Chapter 18: Wild Vegetables, Rice, and Ailulu
Curti is also a very lively little maid.
After happily saying hello to Jiang Yan.
She looked at the beautiful natural scenery around her and smiled:
"It's a nice place, isn't it? I love coming here too. ”
Outwardly, Curtie is also the kind of person who can't be idle.
She was certainly not content to spend all her days in the quiet convent.
When there is nothing to do, I will wander around.
Like what creeks and rivers around here.
That's all familiar to Curti.
But even so, she nodded at Jiang Yan and said:
"It's almost time, we need to go back and prepare breakfast."
For example, today the color has gradually become clearer.
It's almost time for the hosts to have breakfast.
Because Ms. Wei Qi, who was in charge of the meal, broke her arm.
She has been sent to a church in Neverwinter for treatment.
But this kind of nerve-wracking thing.
I shouldn't be able to come back for a while.
So today's breakfast, you have to do it with Jiang Yan.
For this, Jiang Yan is very happy.
So he said to Curti:
"Okay, help me pick some wild vegetables around and bring back the ingredients for breakfast."
"Wild vegetables? These things...... Can you eat it? ”
"Of course you can eat it, it's delicious, hurry up, don't waste time."
"Oh...... Good. ”
Curtie nodded in agreement.
But I still feel a little inexplicable in my heart.
Aren't the ingredients for breakfast all available in the pantry?
Why do you want to go back with these wild vegetables? Kook.
In general, the breakfast of the master in the monastery was very generous.
Early in the morning, they enjoy grilled beef and marinated oysters.
Clear soup with radish and shrimp, custard, smoked salmon, bayona ham, chicken pie and much more.
Such a rich dish also corresponds to a later meal time.
Therefore, breakfast in the monastery is usually eaten at about nine o'clock.
The cooks and maids prepare more than two hours in advance.
In order to ensure that the host can enjoy this delicious meal at the meal.
However, that was all before.
With Jiang Yan's cooking skills, how could he be satisfied with such a simple and uncomplicated breakfast.
You know, the vast majority of chefs in this world are in his opinion.
It's all apprentice-level existence, and the craftsmanship is very thin.
Now that I'm in charge, I'm going to have to eat something really good.
Like what...... Fresh wild vegetables picked around this spring.
Thinking of this, Jiang Ember looked at a wild mushroom picked from the side of the tree.
In his eyes, it was visible that the mushrooms were filled with a very thick mist.
These mushrooms are good, so make them the main dish this morning.
The thick mist represents powerful divine energy.
The more powerful the ingredients, the more delicious they will be when cooked perfectly.
Naturally, it is also more beneficial for cultivation.
Of course, about this kind of thing, Curtie must not know.
She just wondered if the young chef was crazy.
I actually picked so many wild vegetables early in the morning and came back.
Wild mulberry, wild garlic, radish, toon...... And a whole bunch of fat mushrooms.
Just when the two of them came back with a big basket of wild vegetables.
Curtie, who came in to help the cook, couldn't help but look puzzled.
This...... What the hell is this going to be for breakfast?
Wild vegetables and rice?
Especially after seeing Jiang Ember come back with a bag of rice.
The look of doubt in Curty's eyes became more apparent.
In this world, people eat rice occasionally.
But in the vast majority of cases, gadgets aren't a staple food.
Rather, as a special material.
It is used to make a dessert called "rice pudding".
Rice pudding is the favorite dessert of the former abbey's chef, Madame Vicky.
The main ingredients of this dessert are milk, round rice, caster sugar, vanilla pods and ground cinnamon.
To make it, pour the milk into a steel pot.
Cut the vanilla pod in half and scrape the vanilla seeds inside into the milk with the tip of a knife.
Then add caster sugar and cinnamon to the milk.
After boiling, add the cooked rice and simmer.
After cooking, put it in a mold and bake it in the oven until the surface is browned and enjoyed.
Soft and glutinous rice with thick fresh milk.
The taste is dense and thick, full of milky and rice aromas.
If you like, you can also add raisins, nuts and other accessories.
In short, it is a sweet dish that was very popular among the people of the monastery in the past.
But it is clear that Jiang Ember did not come out with rice to make rice pudding.
In his eyes, rice is the best staple food, not bread.
Rice can also be used to make a variety of sweets and sweets.
But it is only when it is used as a staple food that it can exude the greatest charm.
Of course, the people in the monastery are still accustomed to bread as their staple food.
If you want them to get used to eating rice, it will take a little too much time.
And this first breakfast is the first step for Jiang Ember to modify everyone's habits.
Soon after, a puff of smoke rose silently from the kitchen of the Silent Monastery.
Jiang Yan's not-so-burly figure was constantly busy in the kitchen.
Ingredients are washed and knifed.
The burning charcoal in the stove crackled.
The scent of charcoal mixed with the aroma of rice wafted to the surrounding area.
Floated into the nose of a green nun who had come out to hang out.
Suck...... Suck and suck.
Early in the morning, Ellulu's little nose twitched.
I keenly smelled the fragrance wafting from not far away.
Among the five nuns here.
Ellulu is the one who is most used to waking up early on weekdays.
After all, she was in the famous country of druids, "Night Song".
Druids are a very special kind of practitioners.
Unlike mages and priests who are also of the Dharma lineage.
The oak sages of this forest worship the power of nature.
Advocating a life of harmonious coexistence between man and nature.
As a result, Ellulu often comes out early in the morning to get some fresh air.
It's also a relatively active one in the five-person organization.
It's just that it's a regular walk out early in the morning.
The familiar fragrance led the green girl in the direction of the kitchen.
It's the aroma of rice, and some of the smell of wild vegetables...... What's going on?
If there's just rice in the kitchen, you're probably going to make some rice pudding.
But the taste of wild vegetables is a bit rare.
Judging by the smell, this wild vegetable is still very fresh.
It still seems to have a fresh scent of morning dew.
Frankly, this wild vegetable has always been Ellulu's favorite thing to steal.
She often ran to the edge of the stream outside the monastery when she had nothing to do.
Alone and quietly there to pick a variety of wild vegetables to enjoy.
Like toon, purslane, wild bracken, bitter leaf seedlings, shallots or something.
It's all top-notch food that makes Ellulu eat endlessly.
The druids saw these wild herbs as a gift from heaven.
On the side of "Night Song", this is also the most common food eaten by the residents there.
Thinking of this, Ellulu went to the kitchen door.
Quietly poked his little head through the crack in the door.
What's going on in the kitchen? Is there anything good...... Babble!
Just as Ellulu probed her brain to take a peek.
The kitchen door was suddenly pushed open from the inside, and the girl sat on the ground with a bang.