Many weeds growing in rural areas of Shan Ye are now delicacies on the table. Maybe you are not used to its taste, but it is necessary to know its nutritional value! Many wild vegetables have certain medicinal effects, and occasionally can play a role in conditioning the body. This wild vegetable is a rare food for friends who love health!
My neighbor is a 60-year-old grandmother who used to live in the country. Now that her children are capable, they will take her to live in the city. I always like to see her when I have nothing to do and listen to her talk about the past! What the older generation said sometimes feels mysterious and wonderful, which always arouses my curiosity. When I was a child, I also heard my grandmother tell many interesting stories about their time. Every time I listen to their words, I feel unsatisfied, and I will guess in my mind privately!
I am a child who grew up in the countryside. Those authentic rural customs and plants growing in the mountains are familiar! At that time, people were very poor, and many grasses grown on the land could basically be used. Even if people could not eat it, it could be used as food for poultry! I heard these things planted in the countryside from the mouth of the older generation, but later they are more likely to know them scientifically and understand their value better, so that I am very familiar with them every time I see these plants in the market now!
In the countryside, there is a kind of wild grass that grows very vigorously, and it is also the childhood memory of children after 70 and 80! This kind of weed can be seen everywhere, on the ridge of the field, on the roadside and in the grass in the deep mountains. Even the school playground where I was a child was covered with it, and we used it as a natural lawn to play on it!
This plant is called cauliflower here, and it is also called grass head and alfalfa! I heard from my neighbor's grandmother that this plant used to grow on the grassland and people used it to feed horses, cows and sheep. Every time cattle and sheep eat a piece, they move to another place to continue feeding, so it is reused. After a rain, cauliflower will sprout here again soon! Later, Zhang Qian brought this kind of plant back when he went to the Western Regions. It was found to be particularly fertile, so it was planted on a large scale to feed poultry! Until now, this plant is very common in all major rural areas!
The appearance of cauliflower is easy to recognize. It has three leaves, which grow together. Now, young people call it clover. You should be familiar with this place! This plant grows in pieces every time, and the whole plant is short. It usually crawls and grows directly on the ground, and its leaves and stems are soft!
When we were young, when we saw cauliflower growing vigorously, we would play with it as a natural lawn! Sometimes it rains, running fast on it, and it's very easy to fall down! After the children play, everyone's clothes will be dyed green where they touch. These are the juices of cauliflower! This juice is very difficult to clean once it is infected! I still remember when I was a child, every time I brought these juices home, I would secretly wash them with water, fearing that adults would be scolded if they found out!
The nutritional value of cauliflower is now popular and deeply loved by people! This weed has no toxin, is rich in protein and other nutrients, and is also nourishing the stomach. It tastes crisp and is very suitable for cold salad! I'm used to eating big fish and meat, and occasionally I eat something fresher. Many big hotels outside also have this rural dish! There are many cooking methods, such as cold salad, braise in soy sauce, blanch, porridge and jiaozi. This dish grows vigorously all year round and is also very common. As long as you want to eat, you can eat fresh at any time, and its price is not expensive!
Wild cauliflower also has certain medicinal value. In the past, old farmers would pick some dried cauliflower to make tea in the peak season of cauliflower growth. Those old people's cauliflower will plow directly into the soil when plowing, which can be used for fertilization!
Readers, did this weed participate in your childhood? If you like its taste, you might as well pick some and taste it when you meet it!
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