Chapter Eighty-Six: Whole Fish and Seafood Feast
The native ship may not be big, but it should have a lot of things. Fishermen on the beach generally sail for most of the day, and pots and pans on this boat are naturally indispensable.
However, there is no such thing as an induction cooker in Jinsha Bay, and even gas is rarely used, and every household uses a piled up earthen stove. Naturally, the native ships would not have the usual modern kitchen utensils, just an old-fashioned coal stove and a pile of charred charcoal.
The charcoal is homemade by the villagers of Jinshawan, and the isolation of the people here for hundreds of years has made the people here live a self-sufficient life from ancient times to the present. Moreover, there are many trees around Jinsha Village, and the firewood used for cooking and cooking in the name of the village is Pingyue, in addition to the stems after the crops are dried, the most used is the dead branches and bamboo in the mountains and forests, which is the hard firewood that rural people often say.
The hard wood was used too much, and the villagers gradually found that the unburned black bumps could continue to be used. The black piece is not worse than firewood, and the fire power is much milder than dry firewood, and the burning time is long, and the fire is released evenly. As a result, villagers often use this charcoal or bamboo charcoal to boil soup and water.
Of course, in addition to these things, there is also the most important and indispensable material on the sea, fresh water.
This fresh water can be tap water or pure water, and it can be a little salty from a certain spring. However, none of the above types can be found on the native boats, and there are only springs produced in the mountains of Jinsha Bay.
The mountain spring water produced here is not worse than the famous spring water in China, such as Hupao Spring, Gulian Spring, and Baotu Spring. It is not something that some brands that are under the banner of mountain spring water but are artificially purified water can compare.
Although there are fewer kitchen utensils that can be used on the ship, Ye Qi can make delicious dishes as long as there is a fire for Ye Qi, who owns the system.
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"Sister Xiaomo, how delicious is your brother's cooking?" Liu Qing, who was bored looking at the blue sky and white clouds because she was looking forward to the deliciousness, suddenly asked.
Although Ye Mo and Tusheng spoke highly of Ye Qi's craftsmanship just now, and her sworn sister Zou Min was also full of praise in front of her. But as the saying goes, hearing is false, seeing oh no, it should be said that tasting is believing, even if it is a delicious dish, there must be a degree.
Besides, Ye Qi didn't know much about cooking before, no matter how hard he studied his cooking skills, he couldn't be better than those chefs in the hotel, right?
In this way, Liu Qing felt that she had become a tangled body, that is, looking forward to a delicious meal, but also afraid that the dishes made by Ye Qi would be lower than her expectations.
And Sister Mo is squatting on the edge of the boat teasing two cute dolphins, these two little guys are playing and rolling on the sea, and from time to time they open their mouths to scream and show a simple smile, that childlike look is easy to poke the cute point of the little girl's heart.
At this time, she heard Liu Qing's question, stood up and thought about it: "Hmm~ How to say it, anyway, I have tasted the most delicious so far." ”
Liu Qing listened to her words and couldn't help but feel like she was unconscious. This answer is no different from no answer, everyone's taste is different, and it is not necessarily good for you to taste it if you say it is good. For example, ordinary foodies and food experts, the reason why the latter can be called experts is that in addition to having higher requirements for things than ordinary people, they can also taste the chef's emotions and intentions from things, which is a height that ordinary foodies cannot reach.
Tu Sheng saw that Liu Qing didn't seem to believe their previous words, so he smiled and said, "Sister-in-law, the fish soup made by my little brother Qi is the best." When you taste it, you'll know that you want to swallow it with your tongue. ”
It seems that it is impossible to ask why, and the more this happens, the more Liu Qing looks forward to the upcoming food. This is the psychological characteristic of people, who always have a curious mentality about things that have not been tried. For better or worse, you always want to try it out without knowing it.
"Serve the food~"
With a shout, Ye Qi walked out of the cabin with a plate of red sea crabs. At this moment, Liu Qing was already anxious and eager to see through, and she was just about to get old.
"Isn't this just ordinary braised sea crab?"
Liu Qing was a little speechless, anyone can boil crabs, and they can be eaten when they are stewed in a pot, which seems to be more than a star and a half away from an ideal seafood meal.
"This crab is different, I'll serve a few other dishes first, don't take the opportunity to steal food." Ye Qi winked at everyone mysteriously, then turned around again and entered the cabin.
"Hmph, I'd like to taste the difference." Liu Qing, a policewoman whose curiosity can kill cats, wants to try more mysterious things. Like Adam and Eve in the Bible, the allure of the forbidden fruit is not something that mortals can resist, especially the forbidden fruit that comes from the heart.
"Didn't my brother say wait a minute, anyway, I'm not in a hurry." Ye Mo's little sister was still very obedient, and hurriedly spoke out to stop her sister's behavior.
However, her words naturally couldn't stop Liu Qing, who had a strong curiosity, only to see the latter's jade hand quickly grab a crab leg, and twist the whole leg off with a slight turn.
Liu Qing stuffed the unscrewed crab leg into her mouth and bit it, and suddenly a strong and intoxicating aroma of wine overflowed from the crab meat. The stuttering room was full of the smell of crab meat and wine, and she only felt that her whole body was about to be crispy.
"How does it taste?"
Just as Liu Qing felt the intoxicating and soft feeling, Ye Qi came to the bow of the boat with a large plate of grilled fish and a large pot of fish soup.
"Well, it's delicious! Support! This police flower no longer knows what words to use to describe it, and can only express her feelings at this time in the most straightforward and concise words.
Ye Qi didn't care about her stealing food, and placed the other two dishes of tofu fish fillet soup and smoked yellow croaker on the small table at the bow of the boat, and then beckoned the others to start.
The people on this boat are considered to be their own families, so they are not so polite. After Ye Qi sat down, everyone started to use chopsticks in groups.
After Liu Qing tasted the crab legs just now, she knew that her little Qixian brother had extraordinary cooking skills, so she let go of her appetite and ate it. That posture is even more than Zhou Chu beside her, and she has simply become the embodiment of gluttony, the reincarnation of a starving ghost.
After a lot of gobbling, the whole table was full of messes, and everyone ate to their heart's content. If it weren't for the fact that they couldn't hold the goods in their stomachs, they would want to stuff more into their mouths.
"Xiao Qi, your fish and crabs are so delicious, they really live up to my expectations for them." Liu Qing stroked the little belly that had become round due to eating too much.
Then she sighed and said: "Hey~ Now I know what is delicious, and the so-called big meals I ate before have become goods that should be thrown away compared to this." ”
"Yes, yes, I said that my brother is the best cook, but Sister Qing still has doubts about this." Sister Xiaomo pretended to be very aggrieved and said.
"Xiaoqi, how do you make these dishes, do you add any special seasonings?" Zhou Chu, who had been silent, asked. This gentleman either doesn't speak, and once he speaks, he goes straight to the point.
After Zhou Chu asked this sentence, except for the simple man born in the earth, everyone else also looked at Ye Qi with an inquiring look, and they all hoped to learn a few lessons from it.
"Actually, it's nothing special." Ye Qi pointed to the leftovers of the pot of fish soup and said: "For example, this pot of tofu fish fillet soup, the main ingredients used are bluestone grouper and our homemade tofu in Jinsha Bay, and the water is the spring water in our mountains, and the most important thing is to grasp the knife skills and heat." ”
"That's it?" Liu Qing's face was full of doubts, she thought that Ye Qi Keding was still hiding something and didn't say anything.
"Then this plate of grilled yellow croaker, how can I eat the fragrance of bamboo?" It's just that he doesn't want to say it, even if it's close to him, it's not easy to force him to ask. So she turned her attention to the yellow fish.
"I smoked this yellow croaker with bamboo charcoal, and the charcoal fire used was also made by our villagers in Jinshawan. These big Chu brothers should be very clear that retaining the fragrance of bamboo is a major feature of these bamboo charcoals. "This bamboo charcoal is known to everyone in Jinshawan, so there is no need for Ye Qi to hide it.
"So how do you make crab stew? Why is there a strong aroma of wine? Liu Qing's curiosity is really not ordinary, as long as it is related to eating, she can't wait to ask the recipe directly.
Ye Qi smiled slightly and said: "Drunken shrimp should know, I just sit down like this, use home-brewed rice wine to get the crab drunk, and then put it directly into the pot and simmer." What he said was an understatement, but he didn't elaborate on the subtleties.