Overwhelmed by food after rebirth

Dad Shi sent me a bunch of meat and grapefruit.

Not to mention the price of the meat, just the postage is a big expense. The postage is not something that ordinary families can afford casually. In the past, Shi’s father just wanted to do it and he didn’t have the money.But now the food stalls are doing pretty well. I have money in my pocket, and I am willing to buy meat and send it. The key is that I can buy meat and send things.

The meat is marinated meat, which is their unique method. The pork is cut into rectangular thin slices, smeared with soy sauce and hung outside to dry, and then smoked after drying. The resulting meat is very fragrant and dry, and can be preserved for several months.

Shi Wei’s family was not in good condition before, and pork was a luxury for them, but Shi’s mother was very good at cooking pork, and her hands were very dexterous, and cutting pork was a job that required a lot of patience. She helped their family a lot, so as long as other people's families were in need, she would go to help and practiced a good skill of marinating pork.

Shi Ma's hands are very steady, and the cut pork is very uniform, with a thickness of about one centimeter. However, the pork will shrink after drying, and the pork that is not considered thick becomes thinner.The soy sauce that has been repeatedly smeared under the sun has turned into a thick sauce brown, exuding a strong fragrance.

The weather in the south is hot, and pork can be dried all year round, but the pork that is dried in this season is the best.

In summer, the sun is too strong, so the umami flavor in soy sauce will be lost due to the high temperature. In spring and winter, the humidity is too high, and the dried pork is always wet.

Only in autumn, the humidity is the lowest among the three seasons, but the south has heavy humidity, so it will not appear too dry, the sun is slightly less powerful, but the temperature is still stable at [-] degrees, allowing the umami taste of soy sauce to permeate The gap between the meat is fermented at the same time to produce a stronger umami taste.

At this time, it is the harvest season of pomelo. There are a lot of dead branches and leaves that are discarded everywhere. Pick up a pile at random. Add some special flavor of human fireworks.

When Shi Wei received the package, he took two pieces of meat the size of a palm and came out to light up the small stove in the dormitory, ready to be steamed.

Huang Da first asked curiously: "Just steam it like this?" The aroma of bacon had spread throughout the dormitory, and several people swallowed crazily, but at the same time felt that Shi Wei's way of doing this was too wasteful. Meat!Meat!Although it is all lean meat without much trace of fat, it is still meat!

During this period of time, although they all made a little money and ate some meat, their desire and longing for meat were almost carved into their bones.

It really cannot be said that their vision is low, but that meat is such a "sacred" existence for most people today.Throughout the year, there is a little hope of eating meat during the Chinese New Year. The usual state is that a family sits in a row, with a bowl of soup in the middle, and each person takes out a few vegetables soaked in the soup to suck it out, put it in and dip it in the soup, and then eat it. Take a breath, unless you have guests at home, you will wipe the pot with a cotton ball mixed with water and oil.

"It's delicious like this! Believe me!" Shi Wei has not been late for such a home-style bacon for many years.

When I was young, my family was poor and couldn’t afford to eat, so I had to wait for my mother to go to other people’s homes to help out during the Chinese New Year. There is no one to eat with him anymore. I want to recall my childhood when I get older, but my body can't bear it anymore.

Thinking of the taste of the steamed bacon, Shi Wei's heart itched unbearably!

The weather along the coast is changeable, so the cured meat should be sliced ​​thinly, which not only saves some dressing materials, but also shortens the drying time to avoid spoiling the meat in wet and sticky rainy days.

The hard meat that can be slapped is put on a bowl and steamed in a pan. The aroma accumulated by being dried and smoked floats out along the water vapor, and the whole room is filled with the smell of meat and fresh fragrance.

Several people shouted in an instant.Shi Wei was also panicked.It's okay if you don't think about it if you don't have something in your hands, but once this greedy memory is aroused, it can't be suppressed.

But their stove doesn't have a lot of heat, so it will take a while for them to cook.The meat is raw meat, no matter how fragrant or hard it is, it is still raw, and it has to be cooked through.

"Let's eat the grapefruit first. My dad is very good at picking grapefruits. I'm sure they're all sweet!" Shi Wei prepared to divert his attention.

The pomelo is big and heavy, and Shi's father was reluctant to send it, but he thought that his son was out alone, which was pitiful enough. It would be too pitiful if he couldn't even eat the things he used to eat.

The grapefruit harvest season has just passed, and my father always picked good grapefruits that had just come off the tree. Although it took a long time to transport them here from home, grapefruits are durable. Pick them in October and put them in the next two or three Not a bad month.Especially when the freshly picked grapefruits are not the best, it will take a few days before the peak of sugar content.

There are not many other things in the village, grapefruits can be seen everywhere, there is no need to go to the mountains, every house has a few in front of the house, so Shi Wei is very good at picking grapefruits with bare hands.

"What are you doing? I heard it at the entrance of the corridor." It happened that Lu Yuanzhi came back at this time.

Huang Da first greeted him cheerfully: "Shi Wei is treating you, and he said let us have a taste of his hometown."

Shi Wei knew that he didn't like the smell of oil, but he didn't expect him to come back today, so he handed over the freshly peeled grapefruit.

The skin of a grapefruit peeled off from a whole grapefruit is an irregular big circle, with a few scratches, but the bottom end is intact. If a little bit is torn off, it will look like a dog fur cap of the wrong color on the head.

"Let me smell it, this pomelo peel is delicious, and it will be placed on your table in the future, it's delicious!"

Lu Yuanzhi took it over and covered his head, dumbfounded: "Still put it on my desk, I think throwing it in the toilet is the most useful."

The toilets are shared, and there are only two dormitories on one floor. No matter whether it is spring, summer, autumn or winter, there is always a smell.

Shi Wei thought for a while, and then said: "That's fine, by the way, I'll move your desk there as well, just to show you the great power of my grapefruit peel."

"Childish ghost, I will put a hat on you in retaliation!"

A few people chatted and laughed, and shared a grapefruit.

The pomelo is still fresh, and the small transparent shells are full of juice. It is sweet, moist and very thirst-quenching. Especially after the pomelo peel is peeled, there is still an aroma that other fruits do not have in the dormitory. It makes people wake up after a day of learning.

Autumn is dry, and such fruits are suitable for eating now.

Several people divided into two, and waited for the meat to come out of the pan after eating.

After the hard meat is steamed in a pot, the steam that rises up easily enters the meat, making the dry meat easy to chew in an instant.The meat slices are very thin, so they are marinated very tasty. The outer layer is bright red because of the water vapor, and the meat inside is also slightly reddish brown. It is greasy, chewy but not hard to chew, and it makes people want to eat a second bite.

Shi Wei packed half a box for Lu Yuanzhi and pushed it to Lu Yuanzhi, saying: "Yesterday I just ate your grandma's ribs and meat, and it just so happens that the return gift will arrive today. The meat is not hard to chew. If you steam it for a while, the old man can eat it too." .And this grapefruit, moistens the lungs and quenches thirst, I remember grandma didn't have high blood sugar, right?"