Searching for food through the beast world

Tomatoes on the tree are amazing

Except for the last time Dong Shikun took him back to pick another route alone, Ding Xiao has never been separated from Dad and Dad since he came here.This time it will take at least half a month, and he is somewhat uncomfortable.Fortunately, he is not really a cub born and raised here, and his mental age is definitely much more mature.Because the parents are not at home, I don’t feel happy or sad. It’s just that the life I’m used to suddenly changes a little, and it’s inevitable that the home is empty.

Kun is really happy this time, as if he has the demeanor of the head of the family.This also made him more determined to build the house as soon as possible.In fact, although the amount of phobia slime is not enough, only the foundation has been dug out, and everything else is still at a stagnation stage.Just go get some stone and wood back when you have time.In addition to patrolling and hunting to make breakfast for Xiaoxiao these days, he has already started to build various sheds and houses for raising animals.Because these places do not need the waterproof ground that Xiaoxiao said.The most important thing is that he has to dig a well in his own yard, as well as the special toilet that Xiaoxiao requested for convenience. Although these are not difficult to do, they also take time.

Before the experimental field, Ding Xiao never thought of building a toilet.Although as a modern time traveler, I was used to using the flush toilet before, but as an old man, I don't have that much of an obstacle in finding a hiding place for convenience.What's more, everyone here is like this, and he doesn't feel that he needs to change people's living habits.But with Tian, ​​this is different.Five or six mu of land is quite a large piece of land. When it comes time to fertilize in the future, the toilet will be more valuable.

It is impossible for an orc who is used to solving and dumping toilets in the wild to immediately understand the convenience and benefits of toilets.Dante said with a smile: "It would be bad if someone saw it someday!" It directly made Brother Kun firm that the toilet must be the best.Of course, Ding Xiao didn't tell Kun that manure is fertilizer. These are words that he didn't know how long ago. Anyway, he thinks that the land is very fertile now. If fertilization is done, the silt in the river and the manure of his own poultry will be enough.

After class that day, Qi quickly greeted everyone. "I have something good, come here quickly!"

Ding Xiao moved over curiously, and saw Qi take out a few goose egg-sized fruits from his animal skin bag.It is fiery red and chubby, which is very attractive.

As soon as Jing saw it, he couldn't help shouting: "Wow! Red berries!"

This kind of fruit is very strange to Dingxiao. The eyes of the sky show that this kind of fruit has the effect of promoting body fluid and quenching thirst, invigorating stomach and eliminating food. It looks sour and sweet. "Fruits started to appear in May." If so, I really want to go shopping in the depths of Aomori!Even if it's just the territory of their winged tiger clan.

Qi sent one to each of his classmates, and then said: "My third brother brought this back to me. He knows that I like red berries the most. So he picked a lot for me!" The pride on his face The appearance was quite obvious, and at the same time, he took a special look at Wu with his eyes.Ding Xiao didn't miss this detail. It seems... the seventh boy has "bad" intentions and is suspected of protecting the media for his third brother.

But those are digressions, the fruit is what matters.Ding Xiao wiped it and took a bite.Suddenly, a familiar taste flooded into my mouth.Nima!What kind of red berry is this, this is a tomato, okay?However, there are still gaps.The skin of this red berry is relatively crisp and slightly thick. The seeds in the pulp are smaller than those of tomatoes, but the taste is similar, and the juice is richer.Anyway, it's pretty similar! "Seven, where did your third brother pick this fruit? Is there any in our safe zone?"

Before Qi could answer, Jing hurriedly said: "Yes, there are. But I remember that on the mountain, the red berry tree was so tall that it was difficult to climb up. But red berry is the most delicious fruit in this season. , sour and sweet, and I don’t need to bite too hard, I can eat a lot in one go!”

You can eat a lot of everything in one go, okay?Ding Xiao complained inwardly.But the fruit is as long as it is nearby!It's just that Jing, an expert tree climber, said that if climbing up is difficult, then it's better to find hard work.And there are tomatoes growing on this tree... What a subversive thing!It's no wonder that the appearance of this fruit is different from the tomatoes I'm familiar with. Does it grow on a tree?No, this tree has to be planted in one's own yard anyway.Hmph, then you can eat as much as you want!Beef brisket stewed with tomatoes, scrambled eggs with tomatoes, and tomatoes mixed with sugar are all delicious.You can also make tomato sauce by yourself and eat it with white bean sticks. I really drool just thinking about it.

Hearing Xiaoxiao said that he wanted to pick red berries, Brother Kun immediately agreed to go in the afternoon.

After the two of them had lunch, Ding Xiao excitedly carried the bamboo basket on his back and picked up the hunting fork, as if he was catching prey as well as fruit.

Looking at Xiaoxiao's excited face, Kun could already foresee that the already delicious red berry would definitely become more delicious when his partner made it.

Sitting on the back of the black tiger, the two chatted while walking.Kun said: "The red berries are not fully ripe yet, I originally planned to pick them for you in two days."

Ding Xiao lay on Kun's tiger's back, enjoying the texture of the tiger's fur, and muttering: "Let me tell you, this red berry is very similar to the tomatoes in my hometown. Where we are, tomatoes can be eaten as fruits." In addition, it can also be used for stir-frying and stewing meat, and it can also be made into delicious sauce. Kun, I want to plant a red berry tree in our yard, can you agree?"

"If you like it, we can plant it. But the red berry tree is very big, so it's better to plant it in the ground." After thinking about using this sweet and sour fruit to stew meat, fruity ribs flashed in Kun's mind. .Well, it's really delicious.

Hearing that Kun also said that this kind of tree is very big, Ding Xiao became even more curious.But when Kun carried his back to a mountain in the safe area and saw the red berry tree in front of him, he was really ashamed of his idea of ​​planting this kind of tree in the yard.I thought that this kind of tree would be about ten meters long, but it turns out that the real height is more than double what I expected.Standing under the tree, it seems that it is difficult to see the top of the tree even if it is lying flat on the ground.Uh... It can basically be expressed as towering into the clouds.

Ding Xiao couldn’t figure out exactly how many red berries there were in this mountain area, but he felt that even if the whole village came to pick this fruit as a vegetable, they would not be able to eat it all. The idea of ​​growing it by himself was pure It's superfluous.However, the fruits far away in the sky are not all red, but more of a half-red and not green color. After careful observation, he also found that the fruits of these fruit trees are not all red.There are some whole trees that are yellow-brown except for the blue-green, and some fruits in the books have not changed color at all, and it feels like they are still blue after ripening.For fruits of different colors, the names and attributes given by Tianyan are also somewhat different.

Ding Xiao was very curious about these differences. It seemed that these fruit trees should at least be of the same family.Although he has learned the skills of climbing trees, he can only flinch in the face of these 60-meter-high trees, whose bare trunks are more than 20 meters long.If it falls, it will be disabled even if it does not die!

Kun definitely couldn't let Xiaoxiao climb by herself.In fact, if the fruits were not too tall, males would not use them as gifts for their partners and younger siblings.Therefore, for Kun, the task of picking red berries for Xiaoxiao is absolutely wonderful. Hehe, Xiaoxiao will cook something delicious for himself after picking it!

When Ding Xiao tried to eat all the colored fruits, he had to feel the wonder of the Creator.The orcs regard red berries as the top grade, so they only pick completely red berries, but in Ding Xiao's view, these immature berries, including those that are gradually ripening, have their own unique flavor.

The green fruit of the red berry is sweet, only the skin of the fruit has a sour taste.This is different from the general fruit that will appear sweet after it is green.It's just that the green fruit doesn't taste like a tomato, because the fruit pulp is relatively hard, and it tastes more like an apple.The sweetness is relatively high. In fact, it is very good to make sugar, but the juice will be sticky immediately after getting it on your hands.

The tawny fruit tastes very, very soft, and even the outer skin is easier to bite than the red one.The taste is a bit like soy sauce fruit, but it is not salty, a little sweet, but has a very magical sauce flavor, which makes Ding Xiao surprised and excited.You must know that although 80.00% of the soybeans that have been planted have germinated, those that have been replanted have also been planted.But it is not known how the harvest will be.At the end of the year, half of it will be given to the village department, and it is definitely not enough to make sauce pancakes today. If this yellow-brown fruit can be stored for a long time, then it can be made with vegetable salt or something more like soy sauce fruit than soy sauce fruit!

Tianyan didn't give a name to the "red berries" that changed to brown. Ding Xiao decided to name them tree jam fruit. Although the name is earthy and uneducated, and he didn't consider the feeling of the fruit tree at all, it is easy to understand and easy to understand. Remember~!

The taste of the remaining green fruit is hard to describe.Because Ding Xiao couldn't tell which sweet ones were ripe and which ones were immature.Anyway, even if it is sweet, the sweetness is not high, so it is no wonder that Kun only picked five or six fruits of this color.However, Ding Xiao was very keen to find that the texture of this fruit is quite different from that of red berries and tree jam. After a closer look, the tree itself is quite different from the other two kinds of fruit trees. The only thing in common is that they both grow in The round fruit on the tall trees together.But the green fruit is bigger than the other two kinds of fruits, about the size of Kun's fist.

Although it doesn't have the good taste of fruit, Ding Xiao feels that the taste of green fruit is more like white beans.Precisely because he was saving the idea that maybe it was some kind of magical starchy fruit, he asked Kun to pick some more.The amount used in the experiment must be less than the fruits of the other two fruit trees.Anyway, I heard Kun said that no one wants to pick green fruits, which are tasteless and hard, so Ding Xiao is not worried that if he doesn't pick them today, they will be gone tomorrow.

A basket of red cranberries, a basket of russet tree jams, and a basket of unripe cyan red berries.Plus the dozen or so green fruits in Ding Xiao’s backpack.The harvest of the two is quite rich.

There was only one thing that disappointed Ding Xiao. He saw a cub of a multi-horned deer from a long distance, which was the size he could catch. Before he got off Kun’s tiger’s back, the cub was gone in the blink of an eye. ran away.Regrettably, the harvest was not complete. The two of them found a nest of snow bird eggs in the haystack by the river. It was not very big, about the same size as duck eggs, but there were quite a few of them, as many as eighteen.Ding Xiao kindly took ten of them.In fact, he originally wanted to shine a light on the sun to see if bird eggs could distinguish whether they could hatch like eggs.In the end, he was disappointed, the eggshell was not transparent at all, and that was the only way to go.

With eggs, there will naturally be scrambled eggs with tomatoes for dinner.However, Ding Xiao set aside three plans to make a lunch box of steamed egg custard, with shredded shiitake mushrooms and shrimps, and rice.Wiping the corners of his mouth, the last time he ate was when he "hunted" a big white bird alone in the forest when he first came here.

When steaming the egg custard, Ding Xiao put the green fruit into the pot together. That kind of fruit has the effect of relieving cough and reducing phlegm.Big deal drizzled with honey.By the way, he plans to use those sweet and greasy blue red berries to make candied fruit.

Here I have to mention the plums he made before.The salted plums are not bad, and then the ebony plums were really smoked with charcoal.But when he opened the plum vinegar jar and was delighted with the success of the plum vinegar, he suddenly remembered that the method of his own plum vinegar is not the same as the method of pickling plums directly with sugar?As a result, he immediately opened the candied plums at the stall, and sure enough...they only put sugar and green plums, and the things that came out must be the same!

Fortunately, the plums haven't completely fallen off the tree yet, and it doesn't matter if they are all ripe red plums. Ding Xiao thinks he can make them like smoked dried bamboo shoots.With the experience of failure, is it far from success?

The essence of red berry scrambled eggs is that the main seasoning is sugar, and salt is just an auxiliary seasoning for body freshness.

Tomato scrambled eggs are after the few beets that Ding Xiao can use with rice.Based on the taste of the northerners, people prefer salty, spicy and spicy flavors, so many people make salty tomato scrambled eggs are also good.In fact, each has its own merits.

Today's scrambled eggs with red berries are sweet.As expected, Kun raised his eyebrows when he took the first bite of an egg.But when he picked up the red berry slice and put it in his mouth, his expression changed immediately. "This fruit is fried well, and the sour taste is very good. The sweet egg is weird."

Ding Xiao handed a cleaned red berry to Kun's mouth: "That's because you are not used to it. I prefer to eat it like this. It is best to mix rice with sweet and sour soup. Help me cut the beef Make it into small pieces, let me tell you, this beef stew with red berries is very delicious. I guarantee that you will never forget it after eating it. I am making cranberry jam now, which is the kind that can be put on barbecue!! !"

With great anticipation, Brother Kun was cutting the meat, while watching himself put the red berries into the clay pot one by one with a smile, and then crushed them one by one with a wooden spoon, and then boiled them in water. It feels similar to other jams I have endured before.Although the sweet taste is good to eat, but the completely sweet barbecue... Kun has never experienced it.Even the fruity ribs are sweet and sour with a salty taste.

Since Ding Xiao wants to make cranberry jam that can be used for barbecue, it must be very different from making other jams.Add more than half of the jar of red berry puree and add five blue sweet berries to increase the sweetness, and then add twenty tree jams to increase the flavor of the sauce.Ding Xiao used five-spice powder to add flavor, and added a large bowl of crushed bean sprouts, and a little bit of fragrant vanilla juice.Garlic sprouts are essential for seasoning. Pound them into a puree and put them in the pot, then pour in chili powder and black pepper powder, and add a little tender cress.The rest is to add vegetable salt to enhance the saltiness of the whole pot of sauce.In order to increase the acidity, Ding Xiao put the puree of four salted plums in it, which is guaranteed to be sweet and sour, with a hint of spiciness in the saltiness.Moreover, this sauce can also bring out fruity, vegetable and even grassy aromas. Before it was completely cooked, Brother Kun couldn't help but come over. "Smile, let me try it!"

Ding Xiao scooped up a spoonful of the tip and blew it to Kun's mouth. "Try how it feels!"

After the heat from the first bite passed, Kun was immediately attracted by this taste that he had never tasted before.In addition to sweet, sour, salty, and spicy, Kun always feels that there are many other flavors, er... In short, it is not very good.I thought that the sauce made of fruit would be sweet and greasy, but the sweetness was obvious, but the sourness and saltiness were more prominent.Not to mention barbecue, it’s good to eat dry like this, and think about using it for bibimbap or wrapping it in pancakes.He couldn't help but bowed his head and kissed it with a smile: "It's delicious! It's so delicious! I'll pick some more tomorrow!"

Ding Xiao nodded: "Okay! I also want to make some more, and then give some to Aunt Liu Dai and the auntie, and Jing and the others can't be left behind. Kun, you said that when the market in our Tianhe Village opens , How about I get a stall selling all kinds of sauces?"

Although he was a little depressed about Xiaoxiao's friends who could never forget him no matter what he did, he still felt that selling sauces was very reliable. "Well, we'll talk about it when Second Uncle and Uncle Qiong come back. But I think it's pretty good."