The first home-cooked dish is stewed chicken with mushrooms. As a Northeastern, this dish is an indispensable dish with local characteristics on the dining table during the Chinese New Year. It is best to use wild mushrooms in the mountains to make this dish. Although this mushroom is thin and small, it is very sweet and more nutritious than artificially planted mushrooms. Stewed with mushrooms and chicken, just add some ginger, pepper and salt to make it delicious. In particular, chicken soup is very tonic. At our family's New Year's Eve, everyone will drink half a bowl of chicken soup before eating.
The second home cooking is steamed grass carp. Fish is a must-have dish in every year's New Year's Eve dinner, which means that it is more than enough every year. Grass carp and silver carp are common freshwater fish in daily life, and their taste is sweet and tender. We cook steamed grass carp at the annual New Year's Eve dinner in rural Hunan, which means that there is more than one year. Steaming is very simple, and it can retain the most nutrients of grass carp.
The third home cooking is fried bacon with winter bamboo shoots. My hometown is in the countryside, where every household has a bamboo forest. Whenever winter bamboo shoots grow, everyone will go up the mountain to dig winter bamboo shoots. Fried bacon with winter bamboo shoots is a rare food. Generally, guests at home will cook this food to entertain them, and sometimes they will make fried winter bamboo shoots with sauerkraut, which is equally delicious and appetizing.
The fourth home-cooked dish is fried pork liver with Chili. My father likes this dish very much, because his liver is a little bad. He said that eating pig liver can replenish the liver, which is a conclusion drawn according to the concept of "form complements shape" in traditional Chinese medicine. While using pepper to fry pork liver, pepper can cover up the fishy smell of pork liver.