Chapter 9 Make a fire and cook
There are few stones suitable for stone pots, but there are many stones used to build simple stoves.
As a first-class cook, Fang Jia is the most active, pulling vigorously Sheng Li'er, quickly went to the entrance of the cave to pick up a pile of stones and came back to build a simple stove.
The stove is as simple as setting up the left and right sides, then putting the stone pieces on top and finally lighting a fire in the hollow underneath the stones.
The stove is long, trapezoidal, and in addition to the two stone chips, you can also put small stone chips at the tail.
Eleven people, two stones are not enough, but you can also roast more oysters, cat's eye snails, sea eggplants, etc. repeatedly.
Fang Jiaren, who knows how to cook, naturally occupies a piece of stone and acts as the head chef.
She followed Wen Xian's way of eating, arranging oyster shells on the stone chips in turn and roasting oysters. It's just that the shell is too big, and only six can be placed.
Wen Xian occupied another stone chip and prepared to start work at the same time.
As for the others, they can barely pick up firewood and seafood. But getting them to cook is a bit difficult.
They are all daughters who don't touch the spring water with their fingers, and they even stumble over the fire, let alone cook.
Looking at the simple stones, Wen Xian took a deep breath, dipped the bundled hay into the water-filled banana leaves with a sense of ceremony, and then brushed them on the stones, which was regarded as oil.
Then, without waiting for the water on the stones to dry, she poured the oyster and snail meat filled with banana leaves and stir-fried them with sticks to heat them evenly so that they did not stick to the stones.
After a while, the thick umami spread with the smoke, and Wen Xian swallowed her saliva.
In fact, oysters can be eaten raw, but she doesn't want to eat them raw unless she has to. After all, in this kind of place, who knows if there will be other parasites or something.
The fire under the rocks is big, and the seafood hodgepodge is cooked in a while. Wen Xian was in rare trouble, so she directly took a wooden stick to drive the seafood into the banana leaves.
After doing this, she shook her head with a little regret and said, "It's a pity that there is no seasoning, otherwise you can make a lot of delicious food." ”
Garlic, millet spicy, soy sauce, vinegar, lemon, reminiscent of the taste of small seafood in sauce, she even felt that she could use her mind to imagine the dry grilled seafood in the banana leaves as barbecue.
When she came back to her senses, Wen Xian noticed that there was silence around her.
When she looked up, she saw that everyone was staring at her, and their eyes kept glancing at the things of the banana leaves.
She blinked, stuffed the banana leaves to Jiang Jingwan and said, "You go and sit next to you and eat, I'll grill the eel first." ”
The eels have been killed and there is no way to store them. It can only be made immediately, otherwise it will be wasted.
However, Jiang Jingwan, who took the banana leaves, shook her head and said, "We'll wait for you to eat together." ”
No matter how hungry you are, you can't lose your courtesy.
It's already very out of line to let the Queen Mother cook, and if you even have to eat first, it's really unruly.
Hearing this, Wen Xian didn't persuade her more, only nodded and said, "Then you take it to the side and put it away, and I'll come right away." ”
She didn't expect these people to change their minds all at once, and everything had to be done slowly.
The eel was not so easy to cook, and Wen Xian knocked out the fire under the stones. The eel and bones are then laid flat on the stones and allowed to be slowly cooked and dried.
In such a short time, Fang Jiaren only roasted six oysters with shells.
She was not discouraged, and put four roasted oysters in front of Wen Xian, and two in front of Jiang Jingwan, and she was ready to eat Wen Xian's roasted ones without shells.
The shell has a shell for protection, and it is not in direct contact with the stone, and the condition is intact and fresh. Direct contact with the stone without a shell makes it look a lot dry in comparison.
Wen Xian was instantly happy, and couldn't help but say: "Next time, you can bake them all together like I just did, otherwise if you have to feed our eleven people, I'm afraid we can only roast it day and night." ”
Seafood is not full, it can only be won by quantity. In this case, there is not so much attention, just eat it.
Fang Jiaren scratched his head and wanted to say something, but he turned his mouth and said, "I know Madame." ”
She thought that the Queen Mother and the Queen had to open a small stove to make it more refined.
Zheng Rou said weakly: "Do we all have to find a stone pot later, if each person has a stone pot, you can bake your own." ”
Just like in the palace, each palace has its own kitchenette. When you don't want to eat a big pot of rice, you can open your own small stove in the small kitchen.
Before Wen Xian could speak, Hu Ke'er refused: "No, if we have one pot per person, the firewood consumed will have to increase, which is not cost-effective." ”
Now I have to pick up the firewood by myself, and the ones I picked up today are only enough to burn two meals, let alone eleven people to burn at the same time.
Wen Xian got up and flipped over the eel, nodded and said, "Ke'er is right, if the conditions don't allow, you still eat a big pot of rice." Eat it quickly, it won't taste good when it's cold later. If you don't have enough to eat, you can clean up and bake some more. ”
Anyway, at the beach, there is a lot of seafood picked up today, and it is possible to achieve seafood freedom for the time being.
After speaking, she first reached out and took an oyster from the banana leaf and put it in her mouth, and then let out a satisfied exclamation.
After that, others began to try it tentatively.
If you don't have chopsticks, then learn to grasp them with your hands. I don't want to, that's no way, could it be that you are more expensive than the Queen Mother, don't you see that the queen is grasping it with her hands.
And for those who eat seafood for the first time, every ingredient here is fresh. Wen Xian didn't eat it, they didn't try it and didn't dare to eat it.
Fang Jiaren was eager to try, and after Jiang Jingwan started, he immediately grabbed an oyster and put it in his mouth.
When you bite into the dried oysters, the umami blooms in your mouth. Fang Jiaren's entire taste buds are clamoring for delicious and delicious.
She squinted and tasted the cat's eye snail and the clam. "Bah" spat out the sand eaten from the clams on the ground.
Then, she turned her head towards Wen Xian and said firmly, "Madam, I'll go with you tomorrow to pry oysters." ”
Cat's eye snail meat is delicious, but the amount is not enough, it is better to pry more oysters back.
Today, she heard Jiang Lingling say that where the oysters are prying, the whole big stone is covered with oysters, so she doesn't have to worry about running out of food.
Jiang Lingling, who was immersed in hardship, nodded fiercely and agreed: "I'm going too." ”
She couldn't help but be annoyed, she knew that she wouldn't scare Wen Xian, so that she could pry more oysters back.
She could see that all the oysters she had plucked today had been roasted and eaten. All that's left is to wait for the clams that spit out the sand, and a few cat's eye snails.
"Okay, if the tide goes out tomorrow, you can go. If the tide is not low, you can only pick up clams on the beach. ”
Wen Xian got up as she spoke, brought the grilled eel, and tasted it in one piece.
Jiang Lingling took the eel and held it in his hand, and couldn't help asking, "Isn't it possible to pick it up every day?" ”
There are so many strange foods on the beach, she still wants to go every day.