These things about eating
Author/Ying Zhou
Driving on the way to work, I kept thinking about what to eat at noon. My husband went to the countryside to build a beautiful countryside, did not go home to eat at noon, and I was lonely and lonely, often worried about what to eat.
I don't know whether it is because the variety of vegetables and vegetables is too rich, I have no choice, or because my appetite is becoming more and more difficult to serve, many times, standing in front of the vegetable stall, I don't know what vegetables to buy, in order to stimulate the taste buds, to achieve the effect of nutrition and taste.
The kitchen fridge had a cauliflower and a cabbage, two ears of tender corn, three tomatoes, and a bowl of braised pork that had been made last Sunday. But the taste buds in my mouth tell me that these foods are not popular now and cannot be used as lunch.
The leeks in my own small vegetable garden can be eaten, or I will cut the dumplings with three fresh fillings wrapped in leeks? Good idea, want to eat. But then I think about it, when I get home from work at about 12:10, cut leeks, wash, chop stuffing, and noodles, and dumplings, when can a person eat it in his mouth! Hey, what's good about eating? The lettuce in the garden is still small, and the spicy radish grows to the thickness of the wrist; then make tomato noodles? Pinch the sweet potato leaves in the vegetable garden to add in, simple and easy to make, and can be used as a steamed bun or a dish, but it seems that it is not right for appetite. By the way, I remembered that Qinchuan-style fresh dumplings taste good, thin skin, large filling, special filling, wooden ear meat mud inlaid with shrimp, a bite down, fresh and soft. The most affordable is that Qinchuan tastes free porridge, after eating dumplings, and then drink bowls of porridge to fill in the gaps, that is called comfortable! Unfortunately, the price is too expensive, 20 dumplings to 35 oceans, poor children are rich and save, not to mention that they are not really rich? Thinking about it, the seductive aroma of a pint of fresh dumplings drove me to turn the front of the car and run to the taste of Qinchuan, but when I turned my head, more than a dozen cars were blocked at the intersection, as if the traffic police were dealing with some accident. No, no.
Driving the car continues to walk forward thinking, thinking about walking, I don't feel that I have reached the door of the supermarket, I want to stop getting out of the car to go to the supermarket to see it, maybe I can buy some dishes temporarily.
When I got to the vegetable area of the supermarket, the shelves were filled with colorful vegetables, cabbage, garlic, beans, eggplants, etc. I looked around the rack at this vegetable and thought that its taste was not delicious; and looked at the vegetable, thinking that its taste was not delicious; turning around several times, or not sure what vegetables to buy. At this time, a young and beautiful tally clerk seemed to see my thoughts, and took the initiative to talk to me: "Auntie, you buy some artemisia annua, add some red pepper, stir-fried dry and sautéed with some raw nature, sprinkle some garlic when you come out of the pot, drizzle with some sesame oil, I fried it like this at noon yesterday, but it is delicious, my son usually does not eat vegetables, yesterday at noon ate most of the bowl, straight praise delicious." "Really? When you say this, I suddenly remember that I have also fried Artemisia annua like this, and it is really delicious, so listen to you and buy some Artemisia annua." Between the words, I chose a handful of artemisia for the tally clerk to weigh the scale, and it was strange to say that at this time, my taste buds were reflexively activated by her words, and my stomach also grunted, as if I wanted to eat it immediately: chewing creaky, crunchy, slightly garlic-flavored, slightly spicy dried sautéed artemisia annua!
I was worried about lunch along the way, and at this time I bought the artemisia annua I wanted to eat, and then I settled down. It seems that all of a sudden, the spirit comes, drive home quickly, choose to clean and drain the water, light the pot stove and sauté the artemisia annua, replenish the ability of the tired body in the morning, and fill the stomach that is grunting!
I often tell my husband that being a housewife cooks three meals a day can really worry about a person! When I was a child, food was scarce and my family was in difficulty, and my mother was responsible for the food of a large family, and it seemed that I had never heard my mother say that I was worried about cooking. I remember that when I came home from school, my stomach was hungry and grunting, and I took the rice bowl that my mother had served and devoured it, as if I had not tasted any taste, and a few bowls of rice were down, and I never felt that any rice was not delicious. But now it's your turn to cook your own food, and the ingredients are so rich at the moment, how can you feel that what rice is not delicious, how can you feel that what rice does not have the taste that my mother made back then? Is it like the saying goes, "the more people eat, the more hungry they are"?
I think about the matter of eating, when the development of high technology can produce a high-energy, high-protein food, so that people can eat it, 7.8 hours do not feel hungry, or there is a drug, injected into the stomach, can increase the time of gastric emptying from 4 hours to 8 hours, so that eating two meals a day, at least I am less worried, isn't it?
Zhou Ying, female, born on December 18, 1967, from Dongming, Shandong. He started his career in 1987 and now works for the Shan County Health and Family Planning Comprehensive Supervision and Law Enforcement Bureau.