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Food Culture: Perhaps the best care for people is the care of taste

I have always felt that food can heal the most People's hearts. When people are depressed, food is an important way to comfort themselves. It does not need life mottos or great principles. Perhaps a cup of specially prepared tea or a carefully prepared meal can easily resolve the burden of life and awaken the sleeping soul inside.

The beauty of life is often found in the details of life.

A few days ago, Youyou gave me a bag of dried pumpkin flowers brought from my hometown. This is a unique way of eating pumpkin flowers from my hometown. Pick the fruitless pumpkin flowers, wash them, sprinkle them with salt, and wrap them in rice flour. , steamed in water, and then dried in the sun. Really natural food with no additives.

When I was a child, when summer just entered, my mother often went out to pick pumpkin flowers before dawn. She could pick a whole bunch of flowers in one morning. The green pedicles were wrapped with tender yellow petals. It looks like a five-pointed star, with a very beautiful curled tail, and a long stem connected to the other end. It's really beautiful.

My job is often to remove the petals, stems and pedicles from the flowers my mother brought back, and rinse them in well water. In fact, the flowers just bloomed in the morning, there is no dust, no pollution, and they are easy to wash.

The next step is to coat in flour, which requires skilled skills. My mother usually won’t let me do it, because if I don’t master it well, I won’t be able to coat it. If it’s not coated in flour, put it in a pan after drying. It couldn't be fried inside and was too hard to taste.

Coat it with rice flour and steam it in a large pot on a wood-fired stove. It will take some time to steam it thoroughly. Then they are arranged one by one in the drying pot and placed in the sun until they are dried until there is no moisture at all. Then they are put in clay pots and sealed. When you want to eat, take some out and put them in the oil pan. Fried inside.

This is fried food, but eating flowers is very enjoyable. The crunchy food contains the fragrance of flowers. Holding a flower, it turns out that flowers can not only be used to appreciate, but also Can be used to eat.

After I fried the pumpkin flowers, our little baby said: Mom, this is so good, we can nibble the petals. This petal is so delicious.

Years are passing and times are changing. Perhaps what remains unchanged is the pursuit of our taste buds. I have been away from my hometown for many years, but when I think of the food in my hometown, I can’t help but swallow my saliva. Maybe we You will forget many things, but the memory of your taste buds will last forever. When you are not in a good mood, you can take a sip of the taste from your childhood and be instantly cured.

With delicious food here, there are no worries in life. Therefore, mother’s craftsmanship and our three daily meals carry a child’s happy childhood and a life healed by a happy childhood.