Small town, fresh food, delicious food and versatile food.
All kinds of snacks in the street: fried lotus root box and tomato box, fried fish and smoked fish, roast duck and roast chicken, boiled chicken feet, pigskin jelly, fried peanuts, shredded tofu and shredded radish. Always fresh, everything is available.
Grilled old salted fish with iron plate stinks ten miles along the street.
Spiced pig's head meat was put on the table and served in a big pot. It was steaming hot and the fragrance overflowed the whole street, making people drool.
There are all kinds of pickles, salted radish, pickled cucumber and pickled lion's head, which are cheap and good.
There are fried hairy eggs, mala Tang, baked gluten, spicy tofu skewers and so on, all of which are the favorite of children and young girls.
Although the town is small, it has all kinds of flavors.
In spring, the Toona sinensis trees outside their yard germinate early and are full of fragrance in a few days. Fried Toona sinensis buds with eggs are fragrant and tender, and you can never get tired of eating them. If it's simpler, cut tofu into cubes, cut Toona sinensis into small pieces, sprinkle some salt and hot vegetable oil and mix well, and a refreshing dish will be ready. Crispy Toona sinensis with soft tofu has a unique taste.
In a few days, the weeping bitter herbs, shepherd's purse and Artemisia ordosica buds will come to people's dining tables with the earthy flavor of the field and the aura and simplicity of nature. "The wall is dark and the spring is old, and the bamboo shoots and ferns are on the plate", which makes people eat a little poetry of the ancients. Su Zhai Essay once said: "The grass is beautiful and the grass can be wasted." Although it is exaggerated, it is somewhat verve.
Looking for traces of wild vegetables written by the ancients and enjoying a warm return of vegetable food are the most precious tastes of spring.
At this time, tender onions are served with sweet sauce; Just stretched dark green spinach, just picked plain Sophora japonica and two scrambled eggs are absolutely delicious.
Followed by the listing of salted boiled broad beans, the taste is simple and pure, and people in small towns like it. No matter how time and food evolve, the first batch of broad beans listed in spring is always the most worth tasting. Fresh and tender broad beans, which have blossomed after cooking, are fragrant and soft. They don't need to be chewed in your mouth, but they will melt when you sip them with your tongue, which is especially popular with the elderly and children. In the "Garden Food List", it was said: "Tender new broad beans are fried with mustard tuber. It is better to eat with the harvest. "
As soon as summer comes, the business of barbecue stalls is booming. Barbecue kebabs, grilled fish, roasted noodles, roasted corn and spicy boiled snails, with edamame peanuts cooked in salt water, and a few glasses of cold beer, the summer heat suddenly swept away.
Seasonal vegetables have also appeared, such as loofah, cucumber, gourd, bitter gourd, eggplant, green pepper, sweet and sour tomatoes and so on. , all belong to the taste of summer.
Housewives who can cook, even the most humble vegetables, wash and cut them, fry them in oil pan, throw two red peppers and a few pieces of lean meat into the dishes, and quickly play a few times with the frying spoon, and the dishes will be alive and kicking in an instant, which will definitely satisfy your taste buds, much like the simple and honest character of small town people.
The most beautiful game is cicada monkey. Caught at night, scalded in hot water, washed and fried in oil, delicious. Cicada in the tree, grab a long pole and insert it at will, which is also a beautiful appetizer. These are delicious foods that nature can't reserve. Gratitude for nature often begins between lips and teeth.
In winter, every household hoards several Chinese cabbages. Whether you eat hot pot or stir-fry soup, you must have cabbage. For me, the taste of a pot of pork vermicelli cabbage is the taste of home. Even if there is less meat, delicious cabbage is delicious. Stewed tofu with Chinese cabbage never tires of eating.
Speaking of tofu, it's wild vegetables. Stewed chicken, stewed fish, stewed cabbage and spinach, boiled and fried, and even mixed. It's inexpensive and delicious. It's a really bad dish. When I was a child, I liked to hear the sound of tofu bangzi in the morning. Now, it is rarely heard.
The crispness and sweetness of wei county radish, a specialty of our town, is my best memory. When I was a child, I ate the most fried radish balls. Vegetarian food can be eaten as a meat dish, thanks to its adjustment during that poor period.
Ice and snow can't stop people from eating hot pot. The soup in the pot is boiling. Put the sliced meat in the pot, rinse it, dip it in authentic sesame sauce and spices, eat it as soon as it is cooked, and then drink a few mouthfuls of tempting rice, and you will feel comfortable. It can really be described as "cheering around the stove and all kinds of flavors melting into a small pot".
People in the town are very diligent. As the year is approaching, every household has made sausages, which are hung in the shade of the tuyere, and it is difficult to stop the mellow smell of bacon.
Small restaurants in the city have their own unique skills. Mutton soup is never tired of drinking, beef chowder is delicious, stone fish is full of flavor, dry fried chicken is not firewood or greasy, and goose donkey meat with sauce is delicious. Sometimes it's chicken stewed with mushrooms, full of game.
At the dinner table, old guests, sitting together, easy-going, we open your window in the garden and field, talk about mulberry and hemp with cups in our hands, and all the conversations are from their hearts.
One side of the soil and water support one side. Familiarity with a small town often begins with its taste. Love it, from the taste of love.
The Chilean poet Nie Luda once said, "Once you taste this dish, you will know heaven." Yes, as long as you taste the food in a small town, you will find your yearning for home.