When the summer comes, I always want to eat some sour, and even if it is not good, it must be sour and sweet. If I were to learn Sichuan cuisine, when the weather gets hot, I will make the dishes of the big and small lychee mouths. As for Kyoru cuisine, hey! Vinegar slippery wood whiskers, old vinegar peanuts, sweet and sour heart beauty, vinegar grilled fish, vinegar brine noodles, is it enough? If you are not addicted, steam a tomato puree and drizzle it with vinegar and garlic juice to eat, of course, sesame sauce is also more to give.
- That's. The reality is that after the summer, I don't cook much here myself. Usually, I eat a simple meal with bread and eggs and yogurt cereal; occasionally, I stew four or five meals at a time, and then divide it into small portions and keep it to eat slowly. As for vegetables, they eat more than usual, but most of them rely on mixing.
In this way, the summer kitchenette is a bit lonely. However, summer also brings benefits, that is, fruit.
I always feel that of all the seasons of the year, the summer fruit is the most varied. However, most summer fruits are on the sweet side. Lychees, watermelons, melons, figs, that is the pure sweetness that grows naturally; mangoes, pineapples, peaches, and grapes, in order to cater to the market, are cultivated to become more and more sweet, and the acid has become a seemingly innocent ornament. Apricots are an outlier among them.
ID photo walking up (Image source: Internet)
It is not that apricots are not affected by market demand. Over the years, Laoshan honey apricot, Xinjiang small white apricot, rouge apricot, sun apricot, all kinds of colors, the selling point is one word: sweet. I've tested all of these varieties. Interestingly, whether the apricot flesh is sweet, sour or honey-sweet, the peel part of each apricot is exactly the same sour.
It is the kind of sour taste that can almost be described as "sharp", and it can make out the sour taste of the water at once, and it is highly recognizable. Which kind of apricot is also indispensable to this feature, I think it is good. If you can be a person, you can also "not forget your roots" in this way...
There is an "apricot peel tea" in Gansu, but the "apricot peel" here is actually dried apricots (image source: network)
Speaking of the acid of apricots. I've always thought that the most fascinating thing about this fruit is the sour taste of this mouthful. Whether it is fresh apricots, or dried apricots, preserved apricots and other preserves made of apricots, they are the same, without the delicate and beautiful acid of apricots, dried apricots and dried apricots will be lost.
I drooled at a glance! (Image source: Internet)
This brings us to the benefits of market diversification. Since a few years ago, I saw the apricot preserves that I used to eat when I was a child on the market, and I can't forget them, and I want to find them to eat every summer.
There are two kinds of small preserves made of apricots, one is licorice apricot and the other is stomach kang honey apricot. Now it can be easily bought, and even the packaging is similar to what I remember. I can't remember if the taste has changed. But it's not bad anyway. Licorice apricot is sweet with acid, and apricot is sweet with acid. There is no too complicated level, so you can hook up the childhood memories at once: commissary, red scarf, "chopper" (throwing sandbag), after class with a few good friends, today you and her are better, tomorrow she and her are better, the result is "you and her are not good with me", the three people are messing around...
Exposure age of the stomach Kang Mi Apricot (Image source: Internet)
In fact, with my usual foraging... Aesthetic principles, fresh goods are always better than dry goods, raw materials are certainly worth eating than secondary processed products. It's just that I didn't have the habit of eating apricots when I was a child. Because there is a folk proverb in Tianjin: "Peach people, apricots hurt people, and people are buried under plum trees." ”
There is no basis for this claim. In particular, the last sentence, "Bury the dead under the plum tree", is completely incomprehensible. But I don't know if it's because my mother loves peaches too much and is afraid of acid; or if my peaches are cheap when I was young, and apricots and plums are expensive. Anyway, every summer, they ah, peaches are three pounds and five pounds to buy at home, but apricots, plums, the market is not much to sell, even if you see, said you want to eat, your mother does not buy. Even if you ask for it, you are generally blocked by the above sentence. call.
I really want to try it! (Image source: Internet)
Fortunately, now I make money and spend it myself, I can buy whatever I want to eat, and I no longer need to ask my parents for permission. Besides, the apricots are much better now than those when I was young. The rouge apricot is my favorite variety: golden and yellow when you first arrive, hard, and slowly become soft when you put it away. Even better, as ripeness increases, you'll notice a hint of carmine that begins to slowly blend down the top of the apricot. And in the process, the annatto apricot will emit a faint floral fragrance. It's really like a very red face, snapping fingers and old.
Just ask you if you are beautiful (Image source: Network)
It's sad to say that. But even more sad is a small order related to apricot blossoms:
"Spring day trip, apricot blossoms blow all over the head. Strangers to whose family is young and full of affection. The concubine intends to marry her for the rest of her life. Even if you are ruthlessly abandoned, you cannot be ashamed. ”
I also remembered the words in the biography of Zhen Huan:
"Although the apricot blossoms are beautiful, the apricots produced are extremely sour, and the almonds are even more bitter. What's the point of doing things for people at the beginning and ending badly? Not as good as pine cypress, verdant all year round, no flowers and no fruits. ”
Although it is a gentle flower, it is still thin (Image source: Network)
Now the apricots are not sour, only the peel still retains the original bottom taste; the bitterness of the almonds can also be transformed into a rich and strange fragrance in various processing methods (see "Almond Tea"). However, I still occasionally think of these allusions when I play with apricots. Then there will be some emotion:
"If you don't want to eat these apricots, you'll finish eating..."
"If a story can only be told at the beginning, as for the end, never, never let it come..."
However, the ancients have long seen this more clearly. Like the girl who sang happily in a sweet and crisp voice when she was not worried about grievances—
"Even if you are ruthlessly abandoned, you cannot be ashamed."
July 18, 2021
【Words written at the back】
Why be "ashamed"! The woman who was "ruthlessly abandoned" did nothing wrong...
"Don't give up the donation, don't repeat it, and try to add more meals." If you can do this when you are abandoned, it is already a positive style in the aesthetic field of the ancients, which is worthy of recognition. But I think it's more appropriate to recognize that it's not your fault, be fair to yourself, and then lick the wound carefully and get better quickly. Head to your next journey. Even a one-person journey must be exciting.
More exciting.
September 30, 2021