Bamboo shoots in hometown

The bamboo shoots in my hometown are hemp bamboo shoots.

This kind of bamboo shoots, short and thick, stripped of the rough skin, can see the delicious meat and fresh inside. Bamboo shoot meat tastes tender, crisp and sweet, and people often can't help but want to eat one bite after another.

I like eating bamboo shoots since I was a child, and my grandpa's cooking is first-class. He always spends a lot of time on three meals a day. He cooks all the dishes, whether simple or complicated. In his view, meal time is a time for family members to relax and get together. Food must be taken seriously. Everyone should go home for dinner on time, no matter who is late, it is the most basic etiquette and family rules. So my family always has a fixed meal time. 8 o'clock is breakfast time, 12 is lunch time, and 7 o'clock is dinner time. When I was a child, when I went out to play, I always saw the time to go home for dinner. I never dare to ignore or keep my family waiting.

Early summer is a good time to eat bamboo shoots. At this time, the weather is just hot and the bamboo shoots in the bamboo forest are getting better and better. With the rain and water in early summer, after a night's waiting, the whole bamboo forest exudes the fragrance of earth the next day. At this time, bamboo shoots have been moistened and brewed all night, and bamboo farmers will get the most plump bamboo shoots as rewards.

Digging bamboo shoots is a hard skill. When I was a child, I heard my grandfather say that when digging bamboo shoots, don't "surprise" bamboo shoots. You have to find the growth direction of bamboo shoots, dig along and find the main whip of bamboo shoots. Then you can dig out the bamboo shoots and cut off the connection between the bamboo shoots and the bamboo roots. Don't be rude, lest you hurt the bamboo roots! Bamboo farmers enter the bamboo forest early to dig bamboo shoots. On the one hand, they want to dig more bamboo shoots after a night of rain, because bamboo shoots are the most expensive in the whole year at this time, and they can earn a lot of money that day. On the other hand, I want to catch an early gathering, sell bamboo shoots early, and cultivate young bamboo shoots in the afternoon, expecting more harvest tomorrow! After breakfast, every time I hear a familiar cry, my grandparents always put down their teacups, go to the alley to exchange pleasantries with the familiar bamboo farmers, and then pick two bamboo shoots. Bamboo shoots should have turquoise tips, be careful not to have too many thick old bamboo shoots, be free from pests and diseases, and be unscathed.

How to cook bamboo shoots is also a skill. Buy fresh bamboo shoots home, remove the black fluffy shell, expose fresh and white bamboo shoots, and then rinse them with well water. It really makes your mouth water. There are many ways to make bamboo shoots at home, such as stewed duck with bamboo shoots, stewed chicken with bamboo shoots, fish head soup with bamboo shoots, fried rice noodles with bamboo shoots, and the simplest fried meat with shredded bamboo shoots. I like all these dishes, but the best ones are bamboo shoot fish head soup and bamboo shoot fried rice noodles. These two dishes are made of shredded bamboo shoots. Bamboo shoot fish head soup is to fry the fish head in a pot until it is golden brown, then put the fish head in a boiling water soup pot and stew it carefully with low fire. When the soup becomes milky thick soup, put bamboo shoots into the soup and boil it with 10 fire. Wait until the fire is turned off, add a little salt and stir it to serve. Remember that you can't have too much salt and you can't cook it in a pot. Both of these practices will damage the original flavor and taste of bamboo shoots. In this way, a bowl of delicious bamboo shoots and fish head soup can satisfy a family's stomach. Fried rice noodles with bamboo shoots is also a common home-cooked dish in Chaoshan area. Bamboo shoots and rice noodles are like natural partners, always hitting the most delicious taste. Put a chopstick, bamboo shoots and rice noodles in your mouth and feel them with taste buds. You really have to admire that they are the most wonderful companions in food. Grandpa always soaks rice noodles in boiling water first, and then picks them up and puts them aside. This is the hot oil in the wok. When the best time comes, add shredded bamboo shoots and stir fry, then add boiling water, cover the pot and stew until the bamboo shoots are fragrant, but when there is still a little soup, add a little salt and add rice noodles to continue stir fry, so that shredded bamboo shoots and rice noodles are mixed and coordinated with each other. At this time, you can't tell without looking carefully. I can usually eat two large plates of such delicious fried rice noodles.

Every year in July and August, there are a lot of bamboo shoots. This time is also the busiest season to eat bamboo shoots. When it comes to the impression of bamboo shoots, there is another kind of delicious food that lingers in my mind-bamboo shoots in my hometown. The glittering and translucent skin reveals the full stuffing inside, so people can't help but reach out and grab one and send it to their mouths. One of the most important things about bamboo shoots is that their skins are not sticky. The stuffing of bamboo shoots is diced bamboo shoots, diced meat, dried shrimps and mushrooms. Add minced garlic, salt, pepper and monosodium glutamate when frying the stuffing. The fried stuffing is wrapped in thin skin and steamed in a steamer, which becomes crystal clear bamboo shoots. If you want to bite down, the skin of the Q bomb and the juicy stuffing are mixed together, which really makes people want to stop.

I bought well-processed and beautifully packaged bamboo shoots in the supermarket the other day. When I see white and tender bamboo shoots, I think they should always be good ingredients. When I cooked it at home, the bamboo shoots completely lost their sweetness and didn't taste crisp. When I was having dinner with my sister, I thought about the delicious bamboo shoots in my hometown and grandpa's exquisite craftsmanship. I was disappointed when I video with my mother. Mom smiled for a while and laughed at my greedy mouth.

Mr. Ye Shengtao once said: "Because there is love in my hometown, and I only love it in my hometown, so I can't give up." For example, close family members are there and close friends are there. How can I not be attached? How can I not miss it? But just to love my hometown? No, but some people in my hometown are arresting us. If it has nothing to do with it, what do you miss more? As I am now, I accidentally tied myself to the lotus root and water shield, so I miss my hometown. "Ha ha, it seems that my homesickness tonight is entirely caused by bamboo shoots in that hometown!