As the weather gets colder, I can’t help but crave hot food such as hot pot, spicy hotpot, roasted sweet potatoes, fried chicken, mutton soup, oden, takoyaki, etc. After eating the warm rice, warmth will be generated from the inside out. With delicious food, winter will not be so difficult!
The gate of the junior high school is always crowded with parents picking up their children every time after school. Such a large traffic also allows vendors to see business opportunities, selling candied haws, roasted sweet potatoes, and multi-grain pancakes.
After a week of hard work at school, I often ate cold meals prepared early and left to cool down. Naturally, my mother, who had to go to school hummingly, bought a piece of steaming roasted sweet potato, which could not only keep me warm, but also eat. It was delicious. Sweet and sweet, honey enters the heart.
Candied haws on a stick is a winter food. The sugar is so thin that it freezes to a crisp in the cold air. Swallowing a hawthorn covered with ice in one gulp is sour, sweet, refreshing and cold. It is not as hot as sugar in summer. The food all melted, and it was sticky and greasy. I still remember that every time my aunt’s family came back to visit my grandma, my uncle would always buy my cousin and I a bunch of candied haws and a braised chicken drumstick, and we would have an angry competition to see who could eat it faster.
Hu spicy soup is the best to drink in winter, but I always get up late, and when I rush to the small stall at the entrance of the village, there is no more spicy soup, so I have no choice but to go home and cook instant noodles. Boiled instant noodles have a more chewy texture, and soaked instant noodles are best for eating in the dormitory. When I was a student, my pocket money was strictly controlled, and the dormitory aunt was also very strict about bed checks. The instant noodles served in hot soup were especially delicious because I cherished them. Often one person would make noodles and share the food with several people. Each person would finish the meal with one mouthful of noodles and one mouthful of soup. Although he was still reluctant to give up the noodles, he was still happy.
Vegetables are scarce in winter, so the most common thing to eat is cabbage. Like my father, I like the feeling of hot tofu sliding down the esophagus and into the stomach. Therefore, I always have to eat a few meals of cabbage, tofu and vermicelli stew in the winter. My mother likes to put more soy sauce in the stew and mix it with rice. The aroma of the sauce is warm and strong, and the white steam makes her face turn red.
No one in my family likes river seafood very much, but one year my mother rarely had two jars of kimchi. She made dumplings, stewed tofu with sauerkraut, and stir-fried sauerkraut. It happened that the fish seller drove his truck through the streets, and large catfish were not expensive, so my mother bought a few and made catfish stew with pickled cabbage, tofu and catfish several times. The family had a lively conversation around the pickled catfish hot pot. The kitchen Black coal burns brightly, which is probably how warm the world is.