On the first day of the first month of the first lunar month, we eat rice cakes (local name: oil cakes, which are probably known by Shanxi people, and it's very delicious) in the afternoon. We usually eat noodles early in the morning, and then stir-fry a dish. In the afternoon, it's usually mutton jiaozi. In fact, the family usually makes two kinds of stuffing, mutton and pork, but on such an important day as the first day, mutton is eaten, and it is usually like frying several dishes in the south. In addition, in recent years, many families have started to eat hot pot. On the second day, the woman usually goes back to her mother's house, and then the whole family cooks and continues to go to jiaozi. From the third day to the fifteenth day, I eat steamed oil cakes every morning (there will be a lot of fried oil cakes in the New Year's Eve), steam steamed bread, and continue to jiaozi in the afternoon. Yes, you are not mistaken. I made a lot of dumpling stuffing years ago, and then I ate jiaozi for the first month. Taiyuan seems to have fried oil cakes before, but now I can't see them anymore, but the one selling oil cakes at grandma's door has existed since I was a child, and many people still buy them now, which must be many people's memories.

The dishes that my family will prepare for the New Year are oil cake and kelp tofu soup, cold dishes at noon on New Year's Eve. On New Year's Eve, it was jiaozi. jiaozi was wrapped and set off firecrackers. After dinner, the food was simple. The key point of this meal was to eat jiaozi. Breakfast on New Year's Day is still in jiaozi, but the difference is that there are coins in jiaozi. At noon on the first day of the New Year's Day, it's a real annual meal. You should burn copper hot pot, which contains roasted meat, meatballs, crispy meat, vegetables and kelp with bean curd skin. In short, you can cook anything you want, such as oily meat, fish, chicken, braised beef, pig's head, pig's trotters, skin jelly and egg rolls made of potatoes. These dishes have never changed.

Steamed and stewed kinds include braised meatballs, braised chicken pieces, braised ribs, grilled meat strips, stewed pork bones, stewed carrots with mutton, stewed beef, stewed chicken (loved by old people, loved by parents, but disliked by younger generations), steamed and fried (with egg skin on the outside and meat stuffing inside), dry-fried hairtail, braised yellow croaker, and steamed metapenaeus ensis (dipped in ginger and onion juice). There are many kinds of fried pork with different flavors: shredded pork with fish flavor (my dad's cooking is not worse than that of restaurants, which is great, and children at home love it), fried pork belly with old tofu (the favorite of men at home, bean protein, you know), fried garlic sprouts with sliced meat, shredded potatoes with hot and sour, shredded pork with green peppers (a dish loved by adults and children), fried minced pork powder, and cumin mutton. Fried green beans with shrimps (I don't like it)

Cold dishes include: skin jelly (my dad and I love it, my dad made it himself, without adding edible glue), smoked pork elbow (mixed with juice made from sesame oil, garlic and vinegar, bought by a bacon shop), smoked tenderloin (fragrant ~ bought by a bacon shop), and braised chicken by hand (loved by old people, generally by young people) or. Homemade sausage (I provide my own meat for processing, and it's a real sausage), spiced peanuts mixed with celery (my dad's favorite, although his teeth are not good enough for peanuts), and Shanxi cold salad (potato powder, spinach, mung bean sprouts, shredded carrots, shredded potatoes, scallion oil, pepper oil and Zhai Miao mixed together, which is very refreshing. Eating some cold salad after eating too much big fish and meat is very boring. Zhai Zhai Miao is a special auxiliary material for cold dishes known to Datong people.) Vegetarian stuffing jiaozi (Yes, when the bell rang at 12 o'clock on New Year's Eve, my family ate vegetarian jiaozi. And the first day of fasting all day, only eat vegetarian food. ) Fried yellow cake! (Eat at noon on the first day. Fried cake is not only a kind of food for Datong people, but also a kind of culture and tradition.

Fried yellow cakes are almost accompanied by people's life, appearing at weddings, weddings, wedding ceremonies, and birthdays. Of course, fried oil cakes are indispensable for Chinese New Year. Hard-faced flower buns (printed with various pleasing shapes in wood carving molds, then steamed in a pot and decorated with edible colors. Generally, there are traditional shapes such as birthday peach, goldfish and little lion, which are very beautiful. It tastes more solid than the usual steamed bread, and it's delicious! Fried dough twists, fried fruits, fried hemp leaves (bought outside, used to be cooked by grandma and mom, but now I'm lazy and eat it outside) are almost Chinese New Year food, all made at home. After the fifth day, all kinds of relatives and friends get together in the hotel, so we won't introduce what the restaurant eats, and there will be too many. After all this, I am greedy and homesick. These dishes are from snacks to snacks, and the combination and collocation are basically unchanged. Although they are tired of eating early, this is the taste of home and the taste of New Year.