Border Cook

Chapter 240 Want to go home

After Fang Linwang left, the cooks gathered around the chef again.

"Boss, I see there are quite a lot of dumplings sent by Madam Xia. The three of them will definitely not be able to finish them all. Please let us try a few."

"Go away, even if you can't finish it, you have to save it for the captain to eat tomorrow." The head waiter said, "Our captain has worked so hard and finally got to eat something good, and you still want to share some, do you have any conscience?"

After being told this by the head cook, the cooks immediately felt ashamed and stopped thinking about eating the sauerkraut and meat dumplings. Instead, they hurried to work so that everyone could eat hot and fragrant dumplings earlier in the evening.

The pork filling was chopped quickly and mixed evenly with various seasonings. Even though a lot of white radish was mixed in, it still smelled delicious even though it was raw at this time.

It smelled so good that the cook couldn't help sniffing and it was a way to comfort himself.

With such delicious dumplings stuffed with radish and meat, it’s okay not to eat the dumplings stuffed with sauerkraut.

But I really want to eat it...

This is the instinct of human beings as animals.

But then again, he is a human being, and humans should control their desires!
control!
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On the eve of the Chinese New Year, Xia Mingyue, Jiang Zhuguo and the Lu family spent it together.

Cut some of the braised meats and make a refreshing spinach and vermicelli dish, then serve it cold with an egg tofu dish, and finally the highlight of the night - sour cabbage and meat dumplings.

The dumpling skin is slightly yellowish with salt and eggs added to it, and tastes very chewy and delicious. The pork filling is filled with delicious soup after being cooked because of the addition of pork skin jelly. The sour cabbage has just the right degree of sourness, making it crispy and delicious, and it is appetizing.

It can be said that dumplings like this become more delicious the more you eat them.

Xia Mingyue and others ate with gusto, and kept saying that the dumplings tasted good. They suggested that they could make more dumplings during the Chinese New Year.

During the Chinese New Year, dumplings should be eaten from the first to the eighth day, and then again on the fifteenth day. Eating dumplings so frequently and in such large quantities will inevitably make you feel sick of it.

And such delicious dumplings can definitely break the deadlock of previous years and solve everyone’s troubles in previous years.

Xia Mingyue also thought it was feasible, but she had only thought about trying the taste, and the sauerkraut she bought was not enough to make dumplings for the New Year.

It seems I'd better go look for it on the street again.

Meanwhile, in Xiaohe Village, Lu Qiyan and a group of people were also eating dumplings.

The dumplings with radish and meat filling have enough meat, the radish is squeezed dry enough, and then fried in oil, so they taste very fragrant.

Everyone enjoyed the food and found it very satisfying.

But when he saw the dumplings stuffed with sauerkraut and meat that Lu Qiyan and the other two were eating, he felt that the dumplings in his own bowl were not fragrant enough.

hateful……

I really want to find a woman who is as good at cooking as Madam Xia.

But then again, Captain Lu is good at martial arts, knows how to command troops, and is handsome, which is why he was able to marry a woman like Lady Xia. They should forget about it!
It’s good enough to be able to marry a wife, why ask for so much?
Lu Qiyan naturally had no idea what his subordinates were thinking at the moment, and he was still eating the dumplings in the bowl with relish, occasionally taking a piece of the braised meat that Xia Mingyue had sent him.

He was eating braised donkey meat, which was fragrant and delicious, but it did not take away the deliciousness of the dumplings themselves. On the contrary, the two tasted even more delicious when put together.

It’s really delicious.

Lu Qiyan narrowed his eyes and looked towards the river not far away.

At present, the construction of the bridge is going smoothly, and the soldiers are working very actively and attentively. If this continues, it should be completed a few days earlier than the expected time in the first month of the year.

I hope I can have time to go home a few more times. I have no other purpose, just to eat more of the delicious food she makes.

Yes, it is like that……

Lu Qiyan was thinking in his mind and unconsciously reached out to touch his nose.

On the twenty-fifth, I grind tofu. On the twenty-sixth, I buy meat...

As the days draw closer to the Chinese New Year, the festive atmosphere gradually takes over everywhere.

On the twenty-eighth day, after finishing their last day of business for the year, Xia Ji stalls in various places completely packed up their stalls, preparing to reopen on the eighth day of the next year.

Xia Mingyue also led all the people working in the central kitchen to thoroughly clean and tidy up the central kitchen.

After all the work in the afternoon was completed, Xia Mingyue gathered everyone together.

The wages for the twelfth month were paid in advance, and each person was given a red envelope for the New Year, and a New Year gift was also given to each person.

Inside the red envelope, there are five small strings of copper coins, each string contains one hundred coins. Five hundred coins are heavy enough, so the money is wrapped with red cloth instead of red paper. After wrapping, the red cloth looks bulging, which makes people happy.

As for the festival gifts, there was a string of five-spice sausages, a small bowl of crispy fish and a bowl of braised five-spice dried tofu.

These are all must-have dishes during the Chinese New Year. They can be used to entertain relatives and can also be used to worship ancestors on the first day of the Chinese New Year. They are delicious and very practical.

And these are also quite valuable.

It can be said that Xia Mingyue is very generous.

"These are to thank everyone for their hard work in Xia Ji this year. I also hope that everyone can continue to work with me next year and make this central kitchen better and better!"

Everyone was already very grateful for Xia Mingyue's usual kindness, and now they were even more grateful. They thanked her profusely and expressed their attitude that they would definitely do their best and work hard.

The central kitchen was finishing up the year-end preparations. On the 29th day, Xia Mingyue started bringing various foods such as five-spice sausages, crispy fish, five-spice donkey meat, etc. to various places to give as holiday gifts.

First, we went to the county school, where Aunt Han, Wu Xiong and Manager Ge were.

Next are the franchisees everywhere.

Since the Qian couple usually sells braised food here, they made a lot of preparations for the New Year this time, so Xia Mingyue only gave them five-spice sausages.

The five-spice sausage was novel and delicious, and it was full of Xia Mingyue's respect and friendship for everyone. Everyone expressed their gratitude.

They started delivering the things in the morning, almost without stopping. They even had the help of Lu's mother and her two children. By the time they had finished delivering all the things, it was already past noon.

Xia Mingyue walked back and looked around the street to see if there were any nice Spring Festival couplets, window decorations or anything like that.

These two days are the time for pasting Spring Festival couplets, sticking window flowers and hanging New Year pictures. Many people set up stalls on the street to sell things, and some even sell firecrackers, attracting many children to watch.

This was Xia Mingyue's first New Year since she came here, and also her first time to feel the New Year atmosphere here. She was very interested in these purely handmade objects and went to take a look.

When he saw something nice, he would buy a few and put them in the bamboo basket slung over his arm.

After buying this one, I'll go to the next one to see if there's anything I like...

Just when Xia Mingyue was enjoying shopping enthusiastically, a burly man walked hurriedly on the street without even looking at the road and bumped straight into Xia Mingyue.

Regarding Xiaonian, some places have it on the 23rd, and some places have it on the 24th. Xiaonian really gained status in the Song Dynasty. The Song Dynasty even stipulated the time of all festivals, making the 24th of the twelfth lunar month as Xiaonian Eve and the 30th of the twelfth lunar month as Da Nian Eve, so here it is written according to the 24th~