Chapter 281 Kavi: Scream
"Harold, would you like to reconsider it? I don't think I've ever seen you cook a large dish?" Thinking of Harold's specialty, Kavi decided to struggle again.
“Don’t worry, senior. I have experience and I occasionally cook for students.” Haroldt said with a smile.
Although it is troublesome, doing it yourself can save a lot of money.
"Ah? There are about a hundred residents in Aru Village. It's different from your student meals, right?" Kavi said hesitantly.
Candice sensed Kavi's doubt from his attitude. She was stunned. Haroldt was so confident that she never doubted his cooking skills.
She looked at Harold again carefully and felt unbelievable: Is it so unpalatable?
Harold was full of confidence: "Yes, no problem at all. I have consulted famous gourmets and gained some experience."
"Really? When did it happen?" Kavi muttered softly. Since Harold said so, he no longer raised any objections.
"However, cooking for a whole village is a huge task. I'll arrange some staff for you. If you need any help, just let me know." Candice said in a gentle voice.
While showing our hospitality, it can also prevent you from wasting food, killing two birds with one stone. Candice smiled in her heart and nodded.
"Okay, I am indeed short of some manpower here." Harold agreed immediately and then asked,
"Ms. Candice, in addition to the ingredients we brought, I also need some ingredients from the village to complete my cooking. If you can provide me with those ingredients, I will pay you accordingly."
"If there's anything you need me to prepare, just let me know," Candice said.
"I made a list on the way here," Harold said, handing a piece of paper to Candice.
Candice took the note, read it, and looked a little surprised.
Harold took note of her performance and said, "If there are any scarce ingredients on my list, you can skip them."
"No, what Mr. Harold wrote above are some common ingredients, but I didn't expect that rainforest people would also eat pack animal meat, because the taste of this meat is very bad." Candice said.
Even the villagers of Aru Village rarely eat pack animal meat. The quality of the meat is one issue.
Compared with the tribes in the heart of the desert, Aru Village is not very far from Kawanyi. In the past, caravans often passed by here. After Aru Village completely opened its doors to the outside world, the communication with the outside world can be described as "frequent".
The caravans from other places brought all kinds of food ingredients. Although the taste of various dried meats was very different from fresh meat, they tasted much better than pack animal meat.
Furthermore, pack animals are used by the villagers as a means of transportation and transport, and the villagers will not deliberately slaughter them unless they die of old age or break their legs accidentally.
Candice was puzzled by the fact that Haroldt had written "pack animal meat" on the first line of the list. In her opinion, the only advantage of pack animal meat was that it was cheap.
Yes, it is cheap. Several families have ready-made pack animal meat, which all comes from pack animals with broken legs. Pack animals have strong limbs, and this situation rarely happens, but it does happen. Once such an accident occurs, the disposal of the pack animal meat becomes a big problem.
Although the villagers, who adhered to the principle of not wasting food, always thought of various ways to preserve the meat of pack animals, they rarely used it.
In response to Candice's question, Harold explained, "There are many wild pack animals in the rainforest, and I sometimes hunt them as the main dish for student meals."
Kavi, who always eats student meals in Huachengguo on weekends:?
real or fake?
Which dish I ate was made from the meat of a beast of burden?
Candice smiled knowingly after hearing this: "So these are familiar ingredients. The crocodile meat and red eagle meat listed above must be from the same reason. I understand. I will prepare them now."
Kavi:?
...crocodile what red what? What do you give me and your students to eat every weekend, Harold? !
Cavellio thought absentmindedly.
On the other hand, Harold found a vacant lot and had someone dig a hole and build a stove, and also used rock objects to build a few simple barbecue grills and chopping boards.
After a while, Candice came over with a red eagle as tall as a man on her shoulder. The red eagle had obviously just died. Except for the arrow wound, the feathers on the body were relatively clean.
Behind Candice were several residents of Aru Village pushing wheelbarrows. On the wheelbarrows were large iron pots, various spices, meat, rice, and vegetables that were easy to preserve, such as potatoes and soybeans.
Most of these things come from rainforest merchants and are indispensable ingredients in their daily lives. Candice's signature dishes all use them.
Seeing Harold, Candice threw the red eagle on her shoulder to the sand. The big red bird immediately collided with the sand, making a dull "puff" sound. Candice stretched her muscles and walked to Harold's side.
"Mr. Harold, is this enough?" Candice asked.
Harold nodded slightly. "It's enough, but I'll have to trouble the villagers to help me prepare the ingredients. After all, there are a lot of them, and it will take a long time for me to cook them alone."
At this time, in addition to Kavi and the villagers of Aru Village who were delivering things, some mercenaries and merchants who had set up tents and unloaded goods also gathered around, and Harold assigned them tasks.
"Cut vegetables? But I don't have a kitchen knife. Can I use this?" The mercenary who was called out quickly drew out his sword.
Harold gestured "no problem" and said, "Chop the potatoes and onions, just chop them finely."
The mercenary said "Okay!", then washed the knife with river water, and without drying it, he started chopping the vegetables on the chopping board.
Kavi: Stop it! Stop it!
"Put the red eagle in a pot and scald it, then pluck out its feathers."
"Put the meat of the beast of burden in that pot and cook it. Sprinkle some salt on it before cooking."
...
Harold assigned the tasks one by one. Soon, the red vulture was cut into several pieces and smoked on the grill. The pots of pack animal meat and crocodile meat exuded the aroma of meat...
Kavi breathed a sigh of relief.
Ignoring some details, it seems that there is no big problem. Hmm... the smoked red buzzard smells so good. Can it be eaten now?
Kavi looked at the bacon on the grill with anticipation. He had been hungry for a long time and at this moment he couldn't stop his lips and teeth from watering.
As if hearing his thoughts, Harold shouted, "It's all right! You can take down the bacon now!"
It's time to eat! Kavi thought happily. This red vulture is so big, it's almost enough for half of the village to eat, right?
Harold: "Tear it into small pieces, about the size of your thumb!"
Kavi:?
what? !
Kavi watched the mercenaries follow orders, tear the fragrant smoked meat into pieces and put them into straw baskets. He couldn't help but widen his eyes slightly, speechless with surprise.
When all the meat was broken into pieces, Harold poured 95# sesame oil into the hot pot, then added fennel, star anise, ground chili powder, turmeric and other spices, sprinkled a handful of salt, poured all the meat slices in, and then added an appropriate amount of river water.
Then he reached out with one hand, grabbed a stone shovel condensed with rock elemental power from the air, and started stirring the pot.
Kavi watched as the original block of bacon and a series of spices underwent a chemical reaction, eventually turning into... a pot of sticky, yellow goo.
Ah——ah————
There was a sharp explosion in Kavi's heart.
The villagers, mercenaries and merchants from Aru Village next to him were tempted by the smell of the food and couldn't help but take a deep breath and swallow their saliva.
It smells so good, really so good. It smells so good, I wonder how delicious it will taste.