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ps: Look at the exclusive story behind "Golden Fishery", listen to more of your suggestions for the novel, pay attention (add friends on WeChat - add the official account - enter qdread), and quietly tell me! The snail is one of the most commonly eaten conches in North America and is also famous in Europe, Qin Shiou is very familiar with this snail, because every time he goes to the supermarket, he can see this snail on sale.

There are also many species of conch in the Daqin fishing ground, such as jade snail, groove snail, Conobi conch, Prebilov sea king snail, tower snail, etc., of course, the most is the snail.

The conch is mainly produced in Florida, Virginia and California in the United States, but it can also be caught in the waters of North Carolina and Alaska, and it can be found on the west coast of the Atlantic Ocean and is naturally common in Newfoundland fisheries.

Qin Shiou had seen their shadows on the seabed before, but there were not many of them, and the gathering places were relatively scattered, which may be related to the lack of food for them in the previous Daqin fishing grounds.

The snail feeds on seaweed and microscopic organisms, generally inhabits the shallow sea area, and eats echinoderms, before the Qin Shiou artificially planted seaweed, there were few seaweeds and echinoderms in the shallow sea waters around it, and the breeding of the snail has always been a problem.

Therefore, although Qin Shiou knew that there was this kind of conch in the fishing ground, he had no idea of catching it.

Now that Shaq brought it up again, he suddenly realized, and quickly scanned it with his Poseidon consciousness.

Seaweed is indeed the foundation of the fishing grounds, and with the abundance of algae, zooplankton multiplies in large numbers, which attracts more small fish to survive, and small fish attract big fish, and the biological chain begins to improve.

After more than a month of predation, the number of snails has also increased a lot. They are very reproductive, and can ovulate more than 2,000 grains into the sea at a time.

After their fertilized eggs enter the ocean, they drift away with the water and eventually attach themselves to algae or reefs to grow.

Although there are a lot of snails now, Qin Shiou did not go fishing with Sha Ke. Because it is more difficult to catch snails, traps or trawls are generally used.

In the case of a trap box, it is necessary to wait for several days before the box can be pulled up because the snail is slow. Trawling is usually caught as an incidental catch, but no one is specifically fishing for it.

So many snails are enough to eat. It's just that he doesn't know if it's delicious or not, Qin Shiou divided these snails into two basins according to their size, and poured the water of Shenbao Lake and a little sesame oil into them to induce vomiting of sediment.

Seeing that Qin Shiou poured the sesame oil and stopped, Ivoson was full of interest and was ready to reach out and eat it, Shaq couldn't cry or laugh. Grabbed him and explained, "I can't eat it yet." ”

"Poured oil." Yvoson looked at Shaq and said seriously.

Sha Ke was speechless, and said to Qin Shiou: "Yes, Boss, why are you pouring oil?" ”

Qin Shiou explained: "Pouring sesame oil can make these snails spit out the mud in their stomachs faster, if you ask me the principle, then I can only say that I bought a watch last year, and I don't know." ”

Fushou snails are simple to the touch and difficult to eat, so Qin Shiou went online to check them. As a result, I was very depressed to find that because of its large size, this snail is easy to parasitize the eggs of parasites such as schistosomiasis and strongyloides.

Some parasites have eggs that are difficult to kill. They do not develop in the body of the snail, and only after entering the human body or domestic animals will they become larvae and attack the host, and the Canadians are afraid of this, so they do not eat this snail.

It took an hour to induce vomiting, during which time the water was changed four or five times, and Qin Shiou took his four children and Nelson to clean up the snails.

He asked Nelson to wash it and cut off his tail with a vice. stir-fry and eat; The snail is cut out with a spatula and prepared to be eaten as a cold snail meat.

Stir-fried snails are not suitable for large snails. The shell of the snail is already thick, and the meat of the snail should be thicker. The flavor of oil, salt, sauce, vinegar and condiments can't get in at all.

However, the Fushou snail is not too small, like the size of the Chinese snail, it is all snail cubs, and there is no meat in the shell, so it cannot be eaten.

After picking a thumb-sized snail and unscrewing off the tail, Qin Shiou marinated it with white wine, salt, vinegar, and soy sauce to taste it, and put the large snail meat into boiling water to boil it to try to kill the parasite eggs that may be stored in zài.

The next step is to fry the snails, first boil the olive oil to a boil, fry the green onions, ginger, garlic and chili peppers, pour in the small snails and stir-fry wildly, and fry them with boiling oil for four or five minutes to completely ensure the cleanliness of the snail meat.

Finally, start to add the condiments: pour in the white wine and stir-fry; Add soy sauce and stir-fry; Add balsamic vinegar and stir-fry; Add sugar and stir-fry; Add the oyster sauce and continue to stir-fry, add the salt and stir-fry again; Finally, add the chicken essence, stir well and it is ready to go.

The aroma of the stir-fried chili peppers and the aroma of the sauce mixed with the condiments quickly spread throughout the kitchen, and Nelson sniffed it and said, "It tastes good, I don't know if the snail meat is delicious." ”

Shirley's eyes were stunned, and she said, "How to make this dish, you need to use so many condiments and so many procedures?" ”

Qin Shiou shrugged and said, "It's a pity that only soy sauce doesn't have light soy sauce and dark soy sauce, if there is this kind of seasoning, then you need more condiments." ”

The cold snail meat is much simpler, after the snow-white snail meat is cooked, cut into slices with a knife, anyway, they are all big snails, and it is very simple to make slices.

After slicing, it is to make a mixed sauce, Qin Shiou used two kinds, one is oily snail meat, and the other is fresh snail meat.

Oil pouring is to pour soy sauce, chicken essence, vinegar, and oil into the snail meat, and directly pour the boiling oil on it. If you want to mix snail meat with fresh snail meat, you should mix shredded green onions, ginger, garlic slices and condiments with the snail meat well, and mustard powder should be used to harmonize the umami flavor of the snail meat.

After making four large plates, Qin Shiou put them on the table, and Iverson threw away the basketball in his hand and stood on the table, starting to salivate.

Qin Shiou tasted it, it tasted good, the oily snail meat was very fragrant, and the freshly mixed snail meat was very delicious, but the snail meat was a little old, and there was no taste after chewing.

He thought that Shaq and the Kraken would still eat it hot, but the three of them put down their knives and forks after eating two bites, and drove to the town to drink.

Qin Shiou was angry, grabbed Nelson and asked, "Does this taste bad?" ”

Nelson said helplessly: "Boss, it smells delicious, but the taste in the front is too strong, and there is no taste in the back, and the snail shell of the fried snail is too spicy, and the taste of the snail meat is too light, we can't get used to it." ”

Canadians are accustomed to eating with a consistent taste, and the taste is relatively light, which is why they are so interested in the simple and fatty meat of sea fish.

The four children were very happy to eat, and Shirley comforted: "Qin, this is delicious, much better than my boiled water!" ”

Powell and the three nodded vigorously, Qin Shiou finally got a little comfort, but then it was absolutely wrong, can your boiled snails be compared to the fried snails and mixed snails that I painstakingly cooked?

Another happy eater is Iverson, who is not a picky eater, and eats with a spoon used to cook rice, and a large piece of snail meat disappears with a spoonful, stuffed into his mouth and chewed, with a happy smile on his face.

Qin Shiou didn't care to condemn Sha Ke and the three of them for their tastelessness, he hurriedly went to the table to grab the mixed snail meat, the four children had small hands and short arms, and they couldn't grab it.

There was no way, seeing that Iverson was about to pick up the plate and pour it into his mouth, Qin Shiou had to go and get five bowls and divide some first, and give the rest to Iverson.

Ivoson had no interest in stir-frying snail meat, Qin Shiou taught him to suck and eat, but he felt that this way of eating was boring, one snail meat was sucked into the stomach, and the waste of time digested the snail meat that he had eaten before.

The four children like to suck snail meat and eat, blowing and playing with snail shells while eating, and the atmosphere is very joyful. (A good event for pie in the sky, cool mobile phones are waiting for you!) Pay attention to the ~ point / official account (WeChat add friends - add official account - enter qdread), participate now! Everyone has a prize, now pay attention to the qdread WeChat public account! (To be continued)