pasture leisure

Chapter 516 Stewed Lamb
"Go get something to eat".

Melika looked at the child for a while, and then said something to her husband.

Zhang Chi's eyes stopped on the child, but he still sat up straight naturally: "Okay, I'll make you whatever you want to eat."

After the two came back, they didn't feel hungry at all. It was only now that Melika felt hungry after looking at the sleeping child for a while.

Zhang Chi reluctantly looked away from Xiaowazi, and was about to go downstairs.

Melika stopped Zhang Chi suddenly at this time: "Why don't you stew a lamb, the sheep should be delicious now, and the yellow bearded grass under the snow has been eaten for a long time, and the meat quality should be better than ours half a month ago It's more tender when you eat it."

The so-called yellow-bearded grass under the snow means that the big bearded grass is pressed under the snow, and the original green color becomes yellow, and photosynthesis is lost. The green pigment cannot be synthesized, but the grass is still growing, and it produces something like chives. thing.

After eating these grasses, sheep and cattle will have some changes in meat quality, but the biggest change has to be the small-sized sheep. Grass-fed sheep that have no smell in the first place, and after eating yellow-bearded grass for a month or two, the meat on their bodies will change. It will be more tender, and it has a savory flavor, a bit like leeks, but a bit like toon.

It's not easy to describe, but it's absolutely delicious, especially after it's freshly killed, put it in a big iron pot and stew it with firewood. It only needs simple salt as seasoning, and when you eat it, add a little dipping sauce, it is extremely delicious.

This way of eating has not been developed last year, because the yellow-bearded grass has not yet formed. Originally, the big dead leaves and the yellow-bearded grass entered the stomachs of cattle and sheep.

So in the past, sheep were mainly eaten roasted, but this year, Zhang Chi’s family, including the cowboys on the ranch, gave priority to stewing sheep in iron pots when eating sheep.

Needless to say, now Melika is suddenly a bit greedy.

Zhang Chi was reluctant, he kept the sheep for his own food, nodded, and Zhang Chi went downstairs.

As soon as I got downstairs, I smelled a scent. No need to ask, it must be that my uncle is the chef at home.

Zhang Chi came directly to the door of the kitchen, just about to roll up his sleeves to ask, when he heard his uncle speak.

"You came just in time, serve the dishes on the table, and ask Xiaomei to come down for dinner," Zhang Youliang said.

Zhang Chi said, "So fast?"

Zhang Youliang said: "I don't know when you will arrive. The snow on the road is difficult to walk, so I made some semi-finished products here."

Zhang Youliang is telling the truth. Now this season is the most difficult season of the year. There are cattle and sheep to feed at home, and it is inconvenient to go out. The road is full of ice and snow at this time. If the snow alone is not terrible, the most terrible It was the snow that turned into ice after being crushed by the car for a few days.

That's troublesome. Sometimes the ice can be like a sharp knife. If the road maintenance personnel maintain it well, then it's fine. If it's not well maintained, it's fun to watch.

In such a cold weather, the snow falls every two days. Sometimes the old snow is not removed, and the new snow falls.

Efficiency of road maintenance crews?Forget it, if we don't talk about this matter, we can still stay together.

Zhang Chi didn't say much, and started serving dishes.

When Zheng Bohong and others saw it, they immediately came over to help with winks. Zhang Chi saw that the kitchen was suddenly crowded, so he went upstairs and asked Melika to come down for dinner.

The ingredients on the table were brought by the uncle and the aunt themselves. The focus of the dishes is still the fish, which is for Melika’s milk. The other is the old hen that has been stewed for a long time, and it is stewed in a crock pot. I heard that Many traditional Chinese medicines are added to it, most of which are to invigorate qi and blood.

As for the taste, Zhang Chi thought it was mediocre, but Melika really liked it. After eating two bowls of soup, the leftover hen chicken went to Zhang Chi, and the meat went to edamame.

Mo Zhi, Shiren, and Bai Lao looked down on this little bit of meat, and they just ate beef bones these days.

Now the ranch will sell cattle every once in a while. Americans seldom stew bones and so on, so the big bones in the slaughterhouse are generally not wanted, and the price is very low. Every time Cannon goes to sell cattle, he will take them with him. I came back with a large batch of minced meat and big bones from the slaughterhouse.

Now that the weather is so cold, it can be put there, so Moji, Shiren and Bailao are also living a happy life, and they are full of belly every day.

"Uncle, auntie, don't go back tonight. Tonight, I will ask Zhang Chi to kill the head sheep, and let's stew the sheep." Melika scooped up a spoonful of fish soup, sipped it slowly, and said to Zhang Youliang and Gu Ying at the same time .

Gu Yingdao: "It's not that we haven't eaten, we really can't stay tonight, let alone at night, we have to go back in the afternoon."

"What's the matter, there are too many guests now?" Zhang Chi asked quickly.

Zhang Youliang said: "There are not many guests, but there is a lot of work, all of which are labor-intensive things. Keeping Guangming there will be busy until late."

Gu Ying continued to explain: "Now these people like the steamed stuffed buns in the restaurant, and the sales volume is very high every day. Now they have to make more than 500 steamed stuffed buns a day, and some people even drive over to buy them...".

"Business is so good? Beef buns or something else?" Zhao Yue found it interesting that people here like to eat meat buns.

Gu Yingdao: "It's not strange for the pork. The pork here is not knocked, so it has a smell of butt. The pork we use is different. It is my friend's own family. The boar has been steered since childhood. , so the quality of the meat is relatively good...so this food, making money is making money, but it is too hard."

"It's really impossible to find someone," Melika advised.

"It's easy to find someone, but it's hard to find someone you like. We found two or three people who came over a while ago. Alas, I thought it was to give them a hand, but forget it, let's not mention it!" Zhang Youliang said .

Zheng Bohong said: "The ones who come here now are not like before."

"Who says no? When we came here, we did all kinds of work, because we knew that we were here to make a living. Now those who come here, pick three picks and four are not slippery. They are not here to make a living. This is here. Be a master." Zhang Youliang was very dissatisfied.

Zhang Chi said: "Uncle, you should find someone with a work permit, don't make trouble then."

When Zhang Chi said this, everyone couldn’t help but smile. Everyone had heard about Cannon, not to mention Zhang Youliang, and even Zheng Bohong felt that this was a big gamble. up.

Regarding Cannon, apart from Zhang Chi, it is estimated that there is no other person at this table who knows that Cannon is worth hundreds of thousands of dollars. Even Zhang Youliang approves of his nephew's loyalty, but it is really worthless to spend this money on a cowboy.

Otherwise, Cannon is not a businessman.

This topic involves people who come here now, and everyone has something to say. The Chinese who came here in the past were able to do anything as long as they could make money, but now it is different. China is no longer the condition for Zhang Youliang when he came here.

To be honest, if Zhang Youliang had the current conditions at that time, he probably would not have come to the United States if his leg was interrupted.

Times have changed, and so have people's ideas.

After chatting, they finished eating, cleaned up the bowls, and Zhang Chi was sent out to pick sheep.

The three of Zhao Yue were free, and they couldn't keep watching the children, so they went to pick sheep with Zhang Chi, mainly to play, and their serious business was to play at leisure.

A road has been opened from the gate to the cowshed, and the road is surrounded by knee-deep snow, and under the snow is naturally yellow-bearded grass.

There are no cows or people in the cowshed today, and all the cowboys have gone out to herd their cattle.

Although big mustard has long been a good grass for cattle and sheep, but cattle are also lazy and will play tricks, they will not honestly say that the grass here is so bad that they will change places.

If you let them eat by themselves, they will definitely eat up a piece of land without even leaving a grass root for you, and they will never change places if they don't eat up.

This is still the case in summer, let alone at this time, when there is knee-high snow, it takes a lot of effort for cattle to find grass and then push the snow away.

So at this time the cowboys have to graze like when there is no snow.

At this time, grazing is more difficult than in summer, because you not only have to graze, but also have to cover the snow that has been dug up by the cows and the places that have been eaten by the cows.

If you don't cover it, if it doesn't snow for a few days, the grass in this area will naturally enter the dormancy period, and they will not emerge unless the next spring.

Going to the cowshed to have a look, Zhang Chi wondered if there were some sheep left behind who didn't want to go out.

But Zhang Chi's luck is not good today, all the sheep have gone out, and the whole cowshed is full of cows, sheep, and dogs.

"Where are the sheep?"

Zhao Yue asked.

Zhang Chi said: "I have to go and look for it. Those of you who think it's cold can go back now, and you will have to ride a horse to look for the sheep later."

"Don't you have a snowmobile?" Duan Shuyi asked.

Zhang Chi said: "The cowboys use it."

At this time, snowmobiles are much more comfortable than horses, and cowboys are not stupid, so they give priority to using motorcycles.

"Why don't you buy more?" Zhao Yue said, "I don't think you look like a master who is short of money."

"How many times have I only used it once in a while? I bought a snowmobile and left it for half a year. I might as well ride a horse," Zhang Chi said.

Snowmobiles are actually four losers, and they are replaced with snow tracks. This thing is really easy to use, and the domestic guys are also cheap, but no matter how cheap it is, there is a cost. You can't spend this kind of money once or twice a year.

He took a few people to the stables.

As soon as Zhang Chi released Chiyan Mountain, the little colorful horse started kicking the door. It seemed that Zhang Chi hadn't seen him for a long time, and he was a little happy.

I don't know if it's real joy or fake joy, anyway, this guy seems to be on the road.

After the little colorful horse made such a fuss, Zhao Yue leaned over. She was picking out a horse. The cowboys all had their own horses, and there were also special marks painted on the door.

Even so, there are still enough horses in the stables for three people to choose.

"This horse is the little colored horse, it's really pretty," Zhao Yue said, reaching out and opening the door.

Just as Zhang Chi wanted to remind her to be careful, the horse had already galloped out of the compartment, and came to Zhang Chi's side with a trot, snorting and shaking his head constantly.

"Didn't you say it's hard to train?"

Duan Shu picked out a light chestnut horse, and also gave himself a pair of even-sized saddles. While saddling his own horse, he looked at the little colored horse and asked.

"It's all old calendars, this horse has changed his mind," Zhang Chi said.

"Do you have a name?" Zhao Yue asked.

"It's my sister's horse".

Zhang Chi said.

Although the little colorful horse is quite obedient now and learns things quickly, it is a bit short for Zhang Chi, so Zhang Chi did not ride the little colorful horse. Zhang Chi’s ride is still Chi Yan, which is half snow and half flame Mountain.

(End of this chapter)