Chapter 22, Seafood Porridge
There is a bath room behind the main house, and there is spring water from the mountain in the bath room, which is clean and clear, and the key smell is still very good.
Originally, the little princess who loved to listen to stories wanted to boil hot water, but Xiaoyu took a cold shower for so many days, and he still cared about this?
After changing into clean and comfortable clothes, Xiao Yu's heart was ironed warm for no reason, which was the warmth he felt after getting help from his friends.
The princess suddenly ran into the kitchen, and cried as she ran: "Oh, I forgot to cook dinner while listening to the story, and the master will be hungry when he comes back." ”
Xiaoyu followed her into the kitchen, the pot table was not much shorter than her, two pots, one large and one small.
There was a wooden mound in front of the pot, on which the princess was standing, and she lifted the lid of the pot and stirred it a few times with the bottom of the long spoon.
A burst of hot air with the fragrance of rice wafted into Xiaoyu's nose, it was so fragrant, she hadn't eaten a good meal for almost a day and a night.
This damn aroma is even more tempting than the fairy fruit in the sky.
Xiao Yu swallowed her saliva, she is a big hero who fights monsters, but she can't be rude because she is hungry.
Then he pretended to be careless, walked slowly, stretched out his head and looked into the pot: "Do you have a master?"
"Yes, the master and his old man are the best people in the world to me except for my aunt. So, I have to honor him and cook him the dinner he likes. ”
"Oh, what does your master like to eat?" In fact, her heart is a drunkard, not wine.
"My master likes to eat porridge at night, health!"
It turned out to be porridge, a little disappointed, but it was better to have porridge to eat than for her to be hungry.
"Grunt", "Ahem..."Xiao Yu quickly coughed a few times to hide his belly.
A pot of white porridge had been stewed until the rice had bloomed, the princess covered the pot, jumped off the wooden pier, and said with a smile: "You can eat it in a while, you go to the stove first to help me make a fire, and by the way, I will wash my hands." ”
The princess ran out, and Xiao Yu thought to herself, go and help make a fire and eat, that is to leave her to eat?
There is no shame in exchanging labor for food. The problem is, she's never burned a fire!
But what is there in this world that is born with it, once it is born and twice cooked, it will naturally be burned.
So the little fish went around the pot and saw a square hole in the back, in which was the burned firewood, and although the fire was extinguished, the embers were still very hot.
This should be the stove.
Xiaoyu sat on the low stool at the mouth of the stove, looked left and right, took a bean straw and stretched it into the ash, and after a while, the bean straw was red and curly, jumped a little, and a small flame came out.
"Wow, it's fire, it's fire. Xiao Yu was so excited that he greeted the princess who had just returned from washing her hands.
"You put the heat in the big pot into the small pot, heat it up, put some oil in it, and prepare the side dishes. ”
The princess went to cut vegetables before the little fish came, and she had already washed all the side dishes, and she was just a little green onion, so she went to the field and pinched a few of them, and then she met the little fish. After that, the cooking of porridge was delayed.
It was precisely because of the delay that he called Xiaoyu to help light the fire.
Xiaoyu wants to pass the fire of the big pot to the small pot, how can this pass?
According to the cooking custom, it is necessary to use tongs to clip a few pieces of firewood from the cauldron bore, or make a straw handle to lead the fire through the cauldron.
But the little fish didn't, she still took a bean straw and went to the big pot to light the fire, but every time even if she put it into the small pot quickly, it was still extinguished after a while.
Secretly thought: Is it a straw, the fire is too small, so it is easy to extinguish?
So this time, I grabbed a handful and stuffed it into the pot together.
This pot is burning, and it is most taboo to stuff it too much, without ventilation, without air intake, and the fire can be blocked and extinguished.
I don't understand and don't ask, the end is that the fire is not lit, and the smoke is stuffy a lot. The chimney mouth was just above the mouth of the pot, and it was blocked by bean straw, and the smoke in the pot did not have time to go out of the chimney, and all of them bubbled towards the small fish.
This posture shocked the little fish to think that he was going to be smoked into a smoked fish.
However, even if it is smoked into a smoked fish, it is necessary to light this fire, such a trivial matter can still stump the "Thousand Yang Daxian", and people will be able to move their fingers and fire with their fingers.
Xiaoyu poked forward, wanting to see if there was a fire in the bean straw in the pot, and suddenly felt a heat wave under the smoke, and with a "bang", the fire was ignited.
She shrank back in fright, but she shrank quickly, her eyebrows were also smoked off in half, and the hair in front of her head was permed and curled.
When the princess heard the voice, she hurried over to look, and saw the little curly-haired fish holding a handful of burning bean straw from the bore of the cauldron to the bore of the small pot.
While stuffing, he screamed and jumped to his feet, because there were burnt bean shells that fell to the ground with fire: "Ah, my God, my God, it's burning." ”
"Spray water to extinguish them, aren't you a mermaid?" quipped the princess as she stomped on the fire on the ground.
“......”
The princess sat on a low stool, picked up the fire fork and set up the bean straw in the small pot, and used tongs to clamp the grass clippings and bean leaves on the ground near the mouth into the pot, and said with a smile: "I'd better come, don't you have dinner and the house burns down," and looked at the curly fish, and finally laughed, "Hahaha, I actually burned my eyebrows." ”
"Really?" Xiao Yu subconsciously touched his eyebrows and laughed loudly, "If it's gone, it's gone." Let me tell you, I have a little bird that has lost eight eyebrows and has been sad for a while. If it had seen me now, it would not have been so sad. ”
"The bird has eyebrows, too?" and the princess thought to herself that the girl was talking nonsense again.
But it doesn't matter, there is a person of the same age, and it is quite pleasant to talk nonsense together, so he said: "I really want to have a bird, I like their wings, I can take them to the open sky, I can fly where I want to go." ”
The firelight reflected the princess's face, and her eyes fell far away, perhaps there was her dream.
"Yes, I want to have wings too, but with wings I don't necessarily have to fly where I want to go. Ah, my little bird is pretty, you must like it when you see it. ”
Watching the princess skillfully add grass and firewood, after a while, the bright red in the small pot was red, and the little fish studied carefully and silently remembered it in her heart.
"Oh, there is an air between the firewood, and the fire is given underneath, and it will slowly burn brightly, so you don't have to look at it anymore, I'll go cook the vegetables." ”
Burning fire is also a science, it seems that in this world, there are indeed many things to learn, in vain she has lived for so many years, but she is a little stupid fish who does not learn and has no skills.
The princess washed her hands again and put the oil in the pot, and as soon as the cold oil met the hot pot, small bubbles immediately appeared.
The little fish watched from the sidelines, asking questions from time to time.
Like what:
"What is this?"
"It's ginger, shallots. ”
"Is it delicious?"
"It's not delicious, it's fishy. ”
The little fish secretly spit out the ginger slices chewed in his mouth, Princess, why are you talking so late?
However, the fried green onion and ginger are really fragrant, but I am embarrassed to reach out and grab a piece of oil to taste it.
After the green onion and ginger were stir-fried, the princess put the shrimp meat, shredded squid, and scalded clam meat into the oil pot together.
The fragrance was even stronger, and the little fish touched the flat stomach and took a few deep breaths.
The princess stir-fried it a few times, then sprinkled some wine into it.
"Isn't wine drunk, and how can it be used for cooking?"
"Add some wine, it will taste better, you smell it. ”
Can't smell it, Xiaoyu can't stand it anymore, she desperately resists the urge to reach out and catch her saliva.
The princess added some soy sauce and stir-fried it a few times, the color caught up with the fragrance, and everything was so tempting.
Finally, sprinkle in the bamboo shoots and vegetable stalk slices and fry a few shovels, open the lid of the porridge pot, put all the stir-fried vegetables and meat into the porridge pot, put a little salt and spices, stir well, cover the pot and continue to simmer.
Fragrant, really fragrant, for small fish that haven't eaten for two days and usually only eats some raw meat and seafood, the most wonderful thing in the world is probably to eat hot porridge and hot rice in the world.
I didn't think it was important to eat before, but when I came to this mortal world, I realized why I often heard: "The people take food as their heaven." ”
This day is for three meals, and this life is for appetite.
No wonder mortals say that they only envy mandarin ducks and not immortals, it is estimated that mandarin ducks must like to eat this worldly delicacy.
Just smelling the fragrance makes people want to stop, and if you really eat it, you will probably have to bite off your tongue.
Xiao Yu watched the princess busy while thinking wildly, there was no way, she really couldn't help.
The princess took a piece of the extra firewood from the small pot and put it into the large pot and used it as a primer. The rest was put into cold water, and it was said that it was to make coke.
Finally, put cold water into a small pot, brush the pot, pour water, and do it in one go.
Xiaoyu clapped his hands and praised, it turned out that a person should live like this.
After looking at it for so long, thinking that it was delicious, I forgot how the fire came from, so I asked, "How did this fire be lit, and how can I take it away?"
The princess took out the flint from the niche in the middle of the stove, handed it to Xiao Yu, and said, "What's so difficult about this, you take this with you, it's naturally like bringing fire." ”
At this time, the princess had silently estimated the identities of several small fish.
She has delicate fingers, she doesn't know anything about kitchen work, and she is a rich lady who comes to the island to go to the feast of bliss.
But how did she show up dressed in seaweed, and how could she take the fire with her? Or was she telling the truth, that she really came from the sea?
The princess looks young and innocent, but in fact, there are no real innocent people on this island!