Walking in winter and snow

White clouds float over and shed sunlight, and the snow on the branches will fall heavily; When the sunlight is blocked by white clouds, the snow is still crawling on the branches.

The sun shines brightly. It was because I didn't face it correctly that I returned to Komori. What a fool. Forget it, I have to shovel snow.

Winter and rural conference

In those years, they actually did more than that: planting dozens of vegetables and grains and processing them, doing housework, raising children, working in mountainous areas or cities, and storing food for winter. Day after day, year after year.

Winter, read mom's letter.

The snowstorm alternated with the spring sunshine that day, which was overwhelming. The sky is divided by blue sky and dark clouds, just like me.

In spring, Mrs. You helped to repair the door lamp.

"... but it is really a weed. No matter how hard you cut it, you can't finish it, and you can't even pull out the roots. "

"Having said that, it's not that we humans have created a growing environment for them. All we know is that the forest has been reclaimed. Prior to this, there was basically no natural environment suitable for the growth of the festival grass (late Stone Age in Japan, from about 10,000 years ago to about the first century BC). Now it is said to be weeds, which may be precious food at that time. As a precious nature to announce the coming of spring, the ancestors in ancient times must cherish the hard-won work. There is a saying that seems to be something like' the earth is weak and the Holy Spirit is resolute to heaven'. "

In spring, the content of my mother's letter

Mother wrote in the letter: When I fell somewhere, every time I looked back at myself before, I found that I fell in the same place every time. Although I have been working hard, I always draw circles in the same place. In the end, I just went back to the original point and was very depressed. But every time, accumulate experience. Therefore, whether it is failure or success, it is no longer the origin. Then, it should not be called a circle, but a spiral. From a certain point of view, Buddhism is turning around in the same place, but it will actually deviate from the upper or lower point. If so, it doesn't matter. Perhaps, people themselves are spirals, winding around in the same place, but each time it is different, extending upward or downward or sideways. The circle I draw is getting bigger every time, so the spiral is getting bigger every time. With this in mind, I think I should work harder.

After harvesting the white radish planted by children in the city, cut it into pieces and string it up, and hang it under the eaves to make frozen radish. Boil a pot of frozen radish soup in spring, and you will feel full of happiness after drinking it.

On snowy days, villagers get together to play with rice cakes. Children go to the snow to pick natto and come back to cook natto soup. Natto is a bean product, which is made by cooking soybeans with straw, burying them in snow and fermenting them with Bacillus subtilis. It is sticky, smelly, slightly sweet and has high nutritional value.

In our hometown, women in the village will make bean paste with molds, similar to the process of natto. Cook soybeans, dry them, cover them with straw, and put them in a cool and ventilated place for fermentation. When a beautiful layer of light gray-green mold silk grows on the soybean, take it out and dry it until the soybean turns gray-black, and seal it for preservation. When eating, add boiling water until cooked, add some sesame oil, soy sauce and sugar, which has a unique taste and can be served with porridge and rice. But not many people can do it, so it can't be mass-produced and promoted, and it can't be bought in the market. Belongs to a small group of people who make green food by hand.

On a snowy day, Shizi and Kiko sit by the fire and bake sweet potatoes. Wrap the sweet potatoes one by one with tin foil and bake them in the oven. While chatting, the two men ate roasted sweet potatoes and peeled off the red skin, which was yellow meat, steaming slightly and warming the whole winter.

Watch the market collect red beans, dry them and pick them-choose extra-large ones for the coming year. The rest is dried in the sun and put into a storage tank. Watch her make red bean buns, make them round, and steam them directly on the pot. After squeezing, put it in the oven and bake it to get the red bean shortcake. Pressed into pancakes and fried in a pan until both sides are golden, which is red bean pancakes. ...

Red beans are really amazing food. It can also be made into red bean rice, red bean porridge, red bean soup, red bean paste, red bean paste buns, red bean paste jiaozi and red bean paste spring rolls.

Because you love life, simple food can do magic.

Radish, sweet potato, red bean, potato and other foods are always satisfying.

The most attractive thing about Little Forest is that it silently shows an attitude towards life, that is, one should live a good life!