In early spring, the weather is still a little chilly, and the flowers and grass will show tender buds, and the head will be sleepy to feel the warmth of the sun. Niwa and the old lady in the country came to the riverside with shovels to dig wild vegetables. "Gouge wild vegetables" is vividly said by hometown people, which means gently digging. Hometown people dig up the fresh wild vegetable buds that have just emerged and make them into delicious dishes. Sometimes, they can't bear to eat it themselves and take it to the market to exchange money. As a result, there are scattered local dishes in the market, with a small bag here and a basket there. There are not many things, but they bring the breath of spring fields to the city.
As the saying goes, the wild vegetables in early spring are the elixir. The tender buds of wild vegetables that cats have been eating for a winter have just emerged, which is the most crisp and nutritious time.
The first ones listed were shepherd's purse, wild mint and toad head, then broom seedlings, wife-in-law, sheep hoof trees and so on, and then they went on the market. Every dish has a very rustic name. It is not clear what it is called in the books. Anyway, it is called this way. There is a woman named Dowager who says the scientific name is Dandelion.
Don't underestimate these wild vegetables. They are not home-cooked dishes that you can eat if you want, but they are all out-and-out seasonal dishes. It takes only ten days and a half months from budding to listing to becoming delicious on the tip of your tongue. If you miss sharing, you will have to wait until next year. These are not the things in plastic greenhouses, but the pure natural game. They are all selected and preserved by our ancestors after the famine years. They can not only satisfy hunger, but also have the functions of clearing away heat, detoxifying, reducing blood fat, eliminating dampness and health care. They are not only ingredients, but even blindly medicinal materials, which can be described as the same origin of medicine and food. For example, that old woman with a bumpy toad head on her leaves, whose stems and leaves will ooze white mucus when broken, are all medicinal materials with medical effects, and there are many folk remedies for diseases!
"High-end ingredients often only need the simplest cooking methods." This is a sentence often used by the host of China on the Tip of the Tongue. I think it is very suitable for use here. Although it is not a high-end ingredient, it is simple and rare. You don't need to cook, just wash it clean, or cold, or steam it, pour garlic juice and sesame oil, and it will be a delicious food.
I said the game in the field, let's talk about the game in the tree. When the weather was a little warmer, all kinds of delicious food on the tree began to come down. You can eat it when you come down. When the elm money comes down, it will soon come down, and the acacia flowers will also come down, so people can enjoy the spring buds.
Yucaier should be the seed of elm, which appears a little bit from the branches of elm. It seems to be very shy, round, tender and green, and the small fingernail is so big, like a round penny, so it is named Yucaier. When it matures, there is a small seed in it, which will fall to the river or wet soil with the wind, and a small Yucaier tree can grow. Nowadays, elm trees are rare. Occasionally, there is a tree with two trees. Just after spitting green, someone takes the lead. It's not easy to climb to the tree and pick the leftover money to eat. People take out bamboo, hooks and baskets, hook branches with one hand and carefully sigh with the other, and they only pick a little under the basket for a long time. Not much, people in my hometown call it that. I don't know the word but, and I don't know what it should be called. It's a product of Broussonetia papyrifera, like a little silkworm, and it should be the flower bud of Broussonetia papyrifera. Broussonetia papyrifera, also known as Broussonetia papyrifera, is a deciduous tree belonging to Moraceae. Its flowers are divided into male and female, the male flower is a flower head, and the female flower is a flower head. Its flowers contain carbohydrates, amino acids, vitamins, carotene and other nutrients. It seems that this is also a rare nutritious dish. Pick the right time. If it's too early, it's too late, it'll get old, so it won't have a unique taste and its nutrition will be greatly reduced.
As we all know, this bloom is romantic and unrestrained, and the trees are spectacular. It is blooming in villages and on the banks of rivers. Where is the bloom of Sophora japonica? It is a beautiful scenery. There are many trees and flowers, and villages and villages are continuous, depicting the monotonous Huaibei Plain in early spring picturesque. This beautiful and edible flower is white, tender, sweet and delicious, nourishing people's eyes and enriching people's stomachs. People can pick the branches by bending them down, and soon they can pick a basket. Some even break the branches directly, without any pity at all, which really corresponds to the poet's sentence: "If there are flowers, you should fold them straight, so don't wait for them to be empty."
Sophora japonica flower is rich in influencing elements, with very high contents of sugars, amino acids, protein and vitamins, and also contains many trace elements, such as sodium, iron, magnesium and calcium. As a kind of delicious food, Sophora japonica flowers are eaten in many ways. The flowers of Sophora japonica collected here are usually steamed and eaten, and can also be wrapped in steamed buns or jiaozi. It is also very delicious to use them to scramble eggs. The inexhaustible acacia flowers can also be dried and preserved, and can be eaten when soaked in boiling water in winter, which is very simple and easy.
The simplest and most commonly used way to eat vegetables in my hometown is steaming vegetables. Wash the picked ingredients clean, dry them, sprinkle with flour, and mix them. The flour should not be mixed too much, but a little, just like coating a "mask" on the vegetables, which seems to be white and green, and steaming them in a steamer. The vegetables steamed by experts are still granular, not sticky, and the time for steaming vegetables is only a few minutes, which can not be too raw, but also keep the flowers fresh and unique taste. Steamed, mixed with garlic paste, poured with spicy oil and ground sesame oil, it is really fragrant and delicious.
There are many local dishes in my hometown. According to different seasons, there will be different local dishes on the market, such as Toona sinensis, grey vegetables and purslane. These are all beautiful gifts given by nature to mankind. Why don't we taste them in time?
In the past, saying "soil" represented poverty, backwardness and poverty, but now it has changed. "soil" is not only simple, natural and ecological, but also fresh and fashionable. What kind of native soil, duck and pig, even deliberately dubbed "soil", mud-baked cakes, local restaurants, etc., soil is soil, soil is sincere and soil is true.
People who have eaten all kinds of big fish, big meat, delicacies and delicacies are often fresh in the country occasionally!
The local dishes in my hometown are not "local", but foreign style! In the words of my hometown, it's really delicious!
Where do you have local dishes? Take it out to bask in the sun.