"Yueru, these are no ordinary shrimp."
"These tiny shrimp are worth about the same as gold!"
After Li Yueru finished speaking with suspicion, Lin Sen smiled and winked at her, making a joke.
"ah?"
"Gold?"
Li Yueru was instantly astonished upon hearing this. She examined the bag of crayfish that Lin Sen had caught from the ditch again. But no matter how she looked at it, from every angle, there was nothing unusual about the crayfish.
It doesn't seem like the 'gold' Lin Sen was talking about!
"Komori?"
Zhan Xiufang, who was standing to the side, also looked suspicious.
"Mom, Yueru, I caught them to eat."
"Don't let their unassuming appearance fool you, they're absolutely delicious when cooked."
"To our family, they are pure gold!"
Lin Sen smiled at Li Yueru and Zhan Xiufang, then went straight into the kitchen, picked up an iron basin, poured water to wash the shrimp, and removed the heads and tails!
"You really want to eat it?"
"Is this edible?"
Looking at the ferocious-looking crayfish, Zhan Xiufang and Li Yueru exchanged a bewildered and surprised glance after Lin Sen finished speaking.
After all, back in 1984, nobody really ate crayfish.
Even a greedy child would only go to the ditch to catch small fish, roast them, and eat them; they wouldn't actually eat them!
"The most important thing about spicy crayfish is the combination of spiciness and numbing sensation!"
"To make it spicy, you need to add enough dried chili peppers."
"If it's numbing, it's from Sichuan peppercorns!"
After cleaning the crayfish, Lin Sen found the seasonings at home, picked up the dried chili peppers and Sichuan peppercorns, and smelled them.
"hiss!"
Instantly, a strong, pungent, spicy smell quickly entered Lin Sen's nostrils.
There were no additives, no advanced technology, and no grueling work in 1984.
So these days, most dried chilies are grown and dried at home. The flavor is all-natural, and they're very spicy!
Unlike the dried chili peppers of later generations, which appear bright red but actually have little to no spiciness.
It looks nice after you put a pot of it in.
But it's not spicy enough!
"Great, this spiciness is just right! It's intoxicating!"
After grabbing a handful of dried chilies for later use, Lin Sen picked up a peppercorn, put it in his mouth, and crushed it with his teeth.
"call."
Instantly, a rich, tingling sensation filled Lin Sen's mouth.
"The numbing and spicy flavor of these Sichuan peppercorns is very strong!"
"It can be used."
Once you've confirmed that the two most important main ingredients, Sichuan peppercorns and chili peppers, are okay...
Lin Sen then prepared the necessary ingredients for making spicy crayfish.
Minced garlic, scallions, ginger slices, sugar cubes, salt, MSG, rapeseed oil, bay leaves, and cinnamon.
"start!"
After preparing the ingredients, Lin Sen first lit the wood and heated the pot to boil water!
In the rural areas of 1984, there was no natural gas, nor gas stoves or induction cookers. At that time, villagers cooked using iron pots cooked on wood-fired stoves.
Haiwan Village is nestled against the mountains and along the coast, and what it has in abundance is timber covering the entire mountainside!
Blanch them!
After boiling a pot of water, Lin Sen first put the crayfish into the water and blanched them for two minutes.
Then it was washed again carefully.
"Xiaosen, are you really going to cook these little shrimp?"
Looking at the pile of spices Lin Sen had prepared, Zhan Xiufang felt a pang of heartache.
Lin Sen doesn't know the cost of living until he's in charge of the household.
Spices aren't cheap these days!
Even though the rapeseed oil was pressed in the village oil mill, it still needed to be exchanged for rapeseed grown by the villagers themselves!
Although small shrimp are worthless.
However, the spices Lin Sen used cost one or two yuan each!
"Mom, you'll find out soon enough."
"Don't be fooled by how much seasoning I've used up now, as long as I make it."
Lin Sen turned around and smiled at Zhan Xiufang: "We can earn back the money for spices several times, or even ten times, more."
"They're all minor matters."
With a slight shrug, Lin Sen began the second step of cooking after cleaning and blanching a pot of crayfish.
Heat the oil in a wok!
Add minced garlic, scallions, ginger slices, chili peppers, Sichuan peppercorns, bay leaves, and cinnamon.
It smells amazing!
"Splash!"
As various spices were added to the pot, an intense aroma instantly filled the entire courtyard.
Achoo!
Because of the spiciness of the stir-fried chili peppers, Zhan Xiufang couldn't help but sneeze.
"Mom, have some water."
Li Yueru quickly poured Zhan Xiufang a glass of water.
"Okay, I can pour it myself, you get some rest."
Zhan Xiufang took the water Li Yueru handed her, took a sip, and looked at Lin Sen, who was busy in the kitchen, with great suspicion in her eyes.
It had been almost a year since Lin Sen returned from the Shen family, and this was the first time she had ever seen him cook for himself.
"Yueru, do you think Xiaosen can really cook these little shrimps well?"
"It should be okay..."
Li Yueru pursed her lips tightly, her heart filled with anxiety.
After all, she had never heard of anyone in the village catching and eating small shrimp!
"Mom, maybe this is a new way of eating in the city."
Li Yueru said softly, "We'll know if it tastes good or not once Lin Sen makes it."
"Um."
"Then wait a moment."
Looking at the various spices in Lin Sen's pot, Zhan Xiufang felt very distressed.
Lin Sen.
What a spendthrift!
She bought these spices at the market a few months ago; they were enough for the family to use for almost half a year. But Lin Sen used more than half of them in just one dish!
"Splash!"
At this moment, under the suspicious and worried gazes of Zhan Xiufang and Li Yueru, after stir-frying and sautéing various seasonings, Lin Sen directly picked up the washed crayfish from the plate and poured them into the pot.
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