In a person's heart, there are many corners where memories are cherished.
The nostalgic sounds of the hometown, the mountains and ravines of the hometown, and the delicacies that may not be exquisite in the hometown have become an eternal memory treasured in the purest place of the heart. When we go through the years, through the vicissitudes of the world, and begin to be nostalgic, every time we think of the food about our hometown, there is an inexplicable excitement that haunts our hearts. The deepest nostalgia is actually the endless aftertaste and nostalgia for the food of the hometown.
Everyone has a constant emotion for their hometown, and quietly pins it on food, no matter where the pace of life falls, the taste of the tip of the tongue of the hometown always follows us around in other places, blooming in the deepest part of memory.
I always thought that my hometown really did not have any iconic food to hand, there was no famous famous dish, and the food in my hometown was not outstanding and had no cuisine, and it was really impossible to compare with those old brands and major cuisines, as if there was no written record and praised and praised.
In fact, everyone's taste buds have the genes of their grandparents, and the taste of the vast majority of us is inherited from there. The water and soil of our hometown, the resources of our hometown, and the customs of our hometown have nourished the living habits and eating habits of our grandparents and fathers, which have been contaminated since we were young.
When mentioning a hometown food, it immediately thinks of childhood, and childhood memories are almost precipitated in our blood, becoming part of a person's values and cognitive system, once this food is reproduced in the current life, it immediately activates the feelings in the memory, so every childhood feeling about eating and the story of entanglement with it are suddenly flipped out.
It is precisely because of this that we like to recall the food of our childhood because it evokes our good memories, a warm memory that is safe and free of worries, unforgettable.
For the most memorable dishes in the hometown, there will be sauerkraut, every winter season, every household is hot in the winter storage cabbage, pickled a large vat of sauerkraut, sauerkraut can be stewed with ribs, pork stewed with three layers of flowers, commonly known as "pig killing vegetables" It seems that there are some pig offal, you can also fry sauerkraut noodles, sauerkraut hot pot, you can also wrap sauerkraut stuffed dumplings. Later, when working in Jilin, the locals used sauerkraut to make a local specialty, "white meat and blood sausage", which is actually the same as the sauerkraut method in their hometown.
There is also a wild vegetable called koji, which is eaten raw with dipping sauce. It is said that vegetable greenhouses can now be mass-produced, and they can be eaten every season, and once I actually saw koji vegetables planted on the walls of vegetable greenhouses, and its taste was of course inferior to the taste of wild vegetables that grew wild vegetables picked in the land as a child.
Hometown people love to eat small pickles, in the past every meal table must be necessary, I think is not Jinzhou small dishes from this. However, Jinzhou side dish is not an ordinary pickle, it has assorted, shrimp oil, shrimp paste, salt and other varieties, it is said to have been created in the Qing Kangxi period, when Qianlong east tour through Jinzhou, tasted Jinzhou's small dishes, and praised it, specially approved as tribute, but also wrote: "The famous earthquake outside the nine hundred miles, the taste pressure on the thirteenth floor of Jiangnan", horizontal batch: "assorted small dishes", such a couplet.
There are several dishes that are also unique to the hometown, bean carob, the ingredients are mainly beans, potatoes, ribs, etc., a multi-layer cake is covered with stewed beans, stewed together and eaten, the cake is integrated into the deliciousness of the dish. There is also a very simple dish, steaming potato eggplant and tearing it up and mashing it, then frying sauce with chili, egg or meat foam, and mixing it with green onions when eating, although rough and simple, but delicious beyond words. One day a classmate said that she made this dish at night, and she said it with relish, and immediately regretted that she had not eaten it. There is also a dish called fried qianqianzi, which is also a hometown snack, wrapped in a bean skin (similar to but its quality is definitely superior to that of tofu bamboo), wrapped in a blended meat filling, and then cut into sections ⁹ and fried, crispy and delicious, lips and teeth left fragrant.
Many people in my hometown grew up eating sorghum rice. Sorghum rice is particularly deep in our memory, when I was a child, sorghum rice is red, the processing is relatively rough, now the sorghum rice is white, after deep processing, the people jokingly called rice without sharp points, although it belongs to coarse grains, but it is smooth and refreshing to eat, but now it is only occasionally visible on the table. You can also grind sorghum rice into flour and make steamed dumplings, commonly known as "Shu rice noodle dumplings" or "cooked rice noodle dumplings", there is no detailed examination, they are called so. Its filling is mostly sauerkraut filling, as well as peanut crushed radish filling. Now when I return to my hometown and visit the homes of my classmates and relatives, I often hear extremely kind words: I give you dumplings to eat with Shu rice noodles, and a warm current rushes into my heart when I stop, how can I know my wishes so well!
There is also steamed pork blood, similar to steamed chicken cake; there is also a food called "small tofu", which is ground into a paste with soybeans or peanuts on a traditional stone grinder, and then cooked, when eating, it is mixed with green onion foam in soy sauce to make juice, put on it and mixed to eat, plain and delicious.
Hometown is also known as the "Barbecue City", and it is no exaggeration to say that in a certain area here, you can see a barbecue restaurant every 100 meters. Jinzhou barbecue is rich in ingredients, running on the ground in the sky, swimming in the water, all kinds of seasonal vegetables, can be grilled to eat, roasted after the fragrant smell, let people see want to eat, eat also want to eat. Although barbecue is not a delicious memory of childhood, but when it comes to hometown, some people will definitely mention Jinzhou barbecue, and when you return to your hometown, someone will invite you to eat barbecue as a hometown specialty, and now it has been integrated into the nostalgia for your hometown at this moment without exception.
Gou Bangzi smoked chicken, quite famous special food, has a long history, handed down to this day, the meat is tender, the taste is fragrant, and the taste is endless. Every time I return to Beijing, I take it home as a representative work of local food and give it to my friends to taste.
The most worth mentioning is the hometown dried tofu (called bean skin in Beijing), dry, thin as paper, looking up at the sun can reveal light, the taste is delicate. If cooked, thousands of cooked rolls do not deform color, pepper fried dried tofu, the locals jokingly called "national famous dish", if cooked, very chewy, full of bean flavor, hometown people are most enthusiastic about eating, dried tofu roll scallions, dipped in the farmhouse homemade soybean sauce, is really tireless, no matter how rich the substance is now, how to resist and refuse the temptation of food, other can be ignored, but Jinzhou dried tofu is in any case to bring back a few pounds.
The various fish, shrimps and crabs that inhabit and grow in bohai bay in my hometown are so diverse that I can't name them. The morning market is full of dazzling, shouting and selling, just caught, fresh and dazzling, cheap to think that they heard the wrong offer.
There are also button meat, stewed seeds, small fish sauce, shrimp skin stewed melon (later improved to crab stewed pumpkin), water tofu, cabbage stewed frozen tofu, and... Hometown cuisine, whether it is childhood, or derived from the improvement of living standards, or combined with the improvement of foreign cuisine, is really innumerable, can not be repeated one by one.
Some of the so-called Northeastern dishes that are popular in other places are not exclusive to their hometown, and many of the cuisines in their hometown are indeed unique.
The ingredients and eating methods of my hometown make me have to redefine about food, mountain treasures and seafood are delicacies, delicious food is of course food, and what is full of color and flavor must also be food, but what can arouse our emotions and taste buds strongly resonates and is excited, in our minds, it must also be the best food in the world.
Compared with the natural and cultural landscapes of the hometown, it is easier for people to remember the taste of the hometown. It is said that from a scientific level, people's tastes are basically formed in childhood, and what you eat in childhood is what your taste will be. The stubborn dependence on hometown tastes probably stems from childhood taste memories. It has been integrated into our memories, our emotions, our habits, and even into our culture, our spirit.
Some people say that the memory of the taste buds is the most profound, and the memory of the hometown is mostly accompanied by the memory of the taste buds. Some of a person's memories of his hometown may slowly fade, and the most profound food about his hometown engraved in the sea will never fade, and will become more profound with time.
This morning, with an immersive breakfast, once again to meet the mouth-watering seduction of hometown cuisine.