The story of Shokugeki begins when Alice picks him up and brings him home

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“Use ingredients from the mountains to create dishes that will satisfy the two judges on the road.”

Walking on the slightly rough dirt ground, An Yasuda lowered her head and began to think.

The final assessment can be said to take into account everything that has been learned so far. Regardless of how delicious the food is, at least it is no problem to use the ingredients from the mountains to make a dish that tastes good.

"There's no point in thinking too much. Anyway, let's start by collecting the ingredients!"

After thinking for a long time without any clue, Anzu Yasuda decided to collect the ingredients first and see what she could collect before deciding what dish to cook.

"In addition to considering the assessment, I also have to take care of my own diet when I fail the assessment. Does that mean that two assessments are being conducted at the same time..."

After leaving the roots of the wild mushrooms on the ground and putting them into the backpack behind him, Anzu Yasuda couldn't help but ponder.

This assessment sounds like it's just to satisfy the judges, but in fact you also have to be responsible for your own diet and living in the mountains.

It doesn't look like an easy test at all.

"It's really difficult! If it weren't for the targeted training that Teacher Bai Yuan has been doing during this period, and I was responsible for their food and accommodation, at least 60% of these 100 people would have starved to death, and 30% would have been poisoned to death."

An Yasuda couldn't help but mutter to herself.

She collected food along the way as she walked. Because she came down late, most of the wild vegetables on the road had been gone. This was also the reason why she chose a more remote road.

As for hares and pheasants, they are precious ingredients that require a bit of luck to obtain.

Moreover, with her ability, it was not easy to catch wild rabbits and pheasants, so she had never considered this from the beginning.

Wild vegetables and mushrooms are the only two ingredients she can obtain in large quantities. She picked up a bird egg on the road, so she made a pot of wild vegetable and mushroom porridge.

Looking at a small patch of wild fern in front of her, this thought came to Anzu Yasuda's mind, and she immediately began picking them and collecting the dead branches that had fallen on the ground around her, preparing to make a simple breakfast.

She had an accurate understanding of herself and knew clearly that this test was very difficult and the possibility of passing it with just one dish was very low.

Therefore, before officially facing the assessment, she planned to stay in this forest for a few days until she could develop a qualified dish that could pass the assessment.

Because she knew that her abilities were not good enough, she did not set high standards for herself.

He successfully completed the final assessment assigned by Bai Yuan, and was then expelled from school in a not-so-bad manner.

After dropping out of school, she returned to her hometown and opened a bakery. Although she did not learn the skills of making bread here, she developed good self-learning ability.

With this ability, I went to work in a bakery when I returned, serving as an apprentice for a year or two, and then opened my own shop after returning from my studies.

After putting all the wild vegetables in the fern field into the backpack, Anzu Yasuda did not choose to stop. Instead, she looked around and continued to move forward in one direction.

Soon, she heard hawking.

“Bamboo pot, bamboo tube, bamboo chopsticks.

You only need a small amount of ingredients to redeem it, don’t miss it if you pass by! ”

The young man's face was full of enthusiasm. Next to him, there were a few shirtless teenagers swinging simple stone axes. Several axes had fallen around them, and some girls were making tools.

The young man named Mai had simple bamboo pots, bamboo tubes, and bamboo chopsticks on his stall, which were all necessities for life in the wild.

"Sure enough, we've come to the right place."

Anzu Yasuda thought to herself that this was not the first time such a scene had happened, so she came here with the mentality of trying her luck after collecting enough ingredients, ready to make an exchange.

"This whole set only requires two kilograms of ingredients, anything will do."

When she arrived at the stall, An Yasuda asked a few simple questions and received this answer.

Without much hesitation, she put down most of the ingredients in the basket, exchanged them for a set of basic cooking equipment, and then headed in the direction where there were fewer people.

Soon, she found a relatively flat land surrounded by a river.

Then she put down the backpack, piled up the collected firewood, and started to make fire by rubbing two sticks together.

Because of the dry weather, the process went very smoothly. It only took more than five minutes before a faint white smoke rose from the wood chips in front of him.

"Whoosh~"

Looking at the wood in front of her that had begun to smoke, a satisfied smile appeared on An Yasuda's face, and then a small spark came out from the firewood.

After some simple treatment, the sparks gradually grew into flames, burning fiercely in front of An Yasuda, which made her feel relieved.

At least the first step didn't fail.

She took out the ingredients from the backpack and simply washed them with spring water. Then, Anzu Yasuda took out the kitchen knife from her waist and quickly processed them on a bamboo chopping board. She then put them into a bamboo pot filled with spring water.

This is what Bai Yuan requested.

As a chef, you can do without anything else except a kitchen knife that you are familiar with. This is the soul and foundation of a chef.

If he is a pastry chef, it is the stick in his hand, which is the soul of his culinary skills!

Chapter 114: How to obtain salty taste in the mountains and forests, the attack of the laggards!

“It tastes bad...

There is no seasoning, only a little umami flavor from the mushrooms, but it is barely edible and a light breakfast is not bad. ”

After taking a sip of the wild vegetable and mushroom hotpot in front of her, Anzu Yasuda revealed her mask of pain.

Without salt, the wild vegetable and mushroom soup was not very delicious, but she had no good solution and could only comfort herself in this way.

"If you want to enhance the taste of this dish, the most important thing is seasoning. In the mountains and forests, ingredients with seasoning properties include mountain pepper, wild onion, and honey, which are all very good seasonings."

Drinking the wild vegetable and mushroom soup without any saltiness, Anzu Yasuda frowned slightly. It takes a lot of luck to get these condiments in the mountains.

However, with her strength, she will probably have to stay here for quite some time. Even if she doesn't find it, she can get it from others through barter.

only...

If you want to exchange for precious condiments, it is obviously unrealistic to use only wild vegetables and mushrooms. After all, these things are everywhere in the mountains and are not difficult to find.

At least one or two wild game animals need to be captured and exchanged for meat to be considered an equal transaction, but this is difficult...

"Ahhh, isn't this even harder than the placement test?!"

Grabbing her hair in impotent rage, An Yasuda couldn't help but complain in her heart.

Then he gulped down the wild vegetable and mushroom soup in his hand, washed it with mountain spring water, put it in the backpack behind him, and set off again.

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"I'm so sleepy. By the way, why us? Can't anyone take part in the test of the last place winner?"

On the only way to the foot of the mountain, Erina Nakiri raised her hand and yawned, then looked at Alice with a serious expression and couldn't help complaining.

"This is a task assigned by the master himself. He must have his reasons for arranging it this way. We just need to obey."

Hearing the question, Alice Nakiri shrugged. If Bai Yuan hadn't personally ordered her to do so, she wouldn't have come here waiting so early in the morning.

Of course, Bai Yuan actually only called her at that time, but she felt that she was too bored alone, so she lied and said that Bai Yuan called both of them.

Nakiri Erina believed it without a doubt and did not call to verify. She got up before dawn and came here with Nakiri Alice.

"What kind of food can those guys serve? I don't know what Mr. Bai Yuan was thinking, to spend so much effort to train them."

When saying this, there was a hint of resentment in Erina Nakiri's voice.

She was expecting Bai Yuan to train her during the mid-term exam. But he only trained her for a while at the beginning, and gave the rest of the time to this group of losers. What a waste of resources!

"For the master, it doesn't matter who you train. There's not much difference between us guys in front of him. He can train us all."

Because she grew up under Shirafuchi's command, Nakiri Alice knows how powerful he is.

If it weren't for Bai Yuan's cultivation, she would at best be a second-rate chef now, or even worse than Erina Nakiri, after all, she also has a divine tongue.

"Humph, I want to see how strong these guys who are squeezing out resources are! Are they worthy of being trained by Teacher Bai Yuan!"

Hearing what Alice Nakiri said, Erina Nakiri snorted and rarely refuted.

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"Luck! There are wild onions here!"

Looking at the wild onions growing on the land, Anzu Yasuda knelt on the ground with excitement on her face. She quickly picked them and put them into the basket behind her.

After a morning of searching, she found a lot of useful ingredients on the land and even discovered rare porcini mushrooms under a tree.

“Speaking of which, last time Kurosaki and his team found Matsutake mushrooms in the forest, they said there were quite a lot of them and they couldn’t pick them all at once, so they should be able to pass the assessment this time.

I don’t know if I’ll ever have the chance to come across this, but the combination of matsutake and porcini should elevate the taste of the dish to a higher level.”

I remember that some time ago, during a special training session, the Kurosaki team served a high-end mushroom soup dish that included Matsutake mushrooms.

It is said that they were found in a remote place. There are quite a lot of them. They did not collect them all in one go, so they will definitely go again for this midterm exam.

"Let's stay here for lunch. There are a lot of fish and shrimp in the river. Maybe I can make a breakthrough in seafood cuisine, such as stir-frying snail meat or something. We still lack salt. I hope Mr. Bai Yuan's method will work..."

After stopping beside the stream and briefly exploring the surroundings, An Yasuda finally decided to rest here for a while.

He then took out pine wood from the basket behind him, collected dead branches around him, put the wood chips into the grooves in the tree blocks, and started drilling wood to make fire.

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"There are quite a few stupid rabbit nests, but it took me a long time to find them. But so what? Didn't they end up in my hands? "

There was a bloody cut on his arm from chasing the rabbit, but the man's face was full of smiles.

"Luckily, I like to carry some chili peppers with me. I'll collect some oily nuts, squeeze some vegetable oil, and make a simple dish of spicy fried rabbit meat. I'll pass the assessment and go down the mountain!"

His fingers groped across his chest, and when he felt the chili pepper inside, a smug expression appeared on the man's face, because this was the key to his passing the level!

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"Damn it, it got away again!"

Looking at the pheasant flying into the tree, the man's face was speechless.

He had been tracking him for a whole morning, but this guy always managed to run away at the most critical moment, leaving him no chance at all.

"No, I've already spent the whole morning. I have to catch it today, otherwise I won't be able to sleep well tonight!"

Picking up the stone on the ground, the man narrowed his eyes and threw it very accurately.

As the stone flew over, the pheasant seemed to notice it and flapped its wings and jumped forward, flying towards the distance.

"Go away!"

Seeing the pheasant about to leave, the man roared, then chased after it with big strides, holding a handful of stones in his hand.

"咻咻咻～"

He kept throwing the stones in his hand. Most of them missed the target, but a small number of them hit the pheasant, which slowed down its speed to a certain extent.

"Za Xiu, since I've made you work so hard, I'll stew you tonight!"

After a tug-of-war that lasted for more than twenty minutes, the man was holding the pheasant's flapping wings, with bloody marks on his face from the chicken's claws during the process of catching the chicken.

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"That's great! I didn't expect there was a nest of snakes hiding here, and there were a few eggs. This would be great for making an Oyakodon."

Looking at the extremely fat snake in front of her as it prepared for hibernation, a woman with a curvy figure showed excitement on her face.

“The reddish-brown body is densely and crisscrossed with black horizontal stripes.

It should be a local ground snake, non-venomous, and has a delicate and tight taste after cooking. It's decided! Let the judges eat this."

She stretched out her hands to strangle the snake's head and chopped it down quickly with the kitchen knife. Blood gushed out and splashed onto her face, but her expression did not change at all.

After processing it on the spot, the woman wrapped the snake meat with previously cleaned bamboo leaves and put it into the bamboo basket behind her for later use.