Chapter 46 Delicious Snacks - Flavored Potatoes (please collect and recommend)
Spring is the season when all things revive.
Not only the crops in the field began to grow, but also the weeds in the field began to grow.
A variety of rapeseed crops are grown in the Changqing Mountain Area. Although there are many wild grasses and wild vegetables growing on the ground, they have never been able to form a climate under the cover of the rapeseed bushes.
Moreover, most families in the village who raise livestock and poultry go to the rape fields to cut grass and feed the livestock and poultry every day, so as to save a lot of corn.
So weeding rapeseed every year is best done in early winter.
On the contrary, in spring, no one will weed rapeseed.
But besides rapeseed, there are other crops.
For example, Zhang An’s family planted half an acre of potatoes. When Zhang Jianguo and his wife went up the mountain to look at the crops a few days ago, they discovered a lot of weeds growing in the potato field.
Potatoes are meant to absorb nutrients from the soil. If weeds grow too much, they will compete with potatoes for nutrients.
So today the family is going to the fields to weed the potatoes.
This batch of potatoes planted last year can be dug in another month or two.
This land is relatively close, and the fertility of the land is not bad. When the potatoes were planted, Zhang Jianguo carried a lot of horse manure to plant them.
Be careful when weeding. Because the hoe is relatively wide, weeds usually grow near the roots of potatoes. When weeding out the weeds, the stems and leaves of the potatoes will be cut off.
Zhang An felt uncomfortable using the hoe, so he finally dropped the hoe and pulled up the grass with his hands.
Shoveling the ground and grass is also a technical job, so my family often says that if you don’t study hard, you will have to come back and plant crops.
But for the next generation, they may not be able to grow crops well.
In this way, the family works in the fields.
Zhang Jianguo and his wife used hoes to weed, while Zhang An pulled it away with his hands.
Because potatoes are planted in ridges, Zhang An picked a ridge himself and started weeding.
The shoveled weeds cannot continue to be placed in the ground, because if the sun does not shine or the sun is not strong enough, the weeds cannot be killed and they will grow back in the ground.
The weeds are not burned out, but they grow again in the spring breeze.
So Zhang An’s family carried all the weeds they had dug up to the rocks at the edge of the field. The weather is a bit cloudy today and the sun is not out. These things will not die so easily.
Half an acre of land is not a lot, and the three people finished it quickly.
Zhang An also planed some small potatoes to take home and prepare to stew them. These potatoes were very small, no bigger than eggs.
Back home, Zhang An washed the potatoes and brushed them with a brush, and the skins were removed.
Put a large iron pot on the fire, add a spoonful of lard, pour some water, put the washed potatoes into the pot, cover the pot and wait until it is cooked, and Zhang An is still there I picked some pepper leaves from the garden, washed them and simmered them together.
The potatoes stewed in this way are as delicious as adding Sichuan peppercorns.
It takes about twenty minutes to simmer. During this time, Zhang An made a bowl of chili noodles that he likes to dip into.
Pour out the chili noodles you want, add pepper powder, salt, MSG and other seasonings, and stir evenly.
Zhang An pounded the chili powder at Zhang An's house himself, so it was very crushed and powdery, without too much chili skin.
As the fire continued to heat, bursts of aroma began to come out of the pot.
Twenty minutes later, I opened the lid and the potatoes in the pot were cooked and golden.
First use chopsticks to pick out the pepper leaves and throw them away. This stuff is not delicious.
Then one person filled a bowl and ate it. The potatoes at the bottom of the pot were already stuck to the bottom of the iron pot, and they were fried into a layer of potato crispy rice. This layer of potato crispy rice was so delicious. When Zhang An was young, Just like to eat. The family ate in the yard, holding small potatoes with chopsticks and dipping into the bowl with dipping sauce.
It tastes glutinous and soft, and paired with the taste of chili noodles, it is simply great.
There are many ways to eat potatoes in the village.
Not only can it be sliced, shredded, and diced for stir-fry.
It can also be eaten cooked, simmered, fried or burned. Zhang An also likes to peel off the burnt carbon skin on the outside and cut it with a spoon. Sprinkle a layer of chili powder on it, and it will make your mouth water.
And this stuff just won’t taste boring. Zhang An has been eating it for decades in his two lifetimes combined. Every time he doesn’t fry a bowl during the Chinese New Year, he always feels like something is missing.
After eating this pot of potatoes, there is no need to make dinner at night.
The next morning Zhang An got up and found some red eggs and glutinous rice cakes on the table.
"Mom, whose family sent these red eggs?"
Zhang An asked Wang Fang at home while washing his face.
“It was sent by Mrs. Wang’s family. They had a grandson the day before yesterday, so every household is sending red eggs.”
In the village, if the family When there is a newborn, a lot of eggs will be prepared, boiled, dyed red and delivered to every household in the village, which means bringing good luck to the newborn child in the family.
Of course, this is also a different kind of notice, telling others that you have a baby. When the full moon wine comes, everyone who has received the red egg will go.
This red egg is the favorite among children, because at that time eggs were rarely eaten at home.
That is, on birthdays, the family will give boiled eggs, but it is impossible at other times.
However, the red eggs delivered to the door by others are already cooked and cannot be stored for long. Therefore, when someone brings red eggs to the family, they are usually given to the children at home.
"Her family, I remember that she already has many grandchildren. Her family, Wang Baoguo, went to elementary school with me."
"Don't guard anyone outside. Say this, or people will scold you behind your back. Who would dislike having so many people? This time it's her youngest son's family." Wang Fangjiao said to Zhang An, this is something that cannot be said in the countryside.
“Oh, I know, it’s the same family that got married last year, right.”
The weather has been very bad recently, it’s always been misty and rainy, and it’s not convenient to go out to work.
Maybe it’s the Qingming Festival that’s approaching, so it rains more.
And when it rains, the budding flowers on the cherry trees bloom.
In the morning, Zhang An walked to the yard and saw that white cherry blossoms were blooming everywhere, in the yards of every household in the village and on the mountains in the distance.
The white cherry blossoms and yellow rapeseed flowers in the entire mountain are mixed together, as if the earth has been put on a new dress.
Pink cherry blossoms are rare in the village. Zhang An has been in the village for so many years and has no impression of pink cherry blossoms.
Maybe the varieties are different.
Even the small cherry tree that was just planted at home has many flowers on its branches.
It seems that the results will be achieved this year.
Especially in the yards of many people’s homes, they look very beautiful now.
However, the flowering period of cherry blossoms is very short, just over a week. When the flowers fade in a few days, the petals will fall on the cement floor, and sweeping the floor will take time every day.
When the cherry trees in my forest grow up, they bloom in spring, and when the spring breeze blows, they will look like the fallen flowers in the Peach Blossom Spring.
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