liberation”, Chapter 15, Section 1.