Lin Yang chatted with his online friends while occasionally adding fresh pine branches or shifting the meat pieces around, thoroughly engrossed in his task.
After dealing with the smoked meat, he returned to the cabin to add more firewood.
As he had anticipated, bear paws were not only challenging to cook deliciously but also physically tough to soften; the water in the field pot was almost dried up. He poked it with a knife, but it still hadn't softened enough to eat, still far from the desired doneness.
All right, add water and continue cooking!
Busy until past one in the afternoon, Lin Yang finally finished making the smoked meat. He piled up the remaining pine branches for final cleanup, and the bear paw in the field pot was finally tender enough to poke through.
"Okay, I had promised everyone fish along with bear paw, but since the bear paw is quite substantial, it will be hard to finish in one go if I cook them both, so I'll just try the bear paw first.
