Monday, April 7, 2020 Cloudy 9-19 degrees
? On the afternoon of the second day of the Ching Ming holiday, my best friend called and was going to ask me to go over to pick up malt collapsed cakes again. When I went over, he was burning watercress (mussel meat), which she brought from Fenhu, she likes to make her own watercress (wash), she said that people selling watercress on the stalls make watercress is not clean, laborers have no choice but to work a little harder, making watercress is the key to wash unclean, burned watercress has a fishy smell.
? I took the malt collapsed cake ready to go home first to burn the night meal, she said that when she burned a good water dish after calling me to call me to go over to take.
? Watercress (mussels), mainly distributed in Suzhou and other places, we Suzhou Fenhu Yuandang watercress than other places in the watercress quality is better. There are many ways to cook watercress, it can be burned, cooked, stewed or boiled, and the way to cook watercress around our Fenhu Lake is mainly to burn watercress with soy sauce meat and put a little bit of pickled salted vegetables at home, which has a very good flavor.
? The nutritional value of watercress is very high, and it also has good health effects on the human body, nourishing yin and calming the liver, brightening the eyes and preventing eye diseases.
? I remember when my mother was around, she always burned the seasonal delicacies and told us to go get them. When spring comes, my mother can not forget to burn on the water dish to our siblings three family to feast on a bowl, my mother's soy sauce meat water dish burned to the gelatin, very flavorful, and now can only be recalled, can no longer eat my mother's soy sauce meat burned water dish.
? I said their own food blessing is still there, girlfriends do the soy sauce meat roasted water dish is also very delicious, and mother burned soy sauce meat roasted water dish is not comparable.
? After an hour, the girlfriends called and said, asked me to go get the soy sauce meat roasted water dishes. Her house is just south of my house, five minutes walk to her house. Walked into her house full of food smell, she helped me in the fresh glass box I brought to the box full of soy sauce meat roasted watercress also asked me to eat in her home, I was not polite to sit down to eat, can not wait to taste the soy sauce meat roasted watercress flavor, this watercress (mussels) is very soft, fresh, I like the inside of the pickle, it is the pickle to put a little bit less, eat not much, did not solve the craving. As we chatted, I listened to her talk about the whole process of how she made the watercress (mussels).
The practice of watercress:
1, mussels to buy home her own watercress (mussels) cut open, remove intestines and gills and other filth, with a wooden stick whacked loose mussels edge, this step is very important;
2, with a pinch of salt for a while to remove the mucus, and then rinsed with water, repeat the second side;
3, mussels into the pot, add water, ginger, cooking wine boiled 5 minutes to fish out, with clear water, and then rinse it. minutes out, wash with water;
4, soy sauce meat wash, and then soak in hot water, and then cut into pieces;
5, the mussels, soy sauce meat, salted vegetables together in a casserole dish, add enough water to boil, remove the foam and then turn to a small fire to simmer for 1 hour, smothered for 15 minutes. There is an old saying that a thousand burning is better than a smothering, so that the burning out of the sauce meat and watercress sticky soft, sauce meat will not be hard and taut, aquatic (mussels) will not be old.
? Eat enough to take enough to go home, girlfriends to my soy sauce meat and water dishes to be put on the next day at noon to eat, I usually burn the dishes, basically eaten on the day, do not stay overnight dishes, dishes overnight easy to produce nitrites. This braised dishes, we traditionally eat a few days, which has become a tradition, this time I also respect the traditional habits.
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