Border Cook

Chapter 117 Crispy Pork Belly

"Yes." Zhao Dahu echoed, "It's like we're used to Aunt Xia's cooking, and now we can't eat our mother's cooking anymore."

"Yeah, Dad."

Zhao Youcai, "..."

Who told you and us?

He never said such a thing!
“You bastard!” Zhao Youcai saw that Lu’s face was about to turn dark, so he quickly gave Zhao Dahu a slap on the head, “What nonsense are you talking about!”

"I know I was wrong." Zhao Dahu covered his head and begged for mercy, "From now on, even if it's the truth, I will keep it in my heart and not say it out loud."

Zhao Youcai, "!!!"

I just wanted to cover Zhao Dahu's mouth and rinse it in a basin of water.

Zhao Erhu held his forehead helplessly and just advised, "Mom, don't be angry."

"Yes, mother, don't be angry. We will still eat the food you cook." Zhao Dahu said.

Even if it doesn’t taste that good, we will still eat it because you are our mother.

A son never complains that his mother’s cooking is bad!
Lu: "..."

Suddenly I feel a little tired...

Xia Mingyue was already busy in the kitchen.

First, the chicken that He Shunzi had sent earlier was slaughtered and made into a saliva chicken.

Add rice wine to boiling water and cook the whole chicken, then remove from the water, rinse with cold water and cut into pieces of appropriate size.

The chili powder and Sichuan pepper powder are splashed with hot oil to make red oil, and then mixed with salt, sugar, balsamic vinegar, soy sauce, crushed peanuts, chopped coriander, sesame seeds... and poured onto the chicken pieces in the porcelain bowl, waiting for the chicken pieces to be fully soaked and absorbed by the soup.

Marinate the pork belly with onion, ginger, soy sauce, butter, cumin, chili powder, salt, and pepper powder. Add a little sweet potato starch and an egg and put it in the pan while the oil is hot.

Fry until slightly yellow, remove from the pan and fry again when the oil temperature rises, until all the pork belly pieces are golden and crispy.

The pork belly is already fragrant, and it becomes even more fragrant after being fried. When mixed with spices, the whole kitchen is filled with a fragrant aroma that makes your mouth water.

Xia Mingyue prepared a lot of things, including half a basket of fried pork belly. Before serving, she took a few pieces and skewered them on bamboo sticks and shared them with Zhao Dahu and Zhao Erhu who were helping to make the fire.

The two of them were already drooling, and they quickly thanked Xia Mingyue, took the food and ate it with relish.

Crispy on the outside and tender on the inside, salty and delicious, the lean meat is not dry, and the fat meat is not greasy, you will never get tired of eating it!

After eating the first piece of crispy pork belly, the two found that the taste was too wonderful, so they immediately controlled their eating speed and slowly enjoyed the deliciousness.

Seeing this, Xia Mingyue smiled and said, "Don't worry, just eat it. Today, we have plenty of pork belly!"

She bought five or six pounds of pork belly today, and is still worried that it won’t be enough?

But even though Xia Mingyue said so, Zhao Dahu and Zhao Erhu still looked at each other and maintained their previous eating speed.

Although there was enough meat, they still knew how much their stomachs could hold!
Xia Mingyue laughed in silence and just let the two brothers do what they wanted without trying to persuade them anymore. She then skewered two more skewers of crispy pork belly and gave them to Zhou and Song who were working there.

The two of them have been working hard these days, and in addition to the things in Xia Jili, many things in Xia Mingyue's life have also been done well.

Xia Mingyue felt relieved and treated them with no formality.

The large skewer of pork belly was rich in meat and portion, and it was enough to satisfy your appetite whether you ate it yourself or took it home with other dishes. Zhou and Song thanked him repeatedly, and both of them put the pork belly away for the time being, preparing to take it back for their families to eat.

Xia Mingyue was busy preparing a few vegetarian dishes.

The oil used to fry the pork belly adds a bit of meaty aroma, which can make the stir-fried dishes taste more fragrant.

To make scrambled eggs with green peppers, Xia Mingyue habitually chose a few green peppers with thin flesh that she bought yesterday and had slightly wrinkled skin. She flattened them and cut them into shreds, stir-fried them, and then poured them with the evenly stirred egg liquid.

In this way, the green pepper can be completely mixed with the eggs, and the taste will be that the green pepper has the rich flavor of egg, and the egg is full of the fresh fragrance of green pepper.

Garlic mashed eggplant. Peel a large oval eggplant and steam it in a pot. Squeeze out the water from the eggplant and simply mix it with mashed garlic. Just add salt to enhance the flavor and it will be very delicious.

In addition to the two meat dishes and two vegetable dishes, there was also a dish of peanuts that had been boiled and soaked with star anise and peppercorns for an afternoon and were now fully seasoned, and a plate of freshly cut cold-mixed tomatoes sprinkled with a little sugar.

To make a total of six dishes, Lu helped to make some pot stickers with vegetarian fillings, and Xia Mingyue cooked fish head soup and some fish ball soup.

Dinner started with Zhao Youcai and Lu Qiyan clinking glasses.

The Fenjiu is full of aroma, the mouth-watering chicken is tender and delicious, and the crispy pork belly is fragrant and delicious...

Eating and drinking, laughing and talking, it is the joy of life.

Here, after finishing all her work, Song returned home with the pork belly.

Carefully remove the pork belly from the bamboo skewer and cut it into smaller pieces with a knife.

When eating meat, because the meat tastes so good, it is easy to eat one piece at a time. If the pieces are cut smaller, you can eat more bites and it will feel more satisfying.

After preparing the pork belly, Song lit a fire in the stove, added water and prepared to cook some cornmeal batter, and she also stuck some pancakes made of white flour and cornmeal on the edge of the pot.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, I picked some beans from the racks in the yard. After they are blanched, I will mix them with garlic juice.

When the corn flour batter was poured out of the pot, the pancakes slowly expanded, and the beans were put into the pot, a figure flashed into the yard.

The tall and thin young figure was none other than Song's brother-in-law Li Shuisheng.

"Sister-in-law." Li Shuisheng's face was full of joy as he handed the oil paper bag in his hand to Song.

Song took it and opened it, revealing half a roast chicken in the oil paper package.

The roast chicken has golden skin, strong aroma and is very tempting.

"Where did it come from?" Song was delighted and surprised.

"Mr. Luo was recommended by the county magistrate to take part in the autumn exam. The master and his wife were very happy and held a banquet at home to entertain the clan members. There was a lot of meat left on the table, so the steward asked us to share some and take it home to eat."

Li Shuisheng worked as a long-term worker in the Luo family. He usually did chores like sweeping, planting flowers, and moving things. As he was young, honest and willing to work hard, the manager had a good impression of him and often took care of him secretly.

This half roast chicken with only one wing and one leg removed should be an excellent dish left over from the dinner table.

Song narrowed her eyes and smiled. "Madam Xia also gave me some fried pork belly today. I have already cut it up. We will eat the pork belly tonight. I will save most of the roast chicken for you to eat tomorrow morning."

At the age of fifteen, he was quite tall, but his body was as thin as a mung bean sprout. Song felt that Li Shuisheng needed to eat more good food.

"These are leftovers from lunch. If we keep them overnight, they might go bad." Li Shuisheng disagreed. "Let's eat them all tonight."

(End of this chapter)