people, food is the most important thing. As far as personal taste preference is concerned, noodles and steamed buns with many memories are the delicious food that is often remembered and unforgettable.
My hometown still keeps the habit of having two meals a day. The first meal is after 9: and 1: , and the breakfast is mainly steamed buns. The second lunch at three or four o'clock in the afternoon, pasta is the main dish. Three meals a day may be recognized as the best daily meal frequency, and the habit of eating two meals a day in my hometown may be the result of comprehensive considerations such as the diligent and intelligent ancestors' efficient use of working time and reasonable avoidance of hot sun and high temperature in that era when agriculture was the mainstay and crops were the first.
And the main food for two meals a day there is steamed buns and noodles.
1. steamed buns
steamed buns are the first in my food industry. In a broad sense, steamed buns include steamed buns (steamed buns), steamed buns (steamed buns), flower rolls (steamed buns), lotus leaf cakes, Bai Ji cakes (steamed buns) and baked wheat cakes (baked wheat cakes) ... each kind of bread has a unique taste.
If there is no food, it is the best plan to directly eat cold steamed bread, because amylase will react with maltose and flow out lightly on the tip of the tongue; If you have food, you can choose to eat it, or you can choose to eat it with food. Steamed bread can be stuffed with spicy oil mixed with garlic, wrapped with shredded potatoes regardless of green pepper and red pepper, wrapped with steamed eggs sprinkled with salt and soy sauce, wrapped with greasy steamed meat, perfectly matched with fried ham mixed with oil fragrance, Chili noodles and cumin, and even chemically reacted with the classic Wei Long spicy slices mixed with the complex taste of the canteen ... In short, steamed bread is like a drawing paper with a light background color, which can almost be combined with the fried ham and the roasted ham. Besides, baked steamed bread, fried steamed bread and boiled steamed bread are also good ways to eat.
the delicacy of steamed stuffed bun is innate. The dough and the vegetable ball meet when they are both green and immature. The dough wraps the vegetable ball and twists a knot at the closing position. Delicious from the pot, under the high temperature of steam gradually brewing. In the process of steaming, the aroma of the dough mixed with vegetable balls permeates the air, which makes people enchanted. Out of the pot, while it's hot, pour it in water, wrap the meat in the mouth, eat it, smell it in the nose, and enter the stomach before you stop. Fortunately, steamed stuffed buns are diverse, and we never seem to know the new stuffing until we eat it. According to the stuffing, there are roughly five kinds of steamed buns: vegetarian buns, meat buns, sugar buns, bean paste buns and oil buns. I prefer vegetarian buns, among which green pepper eggplant buns, ground soft vermicelli buns and green pepper pumpkin buns are all extremely delicious; Meat bag, in my eyes, is a kind of steamed stuffed bun with meat. I am more willing to accept a higher ratio of vegetables to meat in meat bag, because I can't imagine chewing a mass of pure meat directly in my mouth; Sugar bag, whether it is brown sugar or white sugar, I think it may be originally produced to make people who love sugar fall in love with steamed bread; Bean paste buns are accompanied by the custom memory of Lantern Festival: before the Lantern Festival when the lanterns are turned on at the age of 12, all kinds of cute animal-like buns, such as chicken buns, dog buns, cat buns and pig buns, are always sent together with the blessings of the elders; The last one is the oil bag, which is wrapped in the dough after the oil and flour are mixed. The oil fragrance is accompanied by the smell of wheat flour, and there will always be people at the dinner table.
according to its formation mode, flower rolls can be divided into two types: the first type is to spread the dough into a piece of tissue paper, add auxiliary materials, and then roll it up layer by layer like a scroll to form a big picture scroll, and then cut it into pieces with a knife, which will survive after being put into the pot and subjected to the same high-temperature sauna as steamed bread; The second is that the first one adds a hand-twisting process before entering the pot. Comparatively speaking, the flower rolls made by the second method are more beautiful, while the fruits of the first method are like opening a scroll when eating, with clear taste and content. In addition, according to the different auxiliary materials, flower rolls can also be divided into vegetable rolls and seasoning rolls, but the flower rolls with meat stuffing are almost never seen.
Lotus leaf cake, as its name implies, looks like a lotus leaf, and seems to be made for picking vegetables. Sesame cake, crispy outside and fragrant inside, is famous for its crispy and delicious taste, and is the first choice for classic Chinese hamburger. The cake contains three shreds, six shredded potatoes, two shredded carrots, two shredded kelp, and sometimes tea eggs, sausages or spicy crispy rice. This is the best state I can imagine of "the price of the people is enjoyed by the emperor".
2. Face
Northerners pay attention to "going out to jiaozi to go home", and "jiaozi" is an ancient currency, wishing their families a fortune when they go out; Eating noodles, the noodles are "long", and I hope that my family can stay for a long time after returning; In addition, on birthdays, everyone orders a "longevity noodle" at the end to bless the birthday girl.
As far as I know, China's noodles can be roughly divided into southern noodles and northern noodles. The southern noodles pay more attention to the smell of the noodles, or it pays more attention to the taste influence of the auxiliary materials. The noodles in the north, on the whole, besides the taste, also consider the texture of the noodles, that is, the taste. Among the pasta dishes, I have seen some distinctive ones: biangbiang noodles in Shaanxi, noodles with minced meat in Qishan, noodles with salty soup in Yaozhou, all kinds of "home" cold noodles, noodles with sour soup, noodles with spicy oil, noodles with chicken nuggets, noodles with donkey hooves, noodles with sesame seeds, noodles with dough, noodles with chicken heads, noodles with fish and fish, and noodles dipped in water; Shanxi's roast grandma, enema, iron pot braised noodles, Daoxiao Noodles, pick pointed noodles, sip pointed noodles, yellow sauce noodles; Braised noodles in Henan; Noodles with gravy in Beijing, Shandong; Dandan Noodles in Sichuan ...
When he was young, he didn't like noodles, but he was interested in the shape of the opposite side. Some faces are as wide as belts, while others are as thin as hair; Some are like horseshoes, some are like cat ears, some are like small fish, some are like chicken heads, some are like leaves, and some are like flowers … Simple noodles condense people's imagination of all valuable things in the era of material scarcity.
In my memory, many people in my hometown like to squat in a cool or warm place in front of their house with a bowl of noodles and a few raw garlic in their hands, eating noodles with a swish, with a satisfied face; During work, if the canteen stops eating at noon, most of my colleagues go to make noodles in small groups, add a meatball or dried flowers, drink noodle soup with garlic or cold dishes, and start the swish mode. Eating noodles has become a habit, and people will feel uneasy when they want to eat noodles but can't eat them. Therefore, noodle restaurants are one of the most numerous restaurants in many cities in the north.
Noodle, especially northern pasta, has gone beyond the simple staple food category. In other words, pasta in the north is the staple food closest to dishes. Whether it's fried noodles, poured noodles, braised noodles, or noodle soup, it's a combination of beautiful taste and taste. Many noodles have evolved into a dish. Apart from being carefully cooked and varied, they can be as delicious as dishes. Noodles can also satisfy the hunger as staple foods such as steamed bread and rice, and they are excellent in quality and price. The attribute, diversity and delicacy of staple food are the reasons why noodles have been passed down for a long time in this land, just like the people here, who are simple, changeable and close to goodness.
It's not easy to write about delicious food, especially those you are familiar with. There are always countless thoughts and memories in your writing. If you think about it carefully, this article will stop here first. Interestingly, when writing steamed buns, my mind is full of questions, such as how to eat steamed buns, and what kind of steamed buns are delicious; When writing noodles, I always think about the simplicity, diversity and seeking good and near-good.
I am a person who is used to eating noodles and likes steamed buns. Moreover, the most perfect state is that if you eat noodles, you can wear steamed buns. (Except for the steamed buns)