Chapter 90 - 088 Yan Can’t Keep a Serious Face Any Longer [270 votes+]
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Zhang Shanni was looking at the lively wild game next to the kitchen with a headache. According to her, the marten that her husband had recently hunted was a fresh catch, and it was very clever and not easy to capture. Now that the guests seemed to be of high status, she felt it was necessary to show off her signature dish to enhance her husband’s reputation.
But then she thought, it’s already eleven o’clock, and as a village woman, if she botches things up in front of a sharp person like Li Baojia, it wouldn’t be easy to clear things up.
As for the Xie Family, they certainly weren’t fools. It was just that she, being a native to the area, the original owner of the body had since childhood been known as honest and capable. It was not too surprising that she could procure food from the mountains, and people would just think that the original owner had been driven hard by relatives. After all, why she committed suicide by jumping into the lake was widely known.
But if she, without thinking, were to conjure up a table of fine food out of thin air, she felt it would be unwise and unrealistic.
After all, the current ingredients and seasonings of the Xie Family were laid out right here; she couldn’t just create something from nothing.
In the end, she decided to butcher the wild chicken first and start stewing it. The simplest dish would be chicken stewed with mushrooms, a common meal for her family. The wild chicken itself was rich and tasty, and didn’t require any seasoning to taste delicious, especially when paired with wild mushrooms, making it an outstanding rustic dish.
She butchered the chicken, marinated it simply, and put it on the stove, then washed the rice to steam. This time, she steamed plain rice since it would be impolite to serve the usual old rice with sweet potatoes when having guests over!
Especially since they were about to have precious refined rice coming in very soon.
Hmm, what about making some chive pockets, blanching some Chinese cabbage, and their home-cured fish was quite nice too!
