Chapter 221 Sneak in to Spend the Festive Season
Tofu Nao first made three small bowls to feed one big and two small bellies. Li Han patted some peanuts and walnut kernels, and the fragrance was overflowing. The remaining sauce in the refrigerator was scooped with a spoonful of water and sprinkled with a handful of coriander. Mustard mustard together. There was a little guy standing beside Li Han, Dudu and Baobao had bulging bellies, bowed their feet, and stared eagerly. "Dad, are you all right?"
Li Han squeezed Dudu's chubby face. "Okay, you can't eat too much with a small bowl for each person, and you will need a lot of delicious food in a while." "Yeah." The two little guys happily ran back to the living room with the small bowl, sat on the sofa, and watched TV happily Eating tofu brain.
The two little guys were busy for a long time, and finally ate the delicious tofu nao, shaking their calves, humming cheerful notes, eating delicious tofu nao spoon by spoon, patting their mouths. Seeing Yile, Li Han poured a small bowl into his belly in one go. Tofu, made by his mother, Li Han was kicked out of the kitchen. "Xiao Han, leave this to me and your Aunt Xu, you go and buy some vegetables."
Seeing that he couldn't intervene, Li Han went back to the living room, thinking about the excitement of the festival at night, he took the phone and called Kaidiweili to ask if he was free at night. These friends are not like Uncle Ronald and elders who need to be invited in advance. They don’t pay too much attention. Kaidi, Willy, Bill, Cynthia and others are very interested in Chinese traditional festivals, especially Dolores, this little girl is very interested in Chinese culture. Interested, he ran here with Michelle in a short while.
As soon as Liz arrived, the living room became lively. Dudu, Baobao, and Michelle chased and played, and Liz pestered Li Han to tell the story of the Mid-Autumn Festival. Li Han directly caught Dudu and the baby back, and said to the two little guys. "Baby. Dudu, Sister Liz wants to hear stories. You tell her stories about Chang'e flying to the moon, Houyi shooting the sun, Wu Gang cutting laurel, and the jade rabbit pounding medicine. Dad told you all the stories last time."
Liz puffed up, pursed her mouth in displeasure, snorted, stretched out her hands and pinched Dudu and Baobao's fleshy faces, causing the two little girls' mouths to bulge. "Dad, Sister Liz hurts Dudu. Don't talk about Dudu."
"Han, what are you talking about?" Liz blinked her eyes in a daze. She was still a little unfamiliar with Chinese, so she could only say a few words, delicious, hello. And so on, Dudu muttered in a low voice, who knows what it means.
"Liz, sit down if you want to hear a story, and Dudu will talk first." Li Han rubbed Dudu's little head and told Dudu. Dad went to buy vegetables and made them delicious. "Well, Dudu is going to tell." As soon as Dudu started speaking, Michelle sat down obediently and listened to her sister's story. Liz was a little reconciled, but it didn't take long. Liz was attracted by the story and listened intently, but Li Han left without paying attention.
Li Han drove a farmer's car to the supermarket in the small town, walked around to buy some needed ingredients and fruits, and returned to the small farm, where the baby was still telling stories. Li Han put the ingredients in the kitchen and started to work on the mooncake fillings. Mom and Aunt Xu had prepared them a few days earlier. In Li Han's impression, moon cakes are filled with green and red silk and rock sugar, and every bite of rock sugar is a surprise. It took my mother and Aunt Xu a few days to make the green red silk. The green red silk is mostly made of radish, mustard greens, orange peel, winter melon, watermelon peel and other raw materials.
When Qing Hongsi was young, Li Han saw her mother do it,
First, clean the radish, mustard and other raw materials, cut them into thin strips, and soak them in lime water with salt for two or three days to make the strips hard and not easy to rot, and at the same time remove the original smell of the strips. After drying, it is dyed with red and green colors to make a semi-finished product of blue and red silk. Finally, stir with white sugar, and the green and red silk is made.
When Li Han was a child, he didn't like to eat it very much. He always felt that the taste was not good. At that time, his mother always said, "the green red silk made by grandma is delicious, and the taste is well prepared. It's a pity that grandma passed away early, so I didn't learn it." Now I see that the preparation is good. The blue and red silk, Li Han still feels a little nostalgic, take a closer look, how beautiful it is.
Making moon cakes is not an easy task. Li Han only knows how to make moon cakes. However, Li Han knows how to put incense cases, and he spent a lot of effort to find the incense. He searched around in the supermarket, but he couldn't find it in the end. He just bought some candles for his birthday. .
"Dudu, baby, come here and help wash and arrange the fruits." Li Han moved the table on the terrace to the lawn of the small yard, arranged it, and turned to Dudu and the baby. "Han, I'll help too." "Thank you, Liz, wash the fruit first, and the baby will go to the kitchen to get a few dishes, and let's just arrange the fruit."
"Yeah." The baby ran into the house, Dudu, Liz, Michelle carried the fruits to the sink to wash, watermelon, melon, apples, oranges, pomegranates, some seasonal fruits, cleaned and put in the basin inside.
Li Han took the plate brought by the baby, arranged it, and then put the fruit on it. After a while, the mooncakes and snacks were ready, and then put it on. "Han, is this all right?" "No, there are mooncakes and reunion cakes, desserts."
Li Han told Liz, Dudu, baby, and Michelle about the custom of burning incense and lighting candles, and worshiping the moon god Chang'e. "It's so interesting, Han, what else is there?" Liz was more anxious than Dudu and the baby. The two little guys pouted Lao Gao, and Michelle pulled Aunt Laris.
"Now let's make reunion cakes." The reunion cakes are easy to make, and Li Han has long planned to bring a few little guys to make them together. When the flour is reconciled, Li Han brings it out. Dudu and a few little guys sat around Li Han.
The reunion cakes are mostly symbolic, and the taste is not necessarily delicious. Li Han rolled the dough, Dudu and Baobao, Michelle pinched the bunny, and Liz followed Dudu and Baobao to learn how to pinch the bunny and draw Lord Rabbit. Li Han rolled out the dough, spread a layer of peanut oil on one layer, add a layer of bean paste and honey, Li Han made three layers, and used four pieces of dough.
The corners were compacted, and the excess dough was cut off with scissors. Liz forgot to pinch the little rabbit at this moment, and stared at Li Han's reunion cake with a beautiful lace. "Han, you are amazing, can you teach me?"
"No problem, it's very simple." Li Han squeezed it once, and squeezed it again, a lace came out, but in Liz's hands, it was not the same thing at all, and it was pinched out of shape several times. "Sister Liz is so stupid."
Dudu said, unexpectedly Michelle and Baobao nodded. But Michelle was so angry that she grabbed a few little guys and wiped it on the faces of the three little guys. "Hahaha." Liz saw the faces of the three little guys. On the nose, on the forehead, there is white flour, so happy that I can't straighten my waist.
Li Han's reunion cakes are almost done, and the lace is finished. He took a glass bottle of Coke and pulled Nao Tenglisi away. "Doo, baby. The little rabbit is ready to help Dad make granary and food."
Sure enough, the little ones are interested in this. Warehouse nests are the easiest to make. Hold them with your hands, and a few small noodle balls will do. Small corn cobs, small pumpkins, carved with bamboo strips Sample. A few little guys. But I was very happy with the work, the small warehouse and the food were ready, Li Han used a glass bottle to gently press out big pancakes into circles, very beautiful, Dudu rushed to say. "Dad, Dudu press." "Okay, don't force, gently."
Dudu nodded vigorously. After taking the glass bottle, he climbed onto the chair excitedly, held the glass bottle and pressed it in big circles. "Giggle, beep, circle around." "The baby wants it too." The baby ran into the kitchen to find the bottle.
Li Han first prepared the red date paste and bean paste paste, wrapped them in miscellaneous grain powder, and put some green and red silk on them, like colored balls. Very beautiful. "The ball is so beautiful." One by one, the small colored balls were placed in the middle of the circle.
Li Han casually kneaded the noodles with the flour on the side and squeezed out a small flower, dotted with red hearts and shredded yellow radish. Like a blooming chrysanthemum. "Father only has flowers and grains, no piglets or lambs." Dudu said, the whole reunion cake is really big, but the decorations are all lace and flowers, and the grains are made of flour, and there are no small animals. "Sister Dudu, we want to draw Master Rabbit, not piglets and lambs." The baby waved his little hand.
Li Han smiled and touched Dudu's little head. "Sister Baobao is right, the rabbit is beautiful when you pinch it, and Dudu and Baobao will wear Hanfu later." "Yeah." The two little guys nodded vigorously, drawing Master Rabbit, Li Han wasted dough a lot when he was a child.
Li Han put the big reunion cakes in the oven, went back to the terrace, brought Liz, Dudu, baby, Michelle to draw Lord Rabbit, Willy and Caddy, Bill came, saw Li Han brought the little ones Draw rabbits for fun. "Han, what are you doing?"
"Uncle Willy, Dudu is drawing Lord Rabbit, isn't it beautiful?" Dudu raised his head, smiled and held up his hand Master Rabbit, Master Rabbit kneaded dough and drew colorful bunnies with various jams. Li Han didn't have a ready-made little white rabbit to draw for a few little guys, so he could only use dough, pinch the little rabbit, and draw the outline with jam, which was quite fun.
When Li Han talked about the custom of painting rabbit masters, Wei Li, Kaidi, and Bill were very interested, but Li Han couldn't laugh or cry. "Willi, Caddy, Bill, you guys can help me build a bonfire when you come. We will have a bonfire during the Mid-Autumn Festival."
"Bonfire Party, Han, Campfire Caddy, Bill, we are in charge." Willy, Caddy, Bill, the three found a place, set up a shelf, carried the firewood from the backyard, and set it up. The three of them are veterans and it didn't take long In time, a bonfire was set up in the yard.
Li Han made a few small torches with firewood and handed them to Dudu, Bao Bao, and Michelle. Although the custom of lighting torches is not from Anxi, it can be regarded as the custom of the Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival, and it is very fun. Liz didn't hear the story about the torch, so she quit and pestered Li Han to make her a torch.
The torch is not difficult, Li Han made another one casually, who wants to be powerful, Kaidi, Bill learned to make one, and said that he will play with it later. After the bonfire was ready, Li Han and Willie, Bill, and Caddy prepared beer and drinks, moved up several long tables from the basement, and spread tablecloths.
Do it here, the dim sum in the kitchen is almost the same, the oil fragrance, oil slices, moon cakes, big reunion cakes made by my mother, donkey roll made by Aunt Xu, bean paste buns, and two big pot helmets, Dudu has never seen it before. Curious, Li Han cut a piece and handed it to Dudu to taste.
"Father, it's not sweet." Dudu took a bite and raised his head, his face full of doubts. "This is to be eaten as a meal, and it needs to be added with vegetables. The sides are crispy and fragrant." Li Han squeezed some crispy corners and sent them to Dudu's mouth. "Yum Xiang." "Okay, help take it out and set it up."
Dudu, baby, Michelle is carrying the same, Liz, Cynthia, Bella, and Belle all help, and it will be ready in a while.
Li Han took the food and arranged it. Moon cakes, fruits, dried fruits, and big reunion cakes were placed on the altar, and candles were lit. "Everyone, try the mooncakes." After finishing his work, Li Han did not forget to greet Kaidi, Bill, Willie, and Cynthia.
Everyone was eating all kinds of snacks, and listening to Li Han talking about the legends and customs of the Mid-Autumn Festival, these foreigners were very interested, especially when Liz was crowded next to Li Han, Dudu and Baobao couldn't get close, the two little ones The guy pouted at Lao Gao, and sister Liz was the worst.