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One dish a day – ants on trees

author:Mai Xiaojiu

Today is a delicious home-cooked "ant on the tree", and there is a small story in it.

Dou E everyone knows that he was sold by his father to Grandma Cai as a child bridesmaid, but soon after becoming a parent, her husband died, and her mother-in-law was paralyzed in bed, Dou E picked up the heavy burden of the family, and at the same time had to take care of the mother-in-law's living, changing the pattern to make delicious meals to nourish the mother-in-law's body, but the family economy was relatively tight, and sometimes she could only go on credit. Once, when I went to a butcher shop, the seller didn't want to give credit because Dou'e had already paid the account twice, and Dou'e asked for it, and the seller cut a small piece of meat for her.

After returning home, Dou E thought about how this piece of meat should be made. She remembered that there was a handful of vermicelli at home, so she soaked the vermicelli softly, chopped this small piece of meat into foam, added green onion and ginger to stir-fry, added soy sauce vermicelli and stir-fried for a while, and finally added garlic salt and other spices to season the pot. Dou'e brought this dish to her mother-in-law, who saw a lot of black spots in the dish before eating, squinted at her presbyopia and asked Dou'e, "Why are there so many ants on this?" Dou E told her mother-in-law the truth, and the mother-in-law tasted it, and couldn't help but praise it, and named this dish "Ant on the Tree".

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