This winter has come a little fast.

The first cold wave has just ended, and the temperature has only warmed up for a day or two, and the second cold wave has come unexpectedly in the blink of an eye.

Most of the flying knights who went out have already returned, and only some of the flying knights who went to the farther side nest have not returned to [Xinyang City] to resume their lives, and it is very likely that they will have to spend the winter in the local area.

After all, the Flying Knights are not like the paving ant convoys that carry charcoal, even in winter, as long as the wind is good.

As soon as winter came, the originally busy life suddenly became leisurely, and the whole nest was more crowded, unlike most ants who were working outside before, they were now a little idle.

The ant division of labor in the ant alliance is clear, unlike the old big-headed ant kingdom period, when the professional ants had to do everything, most of them did not have a clear occupational division of labor, and they went wherever they were caught.

So this season, the ants on the farm and the hunting ants are idle, and the protagonist doesn't let them wander around the nest when they are fine, and most of the time they can only nap in their bedroom nest and occasionally come out for a spin.

The ants in the workshop are still working, and they are also fishing for three days and drying nets for two days, after all, the raw materials are in stock, and the products of many workshops are not in great demand in winter, and there is no urgent production task.

In winter, it is such a leisurely season for burrowing ants, but fortunately they will not get bored.

The only ones who are still normal are the worker ants who handle the nest, and they still have to clean up the nest every day, collect the filthy garbage produced by the ants and throw it to the concentration site to maintain the safety of the nest building.

The protagonist is also suddenly idle, and in the dormitory located in the ant mound on the ground, there is no messenger who constantly reports and asks for instructions, and he also has the energy to focus more on some other things that he is interested in.

He first drew the calendar of the previous year on the square, paper-like blades of hay that had been processed, and drew dozens of copies at once, which also took some days, and it was really inconvenient and dexterous to hold the charcoal with a pair of forelimbs, like holding the pen with only two fingers.

He would give these calendars to some high-ranking ants in the country, such as ministers, heads of ant tribes, delegates to the conference, etc., to cultivate their awareness of dates.

The rest of the time, the protagonists are mostly pondering the dishes, preparing to launch a series of new dishes at this year's New Year's party.

In the past, the diet of the ant alliance was relatively simple, although cooked food and salt were promoted, for which each secondary nest built a combustion chamber, and there were also large reserves of salt bought through trade.

However, the daily diet is still relatively simple, most of the ants' meat is roasted, and sometimes they also use pottery pots and clay pots produced in pottery workshops to cook food, and plant food is similar, seeds are roasted or boiled to eat, and some fresh leaves, stems, and fungi are eaten raw.

This year, the iron production of the Ant Union has increased significantly, and in addition to meeting military needs, it can also be rich, and the protagonist has other ideas.

In December, the blast furnace of [Xinyangcheng] finally cast an iron pot the size of a large walnut, and sent ants to temporarily widen the passage from the blast furnace to the combustion chamber for cooking, and transported the iron pot over.

With the iron pot, the protagonist can finally try his hand at stir-frying!

Stir-fry must have an iron pot to ensure that the dishes are heated quickly and evenly, and make a delicious meal with full color, flavor and flavor, while the clay pot cannot meet the requirements and can only be cooked.

After coming to this ant world for so many years, the protagonist has almost forgotten the taste of stir-frying, but the good memories still linger in his heart. What I miss the most is those home-cooked dishes in my heart!

For example, stir-fried pork with chili, the protagonist wants to restore this favorite dish first.

Ant Nexus doesn't have chili peppers? But there are alternatives!

The country is now quite a small country, with different productions in different places, especially in the Black Forest, where many uncommon plants can be found, some of which can be used as spices.

Under the intentional arrangement of the protagonist, the local sub-nest collected a lot of wild onions, wild ginger and other spices, and these treasures are now piled up in the ingredient warehouse of [Xinyang City]!

If you want to eat spicy, you can use dogwood instead of chili. The edible dogwood variety is called dogwood, also known as red thorn onion and Yue pepper.

Before the introduction of chili peppers into China, Chinese dishes wanted to obtain spicy taste, in addition to ginger and garlic, mainly relied on dogwood, before the introduction of overseas chili peppers into China in the Ming Dynasty, traditional Sichuan cuisine basically relied on dogwood to modulate spicy taste, and the spicy in the ancient "six flavors" refers to the spicy taste of dogwood.

As the old saying goes: Dogwood is picked in August, pounded and filtered to extract juice, stirred into lime, called mugwort oil, also called spicy rice oil. The taste is spicy, so you can use it in food.

The protagonist doesn't know such a complicated processing method, he directly takes the spicy leaves of dogwood as an ingredient, and there are a lot of dried dogwood leaves stored in the food warehouse of [Xinyangcheng], and it is not a problem to use them for a winter.

The meat he chose was fatty and tender fly maggot meat, soak the dried meat first, and cut it into slices.

The iron pot is set on a special stove, which is a small blast furnace made of masonry, half a decimeter high, and the inlet below is tended by a team of ants responsible for lighting the fire.

The iron pot rests on the stove, and the handles at both ends of the pot are hung with ropes from the wooden shelves that have been built. The pot is also surrounded by a continuous earthen platform, which is about two centimeters away from the edge of the pot, for the ants in charge of stir-frying to stand.

There are long wooden planks that extend to the pot like diving boards on the earthen platform, which is where the ants responsible for putting the food work.

At the command of the protagonist, the team of chefs who experimented with the dish of fried fly maggot meat fillet with dogwood began to get busy.

The pot was heated first, and then the feeding team poured vegetable oil into the pot with a clay pot, and the oil smoke quickly rose up and drifted out from the smoke exhaust outlet.

The feeding team then added some chopped ginger and garlic, and then the stir-fry team started turning the pot with four long wooden sticks.

The smell of ginger and garlic pervasive, and the protagonist sniffs the aroma greedily.

When the fly maggot meat slices were poured in, the sound of "stinging and stinging" was extremely beautiful, and the stir-fry team hurriedly worked hard, and the white fly maggot meat slices were quickly coated with fat and soon became golden.

The ants' ingredients are thinly processed and cooked quickly, so they can't be fried in the pot for a long time, otherwise they will not only be old, but even burnt.

The dogwood leaves were also hurriedly thrown into the pot, and the fuel team no longer added fuel, and the stir-fry team continued to fry a few times with the remaining fire and residual temperature, and sprinkled fine salt powder into it and turned it over a few more times.

Then the pot team pulled the rope hard, and the iron pot was hung under the wooden frame, away from the stove where there was still residual temperature.

Another team of ants brought the clay plate over, and the pot team tilted the iron pot by pulling up the rope on one side, and the stir-fry team cooperated with the wooden stick to pull the fried dishes into the plate.

The dish is brought over, and the protagonist tastes it, "Delicious! ”