Golden Fishery

ps: Read the exclusive story behind "Golden Fishing Ground", listen to your more suggestions on the novel, pay attention to the official account (add friends on WeChat-add official account-enter qdread), and tell me quietly! The whelk is one of the most commonly eaten sea snails in North America, and it is also famous in Europe. Qin Shiou is very familiar with this kind of snail, because every time he goes to the supermarket, he can see this kind of snail on sale.

There are also many types of conch in the Daqin Fishing Ground, such as emerald snails, ditch snails, Kenobi conchs, Pribilov sea king snails, tower snails, etc. Of course, the most common ones are whelks.

Whelks are mainly produced in the waters of Florida, Virginia, and California. In addition, this type of whelk can also be caught in the waters of North Carolina and Alaska. They are found all over the west coast of the Atlantic Ocean, and they are naturally common in Newfoundland fishing grounds.

Qin Shiou had seen their shadows on the bottom of the sea before, but not many, and the gathering places were scattered, which may be related to the lack of food for them in the Daqin Fishing Ground.

Whelks feed on seaweed and microscopic organisms. They generally inhabit shallow waters and eat echinoderms. Before Qin Shiou artificially planted seaweeds, there were very few seaweeds and echinoderms in the surrounding shallow waters, and the breeding of whelks has always been a problem.

Therefore, although Qin Shiou knew that there was such a conch in the fishing ground, he had no idea of ​​fishing.

Now that Shaq mentioned it again, he suddenly realized, and quickly scanned it with Seagod consciousness.

Seaweed is indeed the foundation of the fishing ground. With the abundance of algae, zooplankton multiply, which attracts more small fish to survive, and the small fish attract big fish, and the biological chains begin to improve.

After more than a month of predation, the number of whelks has also increased a lot. Their reproductive ability is very strong, and they can ovulate more than 2,000 eggs in seawater at one time.

After their fertilized eggs enter the sea, they will drift away with the sea water, and finally attach to algae or reefs to grow and develop.

Although there are a lot of whelks now, Qin Shiou didn't go fishing with Shaq. Because fishing whelk is troublesome, trapping boxes or trawls are generally used for fishing.

If you use a trap box, because the whelk moves slowly, you have to wait for several days before you can pull the box. When fishing with trawling nets, whelks are usually caught as incidental catches, but no one specifically catches them.

So many apple snails are enough to eat. He just didn't know if it was delicious or not, so Qin Shiou divided the snails into two basins according to their size, and poured the water from Shenbao Lake and a little sesame oil into them to induce the silt to vomit.

Seeing Qin Shiou pour the sesame oil and stop, Iwosen was ready to grab and eat with great interest, Shaq couldn't laugh or cry. He pulled him back and explained: "I can't eat it yet.

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"Oil is poured." Iverson looked at Shaq and said seriously.

Shaq was at a loss for words, and said to Qin Shiou: "Yes, why are you pouring oil?"

Qin Shiou explained: "Pouring sesame oil can make these snails spit out the mud in their stomachs faster. If you ask me why, then I can only say that I bought a watch last year, and I don't know."

The apple snail is easy to touch but difficult to eat, so Qin Shiou went online to check it. As a result, it was very depressing to find that because of its large size, this snail can easily parasitize the eggs of parasites such as schistosomiasis and angiostrongylus.

The eggs of some parasites are very difficult to kill. They do not develop in the body of apple snails. They will become larvae after entering the human body or livestock and then attack the host. Canadians are afraid of this, so they do not eat this kind of snails.

After inducing vomiting for an hour, during which the water was changed four or five times, Qin Shiou took the four children and Nelson to clean up the snails.

He let Nelson wash the little snail and cut off its tail with a vise. Stir-fry and eat; big snails use a scraper to pick out the meat, and prepare to eat cold snail meat.

Fried snails are not suitable for large snails. The snail shell is already thick, and the snail meat should be thicker. The taste of oil, salt, sauce, vinegar and seasonings can't get in at all.

However, apple snails are not too small. Those as big as Chinese snails are all snails. They have shells but no meat, so they are not edible.

Picking a thumb-sized snail and twisting off the tail, Qin Shiou marinated it with white wine, salt, vinegar, and soy sauce, and put the large snail meat into boiling water to cook to kill possible parasite eggs.

The next step is to fry the snails. First, heat the olive oil to a boil, fry the onion, ginger, garlic and pepper, pour in the small snails and stir-fry wildly, and fry them in boiling oil for four to five minutes to ensure that the snail meat is clean.

Finally, start to add seasoning: pour in white wine, stir fry; add soy sauce, stir fry; add balsamic vinegar, stir fry; add sugar, stir fry; add oyster sauce, continue to stir fry, add salt, stir fry; finally add chicken essence , Stir evenly and it can be out of the pot.

The aroma of stir-fried peppers and the sauce made by adding seasonings quickly spread throughout the kitchen. Nelson sniffed it and said, "The taste is not bad. I don't know if the snail meat is good or not."

Xue Li stared blankly, and said, "How do you make this dish, with so many seasonings and so many procedures?"

Qin Shiou shrugged and said, "It's a pity that there is only soy sauce without light soy and dark soy sauce. If there is such a seasoning, it needs more condiments."

The cold snail meat is much simpler. After the snow-white snail meat is cooked, cut it into slices with a knife. Anyway, it is a big snail, and it is very simple to slice.

After slicing, it is to make sauce. Qin Shiou used two kinds, one is fried snail meat and the other is fresh snail meat.

Youpo is to pour soy sauce, chicken essence, vinegar, and oil into the snail meat, and directly pour the boiling oil on it. For freshly mixed snail meat, shredded green onion, ginger, garlic slices and condiments are mixed with the snail meat evenly, among which mustard powder is used to reconcile the umami taste of the snail meat.

After making four full plates, Qin Shiou put them on the table, and Iwosen threw away the basketball in his hand and stood on the table, salivating.

Qin Shiou tasted it, and it tasted good. The oil-splashed snail meat was very fragrant, and the freshly mixed snail meat was delicious, but the snail meat was a bit old, and it lost its taste after chewing.

He thought that Shaq, the sea monster and others would still eat it hot, but the three of them put down their knives and forks after eating two bites, and drove to the town to drink.

Qin Shiou was so angry that he grabbed Nelson and asked, "Does this taste bad?"

Nelson said helplessly: "It smells delicious, but the taste is too strong at the front, and it loses the taste at the back, and the fried snail shell is too spicy, and the snail meat is too bland, we are not used to it."

Canadians are used to eating food with a consistent taste and a lighter taste, which is why they are so interested in sea fish with simple and plump meat.

The four children were very happy to eat, Xueli comforted: "Qin, this is delicious, much better than my boiled ones!"

The three of Powell nodded vigorously, and Qin Shiou finally got some comfort, but then it was absolutely wrong, can your boiled snails in plain water compare with the fried and mixed snails that I cooked with great pains?

Another happy eater is Ivorson. He is not a picky eater. He eats with a spoon used for cooking. A large piece of snail meat disappears with one spoonful, stuffed into his mouth and chewed, his face is full of happiness smile.

Qin Shiou didn't bother to criticize the three of Shaq for their lack of taste, so he hurried to the table to grab the snail meat. The four children had small hands and short arms, so they couldn't grab it.

There was no way, seeing that Iwosen was about to pick up the plate and pour it into his mouth, Qin Shiou had no choice but to go and get five bowls and divide some out first, and gave the rest to Iwosen.

Iwassen has no interest in stir-fried snail meat, Qin Shiou taught him to suck and eat, but he felt that this way of eating was boring, one snail meat was sucked and another wasted time digested the previously eaten snail meat .

The four children like to suck and eat snail meat, blowing and playing with the snail shell while eating, making the atmosphere very happy. (It’s a great event to drop pie in the sky, cool mobile phones are waiting for you! Follow up~click/official account (add friends on WeChat-add official account-enter qdread), and participate immediately! Everyone has a prize, now follow qdread immediately WeChat public account!) (to be continued)