Cantonese Yan speaks in every detail of life, such as breakfast during the New Year. Usually the breakfast that must be eaten in the New Year is: fried foods such as oil horns, fried piles, and scattered, which means that gold and silver are full of houses, and the money is rolling in. All kinds of dim sum with cake characters, Cantonese cake and high homophony, step by step high meaning. For example, muffins (to be precise, two pieces of muffins sandwiched between soft fried piles, soft and sweet with a little chewiness, usually can not eat Oh!) Because usually no one has the heart to fry this hollow soft frying pile. This is not only complicated and cumbersome, ordinary people make power is not high, huh! Usually no one orders the merchant will not do, fried things eat more sore throat, order less merchants and do not take orders, so usually no one will order. As long as you don't eat white fruits, you can take the porridge to roll in the long water on the ground. Lettuce (sheng cai) porridge with good intentions, pork tongue with oyster sauce (fortune and good market) porridge that many housewives will do. Jiujiang big fried heap is a specialty of my grandmother's family, and every year at the beginning of the second year, my mother will buy it as a gift when she returns to her mother's house. I blame myself for having a broken hand, anyway, the light of my mother can only eat once a year.
Peach blossoms are only available in the Spring Festival flower market every year before the Spring Festival, and many families are accustomed to buying a tree of peach blossoms to put in a vase, and then decorating the peach blossom branches with colorful small flashes to increase the festive atmosphere. Next to the peach blossoms, there will also be some marigolds, oranges and the like, to make a flower bed. Our family usually Chinese New Year's Eve afternoon to buy flowers, white chrysanthemums and peach blossoms must buy. The petals of the white chrysanthemum flower can be used in the side stove and when making the plank, and the peach blossom waits for it to bloom until the third day of the New Year before picking the petals to cook porridge to eat. Because at home to watch the blossoming flowers eat rest assured, the flowering period of peach blossoms is only a few days before and after the Spring Festival every year, so peach blossom porridge can be eaten on the first few days of the New Year at most. Moreover, Guangdong New Year not only to visit relatives and friends, but also to accompany the elders to drink morning tea, so many good things can be eaten, when it will be the turn to eat it is not certain.
Sometimes a sense of ritual is needed in life to commemorate the passing of time. These delicacies that can only be eaten during the Spring Festival are a reward for their year's hard work. Jiujiang Fried Pile my grandmother made it when she was young, and the impression was that my mother bought it in the cake house outside. When I was a child, I followed the adults to relatives for the New Year, and no matter where I went, I could always hear the host's family enthusiastically saying: "Come, try my craft!" Then a large table fills up with all sorts of "only their family can eat" specific delicacies. Everyone chatted while eating, and felt that what they ate was not food, but a strong sense of humanity. Now even wear a big mask when you go out, hey!
This Spring Festival, only a tree of peach blossoms is blooming silently, and the peach blossom porridge in the bowl does not seem to be as sweet as before. In fact, the method is the same as in previous years: wash the rice the night before, put it into the electric pressure cooker, put the appropriate amount of water, cover the pot lid, and go back to the room to sleep after setting the time. The next morning I got up to pick the petals, washed them, threw them into the porridge and boiled them, turning off the heat. Put the whole pot of porridge into cold water to cool down, wait until it cools to fifty or sixty degrees, then put a cup of yogurt into it and stir it well and eat. The picture above is the peach blossom that my family bought for the New Year this year, I only hope that the flowers do not bloom often, and people are always there!
Come to the finished picture of peach blossom porridge, WeChat fans commented that the sale is not bad, but it should be beneficial to the body.
After the Spring Festival, Qingming is also coming. Everything will slowly get better with the passage of time.