In the Mid-Autumn Festival, besides enjoying the moon, beef is also eaten in food.

Our hometown has the custom of killing cattle in the Mid-Autumn Festival and beating dogs in the Double Ninth Festival. It shows that the beef before and after the Mid-Autumn Festival is particularly delicious, and the Double Ninth Festival is the best season to eat dog meat hotpot.

Hunan people like to eat spicy food, and the biggest feature of Hunan cuisine is that it is not spicy. You should put some pepper in everything you cook. The famous fish head with chopped peppers is simply a plate full of chopped peppers with a fish head inside. Looking at red peppers, people who are afraid of spicy food will definitely stay away from them and dare not use chopsticks.

Besides chopped fish head with pepper, there are many ways to eat beef in our hometown. What chunks of beef, what boiled beef, what fried beef with red pepper and so on.

However, I remember that the best beef when I was a child was my mother's fried beef.

Cattle that plow fields are generally cattle that have been raised by the production team for more than seven or eight years and have grown up with grass. They are too old to plow fields and are dying.

On the Mid-Autumn Festival, members of the production team took the cow out of the cowshed, chose a clearing and tied it to a tree. Then smash the bull's head with a sledgehammer, kill it, peel it and gut it. Then, according to the number of members of the production team, give each household a little beef for the Mid-Autumn Festival.

Although the cow is old, the meat is not old. When I took back the piece of beef that the production team gave me from the storage room of the production team, my mother went to the vegetable garden to pick some fresh red peppers, took them home, washed them and chopped them.

Then, I helped my mother light the firewood. My mother put a little lard in the cooker. After the oil pan turned red, I put the beef in the pan and stir-fry. Fresh beef sizzled in the pot, and a smell of beef suddenly came to the nose.

When the beef was half-cooked, my mother put fresh red pepper into the pot, and the spicy taste of red pepper emerged from the vegetable pot, which made my mother and I cry. The smell of beef immediately spread from the old house.

When I was a child, every Mid-Autumn Festival, my mother would fry a bowl of red pepper beef. That delicious food not only satisfied our taste buds and filled our stomachs, but also remained in my memory forever.

Now, our living conditions are good and we can eat beef every day. However, I will never taste the beef of the old cow. When I was a child, my mother fried beef with red pepper on Mid-Autumn Festival. I can't tell the spicy taste.

The smell of beef on August 15 is the smell of beef floating in my memory.