"Grass carp barbecue! Make soup with those miscellaneous fish! Don't touch the black fish! Grandpa's, such a big black fish, let me think about how to eat it!"
Xiao Han, who was talking to Zhang Qiang, noticed the movement over there at this time. When he saw the boatman's harvest, he immediately jumped up like flying, and his eyes almost glowed green!
Oh my God, the snakehead fish is almost a foot and a half long! The head alone is bigger than a cantaloupe. God knows how many years it will take to grow so big!
"Okay!"
At such critical moments, Xiaodong always grabs the credit more than the fool! After shouting a loud response to Xiao Han, the people rushed to the carriage and took out all the pots and pans from the secret compartment at the back of the carriage.
These things are all assembled with the car, and Xiao Han has to take them with him no matter where he goes! The experience of cooking with a helmet in the Qinling Mountains was something he really didn't want to do again.
It was approaching afternoon, and the fire originally started by the boatman on the river beach had been extinguished, and the fish porridge in the clay pot had turned into a paste.
Xiaodong pinched his nose and leaned over to take a look, but immediately stepped back three feet! I would rather start from scratch than use it meticulously.
The marching stove is easy to build, and the most indispensable thing on the riverbank is stones!
Find a few large pieces and surround them in a circle, then dig down the mud in the middle, and finally put the two-eared iron pot up, and a simple stove is completed.
Firewood is readily available!
While Xiaodong was setting up the pot, Jiayi and others brought over a pile of random grass and dry branches.
Instead of using a fire sickle, I took out some sparkling charcoal from under the boatman's stove and sprinkled it on the hay. With a gentle blow, the fire was lit.
Here the fire was lit, and over there the idiot and the boatman started killing fish together.
Grass carp is easy to clean up, and it can be cleaned up in just a few times! Those small miscellaneous fish are very troublesome. You need to scrape off the scales one by one, and then clean the gills and internal organs.
Fortunately, the boatman was very proficient in these things. Together with Lunzi, he managed to clean up all the small fish before the iron pot was heated.
Making a good pot of fish soup requires skills!
In Xiao Han's opinion, the method of adding water and simmering it is a waste of ingredients!
After washing his hands, he squatted beside the pot and watched the firewood dry up the last drop of water in the pot. Xiao Han immediately threw a piece of lard into the pot.
When the milky white lard met the hot iron pot, it instantly melted into a slurry, making a crackling sound.
Standing back a little to avoid being touched by the oil, Xiao Han began to throw in spices such as peppercorns and star anise one by one, letting the hot oil bring out the spicy smell of the spices themselves.
Spices, for Datang at this time, were still considered luxury goods!
After all, there is not even a pepper tree growing in the vast Central Plains. So far, they have all relied on beards to carry sacks of sacks from the far Western Regions to Chang'an!
Not to mention the long distance, there are also wars going on everywhere, and the trade routes are blocked! The price of a handful of spices that can be shipped to Chang'an is absolutely comparable to gold!
Zhang Qiang usually doesn't watch Xiao Han cook, he just eats! It's not that he's not interested, it's that he's afraid that after watching it, he can't help but scold Xiao Han as a prodigal, and then the prodigal will take away all the dishes in retaliation...
Saute the peppercorns and aniseed, and throw in a few slices of old ginger to remove the fishy smell. The only drawback is that there are no green onions, otherwise the taste would be better.
Let the idiot pour the washed fish into the pot, fry it, and then pour a little white wine, then add water and start stewing.
In fact, when making fish soup, it is best to use hot water!
Because the fish soup brewed in this way will have an authentic milky white color, but now in the wilderness, naturally we can't ask for too much, so cold water will naturally be used.
Fill the pot half way with more water, cover the pot, and the fish soup begins to boil! Looking at the dark iron pot, Xiao Han felt that if he had the ingredients, he would really like to bake some pancakes on the side of the pot!
Crispy and tender corn tortillas, paired with fish soup and grilled fish, the taste will definitely be unforgettable!
After filling it with wood, the fish soup no longer needed to be taken care of. Xiao Han turned his head and started to watch Xiaodong and the others dealing with the grass carp.
This unlucky grass carp was not too small. After it was cleaned, it was cut into mahjong-like pieces by Kaichi, who had the best knife skills.
Xiaodong took a handful of branches, threaded all the fish pieces, then leaned against the fire and baked them bit by bit until golden brown, with skillful and graceful techniques.
"You are so skilled, you must not bake it once or twice!" Seeing these people's clear division of labor and skilled skills, Xiao Han suddenly remembered that when he was in Hanzhong, the rice fish he raised would always be inexplicably less every now and then!
Now, the culprit has been found!
"What a bunch of beasts, I even ate those fish! All of them ended up in your stomachs! Okay, let's keep track of the accounts today, and we'll settle the accounts together another day!"
Looking at the busy people gathered in a circle with a fierce look, Xiao Han wanted to go over and kick one of them in order to pay homage to the rice fish that he was reluctant to eat!
However, looking at how happy they were, he didn't even get down in the end!
Hey, during this period of time, Xiaodong and the others rarely had such a happy time with him, so they still didn't want to ruin this rare atmosphere.
Since you can't kick people, you have no choice but to vent your anger on the fish!
The huge black fish just caught was still twisting on the ground, its ugly mouth still opening and closing, revealing the densely packed fine teeth inside.
Xiao Han knew that this thing was not only ferocious in nature, but also had extremely strong vitality. It would not die even if it was left out of water for three days!
"It's unlucky for you to have such an ugly head. You deserve to be knocked on the head!"
Picking up a wooden stick, Xiao Han took a sip on the palm of his hand, then adjusted his position and prepared for a fatal blow!
"Master Hou, this is Xiaoyu, it's not easy to kill..."
Just when Xiao Han rounded the stick and wanted to kill the fish at once, such a sentence came out next to Leng Buding, which almost missed Xiao Han's waist.
"What laughing fish? Why are you laughing?"
After finally stopping what he was doing, Xiao Han stared at the boatman who was speaking.
He knew that this fish was fierce by nature, but could it laugh? Isn't that what sirens are capable of?
The boatman who just spoke was glared at by Xiao Han, and his body began to tremble unconsciously!
What he said just now was purely a subconscious move. Now that he was questioned by a prince who was countless times more powerful than him, it was courageous enough not to be so frightened that he knelt down on the ground!
"Tsk tsk, he said this is a filial fish! It's a filial piety! It's not a laughing smile! What are you thinking about all day long?"
Just when Xiao Han didn't hear the answer and was about to ask again, Zhang Qiang came over from behind and answered the question for him.
"filial fish? What do you mean? Can't you eat it? Why didn't I know?"
Holding the wooden stick, Xiao Han turned his head to look at Zhang Qiang in confusion.
When did eating a fish have to be so troublesome? !
