Text/Fun Hu Zhilan (Belle Yuri)

Cloudy on Sunday, November 29, 2020, 6-12 degrees

The autumn wind brings itchy crab legs When I was a child, I could always hear my grandfather’s words every year when the autumn breeze brought coolness.

This week I told my husband that the children are coming over at the weekend and we should go buy some crabs. He has not eaten crabs at home this year. Wishful thinking was a good idea. When I came home from outside yesterday evening, I saw a courier at the door. I didn't realize what it was for a while, but my husband responded quickly. He said, this may be the one you ordered. I was reminded by him and finally figured it out. I stepped down and looked at the express package with the words "hairy crab" written on it. Sure enough, it was the item I ordered. It was the item I ordered in the morning. It had arrived in the evening. The supplier said it was shipped by Express Weekly. It arrived on the same day, and I don’t like it being sent in advance. The key is that the hairy crabs have to spend one night at home. The thermostat is turned on at home, and the temperature is a bit high. I’m afraid it will affect the life of the hairy crabs. They can’t fit in the small refrigerator, and the big refrigerator is not turned on. This hairy crab can only spend the night at the entrance of the corridor, so that the hairy crab will not lose its life.

Immediately open the package of the hairy crabs this morning, check whether the hairy crabs are intact, and put them in the water to raise them.

Prepare lunch first, eat first, fill your stomach, and then taste the crab slowly. Start steaming crabs during the meal. Boil the water in the pot first, then put the cleaned crabs on the steaming rack. Steam them for 20 minutes before the crab meat is cooked. Crabs must be placed face up on the steaming rack to reduce the leakage of crab oil and crab roe.

Seasoning is indispensable when eating crab. I don’t like the kind of seasoning in restaurants, so I just put some raw soy sauce, vinegar and other seasonings on it. My crab seasoning must be processed before use.

Seasoning method:

Ingredients: fresh soy sauce, mature vinegar, minced ginger, minced chives, and rock sugar.

Put the above condiments into a small bowl, put a little hot water in the bowl, and put it on the steam rack together with the crab. This condiment tastes delicious.

After lunch, we started tasting crabs. In order to peel crabs smoothly, I made early preparations this time and bought two sets of crab peeling tools from Taobao, one of which was given to my sister.

When the child heard that he wanted to eat crabs, he was uneasy. I asked him to finish the meal first and then peel the crabs. Today’s meal was the fastest ever. The children have to do it by themselves, and the father wants to peel it for him to eat. I told my husband to let the children learn to peel it by themselves and not to pet him.

The child was very happy to peel crabs for the first time. He said he wanted two crabs, and I said yes. He was still steaming the crabs. This was a part of the crab and could not be steamed at one time.

The child is ready to peel the crab. He pinches it here and there with both hands. He doesn’t know where to start. This is so cute. I slowly taught him where to start peeling next to him, and told him that there were still inedible things in the crab that had to be removed. He was very scared when he saw the thorns on the crab legs and did not dare to handle them.

When he tasted the crab roe he peeled off, he danced with joy and shouted: "Mom, it's so delicious. This is the most delicious crab in the world." I said: " Last year, my father peeled the crabs for you, but you forgot. This year, you can feel the crab peeling yourself."

The child was thinking while peeling it, and he added: "The meat of this crab grows inside the bones, unlike us, whose meat grows outside the bones." Dad praised him This sentence is well said and will use your brain. The children had many ideas, such as how the crab could survive if there was no blood in its body, etc... I couldn't answer these questions at the moment.

Starting to peel the second crab, I used the crab shell to make butterflies with the children, and also made a little boy and a little girl.

Under my influence, the child also wanted to raise a baby by himself. He used the peeled crab claws to raise a cute baby through his imagination. This was his creativity. I grew up doing traditional construction, making crab claws into butterflies. Today's children really have rich imaginations, which may be closely related to their love of playing with Lego.

Tasting crabs with the kids today was really fun.