Lin Chou's face seemed to have some kind of Mary Su (??)... uh, Mary-like divine brilliance,
"Beautiful wilderness, vast oceans, a variety of magical plants, exotic animals and their wonderful flavors are worth looking forward to. These are nature's best gifts to mankind..."
(There should be a BGM here, but it’s a pity that he is not a potted plant with sound effects wherever he goes.)
Regardless of other people's expressions, he said in a long-winded voice,
“As a motivated chef, the whole nature can be my kitchen, stew, braise, stir-fry, and boil... This is an attitude, an attitude towards treating all fresh ingredients with the most humility and respect. ....”
Then I got a little off track while talking,
"In this case, how can you still carry weapons? Of course, kitchen knives are definitely not counted."
Bai Xiaomao's mouth never closed, and finally he said, "Bragging!"
Lei Heng and Jin San looked at each other.
“Dream cooks are fucking scary.”
"Emotionally, the whole world is his vegetable garden?"
Jin San originally wanted to say something arrogant, but after thinking about it, he seemed unable to say it.
There seems to be nothing wrong with a cook saying this, just like a scientific researcher delimiting the scope of his research to the entire ordered universe. In the final analysis, it can only be called a broad perspective and lofty ideals. It is inevitable that the leaders above will also It is a good thing to give a few words of verbal praise to young people for their ambition...
Lin Chou laughed dryly, feeling embarrassed himself. Sure enough, one lie must be covered with countless lies.
While he was talking, he had already knocked out small cracks in the claws of the three coconut crabs, opened the back shells and removed the parotid glands, and then started to crush garlic and olive oil and mix them together.
"This is olive oil... I'm a bit reluctant to part with it. It's hard to imagine that after Mingguang transformed into a tropical climate, it would be difficult to grow olives... This is unscientific."
Olive oil is cold-pressed from raw olives and is simple to make and tastes fragrant.
Unfortunately, it is difficult to see adult olive trees near Yanhui Mountain, and the oil still needs some heat.
Olive oil was also very popular before the Cataclysm. Because it is cold-pressed without chemical or heat treatment, it can retain its natural nutrients to the maximum extent and has good natural health effects.
Of course, there is no market for this during the catastrophe. A few disaster-level poor people with sallow faces and skinny muscles picked up in Mingguang will be more than twice as good as ordinary people before the catastrophe.
But the taste of olive oil is still so fresh and natural, which is difficult to be completely replaced by other oils.
Once the olive oil and minced garlic are mixed together, no other seasonings are needed.
Arrange the coconut crabs on a stone board, drizzle with olive oil and minced garlic, place another stone board and coconut crabs on top, drizzle them again, make three layers and place them over the fire.
Since the knocking just now has caused cracks to appear on the claws and legs of the coconut crab, after a little heating, the cracks become larger, and juice and bubbles immediately emerge from the cracks, and the aroma of olive oil and garlic is also very strong. Easily soaked into crab meat.
Lin Chou said,
"Eating coconut crabs like this always makes me feel a bit sorry for its value. I think they crawled over from the other side of the island. At least from my perspective, there are indeed no mature coconut trees in this direction - it would be great if there were coconuts. Yes, coconut milk is a natural sauce, and stewing a coconut crab meat stew with coconut milk on such a deserted island is simply the most delicious thing..."
"Original pot of coconut crab meat?"
"Yes, that is to take out the whole crab meat and put it into the semi-ripe coconut shell and cook it together with the coconut milk. The heat of the flame is filtered through the half-hard and half-green shell of the coconut, and the coconut milk and crab meat inside are stewed. Cooking without ironware or seasonings is what is called the original coconut crab meat stew. There is no smoke and fire in the world... The white crab meat in coconut milk is as fragrant as snow... Hiss, light Just thinking about it makes me very satisfied.”
Smelling the aroma gradually escaping from the stone slabs and listening to Lin Chou's words, everyone was seriously poisoned.
Bai Xiaomao, "Suck."
Jin San, "Suck."
Lei Heng, "Suck..."
Well, he wasn't sucking. The old man couldn't hold it back and started swearing.
The taste of olive oil is very light, with a light aroma like plant fruits. It is the perfect match with seafood. The fresh garlic is roasted on the stone slab, and it releases an intoxicating aroma——
A young evolutionist who stayed to look after the home said,
"I can smell the aroma of garlic crayfish."
Everyone rolled their eyes, this kid probably deserves a beating...
Then, the juice in the crab shell gradually turned from translucent to white, and the hot steam rushed out from the cracks in the crab claws and body, making a "chichi" sound, and the entire three-layer stone slab was covered with delicious food. The steam enveloped it like a huge steamer.
Lin Chou took a look and said,
"Hey, I can't tell. The heat conduction of this stone is pretty good. The top and bottom are almost together within a minute."
There was a rustling sound in the bushes. Qin Wuyong and three evolutionists came back dragging a huge net bag woven from leaves and branches of various plants. In the net bag, they dragged coconut crabs piled up like a hill. Each one was huge and ferocious. Wielding pincers like a monster that's not quite dead yet.
Well, there are a bunch of green lemon fruits next to it.
Qin Wuyong ran over triumphantly and directed everyone to light more fires.
"Boss Lin, what do you think of the look in my eyes? This lemon is not ripe yet and is as hard as a rock, but it's still good for dipping, right?"
Lin Chou pinched it,
"If you're not afraid of astringency, you can still squeeze out some juice. You can try how it tastes."
"...It's better than nothing, hiss, what does it smell like, garlic?"
After almost lying on the fire and looking at it carefully, Qin Wuyong also fell into the same resentment.
"Boss Lin, you didn't forget to bring you salt, soy sauce and vinegar..."
Lin Chou glanced at him, "Did you forget to bring your live streaming equipment?"
Qin Wuyong said matter-of-factly, "Of course not, this is the guy I eat with."
"This is the spice of my meal."
"..."
The coconut crab cooked quickly, and when Lin Chou took out an exquisite crystal grinding bottle, the eyes of the people around him became even more wrong.
Grinding some pepper, Lin Chou removed the three stone slabs from the fire.
Qin Wuyong shamelessly grabbed a slate and ran away screaming. A group of people were chasing him. Bai Xiaomao also dragged one away and placed it in front of Jin Sanleiheng.
As for other people, they did not have this kind of treatment and could only gather in front of the fire to provide for themselves. However, everyone was in high spirits. Smelling the fragrance, their expectations for the coconut crabs roasted on the fire were a little higher.
This big coconut crab weighed at least several dozen kilograms, and Lin Chou had always eaten less. He only tasted it briefly, but actually wanted to share some with them.
but......
Taking a look at Lei Heng and Jin San's white teeth biting the crab's pliers with a clicking sound, Lin Chou felt that he might have expressed the wrong feelings - his direct boss hadn't spoken yet.
The coconut crab in front of me is grilled...or more like steamed. Due to the dual effects of the obstruction of the stone slab and the huge amount of moisture stored in the crab shell, there is no flame even if the crab shell is exposed outside the stone slab. The traces of roasting, especially the juice that keeps oozing from the cracks, confirm this.
The crab shell can be easily broken open along the cracks, revealing the white and tender crab meat.
The meat of coconut crab is very strong and tough in a different way. Unlike ordinary crabs, the crab shell and crab meat will not stick to each other, and it will be easily torn into pieces when opened.
Moreover, the crab meat is full of texture and lustrous, with tiny spindle-shaped meat strands bulging in the middle and long and closely connected at both ends, forming a complete and huge piece of crab meat in the crab claws.
Lin Chou held a crab claw in his hand. After all the ferocious crab shells were removed, the forked meat of the crab claw looked very cartoonish, and the translucent fleshy surface was slightly tinged with a cute baby red color. The redness becomes more obvious toward the tip.
"His...hot..."
Lin Chou felt that he was extremely cruel at this moment, and a large chunk of the intact crab claw meat instantly lost and became mutilated.
However, it is full of smoothness when entering the mouth.
The crab meat is filled with the fresh aroma of the sea that is unique to seafood, and the other part is a coconut-like fruity aroma.
It’s hard to imagine that eating a crab would give you such a feeling.
Crab, like fish, is a type of food that is very easy to shape. This can be seen from various methods such as the famous Drunken Crab and Dried Crab.
You rarely see coconut crabs swimming in the sea. They are even a little afraid of water. If they accidentally fall into the water and cannot climb out, they will probably drown themselves. It won’t take long, about five minutes. .
There's only one reason why they venture so close to the coast, and that's to breed.
The reason why coconut crabs can be seen on many isolated islands in the ocean is because they will lay eggs in the seawater and let them drift alone with the ocean currents to reach distant islands along the way.
Ahem, I'm going too far.
Coconut crabs live on islands and feed on coconuts as their main food. It is the meat quality of coconut crabs that gives them such a completely different appearance. Once you taste it, it will be unforgettable.
The faint coconut aroma of coconut crab meat is very satisfying to people's perception. It feels like eating an extremely rich seafood dinner and sucking the sweet coconut milk. It is simply perfect.
If I have to say a flaw, it would be that this fruit-like crab meat seems hard to fill up, and you will end up eating several percent more than your usual amount without even realizing it.
Olive oil and minced garlic very well enrich the base flavor of the sweet crab meat. The addition of pepper is like the icing on the cake, but it is easy for people to ignore its own existence - even though the taste of pepper is still very strong, but It just can't take away the limelight of crab meat, but instead makes it more popular, which is amazing.
After eating almost two crab legs, Lin Chou was already full.
Qin Wuyong ran back dejectedly, obviously not taking advantage of the large group of evolvers. All the baked coconut crabs were robbed.
"Hey, boss Lin, have you finished eating? It's just right. I'll do the rest reluctantly..."
Lin Chou looked a little pity, "The only drawback is that now is not the season for coconut crabs to lay eggs. It's a pity, it's a pity."
The two veteran academicians looked at Lin Chou in confusion. This guy seemed to be a little too picky.
I wonder when the two of them, the most senior researchers in the scientific research institute, had such a sumptuous meal when they went out for scientific examinations? Putting the two flavors of cans together and heating them is equivalent to celebrating the New Year, right?
A night of silence.
Early the next morning, under the hurried command of Lei Heng and Jin San, the escort team was divided into several small teams and set out along the foot of the mountain. Some kind of... very dreamlike big-headed instruments, various red, yellow, blue and green, were arranged along the foot of the mountain. There are so many lines in a mess that outsiders are always confused.
Lin Chou asked,
"Is this what the scientific examination at the Research Institute is like?"
Bai Xiaomao coughed,
"This is the simplest instrument for testing geomagnetic fluctuations. Well, it is actually very good for analyzing the formation of islands. There are also instruments for measuring seismic waves, sound waves, etc. Someone from the sea hunting team reported news about this island before. The Research Institute also discovered some unusual fluctuations - well, of course, we still have to go up the mountain in the end, and it would be best to dive to the bottom of the island to have a look, but it is too dangerous and there is little hope."
"So what exactly are you here to investigate?"
"Keep it secret!"
"..."
So Lin Chou prepared to take action on his own, looking for forest frogs or something. Anyway, after arriving on the island, he wouldn't have anything to do.
Qin Wuyong originally wanted to follow, but unfortunately, unlike Lin Chou, his task could be abandoned at any time.
After hearing Qin Wuyong say that there might be forest frogs on this island, Lin Chou's first feeling was that this was impossible.
The forest frog Lin Chou is looking for is not only a forest frog, but also a treasure. It is also known as the Hashi Toad, Snow Hag, and Mountain Ghost. It is among the Four Mountain Treasures and the Eight Palace Treasures. , were rare things before the Cataclysm, let alone after the Cataclysm.
Wood frogs are often well-known not for their "eight delicacies" or "mountain delicacies", but for their wood frog oil.
Wood frog oil is the essence of wood frog and has extremely high medicinal value. It can delay aging, resist oxidation, enhance the body's immunity, tonify deficiency, strengthen sperm and yang, and even has anti-cancer effects. It is a pure natural medicine and food. Whether it is a good product for men or women, its obvious effect can be seen from its high price.
Wood frog oil is not a real oil. The so-called wood frog oil is just the crude dried product of the gonads of female wood frogs. If it is really extracted into "oil", I am afraid that 99% of people will use it as oil. Forgotten in the dust - you can’t afford to use (eat) it anyway, so why do you still remember to do it?
Only Northeastern wood frog oil can be called real wood frog oil, while wood frog oil produced in other places can only be called "fake oil" or "fake oil". Among them, wood frog oil originating from the Changbai Mountains is called "big oil". "Oil", Heilongjiang produces "small oil", with slight differences - small oil can be compared to soft gold, and large oil can be compared to soft diamonds.
This thing is not like ordinary frogs. It only wants to live in high-altitude and relatively cold mountain forests. During the spawning period, it will jump down the mountain to find those streams with melted ice and snow to lay eggs and reproduce. There is no salt water at all.
If you say this thing really exists on this island, then it’s a damn thing. Where did it come from? With wings, he flew hundreds of kilometers across the sea and landed safely? In the end, what we found was a broken island that was not suitable for the survival of the species at all?
