I remember the first time I ate frog fish, I was in the fourth grade of elementary school. After the performance of the drum and trumpet troupe, my classmates and I went to the rice noodle stall in front of the school and ate a bowl of rice noodles. I didn't feel full, so I ate another bowl of frog fish. It was actually called drinking, rice noodles and frog fish. Although the description is not precise, it can still make people think of the scene of eating soup with water and drooling. There was too much chili in that bowl of frog fish, it was so spicy that it made me cry.

After that, I ate various types of frog fish many times, but they didn’t excite the taste buds, and they didn’t leave a deep impression on my brain. Frog fish itself is starch and has no taste. The taste depends entirely on the seasoning. Pickled mustard is a must. Add some sugar, salt, vinegar, minced garlic, and chili. If the seasoning ratio is right, it will be naturally delicious. If the ratio is out of balance, it will be difficult to swallow.

Several years later, during my freshman year, some students in our class returned from a spring outing and were as hungry as ever. They spent money to find food outside the west gate of Mining University. I suggested that we give each person a bowl of frog fish, Guizhou. The squad leader looked shocked. Is it a kind of fish? I went and found out after a while that frog fish may be a Xuzhou specialty.

After graduation, I started working in a confused and busy manner. I basically had to eat out or eat out in the canteen for three meals a day. On my way to and from get off work, I bought drinks in small shops filled with frog fish. In order to absorb them smoothly, the straws were very thick. , it’s convenient, and it’s a lot hygienic, but it doesn’t have the little comfort of the stall owner serving you a bowl full of frog fish in a porcelain bowl, and finally some sesame oil.

When you are in your twenties, you are as beautiful as a flower, and you are also the busiest in your life. You have to study, work, fall in love, get married, and have children. After a full set of actions, after ten months of pregnancy and a confinement that seemed longer than a year, I took my daughter and my husband back to my parents' home for a short stay in the middle of summer. After I resentfully struggled with the breast pump, my mother handed me a bowl of frog fish that she had carefully seasoned. In addition to mustard and minced garlic, there were also some green peppercorns. After one spoonful, I laughed uncontrollably. After a long time, Lao Li asked, why are you laughing after eating a frog fish? I said, just because it tastes delicious.

Why is it so delicious that it makes you laugh out loud? Later, I found ***Ming in a book called "Anthropologist in the Kitchen". The author was invited by relatives to dine at a "Michelin three-star" restaurant in Germany. This hotel needs to be booked a year in advance. It is extremely luxurious. One dish was called "Truffle Egg Honey Juice", and several people burst out laughing after taking the first bite. The author concluded that this was "an extremely umami taste that can cause involuntary giggles."

Although the food and ingredients in the book and the frog fish in my spoon are very different, they stimulate the taste buds and cause hormones with various chemical names to react with each other, which in turn shocks the soul and makes people laugh. The feelings are the same, that fresh bite is indelible in the depths of memory.

Food full of memories is always delicious and seasoned with emotions. The dishes cooked by my mother have the taste of home, and there is also a thick "Dishes Made by Mom" ??in the recipe book in Mrs. Beitai's Kitchen. When I was in college, I was so close to home, and I would take every opportunity to run home, thinking about my mother's food. They say you miss home after you’re full, and it’s not unreasonable. Now that I am a mother, I am also working hard for that taste of home and leaving more thoughts for my daughter who will eventually leave home many years later.

I have read in a book before that women are inherited by a family. Putting aside fertility and genetic factors, the taste of the food alone determines the happiness of a family. Index, of course, there are also many fathers who do all the cooking. They have different divisions of labor but achieve the same goal through different paths. What I like the most is what my mother said, cooking is not difficult, as long as you put your mind to it.

Tips for cold frog fish:

If you prefer sweet taste, add a pinch of salt; if you prefer salty taste, add a pinch of sugar. This is the finishing touch and the sweetness will be clearer. The sweet and salty ones are more delicious and the taste will be improved to several levels. You can give it a try.