In Anhua, bacon is the most indispensable thing on the reunion dinner table.
The traditional Anhua firewood bacon is made of mountain black pork and smoked on the stove all the year round. Big head, black color, smoked dry, fine meat and fragrant taste. Anhua bacon mixed with black bean pepper, fried first and then steamed, fat but not greasy, thin but not firewood, the flavor of bacon is unparalleled. It is necessary to dip rice in sesame sauce.
Every time I come home, I always miss my heart's kitchen and take a look at the bacon on the beams. The shiny appearance and the smell of bacon made me feel the land I stepped on more deeply. Well, it's true, I went home.
I miss this wandering stranger's greedy mouth and sweet and refreshing sweet potato powder. Just because I am too familiar with the authentic traditional handmade sweet potato powder, I really have no appetite to sell it outside. Anhua sweet potato powder is a natural green food with pure color, softness and smoothness, which is made by traditional manual processing, freezing treatment and natural air drying. Pure powder flavor, gluten boiling resistance and rich nutrition. As soon as the sun came out, I looked up and saw rows of dried sweet potato powder. I was very practical and happy. Shredded pork and potato noodle soup, hot pot, cold potato noodle, dry pot potato noodle ... no matter how you eat them, they are all familiar flavors in my memory, because I know how they came from and how they were presented at the dinner table.
Country flavor is a gift from nature. The live fish in Anhua Tuoxi Reservoir fluttered on my chopping board in the blink of an eye. Being located in the reservoir area is a kind of luck. Fresh, tender and fat were rare in the past, and you only need to fish once to get them. Wash the "prey", add yellow wine, fish bean juice, a little salt to taste, stir-fry Chili peppers and garlic. When the fragrance overflows, immediately fry the fish in the pot until golden brown. The fish out of the pot is crispy and juicy. This year, I decided to use this dish to show my talents, mainly fish.
In Anhua's New Year dishes, Baota shan oranges are indispensable. Baota shan, located in Nanjin, Anhua, has the reputation of "the hometown of citrus". The high altitude, warm climate and abundant rain here gave birth to this land of geomantic omen. The unique conditions make the oranges produced here small, red and yellow in color and sweet in taste. Choose a full one from the curved orange tree and smell it with your nose. The unique orange fragrance will be introduced into your mind instantly, and the thin and soft peel will be pushed aside and filled with orange juice.
My grandfather loves to drink sweet wine. After a few sips, he began to change his painting style. He smiled at everyone and talked like a silly child. Sweet wine and Ciba are twin flowers of Anhua, and the steamed sweet wine is sweet and soft with its own Ciba. Especially in winter, warm a pot of sweet wine on red firewood, pour it into the pot and cook for a while, and pour in the particles of rice cake. After a while, the hot sweet wine will be out of the pot, warm, refreshing and sweet.
The taste of New Year's Eve is thought to be the taste of home. Mother "exposed her hand" sent the carefully prepared food into her stomach and warmed her heart. This warmth of snuggling and companionship is attached to the taste of food, and the faces of relatives are becoming clearer and clearer ... This taste belongs only to relatives.
Taste is a bridge that can awaken people's memories. Country companions are exactly the diggers and leaders of country flavor. With it, you don't have to look hard anymore, you will remember the lost taste.