Tender, juicy steak, special mashed potatoes mixed with black pepper sauce, and octopus sausage mushrooms bought from East Japan—this was a refined dinner.
Octopus sausage mushrooms were a kind of mushroom, a specialty of East Japan and the flagship product of their agricultural markets.
Jiang Han wielded her knife and fork, happily shoveling a large spoonful of mashed potatoes into her mouth along with octopus sausage mushrooms. A rich meaty aroma, the fresh sweetness of mushrooms, and the soft, fluffy texture of the mashed potatoes lingered in her mouth.
As a witch, Cen Jing had not used Witchcraft to cook. Instead, she had carefully pan-fried the sausage mushrooms in a classic nonstick stone pan, then mixed some white pepper—much beloved by Witches—into the prepared semi-finished black pepper sauce. Just the smell of it made one feel like sweating!
"Chili oil, mixed with white mushroom juice and a little dragon-blood red wine. Heat the pan, then push the mashed potatoes straight in and fry them for a dozen seconds or so." After swallowing a bite of mashed potatoes that were slightly charred on the outside but soft within, Cen Jing gave an introduction.
After the mashed potatoes and octopus sausage mushrooms, Cen Jing brought out a large clay pot of borscht. As one of the Soviet Union's closest companions and inheritors of its legacy, any Witch or witch from that country who could cook would certainly know how to make dishes in that Russian style.
Next came cream-fried cod specially meant for feeding Sea Sirens, accompanied by non-alcoholic mint iced-tea beer.
Jiang Han first drank a bowl of borscht spicy enough to make her sweat, then ate a spoonful of caviar as a side dish. Finally, she contentedly ate five pieces of fried cod before finishing the enormous, tender steak.
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