Babaoliang Village. Zhou Family!
It was almost half past six when Zhou Yang returned home from the brigade headquarters.
Just now, with the cooperation of Cui Jinjin, Liu Lu and others, Zhou Yang finalized the list of educated youths who would be seconded to the printing factory.
There are 108 people in total, all of whom are educated youths and have no fixed positions, but they have also read books.
After telling them to gather at the brigade headquarters tomorrow morning and wait for him to pick them up, Zhou Yang returned home with Chen Beixuan and Liu Yunlong.
As soon as he entered the yard, Zhou Yang noticed that the house was noisy. When he opened the door and came in, he found that all the child soldiers from the old house were there.
The children were watching TV in the house and playing with the gifts that their aunt and uncle brought them from the capital. They were very happy.
The gifts were carefully selected by Li Youwei. Each child had five homework books, a pencil box, five pencils, a pencil sharpener and an eraser.
In addition, Li Youwei also bought several sets of miniature books and jumping balls for the children.
Although it didn't cost much, it made the children very happy.
Seeing Zhou Yang come in, Huzi immediately took the lead and said hello: "Uncle, are you back?"
"Well, I'm back. Where is your aunt?"
Before Huzi could answer, Baoer rushed to say, "Mom and Aunt Rufeng are going to grandma's house!"
"When did you go?"
"Been there for a while!" Bao'er said.
"Oh, you guys have fun first!"
Then Zhou Yang said to Hu Zi: "You don't have to go home to eat at night. Just eat at your aunt's house. My uncle will prepare delicious food for you!"
Hearing this, the children all screamed with joy!
Everyone knows that the food cooked by my uncle is delicious because he is willing to use things when cooking.
Afterwards, Zhou Yang went to the kitchen of the main room and started preparing dinner.
As soon as he arrived at the stove, Zhou Yang saw a basin of peeled yam eggs soaked in a basin of water, as well as a small half basin of pickled sauerkraut and a fist-sized piece of frozen pork.
Looking at these ingredients, Zhou Yang knew that Li Youwei planned to make a stew.
In fact, it's not just the Zhou family who is like this, everyone is the same in this season, and the food they eat is relatively monotonous.
Only families with good conditions can eat braised vegetables and steamed buns, while those with poor conditions can only eat porridge.
In view of this, Zhou Yang decided to eat something different.
He plans to make an iron pot stew for his family!
As a famous Northeastern dish, iron pot stew is both a dish and a cooking method with local characteristics.
This dish originated from the people who came to the Northeast and the local people in the Northeast during the Guandong period, and cooked it in the form of random stews.
The biggest feature is the stove, a large iron pot and wood and firewood. It can be used to stew chicken, goose, fish, ribs, beef, or large bone sticks.
It doesn’t feel good if few people eat this kind of dish, but if there are many people in the family, it will be lively.
There are no chickens or fish at home, but there is pork and pork bones.
They knew him so well that when they killed pigs during the Chinese New Year, the villagers specially gave him hundreds of kilograms of pig bones.
Except for taking back a lot for my parents, the rest are all stored in the cold room.
Anyway, the temperature here is low, so you can usually wait until the end of March or early April without worrying about damage.
Just as he said, Zhou Yang took a big iron basin to the cold room and took some pig bones, a large piece of meat, and a lot of vermicelli.
After washing the meat and bones, Zhou Yang simply blanched the bones in water, knocked off the scum, fished out the bones and set them aside, and ladle the soup into a large basin for later use.
After cutting the meat, heat the oil directly in the pan.
The milky white lard gradually melts in the large iron pot. After the oil temperature rises slightly, directly add the sliced meat and pork bones and stir-fry.
When the meat slices turn slightly yellow and the bones change color, you can add seasonings such as soy sauce, salt, and Sichuan peppercorns, then pour in the bone soup and simmer over low heat.
While the bones were stewing, Zhou Yang fished out half a pot of pickled cabbage from the pickled vegetable vat.
Although Li Youwei prepared some sauerkraut, it was obviously not enough for so many people. After all, there were a lot of child soldiers at home today.
Even though they are just kids, they have quite a lot of appetite.
Rinse the sauerkraut several times with clean water to remove the sour smell from the sauerkraut, and then cut it into shreds.
Then add it to the pot along with the potatoes and let it simmer with the meat and bones.
Then, Zhou Yang started kneading the noodles and preparing to make pot stickers.
Mix white flour and cornmeal in proportion, add water and knead into a ball, put it in a basin and let it rest.
When the meat and bones are almost cooked and the noodles are almost risen, you can make pot stickers.
Since there were too many people at home, Zhou Yang not only put two circles of pot stickers on the side of the pot, but also covered the pot directly with a large "noodle quilt".
As soon as Zhou Yang put the pot stickers into the pot, a woman's conversation came from outside.
Then I saw Li Youwei and Huang Rufeng pushing open the door and approaching!
As soon as she entered the room, Li Youwei said in surprise: "It smells so good. What delicious food is cooked in the pot?"
"What do you think?" Zhou Yang said with a smile.
"I smell the smell of meat. Did you stew the meat?"
"Well, I made a pot of stew for everyone!"
"What kind of dish is stew in an iron pot? Why haven't I heard of it?" Li Youwei asked in surprise.
Before Zhou Yang could speak, Huang Rufeng, who came in with him, said: "The iron pot stew is from Nagada in Northeast China. I didn't expect that the chief can cook Northeastern cuisine!"
"Haha, didn't I go to Northeast China some time ago? After eating it a few times, I asked the chef to find out how to make it. I just happened to make it for you to try today." Zhou Yang said with a smile.
"Then we are in for a treat today!"
"Well, I'll make sure it tastes good to you!"
Then Zhou Yang changed his tone and asked again: "By the way, why did you go to the old house so late? Is there anything wrong?"
"At that time, I heard from Huzi that my father came back from the commune today, so I was thinking about returning the money my parents gave us to them, and then giving them some snacks brought back from the capital!" Li Youwei said.
"I guess my parents must have asked you to get your money back again!"
Zhou Yang knows the tempers of his father-in-law and his mother-in-law very well, especially the father-in-law. Once a decision is made, it is difficult to change it!
Li Youwei sighed and said, "You really guessed it right. My father and mother said they gave us the money. We can take it even if we don't want it!"
"Then just keep it for them first, and then give it to them when needed in the future!" Zhou Yang said.
"good!"
Then Li Youwei said again: "When I passed by just now, the second brother and the second sister-in-law came back too!"
"Oh, aren't they busy these days?"
"No, dad asked them to come back on leave!"
"What's wrong, why do you still need to ask for leave?" Zhou Yang asked in surprise.
"It's not going to be spring soon. Dad asked a few brothers to come back to discuss the matter of new houses. Dad means to let all four brothers build a brick house and then move out!"
Then I heard Li Youwei say: "But I heard that the second sister-in-law doesn't want to build a house in the village. He and the second brother want to buy a yard in the county!"
Zhou Yang thought for a while and said: "The second brother and the second sister-in-law may indeed settle down in the county in the future, and it is also appropriate to buy a yard in the city!"
"By the way, when I left, dad asked me to come back and tell you that he won't go to the commune tomorrow. If you have time, go to the old house!" Li Youwei said again.
"OK..."
Just as he was talking, Zhou Yang saw that it was almost time to see the steamer post, and immediately said: "The rice is almost cooked, hurry up and get the bowls and chopsticks ready to start the meal!"
"good!"
Then I heard Li Youwei shouting to the child soldiers in the room: "Children, pack the things on the kang and prepare to eat!"
"Wen Hui, go to the wing and ask your Grandpa Zhang to come up for dinner!"
"good..."
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(stewing in iron pot)
(Stewed chicken in iron pot)
(Iron pot cover quilt: The "quilt" is as big as the pot is)
