With the economic globalization and the continuous blending of Chinese and western cultures, we gradually began to express our feelings boldly. But for the elders, immersed in the culture of China for many years, their deep-rooted thoughts will be hard to change for a while, so the way they express their feelings will still be subtle.
There are many ways to express your feelings. But going home for five days. I find that food is one of the most important ways to express my feelings.
It is precisely because we have experienced the times of poverty and hunger that eating delicious food is a happy thing.
This is because the tramp outside washed away the fatigue of the boat and car with delicious food, and at the same time, he hoped that the food would make him gain weight. He is always inferior to his home outside. He can't take care of himself.
Or because you can show your enthusiasm by entertaining guests with food.
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A few days after returning home, I deeply felt the feelings conveyed to me by my relatives and friends through food, and the feelings I expressed to them through food.
The day after I came home, my mother personally killed a chicken for me. These chickens are old hens raised at home, specially raised to lay eggs for my little niece, and they are generally reluctant to kill them. But because I went home, my mother killed a chicken and made soup for me.
After he had no job, his father devoted himself to landscape and planting flowers and vegetables. Dad is a very good cook, but he is lazy. So lazy dad specially made fried rice for me, which is rich in materials, including mushrooms, yuba, bacon, sausage, white radish and wheat beans. It's delicious. I ate three bowls.
Yesterday, my father personally dug a winter bamboo shoot to make soup for me. He said that the winter bamboo shoots can dehumidify, and then he took a hoe to hoe the winter bamboo shoots.
Today, my father specially picked his own mustard and added some sweet potatoes and bones to make soup. He said the soup was too sweet to eat outside, so let me eat more.
Dad especially likes to eat midnight snack. I usually don't eat midnight snack, but I won't refuse every kind invitation from my father, because "eating" creates opportunities for us to chat.
These little details reflect my father's feelings for me through food.
My brother's morning tea is at the same table as peanuts. In the process of communication, food can solve the occasional embarrassment of no topic.
I learned to make my own steamed bread in Shenzhen. The newly learned gadgets, just like when I was a child, are eager to share with my parents, hoping that they can also taste their own crafts. After returning home, my niece and I kneaded dough together and put yeast powder on it. After a whole night of fermentation, I finally showed my newly learned handicraft skills to my family through the finished product-steamed bread.
Played a trick on jiaozi yesterday afternoon. I even learned green dumpling wrappers online.
Making food is a very troublesome thing. It only takes more than ten minutes to finish the whole afternoon work.
However, through the fermentation of time and its blending with food, it keeps rubbing, chopping and washing until the food becomes delicious, and at the same time, it is more important to inject emotion.
It's not just a piece of food that ends up in your mouth, but a kind of food with emotion.