Chapter 302 Chapter 304 Uninvited Guests
"Alin, you and Kaikai clean these fish, scrape the scales and remove the internal organs, and marinate them with salt. I'll go find some wild vegetables nearby." Rong Xianxian put the kneaded dough and soaked ingredients aside, cooked a pot of rice in the rice cooker in the RV kitchen, and said to Cui Lie, Wang Lin and others.
The stove Cui Lie was building was almost finished. When he saw Rong Xianxian was about to go out, he immediately stood over and said, "I'm going too. It's a good opportunity to pick up some more firewood."
"Mom, I want to go too." Xuanxuan heard what Rong Xianxian and Cui Lie said, and hurried over to interrupt. The birds flying around her chirped in cooperation.
Xiao Luo followed his sister and looked at her.
Ever since they ate the translucent white meat that Rong Xianxian had dug out from the red-armored monsters in the Pingyuan Mountain mining area, Xiao Luo and Xuan Xuan had successively broken through the Soul Induction Realm and advanced to the Chongmai Realm.
In a situation where most practitioners are in the spirit-inducing realm, Xiao Luo and Xuan Xuan, although young, can be considered masters simply based on their cultivation alone, regardless of their combat power.
"Then let's go together!" Seeing that Cui Lie had almost finished his work and the children looked eager to try, Rong Xianxian agreed.
Although they are only a small team, Cui Lie and his men are all young and strong men. They have to train every day, hunt monsters, or do targeted exercises. Therefore, their appetites are bigger than each other. In fact, eating barbecue is the easiest thing to do, and meat is the most filling food. So since Rong Xianxian discovered that Xia Kai grilled meat well, she let them solve the problem of eating.
Rong Xianxian provided a lot of barbecue ingredients and dipping sauces. To be honest, the barbecue made by Xia Kai tasted pretty good. It’s just that no matter what you eat, you will get tired of it after a long time, especially the meat obtained from monsters, which is not as good as pork, beef and mutton, with relatively stable quality and taste. No matter how good the seasoning tastes, if the meat itself is astringent and dry, it will not be delicious!
Fortunately, it has been half a year since the end of the world began, and Rong Xianxian and the others have a general understanding of the taste and texture of the meat of various types of monsters, and will no longer waste seasonings like they did at the beginning.
Just now, when Rong Xianxian was looking for ingredients in the foggy space, she had already roughly drawn up the dinner menu based on the ingredients found.
Before the end of the world, the economy was booming, the pace of society was fast, the pressure of competition was high, and all walks of life were striving for excellence. The fast food industry was particularly prosperous. There were self-heating rice of various flavors, semi-finished dishes, and self-service hot pots. There were sauerkraut fish, boiled fish seasoning packets, spicy hot pot seasoning packets, braised pork seasoning packets, chicken pot seasoning packets, and almost all the famous dishes had seasoning packets on the shelves of supermarkets. During the first three months of the end of the world, when Rong Xianxian and his friends were in Chongzhou, when they went out to collect supplies, unlike others who collected snacks and biscuits, the condiment area was the first area Rong Xianxian swept, and the shelves in the condiment areas of major supermarkets were basically swept clean by her.
She took out several packets of stewing meat ingredients, three packets of boiled fish seasoning packets, two packets of braised pork seasoning packets, two packets of spicy hot pot base, as well as ham sausage and pepper powder, and prepared to make dumplings with wild vegetable fillings, boiled fish, a hot pot, a few stir-fried dishes, and a hot and sour soup, which would be enough for them to eat.
In the past, she disdained to use this kind of seasoning packets. After all, it is difficult to satisfy everyone, and the uniformly prepared recipes are always mediocre and none of the proportions she mixed herself would suit her taste.
But in this world today, this kind of seasoning packet is actually the most convenient and suitable thing.
When Rong Xianxian and her companions went out to dig wild vegetables, they met Jiang Jie and Wang Qirui who had just returned from hunting. Rong Xianxian asked them to go back to the camp first to skin and bone the prey, and they would be back soon.
When Rong Xianxian and the others returned to the camp, the meat of the prey had been cut, the fire in the stove had been lit, and the pot had been set up.
They were lucky today. The meat of the small monster they hunted was delicate and firm, with alternating fat and lean parts. Among all the monsters they had eaten, the meat was of top quality.
Rong Xianxian chose a piece of fat with a thicker fat layer on the abdomen, quickly cut the meat into small pieces, and threw it into the heated iron pan next to her. She told Xia Kai to stir-fry it vigorously until the meat was completely dried up. This was refining oil. Her space stored a large amount of edible oil, including peanut oil, olive oil, rapeseed oil, and sunflower oil, but no animal fats. Modern nutrition emphasizes that animal fats and plant fats each have their own advantages, and they should be used alternately to meet the requirements of a healthy diet.
Rong Xianxian didn't consider the nutritional aspect, she just thought that dishes cooked with animal fats were more fragrant.
Rong Xianxian selected a few pieces of fat and lean meat, cut them into small pieces, blanched them, heated the pan, poured oil, stir-fried them, added the sauce packet and stir-fried them, added water, stewed the meat, and simmered on low heat until the sauce was reduced.
Rong Xianxian asked Wang Lin and the others to slice the remaining meat into thin slices and prepare for the hot pot.
The largest pot is filled with spicy hotpot base, which is already emitting a spicy aroma.
Ask Cui Lie to slice the fish and marinate the fish with the ingredients in the marinade bag. Pour oil into a hot pan and first stir-fry the chili peppers and peppercorns in the dry ingredient bag. In order to increase the spicy taste, Rong Xianxian puts more dry chili peppers. Then pour the boiled fish sauce seasoning bag into the oil pan and stir-fry the sauce. Add the washed wild vegetables into the pan and stir-fry together. Add boiling water, put the marinated fish into the pot, and remove from the pot when the water boils.
When I went to collect wild vegetables just now, I found some mushrooms that looked very much like white jade mushrooms. After checking and testing, Rong Xianxian confirmed that the mushrooms were non-toxic and edible. She used mushrooms, shredded ham, chopped black fungus, and a few wild bamboo shoots as the main ingredients to make a hot and sour soup, and pepper, salt, sugar, vinegar, and starch as seasonings. Although the more authentic method lacks many ingredients, it is still delicious with the mushrooms and bamboo shoots to enhance the flavor.
By the time Rong Xianxian had prepared the stuffing and was about to make dumplings, the boiled fish was ready to be served. The fish meat was cut into thin slices and slightly rolled up. It was tender, elastic, spicy and fragrant when bitten. The braised pork was also fragrant and ready to be served.
It is easy to learn how to roll out dough, but it is impossible to teach those guys how to make dumplings. Fortunately, Ming Tianlei knows how to make dumplings, and he is very fast. Otherwise, Rong Xianxian would have planned to give each of them two dumplings.
Spicy and delicious hot pot, dumplings stuffed with wild vegetables, hot and sour soup, fragrant white rice, spicy and tender boiled fish, bright red and soft braised pork, red pepper bean curd, spicy enoki mushrooms, freshly opened pickles, freshly fried pickled vegetables mixed with chili oil, and even Rong Xianxian took out a pitcher of beer.
Rong Xianxian and her friends were just about to eat when several uninvited guests arrived at their camp.
(End of this chapter)
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