books44 Chapter 131 Eating Duck in the Manor
Chapter 131 Eating Duck in the Manor
After Shen Jiaren entered the manor, she first put the tools she had just taken out into the warehouse.
Then go to the bathroom to wash up.
When Shen Jiaren finished taking a bath and was sitting in the yard looking at the sunset in the manor, she suddenly felt that, in fact, it was just like that and there was nothing to worry about. At least now she had no worries about food and drink. Even if she had to worry about money, future institutional changes, and social development, that would be a few years later. Now she just had to do her best, and the rest could be worried about later.
After Shen Jiaren figured it out, she started thinking about what to eat today.
I have eaten snail noodles and hotpot before, and now I don’t feel like eating spicy food much more often, so I might as well eat duck.
Before, I saw a piece of news somewhere saying that duck meat, pomegranates, and grapes can delay aging, so I froze a lot of them in the cold storage.
Especially for fruits, I even specifically studied how to build a cold storage for fruits and how to store them. So the cold storage in my basement is divided into two parts, one part can be frozen, and the other part is for storing fruits.
But the good thing is that when I was studying before, I also specifically studied what kind of freezing can delay the freezing time, so the things in the freezer were processed twice.
After Shen Jiaren's hair was almost dry, she went to the cold storage to turn over the duck.
My own appetite is more important. In addition to roast duck, I also froze several other kinds of duck, including roast duck, fried duck, boiled duck, raw duck, and most importantly, dry pot duck. The dry pot duck is really delicious. Although I also wanted to put some roast duck with bitter melon in it, but I don’t know why I didn’t make it. Instead, I froze a lot of raw duck in it, just to make it convenient for me to eat hot pot or different dishes.
Shen Jiaren had already thought about it. When she put things in the cold storage, she marked the names on the shelves, but the specific methods were not marked.
When you go down to find something later, just prepare to eat whatever you get, as long as you eat the duck meat.
Because it was cold inside the cold storage, Shen Jiaren put on her cotton coat and went in to look around at the door of the cold storage.
You know what, maybe because she was greedy, Shen Jiaren quickly walked to the duck shelf, but when she took the food, she didn’t get the roast duck she wanted to eat, but instead got a dry pot duck.
Shen Jiaren took the dry pot duck and walked out of the cold storage without looking for anything else inside because it was indeed too cold.
How did she know it was dry-pot duck? Because Shen Jiaren saw the chili peppers in it.
After Shen Jiaren came out with the dry pot duck, she went to the kitchen.
After removing the plastic film, the fried duck, the sauce frozen into ice cubes, and the chili peppers placed separately appeared.
Shen Jiaren moved a small table from the kitchen storage area and placed it in the yard.
Shen Jiaren put the gas stove on the small table.
After Shen Jiaren turned on the fire, she put the sauce into the pot and waited for it to melt.
Because the sauce contained both oil and water, Shen Jiaren saw that the speeds of melting were different, so she took a spoon from the kitchen and started stirring it back and forth.
Although the ice cubes made of sauce will not be burnt, Shen Jiaren always feels that it may be because the sauce has been boiled. If she is not careful, there will really be a burnt taste.
So Shen Jiaren took a spoon and flipped it back and forth. In addition to flipping it back and forth, she also scooped the juice down from the ice to speed up the melting of the juice.
After turning it over for a while, the sauce was almost melted. Although it didn't boil, at least no large frozen blocks could be seen.
At this time, Shen Jiaren poured the fried frozen duck into the sauce.
Try to make the sauce and the frozen fried duck blend better.
In fact, the dry pot duck made in this way doesn’t look like dry pot duck at all. Instead, it looks more like braised duck, or the kind that is stir-fried with spicy sauce and then boiled in water.
But there is no other way. Shen Jiaren can't cook. But she has also considered making it into a pre-prepared dish, and then just stir-fry the ingredients, pour the duck, and cook it at the later stage.
However, during practice, Shen Jiaren discovered that, let alone whether the stir-frying could be successful, even cooking the duck upside down was a problem.
why?
Because dry-pot duck is dry-fried, the role of the duck is to be fried to remove moisture so that the flavor of the stir-fried ingredients can be fried in.
This means that if you pour in frozen fried duck, the water in the frozen duck will melt and appear in the dry frying, turning the dry frying into a small boil. And by the time the water is cooked off, the duck may not be melted and may not be edible.
If you put the frozen fried duck in after it has thawed, there are two things that may happen to the fried duck. One is that it becomes dry, making it difficult for the seasoning to penetrate. The other is that it becomes soft and after frying, it will either be burnt or mushy. Why? Because it cannot carry the fried skin.
Anyway, the final result was that there was no way to solve the problem. Shen Jiaren simply stopped worrying about it and did it in one step. The final result of dry pot duck was to cook something anyway, so it was better to boil the seasoning of dry pot duck directly in water and cook it directly when the time came.
If you want to eat it cooked, then turn down the heat and simmer it slowly, then add some vegetables and noodles and you can eat it.
If you just want to eat it dry, just simmer the sauce over high heat and eat it that way, it's also good.
So in the end, the dry pot duck became this modified version by Shen Jiaren.
When Shen Jiaren asked the chef to fry the ingredients, the chef said that lazy people have lazy methods, and you have to love to eat, otherwise you won’t be able to think of this idea.
At that time, Shen Jiaren didn't take it seriously. She thought it was just an emergency measure. If she really wanted to eat, she would definitely go to the store.
But now, Shen Jiaren felt that what the chef said made sense. She was grateful to herself at that time, especially grateful to herself for loving to eat at that time, otherwise she would not be eating dry pot duck in the manor now.
Seeing that the dry pot duck started to gurgle, Shen Jiaren directly put the separately packaged dry ingredients package into it to deepen the flavor.
Shen Jiaren got up and prepared to go to the warehouse outside the manor to get some cucumbers.
When the time comes, cut the cucumber and put it into the dry pot duck, it will be delicious.
Why do we have to go out? The main reason is that there is a BUG in this manor. Inside the manor, you can only use the manor's warehouse system. Outside the manor, you can only use the warehouse system and the entire system outside the manor.
There was no such division originally. It seemed that it was slowly built up from the warehouse outside the manor, and the frequency of use increased, and only then did Shen Jiaren discover this problem.
When Shen Jiaren walked outside the manor and was about to go to the warehouse to get cucumbers, she suddenly remembered that there were no green vegetables.
How can we eat this dry pot duck without adding some green vegetables? However, the vegetables in our farm at that time were all pre-frozen, and green leafy vegetables could not be preserved, so we didn’t add any.
Thinking of this, Shen Jiaren remembered the apples growing by the stream next to the planting mission field.
I don’t know how this apple hotpot tastes.
Thinking of this, Shen Jiaren walked towards the planting task field first.
When they reached the stream, Shen Jiaren squatted down and started picking apples.
After picking a small handful, Shen Jiaren took Apple to the warehouse outside the manor to get cucumbers.
Because she couldn't finish them all and was afraid of wasting them, Shen Jiaren took two cucumbers and left the manor warehouse.
By the time Shen Jiaren walked over to the small table with cucumbers and a handful of apples, the pot of dry-pot duck had already begun to bubble with steam.
Upon seeing this, Shen Jiaren hurried into the kitchen, quickly washed the apples, cut the cucumber into small slices, then walked out of the kitchen with the dishes and chopsticks.
After Shen Jiaren put the apples and cucumbers into the pot, she began to eat the dry pot duck.
Maybe because it was cooked for a long time, the flavor of the dry pot chili was perfectly integrated into the duck meat.
And perhaps because it has been frozen, the duck meat easily falls off the bones in your mouth.
really tasty.
Shen Jiaren was gasping for breath due to the burn, but she kept picking up and eating the duck meat.
After a while, the color of the cucumber changed, and Shen Jiaren began to eat the cucumber and apple inside.
You know what, it’s really delicious.
The cucumber slices might be a little too big, so the outside has the soft and sticky taste of dry-pot duck, and the inside has the crisp taste of cucumber.
really tasty.
As for the apples, they turned dark green because they were cooked for a long time, and the entire branches and leaves were filled with the flavor of the dry pot duck soup.
really tasty.
Shen Jiaren became happier and happier as she ate. Before she knew it, she saw that half of the food in the pot had been eaten, and she felt a little full.
By the time Shen Jiaren reacted, there was already a small corner of duck bones on the table, and she felt that she was too full.
Shen Jiaren quickly put down her chopsticks and bowl and dared not eat anymore.
After turning off the gas, Shen Jiaren waited for the dry pot duck to cool down so that she could put it in the refrigerator and eat it tomorrow.
After Shen Jiaren cleaned up the bones on the table, she stood up and prepared to walk away.
Although it is said that if you walk a hundred steps after a meal, you will live to be ninety-nine.
But actually, I can walk because I’m a little full after eating. If I don’t move around, I’ll feel like I’m being suffocated. If I move around, I’ll feel much better.
Just as Shen Jiaren was getting ready to move around, she saw that the stars in the sky had become very bright.
Shen Jiaren took out her watch and saw that it was already eight or nine o'clock. She wondered if the auntie and the young man outside were still hanging around and whether she could go out.
Shen Jiaren thought about it and realized that it would consume 450 points to open it once. She had 800 points before, but she didn’t know how many points she had now.
Shen Jiaren opened the system interface and saw that her points had now become 530. This might be because she had to harvest cucumbers and start the planting task again, so she had a few more points.
But these points are only enough for me to watch the real-time dynamic monitoring outside once. If I waste them, how will I get out later?
Thinking of this, Shen Jiaren decided to wait a little longer. It was still early and there was no rush.
And at this time, there is no curfew, it’s just that fewer people go out at night.
It’s better to be late and safe.
Thinking of this, Shen Jiaren closed the system interface and began to walk around in circles in the courtyard.
Maybe it has been a long time since she last entered the garden of the manor. After walking around the courtyard of the quadrangle for a few times, Shen Jiaren prepared to go and take a look at her own garden. After all, she hadn't been there for a long time.
I have been busy during this period, either busy with the autumn harvest, busy with the task fields, or busy making money, but I have rarely entered the garden.
But when Shen Jiaren entered her own garden this time, she saw that many flowers were growing exceptionally well. Although it was night, the feeling of all kinds of flowers competing for beauty was still there.
Shen Jiaren began to walk in circles in her garden.
However, when building this garden, it cost a lot of money to build the cold storage and buy things to fill it, and she also had to consider her own life in the future, so Shen Jiaren picked up many things in the garden from here and there, and also picked up some from the mountains.
Of course I did buy some, but very little. Instead, I collected more from other places.
To be honest, when this garden was first created, it was very sparse and looked pitifully sparse. But this time, I saw that the flowers were growing particularly well, probably because there was grass underneath.
Shen Jiaren finally understood the saying, why it is always said that red flowers need green leaves to set them off.
In fact, there was no light, just moonlight, but Shen Jiaren felt that the feeling of strolling in the garden at night was really good.
At this time, Shen Jiaren remembered many ancient poems she had learned before, but her memory was not very good and she had forgotten a lot of them. She wanted to recite two poems to the moon but couldn't.
Hehe, Shen Jiaren laughed twice. Who cares? She was alone anyway. She could recite a few lines or yell a few times. As long as she was happy.
Thinking of this, Shen Jiaren put her hands to her mouth, making a trumpet shape, and began to say hello to the moon in the manor.
After roaring a few times, Shen Jiaren found that her mood was much better. She went straight back to the manor with a brisk pace and began to clean up the battle she had just had while eating.
After Shen Jiaren covered the dry pot duck and put it in the refrigerator, washed the dishes and wiped the table, she took out the grapes that she had not finished eating last time and started eating them.
But it would be boring to just eat grapes by herself, so Shen Jiaren went to the study. She bought a lot of books for the study at that time, including some serious history books, psychology that she was interested in, and some books that were ranked top in the world. Of course, there were not only world classics, but also some strange books, and the so-called online literature that was popular on the Internet.
Of course, there are also the early Taiwanese old-fashioned novels that Shen Jiaren loved, including those about domineering bosses, romance, martial arts training, and the joy of the martial arts world. Anyway, she bought what she could buy and downloaded what she couldn't. Shen Jiaren got a lot of them, because she was locked up at home for a while because of some things at that time. Shen Jiaren realized that she still needed something to entertain herself, so she prepared a lot of entertainment things for herself in the countryside and where she lived.