book of old days

Chapter 80 The Mysterious Power of Oriental Cuisine

He had never faced such a predicament before, not even when facing the mysterious monster in the lake, or the huge mutant goblin that suddenly appeared in the basement.

For a few seconds, he almost got up and left, regardless of the reaction of those around him, to its winter hunting, to its temples.

But as soon as Xiao En gritted his teeth, he still went all out. He grabbed the piece of meat and chewed it, letting the fat and the fiber of the meat be swallowed into his mouth together.

He couldn't eat any more, so he picked up a wild onion, which was soaked in gravy, it was very soft and full of flavor, he ate it in two or three bites, and suddenly he had the courage to continue cooking.

It was 10 minutes later when he finally emptied the food on his plate.

He clutched his stomach and said that he couldn't eat any more. Ragnar didn't force him, but the others continued to eat. Only Milok and him ended the battle early.

The two walked out of the dining room and sat down on the round wooden pier in the yard.

"I feel like this winter may be my last winter hunting." Milok lamented while rubbing his belly.

"After all, I'm still old. Back then, I could eat half a deer for a meal, and I could drink two big bowls of oatmeal. Now—oh, I'm full after eating only one pork leg."

Sean was very skeptical about this. Although these Nords looked bold on the surface, they seemed to have no intentions, but they never blush when they bragged.

He casually praised a few words, and also rubbed his stomach.

He didn't go home that night, and spent the night at Ragnar's house.

The next morning, Sean woke up from the bed, feeling no appetite, feeling tired even after drinking saliva, he really admired these Nords, these Nords are simply carnivorous animals, eating meat as food .

However, these Nord people really don't know how to cook. No matter how good the meat is in their hands, they can't make any good taste. It's either boiled or roasted, and the seasoning is not very good.

Considering that this kind of dinner will continue for several days, and it will definitely hurt if it goes on like this, Xiao En feels that it is time to show the mysterious power of the East.

If a worker wants to do a good job, he must first sharpen his tools. He walked out of the room and walked through the hall. Drunk hunters were lying by the firepit. The smell of wine, stewed meat and sweat mixed together, forming a Very horrible smell.

He walked out of the door of Ragnar's house quietly. It was just dawn, and the air carried the unique coldness of winter mornings. To Xiao En's surprise, he didn't feel uncomfortable all the way. Fever, not even a shiver, is it true that eating meat is so effective?
All the way to the grocery store, when Sean walked in, the clerk was eating breakfast, a piece of jerky, a piece of toast, and a bowl of oatmeal mush, it seemed very simple, but Sean was quite envious, he tried hard to think The urge to have a bowl knocked on the counter.

"Hey, it's you again? What do you want to buy today?"

"Is there any seasoning?"

"Yes, fennel, wild onion, cardamom, chili, basil, dried lemon, cumin, oh yes, pepper and star anise, but the latter two are imported, and the price is not cheap, which one do you want? "

"I want it all."

Sean spent five gold pounds and bought all kinds of seasonings. The most expensive ones were pepper and star anise. It cost Sean three gold pounds for a small bag. It was crazy, but considering the cost of shipping these days , Sean gritted his teeth and accepted.

He is very familiar with these seasonings. In the years since time travel, he has cooked a lot by himself. He has also done research on the seasonings of this world. He is not talking nonsense now. He just picks out a few suitable ones and grinds them all with a grinder. , poured into a jar.

What he wants to do is barbecue ingredients, how can it be done with just honey on the barbecue, does it have to have some pungent taste to appetize?

Looking at the finished product in the jar, there are more than two catties of barbecue ingredients, enough for a few days.

But the barbecue alone is not enough, Sean decided to cook a few more traditional oriental dishes.

Get everything ready, and by the time he gets back to Ragnar's house, most of the people have already left.

Ragnar was dragging a skinned wild boar out of the snowdrift on the roof, preparing it for today's food.

When Sean saw it, he offered to ask for help.

"Let me do part of today's food."

Ragnar glanced at him in surprise, "You know how to cook?"

"Understood."

This time he was really immodest. He was not professional at all in cooking. It was just that he had followed the recipe a few times in his previous life, so he barely knew how to do it.

Ragnar was a little speechless, and even laughed: "Okay, if you really want to help, of course I won't refuse, oh yes, Agatha will come later, let her help you do it together." Bar."

Xiao En nodded, moved the things off the carriage without saying a word, and then went straight to work.

It was necessary to prepare enough dinner for more than a dozen people, especially the Nord man who was famous for his huge appetite, but some people were busy, even with the help of Agatha, it was not an easy task.

The first is barbecue, which needs to be grilled and eaten now, but the ingredients can be prepared in advance.

Because it is for the Nords to eat, there is no need to be too particular. No matter what kind of meat it is, it doesn’t matter whether it is fat or thin. Cut into pieces that are too small, each piece is the size of an egg, fully dressed, it looks closer to a large Russian meat skewer, and a skewer of meat weighs half a catty.

Soon a dozen meat skewers were ready. Sean chopped a dozen pork ribs, sprinkled them all with salt and dried onions for flavor, and then sprinkled them with barbecue ingredients and brushed them with oil.

Then Sean started to make the main course again. He was going to make three dishes, pot-packed pork, braised pork, and Northeast stew.

The first is the Northeast stew. This thing can be stewed in advance. Use dried chili and wild onion to fry until fragrant, add potatoes, cabbage, peas, wild pork, and dried mushrooms, stir fry for a few times, then pour water into it and stew it directly .

Because the materials are limited, there is definitely no way to make the original flavor, but the random stew is almost enough. If you start with a messy pot, what you want is a simple, unpretentious and ingenious.

Next is braised pork. The meat of wild boar is usually mostly lean meat, which is not suitable for braised. Fortunately, now that winter has just entered, most wild animals have accumulated a lot of fat for the winter, and there is a lot of fat in this wild boar. Now All cheap Sean.

The fat and thin meat is cut into large pieces, fried in a large pot until it turns into sugary color, put the meat pieces into a pot, and stir fry directly with a shovel. There is no way, there is too much meat, so it must not be too careful.

Sean felt that cooking like this was almost like digging the ground.
When the meat is almost colored, pour in water. If there is no soy sauce cooking wine, just use wine instead, then add various local spices, and finally throw a few star anise into it. I didn’t dare to put too much. This thing is True value for money in gold.

Just like the stew in Northeast China, this one is just stewed slowly.

The last thing is to wrap the meat in a pot. Start with a large pot of oil. Because there is no vegetable oil, you can only put lard on it. The fried meat will be very greasy and the heat will be super high. But anyway, it is for fatting, so it doesn’t matter if it is greasy. .

Then mix the potato starch, meat and seasoning powder together, fry them in a frying pan and take them out.

Pour the adjusted tomato sauce, the color is very similar to that, but the craftsmanship is a bit trendy, the meat is cut too thick, and the sauce is not evenly spread.

When the last dish was finished, Sean was already tired and sweating profusely. The final product was placed in a large clay pot. Sean picked up a piece and tasted it. It can only be said that it was unsatisfactory, with a bit of internal taste, but after all It's a hasty and simple, and it's a lot worse than the authentic taste, but it's better than Ragnar's Nord stew anyway.

Ragnar stared dumbfounded at Sean's fancy operations. It was the first time he discovered that cooking could be so complicated, it was as magical as alchemy.

Looking at the finished product and smelling the aroma wafting from the pot, both the appearance and the smell are much better than his stewed meat.

He tasted these dishes one by one, and the more he ate, the more excited he became, with a complicated expression on his face.

(End of this chapter)