Lin Chou was surprised. There were so many good things every year, but this year was particularly good.
He unceremoniously filled his pockets with whelks, lobsters and crabs.
It is worth mentioning that the blue crabs that live in the waters around the rattle snail are particularly tall and tall, with sturdy claws, about the size of a human head. The teeth of the claws are shiny white, while the remaining six crab legs are evenly shaped. Covered with dark brown round spots.
This is obviously not Mingguang's "local" blue crab, but since the ecosystem has been disrupted by the original disaster, the presence of various creatures has completely crossed regions, waters and climates. If any biologist before the cataclysm were thrown into Being near the bright light is guaranteed to destroy his moral integrity and brain in minutes.
Using its pre-cataclysm name, this blue crab seems to be a variant of the Sri Lankan blue crab, with a very similar shape and appearance - but who cares.
To the bright light, they are just "ordinary species" that are not worth mentioning, the kind that most evolvers are unwilling to take a look at.
By the time Lin Chou returned to the tavern, it was completely dark.
"Big-breasted sister, have those women in the back mountains been sent back?"
Chi only nodded,
"Well, Master Gungun and I sent it back."
Lin Chou said,
"Chen Qingyu and Song Qingyun are also gone?"
Chi only hesitated for a moment,
"No...they and Mr. Shan are sleeping in the hut at the foot of the mountain."
Wu Ke, who had a bruised nose and swollen face, complained endlessly.
"Brother Chou, you have to make the decision for me. They, they not only robbed my house and my bed, but they also beat me!!"
Lin Chou was speechless,
"Why don't you run away when you see two drunkards? You are stupid!"
Chi only said,
"It... I don't blame him. The two of them drank too much... chased Wu Ke to the mountain and beat him up. Well... they said he was too ugly... and needed some plastic surgery."
Speaking of this, Chi Zhi frowned slightly, showing great disdain.
"A drunkard who only bullies ordinary people is really pitiful... I beat him up and threw him down the mountain."
Lin Chou burst out laughing,
"Ahem, cough...what, just in time, they are gone, I can save some money."
Wu Ke's eyes lit up instantly, and he completely forgot who was crying and wiping away tears just now.
"Quickly, let me see what treasures I brought back...wait...Brother Chou, when did you run away again??"
Wu Ke couldn't care less and looked into the bag.
"Oh, what a big crab!"
"Oh, what a big lobster!"
"Oh, what a...little conch..."
Wu Ke said,
"Brother Chou, why are you bringing so many conchs back? They are everywhere around Mingguang. They are hard, unpalatable, and sandy. These crabs are pretty good..."
Lin Chou rolled his eyes.
"If the Chaozhou cuisine chefs before the cataclysm knew that you devalued the ingredients they considered to be the best, they would have to dismantle your bones and stuff them with eight-treasure stuffing and steam them."
After Balabala explained for a while what the conch was, Wu Ke finally understood.
"Compared to bird's nest, abalone, shark's fin, and sea cucumber? This conch of love is really not an ordinary conch."
"Emmm, Brother Chou, what you are saying is that this conch is like a swiftlet in a bird's nest!"
Lin Chou snapped his fingers,
"Yes, that's what it means."
Wu Ke continued,
"It's like the black gold abalone among abalones."
"It's almost the same..."
Wu Ke is still saying,
"It's like the conch girl among the conches!"
"...roll!"
Wu Ke felt aggrieved.
"嘤...嘤...嘤..."
Then Lin Chou began to prepare to kill the conch girl. Bah, it was to deal with the ring conch.
Before the catastrophe, people often said that rattle snails were another top-notch precious ingredient discovered after "swallow-winged, abalone, and ginseng belly". In fact, this is incorrect. The documented history of eating rattle snails in China can be traced back to the Sui and Tang Dynasties. , the common names "Haoluo, Dachuiluo, Xinluo" that appear many times in some records are all Xiangluo.
The oldest way to cook snails is of course charcoal-burning snails, which is extremely simple but also extremely difficult.
Lin Chou took four rattle snails, rinsed them and lit the charcoal stove, then prepared another cooking sauce.
Since the store always has a variety of seasonings, making the sauce is extremely simple. It mainly uses various ingredients such as peppercorns, lemongrass, ginger, green onions, diced fat meat, soy sauce, rice wine, etc., and finally blends it with soup.
The reason why diced fat pork is used here is naturally that the snail meat is firm but lacks oil. The melted oil from the delicate pork fat can soften and lubricate the snail meat and add some flavor.
Su Yourong, who had just arrived, was still a little confused.
"What, what's wrong Shihu!"
As soon as she asked, her hand felt heavy, and she was so frightened that she almost dropped the wet rattle snail with hard little burrs on the ground.
"Don't throw it away. If it breaks, you won't be able to eat it!"
The little girl immediately hugged her tightly, emmmmm, she really hugged her, with a heroic look on her face.
Each person was given a pair of fire tongs and a charcoal stove.
"I've been a master for so long and I haven't taught you how to cook a dish yet. Let's start with cooking snails. It's actually relatively simple - even if you don't cook them well, the food you make is particularly delicious, right?"
The little girl nodded excitedly,
"Yeah, yeah, yeah!"
Lin Chou said as he dipped the snail into a large pot of old hen soup.
"First 'wash' the snails with old hen soup, completely immerse them in the chicken soup, shake the snail shell evenly and vigorously, then take it out immediately, do this three times to control the water, then pour the cooking sauce into the snail shell, put it on the charcoal fire - and then See what I do, and you just follow suit.”
"..."
Three faces were blank.
Speaking of this, Lin Chou couldn't help but blush.
"Ahem, although it is easy to make, don't underestimate the cooked snails. Even if the sauce is exactly the same, the taste of the cooked snails will be different. Okay, let's get started."
Burning snails requires skill first and then craftsmanship. First use high fire to boil the juice inside the snail shell, then take out the excess charcoal from the charcoal stove and cook it over low heat. The speed should be fast when changing the fire to small, and no sloppiness is allowed in the time.
The fresh snails wriggle violently inside the shell and slowly die, and the delicious food gradually arrives as the snails leave.
The thick snail shell blocks the view. It is actually very difficult to judge the condition of the snail meat in the shell just by listening to the sound, looking at the color, and smelling the smell when burning the snail.
However, the big-breasted sister Yourong and Wu Ke were quite methodical in their operations. They could flip the conch exactly as Lin Chou did, and they were still able to copy the gourd and the ladle.
Lin Chou reminded,
"Don't let the cooking sauce boil out, and don't spill it. The cooking sauce on the shell should be completely absorbed by the snail meat in the end."
The green burrs on the shell made a crackling sound, and soon, thin, broken, layered shells fell apart from the shell.
At this time, you need to change the angle of burning the snail. If you are not careful, the shell will be burned and leaked.
And every part of the snail body must be grilled evenly. The time to cook this part should be judged according to the thickness and shape of the snail shell to ensure that the snail meat in the snail shell is evenly cooked.
There are a lot of bubbles coming out of the roasting sauce, and the snail meat is trembling slightly in it, and the aroma has begun to invade all the way.
Wu Ke sniffed separately,
"Brother Chou, brother Chou, the fragrance is coming out. Is it ripe?"
"It's still early." Lin Chou glanced at him, "Bring it in another direction. Your snail is almost burnt to pieces. Reduce the charcoal!"
"Oh...how did you know it was going to be burned..."
Lin Chou was speechless,
"You can tell him if you can."
Su Yourong said crisply,
"Didn't you see that every time Shihu burned the shell until there was a crackling sound on the surface, he started to change positions? The shell is layered, and if there is a sound, it means that one layer is about to be burned off. ..."
Wu Ke said in surprise,
"How did you know..."
"I can see it! Stupid! Move the shell when it's burnt to brown! The bottom of yours has already been burned to black!"
Wu Ke stared at his snail over and over again.
"Now it seems that some things really require some talent."
"Learn mathematics, physics and chemistry well, and you won't be afraid of traveling all over the world." Wu Ke took out a stopwatch, "I still don't believe it. An undergraduate researcher can't deal with a small conch?"
