In the eyes of a qualified cook, the world is full of ingredients.
In the seemingly barren desert, there may be agaves that have been growing for decades sleeping deep in an inconspicuous dune;
On the top of snow-covered mountains, you can also pick extremely sweet yacon;
In the foul-smelling swamp mud, cattail is as delicious and nutritious as any animal protein.
The vast ocean, the origin of the ancient human race, seemed to Lin Chou to be a real paradise.
When the tide recedes slightly, the rocky beach formed by the reefs and reefs will reveal a whole water surface covered with gray-black plants. This plant grows so lushly that it almost completely buries the rocky beach, making it look like an old beggar.
The unmanaged hair is piled up in layers, which is a bit disgusting.
But this thing is a real treasure in the alley, at least Lin Chou couldn't afford it before.
Commonly known as edelvous moss, those hair-like branches and stems are rich in natural plant oils. After being soaked in alcohol, a large amount of oil can be easily squeezed out.
The ointment has a very strong odor and is not suitable for consumption. Well, occasionally people use it to ferment stinky tofu.
This ointment is semi-solidified, blue-black, and extremely flammable. When burned, the flame temperature is slightly higher than that of fine coal. Therefore, it is also used by craftsmen to forge metal or add it to blast furnaces to make steel.
But at this moment, in Lin Chou's view, this was ready-made natural firewood.
When fishing for tinder moss, there were many slender silver fish swimming around in panic in the pool below, moving very fast.
They are extremely lively, as long as a palm and as thick as a chopstick, and they look delicious.
Especially when Lin Chou caught one, pinched it off, looked at the texture of the meat and smelled the smell, this idea was confirmed.
As the saying goes, even small fish can eat big fish.
This means that the smaller and more lively the fish, the more delicious and nutritious it will be.
There is no rush to fish out these small fishes, since the puddle is only so big anyway, it’s just what’s in the bag.
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Now Gungun couldn't hear any words like "rice" or "eat". After seeing Lin Chou ignoring him and going to the side to do his own business, Gungun couldn't hold back his saliva.
The two plump bear paws were rubbing together, looking at the various fish and shrimps stranded in the terraced water less than half a meter deep, with a very melancholy expression.
"Hey, I remember that bears can swim, and most of them are good at catching fish. Lord Gungun, aren't you going to show me your hands?"
"Ouch!"
He rolled his eyes, his dark pupils showing determination and seriousness, and he smoothed the hair on his body vigorously while moving his hands and feet.
Lin Chou looked at Gungun happily, was he going to go to the sea to catch fish?
Gungun took a deep breath, leaned forward on tiptoes, waved his bear paw, and the seawater in the terraces with a radius of tens of square meters in front of him gathered in the middle, and gradually rose up from the ground, forming a huge water ball with a diameter of 100 meters.
Various fish and shrimps struggled in panic in the water.
The water ball was controlled to float above the beach and the gravity field was immediately dispersed.
"Wow!"
Lin Chou looked at a large number of living creatures struggling to death on the beach, dumbfounded.
After all the water had flowed away, Lord Gungun walked over, picked out a big fish and twisted it between his two fingers, looking dazed.
"Well, is this your lunch?"
The largest fish among them were about one-twenty-fifth of the length of a paw, and weighed about a pound.
Gungun felt cheated, became furious, and floated towards the distant sea.
Huge water balls kept rising from the sea and then shattered and fell back into the sea.
Lin Chou's eyes lit up. In the pool where Gungun had just vacated, two strange-looking rocks caught his attention.
Taking a closer look, it turned out just as he had thought, these were two huge crooks, that is, sea clams.
The specific types are unknown, one large and one small. The large one is three to four meters in diameter, and the small one is nearly three meters. The surface is green and black, covered with various corals and marine moss. I don’t know that it has grown for hundreds of years.
If you are not careful, you may miss these two big guys lying on the rocks.
The connection between the two sea clams and the reef had completely turned to stone. Lin Chou cut off the roots of these two guys as soon as he shoveled them down.
Although the meat of this thing may not be delicious or even edible, its shell is a natural cooking utensil.
The main course is already here, and there is no shortage of meat from the two crooks - the big toad more than a hundred meters long is not lying like that.
Gungun came back carrying two big fish proudly, with several huge crabs floating in the air next to him.
Lin Chou said, "Would you like to try that toad?"
Gungun immediately patted his chest, indicating that this difficult task could be left to him. More than just a taste, Gungun could finish it in a few meals.
Lin Chou asked Gungun to tear off a frog leg. This thing's leg has three joints and is fifty or sixty meters long when fully extended. He directly cut off the other parts, leaving only the round thigh. After removing the skin, it was exposed
Crystal firm snow-white frog meat.
Then he asked Gungun to break open two sea clams, which also contained tender white meat.
This thing is more troublesome to make. Lin Chou didn't plan to use clam meat, so he just let Gungun devour it in one bite.
"Ouch!"
Mr. Gungun said the taste was okay, but he had some teeth and spit out a few finger-sized pearl crumbs.
This kind of rough pearl has a lot of brightness.
Women from wealthy families all use fried pearl powder mixed with egg whites from alien eggs to make facial masks, which are said to be very good for the skin.
The four-petal open clam shell is like four cauldrons. The inner surface is smooth and delicate, with a delicate and soft light like pearls.
The composition of clam shells is actually the same as that of pearls, which can be said to be pearls with more impurities.
Before the great catastrophe, most of the expensive cosmetics containing pearl powder used by the ancients were calcined and ground with this stuff. After two rough grindings, it turned into fine "pearl powder". After three grindings, it can reach
"Nano-food grade" is incredibly low-cost, but when sold, it is measured in grams.
Among the two big fish in the trophy, one was a whale with a mouth full of jagged teeth. The big fish, which was more than ten meters long, was useless. The meat was rough and the oil in its belly was smelly.
Lin Chou pouted and motioned to Gungun to throw it away.
Gungun was reluctant to give up. After taking a hard bite, he spat out the meat in his mouth with a grimace and threw the whale far away.
Although whale meat is very delicious after being processed by certain means, the preparation is very troublesome and time-consuming, which is not suitable for the current situation.
The other fish was amazing. It was actually the famous bluefin tuna, which was ten meters long. God knows why this top ingredient active in the deep sea was so obsessed with wandering around this inhospitable island and even lost his life.
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With a shovel, the round fish belly was broken open, and long chunks of fish oil and internal organs rolled out instantly.
After being gutted and disembowelled, bluefin tuna has almost no fishy smell like ordinary fish, and the jelly-like fish oil has a very light aroma.
I fiddled with it and sighed, "It is indeed the top ingredient that all chefs want to cook! It's just different."
Lin Chou has been living in alleys since he was a child. He has never seen such an ingredient that is equivalent to its weight of silver. He only knows a lot of things through his two old men talking in his ears over and over again.