This plant is called "bitter bamboo", bamboo shoots are sweet and bitter, and boiling meat slice soup is a must.
In a small village, known as "Aihua Village", in this village, the friends of the farmers are very hospitable. Surrounded by mountains, Aihua Village is the most beautiful village with beautiful scenery. Of course, the friend of the peasant will inevitably make an effort, and some rural plants, as if understanding the hardships of the peasants, will help the peasants in the right way in the right season.
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I thought: In Aihua Village, this plant called "bitter bamboo" is specially grown to help farmers and friends. The mainland is an agrarian country, most of which are farmers, involving a large number of farming operations, especially at the turn of spring and summer every year, which is the busiest season for farmers' friends. At this time, this bitter bamboo began to help the peasant friends in an appropriate way.
The turn of spring and summer is the busy season for farmers and friends in Aihua Village. Many rural vegetables and fruits are not yet ripe. However, at this time, the bitter bamboo shoots began to grow and cooked with it.
Bitter bamboo is a kind of bamboo, and its bamboo shoots can be regarded as a snack when I was a child. As a rural child, I was particularly fond of eating bitter bamboo shoots at that time, as did the children nearby. Sometimes, I would run far away to dig bamboo shoots. Of course, much happier than the children in the next township, climbing mountains and carrying firewood.
When I went to school, I probably had a small hoe hidden in my bag. If the teacher asked if he could help the family grow peanuts or corn after school, he prevaricated.
After school, several rural children began to run to places with bitter bamboo. At that time, the baby of the student, unlike the one who eats lunch now, had to go to school hungry. Naturally, they have a stronger craving for food. First, they dug up a bitter bamboo shoot, wiped off the soil marked, peeled it off, and ate it raw. Its roots are sweet, the middle is bitter, and the back is tender, but the bitterness is not heavy. We all love to eat it.
In Aihua Village, farmer friends are not very enthusiastic about eating raw bamboo shoots. They only dig one when they are particularly tired, eat it raw, eat it bitterly, can refresh the mind, relieve fatigue, and reduce fatigue.
Farmers also love bitter bamboo shoots. More often, it is made into a delicious wild vegetable, such as bitter bamboo shoot soup, which is one of them. It is usually to wash the shell and pull it from beginning to end with a knife. The shell of the bamboo shoots can then be peeled off and sliced directly without washing, because they are not dirty. Pour in the hot sliced broth, cook for 2 minutes and serve. The taste is good, the bamboo shoots are better than raw, and the key soup is particularly delicious.
Bamboo shoots of bitter bamboo have two flavors, sweet and bitter. Sweet bitter bamboo shoots are thicker, crisper and sweeter. In general, bitter bamboo shoots are smaller, older, slimmer and have more fiber. However, bitter bamboo shoots are used to make soup, and the soup is more beautiful. I especially like to cook soup with bitter bamboo shoots. The Compendium of Materia Medica says: "Bitter bamboo shoots taste bitter and sweet and cold." It is mainly used for the treatment of insomnia, facial disfigurement, hot yellow tongue, thirst quenching, alcohol, clearing heat, yiqi, diuresis, gasification nitrogen, wind and heat regulation, treatment of athlete's foot, treatment of cold loss after sweating." It can be seen that bitter bamboo shoots are rare bamboo shoots that are used for both medicine and food.
There are two kinds of bitter shoots: sweet and bitter. Probably because the sweetness is slightly bitter, the bitter taste is more delicious when cooked. Everyone calls it bitter shoots. There are many methods of bitter bamboo shoots, farmers like to throw directly into the stove, cover the hot ash with the fire, cook it and it is cold, or cut into strips or mix white sugar, or fry meat, boil meat slices, boil soup, dry or soak into bubble shoots. In short, in Aihua Village, you can eat both authentic wild bitter shoots and authentic bitter bamboo shoots.
Friends, have you ever seen bitter bamboo? Have you ever eaten a bitter bamboo shoot? Do you like to eat? Do you prefer sweet or bitter foods? The people take food as heaven. In my heart, Aihua Village, a place with food, is the most beautiful village in my mind.