I'm homesick, and all of a sudden, my homesickness is too strong. The villagers on the second floor are cooking dried plums and burning meat again. The unique fragrance wafted in from the window and caught my taste buds at once, which reminded me of the name of the dish, my hometown and grandma's specialty: dried plums and burning meat, which was salty and delicious.
My grandmother's roast pork with dried plum is famous in her hometown neighborhood. I remember that one year during the Spring Festival, the Li family came to Shanghai, and Lao Li specially asked her to cook this dish, and also asked her to make a backup and take it to Shanghai. The reason why the roast meat with prunes cooked by grandma tastes good is that the materials used in cooking this dish are exquisite, otherwise the cooked food tastes bad. Dried prunes must be preserved, cooked, dried and cut into small pieces of leafy Chinese cabbage after the "winter". The meat should be fat and thin, and it is best to see three to four layers of fat and thin pork belly. The dried plum vegetables cooked with this kind of meat are of excellent quality.
I'm used to grandma's cooking. Dried plum vegetables burn meat, and I always think that when I eat this dish in other places, I always feel that there is something missing in the taste. I left my hometown and went to work in the city. When I went back to my hometown to visit my grandmother on holidays, my grandmother always forgot her old age happily, and personally held a spoon to cook dried plum vegetables and roast meat for me. When a plate of dried plum vegetables with a bright sauce color and a sweet and salty smell was served, she would first put a piece of braised pork wrapped in dried plum vegetables on my bowl and smiled and said to me, "I knew you liked this bite, and I went back to the pot and let you eat it today." Grandma always cooked the dried plum vegetables and roasted meat first, and then reheated them. Grandma said that the dried plum vegetables and roasted meat cooked in the pot tasted more delicious. The dried prunes that have been returned to the pot are earthy brown, ugly and soft, and they are full of gravy, and the more they are chewed, the more fragrant they are. The "pork belly" is also more delicious because it has been returned to the pot. It is salty and sweet, moderate in hardness, not oily and not greasy. When you bite it, the halogen fragrance is full of lips and teeth. At the dinner table, the more I eat, the happier my grandmother is. I look at her smiling face and feel how amiable and kind she is. I am the happiest person in the world to have such a grandmother.
One day, grandma said goodbye to us forever and went to a distant place. Every year on Qingming Festival, I go to the cemetery to visit her old man's house. When I think of all the goodness of my grandmother's life, tears can't stop falling like broken pearls. After returning to the city, I will immerse myself in all the stories about my grandmother before her death for several days, thinking about my hometown and grandma.