City Express News Was Supposed to Be the Hottest Time of the Year, but the weather in Hangzhou didn't play the cards according to the routine: rain and cooling took turns.
In the early morning of yesterday, heavy rain fell in many parts of Hangzhou. The distribution of rainwater is uneven, with the heaviest rainfall in Shangcheng District, Binjiang District, Qiantang District and the northeast of Xiaoshan, and the largest measuring station in the main urban area is the Yuzhang community in Jianqiao Street, Shangcheng District, with 89.4 mm of rainfall. The rain came very suddenly, affected by the convergence of air currents, and the original ordinary thunderstorm cloud suddenly changed the wind direction over the main urban area of Hangzhou, and the rain cloud was significantly enhanced, and there was a short-term heavy to heavy rain.
Because this rain fell in the early morning, many small partners with excellent sleep quality said that they did not feel anything, and when they got up in the morning and found that the ground outside was wet, they knew that there was a heavy rain.
Affected by rain, the highest temperature in Hangzhou yesterday also dropped to 30.3 °C. Speaking of which, this year's "three-volt day" is a bit hot and "not heart-wrenching", and the number of high temperature days since Hangzhou entered the ambush is only 10 days. Entering the last volt, there is no intention of catching up, but instead open the cooling mode, tomorrow the temperature will gradually drop, the maximum temperature will drop from 30 ° C to about 27 ° C.
Isn't such a cool summer fragrant? Don't forget that along with the cooling, there is also rain. The Hangzhou Meteorological Observatory expects that in the coming week, the subtropical high pressure will increase and the rain in southern China will increase. When the subtropical high pressure weakens and the location of the heavy rainfall belt moves south, there will be a heavy rain to heavy rain in Hangzhou. It is expected that there will be local short-term heavy rainfall in Hangzhou today. Tomorrow (11th) to 14th there will be moderate rain or moderate to heavy rain in the city, of which the 12th-14th rainfall will be heavier, and some areas will have heavy rain to heavy rain. Hangzhou Meteorological Observatory reminds everyone that in the recent city of many showers or thunderstorms, please pay attention to prevent short-term heavy rain, thunderstorms and strong winds and other strong convective weather; at the same time, rainy weather increases, agriculture needs to do a good job before rain protection, to prevent rainwater backflow and strengthen pest monitoring.
Overall, although the temperature dropped this week, because of the high humidity and small wind, the feeling of sweltering heat will be more obvious, and it is a bit of a feeling of returning to the field on a yellow plum day.
The last volt is open, what should Hangzhou people eat?
Yesterday was the first day of the last volt. The last volt was the last of the three volts, a total of 10 days, and the ambush was released on August 20.
Speaking of three volts, I want to mention the customs of the Hangzhou people: the head is bowed to ham and two volts to chicken, and the three volts are to eat gold and silver hooves. Hangzhou people pay attention to not eating from time to time, what festivals to eat, has always had their own set of "spectrum". Feel the changing seasons through food, use specific nodes, and look forward to the times.
In the popular words of the day, the ritual sense of life still has to be had, so the gold and silver hooves may as well be eaten.
Gold and silver hooves = ham heel + fresh pig trotter group
The so-called gold and silver hooves refer to the combination of "ham heel + fresh pig's trotters", which are placed together in the pot to stew soup, the color of ham heels is golden, and the color of fresh pig's trotters is silver and white, so it is called "gold and silver hooves".
Those who have read "Dream of the Red Chamber" should know this dish, after all, it was named by Wang Xifeng as "going to be hot for my mother to eat". In "Dream of the Red Chamber", there is no time to eat, why should Hangzhou people eat this "big meat" in this most unappetizing and hottest three-volt day? Experienced old people will tell you: "Nirvana, no disease three points of the weather, of course, to eat some good supplements." ”
When you think about it, it seems to make sense. Ham, chicken, gold and silver hooves, three hard dishes in the three days, crack the fierce summer heat in the soup tonic.
When everyone makes gold and silver hooves, it is recommended that the ham heel only need to put one or two pieces on the line, so that the whole pot of soup is already very salty and delicious, and do not sprinkle salt. In addition, you can also add some flavor-absorbing ingredients according to your own taste, such as thousand knots, thousand pieces of silk, etc.
Another version: Three volts to eat winter melon
In addition to "head fu ham two volt chicken, three volts to eat gold and silver hooves", Hangzhou three volts to eat food, there is another version, with seasonal vegetables can also feel the freshness of the seasonal change - "head fu winter melon two volt eggplant (here to read qí), three volt winter melon does not plan",
Winter melon is one of the common seasonal dishes in summer. Because the winter melon tastes sweet and slightly cold, it has antipyretic, water-repellent and other effects. In addition, the propanolic acid contained in winter melon can effectively inhibit the conversion of sugar into fat, and the winter melon itself does not contain fat, and the calorie is not high, so looking at the fat winter melon, eat it can not get fat.
Winter melon is a very interesting ingredient, it has no taste in itself, but it is quite versatile. It is like a sponge, can absorb a variety of flavors, usually the most common practice is salted meat roasted winter melon, dried bamboo shoots winter melon tomato soup. More exquisite, you can use ham bones as a soup base, and simmer with winter melon for an hour and a half, which is a bowl of ham winter melon soup that has lost eyebrows.
According to LaoDizi, the two versions are suitable for families with different family backgrounds. Now naturally there is no such thing, the stew pot gold and silver hooves or to the bowl of winter melon soup, it depends on everyone's eating methods and preferences, whether they like to make up for it, or to solve the tiredness, all right.
But if you ask me, the answer is: children make choices, of course, they all want to eat.
Teach you to make bowls of gold and silver hoof winter melon soup
In fact, both versions take into account, making a bowl of gold and silver hoof stew with skin winter melon is all together.
Pack the gold and silver hooves first. The golden hoof is the fermented and pickled pig's foot claw, and the silver hoof is the fresh pig's foot claw, whether you are a golden hoof or a silver hoof, it is a pig's foot claw. The owner of the vegetable farm has long taught me: "A pig can grow to 100 pounds or 200 pounds, and there are always only four feet." "That is to say, the pig's foot claws are not accidental, it will be the first to be robbed in the meat stall, which should be the biggest difficulty in making this dish: to get up early to grab the raw materials, especially the silver hoof, if you can't get up so early, just like me, say hello to the boss a day in advance."
There are two kinds of silver hooves, the left side with a little elbow, is currently about 15 yuan a pound, the right side of the pure hoof, about 22 yuan a pound. This is purely based on personal preference, I asked the boss to leave me a pure hoof.
As for the golden hoof, it has long been ordered online and stuffed in the refrigerator.
Buy good hooves to buy winter melon, winter melon is also divided into two kinds, the left dark green is older, the right side of the light green is tender. The hostess heard that I wanted to eat it with the skin, and did not hesitate to cut a tender piece for me.
When you buy the hooves and go home, first change the ingredients to a knife, then blanch the silver hooves in water, put the golden hooves, put the water, and boil on a low heat to stew. Wait until the hooves are all stewed and crispy, and then put down the winter melon. After adding the winter melon, simmer for another 10 minutes or so to turn off the heat.
A bowl of gold and silver hooves + winter melon three volts must eat pot is burned.
After eating and drinking, I began to study the skin of winter melon. I know that there are many advantages of eating winter melon in the summer, otherwise the "vegetarian version of the recipe" will not be designated to eat winter melon. But why can't a three-volt winter melon be peeled? Although after stewing, the skin of the winter melon that has been sucked up in the soup of gold and silver hooves is not difficult to swallow, but why is this?
I studied it online and found two statements.
One saying is that the Hangzhou people have a saying, "Good men don't make Money in June." In this way, when the good man stayed up to three volts, the family was already too poor to eat winter melon and was reluctant to shave the skin.
Another theory is that the skin of winter melon has certain medicinal value, and eating it when it is three volts is good for the body. It is said that the winter melon skin can also lose weight, so at a glance, the gold and silver hooves with the winter melon skin are really matched.