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Home cooking: Sun Pu cuisine and Pu Cai.
In areas with abundant products, it may not be difficult for housewives to manage the meals of a family. However, naturally, we will not forget other places.
Smart women in China are good at using local materials. Wu Yuezhen is looking for a wild Zizania latifolia, which is called Sun Pu by the locals. Pubamboo bamboo shoots grow naturally by the Liaohe River, without fertilization and care, and can be eaten when harvested. As the last time to pick bamboo shoots before the arrival of next season, Wu Yuezhen has his own plans.
The tender part of Pubamboo shoots and erect stems is edible. People are familiar with Zizania latifolia, which has an enlarged spindle-shaped fleshy stem and is a variety of bamboo shoots. Only China and Viet Nam grow this vegetable in the world. Stir-fry a plate of bamboo shoots with fresh bamboo shoots just picked to barbecue. Northeasters call it "fresh spirit". If the remaining bamboo shoots are dried and dried, they can be preserved for a long time. Smart housewives will get ready early.
An ordinary morning in Liaodong Bay. At three o'clock in the morning, Wu Yuezhen got up. By five o'clock, she had prepared breakfast. The food on the table is very rich, which is the key to support the husband and son to do heavy physical work in the morning. At half past six, she added feed to the henhouse. At seven o'clock, it's time to send my little grandson to kindergarten. Every day in Wu Yuezhen starts like this all the year round.
In the ponds in Huaiyang area, people are chasing another kind of wild vegetables with tenacious vitality. Although it has the same growing environment and similar name as Sun Pu, they are two completely different plants. Many cuisines have their place, and this is Pu cuisine. Pu Cai can be made into stuffing and wrapped in jiaozi, which is a famous spot in Huai 'an. Jiaozi, take a bite of Typhae stuffing, which will give the oral cavity and nasal cavity a three-dimensional effect. People in Jinan will choose the most tender cattail core as a local famous dish-milk soup cattail leaf. Ordinary people do not prepare broth, stir-fry with flour, and can also make a thick milky soup, which is more delicious with ham, mushrooms and winter bamboo shoots.
In autumn, Suaeda salsa in Liaodong Bay turns red into an ocean. The bamboo shoots on the windowsill in Wu Yuezhen have dried up. She added hot water to dried bamboo shoots to make them elongate. Boiled dried bamboo shoots are cooked with meat and add more soup. In this process, the vitality of dried bamboo shoots is completely released. Add a handful of reed stalks to the stove fire and continue to stew for an hour, then you can cook. Smart women can always turn the most ordinary and unremarkable food into delicious food.
In the season when rice is ripe, the common dishes in the south are out of the market. But for Wu Yuezhen, inedible cattail still has its use value-it can be dried and woven into various daily necessities. Eight years ago, Wu Yuezhen's wife had a heart attack and almost left her. She took on all the work at home and in the fields and took good care of her wife for five years. She is as tough as cattail grass and maintains this family. In the evening, the whole family came back and ate around the kang. This is the most stable time of the day in Wu Yuezhen. Her greatest wish is to take good care of her wife, and the family will love each other, be round and round, and live happily and happily.
The sweetness of nourishing and healthy soup
Gongbei Port connects Zhuhai and Macau, and the flow of people enters a small peak at 9 pm. Mr. Pan lives in Macao and goes to Zhuhai to buy food every two or three days, which has become the living habit of many Macao people. The food market near the port is open until 12 at night, and Mr. Pan is a frequent visitor here.
Peggy, a 20-year-old daughter, has lived independently and is still a concern of her father. He often comes to his daughter's house and makes her a pot of dried tangerine peel and red bean paste after dinner. Mr. Pan's ancestral home is Zhongshan, Guangdong. Drinking a bowl of dried tangerine peel and red bean paste after dinner is the habit of his hometown, and his daughter is deeply affected. Chinese dessert similar to dried tangerine peel and red bean paste is called "sugar water" in Guangdong. Guangdong and Guangxi people evaluate a bowl of sugar water with two words, one is "sweet", which stands for taste; The other is "run", which means taste. Sweet and moist, in Chinese, not only represents taste, but also extends to mood and even points to people's hearts.
There is such a sweet moment in life. Portuguese rhyme is the favorite place for Macao people to take wedding photos. Peggy and Zhiming fell in love at first sight here three years ago. Peggy helped cook for the first time because there were guests at home. Zhiming brought a small gift to Mr. Pan when he first met. Mr. Pan specially cooked a pot of quail eggs and ginkgo syrup for him. A bowl of sugar water melted China's father's deep introversion. However, facing the future son-in-law for the first time, the taste in each father's heart may be more complicated than a bowl of sugar water.
For women in China, thrift has always been a traditional virtue, except for one stage-pregnancy. At this special stage of life, expectant mothers can reasonably enjoy meticulous care. Monroe, 29, has been pregnant for seven months and is preparing for the birth of her baby every day. When she first learned that she was pregnant, Monroe felt incredible. It was not until after the fetal movement that she really felt that there was another member in this small family.
Zhuhai, where Monroe is located, is a city with a foreign population of 90%. Husband Hansen is from Guangdong and Monroe is from Sichuan. Monroe is about to give birth, and she is experiencing her first labor pains before giving birth. While eagerly looking forward to the birth of the baby, she encouraged herself to resist the fear of childbirth, while her husband accompanied her and took good care of her. At this time, Monroe and Hansen's parents also arrived.