Wednesday, March 27, 2024 Cloudy February 18
The wild vegetables in spring, tender and green like poetry, nourish the nostalgia and expectation on the tip of people's tongues.
At noon, take a walk along the perimeter of the unit, and the fields are covered with miniature vetch, small and fresh emerald green, with curly vines at the tail of the leaves, and small purple-red flowers blooming exquisitely.
Wild peas are a common weed, and when I was a child, my little boys and I used it as a toy. After the seeds are set, hollow out the peas, take only the shells, and pinch off half of them, and then you can blow the trumpet. Everyone blows louder than whoever does it, and the loser is punished with push-ups. My hometown calls it Ringing Grass.
Hehe, in fact, vetch is also a wild vegetable, I have never seen some sold in Tongling vegetable stalls, and there is no figure of it on the table. But we Jiangxi people eat, at least in my hometown, I often pinch back to cook in the spring, and I ordered this dish in Nanchang on a business trip not long ago.
(I picked a handful of wild peas on the side of the road and cooked soup at night)
Remember, no matter what kind of wild vegetables, the basic operation is to blanch first. Wild pea soup, simple fresh eyebrows, can be burned egg soup, can be burned broth. I'm cooking a pork fillet soup with vetch tips tonight.
When pinching wild peas, you should pay attention to picking the tender ones, and you know how to drop them if you can't pinch them, and especially remind you kindly: you must remove the beautiful flowers, according to the folks, the flowers are slightly toxic. The tips of wild peas can be mixed cold, can be stir-fried, just put a little oil, salt, garlic and the like to be very delicious. By the way, it is more fragrant to fry in lard.
(Chilled vetch tips in Nanchang)
Wild vegetables, its all-purpose accompaniment is bacon. Stir-fried bacon with chicken feet, fried bacon with spring bamboo shoots, fried bacon with grass head, fried bacon with water celery, fried bacon with vetch tips...... Can you fry bacon with shepherd's cabbage, Ma Lantou, and mushrooms, I haven't tried it anyway.
If you encounter a vetch on an outing, you might as well pick some and try it, haha, I tried it anyway, and I think it's delicious.
Source: Kim Woo Tha