The sumptuous New Year's Eve dinner was full of affection.

# This is the taste of that year # That sumptuous dinner was full of affection.

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During the Spring Festival, every family will get together for a big meal on New Year's Eve.

No matter how far away you visit your hometown, or how hard you stay in your post, you always expect to go home for reunion, get together as a family and have a lively New Year's Eve dinner. Now eating New Year's Eve is not only for eating delicious food, but also for gathering relatives from all over the world and having a reunion dinner with their parents.

In order to prepare a table for New Year's Eve, most parents will prepare all kinds of delicious food in advance, just for the children to come back for reunion, while eating the meals cooked by their families and chatting about their work and life in the past year, so as to make Qi Le have a warm New Year.

For people who live and work far away from home, the taste of Chinese New Year is not only lanterns hanging high in the street, firecrackers on New Year's Eve and the long-awaited Spring Festival Gala, but also the exquisite New Year's Eve dinner and the feeling of wandering home. For those who are waiting to go home, they just hope that those who leave home can go home and reunite, even if they work hard to prepare for the New Year's Eve.

Xu Zhong's three daughters are in other places. Before the Spring Festival, he and his wife were busy preparing the ingredients for the New Year's Eve dinner. Xu knows what his three daughters and son-in-law like to eat and what his four granddaughters like to eat. New Year's Eve dinner is also prepared according to taste.

"Three son-in-law all like to eat meat. Years ago, they bought some beef gravy, drank cold dishes, and bought some pig ears to pickle together. Granddaughters like to eat chicken wings, chicken legs, fish and shrimp, and daughters like to eat braised chicken feet, all of which are prepared early. " Xu Zhong proudly said, "All four granddaughters like to eat my sweet and sour tenderloin, saying that it is more delicious than all the restaurants outside, and the tenderloin has been bought."

Xu Zhong and his wife also fried some oil cakes and meatballs, one for each of the three children and one for each family, packed them and frozen them, and took them home when the children came back for the Spring Festival. Xu Zhong said: "Every year during the Spring Festival, we will fry some oil cakes, meatballs, twists, loose seeds, hemp leaves, avocados and so on. When I was young, children liked to eat them. In the past, the conditions were not good, so I could only eat it during the New Year. Living conditions are good now. Even if you don't eat much, you still have to fry something to eat during the New Year. Just fry some oil cakes and meatballs, otherwise you won't feel anything during the New Year. Children are usually busy at work and have no time to do this. When we retire at home, we will do more to bring them back. "

There are many kinds of New Year's Eve dinners, which are different from north to south, including jiaozi, rice cakes, long noodles and Yuanxiao. , and each has its own emphasis. Being in the north, you can't eat jiaozi when you are young. Xu Zhong also bought meat and vegetables early and chopped them himself, which is more fragrant than the dumpling machine. Cut vegetables, mix stuffing, mix dough, roll skin and wrap jiaozi. While wrapping jiaozi, Xu Zhong and his wife talked about what to eat and buy for the New Year's Eve. Chinese cabbage stuffing, celery stuffing and fragrant shavings are all frozen and packaged separately. Divide it into three parts, one for each child to take away. In their eyes, not only jiaozi, but also their love and reunion with their children.

"One of the three sons-in-law is from the south, and his hometown is in Guangxi. They want to eat rice cakes in the new year. We also bought a bag specially, but we couldn't do it. Get things ready first, and then ask him how to eat when he comes. He is here alone for the New Year, and we want him to taste his hometown. " Xu Zhong said: "On New Year's Eve, everyone in the family should think that they can't favour one over the other. They are all my children here. "

Parents always want to give their children more. Working outside, in addition to saving energy, it is also the expectation of parents to go home occasionally and spend more time with them during the New Year. The sumptuous New Year's Eve dinner filled a table, and the family got together and sat around the table, eating the reunion dinner, and the sense of fulfillment in my heart was beyond words.

Looking forward to it, the 30th anniversary has finally come. This is a gathering day, a long-awaited family reunion day.

At noon on New Year's Eve, Xu Zhong's eldest daughter Yan Xu's family of four came back from Shihezi. "Happy New Year, grandparents!" Just entering the door, 12-year-old granddaughter and 9-year-old granddaughter sent New Year greetings in unison. I haven't seen you for half a year, and my two granddaughters have grown taller again. Seeing two lovely granddaughters, Xu Zhong was all smiles. The family sat down, and his wife was worried that the child was hungry. She quickly went into the kitchen and brought out a plate of braised chicken feet and a plate of oil cakes. "Walking on the road for such a long time, you are hungry. Let's get something to eat first. How about trying grandma's stewed chicken feet? " Seeing her granddaughter eating happily, her wife was filled with joy.

Before long, the second daughter Xu Li's family of three also arrived. The two sisters usually contact by WeChat or telephone, and haven't seen each other for half a year. The affection between sisters is that no matter where you go, or where you haven't seen for a long time, you won't feel strange. They talked about their family affairs, work and children's study last year. Three children are talking excitedly about interesting classmates and things in their respective schools. When it comes to the same topic, all three children are scrambling to say one sentence at a time, which is very lively.

The third Xiao Xu family didn't come back until lunch at her mother-in-law's house at noon. At noon, Xu Zhong cooks jiaozi for the boss and the second child. The third one came in the evening, and the New Year's Eve dinner began.

After lunch, Xu Zhong began to prepare for the New Year's Eve dinner. The eldest daughter, Xu Yan, is a kitchen helper. "When I was young, my mother used to cook at home. Father is busy with work, and there is only a handful of time to cook. I can do nothing but soup and noodles. After retirement, my father is in charge of the kitchen. Learn to cook every day, either Baidu or watching videos. Now I cook better than my mother. " Xu Yan said.

In the kitchen, Xu Zhong is busy methodically, making all the preparations before New Year's Eve. Put the marinated beef and pork ear slices in the middle plate and code them. Soak the vermicelli and fungus in advance. Blanch Flammulina velutipes, Pleurotus ostreatus and mushroom buds with boiling water. Wash and cut yam, celery, lettuce and green pepper for later use. The perch is washed and pickled, and the Sanhuang chicken is cut into pieces and put in a plate to be blanched.

The sweet and sour tenderloin that granddaughters like to eat naturally cannot fall. Xu Zhong cut the tenderloin into strips with his forefinger, marinated it with seasoning for half an hour, then wrapped it with starch and flour, fried it in the oil pan until brown, and then fished it out. In a short time, two large plates of tenderloin were fried. "When cooking in the afternoon, stir fry with the prepared sweet and sour juice and wrap it in the fried tenderloin. The color is bright red, sweet and sour, and they will definitely like it. " When frying meat, Xu Zhong taught Xu Yan how to cook it. "Both your children like eating, so you should learn to cook for them."

While chatting, the father and the daughter prepared the ingredients. You said a word to me, accompanied by the sound of washing vegetables with water, the sound of cutting vegetables on the chopping board, the sizzling of the oil pan, and the splash of steam jacking the lid ... In the small kitchen, it was like a prelude to the New Year's Eve dinner, and everything was so warm and harmonious.

At six o'clock in the afternoon, the third daughter's family came back.

"There you are. This year, our family will be complete. " Xu Zhong said happily. This is the happiest time of the year.

Everyone is here, and the dishes for the New Year's Eve are on the table one after another. Xu Yan is in charge of mixing cold dishes. Beef, pig ears, vermicelli and onions are ready. The prepared juice is either poured directly on the ingredients, or mixed with braised pork or vegetables in a basin and served on a plate. In a short time, six cold dishes were baked in the hands of Xu Yan, waiting for the family to taste.

While mixing cold dishes in Xu Yan, Xu Zhong began to stir-fry meat dishes. The side dishes and the main course are ready, and the cooking is fast. Pleurotus ostreatus, garlic moss, kung pao chicken, braised hairtail ... Xu Zhong skillfully stir-fried every dish, put it in the pot, quickly stir it up and down, add seasoning and put it in the pot. After the cold dishes are served here, the hot dishes will go along the road. The steamed bass in the steamer has smelled the fragrance, and the saute spicy chicken in Xu Yan has been stewed.

When the hot dish was fried to the fifth course, Xu Zhong took out his mobile phone and looked for a video he had collected in the Tik Tok collection. "I bought two more lotus roots this year and want to make them myself. I haven't done it before. I collected it in Tik Tok. I'll see what to do. " Xu Zhong turned over her mobile phone and said to Xu Yan, "There are many new dishes now. I have to learn them slowly. No matter how busy you are at work, you should do a good job. It's time for the child to grow up. Eat less takeout and don't make do with eating. "

According to the video steps, Xu Zhong successfully completed the coupling. I don't know what kind of rice cakes he likes to make for his eldest son-in-law, so I made a fried rice cake myself to let everyone taste the taste of my hometown.

Under the careful preparation of Xu Zhong and Xu Yan, a sumptuous dinner is ready. The children are in a hurry to get drinks, while the daughter and son-in-law move stools, set dishes and chopsticks, and pour wine and drinks. Everything is ready. At 8 o'clock in the evening, with the countdown bell ringing, the New Year's Eve dinner started on time. Everyone sits together, watches the Spring Festival Gala, chats while eating, and occasionally raises a glass to drink, which is happy and auspicious. This may be the Spring Festival scene that Xu Zhong is looking forward to: the whole family gets together safely and healthily, which is the happiest moment of the year.

Looking at a big table full of delicious food, Xu Yan said with emotion that the New Year's Eve dinner is very rich now, and you can buy whatever you want, but I still can't forget the New Year's Eve dinner when I was a child. At that time, the New Year's Eve dinner was very simple, with only a few simple dishes, but it was the moment we were most looking forward to. Eating a New Year's Eve dinner that is many times better than usual is the greatest happiness. Now, the New Year's Eve dinner is not only a sumptuous meal, but also a display of reunion and affection.

The Spring Festival is a time for family reunion. The family get together to have a sumptuous New Year's Eve dinner. This is the smell of the New Year, the smell of home, and the smell of happiness that is hard to give up. Even though the pattern of New Year's Eve is constantly changing, what remains unchanged is the inheritance of China's traditional culture and the concern for parents and hometown.