The film "Little Forest" is a work about the combination of life and Japanese home-style cuisine, and is divided into two parts: winter and spring and summer and autumn.
Its tone is very fresh, it is a small freshness that is unique to The Japanese and cannot see the prosperity and hustle and bustle, and it does not even need too many characters, does not need the male protagonist, and the female protagonist can stand up alone.
The food dishes in summer and autumn are even more fresh and elegant.
Suddenly, I admired this heroine who did not need a boyfriend or parents to take care of her, and who farmed, cooked and cleaned herself. This life, which others look lonely, just shows the independence and strength of the heroine.
First course: toast on the stove. The heroine uses a stove to drive away the moisture in the room to make her own toast, the method seems very simple, that is, flour and yeast kneaded into a dough, after successful fermentation, put into the stove to be turned off but there is a suitable residual temperature to bake.
Instead of using an electric oven, the flavor of toast is restored from the ancient oven.
Second course: sour rice wine. After dispelling the hot, humid and annoying little bugs, it is a particularly refreshing home-brewed rice wine. The heroine uses koji and the remaining white rice porridge, and then adds yeast to make rice wine.
It doesn't need to be a precise step, the raw materials are very simple, but the final achievement is a very comfortable sense of qin, chilled in the summer, sweet and sour, especially cool. When there is too much sour rice wine, I invite friends from the village to come and taste it together.
The third course of cuisine: mustard jam. Remove the seeds from the juice and add sugar to the fruit, put it in the pot and cook until thick.
It's delicious to eat with bread, with a direct richly coloured jam applied to slices of bread.
Fourth course: Worcester soy sauce. Adding a variety of large ingredients to boil soy sauce, it is not a dish to be exact, but a condiment is more suitable.
Chocolate hazelnut jam used to be available not only in supermarkets, but also at home.
The fifth dish: cold mix rain and long flowers.
Sixth course: charcoal grilled dried fish, miso fish soup.
Seventh course: Homemade canned tomatoes. Cool off or be the perfect companion for pasta.
All are simple and easy to make food, whether it is escaping from the city or facing yourself, these delicacies in the small village of Komori always make people feel at ease, maybe this is the power of home, and even food will lead to thinking about life in the way of memory.
Food and life have always been interdependent beings.