"When the peel was separated by teeth, the original faint umami flavor broke through a critical point and began to spread gradually in the mouth, and the taste gradually enriched. When chewing slowly, the juice splashes on the tip of the tongue, absolutely brutally and violently passing through the dry taste buds, and every tiny particle in the pulp is scrambling to crack, releasing more apple flavor. The peel and pulp are cut into small pieces and moved in the teeth. Taste like a shock wave spread to every corner of the mouth, the fragrance of the apple with the juice to the depths of the throat ... "
This is what he realized after a period of seclusion, the taste of apples.
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I haven't had good taste recently.
Many foods feel amazing when they are tried for the first time, but if the time interval is not too long, there will be no first surprise when they are tried again. Always a little disappointed, wondering if it's the chef's cooking. But I vaguely feel that psychological factors account for the majority.
For example, after being away from home for a long time in college, I always feel the peace of mind and ease in my hometown a few days before I go home for a holiday, but after a long time, I began to get tired of seclusion there.
Our senses always wander between thinking and not thinking.
Or Yang, both are more flexible.
I have been in this state recently, a state of paralysis. Specifically, the world is too vague to feel anything keenly. In short, it is not exciting enough, and I feel nothing exciting.
This is a very bad state, and the most depressing thing is to find that your food is not as delicious as before. Cooking with heart is really different. And my problem is not only that I didn't do it with my heart, but that I don't know where my heart is.
If you don't take things seriously, things won't feed back and respond to your body and mind. I don't want to express anything, because I always feel that expressing it can't resonate. This is a vicious circle. If you don't have a good experience, give up trying, and if you don't try, you will ruin the opportunity of experience.
The world in that state is gray.
It's not a breakdown, it's just boredom.
You didn't even notice anything unusual.
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Until I suddenly realized that summer was coming. Looking at my fat legs and jeans in the mirror, I decided to lose weight.
After eating salad and original European bread for two days, I simply used various fast food to meet my daily dinner in the evening. My refreshing body suddenly told me yesterday afternoon that I was going to eat. I close my eyes, communicate with my body deeply and get the answer.
So I started preparing at 4 pm.
Stew mushroom soup in a casserole over low heat. Turn off the fire and sit down after stewing. At the right moment, there was a traffic jam at night, and the Macey brothers didn't go home. I'm in no hurry. I slowly cut vegetables, prepared ingredients, and fried a spicy shredded pork with fungus and green pepper. Boil the soup until it is thick, put it in the soaked rice noodles, and gradually blend with the soup in boiling.
This is what I want to eat, green pepper rice noodles and shredded pork in casserole.
That meal was the best I have eaten recently. There is no complicated taste, the green pepper has the unique fragrance of green pepper, the fungus is crisp and refreshing, and the rice noodles absorbed by the mushroom soup are very rich.
At that moment, I deeply felt that careful cooking was a respect for food. Treat them with an emotional heart, so food will feed back chemical signals and express them through taste bud cells. Open your heart after clearing it, and you will find that the world is different.
In The Queen of the Palace, when the emperor wanted to drink another bowl of duck soup, the queen kindly stopped him.
The ancients said that one can't eat three.
Restraint may be the best way to keep your senses thorough.
Therefore, gourmets often need to rinse their mouths with clear water when tasting vegetables. Only by returning to the original senses can we deeply understand the true taste of food.
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After dinner, my husband told me a popular paragraph in the circle of friends-"the colleague who often rides me."
A man said that he had a colleague who always hitchhiked home from work. At first, he was very polite. Later, he left early because of something and forgot to tell him. As a result, I was scolded by my colleague on the phone and said why I didn't tell him in advance and kept him waiting for a long time. At night, WeChat blacked out hitchhikers who didn't understand etiquette.
It looks funny.
But the fact is that people are always paralyzed in daily life, unaware of the inertia and dependence generated in habits, and lose their keen insight. The beauty at first sight is not only invisible, but also feels that everything should be like this.
After listening to the joke about hitchhiking, I said, "In fact, the reality is the same. Look at couples or something. At first, a girl who can't cook cooked a meal. Even if it's not that delicious, boyfriends are easily moved. But later, after they got married, the man complained that the food was not good, or she was too busy to make it in time, but she would never have the initial gratitude to perceive the girl's goodness. I just got used to it, forgot the thanks I should have and couldn't see the efforts of others. "
Brother Macey said that's different.
I said, what's the difference?
Whether strangers, lovers, friends, family members, we are still independent individuals, and individuals should maintain respect.
Although, as a bystander, I stood up and saw many moral defects in the "hitchhiking colleague" incident. However, when you are in it, and the other person happens to be the person around you, you can't see clearly.
It's not that apples are not delicious enough.
It's just that your taste has deceived you.
It is not that love is fading.
You just don't want to love yourself.
Our passive senses make us more and more hard-hearted. Good things don't feel so good, and bad things don't feel bad enough.
Of course, the ungrateful hitchhiker will not feel anything wrong with his behavior, because in his formed cognition, getting on the bus on time every day is a matter of course, even the driver's responsibility. Like those straight men who ask for good food and meals after marriage, they feel that this is the responsibility of a wife.
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If life is first seen. What you see, think and feel must be the most profound.
I believe the hitchhiker was grateful at first, but he just forgot. When we attribute these efforts to the responsibility of others, even as a standard, it is time to stop. Purify yourself, return to the world after emptying, look at the people around you, and look back for the first time.
Only those who know how to be grateful deserve to be given.
Maybe at that time, you can also eat the real taste of apples.