As soon as the summer heat arrives, it is basically a summer vacation that enters the hot summer. When I was a child, this was a day of tearing down the sky and tearing down the day, it is reasonable to say that such a day should be a time of happiness, but this period of time I often do not want to think about the rice, except for a bowl of cold bubble rice in the morning, grandma fried radish dried edamame, do not want to eat anything, a person is sick, the stomach is full. Father said that I was in the summer again, although I ate the summer solstice amaranth ravioli, this hot and poisonous weather and the child's habit of being cold made the child feel hot and poisonous on the outside, cold and wet on the inside, and did not think about the meal. So the father began to think about something delicious for our children.
"Yellow eel race ginseng in the summer", cheap and good yellow eel is naturally the preferred food. At that time, a very small part of Jiangyin City was basically a circle of today's Ring Road, out of the North Ring Road is a green farmland, in the summer, farmers began to irrigate water in the hot rice field, so it attracted a frog sound, of course, the yellow eel here is even happier, punching holes everywhere. When I was eight or nine years old, I followed my father's student, probably a thirteen- or fourteen-year-old north street elementary school graduate, to experience a half-day of yellow eel fishing, which was the only interesting experience in my life.
Early in the morning, I followed my brother from the back door of North Avenue Elementary School to the east, where there was an endless paddy field, he skillfully took me to walk quickly on the field, holding a bundle of yellow eel fishing hooks made of wire like the wire on the inner ring of the bicycle, he jumped into the field to a field, inspected the small hole in the grass on the edge of the field, and then from time to time told me whether there was a yellow eel in it, if there was, he would quickly place a wire for catching yellow eels, which was the little brother's self-made fishing gear with a small bamboo pole. His actions like this show that this yellow eel cave is his territory, and if someone comes to find it later, he will not touch it again, and I wonder how people at that time were so obedient and trustworthy? I saw the yellow eel bamboo cage placed by someone along the way, the little brother saw it, ignored it and passed, and when I came, I didn't want to touch it, it was someone's thing.
One morning, he quickly arranged the hooks and began to turn back to collect them. At this time, the yellow eel hole, most of the yellow eels have been hooked, the little brother gently mentioned, the yellow eel fished out, he gently moved, a pinch of his fingers, the yellow eel into the small bamboo basket on his back. In some places, he would carefully crouch down, look carefully, and then use his fishing rod hook to shake for a while, and a large live and fresh yellow eel would enter the basket. Of course, there will also be a situation of emptying, the little brother said, the yellow eel in the cave has been caught, or swam into the field, no matter what, the little brother's expression is flat, as if everything is a very natural thing, and I am following behind or excited, or nervous, or depressed, as if a basket of yellow eels are all fished by me. At eight o'clock in the morning, the yellow eel was caught, all the yellow eels, the father would buy them, the big eel pieces, the middle eel tube, the small eel wire, busy until noon everything was sorted out.
Chinese medicine has always had the "winter disease summer cure" said, many winter outbreaks of diseases at this time is the slow onset period, to bring opportunities for Chinese medicine warm supplementation, yellow eel is the most complementary dish in this season, its rich nutrition and medicinal effects are not lost at all as expensive ginseng as gold, so there is a "small summer in the yellow eel race ginseng" said, yellow eel after a spring foraging, at this time has been full of strength, full of strength, can be said to be round fat and plump, tender and delicious, nutritious, for various physical conditions of people have a tonic function. In particular, its effect of nourishing qi and nourishing blood, strengthening the spleen and stomach is especially suitable for the elderly and children.
The period from summer to autumn is the longest daytime, the darkest is the latest, the temperature is the hottest, the yang qi rises the most, and the body is the most cold. Children are basically in a state of external heat and internal cold, and a bowl of dishes made of delicious yellow eels, boiled soups, and boiled porridges is the best tonic food in this period. And yellow eel has been the cooking master since ancient times as the first choice for hanging fresh, in the days without MSG, the ancients must have prepared fresh brine, this fresh brine must have eel bones, so the deliciousness of the yellow eel is unique, I did not eat fish when I was a child, and the yellow eel has never refused, one is that the yellow eel burned by the father is delicious and not fishy, and the other is probably fooled by the "yellow eel race ginseng in the summer".
I used to write about my father's "bridge eel", but in fact, it is not it that our family eats the most, but the pickle eel soup, braised eel tube and fried eel slices, and fried eel paste. Among them, I especially like the pickle eel soup. Yellow eel washed out, remove greasy things, cut into boiling water blanched, re-put into the water to boil, add cooking wine ginger chives, pour into the eel tube, and then pour into their own pickled snow vegetable pickle, the snow vegetable is pickled, the amino acids in the body are released in large quantities, the umami taste can be described as the vegetable in the yuan, and it has the effect of removing the fishy taste, encounter the first fresh yellow eel in the high protein, that is really Lang cai with female appearance, the door is right, the eel tube soup made by the two is not fresh?
Let's not talk about its spleen and stomach, the effect of nourishing qi and blood, just delicious enough to attract people. Sprinkle a little self-ground white pepper powder before the pot, the last trace of fishy taste in the soup is the unique taste of pepper to the town without trace, but also the umami taste of the pickle yellow eel soup to bring out, a bowl of soup under the belly, spleen and stomach, smooth blood, and the high nutrition of the yellow eel itself with the soup into the human body of the eight veins, is really a good comfortable? Even a ghostly child like me knows that it is delicious, and can sweep away the summer that has been boiling for a few days, let alone the old man.
As for the green pepper fried eel slices, onion fried eel paste, garlic braised eel tube, etc., it is all each with its own umami taste, each with its own chewing head, but one thing is certain, as long as it is not said in advance to be leftover, it must be a sweeping tone, who calls it sai ginseng? At that time, I couldn't eat ginseng, and it was still possible to eat yellow eel. And I should probably especially thank Xiao Xia, thank you Fu Xia, thank my father, so that I, who has never been afraid of fishy and does not eat fish, has become a loyal fan of Yellow Eel.