Many weeds growing in rural areas of Shan Ye are now delicacies on the table. Maybe you are not used to its taste, but it is necessary to know its nutritional value! Many wild vegetables have certain medicinal effects, and occasionally can play a role in conditioning the body. This wild vegetable is a rare food for friends who love health!
My neighbor is a 60-year-old grandmother who used to live in the country. Now that her children are capable, take her to live in the city together. I always like to see her when I have nothing to do and listen to her talk about something from the past! What the older generation said sometimes feels mysterious and wonderful, which always arouses my curiosity. When I was a child, I also heard my grandmother tell many interesting stories about their time. Every time I listen to them, I feel that it is not enough, and I will guess in my heart privately!
I grew up in the countryside. Those authentic rural customs and plants growing in the mountains are all familiar! At that time, people were poor, and many grasses planted in the field could basically be used. Even if people couldn't eat them, they could be used as food for poultry! These things that grow in the countryside were heard from the mouth of the older generation, but later they learned more about them scientifically and more about their value, so that every time I see these plants in the market, I am familiar with them!
In the countryside, there is a kind of wild grass that grows very vigorously, and it is also the childhood memory of children after 70 and 80! This kind of weed can be seen everywhere, on the ridge of the field, on the roadside and in the grass in the mountains. Even the school playground where I was a child was full of it, and we used it as a natural lawn to play on it!
This plant is called cauliflower here, also called grass head and alfalfa! I heard from my neighbor's grandmother that this plant used to grow on the grassland, and people used it to feed horses, cows and sheep. Every time cattle and sheep eat a piece, they move to another place to continue feeding, so they are reused. After a rain, cauliflower will sprout here again soon! Later, this plant was brought back by Zhang Qian when he was in the Western Regions. It was found to be particularly fertile, so it was planted on a large scale to feed poultry! Until now, this plant is very common in all major rural areas!
The appearance of cauliflower is easy to recognize It has three leaves, which grow together. Now young people call it clover. You should be familiar with this place! This plant grows in pieces every time, and the whole plant is very short. Generally, it grows directly on the ground, and the leaves and stems are soft!
When I was a child, I would play with cauliflower as a natural lawn when I saw it growing vigorously! Sometimes it rains, running fast on it is very easy to fall! After the children play, everyone's clothes will be dyed green where they touch. These are the juices of cauliflower! This juice is difficult to clean once it is infected! I still remember when I was a child, every time I brought these juices home, I would secretly wash them with water, for fear of being scolded by adults when they found out!
The nutritional value of cauliflower is now popular and deeply loved by people! This weed is nontoxic, rich in nutrients such as protein, nourishing the stomach, and crisp in taste, which is very suitable for cold salad! I am used to eating big fish and meat, and occasionally I eat something fresher. Many big hotels outside also have this rural dish! There are many ways to make it, such as cold salad, braising in soy sauce, scalding, cooking porridge and making jiaozi. This dish grows vigorously all year round and is also very common. As long as you want to eat, you can always eat fresh, and its price is not expensive!
Wild cauliflower also has certain medicinal value. In the past, old farmers would pick some dried broccoli to make tea at the peak of cauliflower growth. The cauliflower of those elders will plow directly into the soil when plowing, which can be used to fertilize the soil!
Readers, did this weed participate in your's childhood? If you like its taste, you might as well choose some and try it when you meet it!