New Year's Eve menu: Stewed trotters with beer
⑴ Ingredients: half a pig's trotters, 500ml beer, several slices of ginger, 25g rock sugar, star anise 1, cinnamon 1 small pieces, 2 slices of fragrant leaves, tsaoko 1 slice, appropriate amount of chives, 4 tablespoons of light soy sauce and 0/tablespoon of light soy sauce.
Exercise:
Let the butcher chop the trotters directly into small pieces, rinse the chopped trotters, put the trotters in the pot with cold water, add cooking wine to boil, skim the floating foam, take them out for three to five minutes, and drain the water; Put an appropriate amount of oil in the pot, and pour in the rock sugar and stir-fry until the rock sugar melts; Stir-fry the trotters until they are brown, add garlic cloves and ginger slices and stir-fry after the trotters are colored; Then pour in beer equal to pig's trotters, pour in soy sauce and soy sauce and mix well; Adding Illicium verum, Cortex Cinnamomi Japonici, Folium Cinnamomi Japonici and Fructus Tsaoko, and wrapping with gauze; After the fire boils, turn to low heat and stew for 60 minutes until the trotters are soft.
⑵ New Year's Eve menu: osmanthus glutinous rice lotus root
Ingredients: appropriate amount of glutinous rice, 2 knots of lotus root, appropriate amount of rock sugar and appropriate amount of brown sugar.
Practice: soak glutinous rice for 2 hours in advance until it can be easily crushed by hand; Wash the lotus root, peel it, and cut a small part at one end to make a cover; Fil that soaked glutinous rice into lotus root, stuffing the soaked glutinous rice into holes, press with chopsticks, and covering and fixing the cut parts with toothpicks; Put the brewed lotus root into the pot and add almost all the water, brown sugar and rock sugar. Sugar can not only increase the sweetness of glutinous rice lotus root, but also increase the color. After boiling, simmer for about 2 hours, and turn it over from time to time to make it even in color. After the lotus root is cooked, it can be soaked in the pot for half an hour, which will taste more delicious and the color of the lotus root will be deeper. Cooked lotus root can be penetrated and turned red with chopsticks, then both ends are removed, sliced and put on a plate; Take out a proper amount of sugar water, heat it in a small pot, thicken it into syrup, air-cool glutinous rice lotus root slices, and pour the syrup on it.
⑶ New Year's Eve menu: pigskin jelly
Ingredients: pigskin 1, ginger, star anise, fragrant leaves, tsaoko, cinnamon, pepper, shallot, garlic, millet pepper, soy sauce, cooking wine and salt.
Practice: after cleaning the skin, put it in a boiling pot with cooking wine and ginger slices, cook until soft, and take it out; Clean up the residual hair on the skin. Then put the skin on the chopping board and scrape off the grease inside with a knife; Add a tablespoon of salt to the skin and rub it, then rinse it off; Cut the processed skin into pieces and put them into a saucepan, and add about 3 times of water. Add ginger, geranium, star anise, Amomum tsaoko, cinnamon and pepper, pour in a little cooking wine, and simmer for about 1 hour; Add a little salt to taste, turn off the fire, take out the seasoning, pour the cooked pigskin and soup into a heat-resistant container, and then put it in the refrigerator until it freezes. Mixing minced garlic, soy sauce, millet pepper, chopped green onion and sesame oil to make sauce; Take out the frozen crust and pour in the sauce.
2. Flowers suitable for Spring Festival:
(1) daffodils symbolizing good luck.
Although the seeds of daffodils are like garlic before flowering, as long as they are placed in a clean flowerpot and filled with water, they will soon grow green leaves and bloom. In China, daffodils are usually regarded as the annual flowers of the Qing Dynasty. They grow gracefully in water and have the characteristics of flowers. At the same time, they also symbolize good luck and making money during the Spring Festival, which is very suitable for buying a pot at home during the Spring Festival.
⑵ Rich bamboo symbolizes great wealth and great wealth.
Fu Guizhu is a kind of plant that almost every family will buy in the New Year. Just like its name, Fu Guizhu's wealth means good luck. At the same time, although the node of the stem makes Fu Gui bamboo look like a bamboo node, it is not a real bamboo. Fu Guizhu is easy to cultivate, with high survival rate and strong vitality. There has always been a saying in China that it is safe to have rich and precious bamboos, so I bought a pot of rich and precious bamboos for good luck during the Spring Festival.
(3) A symbol of fresh and elegant wintersweet.
Chimonanthus praecox is really the most admirable plant in the cold winter, with tenacious vitality. Although the flowers of Chimonanthus praecox are small and unremarkable, they have a very refreshing fragrance. Buy a few budding Chimonanthus praecox to go home and put them directly in a vase to raise them with water. You can smell the fresh and elegant fragrance in a few days. Buying wintersweet in the Spring Festival can not only meet the occasion, but also show the owner's elegance.