In the open space behind the front of the house in the countryside, some wild plants can often grow. Not long ago, I went to the neighboring village, because I hadn't been there for a long time, so after I had enough wine and dinner, I wandered around in front of the house and behind the house, and the topic didn't know how to transfer to the weeds. After all, just after the summer, the wild grass is still relatively strong, coupled with the recent rainfall, the growth of this grass is almost one meter. I laughed and said, "You don't know about pulling grass, it's so high." Classmates said that the pulling is longer, more laborious, recently hot, lazy to move, wait for another month, the weather is cold, naturally they are gone.
As he spoke, he walked to a small vegetable garden that had been reclaimed behind his house, because it had just rained and it was still wet. Every spring, the mother of the classmates will start to grow many vegetables here, and this is also the place where there are no weeds in his family, which is estimated to be the credit of the classmates' mothers. It was here that I came to know a plant I had never seen before, or a planted weed, that resembled buckwheat but looked different. Classmates said that this is called wild buckwheat, which was planted by her mother and can be drunk for tea. In the past, the mountains were everywhere, especially the wet places were the most, but now they are national second-level key protected wild plants.
Wild buckwheat, perhaps friends who like to drink tea know, there are sweet buckwheat, bitter buckwheat, of which sweet buckwheat is delicious, the leaves can be fried to eat, the stem can be woven into a straw hat, and even fed to cattle. The soba noodles after being ground into flour can make noodles. Buckwheat, like its name, tastes bitter, steamed steamed buns are generally steamed with brown sugar, otherwise it will be too bitter to eat because of the taste. Now the buckwheat that drinks tea is mainly sweet buckwheat, also called sweet buckwheat tea.
In addition to these two, there is also wild buckwheat. Wild buckwheat has different names in different regions, for example, in the Daliangshan area it is called bitter buckwheat vine, while in Luzhou it is called wild blue buckwheat, and in Chongqing it is called buckwheat angelica. Now there are wild buckwheat root in the Chinese medicine shop, and the chinese medicine is called Kaijin Lock, which is about 30 yuan per kilogram. In addition to the roots for Chinese medicinal herbs, most wild buckwheat is not so lucky, and because wild buckwheat is born in the ditch, farmers mostly use it to feed pigs. Curious farmers take wild buckwheat stir-fry to eat, and after eating it, they react with numbness in their mouths, and the taste is not suitable for eating.
Classmates introduced his family's wild buckwheat, in the hot summer, picking young stems and leaves and stir-frying or boiling soup, very delicious. And said that this wild buckwheat tree in his family has been raised for several years, picking leaves and eating them every year, but growing up every year. He also tried cold mixed wild buckwheat, the method is to pick fresh stems and leaves in hot water once, fish out to cool, add garlic oil, chili oil, pepper oil, soy sauce, salt, with a little buckwheat fragrance, with its own sour taste, very refreshing. Sometimes when the summer is too hot to have an appetite, he will boil wild buckwheat leaves and houttuynia together with chicken soup and drink, and it is very appetizing after eating.