Chapter 25: Reward yourself

Ling'er was already nearly four months old. She checked on the internet that she could be fed some supplementary food at six months.

Thinking that the child was a premature baby, her gastrointestinal function would be worse, so she decided to feed her liquid food after eight months.

Before that, she had to learn to cook well and couldn't be a mother who didn't know anything.

After feeding the child, she put her on the bed to play by herself. She took a piece of bread and poured herself a cup of red ginseng water.

Sitting in front of the computer, while eating, she searched for recipes good for infants.

The first one selected was egg custard. She checked that there were many ways to make egg custard. The most traditional and simplest one was to beat the eggs, add water, and steam them in a pot.

The eggs in her refrigerator were all sterile eggs, and she hadn't touched one until now.

After firmly remembering the methods of making several kinds of egg custard, she went to the induction cooker outside to tinker with it.

Looking at the first batch of egg custard fresh out of the oven, she grinned and turned on the Wang Po selling melons mode.

"It's the brain of a top student, I learned it as soon as I learned it. Following the accurate operation mentioned above, there is basically no failure. Hehe, I'm so great!"

She dripped a little soy sauce on it and added two drops of sesame oil. The child was too young to eat it, so she would enjoy it herself.

She happily scooped a spoonful, put it in her mouth, closed her eyes, and wondered when a bowl of egg custard conquered herself?

Made by herself, eating it in her mouth, it felt so happy. It seems that as long as she is attentive, she can also cook.

After eating, she struck while the iron was hot and made several bowls of different egg custards in a row.

There were egg and milk, egg and sausage, egg and carrot, and egg and fruit. She tried them all.

Several bowls in a row made her full.

However, given the current situation of her daughter, the first and second types were the most suitable after eight months, and the latter types could only be eaten when she grew up a bit more.

She remembered the methods of these kinds of egg custard in her heart, and would try them in the large iron pot outside another day. After all, there were some differences between the induction cooker and the iron pot.

After the meal, she strolled to the melon land. Looking at the size of the watermelon, she immediately grinned.

She could sell whole watermelons tomorrow. The size of the watermelon was already the size of a basketball. The watermelons in the refrigerator were of this size, which indicated that the melon was ripe, right?

She wanted to open one to taste, but thinking that her stomach was still full, she finally held back.

After returning to the room, she did some embroidery and then fell asleep holding the child.

She had a beautiful sleep in the space. The next day, she wanted to set up the stall, but found that a strong wind was blowing outside, the sky was gloomy, and the ground was wet, indicating that it had rained last night.

It was just right to take a break, setting up the stall every day was a bit tiring.

She cleaned the room where she slept and the kitchen, and used the wall-breaking machine in the space to make a bowl of millet paste for herself.

It wasn't worth it for one person to specifically boil porridge. She heated a hamburger and ate it with millet paste, which was considered breakfast.

For several months, she hadn't cooked properly. The restaurant didn't suit her taste, and she thought the small stalls outside were not clean.

Now that she had money and conditions, her mild mysophobia acted up.

Since God gave her a holiday, she would take a good rest. She carried a basket, locked the courtyard door, and went out.

Since coming here for so long, she learned that most families here use lard for stir-frying. Vegetable oil is expensive, and generally, people who eat vegetarian food and restaurants use vegetable oil.

Furthermore, high officials and wealthy families use vegetable oil, while ordinary people buy pork and go home to refine it themselves.

She wanted to buy a piece of pork, and by the way, buy some pork fat. If there was vegetable oil, buy some more. There was no rice at home, so she had to buy some.

At noon, make braised pork, stir-fry some green vegetables, and steam some rice to reward herself.

Passing by the embroidery workshop, Shopkeeper Lu waved at her.

"Sister, come in and sit?"

"No, I'm going to buy some pork and some green vegetables. I haven't eaten meat for a long time and I'm craving it. The weather is bad today, so I won't set up the stall, I'll reward myself."

"Yo, going to improve your life?"

"Yes, are you coming?"

"Coming. The weather is bad today, and the shop isn't very busy. I'll let them watch the shop, and I'll go to your place for a meal."

"That's fine, then I'll go buy vegetables first, you can go over and eat ready-made food in a while."

"Alright."

Although the weather was bad, people here were reluctant to rest for a day. As long as it didn't rain heavily, they would generally set up stalls for a living.

It was about to enter June, and all kinds of green vegetables were coming out.

Qiao Mai saw cucumbers for sale, bought five catties for one wen per catty, bought two catties of long beans, and also bought a bunch of small onions, a bunch of water spinach, and a piece of tofu. As long as it didn't involve meat, green vegetables were very cheap.

Even tofu was two wen for a large piece. She had space, so she wasn't afraid of anything. If she bought too much, she would put it in the space, and it wouldn't go bad for a long time.

Seasonings weren't lacking, so she didn't need to buy them. The ones Lu Sanniang bought for her confinement hadn't been touched much, and there was a whole shelf of them in the space, whatever she wanted.

Although she didn't know how to cook before, when she saw the things on the seasoning shelf in the supermarket, she couldn't help but buy them.

A proper foodie, even hot pot base, bagged pickles, and various canned goods, she stockpiled quite a few.

After all, she wouldn't go to the trouble of doing things that could save trouble before.

Now that she didn't need to learn, didn't need to go on missions, and had time, she naturally wanted to live well.

Coming to the meat stall, looking at the burly boss who was cutting a whole pig, it seemed that it was freshly slaughtered this morning and had just been pulled over.

Seeing someone come to buy meat, the boss greeted her enthusiastically while cutting the meat.

"Little lady buying meat? This meat was just slaughtered early this morning, it's fresh."

Qiao Mai looked at the meat and regretted that she didn't stockpile pork in the space in her previous life. There was no pork belly with fat and lean meat here, only a thin layer of lean meat on the thick white meat.

The leanest place was the rear seat, but the rear seat meat wasn't suitable for braising. The most suitable for braising was the rib strip, commonly known as pork belly.

But she looked at it, it was so fat, she had no appetite looking at it, so she pointed to the meat in front of the shoulder.

"How much is this per catty?"

"Thirty wen."

"What about the rear seat?"

"Also thirty wen per catty, pork fat is fifteen wen per catty, pig head is five wen per catty with bones, pig trotters, pig tails, and offal are all five wen per catty, large bones are two wen per catty."

The shop owner was afraid that she would be troubled by asking one by one, so he reported the price in one breath.

"Then give me five catties of rear seat meat, five catties of front shoulder meat, and I want all these pieces of fat."

"Little lady, it's hot, buying so much will go bad."

It seemed that this butcher was still a seller with a conscience. This sentence immediately made Qiao Mai feel good about him, and she decided to take care of his business more in the future.

"It won't go bad. I'll only keep some lean meat for lunch to treat guests, and refine the fat into oil. The oil dregs will be used for dumplings. There are many people at home."

"Oh, that's fine."

When the boss weighed the meat for her, the scale was high. After weighing, Qiao Mai paid the money. She originally wanted to buy some pork intestines and pig trotters, but thinking about it, she decided to forget it. Scraping the hair on the pig trotters was too troublesome, she would talk about it later.

Wait until winter to order some from the meat boss, stew a large pot, and invite Lu Sanniang's family to gnaw on it.

By the way, there was also pig head meat, which was also very delicious. What she liked most was cold pig ears. The space had universal seasoning sauce, and using it to make any cold dish would be very delicious.

Thinking of the saliva flooding in her mouth, she put the meat in the basket and went straight home.

As soon as she got home, she returned to the space, saw the child still sleeping, didn't dare to make a sound, opened the computer, and checked on the internet.

She remembered the methods of refining lard, braised pork, mapo tofu, stir-fried water spinach, and scrambled eggs with green onions in her mind.

She took out all the needed seasonings from the shelf and took them out of the space.

Standing in the kitchen, she took a deep breath, came to the chopping board, left a piece for braised pork, and cut the rest of the fat meat into small pieces, and cut a few pieces of fat into small pieces.

Treasures, give me some recommendation tickets? I'm testing the water today, no matter what, I can't let our heroine be eliminated, right? Ah? Ah? Ah? Tickets, let's go.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 26 =====