Prose on the taste of onions

Shandong people love onions, and I am no exception, almost to the point of "one day can't eat onions". Pancakes roll green onions, green onions dipped in sauce oil ... spicy and slightly sweet green onions are eaten in the stomach, and the whole body is comfortable and the internal organs are comfortable.

I remember the first time I ate green onions raw was in the winter when I was six years old. That day, the north wind was flying all over the sky wrapped in snowflakes. There is not much food at home. My brother and I lay on the windowsill, waiting for my mother to come back. Seeing that it was getting dark, my mother hurried into the house with a paper bag in her hand. My brother and I shouted and gathered around. My mother opened the paper bag and said, "There are salted fish to eat tonight. I waited in line for a long time to buy it. "

My brother and I watched excitedly as my mother roasted salted fish on the fire with a poker, and the fish was "stinging" until both sides of the fish were slightly browned. My mother took out a pancake from the cattail basket on the crock, tore it in half, rolled a salted fish on my brother and me, and carefully rolled a croissant on me before handing it to me. I was so hungry that I didn't think much. I picked up the pancake and took a bite. The salty taste of fish, the spicy taste of onion and the wheat flavor of pancakes are all mixed together, which is still fresh in my memory. It was at this time that I fell in love with green onions at once.

Green onions can be eaten raw or cooked. Northerners cannot cook without onions. After the oil pan is hot, be sure to put the chopped green onion into the wok first; When cooking chicken stewed fish, you should also cut a slice of onion or tie the onion in a knot. Not to mention cold salad. Preserved egg and onion slices, scallion shrimp skin, scallion bean curd skin ... with scallion, food will have a taste. Onions are not only condiments, auxiliary materials, but also main ingredients. My favorite dishes, such as fried mutton with onion, roasted tendon with onion, mainly green onions. Smooth green onions, excellent entrance. Southerners seem to have less preference for onions than northerners, and onions are much smaller. I remember visiting relatives in Jiangsu with my father when I was a child. There is a shallot in front of my aunt's house, ankle-high and as thin as bamboo chopsticks. Dad told me it was called "leek". Many years later, I still feel heartbroken when I think of my uncle's sentence, "Let's eat a spring onion".

Shandong green onions are fat and leafy, and they are really green onions, especially Zhangqiu green onions in the suburbs of Jinan. Scholars of all ages have also left many excellent works about onions. Lu You once wrote a poem: "Wapen wheat and rice are accompanied by neighboring Weng, and yellow mushrooms and vegetables are put." It's not a question of poverty. All soups are made of high-grade onions. "This means that people like to eat green onions regardless of the price. In the article "Arriving in Jinan", the famous writer Lao She praised Zhangqiu's green onions, which are like folded shortcakes and beautiful white silk. Mr. Liang Shiqiu, a gourmet, compared Shandong's green onions to sugarcane in the article "Remember Qingdao": "... and the green onions in nearby wei county are as thick, tender and juicy as sugarcane. One day, a guest came from far away and stopped at my humble abode, but he didn't want pancakes and green onions. It is like a life with green onions, cut into sections, such as sugar cane, and piled up in a big plate. The exhaustion of guests' food means that their lives are never satisfied. "It can be seen that green onions are not only loved by Shandong people, but also by many foreign friends. It is said that when Director Jia came to Jinan, he ate six "scallion pancake rolls" in one breath!

Onions can remove fishy smell, relieve cravings and increase fragrance. It is an indispensable condiment for home life. Sometimes when cooking, I find that there are not enough onions, so I often "borrow" one from my neighbor's house. Similarly, neighbors who don't have enough onions will come to my house to "borrow". There is no need to return the "borrowed" onions. In the spicy green onions, there is a strong neighborhood friendship. In addition, onion is a kind of traditional Chinese medicine, which has the effects of publication, activating yang, detoxification, expelling wind, sweating, detumescence and removing blood stasis. When you have a cold, drink a bowl of soup boiled with onion root and ginger slices, and sweat, and more than half of your cold will be cured. It would be more comfortable if we had another bowl of egg and chopped green onion soup.

There is a folk proverb in the north, "If you eat an onion often, you will not be deaf in ninety ears." I advise you not to speak out of turn, hoe the soil in front of your house. The flowerpots or some discarded plastic boxes are filled with soil, and the onion seedlings with roots will grow onion leaves. When cooking soup, pinch a few onion leaves and put them in, and the taste of life will come out.

The taste of onion is actually the taste of life.