People can't live without food in the world, even immortals still have to eat, and they can only endure hunger more than ordinary people.

Ma Xiao's main purpose in entering the mountains and forests this time was to find mushrooms, which are one of the easiest ingredients to find in this dense forest.

Mushrooms like to grow in the dark, damp, near decaying plants, such as this kind of dense forest is very in line with their growth habits, the leaves are lush and there are few gaps, and the sunlight that passes through is naturally less, and its environment will become dark, but also because the sunlight transmits less so the water generated in the dense forest is not easy to evaporate, as for the rotten plants, it is not certain, because Ma Xiao saw a lot of mushrooms that grew directly on the trunk.

There are many types of mushrooms, and Ma Xiao can only name a few of them that are commonly used for cooking.

When they were down the mountain, every time it rained, a few of their friends would go to the forest near the village to pick mushrooms, and the mushrooms they picked would be brought back to their parents to make a mushroom soup.

Ma Xiao looked for mushrooms by touching the roots of trees, and looked at the ground along the road.

The area near the roots of the tree is obviously a good breeding area for mushrooms, and it is also nutritious there.

Looking for mushrooms, Ma Xiao has seen that most of the mushrooms are edible, and those that are inedible are often very beautiful, so this is also a way to distinguish whether mushrooms are edible or not.

He clearly remembered that Ma Dashan once ate a mushroom with an orange-red color that looked like an umbrella without listening to dissuasion, and then his stomach hurt so badly that he kept screaming in pain, and later he learned that he was biting a poisonous mushroom, orange-red poisonous umbrella, which looked very good-looking as a mushroom.

"It's a fat-legged mushroom."

Ma Xiao saw a few ripe mushrooms at the foot of a tall tree, the color of this mushroom is slightly gray-brown, its biggest feature is that its rhizome is particularly thick, about the size of an adult's two thumbs stacked together.

This mushroom is only available in June to July.

There are often similar mushrooms not far from the mushroom.

Sure enough, Ma Xiao saw a few fat-legged mushrooms at the foot of another tree less than five or six meters away from that tree.

The size of the fat-legged mushroom is very large, so it takes about seven or eight to be enough for horse snacks, after all, his body is not big, and his stomach is naturally not very big, so it would be good to be able to hold a few of these mushrooms that are as long as his palm.

Fat leg mushrooms, if there are other ingredients or seasonings, Ma Xiao will never plan to use roasting, because using this method of roasting to make fat leg mushrooms will waste its own advantages, that is, the thick mushroom roots of fat leg mushrooms, this mushroom root is very able to absorb the soup, if there is sauce, you can feel the taste of the sauce spray out when eating, the taste is extraordinary, coupled with its own chewiness, it will form a perfect superposition.

It is not difficult to make this stick absorb the soup, just cut it vertically and the juice will be sucked in.

Ma Xiao looked at the fat-legged mushrooms he was carrying in the washbasin and swallowed his saliva, although it was impossible to make such a delicious dish, but his current level of hunger, as long as the taste was in the past, it was delicious.

Well, when people are hungry, their pursuit of taste will drop dramatically, and only when they are full will they go back to care about the taste.

So Ma Xiao no longer continued to go deep into the mountains and forests to find other ingredients, now there are so many mushrooms that are enough for him to have a full meal, and he also knows that if he continues to go deeper, he may encounter danger or something, and then the gains will outweigh the losses.

Ma Xiao, who was carrying the washbasin, returned the same way and returned to his house, and then he found that although he had matches and flints, he did not have firewood to make a fire. Isn't it necessary to use that match to roast little by little?

There must be firewood for cooking. Ma Xiao was speechless about the mistake he had made. He has always had a lot of firewood at home, and there has never been a situation where he can't cook because of the lack of firewood, and he subconsciously thinks that there will be firewood outside his room, but who knows that there is no firewood crumbs at all, and it is a little too clean in this regard.

I can't stand this kind of thing, first there are no ingredients, then there is no firewood, what else is there? Oh yes, not even a kitchenware!

As someone who loves to cook, it's just unbearable, especially if you're hungry and want to cook a dish for yourself, which can drive people crazy.

Yesterday, Elder Xiao Mei didn't seem to say that he couldn't enter the kitchen at any time, and Senior Brother didn't seem to mention it.

Ma Xiao began to put his mind back on the kitchen in their practice room, he didn't know if the kitchen would be locked, but now in this situation, did he still have the time to think about such a problem that could be explored when he arrived? If you think about it for a while, he'll be hungry a little more, and if you keep thinking about it, you'll be hungry all the time, so why not spend the time thinking about it and actually doing it?

Ma Xiao jumped up from the bed, bent over and picked up the washbasin at his feet and went out.

Let's go to the kitchen first, and if it's not locked, you can make breakfast there, and you can also combine it with other ingredients, which is much better than just grilled mushrooms.

Ma Xiao, who had made up his mind, no longer hesitated, and walked towards the practice room in one go.

Not long after Ma Xiao left, Senior Brother Zun Lei came to the door of his room, knocked on the door, and found that no one answered, only to find through the half-open window that Ma Xiao was not in it at all.

Hey, strange, why isn't the little junior brother in the room? Did you go to the library first? Didn't you say yesterday that you would let me accompany you to the library? Did he go first? Just in case, I'd better go and take a look, that Supreme Elder who is guarding the study building is not very friendly to our Swordless Sect disciples.

Zun Lei thought that Ma Xiao might have gone to the study building alone, so he turned around and walked in the direction of the study building.

He was used to skipping breakfast, and he didn't expect that Ma Xiao, as a new disciple, would not be used to not having breakfast, and would work hard for a breakfast in the morning.

Fortunately for Ma Xiao, the kitchen door was not locked at all, and he held the basin and pushed open the kitchen door with his body.

This door was originally the door of the practice room, and its weight was twice as small as that of a horse, so it took a lot of effort for Ma Xiao to push open this door. He almost fell when he went in because he didn't adjust to the change in weight.

Looking at the stove, the kitchen utensils on the wall, and the firewood pile, Ma Xiao showed a big smile, this is what he needs, this is his paradise, he wants to practice here.

What he practiced was the kung fu in his hands, showing his eighteen cooking skills.

He didn't know that when he was happy in this kitchen, his senior brother Zun Lei was hurrying to the study building.

Ma Xiao opened the freezer and checked the ingredients in the cabinet.

Yesterday, the bones of the second senior brother's big beef leg after cutting the meat were in it, as well as the wild vegetables of the fourth senior brother and the excrement of the grass-covered spider, as well as some ingredients that he brought up the mountain.

Ma Xiaodai's ingredients are mainly vegetables, because he is worried that the meat will spoil if it does not last long, and the price of meat is still quite high, so Ma Xiaodai would rather use the money to buy more vegetables.

With these ingredients, breakfast is absolutely enough, and he originally planned to use only fat-legged mushrooms for his breakfast.

There are eggs!?

Ma Xiao saw three eggs lying quietly in the middle of the cabinet, if he wasn't tall and could see this angle, it would be really not easy to find these three eggs.

Eggs are extremely common in breakfast, such as boiled eggs, scrambled eggs, poached eggs, etc., and the preparation of these dishes only requires one egg, and at most some salt as a seasoning is enough.

Seeing that there were three eggs here, Ma Xiao was still very happy, until he picked up the eggs, and most of this happiness disappeared directly.

Will this egg be left out for too long and go bad?

Ma Xiao's conjecture was normal, because he didn't notice that there were three eggs here at first glance, let alone his four tall senior brothers, and it would be difficult for them to find a few eggs if they didn't bend down to look at this layer.

Ma Xiao immediately went to fetch a basin of water and put all three eggs in it, and sure enough, as he thought, the eggs floated directly on the water, which showed that the eggs had completely deteriorated.

Checking whether eggs have spoiled or spoiled is common sense for a cook.

From Ma Xiaoxiao alone, he likes to use eggs to cook, especially the tomato scrambled eggs that he likes to eat since he was a child.

If this egg is still edible, I can make a dish of scrambled fat leg mushrooms with eggs.

He didn't feel sorry for it.

Checking the freshness of eggs is an important thing, and every strict chef pays attention to this.

Place the eggs in a basin of cold water at a water level about twice the height of the eggs. If the eggs lie flat on the bottom, they are fresh. If it is tilted, upright in the water, or floating in the water, the egg is not very fresh. However, if the egg floats directly on the water, it means that the egg is completely spoiled and cannot be eaten.

The egg has been lying in this freezer for at least ten days.

Ma Xiao threw these three eggs into the trash can directly, listening to the sound of the eggs breaking he felt regretful, if you can pay more attention to the storage time of the ingredients, maybe these three eggs can play their role and become a dish.

Putting aside the matter of eggs, Ma Xiao had already thought about what he was going to eat for breakfast.

He plans to make boiled fat-legged mushrooms, after all, this early morning is not suitable for eating something too greasy, and he will feel uncomfortable.

Boiled fat-legged mushrooms are different, because no oil is used in this dish.

After Ma Xiao cleaned the mushrooms, put the mushrooms on the cooking table, today's mushrooms and last night's mushrooms used to fry have a big difference is the size of the two of them, generally in order to make the ingredients more flavorful, will cut the ingredients into small pieces, so that the seasoning on a small piece will occupy a larger area, and the flavor will naturally be amplified.

As for how big it should be cut and how much seasoning to put in, you need to keep experimenting, trying different proportions each time to find a solution that suits the taste.

Here Ma Xiao likes to cut the fat leg of this big rhizome directly into slices, and the method of cutting is also exquisite, cut obliquely at a certain angle, so that it is easy to control the strength of the hand and the shape of the cut, cut into slices, so the mushroom can stick to the face of the sauce is not on both sides? That's why it's easier to help ingredients absorb the flavor.

This stem has all become pieces, Ma Xiao does not plan to chop the umbrella surface of this mushroom, because this umbrella surface is easy to absorb water, there is an order in the inside of its umbrella surface, this strip is soft is a good place to store water or store soup for a while, if it is cut into strips, it will destroy the ability to lock water, and you can't taste the feeling of splashing the soup in your mouth after taking a bite.

As for what seasoning to add to this boiled mushroom, Ma Xiao only added a few small pieces of ginger and some salt at most, so that the fat leg mushroom will taste faintly salty for a while, and put some ginger slices to drive away the cold, ginger has the effect of invigorating blood and driving away cold, and it also has the function of increasing appetite, so he is used as an indispensable seasoning in the kitchen, the only drawback is that there will be a strange spicy taste that cannot be said if you put too much, and you will only know that it is ginger when you eat it.

After the ingredients were prepared, Ma Xiao began to light a fire and hot water.

It is very troublesome to use the stove alone, and from time to time you have to check whether the fire is too big or small, and you have to remember to add or subtract firewood.

According to Ma Xiao's habit, he waited for the water to boil before putting in the ingredients, which is a big advantage of not worrying about whether the ingredients will be boiled in this pot for too long and old.

Imagine, before the water is boiled, the temperature in the water is rising, so at this time, the ingredients in the pot will naturally become more and more cooked with the rise of the water temperature, but this cooking is difficult to control, because maybe the water has not yet boiled, and the ingredients are cooked first.

Put the ginger and salt in the pot, and cook it for five or six minutes, because the mushrooms are easy to cook at high temperatures, not to mention this kind of sliced ones, which greatly shortens the cooking time.

Scoop up all the mushroom slices, and the soup is naturally not spared and put into the bowl.

With this bowl of boiled mushrooms, Ma Xiao went out of the kitchen, took out a chair with his feet in the dining hall and sat down, sitting with a bowl in his left hand and a pair of chopsticks in his right hand eating boiled mushrooms.

Looking at the greenery in the forest outside the window, there was a special feeling, which he could not experience in his grandfather's house, because his grandfather's house was in a village, and the trees around the village had long been cut down, where was there any tree left for him to enjoy the fruits of his labor while watching?

I don't know what my grandparents ate last night, did they get up in the morning to make breakfast, but did the two of them, Dashan and Monkey, have they been so lucky to be able to sit down and have breakfast......

Ma Xiao took advantage of the leisure time when he sat down to eat, thinking about a lot of things, and some of them thought about something when they didn't think of it.