Curved potato

Father's half-cooked potatoes were quickly swept away by us. This seems to be the first time I have eaten the dried potatoes made by my father since I was an adult. It tastes particularly delicious. After eating the dried potatoes cooked by my father, a yearning for dried potatoes came to my mind, so I decided to go home and cook some potatoes myself to relieve my hunger.

The essence of dried potatoes is that potatoes bloom, so we call them "dried potatoes". It is not easy to boil potatoes into flowers. Not only should we master the temperature, but also cover the lid tightly to avoid too much air leakage. If the gap between the lid and the rim is too big, we should learn from the practice of the older generation and circle the lid with a few cloth towels to gather gas.

Even though I know the skill of cooking dried potatoes, my first attempt failed, and the potatoes didn't bloom; The second time, the method is rigorous, reducing the amount of water in the pot, wrapping the pot cover with a cloth towel, turning off the fire and letting it cook slowly for 25 minutes, turning off the fire when it smells a light burnt smell, and then stuffy for about 10 minute. This time, I really ate dry potatoes.

After learning the trick of cooking dried potatoes, I excitedly cooked them several times. It is not unusual to eat dried potatoes with Chili rings and pickles. I can't help but miss the dried potatoes cooked by my grandmother when I was a child.

When I was a child, I ate a broken potato at my grandmother's house. The scene is very grand and lively. A dozen people, large and small, sat cross-legged on the hot kang, chatting while eating pickles. I remember grandma's family has two jars of pickles all the year round, one jar of pickles and one jar of sauerkraut, as if all these pickles exist for shriveled potatoes. As long as a large basin of dried potatoes is served, two large plates of pickles will be placed.

Grandma never wastes space in the pot when cooking potatoes. In the lower part of the iron pot, white radish, carrot and wax gourd are usually cooked with potatoes. The upper part of the wok, sometimes steamed bread, sometimes broken potato buns, steamed chicken or beef patties, can only be eaten at home or on special days.

Grandma's potatoes will keep blooming, which may be related to the pot she uses and the temperature control. In addition to using a large iron pot, she also made an article on the choice of pot cover. As long as it is boiled potatoes, it is necessary to replace the shallow iron pot cover with a deep pot cover woven with wheat straw. She said that wearing a heavy straw hat on the iron pot is not easy to make the pot leak, and the cooked food is more fragrant. In addition to the elegant use of pots and pans, burning wood is also an important factor in cooking dried potatoes. If you burn with charcoal, the cooked potatoes won't smell as sweet as burning with firewood, and grandma always uses firewood when cooking potatoes. When the fire was finished, she heard a "squeaking" sound in the pot, indicating that the water at the bottom of the pot had dried up, so she stopped adding firewood and absorbed the water decomposed by potatoes with the remaining sparks.

When you eat potatoes at grandma's house, you always have to grab them. As the saying goes, rob! When I was a child, I only cared about eating. I was very happy when I ate the dried potatoes cooked by my grandmother. It feels delicious. Now think about it, grandma has so many grandchildren, and every meal has more than a dozen mouths to eat, which invisibly increases grandma's hard work in cooking. Cooking a large pot of shriveled potatoes should be grandma's most convenient and popular food. Grandma warmed my whole childhood with a pot of delicious potatoes full of happiness, labor and love.

Now I seldom eat the dried potatoes cooked by my grandmother. Every time I go home, I am in a hurry. Every time I go home, I will definitely visit my grandmother. Grandma has been ill for nearly two years, and her body is getting thinner. Every time I see her thin body and gray hair, my heart aches. Once, the withered potatoes produced white flowers in grandma's iron pot, but now they are blooming on grandma's face and head. ...

No matter how many times you eat this dried potato, it doesn't taste like before.