Every spring, shepherd's purse first grows in the ground. Don't wait for it to sprout and blossom before it is tender. Shepherd's purse Shepherd's purse is often eaten with scrambled eggs or wrapped in jiaozi. It is simple but full of flavor, which is incomparable to fish and the like. Shepherd's purse shepherd's purse is often eaten by everyone. Shepherd's purse stuffing can also be bought in jiaozi supermarket, and the shepherd's purse market dug by the old lady can also be bought.
But there are still some wild vegetables that people in this era don't eat carefully, or that young people don't necessarily know. That is the common gray vegetables, silver vegetables, silver vegetables and plantagenet seedlings on the edge of the ridge. I remember when I was a child, I often drank the potherb egg soup made by my mother. The eggs were laid by my own chickens. If you want to identify it, the leaves of the cabbage are red with some gray powder on them; There is some silver ash powder on the green leaves of silver ash vegetables; Silver dishes don't bring gray powder. Plantagenet seedlings usually grow into a big crown. Although the name sounds terrible, it is named because it can be used to make brooms when it is old, but when it grows vigorously in spring, making soup is also light and delicious.
There are more expensive Toona sinensis buds, which are also an exotic delicacy. I remember when I was a child, a small Toona sinensis tree grew in my family's private plot and stood alone at one end of the field. My parents found that weeding and fertilizing the cultivated land had been carefully bypassed to make it grow taller and bigger. Every spring, my mother will happily pinch back a handful of Toona sinensis buds and scrambled eggs to eat. This is the first food I came into contact with Toona sinensis.
Of course, there is a kind of food here in Linyi called Spur Dish (homophonic), and everyone should be familiar with it. My hometown is southwest Shandong, and our place is called Hump Dumplings. There is a piece of land behind my house, and many wasps are emitted every spring. Until asparagus has been planted in recent years, many wasps will still grow on wide ridges. After weeding, mother will bring it back to the sheep to eat. She will first pick out the hornet's nest, wash and chop it up, steam it on a steamer with noodles mixed with eggs and salt, and then pour garlic and sesame oil. It's delicious. That kind of delicious food is quite appetizing in retrospect! Later, I also ordered a cold spurs dish in this restaurant, but it was not as delicious as I expected. Later, I learned that its scientific name was Portulaca oleracea.
When it comes to steaming wasps, you can't help but mention the delicious food on the trees. The delicious food in spring grows not only in the soil, but also on tall trees. Elms on elm trees and locust trees on locust trees, which are first picked, washed, mixed with egg batter, steamed or fried or made into cakes, also have a unique charm. Even the simplest way for us children to eat-climbing trees, stroking elm or locust trees from branches and stuffing them directly into our mouths, is full of sweet fragrance.
Speaking of which, I thought of mulberries again. When mulberry trees are covered with mulberries, children are kings of climbing trees. I still remember that there are one or two mulberry trees on both sides of the aqueduct around the village. The nearest tree to my home has a thick folded mulberry fruit, which is purple when it is ripe. I once climbed that big mulberry tree and my mouth was full of purple. There is also a kind of mulberry with white fruit, which is white when ripe and tastes sweeter.
After the household contract system was implemented in the 1980s, most of the land allocated to each household was decided by regular lottery, but each household had one or two private plots of land, which were immovable and often close to the village. At that time, farmers mainly lived a self-sufficient life, and often used the land closest to home as a vegetable garden, which remained unchanged for many years. Known as the garden, there is actually no fence or anything, but it is also to prevent sheep from coming in to eat. At that time, few people went to the market to buy vegetables, and all kinds of vegetables were planted in their own gardens, which basically met the demand. Even I often see clusters of sugar cane, which must be planted by families with children at home.
When I was a child, I was often sent by my mother to pick vegetables in the garden before dinner, or a bag of green peppers, or two zucchini, or three eggplants, or a few cucumbers, or a handful of beans ... These vegetables, whether fried or cold, are common dishes on the table. Sometimes I will carry a basket to cut half a basket of leeks, and come back to wash and chop them and put them in eggs for jiaozi to eat, which is much more delicious than the quick-frozen jiaozi in the supermarket now. Don't plant too many leeks. Two short ridges are enough to eat. Cutting one side is the most economical vegetable. At that time, the vegetables were all dried and delicious, which is not comparable to the out-of-season greenhouse vegetables.
There are all kinds of melons in the garden. Families with children generally grow melons, noodles, melons, willows and melons in the garden, which are snacks for children with toothache. When I was a child, I loved to talk about melons in the east, west, north and south. At that time, I thought that wax gourd was later called wax gourd, because there were watermelons, pumpkins and so on. So I always thought I was named after the direction of various melons. It is a coincidence that we call round, flat, ripe and golden pumpkins and curved pumpkins north melons. So the melons in the east, west, north and south are all complete. I still remember one year, my mother's melon was so big that she stood up half a person's height when she held it thick. I took it off and took it home on a scooter. I put it under the high square table in the main room, and I couldn't finish several meals. When I was in high school, the school canteen often used some fat slices to fry large pieces of wax gourd until soft and rotten. I looked into the canteen, and the chef stood on a big iron pot and was cooking with a shovel. The pot is very big. Even if the wax gourd is fried like that, I think it's delicious. When I came home at the weekend, I also cut the wax gourd into large pieces and fried it in a pot at home, but it was not cooked. Later, it was eaten by my mother after secondary processing.
One year, on a whim, my father planted several watermelons and wanted to sell them to make some money. In order to prevent stealing melons, I also set up a melon shed for my brother to see. I didn't see a thief, but I saw many watermelons rotting in the field. Turn it over and see that there is a triangular lid on the rotten watermelon. After investigation, I know that my brother did something good. Find ripe watermelon to eat when you are idle, cut the triangular small mouth with a knife, and fasten the triangular small cover with an unfamiliar one. Afraid of being discovered by his father, he turned his mouth to the bottom, next to the soil, so that the watermelon would rot faster. My father didn't seem to make much money that year. But his children didn't break the watermelon and eat it.
I remember that rape was planted in another part of my home all year round. When the rape blossoms were golden, only my parents and my sister-in-law were at home that year. The four of them took a group photo and sent it to me who was studying outside. It is still in my photo frame here, and I can see it all the time to relieve my homesickness. My mother used to pick the top of rape when it was tender, pickle it with salt, and then mix it with sesame oil to make an excellent side dish. A few years ago, I went to Xinghua, Jiangsu with my colleagues and saw Qiandao rape field. It was so beautiful! Others take pictures, and they feel good. When taking pictures, I thought it would be nice if I could pick some tender flowers and pickle them.
In recent years, people who grow melons and vegetables have become professional households, planting and selling. Few families own vegetable gardens, and even fewer people grow wheat. Most of them grow cash crops that can make money, such as asparagus. You can buy anything you want in the market. Although this may reflect the economic progress, it is a lot less fun.
Later when I was in middle school, my father planted peach trees. After my father's repeated experiments and grafting, there are several varieties of peach trees in an acre of land, including sweet and crisp peaches, big and soft peaches after maturity, and Huang Jintao after grafting with apricot trees. When peaches were ripe for sale, my father asked me to guard the Taoyuan, and he took baskets of peaches to the market to sell. I took a mat and a novel, and found a flat place to read under a peach tree. Tired of watching, I got up and picked some peaches and washed them in a bucket prepared by the side. All the peaches I ate at the end of the day were enough to sell. Next to Taoyuan is my vegetable garden. Sometimes when I eat enough peaches, I will pick melons or tomatoes from the garden. At that time, tomatoes were naturally ripe, without dyeing and ripening, so they tasted sweet and sour.
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Actually, I've never seen anyone steal peaches. Let me guard Taoyuan, but I will lose more. But how can my father care how many peaches I eat? It's a kind of food. It's almost time for dinner. Sometimes I look for ripe pink and big peaches. Although it is not sweet enough, it is slippery when cooked. You can knead it into mud by hand. Pick some for grandma who lost her teeth and tell her it's called Shoutao (the name I gave myself after watching Journey to the West). Eating this peach can prolong life. In fact, grandma was over ninety years old at that time. Sure enough, the old grandmother who has been laughing and living has eaten peaches and lived to be 102 years old. When my grandmother died, I was away at university. Later, I heard that my grandmother was sober until she left, and she told the whole family around her to get out of the way. She's leaving, afraid that her soul will pounce on someone. I believe that the peach I gave to her old man really worked.
There is a small piece of my own turf in my vegetable garden. There are deep ditches near aqueducts, usually with grass and trees on both sides; But this canal is connected with the river. Every year in the flood season, the river will flow, blue and green, like a small river.
The grass in the ditch is the most abundant, and we can often find surprises from it. The most useful is mint. This plant is easy to survive, even if it is cut off and inserted into the ground. Its roots can also produce more mint buds in the soil. If a mint is pinched off, it will grow more branches. So in the end, my house was covered with mint all the way to the bottom of the canal.
Sometimes my mother wants to change the taste of our food, and she will also let us take a basket to pick the tender top leaves of mint, bring back half a basket, wash and chop them, put them into the stirred egg batter, sprinkle some salt and mix well, put oil in the pan, heat them, pour the mint egg batter into the pan, and fry them on both sides, and the fragrance will come to the nose. This is my mother's specialty, mint pancakes. Later, I came to work in Linyi and ate pancakes in Linyi, which is quite different from my understanding of pancakes. The pancakes we are talking about are actually fried; But Linyi is called pancake.
Working outside, you can only go back to your hometown in winter and summer vacation every year. The ditch is still there, and mint is old. So when I go back every summer vacation, although mint is not as tender as spring, I can still squeeze a lot of tender terminal buds among pieces of mint. My mother will definitely cook this food for me-mint pancakes, which my hometown has long forgotten. Later, I brought my son back, and he liked this delicious food very much.
I will take my son back to his hometown for a period of time every summer vacation, in order to let the children feel more about the rural life, know all kinds of fruits and vegetables, and distinguish between east, west, north and south melons; I also want my children to crawl around in the fields and enjoy real weeds and flowers; I also want my children to eat my mother's humble meals and know how to cherish the essence of grassroots. ...