With the dumpling filling ready and the dough kneaded, she cleaned two fish thoroughly, marinated them with salt, garlic, and scallion ginger, and brushed the crabs clean.
She pulled two stalks of lettuce from the vegetable garden, removed the leaves and peeled them, sliced them into fine strips, and marinated them with salt, light soy sauce, fragrant vinegar, and sesame oil for cold dishes.
She cut a handful of garlic shoots from the garlic field, found two relatively red tomatoes, and pulled a small handful of green beans from the greenhouse...
At 1:30, she started making dumplings, rolling out the dough and wrapping the dumplings herself, not waiting for them to arrive. She made two tray screens, nearly two hundred dumplings, enough for the three of them to eat, and even the staff could try them. By the end, she used up the filling, leaving a bit of dough, which she rolled super thin, sprinkled a little sesame on top, and made four Sesame Crackers.
