Searching for food through the beast world

first chef

Joan returned the knife to Ding Xiao, and turned to look for white beans in the basket.This is a staple food accepted by both half-orcs and females, but because it has no taste, many people don't like it if they can't cook it well.Except that before the end of autumn, the village will organize females and half-orcs to dig a large pile in the forest to survive the winter, usually only a few families will prepare.Joan is the kind of person who loves white beans, of course because he can make white beans taste, which is the key.

From Ding Xiao’s point of view, the white bean is a large rhizome between potatoes and yams. It has a white skin and a white inner flesh. When cooked, it does not have the sweetness of yam, but it has a grassy fragrance. I also like the taste after eating it once.It's a starchy carbohydrate anyway!People on earth can't bear without this thing as a staple food.

There are several ways for Joan to make white beans. The easiest way is to boil them directly with the skins in water. After about [-] minutes of cooking, take them out and put them in cold water to freeze the skins.When eating, peel off the outer layer of skin and eat it with salt or sugar attached to the internal combustion, it feels quite good.Another method is to peel the white beans and cut them into pieces, and cook them in a jar together with the meat, so that when they are fused with the fat, the characteristics of this white bean and yam will be displayed. It will be slightly sticky and taste Be softer.Another way is to crush the steamed white beans, then mix them with salt, roll them with sliced ​​meat, thread them on skewers with wooden sticks, and then roast them on the fire, which tastes very delicious.Of course, it is said that only Joan can make such a delicious dish, and others who have learned this method are also unsatisfactory.

Today Ding Xiao intends to try a new method, so please ask Joan to cook the white beans first.Joan is also willing to help her son, and is really looking forward to the separate lunch for father and son today.

After asking, the pottery dishes used to hold things are not afraid of fire, so Ding Xiao can safely use them as woks.Although clay pots are also available, but that thing is too big, it is a bit difficult to complete this task with Ding Xiao's height, so a plate is the most suitable.

Don't look at the way of eating in the orc world except cooking or roasting, but there are not too few seasonings in their kitchen.Sweet, sour, salty and spicy.

The salt is green, which made Ding Xiao very curious when he saw green salt for the first time.Later, Joan explained to him that the Mavericks were not close to the sea, and there were no salt rocks and salty lakes.So they all use a plant called pickle to refine table salt.Ding Xiao has never seen the appearance of that kind of pickles, but he still asked about the production process.It’s not easy to say, you have to cut the pickles into pieces and cook until soft, then crush them and continue cooking. After cooking for about eight hours, all the fibers of the pickles will melt in the water, and the water will be emerald green at this time. that's it.As long as the water continues to boil until the water dries up in the end, it will be green table salt.

This kind of salt is used faster. Because Ding Xiao eats it every day, he knows that this salt is not as salty as other salts. Of course, that does not mean that it is not very salty, but if you add a spoonful of sea salt, it will be enough. , put a spoonful and a half of green salt.In the winged tiger tribe, making vegetable salt is a job that every half-orc and female must do, and the males will not intervene from the collection to the final cooking.Fortunately, the pickles grow fast. Anyway, the orcs have never seen salt shortage for hundreds of millions of years.

In addition to salt there is sugar.The sugar used by the Mavericks is boiled from beets, which is the same as Ding Xiao's cognition.But after tasting the taste, he felt that the sugar here tasted better, with a taste of fruit.The color is also pink between red and white.There is also honey that can also produce sweetness, but this thing is more expensive. It is bought from the orcs of the Violent Bear Clan. Joan’s family only has half a jar. Ding Xiao has refused to drink honey water to nourish his body since he knew that honey is very expensive. .Because he didn't feel that his body needed honey water to replenish.

Acid This seasoning comes from a stone.The orcs called him Acid Rock.The acid stone is black, if you soak it in boiling water overnight, it will completely dissolve, and the water will turn black, and the acid will bring back a little bit of sweetness.Of course, this acid stone is not a real stone, but a kind of bug excrement.This kind of worm specializes in eating the most sour thorns in the orc world, so the excrement is this kind of thing.It was the first time I heard that the "vinegar" here was actually made of animal excrement, so Ding Xiao got in the way.But after he tasted it bravely, he felt that it was actually more mellow than mature vinegar, so he was relieved.In the human world, earthworms, maggots, cockroaches, and mice have been eaten by many people. What is the excrement of a bug that only eats fruit?Think of that damn expensive cat poop coffee!

It is not chili that can reflect the spiciness, but green onion, peppercorns and chili beans.There is no ginger and garlic, Dan Ding Xiao thinks it is because the orcs have not dug them up to eat them, at least Ding Xiao saw wild garlic more than once in the forest.The orcs would sprinkle special green onion powder and pepper powder when grilling meat, so Ding Xiao would not feel that the taste was too monotonous when eating grilled meat.The method of making this kind of green onion powder is very simple. Cut the green onion into shreds, mix it with salt and let it dry in the sun for five or six days.Green onion powder can not only keep the onion fragrant, but also has a salty taste, so when you put the green onion powder on the barbecue, you generally don’t sprinkle more vegetable salt.

With the existing seasonings, Ding Xiao felt that it was difficult to make a delicious lunch.Fortunately, he believed that Joan would not mind his 'first' cooking, so he let go of his guts and started cooking.

The fatty meat is cut into slices and placed on a ceramic plate to start oil refining.What I didn't expect was that this kind of beast named Bae didn't have much fat, and the fat content in the fat was astonishing.I was worried that there was not enough fat and not enough oil to fry so many slices of meat, but after putting all the slices of fat on the plate, the plate would not be able to hold it in a while.Ding Xiao didn't understand how the amount of oil came out!Hastily scooped out the meat oil with a large wooden spoon and put it in a clean small pot, then poured the chopped green onion and pepper powder into the oil pan.

There was a sound of "Zi la" from the oil pan, and the unique aroma of cooking in the pan permeated the kitchen in an instant.Joan swallowed subconsciously: "Xiaoxiao is amazing! This is very fragrant!"

"Because frying things with oil is very fragrant." After speaking, Ding Xiao smiled at his father, and then quickly put the meat slices into the pot and started frying them halfway.Stir-frying the sliced ​​meat vigorously with a large wooden spoon made him feel quite strenuous.Firstly, the big wooden spoon is used for drinking soup, there is a limit to how big it is, and secondly, it is too easy to get out when it is stir-fried on the plate, so he has to be more careful.So now he has no way to distract his attention to chat. After frying the sliced ​​meat until it changes color, he puts the spicy beans that he just picked and diced into the dish, and continues to stir fry.

In Ding Xiao’s eyes, spicy bean looks the same as cowpea, but it is a fruit that grows on a ten-meter-high tree. The taste is far from that of cowpea. The whole bean is spicy, but compared to The spiciness of chili is also a level lower.The spicy secondary taste is not the fragrance of chili, but the bean aroma of beans, which is amazing. However, spicy beans can only be put in stews, because they will rot directly during the drying process, so they cannot be stored for a long time. Can eat fresh.

The feeling of fried pork with spicy beans is quite good. Although the "wok" of the ceramic plate is a bit awkward, the effect of heat transfer is still good.In about 10 minutes or less, a large plate of stir-fried vegetables came out of the pan.Taking a piece of meat with wooden chopsticks and handing it to Joan's mouth, Ding smiled and said, "Abba, try it! It's the first time I've made spicy bean fried pork!" In terms of ingredients, it must be the first time undoubtedly.

Qiong swallowed, and then opened her mouth to eat Ding Xiao's first cooking achievement.The oil-fried sliced ​​meat is mixed with scallions and spicy beans, and seasoned with vegetable salt. Whether it is the texture of the meat or the taste of the dishes, it is a good taste that Joan has never tried.So after he chewed twice, his eyes widened immediately: "It's delicious! It turns out that just putting the meat on it and grilling it can be so delicious!" It turned out that he hadn't tried meat without water, but the meat always It will stick to the pan, and the taste is not as good as barbecue.I didn't expect the little guy's craftsmanship to be so good!

Ding Xiao quickly took a sip for himself.Well, it does taste good.The saltiness of the vegetable salt has a hint of green grass aroma, the bean aroma in the spicy beans, the burnt aroma left by the fat residue after the fat melts, the aroma of green onions and peppercorns left over from the hot pot, and the naked animal meat With its unique fresh and tender taste, this dish is really quite good.It is estimated that if we return to the human world and use the meat of other animals to make this dish, the taste will be quite different if ordinary sea salt and chili are used as ingredients.In short, this wild and original taste is really satisfying people's taste buds. "It's delicious!" He was boasting about the ingredients themselves.

When He returned to the village, the sun had already begun to set in the west.Hearing the smell of barbecue coming from every household, he quickly quickened his pace.He didn't want his partner and children starving for waiting for him.

On his shoulders was the giant toothed pig that had called today, and his face was full of rewarding smiles.Although private ownership has been practiced in the orc world for more than 1000 years, there are actually only two generations of orcs, so most of them still retain the habit of hunting together organized by the village chiefs from autumn to winter.Every orc had to hand in two prey when he went hunting with the team, and the rest belonged to the orc himself as much as he could kill.Of course, if everyone rounds up a particularly large monster together, there is no need to hand over the two prey.The prey handed in are stored by the village head and the village team, and distributed to those old orcs who are unable to hunt and unmarried females and half-orcs who live alone during the winter.Of course, this is also the ration of the whole village when the door is blocked by heavy snow and hunting is impossible.

As one of the ten strongest warriors in the tribe, He never worried that he would not be able to catch his prey, but today his luck was particularly good.Caught three giant-toothed pigs in one go in the cave.A big pig weighing two thousand catties and two little pigs weighing more than 500 catties.He handed over the big pig and the other little pig (!!) to the tribe, and he carried the other little one back to the village.This pig is enough to feed my family of three for five or six days.Moreover, the teeth of giant-tusked pigs are a good thing for making half-orc hunting forks, so the village chief, He's elder brother Lian, has already agreed to give Joan the two giant tusks of the grown-up pig to make hunting forks.

What is a "little" pig for an orc is really shocking for Ding Xiao. "Father, is this really a little pig??!" Ding Xiao, who was calm most of the time, really couldn't avoid it. Surprise is an indispensable reaction to things beyond self-knowledge.

Hearing someone call him Daddy, and thinking of a cub waiting for him to hunt and come back to eat every day with his partner, this sense of pride and responsibility makes He always stand up in front of the orcs these days.Of course, he didn't slump his head before, but now he is very excited in terms of mental state.Yes, he is hyper.He felt that since the little guy came, although Joan faced him a lot less during the day, she was more clinging to him at night.This is good, very good! "That's right. I've handed over the big pig to the village. Do you want to go and see the excitement?"

At this time, Joan continued: "What are you looking at? Xiaoxiao is not in good health, how could he go to so many bloody places! Come and eat, today's dinner is made by Xiaoxiao, you are lucky! Lunch is thanks to Xiaoxiao, The taste is really indescribable. Our little guy is really amazing!"

Looking at Joan's triumphant expression, Ding Xiao's heart is warm.It's like the feeling when I designed a set of clothes for the first time and made it into a finished product for my father to wear, and was praised by my father.Family, that's how it should feel.