The meat that has been soaked for a whole night in advance is already soft. At this time, the meat is taken out and cut into large pieces, and some of the colors of fresh meat can still be seen inside. In addition to meat, Wei Xuan also soaked some dried beans and cabbage in advance, and they were all soaked together at this time.
Wash the rice collected from someone in the community, and stew it in a pressure cooker. Wei Xuan connects another induction cooker with a charging power supply, puts the pot, pours oil, puts in the chopped pork belly, and starts to stir-fry.
Although he doesn’t know how to cook, he is not completely ignorant. It should be no problem to simply combine and try to make something that can be eaten. Although he doesn’t know how to stew meat, he can barely do it to make the ingredients as delicious as possible.
The meat, which was dried, could still emit fat after frying in hot oil. Wei Xuan, who hadn’t eaten serious food for a long time, had the urge to fish out the meat and eat it when he smelled the aroma. However, firmly believing that the delicious food can only be eaten at the end, Wei Xuan waited patiently for the meat to be fried until it turned crispy and golden brown, and then poured in soy sauce, cooking wine, and other seasonings.
Occupying such a community has many benefits. Wei Xuan collected a lot of oil, salt, soy sauce, and vinegar after thoroughly cleaning up a few buildings. He collected so much without going out, which was enough for him. People who don’t cook too much can use it for at least one year.
When the meat had completely turned into sauce, Wei Xuan scratched his head, looked left and right, and randomly grabbed some spices that looked like they would be put into the pot to enhance the fragrance of stewed meat, and sprinkled them into the pot. He mixed in cumin, aniseed, and even peppercorns with the pork belly… Fortunately, because he was worried that he might accidentally put in the wrong seasoning and cause the whole pot to be wasted, Wei Xuan was careful not to put in too much, or he will feel uncomfortable when eating later.
Once the ingredients were settled and some water added, he threw the fresh, diced potatoes into the pot along with the other soaked vegetables.
It took a full hour for this pot of stew soup to be completely done, and the rice had already been cooked and kept warm.
Wei Xuan looked at the pot of ‘delicious food’ that almost all the potatoes had melted in the pot. At this moment, there was only one sentence echoing in his heart – I must go out tomorrow! Go to the bookstore for recipe books!!
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It’s not that he never cooked potatoes in his previous life, but at that time he didn’t have other high-end luxury goods such as seasonings and meat, so in most cases, like everyone else in the base, he lit a fire, threw the potatoes directly in to bake them. When eating, he just needed to remove the burnt black outside and eat them with salt.
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The only issue is that Wei Xuan put those spices directly into the pot. Although they can enhance the fragrance, they are all mixed into the whole pot at this time. There are various surprise tastes…
When Wei Xuan accidentally ate peppercorns for the third time, Wei Xuan swallowed it silently with rice, and in his mind, he once again put the task of going out to find recipes as the top priority on his list.
From the day after harvesting the first wave of potatoes, Wei Xuan first chopped up all the useless vines in the field with a manual machine and then mixed them into the soil. In this way, new, germinated potatoes can be planted just a few days later, and there is no need to worry about the problem that the land being too barren and the production being reduced in the future.
It took him more than two full days just to process these things. The rest of the time, he sliced, washed, and boiled all the harvested potatoes except for the sprouted ones, and put them on the top layer to dry. The potato chips made in this way will not be too broken after drying, and the taste will be better when they are ready to eat.
After finishing all the trivial tasks at home, Wei Xuan planned to go out early the next morning – to look for books.
Of course, what he was looking for was not some world-famous books or professional books, but more simple recipes of foods he has eaten before. Even if he is not a good cook, it’s not a problem, he can slowly learn. Wei Xuan didn’t have the time to study before the apocalypse or during his time at the base in his last life. But now that he is safe and he has found a relatively stable place to live, he will naturally have to make some efforts and research to improve his quality of life.
This may be the reason why the science and technology points of various countries will be allocated to various weapons and fortifications during the war, and the reason why everyone will use these points for various high-tech products that improve the quality of life in peacetime.
Early the next morning, when Wei Xuan was about to get up after being woken up by the alarm clock, his expression drooped as soon as he opened the curtains—it was raining again outside.
Rain is a good thing, especially during these days when the water system is down, but it is not a good thing for people who want to go out.
He sighed: “It’s because God doesn’t want to let me go out. Forget it, I can go to the roof to collect water.”
A few days ago, when washing the potatoes, cooking some, and drying some, a lot of purified rainwater was consumed. Although there is still a lot of water stored, it is not a bad idea to collect more. If there is more clean water, Wei Xuan can take a bath frequently. In this sweltering summer, there is nothing better than taking a bath every night. To save water, he only dared to wipe his body.
After a brief wash, Wei Xuan took Du Hang and climbed up to the roof first, turned over dozens of large and small buckets and basins on the roof to catch the rainwater, and went to all the buildings that have containers on the roof.
After finishing all this work, Wei Xuan dragged Du Hang back home with nothing to do. When the weather cleared outside, the two of them stayed at home for another two days, packing up some things that needed to be tidied up at home, and waiting for most of the accumulated water such as puddles to be dry.
It’s not that Wei Xuan didn’t discover bookstores when he was picking and collecting materials before, but the books at that time were used as paper for lighting fires when he didn’t have any firewood and as toilet paper.
But now, the role of these books has been raised by more than one level in his mind.
The shelves in the small bookstore found by Wei Xuan were shaken down in the previous earthquake. At this time, those books seemed to have piled up into hills, scattered everywhere in piles. What is more pitiful is that the waterproof eaves at the entrance of the bookstore were cracked in the previous earthquake, and the two showers of rain caused the rainwater to flow directly into the bookstore along the cracks, soaking all the books near the entrance beyond recognition.
Fortunately, most of the books at the front that was damaged are review materials and children’s books. The recipe books that Wei Xuan is looking for are all placed deep in the bookstore. Wandering around the room full of books, Wei Xuan filled his and Du Hang’s big backpacks to the brim. Most of the recipes he selected were those with illustrations, the ones that were sold very expensive before the end of the world but didn’t have many dishes.
After all, he didn’t have time to study the dishes in the full-text recipes and the various spices were completely unrecognizable without pictures. In the days when only potatoes and carrots are available, it is enough to find recipes that are clear at a glance, with pictures for each step, and all spices and seasonings with pictures for identification. Wei Xuanfan found almost all recipes related to potatoes, as long as he brought these back, it would be enough for him to study for a long time.
If he finds all kinds of things like the Lu cuisine encyclopedia and Sichuan cuisine encyclopedia, he will be looking for abuse—he can’t even find all the materials these days, and reading those books does nothing for him except to speed up the secretion of saliva.
In addition to recipes, Wei Xuan took back a bunch of reference books that might be useful, such as maintenance books for some common equipment and so on.
After picking up the book, it was as if he had learned hundreds of dishes in an instant. Wei Xuan took Du Hang’s hand and walked out of the bookstore in a very relaxed and happy mood. After looking around and confirming that there were no suspicious zombies nearby, the two walked around the large and small puddles, collapsed walls, skewed vehicles, and deep pits all the way home.
When packing up the materials in the community, Wei Xuan sorted out a huge amount of various seasonings and rice noodles. At this time, these found materials were piled up in other rooms of the building where he lives now.
In the past few days, Wei Xuan has been eating the mashed potato stew he made and the baked potatoes he often ate in his previous life. Today, the recipe came in, and he can finally change the taste of his food!
He flipped through it for a long time, picked out a recipe with the simplest method of cooking, and Wei Xuan started to work – he chose the recipe for potato cakes. Although he didn’t have fresh scallions at hand, he had collected a lot of these common vegetables. At this time, those scallions had already been processed into dried vegetables by him, and there was still a lot of them for him to use.
Improvements all around. Potato cuisine here we go…hahaha! Thanks for the updates 🤣❤️🤣❤️🤣
And now I’m hungry… Thank you for the chapters !
Thanks for the chapters >w<
Thanks for the chapter! Potatoes are so useful & easy to use.
nom nom. Thank you
Potato is real the most high quality product in the world, I’m not kidding
Thank you for your translation 🤍🤍🤍🤍