Prose: Eating Spring

In February and March, the wind is soft and the clouds are long. Spring has come, flowers are in full bloom, and Ye Er is green. At first glance, it is full of spring scenery and hope. Hard-working people are busy in the fields, and leisurely tourists are strolling in the fields. Everything seems so beautiful, everything seems so harmonious.

The beautiful spring is also a season of green and yellow. Many years ago, in my hometown, there was food for dinner in spring, and wild vegetables in the field naturally became the first choice for people to wrap their stomachs. The petals of noodles, alfalfa and watercress in the field were hoed down, put into cages and taken home after work.

If you don't go down to the ground, people will dig wild vegetables in front of the house or behind the ridges and rivers. There are many kinds of wild vegetables, such as horse teeth and chicken feet, green vegetables on the front and gray vegetables with white beard on the back, shepherd's purse with small teeth on both sides of the leaves, wild garlic such as onion, bottom garlic and mugwort (scientific name) ... these are all around the vernal equinox. Let's talk about the practices and eating methods of these wild vegetables first!

Portulaca oleracea, broom, shepherd's purse and alfalfa can be eaten cold, or chopped into steamed buns, jiaozi or steamed buns. Cool and blanch, then add some salt, garlic paste, pepper and vinegar, and stir well to serve. Shepherd's purse and alfalfa can be fried with eggs, which is especially delicious. When wrapping jiaozi, fry the eggs first, and then mix them together when mixing the stuffing. Jiaozi made it juicy, tasteless and nutritious.

Grey vegetables, watercress, and noodle dishes are mostly boiled in boiling water, and are mostly eaten in cold colors. As for wild garlic and mugwort leaves, wild garlic is used to make steamed bread and mugwort leaves are used to make pancakes (also used to make wild garlic pancakes). Before the vernal equinox, people in my hometown basically used the above-mentioned wild vegetables. After the vernal equinox, wild vegetables became more abundant.

After the vernal equinox, the earth is more "spring" and people can eat a lot in the fields. People can catch water celery, pull out Chinese toon buds, row acacia flowers and elm money.

After the vernal equinox, hometown people eat wild vegetables and deal with noodles more. It's just that Toona sinensis is chopped and fried with eggs, that is, when it is dry, it is mixed with pepper and poured with oil, and put into a bottle as seasoning. Other wild vegetables are also indispensable to "deal with each other."

Oenanthe javanica can be cold-mixed, made into jiaozi and steamed stuffed buns, and can also "deal with" the same side. As for acacia flowers and elm money, they are mixed with flour and steamed directly into "wheat rice"; So these two kinds of "wild vegetables" are the most expensive.

At that time, my hometown people didn't know that wild vegetables had so much nutritional value. They only know that these things can fill their stomachs. In order to fill their stomachs, they gouge out wild vegetables. In order to fill their stomachs, they eat wild vegetables as vegetables. Nowadays, people seldom eat wild vegetables, but "Sophora japonica" is a must all year round. Maybe the sweetness of Sophora japonica can make them remember the sweetness and beauty of spring!

Hometown people no longer eat wild vegetables, and city people like to eat wild vegetables. A few years ago, city people went to our place to dig wild vegetables. When the farmer saw the alfalfa he dug, he immediately despised it and said, "Do you still eat this?" Seeing people nodding, the farmers said one by one, "We feed the cows with alfalfa now!" " "The city was speechless. Although it is a joke, it reflects the great changes in the lives of rural people.

Now people have discovered many nutritional values of wild vegetables, and they all like to eat them. Indeed, wild vegetables are good things, but our hometown people eat wild vegetables (also called "eating spring"), at least 20 years earlier than the city people! Speaking of "eating spring", we start eating when we can't eat enough. ...