Pumpkin is the flavor of summer to me.

When I was a child, there were not as many types of snacks as there are now, and there were only a few locally produced fruits. Apples were a delicacy that was eaten occasionally, and you could not eat them whole. They were cut into pieces and shared among the family. The best ones were fruits.

Vegetables are eaten when they are in season, there is nothing out of season.

Pumpkins are usually eaten in summer. We like the sweet taste very much, so we think summer should have this sweet taste.

? At that time, there were no residential communities like today. Most people built their own houses and lived in a large courtyard. The door was always open when eating, and it was not limited to eating. After getting up in the morning, the door was opened and it was not closed until going to bed at night. Neighbors

We can visit each other with bowls in hand and eat from other people's tables.

There are five families living in our yard. In the summer, one family will make pumpkins every few days, and they will make an appointment in advance. Only one family will make it at a time, and they will distribute it to each family after it is done.

Those big, round pumpkins would be whole once burned, and the whole family couldn't eat them. At that time, there were no refrigerators and it was difficult to store them.

Pumpkins are usually made during the summer vacation. After the nap, at two or three o'clock in the afternoon, the sun is shining brightly outside, the cicadas are chirping, and the sleepy children are too hot to go out and run around, so they will concentrate on making pumpkins.

The pumpkin family is urging them to make pumpkins.

While the adults were saying that we were greedy, they took out the pumpkin, washed it, and cut it into pieces without peeling the skin. If there was too much resistance during cutting, they would say that the pumpkin this time would be very sweet.

Put the cut pumpkin into a big wok and cook it over firewood. If you don't add sugar, it will be boiled into pumpkin soup. If you want to be extravagant, put some small glutinous rice balls in it and cook it together.

Children will grab the pumpkin stems to eat, and while eating, they will read: "Pumpkin stems, eat and become emperor." In fact, the pumpkin stems are not particularly delicious, just because of this sentence, they will happily rush to eat them every time.

Pumpkin seeds will be taken out in advance. If it is a particularly sweet pumpkin, some will be taken out and kept as seeds. The rest will be washed and dried. If there are too many, they will be fried and eaten. It is also a rare snack.

To this day, I still love to eat pumpkin, and I also like to eat pumpkin in various ways. Sometimes I eat it directly as a staple food. Pumpkin will be delicious no matter how you cook it.

I got a pumpkin from my mother-in-law's house two days ago, and I just had friends over for dinner. I thought that on a hot day, everyone doesn't have much appetite, so I won't make it as a staple food, so I will use pumpkin as a staple food, but simply steaming it will not be enough.

In order to show my sincerity in hospitality, I could not show off my cooking skills, so I came up with a new dish: custard-baked pumpkin, which was very popular on the table.

Here's how to do it: Peel and seed the pumpkin, cut into small cubes, use as many servings as you like, but at least cover the baking sheet.

Beat two eggs in a bowl of milk and pour them into the pumpkin. If you like it sweet, add some sugar. If you don't, leave it out.

Spread mozzarella cheese on the pumpkin, sprinkle with some black sesame seeds, and bake in the oven at 200 degrees for 30 minutes.

It's just that I forgot that there should be pictures and truth, and I didn't take any photos to keep. But the method is simple and you can make it as soon as you see it. If you don't have an oven, you can try it with a microwave or steamer. I haven't done it, but friends who have done it can tell me.

Talk about experience.