Chapter 23 - 022 How does it taste?
Now, her stomach was growling with hunger, so Tian Sangsang decided to whip up something simple before trying out any fancy dishes.
Sweet potato porridge was out of the question—there was no rice at home; fried sweet potato slices and roasted sweet potatoes for dinner seemed too calorie-laden, plus, it was sweltering summer—totally unbearable.
If only there were some mung beans right now~~~
Tian Sangsang shook her head, dismissing those impractical notions. She decided to go with something more grounded. Mung beans—where would those come from? Fall from the sky?
The only plan she could think of was to make a few sweet potato pancakes to fill her stomach.
Making sweet potato pancakes wasn’t as simple as just having sweet potatoes. She also needed white sugar, eggs, and flour. Tian Sangsang rummaged through the storage room at home—found everything she needed. The eggs were hidden in a little basket tucked away in the corner with a rag covering them—that’s why she hadn’t found them yesterday.
She picked out four relatively large sweet potatoes, washed them clean. Using a kitchen knife, she cut each sweet potato into five pieces and set them aside. Then she poured water into the pot, lit the firewood, and waited for the flames to grow bigger gradually. Boiling water was a labor-intensive process and took time, and she suddenly found herself reminiscing about electric kettles from the past. Plus, this household wasn’t well-off—they didn’t even have a coal stove. How nice it would be! With a coal stove, she could boil water and cook at the same time, saving both effort and time.
Time was squeezed out bit by bit, and she still had peanuts to sort. Tian Sangsang stood up, dusted off the dirt from her clothes. She turned her head and saw that Meng Shuyan had disappeared again.