「Ehto, if you could see the folds under the umbrella, it should be delicious.」
「Heh, you know a lot.」
「Fufu-nn」
I’ve studied about it.
If I were to eat something, I want it to taste the best.
You can praise me more.
Also, I heard that you can even pick the small ones as long as you can see the folds.
I poked a small shiitake mushroom.
They’re so cute. I want to have them in my room.
「By the way, how much should we pick?」
「I don’t know. I’ve never eaten them before so I guess a basket full for now?」
「Eh? Eh? You already picked that much?」
While she was thinking like that, the two of us silently picked up shiitake mushrooms and before we knew it, our baskets were already half full.
「Aaaauuuu, let me pick some too」
「Hurry up. I’m already hungry and want to eat it as soon as possible.」
She quickly picked off the shiitake mushrooms that caught her eye.
If you’re going to eat something, I’m sure you prefer eating something you picked yourself.
In no time, our baskets were full so we moved on to the cooking area set up nearby.
At the cooking area, the person in charge was processing the gehagehas we caught earlier and all we had to do was to put them in a pot with the meat and cook them together.
The pot is placed on a stove dug into the ground and an earthenware pot is placed on top of it.
There were around 20 pots like that lined up in a row. Everyone was enjoying themselves around the pot in their own ways.
They are so kind to prepare and clean up the pots and pans and even make soup stock for us.
I’m sure we’re all looking forward to eating it….
It’s good that we’re having fun but….I wonder if we had too much….
「Can we even eat all of these….?」
「Yes but this is too much.」
「Like I said, the two of you no longer need to fish~」
「That is….no, well, right. We caught one each but the gehagehas are really big.」
「I wonder if we took too many shiitake mushrooms.」
「I thought we only had one basket so we should fill it up….」
Normally, four people would share one pot but there are only three of us who’ll share one. And we also had a lot of ingredients prepared.
It was enough to make us almost unable to close the lid of the earthenware pot…..
The soup stock was made from dried shiitake mushrooms and vegetables. The soup stock itself smells good. Regardless of how many ingredients we had, it stimulated my appetite.
The earthenware pot on top of the stove rumbled and the white smoke billowed out of the small hole of the pot.
「I heard that shiitake mushrooms taste better when they are dried.」
「Heh, I wonder why.」
「I don’t know but if that is the case, maybe we should have dried the ones we picked today.」