It is a special winter custom to drink sweet potato porridge and mutton soup.

1. There is a folk saying in Lubei, sweet potato porridge that "Li Zhou pushed the door and drank red sticky porridge". "Li Zhou" is a cylindrical agricultural tool made of stone, and "red sticky porridge" is sweet potato porridge. This whole sentence means that if the door is held back by this tool, the neighbors will no longer visit each other. In fact, the nutritional value of sweet potatoes is very high. Eating sweet potatoes in autumn and winter can not only enhance resistance, promote gastrointestinal peristalsis, but also moisten dryness. Therefore, even now, many places still retain the custom of drinking sweet potato porridge before and after heavy snow. Come to a bowl of sweet potato porridge in the morning to warm your body and stomach, and you will be warm after drinking. ——————— sweet potato porridge ————— Raw materials: sweet potato 2g, millet 1g；; Sweet potato porridge's practice 1. Clean the sweet potato, cut off the skin, and cut it into blocks or dices of your favorite size; 2. Add sweet potato pieces and cleaned millet to the pot, and pour about 1ml of water. Because sweet potatoes are added, you can give a little more water. Select the porridge button and wait for it to cook. 3, the cooked sweet potato porridge can be eaten in a bowl, sweet and soft;

Second, it's a good time to tonic after the heavy snow. There is a folk saying that "tonic in winter can kill tigers in spring". Proper tonic in winter can improve human immunity, and the most suitable time for tonic in winter is after the heavy snow, when people sweat less, and the nutrients can be stored in the body to the greatest extent and absorbed to the greatest extent. Mutton is generally chosen for winter tonic. As the saying goes, "Mutton tonic in winter can kill tigers in the mountains", which shows that it is a good choice to eat mutton in winter. Mutton can be stewed in soup, braised in brown sauce or cut in white. Mutton can dispel cold and nourish, replenish qi and tonify deficiency, which can promote blood circulation and enhance the ability to keep out the cold. ————— Mutton soup ——— Raw materials: 2 kg of mutton, 3g of angelica dahurica, 1g of white pepper and 6 g of ginger; The practice of mutton soup 1. When buying mutton, you can ask the meat boss to chop it for you, clean the cut mutton, soak it in a basin for 2 hours, and soak out the excess blood in the mutton, so that the stewed mutton is not bad and the smell is not heavy; 2. Three kinds of materials are used in mutton stew: Radix Angelicae Dahuricae, white pepper granules and ginger, 3g for 2g of mutton Radix Angelicae Dahuricae, 1g of white pepper granules, 6g of ginger, white pepper and Radix Angelicae Dahuricae are packed in a material bag, and ginger is crushed; 3. After the mutton is soaked, clean it and put it in a casserole. Add an appropriate amount of water and ingredients. The water should be added at one time. The water can be slightly less than the mutton. Open the lid and boil it over high fire, skim off the floating foam on the surface, and continue to cook for 5 minutes. Then cover it and turn to low heat for 1 hour. 4. Finally, tie some with chopsticks, cook them, add a little salt to taste, add other ingredients such as coriander and chopped green onion according to your preference, and make a nourishing and delicious mutton soup;