in2ebook Chapter 169: Steamed Pork Ribs with Glutinous Rice
Chapter 169: Steamed Pork Ribs with Glutinous Rice
Although Lin Xiaoman loved to joke and play with Lin Jingzhe, she felt sorry for his small body when she saw him studying so hard that he forgot to eat and sleep.
Why can’t I handle it?
It's all for his precious rabbits.
When other people study, they turn a deaf ear to the world outside and concentrate on reading the books of sages, but he takes care of everything, including chickens, ducks and rabbits, and still continues to study after finishing his studies.
But he is much busier than Xie Ci'an.
Ever since the "Gang of Four" had their own private business, the Lin'an Tabloid, and had the support of the Gu family, the four of them basically had no worries about money. When Xie Ci'an got tired of studying, he would write a story to kill time.
But Lin Jingzhe is different. He can't let go of the mess of chickens, ducks and rabbits. The saying "a life of hard work" refers to him.
"Brother, just leave your rabbits to Zhou Quan. It's cold now and the rabbits are pregnant. Just feed them well."
Lin Jingzhe responded with "hmm hmm" but then did something else.
"Let him be, Xiaoman, he can do whatever he wants." Li Taohua didn't bother to care about Lin Jingzhe.
If you ask her, how could it be so easy to pass the exams for becoming a tongsheng or a xiucai?
When my third younger brother was studying, it was said that he was often praised by the teacher. However, he studied for more than ten years and still could not pass the examination to become a scholar.
My third brother seemed to be eight or seven years old when he started reading the book, and Jingzhe was already thirteen years old, five or six years late.
"Okay, then I'll make something delicious for my brother today."
The family's sausage business is on track, and collecting and wrapping preserved eggs are also going smoothly. Lin Xiaoman wants to make new dishes again.
"Come on, with your stature, you should just take care of yourself!" Li Taohua covered her mouth and laughed, then she glanced at Lin Xiaoman from top to bottom several times.
Height is indeed Lin Xiaoman’s weakness.
You have to know that she was originally of the standard height of 1.68 meters.
I don't know what's wrong with this body. Logically speaking, it has been eating and drinking well for a year and a half. She even took the pulse with her mediocre Chinese medicine skills and found nothing wrong. Logically speaking, it should have recovered after all the nourishment!
It's already fourteen at the beginning of the year. Many girls here get married at the age of fifteen, but she is still a little girl who hasn't even had her period.
Forget it, forget it, I won’t think about it anymore. The more I think about it, the more worried I become, and the more annoyed I become!
It doesn’t matter if she is short, her pleasure is to make money anyway.
She can control weight, but she has no control over height!
"Mom, I'm going to make steamed pork ribs with glutinous rice today. Have you bought the pork ribs?"
"Go get it yourself! I don't know what's so delicious about those bones. You're the only one in the family who likes to eat them."
Everyone else likes to eat pork belly with alternating fat and lean meat, and some even like the ones with more fat. But Xiaoman is the only one who likes foods with more bones and less meat, such as ribs and shanks.
But since our family can afford it, it doesn’t matter. As long as the children are happy, it’s fine.
Lin Xiaoman didn't care what Li Taohua thought. She giggled and acted like a spoiled child beside Li Taohua, "Mom, you have to eat more tonight."
"Okay, even if it doesn't taste good, I'll still support you."
As soon as Lin Xiaoman left, Li Taohua could no longer sit idle and hurried to the workshop.
Lin Xiaoman took out the ribs, washed them, drained the water, added salt, sauce, onion, ginger, garlic, a little sugar, and some homemade chili sauce. Finally, he mixed them evenly and marinated them for half an hour.
While the pickling process was going on, Lin Xiaoman chopped a handful of wild onions, beat two eggs and fried them with the wild onions, kneaded the dough to make six scallion oil egg pancakes, brushed a layer of lard in the pan and baked them slowly over low heat.
After the aroma came out, Lin Xiaoman turned the egg pancake over with chopsticks, and the fragrance immediately filled her nose.
Lin Guyu came following the scent, followed by two fuzzy puppies.
But now the two dogs have grown up a little, and are no longer as cute as they were when they first came. They like to bar their teeth at strangers. At this moment, they are following Lin Guyu, smelling the scent and wagging their tails desperately.
"Sister, are you making pancakes?"
Guyu stared at the pot, "Sister, can I help you light the fire?"
"Goodbye, I'm afraid the egg pancake in the pan will have two holes in it later."
Lin Guyu didn't understand why, so he asked innocently, "Why is there a hole?"
Lin Xiaoman laughed out loud, "You're the one who spotted me!"
Lin Guyu reacted and yelled angrily: "Sister!"
The egg pancakes were ready soon. Lin Xiaoman stopped teasing Guyu and took the pancakes from the pot to the bowl. He took the last pancake directly from the pot and put it into Lin Guyu's hand. "Eat it quickly, little greedy cat. You can give the rest to your big brother and parents."
Lin Guyu: “Okay!”
After saying that, he took the bowl and was about to run, but Lin Xiaoman grabbed him and said, "Why are you in such a hurry? And you should keep an eye on my little brother, don't let him choke."
"Got it!"
The moment Lin Xiaoman let go, Lin Guyu rushed out like lightning.
Lin Xiaoman shook his head and smiled helplessly, took out the glutinous rice that had been soaked for six hours, and drained the water.
Then slowly mix the sauce and salt evenly. After a while, pour the glutinous rice into the bowl of ribs and mix well.
Then I took a few medium-sized sweet potatoes, cut them into large pieces and put them in the steamer as the base, and then put the pork ribs and glutinous rice that had been mixed evenly on top.
Finally, cover the steamer with the lid and steam for half an hour.
Today, Lin Xiaoman specially used a large steamer so that she could stir-fry some cabbage and mix some preserved eggs later.
In less than half a quarter of an hour, the aroma of the ribs had already come out.
Lin Xiaoman couldn't help but move closer to inhale the aroma of the ribs, "Ah! It smells so good! The two little greedy bugs will definitely cry with hunger later."
While steaming the glutinous rice and pork ribs, Lin Xiaoman mixed some preserved eggs, stir-fried cabbage with lard, steamed a pot of white rice, and finally planned to cook a shredded radish and dried shrimp soup with the dried shrimps that were almost overflowing at home.
"Oh, today is the day for cooking, and we are in for a treat." Lin Dajiang shouted as soon as he stepped into the courtyard: "No wonder I could smell the fragrance from so far away, it smells so good."
Li Taohua glanced at Lin Dajiang and asked, "What's the matter? Does the boss dislike my cooking?"
"How could that be possible?" Lin Dajiang was definitely the most discerning person in the family. "Didn't Xiaoman learn cooking from you? When we were in the old house, my wife cooked the best food."
Lin Xiaoman found that his father was very smooth. He was a natural businessman!
"That's almost right." Li Taohua washed her hands and went into the house. She also felt that today's dishes smelled delicious. It seemed that the glutinous rice steamed pork ribs that Xiaoman had mentioned were successfully made.
"It's time to eat!"
Lin Xiaoman served out the shredded radish and dried shrimp soup, opened the steamer in front of Lin Guyu, and sprinkled chopped green onions on the glutinous rice.
The fragrance of glutinous rice mixed with the meaty aroma of pork ribs and the taste of chopped green onions blend into the most tempting aroma in the world.
Lin Guyu's eyes widened. "Wow! This is... this is glutinous rice?"
Lin Xiaoman deliberately kept her hanging, "Go, ask big brother to come out for dinner."
In order to eat the delicious food, Lin Guyu ran away as soon as he heard it. Before he even reached Lin Jingzhe's door, he shouted, "Brother, brother, come out quickly. Sister has made a new dish that smells so good!"
The next moment, Li Taohua's hand appeared on Lin Guyu's back. "Don't keep saying death. It's unlucky."
The Lin family are all foodies.
Lin Jingzhe, who had been working day and night, came out of the house in an instant. The family members took bowls and chopsticks, steamers, and rice, and soon they sat neatly around the wooden table.
The fragrant shredded radish soup and the delicious glutinous rice steamed pork ribs. The soft and sticky glutinous rice wrapped around the pork ribs makes the meat and bones separate in one bite. The taste is simply amazing.
The Lin family had no time to talk. After Li Taohua put a few pieces of pork ribs in Xiao Lidong's bowl and scooped a spoonful of glutinous rice, they started to eat.
The fragrant, soft glutinous rice wrapped in delicious and juicy spareribs is so delicious that you will never forget it.
Guyu ate like crazy, and only when he felt his stomach was so full that he couldn’t eat any more did he touch his stomach and exclaim that it was delicious!