I like the countryside, whether it is spring, summer, fall and winter can bring a variety of surprises, the mountains, rice paddies, and even the roadside are full of aura, so when you have time, you will call on your husband to go to the uncle's home to walk around, although each time to bring home these countryside specialties is not as much as half of the cost of the road, but still enjoy it.
3 years ago in the spring, I was clamoring to go to my little uncle's home to dig bamboo shoots, that day my husband had a meal were pushed, accompanied by me in the mountains and hills around the wild, see my husband's belly slightly bulging, hand him a hoe, let him put the hillside next to a pile of weeds in addition to the vegetable patch, and by the way, sweating to reduce the body fat. This pile of weeds is not high, there are feet deep, densely packed next to each other, look close and cozy, I do not know what plants, I saw the first time, the old man just lifted the hoe ready to fall, the younger uncle rushed to stop, shouted from a distance: do not hoe, this is a good thing!
It turned out that this "weed" is a rare delicacy, uncle told us, because it is the root of the knot has a fleshy tuber like a baby silkworm, so it is called the ground silkworm, some places commonly known as the white wormwood, screw cabbage, pagoda cabbage, etc., I looked up on the Internet, in fact, it's the scientific name for the "" grass stoneworm ", for the first time in the world, the first time in the world, it is the first time in the world. Grass stoneworm", for perennial herbaceous plants. These years due to the proliferation of herbicides, and now the whole village is left with this piece of land every year will be grown out of the ground silkworm.
The leaf shape of the silkworm is very similar to that of the mint, and from a distance it is easy to mistake the mint for the mint, only the color is darker than the mint, and the color of the silkworm's leaves is light in the middle and gradually deepening to the edge. My brother-in-law said that in the spring you can eat the young leaves of the silkworms, if you remove these young leaves, the silkworms growing under the ground will be affected. In addition, the silkworm leaves stem again tender, covered with fluffy hair, always think that it should not be so delicious, so also not willing to try.
I just hope that the silkworms grow up quickly, the summer silkworms bloom, my husband and I also made a special trip to see a time, there are already 40 centimeters high, purple flowers bloomed in a staggered manner, although compared to those large flower skeletons insignificant, but in the green bushes is still very conspicuous. Fast, fast, but also after 1 month after the fall can experience life first digging silkworms, think about the heart of the beautiful.
It is hard to expect the silkworm maturity period, I am full of joy to drive to the little uncle's home, and so rushed to the piece of ground silkworms, but surprised half a day can not speak to, those silkworm seedlings are gone, there is no digging traces, I even suspected that we remembered the wrong place. Later, I realized that the surrounding strong wild weeds will be annexed to them, in the gap between their growth in the foot, the nutrients all snatched away, and finally led to their withering away.
Although nature is selfless, gifted us with countless delicious and beautiful, but for the ground silkworm, do not pay there is no return, remember the first year a large area of the ground silkworms for no reason by the weed erosion, the heart is not willing, so last year, when the spring, and so the ground silkworms have just sprung up, we will be around all the pulling out of the weeds, and from then on, every half-month to pull out the grass.
Sure enough, the effort is not unfulfilled, the ground silkworms are promising, high 60 70 centimeters, last September we were in a mood of joy, lifted the thick soil, the first time to see the true face of the ground silkworms, white and chubby, because each of the ground silkworms have a few nodes, look like worms, more like silkworms, and similar to the wormwood after the sun drying. We dug up a small bag and happily brought it home.
The ground silkworm is both a high medicinal value of herbs, but also a delicious wild vegetables, its young leaves can be used to cook soup, cold. As a gourmet food, the greatest value is the fleshy tuber shaped like a silkworm, the silkworm can be eaten directly raw, crisp and refreshing. But used to make soup and stewed chicken, nutritious and delicious.
In addition, it will be made into pickles, crisp and appetizing, a unique flavor. The practice is also very simple, first of all, the mud of the silkworms brush clean, and then control the water, add salt to marinate for 3 days, and then add ginger, white vinegar, sugar, soy sauce and other marinade for 15 days, like to eat spicy can also be added to 2 spoons of chopped chili. It can also be put into other kimchi to pickle together, the flavor level is more rich.