On holidays, this kind of emotion will surge, and a rope will pull you hard and drive you back. If you are thousands of miles away from home and it is inconvenient to go back, then open WeChat to chat with your family or find a restaurant, have a few home meals and talk about comfort.
Of course, people close to home will pack their backpacks early and want to take all the prosperity of the city home. Seeing that their backpacks were bulging, they had to stuff them in for fear of dropping a little. If this scene goes back to ten years ago, we can all understand. At that time, the express delivery industry was underdeveloped, and it was inconvenient to mail parcels. But now, courier brothers are all over the streets, but people still have to carry heavy backpacks home. I really don't understand why they have to suffer like this. Here, I am still nagging people, but I am different, carrying big bags and small bags to squeeze through the vast crowd and into the car. But there were so many people that they stood abruptly all the way.
Man, I just can't figure it out, especially when I go home. You can't be serious, because you can't tell. Look, everyone is carrying backpacks of all sizes. In fact, they all know that they carry the mood and glory of going home. When you go home, your family will feel at ease when they see you come back with a package and know that everything is fine outside. This has always been the case since ancient times, and this is the gene that permeates the bones.
I got off the crowded train and got on the bus on my way home, so I ran all night and came home in the morning. Tired of body and mind, I can finally lie on the kang and have a good sleep, not to mention, I really slept all afternoon. When I got home, I looked familiar with everything. In fact, it's just normal, but after a long time, it feels kind. Speaking of kindness, that's oatmeal that I've been talking about for a long time. This trip home is really an oatmeal trip, so I have to solve my problem.
Maybe many friends don't know what oat noodle is. As for missing you so much? You don't have to say that about people living in this land. Anyway, when they get home, they must eat a piece of oatmeal first, which is home. In fact, oat noodle is a kind of pasta in the north, which is mainly popular in Zhangjiakou City, Hebei Province, Datong Basin in the north of Shanxi Province, Tumochuan Plain and Yinshan Mountain Area in Inner Mongolia and the south of Wulanchabu City.
Oat flour is flour ground from mature seeds of naked oats, also called naked oat flour, also called oil wheat flour. In the early years, white rice was a table meal for the rich. Of course, eating oatmeal is also a good family, and working people can only eat bran. With the development of society and the improvement of living conditions, white flour rice has also entered the homes of ordinary people, and eating oatmeal has become a common practice. However, oat noodles are still farmers' favorite staple food, which belongs to coarse grains and contains high dietary fiber, and is highly praised by farmers for its anti-hunger.
The biggest feature of oat noodle is its practice. There is a folk saying that "three raw and three cooked", that is to say, from raw oats to edible oat noodle products, it takes a process of three raw and three cooked.
After the naked oats are harvested, they are pulled into the field for threshing, and the seeds taken off are naturally raw and cannot be eaten. This is "life". To grind naked oats into powder, you must first fry the grains. Generally, the washed oat noodle is pulled to the village for real estate speculation at home (generally, it is used to fry oat noodle in rural areas). Now that a large number of people in the village have gone out, real estate speculation has also been ruined. It can be said that fried noodles is an important event in the village, and it is usually a noisy family, second only to weddings, funerals, weddings and house repairs. Pour the washed oat flour into the wok, take it off the shelf and turn it slowly with a spatula, which is quite similar to the sugar-fried chestnuts on the street. When the oat noodle is fried until it is slightly yellow and slightly burnt, and the fragrance is emitted, it becomes a "one-pot end".
The fried wheat grains are ground into oat flour, which is born again, that is, "second life." From the appearance, except that the color of flour is slightly darker, it is not much different from the flour ground from ordinary wheat. Local villagers are used to storing flour in wooden cabinets. This kind of counter is painted bright red outside, which is very eye-catching in the room. The furniture of northerners is simple, and more than half of the rooms are kang, so cabinets are the most important furniture. You can see the quality of the family at a glance from the size and luster of the cupboard. When you eat flour, you should first mix it into flour. The most special thing is that you can't use cold water when mixing flour, but you must use boiled water (boiling water). Scoop a proper amount of flour in the basin, add half of boiling water, and you can mix the noodles. Because it is boiled water and flour, it is called "double cooked".
The mixed noodles should be steamed in a steamer while it is hot to make oat noodle products. There are many forms of oat noodle products. The most labor-saving and lazy one is to squeeze the dough into many noodles with a wooden dough press, which is called "pressing". Pay attention to it. Knead the oat noodle dough into fine noodles on the chopping board by hand, which is called "oat noodle fish". Most people can only rub one fish with their hands at a time, but the most capable housewife can rub two or three fish with one hand at the same time. The most common way to make it is to make an "oat noodle nest": pinch a small ball of oat noodle, push it on a palm-sized glazed pottery board with your right hand, and the glazed pottery board is inclined like a washboard. Lift it with your left hand and lift a thin piece of oat noodle, then wrap it into a tube with your fingers and stand upright on the gauze of the cage. Many such cylinders stand together one after another, forming a honeycomb-shaped dimple with oil surface. Whether it is music, fish or bird's nest, it is raw. This is "Sansheng". The next step is to add water and firewood, fire and steam. When white smoke rises in the steamer and the room is filled with the unique fragrance of oatmeal, the oatmeal is steamed, which is the last "three-cooked". At this time, oatmeal noodles can really be eaten.
Eating oatmeal is not only a hundred-year-old dietary habit of local people, but also very particular about their diet. Eating methods are different all year round, each with its own flavor.
In the early spring, there are not many fresh vegetables in the vast rural areas, but there are relatively rich sauerkraut and sour round vegetables at home. After soaking sauerkraut, chop it up and stew it with pork or lard, vermicelli, yam and tofu. A pot of stewed sauerkraut is ready. Put the steamed oatmeal nest, oatmeal fish and oatmeal noodles fried to chromium into the stewed sauerkraut bowl, and then add some fried peppers to mix.
In summer, there are many fresh vegetables. Steamed oat noodle nests, fish and fish or rattle, add vinegar and soy sauce, and add water and salt to make a "cold salt soup". In the soup, steamed yam, roasted eggplant, cucumber, shredded radish, leek and parsley, and some garlic or mustard are added. Cold soup is used to make oatmeal noodles, and it is very special to eat several bowls.
In autumn, yam, pumpkin, cabbage and round vegetables grown in rural areas can be used for personal use, and cold and hot oatmeal are suitable. Eating cold oat noodle is basically the same as eating it in summer. You can also add peeled and crushed boiled yam to cold salt soup and eat it with cold oat noodle. Hot-mixed oat noodle is mainly made of new yam, new pumpkin and new cabbage (or round vegetables). It is especially delicious to stew a pot of pot-stewed vegetables and mix with hot steamed oat noodle to eat several bowls!
Entering winter, it is freezing. Or braised vegetables, or mutton soup and pork soup with potato chips, and some fried Chili noodles, one or two bowls, sweating like a pig, really happy!
As for oat noodle jiaozi, wonton, boiled roe, fried noodles, steamed yam oat noodle roe, meatball, steamed block, oil block, oat noodle and so on. Elegant and elegant eating, vulgar and vulgar eating, you will want to eat after eating.
Although oat noodles are very popular in Bashang area in the north, they are coarse grains for young people, and they still don't eat much. I remember I didn't like oatmeal when I was a child. Of course, when I was a "rich second generation", my family operated the only canteen in the village. For the rural areas where the material is not particularly rich, I can't finish my snacks and I haven't finished my formal meals. I must add enough sugar before drinking porridge. How can I prefer dark and black noodles in such a "luxury" life?
Life is like this, and it will always give you an unexpected turn. That year, my parents decided to go out to work, and they were also the early migrant workers in the village. So, I live with my grandparents. Their food is not as delicate as my parents'. They often eat oatmeal. At first, they were not used to it at all. They often didn't have enough to eat. Grandma will stew some rice for me from time to time to satisfy my hunger. After a long time, I got used to it and gradually fell in love with oatmeal. At that time, grandma's leg hurt and grandpa's asthma, and I was busy taking care of my life, so I became their little helper, running around inside and outside, and I integrated into that life, and my proud habit didn't wear off. After a long time, it's quite greedy not to eat oatmeal.
Soon, my parents and I went to Zhangjiakou, started a new study life and lived a daily life in the rental house. Because of the limited conditions, it is delicious. At that time, eating oatmeal became a luxury. Sometimes when you pass by the oatmeal noodle restaurant, you have to suck your nose greedily to relieve your hunger. Later, we moved to the suburbs of Zhangjiakou and lived in a small house. Anyway, the rent is very cheap, and more importantly, the landlord is very good. Whenever his family doesn't want to cook, they will come to our house to discuss a meal in the evening. The so-called spelling meal is that our family cooks boiled fish (also a kind of hot food with oatmeal as the main food), and his family is responsible for cooking, so the two families often try to eat together, and now they still miss that day. Going back to my hometown, eating noodles made by my grandparents has also become a compulsory course for holidays.
I remember when I came home from my holiday that year, my grandmother asked me what I wanted to eat, and I said, "Let's paste yam" (the main ingredient is oatmeal). Grandma was busy around the stove and soon finished it. I filled a bowl and squatted in the yard, sipping pickles. Remember to eat slowly now, or you will burn your mouth. Now, grandma has passed away, and now she can't eat such authentic food. Her heart is full of regrets and thoughts.
Time passed quietly, and the days passed day by day. In the blink of an eye, I also went to college. When studying abroad, it is still very difficult to have a meal. Talking about the delicious food in their hometown in the dormitory, they always talk about oatmeal, which makes roommates want to try oatmeal.
Every holiday, when I pass through Zhangjiakou, I will stay at my aunt's house for a few days. Whenever I arrive, my third aunt always cooks a bowl of oatmeal, which has become a tacit understanding between us. She is busy in the kitchen, always making a thick layer of oatmeal, for fear that I won't have enough to eat. Generally, I cook vegetables in winter and eat them hot. In summer, it is mostly cold brine with a refreshing taste. Bring the oat noodle, eat it, and listen to the third aunt nagging her parents.
Now that I'm working, dinner is inevitable, but no matter how I eat it, it's not as delicious as my own oatmeal. If you have time to go home, eat an oatmeal quickly. Sitting cross-legged on the kang, carrying a bowl of boiled vegetables, ordering pickles, and putting a chopstick in oatmeal, alas, it smells good!