Every grain of dust sinks into every grain of dust.
Flower lovers eat flowers.
At this time, the banks of Qingxi next to the club are full of wild flowers. Flowers bloom on the right bank and on the left bank. I like to use the idiom "in full swing", but I didn't know the so-called "tea" until I came across the ocean to see you. It refers to the flower on the other side. It has many vests, such as manzhushahua, Datura, Lycoris rubra and so on. One of its aliases is Teana.
The flowers on the other side are amazing. I like flowers, like listening to symphonies, let my imagination fly freely, and indulge in the time and space of thought. For example, looking at this flower on the other side, I feel that the flower on the other side is Faye Wong, blurred and enchanting, heartbroken and desperate, cruel but beautiful. ...
Seeing me alone in a daze, Master shouted, "Such beautiful flowers make your mouth water again. I'm wondering which cooking method is the best, right?"
The beautiful and sad artistic conception was destroyed by the master. I was full of apologies for Faye Wong, so I took back my anger and said, "Do you think I am a rookie or an onion? The flowers over there are poisonous and can't seduce my appetite. You can't beat me in high-altitude flight. "
Unexpectedly, the master's face sank: "You can't learn art, and you dare to brag! The flowers over there come from your country, but you know nothing about them. " Master Zun was born before the defeat of Japan. He had deep respect for the flowers on the other side, because at that time, the flowers on the other side saved many lives.
Nowadays, Japanese people only know one thing and don't know another. It is believed that the flower on the other side grows in field trails, riverside trails and cemeteries, and its toxicity is used to prevent small animals such as mice. Not many people know that it is actually the last line of defense against hunger. In the extraordinary period of hunger, the ubiquitous flower on the other side of the river can be made into disaster relief food such as sweet potato cake by rubbing its bulb into silk and soaking it in running water for seven days and seven nights.
It suddenly dawned on me that flowers on the other side are rare in China, the country of origin, but they are everywhere when introduced into Japan. It is the Japanese who have a strong sense of disaster and hardship, and are prepared for the food crisis.
Despite the master's enlightenment, I will not behave like Pavlov's dog in front of this wonderful flower. However, what Master Zun said is not excessive. I really often stay in Shang Huashi, and I think this fragrance is the best for that kind of food. Even if you travel around, eating flowers and tasting flowers are traditional personal projects.
The reason for this personal tradition may be traced back to the childhood of anthomaniac.
In the first grade of primary school, I transferred to Xitai Primary School, and my grandfather was the principal. It was a simple mountain area, which kept the original ecology in the embrace of many mountains and brought me a colorful childhood close to nature. Naughty as a mountain monkey, I spend every day in the mountains with my friends, and I don't know how many wild flowers and fruits I have eaten. There are countless wild fruits, so let's not talk about it. Let's say wild flowers, which are often eaten with colorful mouths and can't be washed off, just like Wang Feili's dazzling makeup.
The one who eats the most is undoubtedly rhododendron, which is rhododendron. Just look at the name. Rhododendrons are everywhere this season. It's really a pity not to eat them. Eating azaleas is easy. After removing the calyx core, send the whole flower into the mouth. However, there is a trick. Warm your mouth to the flower heart before eating. This trick was taught by older children. Whether it is to remove water vapor or to prevent small ants and bugs in the flower heart, the scientific truth is still puzzling.
Rhododendrons of all colors look similar in taste, but I don't know why we prefer water red, which is very refreshing and slightly sour, crisp and juicy, and has no unpleasant smell. More importantly, you can eat until you can't hold on. At that time, I didn't know that this state was called "feasting".
Can also meet the requirements of eating, but don't want to eat more is rape. Because the rape flower tastes a little bitter, its stem is better than the flower. It is often to break a few branches, taste the flowers, then clean the branches, and then peel off the skin outside the pole and eat it while walking. They are sweet and delicious.
It is a banana taro flower that wants to eat more but can't meet the requirements of a big meal. Banana taro should also belong to a kind of famine relief food, similar to the flower on the other side mentioned in the title I was shocked by its starch-made banana taro noodles and small mouths, but its flowers were delicious enough for us urchins to compete.
Eating banana taro flowers is completely different from azaleas. You don't eat petals. You just sucked a bubble of nectar in the flower heart. The amount is small, but it is very fragrant and sweet. Often it is not enough to suck a whole piece. That kind of happiness is no less than the happiness aroused by the old man who made popcorn at the school gate among the children.
After smoking, the petals are still intact If you honestly throw them into the ground and turn them into spring soil, they will protect the flowers. If you are naughty, you will put them back in the flower tube and hide in the dark to watch other ignorant children eat "lost" banana taro flowers. Because you can't suck manna, you will be too proud to stand up.
Until now, when I see canna or phoenix-tailed flowers that are very similar to banana taro flowers, I still subconsciously want to pull out the flower tube to suck nectar, but unfortunately I will never really reach out and pull it out again.
Master said that my mouth watered at the sight of flowers, but it was also true. For example, osmanthus is also in this season. At present, osmanthus fragrans, which is rich and fragrant, has a sweet and greasy fragrance, which makes me not associate with food. This is a very difficult thing.
Grandma who is good at Tintin will pickle sweet-scented osmanthus candy every year. Her method is simple: clean fresh osmanthus, put it in a wide-mouth glass bottle with malt extract, sprinkle a layer of sugar on each layer of osmanthus, fill the bottle according to this ratio, cover the bottle tightly and put it in a cool place. You can eat it in half a month. Sweet-scented osmanthus with sugar stains, whether made into glutinous rice balls, sweet-scented osmanthus balls, Osmanthus Jelly, sweet-scented osmanthus sauce or sweet-scented osmanthus soup with rock sugar and tremella, is sweet but not greasy. Sweet-scented osmanthus is full of fragrance and tastes excellent.
When I went to Guilin, it happened to be the season of sweet-scented osmanthus. In the sweet smell of Huang Jingui in the city, the sweet osmanthus wine suddenly became full of flavor. Sweet-scented osmanthus thousand-layer cakes and sweet-scented osmanthus sesame slices remind me of my grandmother who just passed away, and I almost burst into tears.
Also in the tourist destination, I was deeply impressed by the Luoyang Peony Banquet, which enjoys the reputation of "King of Flowers". There are many ways to eat peony flowers in Luoyang, such as frying, burning, frying and making soup. They are all delicious. For example, "peony pot-stewed dish" is a famous dish, which is made by sizing peony flowers, frying them and stewing them with meat. Colorful, delicious, novel and attractive. Roasted fish fillets with peony, fried duck ribs with peony, etc. It is an appetizing seasonal food with good color, flavor and taste.
What tastes more textured than peony flowers is kapok. Xiamen is known as the "sea garden", and Gulangyu Island is the back garden of this sea garden. In March and April, kapok burns half the sky like a cloud, and there will be more seasonal dishes made of kapok in Gulangyu's restaurant.
My favorite is fresh kapok stewed angelica beef soup, with southern Fujian flavor. Kapok has the function of clearing away heat and promoting diuresis, while Angelica sinensis nourishes blood and moistens dryness, and moistens intestines to relieve constipation. The two complement each other. Even better, although kapok and angelica are a little astringent, they enhance the mellow and delicious beef soup, which is really a perfect combination of classics.
Whenever I enjoy this delicious food, I always think that the phoenix flowers in my alma mater's campus are blooming again, and I always encourage shopkeepers to add some dishes with phoenix flowers. "I have eaten it and it tastes great." I will never forget to show up when I am an anthomaniac. As a result, the owner's expression was infatuated for a while, but he was always a colorful and heartless creature, and so far he has not seen the phoenix flower on his food list.
Kapok stews are also common in Guangdong. Lady Enforcers, a Cantonese who is best at making soup and likes clamoring for fire, a kapok who clears away heat and promotes dampness, and a sweet taste, will certainly not let go.
Lady Enforcers, also known as the Seven-Star Sword Flower, the soup made of meat and bones is yellow, soft, waxy and moist, sweet but not greasy. It is best to eat this autumn, especially for the elderly and the weak after illness. It is the signature dish of Guangdong restaurants, and it is also a distinctive old fire soup in Cantonese cuisine.
Cantonese people like to get rid of fire so much, of course, chrysanthemum is indispensable. Julongfeng bone is the representative work of Guangdong snake. If you can't eat chrysanthemums and dragon and phoenix bones, at least you can eat chrysanthemums casually.
There must be fewer people who have never eaten chrysanthemums than those who have never seen pigs run. There are many kinds of chrysanthemum foods, such as bacon chrysanthemum cake, chrysanthemum fish balls, chrysanthemum meatballs, chrysanthemum porridge, chrysanthemum crystals and so on. , are the top grade in the dinner. Chrysanthemum contains essential oil, stevioside, adenine, amino acids and vitamins, which can inhibit the formation of melanin and activate epidermal cells, and has a good beauty and skin care effect. Chrysanthemum also has the functions of dispelling wind and clearing heat, clearing liver and purging fire, improving eyesight and detoxifying. It can also prevent and treat wind-heat cold, headache, dizziness, red eyes, swelling and pain, and has a certain antihypertensive effect on patients with hypertension, so it is called the flower of prolonging life.
Seeing this, sympathetic readers spoke: I have no problem eating chrysanthemums, and it is acceptable for ladies who love beauty to drink fresh scented tea. As for eating other flowers, I always feel that all flowers are pure and beautiful, and I can't play far away. How can I become the filler of smelly skin?
In fact, this is just a psychological barrier. In this era when Pluto will be expelled from the list of nine planets, what's the fuss about only putting flowers on the recipe menu? Perhaps some petty bourgeoisie are worried that friendly countries of western civilized countries will be surprised and will accuse them. In fact, this is even more worrying.
On the contrary, in recent years, European and American countries suffering from the disease of modern civilization have also developed a flower-eating fever, and loudly put forward the slogan that diet should return to nature. There are many flowers and shadows on the menus of restaurants and families everywhere. Flowers are rich in amino acids, iron, zinc, iodine, selenium and more than ten kinds of trace elements, 14 kinds of vitamins, more than 80 kinds of active substances necessary for human body, such as active enzymes, nucleic acids, flavonoids and so on, which have good medicinal value and health care function. Therefore, flower cooking has become popular in hotels in Europe and America.
I once ate more than ten freshly picked flowers in a famous restaurant in butchart gardens. The chef removed the pansy flowers from the soup surface, made a salad with dandelion buds and made oil pancakes with flowers. The most popular among diners are cakes sprinkled with Trollius chinensis and delicious sesame cauliflower, which are both delicious in color and flavor.
When I was eating wisteria there, I couldn't help thinking of Liang Shiqiu's old nostalgia for Kyoto's old food, some of which were wisteria cakes. Wisteria cake is just a mixture of wisteria flowers, diced fat and white sugar, stirred evenly and steamed. The cake is warm red and fragrant. According to him, Chun Qing is moving. It seems that Liang Shiqiu is also a sex maniac.
In the upsurge of edible flowers, there are many farms that grow edible flowers organically in Europe and America, and their business is very good, and the demand is often in short supply.
Actually, it's not necessary to call Europe and America. I have also seen the wholesale of organically grown edible flowers in Dounan Flower Wholesale Market in Kunming. Whether it is strictly planted organically remains to be seen, but there are really many varieties of colors, from the noble Saussurea involucrata to the bauhinia in the city. Of course, there are also commonly used flowers on the dining table, such as hibiscus, Dendrobium, honeysuckle and viola. It's really spectacular, just like the opera through Pavarotti.
There may be one hundred reasons why foreign countries are happier than China, but there is at least one reason why China is happier than foreign countries, that is, there is no more lively vegetable market than China. The crowded noise and the chicken flying and the dog jumping have their own peculiar charm. The vegetable market in Kunming is more exciting.
It is said that "a flower is a paradise". If Kunming people plug in a pair of wings, it will be a paradise for listing.
Walking into the vegetable market in Kunming, I realized that heaven can also be sold by the pound. Here you can occasionally see taro flowers, leeks, lilies, broom, azaleas, twisted silk tree flowers, magnolia flowers, wisteria flowers, Sophora japonica flowers, lotus flowers, plantain flowers, small yellow flowers, etc., all of which are sold as vegetables. The scientific name of this small yellow flower in Kunming is unclear. Mixed with flour and eggs, fried cakes taste good. Often disappear at the dinner table in lightning speed.
There are probably not many people who don't eat cross-bridge rice noodles in Yunnan, but there must be many people who don't know how to eat flower rice noodles. The way to eat the flowered rice noodles is to put a few petals of seasonal flowers, such as broom, in a bowl, then slowly pour in boiling soup, scald it for a few minutes, then take out the flowers, and add meat slices, seasonings, rice noodles and the like, which tastes more fragrant and moist than ordinary crossing the bridge rice noodles. The scene is very surreal.
In such a shop, ordering flowers means ordering toppings, but it always reminds people of Tang Bohu ordering Chou-heung. I wanted to have a taste, so I asked if the dog tail flower was sold. My little sister gave me a dirty look and almost didn't get kicked out of the house. Of course she doesn't know, I am eager to be a bunch of dog tail flowers in a corner of this world, idle and lazy, stretching in the wind, living for a summer and dying happily.
I heard from many people that he likes Yunnan. It would be irresponsible if he went to Yunnan and still turned a blind eye to eating flowers. What makes him say he likes Yunnan? In Yunnan, a plant kingdom, it is said that there are 160 kinds of wild flowers that have been eaten by people of all ethnic groups for generations. Moreover, the more wild flowers picked this year, the better they will bloom next year, so they are called mountain cauliflower.
In Yunnan, people eat flowers, which are not only satisfying, delicious and nutritious, but also have the effects of beautifying and treating diseases and delaying aging. They taste really good, and they also offer amazing cauliflower from time to time. I have tasted the bitter thorn flower, which is a very common wild flower in Yunnan. Wash it with hot water and blanch it with cold water. The cold dish is slightly bitter and refreshing and has the style of local dishes, so it will be inexplicably given the luxury of "homesickness".
Speaking of homesickness, hometown is known as "what a beautiful jasmine". I was young and frivolous. I tried to dislike the fragrance of jasmine, but recently I lost to its unique vitality and elegance. It can be seen that the fragrance of flowers can also be a kind of genetic code, which is helplessly implanted into your genetic chain, although I still hate jasmine tea.
My grandmother, who used to force me to like jasmine, likes to cook jasmine stewed tofu in the flower season and scatter jasmine petals on vegetables or soup, saying that this not only adds beauty, but also arouses appetite. If I can still eat any jasmine soup cooked by her own hands, I will share it with ecstasy.
In addition to grandma's jasmine, magnolia in teenagers' memory is even more awesome. At that time, I wondered why my grandmother could create an angel like sweet-scented osmanthus candy with one hand and a devil in angel clothes like magnolia sauce with one hand. And she seems to love the devil more. When making magnolia sauce, she was as absorbed as her grandfather in playing chess.
In addition to the wild flowers I ate as a child, I still have two memories of loving flowers as an adult.
Once in Wuyishan, a car load of people competed to pick wild lilies in the high-altitude meadow area, and then had a sumptuous meal in the canteen at the foot of the mountain. The incomparable delicacy, tenderness and taste are unforgettable so far. Later, I learned that fresh lilies should not be eaten too much, saying that they contain colchicine and are poisonous. Fortunately, no one was poisoned that year. Otherwise, isn't Huanggang Peak in Wuyishan renamed Huangnigang in Bai Sheng, a vole, and called it "too" several times?
However, I am afraid that I will risk my life to eat lilies when I go to Wuyishan again in the future. In this world, there are many romantic ghosts who died under peony flowers. I wonder if there are any gluttonous people who died under lilies.
The other time was in Changting. Changting's dried tofu is very famous. Have you ever seen dried soybeans as thin as paper? You may not know that yellow is dyed by gardenia. Therefore, dried tofu can be eaten with delicious meat and chewed.
Fresh gardenias can also be fried and eaten. As long as you put some salt on them, they will smell good. Before lifting chopsticks, they are full of fun and taste fresh and delicious. The locals in Changting said that Gardenia has the effects of relaxing muscles and activating blood circulation, strengthening the body and relieving fatigue. In addition, the flowering period of gardenia is just the time for transplanting rice, so almost every family loves to eat it several times.
In addition, Changting has a more wonderful local dish, which is to mix hibiscus flowers with fine noodles, add chopped green onion, fry them in oil and eat them. The flower shape is looming, and the color, fragrance and taste are all available. Many years later, I actually ate hibiscus in a restaurant in Philadelphia, USA, which was much worse than Changting's.
By the way, exchange a secret anthomaniac experience: tofu produces beauty, Changting produces beauty. Eating gardenia in Changting is a kind of enjoyment; Eating hibiscus is a kind of enjoyment; While eating gardenia and hibiscus, you can also look at peach blossoms with a crazy face, which is the best enjoyment in enjoyment. A beautiful woman who feasts her eyes and takes Changting orally is as beautiful as flowers and jade, and maybe she can find traces of a girl who is as sad as cloves.
The cooking method of Changting's fried hibiscus pancake is similar to "77 meters" in Korean cuisine. However, it seems that South Korea does not adopt the practice of "77 meters" when eating flowers. Flower bibimbap is popular in Korea.
The so-called "flower bibimbap" is to mix a large number of nameless and colorful flowers in the season with more nameless herbs, flower oil and colorful strange sauces, add white rice and stir them into a very eye-catching flower rice, which is as beautiful as the real thing. Chewing slowly, I only feel a faint floral fragrance floating slightly over my nose, like a dream. Feeling means eunuch's spring dream to people around him, but everyone says it feels really good.
Of course, it feels better that the store is particularly lazy, does not eat cooking fumes, and can collect a lot of money. As for whether I can breathe freely after eating, there is no way to prove it, but a few enthusiastic flies are willing to accompany me on a long journey.
Japanese cuisine that pleases diners with hue also uses a lot of flowers, but there is no lazy dish like bibimbap. According to my personal preference, the cooking method of "tempura" in Japanese cuisine is suitable for any kind of flower, which can fully reflect its orchid and heart. Of course, except for poisonous oleander and corn poppy.
Tempura, the most suitable flower, was originally a cooking method in Portugal. After it was introduced to Japan, cautious Japan controlled the oil temperature just right, and the degree of oil consumption and paste expansion was meticulous to the perfection, which vividly reflected the delicate texture of Japanese cuisine. Therefore, tempura eaten outside Japan is specious and unsatisfactory. Digress, back to the theme of flowers.
I don't know if Japanese village girls, like those in northern China, like to sit under the big pagoda tree at the head of the village and nurse their children, humming a ditty and picking up the newly fallen pagoda tree on the colorful ground and putting it in their mouths. Japanese village girls who chew fresh cherry blossoms and feed them have never seen them, but cherry blossoms can indeed be made into various foods, such as cherry blossom ice cream and cherry blossom snacks. With a faint scent of Xu Laixiang, it is even more picturesque.
Master Zun occasionally becomes very cheerful. He personally pickled an altar of brackish cherry blossoms and mixed them with vegetables when making lettuce salad.
Similarly, you can also pickle roses as your daily needs.
It should be reminded that everyone drinks rose tea, but not everyone likes cauliflower. The human body is different, and everyone's habits and physique are different. Even though flowers themselves are non-toxic, they may bring allergic symptoms to some of them. Also, most of the flowers sold in the market have pesticide and fertilizer residues, which are not suitable for eating. Cooking is best to choose specially cultivated organic green flowers, which is more reassuring. Or simply grow your own flowers and be self-sufficient.
This world-famous scandal in the milk industry has made many people want to feed a cow themselves and let themselves drink milk with confidence. It is unrealistic to feed the cows by yourself, but planting some flowers in a small flowerpot in your own garden is a great event for both civilizations.
Since there is leisure to raise flowers, it will further evolve. It is not only delicious in color, but also beneficial to stimulate appetite. More importantly, it is a simple and cheap way to treat some minor illnesses. You know, there are more than 2,200 kinds of Chinese herbal medicines in China, of which about 1/3 are used as medicine.
For example, planting some lilies in flowerpots can moisten the lungs and relieve cough, clear the heart and soothe the nerves; Planting some chrysanthemums can refresh your mind, clear your liver and improve your eyesight; Planting jasmine can cool off the heat and ease the mood; Planting some lotus flowers and picking their petals to cook porridge can clear away heat and relieve summer heat, lose weight and dissipate blood stasis, and it is also a good medicine for calming the heart and benefiting qi, and keeping young and healthy forever. These things, and so on, as well as roses, peony, Chinese rose and so on are well known, not to mention.
I'm an anthomaniac who only eats flowers but doesn't plant them, so I have no valuable experience to share. However, when I reach the age of slowly rocking in a rocking chair, I may also declare "relaxing my muscles and refreshing my spirits" such as planting flowers and fishing to my many hobbies.
So, besides these flowers that I often eat, what kind of flowers do I want to grow most?
Let's plant sunflowers first. It has many uses such as food, medicine, beauty and appreciation. It has developed into a green food, and many delicious dishes cooked with its flowers have become characteristic foods with high nutritional content, and even seedlings can be eaten as vegetables. So many people cry for it, and I am also interested in being a groupie when I am old.
Secondly, I can grow epiphyllum. I remember when I was in college, in order to see a flash in the pan, I went to the Yao family in Hua' an to enjoy flowers.
It's funny to say, because of the myth idiom "a flash in the pan", I was cheated. I stayed up all night waiting for the epiphyllum to bloom for the spirit of fighting floods and disaster relief. My eyes are like red lanterns, and I finally look forward to the epiphyllum that blooms like Chairman Mao's savior, only to find that it is not just a flash in the pan. Epiphyllum has been blooming for three days and still refuses to thank me. Then why should I stay up all night looking through the autumn waters?
On the third day, Yao Yi picked the blooming epiphyllum, washed it, tore it into strips by hand, put it in the cooked bone soup for a few minutes, then put the sliced meat, cooked it, put it in the pot, sprinkled a little chopped green onion, and made the epiphyllum bone soup. The color of the soup is milky white and bright, and the taste of the soup is fragrant, which is really unbearable. Aunt Yao explained that this epiphyllum was originally planted to treat my uncle's hypertension and hyperlipidemia.
So I realized that eating flowers is actually as elegant as burying flowers by Daiyu. Instead of watching such a delicate flower wither and wither, I feel dejected. I might as well let Hua Zhong have a "good belly, oily belly" that is worthy of the sunshine and rain that brought them up. This kind of flower can also be considered as finding a good home and dying a fair death.
I should also plant some roses in a tacky way. Maybe at that age, it's time to go back to nature and send roses to pick up a girl. Just like at that age, maybe you should start to like watching social news about murder, arson, robbery, bribery, tax evasion and bank fraud, or you should start to like introducing unmarried older men and women around you.
If you still feel tacky and can't get it out, wash and dry the fresh rose petals, chop them up, mix them with brown sugar and plum paste, and put them in the jar for fifty or sixty days. The poorly prepared "rose sugar" is used to decorate ice cream, or to make cakes and desserts by hand. It tastes delicious, and it must be more popular with little girls than sending roses.
Maybe I can't grow honeysuckle without customs. It is estimated that when you reach a pleasing age, you will change your temperament and like this sweet-sounding flower name.
When the time comes, I will meet the "My Favorite Flower Name" selection activity, and I guess I will choose it in "Angry". What's more, honeysuckle is widely used. It's delicious to pick fried pork slices and shredded pork or make soup, but it's not good. A sip of honeysuckle tea will have a melancholy taste.
Of course, it is best that the sky is just a very thin moon, like a chewed watermelon. The expression set off by the moonlight must be as infatuated as the flowers when it snows outside the window.