When I was a child, I especially loved to eat Jinluo ham sausage, not directly, but to eat various dishes made of it, such as Golden Gong Ham Sausage Fried Peas, Golden Gong Ham Sausage Fried Pepper, Golden Gong Ham Sausage Fried Rice Noodles...
I like to eat it, and my mom likes to make it because sautéing ham sausages is convenient and simple, time-consuming and laborious. And she has always followed her own set of principles when frying ham sausages, that is, when the ham sausage is paired with different dishes, it always has its own specific form: when frying peas, it is cut into diced pieces, when frying peppers, it is cut obliquely into oval intestinal slices with a large cross-sectional area, and when frying cucumbers, it is cut horizontally into small rounds of thick and uniform thickness. Her principles have never changed since I can remember, and over time, when I eat a cucumber fried with a diagonally cut ham sausage, it feels weird like a different dish.
Of all the dishes made from Golden Gong Ham Sausage, my favorite is "egg yolk ham tofu soup". The ham sausages in the tofu soup are soft and elastic, and the entrance is tender, and every time I eat it, I will be amazed at how these simple three ingredients can bloom under the high temperature cooking.
When I grew up, I left home to study and work in other places, and whenever I thought of "egg yolk ham and tofu soup", I would think of the whole production process, and I could even "hear" the sound of cutting vegetables, stir-frying, chewing and swallowing... At this moment, a sense of emptiness but real hunger completely envelops me, and the saliva slowly wets my mouth, followed by a wave of nostalgia in my heart. After getting married and having children, I often learned to make "ham egg yolk tofu soup" for the two "little god beasts" in the family like my mother. Watching the sisters and brothers laughing and competing for the golden gong ham sausage grains in the soup, I seemed to see myself who poured the tofu soup into the bowl and slammed the rice.
I have always felt that the meaning of food is not to satisfy the appetite of the moment, but every time you think of it, its aroma and taste will cross all space and time in an instant to attack your taste buds. "Egg yolk ham tofu soup" as a gastronomic memory of three generations of "hungry" generations, is undoubtedly such a existence.