Chapter 182: Picking up the rags

Through a hole, they found the kitchen, which was at the left rear of the house.

Cautiously walked into the kitchen through the hole, and sure enough, there was a new discovery.

Although these Cajunans do not have electricity and modern products such as refrigerators, plastic and glass products are still unavoidable.

In particular, some of the seasonings are filled in glass bottles, and the family will definitely take their possessions with them when they evacuate, but basically no one will take their seasonings with them when they evacuate.

So Liu Danqing and Xiao Weiwei found more than a dozen glass bottles, which were full of various spices, and there were several kinds of pepper alone, in addition to the common white pepper, black pepper, green pepper and red pepper.

These are the seasonings that the Cajunans often use, and New Orleans cook crayfish with Cajun powder, which includes Tabasco peppers, lemons, black peppers, white peppers, green peppers, celery powder, bay leaves, ginger powder, coriander seeds, mustard seeds, onions, and salt

It's a pity that most of these spices have deteriorated, and the two of them opened them one by one and smelled all kinds of strange smells, but the spices in three bottles still haven't deteriorated, and they still smell the same as before.

They are: black pepper, white pepper, salt.

Yes, except for the whole pepper and salt, the other seasonings will still spoil even after being sealed and stored.

But these three things are a big surprise for Liu Danqing and Xiao Weiwei.

Especially salt, they are fed up with food without salt, and every time they rack their brains to think about how to cook the food they get, but if there is salt, it's very simple, sprinkle some salt when grilling, and sprinkle some salt when cooking soup.

Salt is the first of all flavors.

In addition to the seasoning, they also have a catch, a straight aluminum pot with a lid, although it looks dirty, but it can still be used, the only drawback is that this pot is a bit big, and it is not very convenient to carry.

The other pots were made of iron, and they had rusted and fattened, and they could no longer be used.

As for a plastic pot, there was still half a pot of spoiled cooking oil in it, and after opening it, a disgusting smell washed out, and it was not as clean as their bamboo tube when used to hold water, so they gave it up.

With the loot, Liu Danqing and Xiao Weiwei walked out of the house, ready to sweep the next one.

The next few houses, apart from the addition of a spice mustard seed, and an aluminum basin, were nothing to be used for.

The life of these Cajun people is very natural in nature, there are very few metal objects, and some of them are taken away when they move out, and all that can be left is some unwanted kitchen utensils and the like.

They also found some fishing nets, but they were too rotten to use, but this also confirmed Liu Danqing's suspicion that there must be a lake nearby.

But now it's too late, the sun has already set, leaving only some orange afterglow to illuminate the world of Liu Danqing and Xiao Weiwei, and they must hurry to build shelter.

Liu Danqing took Xiao Weiwei to a house in the middle, found a corner, and then picked up a spear and began to poke the roof above.

"Qingqing, what are you doing?" Xiao Weiwei asked suspiciously.

"I'll see if this roof is strong, well, yes, it looks like the nails haven't rotted yet, and this roof is still relatively strong. ”

Liu Danqing poked a few times, saw that the wooden planks on the roof did not move at all, and said with satisfaction: "Let's stay here tonight, this is in the corner, and the impact of the hurricane is the least, so the roof is still quite strong, don't worry about collapsing at night." ”

"Because of the roof, the floor here is also the most intact and there are no signs of decay, so we don't have to worry about injuries when we walk around at night. ”

"Next, I'll go find an iron pot, go outside to get some dirt and come back, spread it on the ground, use it to make a fire, you go find some dry wood, pay attention to safety, this kind of broken house is usually full of poisonous snakes and black widows, when you take wood, you must be careful and careful." ”

Xiao Weiwei nodded and replied, "Well, I'll pay attention, if you find a poisonous snake, you can add a dish, hehe, it just so happens that there is not much python meat." ”

The two of them divided their labor, Liu Danqing went to the kitchen, took a rusty (not a typo) iron pot, came to the house, dug a large pot of soil, moved it to the corner and fell, and then continued to dig, until it was padded out of a soil layer with a diameter of about one meter and a thickness of ten centimeters.

Xiao Weiwei was also very quick, and this time she found a lot of dry wood and brought it over and piled it aside.

After shaving some shavings, Liu Danqing crushed them, and then lit a fire with magnesium rods and scrapers.

Their homemade aluminium pots were back on duty, because the aluminium pots and pots they found were dirty, and they had not had time to find a source of water to clean the two items.

Dinner was a smoked python broth with salt, pepper and mustard seeds, and a salted version of roasted smoked python meat.

There are only two pieces of smoked python meat left, exactly the same one.

This time, they'll eat all the rest of the smoked python meat, and they'll have to find new food tomorrow.

Now the two have their own responsibilities.

Liu Danqing was in charge of the broth, he was holding a slice of python meat in his left hand and a mountain knife in his right hand, and he was slicing the python meat into the aluminum pot piece by piece.

Half a pot of water has been reached in the aluminum pot, which is the swamp water that Liu Danqing packed with a bamboo tube, and in order to make the water cleaner, he deliberately filtered it twice with a cotton T-shirt.

There were also a dozen black peppercorns, mustard seeds, and two chili peppers in the water.

Because it was whole pepper, he put it in directly, so that the flavor of the pepper could come out, and if it was pepper, then just put it in when the soup was ready.

The same goes for mustard seeds, put them in and cook them in advance.

Many people may not be familiar with mustard seeds, but in fact, they are the seeds that stand when mustard greens are ripe, and they are mustard paste after grinding.

But wasabi is a general term in China, the lowest grade is mustard seed milling, the better one is made of horseradish, and the best is asabi, that is, wasabi, in the authentic sushi restaurant, the mustard sauce milled from fresh wasabi root is used.

Liu Danqing said while peeling the snake meat: "Chili peppers, pepper and mustard seeds can all dissipate the cold in the warmth, and putting a little bit in the soup is conducive to getting rid of the cold accumulated in our bodies, so I want to cook this pot of soup." ”

Xiao Weiwei was seriously holding a wooden stick, wearing python meat on the stick, and was roasting it on the fire, this time they didn't set up a grill, because the food itself was cooked, and it didn't take much time.

"Wow, it's delicious, with salt, it tastes different. ”

"This soup is a little spicy, but the whole person warms up after drinking it, it's so comfortable!"

After eating a meal with salt, the two of them still spent the night in shifts.

(End of chapter)