Traveling through troubled times to escape famine and cultivate crops as a grain merchant

Put the sliced ​​bacon into the pan and fry until fragrant, then pour in the bracken that has been soaked in water and cut into sections... Add salt and a little soy sauce, stir-fry evenly and it is ready to serve.

Tear the remaining bracken into two halves, chop the garlic, add salt, pine mushroom powder, soy sauce, vinegar, drizzle with sesame oil, mix, and a clay pot of bracken will look very appetizing.

This is Zhou Guo’s favorite in spring, along with the tender bamboo shoots. Unfortunately, there doesn’t seem to be that kind of bamboo here.

Tonight's dishes are sumptuous, including pheasant stewed with lamb mushrooms, bracken fried with bacon, scrambled eggs with lamb mushrooms, and cold bracken salad.

Everything comes in a big pot or several big bowls.

Zhou Guo looked at the two pottery pots and said, "It seems I need to buy a few more of these pots. Two are not enough."

The main reason is that they have a big appetite, so the amount of food is naturally not small, otherwise we would use several large bowls for every meal and would be too lazy to wash them.

The old man looked at the dishes in front of him, took out the wine gourd, poured some wine into the bowl, and took another bowl to eat the dishes, intending to taste them slowly. It seemed that today's dishes were all good.

Zhou Gu looked at the bracken and said, "We've eaten this at home in previous years. We could eat it when we were extremely hungry, but it was a bit bitter and sticky, and the taste was a bit strange."

Everyone nodded.

Zhou Guo was very surprised, "Why don't you guys like to eat it?"

Everyone nodded again.

Zhou Guo wondered, could it be that the ferns here are different and taste wrong?

Just look at the old man.

The old man understood and picked up a piece of lamb mushroom from the chicken soup and ate it. He nodded repeatedly because it tasted so delicious. He had eaten too much pine mushrooms, so it was nice to change the taste occasionally!

Without exception, everyone's chopsticks reached out for the sheep mushrooms. They cost 40 cents per pound, and since everyone was willing to eat them, they must have been good stuff, so they wanted to try them too.

Zhou Guo's chopsticks reached out for the fried fern.

After chewing it, it is slightly bitter, but this bitterness is negligible. If it is soaked for a while longer, the bitterness will be gone.

The bracken fried with bacon was fragrant and smooth, with a delicate and delicious taste. Mixed with the meaty aroma and salty taste of bacon, it was particularly tasty. She felt that she could eat the whole bowl by herself.

The cold-mixed bracken is more flavorful because it is torn into pieces. The sticky and slippery texture is particularly special, delicate and smooth, especially when eaten with rice. It tastes just like what I remember. It's a pity that no one likes to eat it, because she really thinks it's delicious.

He ate with great pleasure, taking chopstick after chopstick.

She did eat a few pieces of lamb shiitake mushrooms, but because she ate more of the top-quality ingredients like pine mushrooms, although lamb shiitake mushrooms were also delicious, she felt that the bracken was more attractive.

Zhou Su, who was standing by, saw that no one picked up their chopsticks to eat the two fern dishes except her sister.

I picked up a piece of fried fern and ate it. I was stunned when I took the bite and shook my head. It was not as bitter as everyone said. It was quite delicious.

I picked up another one and it was really not bitter.

Zhou Guo smiled and ordered some cold bracken with chopsticks.

The little guy immediately changed the direction of his chopsticks and picked up one. It was sour, tender, fragrant and slippery. His eyes lit up and he stood up and picked up a big piece with chopsticks. This one tasted better than the fried one.

The two of them took chopsticks one after another, and finally attracted everyone's attention. Zhou Mai asked, "Is it so delicious?"

Hesitantly, he took one and tried it, then raised his brows and shook his head at everyone, "It's not bitter."

I tried another one. "It's delicious."

No one could wait for him to taste the food slowly. As soon as the bitter taste came out, they all reached for their chopsticks.

After eating, everyone exclaimed, "It's really not bitter anymore, why was it bitter before?"

Zhou Guo said: "I scalded it and soaked it in water, and the bitter taste is gone."

Everyone suddenly realized that this is how this dish is to be eaten.

Zhou Gu said, "It's so troublesome. We have to cook it and soak it again. This is not eating wild vegetables, it's just like eating meat."

Li smiled and said, "Yes, no one has discovered that it tastes good only when eaten this way."

Housework is already very tiring, and it's good enough to be able to eat enough. Who has the leisure to study how to eat wild vegetables deliciously? If they don't taste good, just don't eat them. There are not many wild vegetables.

Whether it is served cold or fried with bacon, everyone likes to eat it.

The old man, a glutton, loves these two dishes very much.

After the meal, all the dishes on the table were eaten up and everyone enjoyed the meal. After the busy farming season, Zhou Guo hadn't been to the market since then. The old man would occasionally bring back some small game from the mountains, which was enough to eat. He would also fry a few bowls of fresh wild vegetables. Although they were also delicious, they were not as satisfying as the two dishes today.

Zhou Guo glanced at the remaining bracken in the corner and said, "These need to be boiled and soaked later, otherwise they will wilt by tomorrow. When I picked these just now, I found that the bottom part was too old to be pinched. They age so fast!"

The whole family nodded.

When it comes to food, especially delicious food, I am extremely enthusiastic.

Don’t want the old ones at the bottom, break them off, and don’t want the small ones at the top either, as they are too hairy.

Zhou Guo said: "Actually, this is also edible."

Everyone shook their heads and said, "Why eat this if you have nothing to do? It's so hairy and it will irritate your throat. There are plenty of them in the mountains anyway. We can pick them after we finish eating."

The family broke all the things and put them in the pot to cook. One pot just needed to be slightly hot, and the other pot had to be boiled soft. After all, one pot was for frying and the other was for cold dish. If the fried ones were boiled too soft, the taste would be bad, and they would become mushy as soon as they were fried.

After finishing all these, I spread out the sheep mushrooms I picked up today and then went to bed.

The next day, the group went up the mountain again. Zhou Xing didn't go today because she hadn't climbed a mountain for a long time. She climbed for so long yesterday that her legs and feet were a little sore.

Zhou Gu excitedly followed Zhou Guo, carrying a backpack filled with a sack. There were so many delicious foods on the mountain, so he had to pack more back.

When he met the villagers, they all asked Zhou Guo with a smile, "How was it? Did you eat the bracken you brought back yesterday? Was it good?"

Everyone is laughing at her.

Zhou Guo put his hands behind his back and smiled, "Of course it's delicious. I made a big pot of it when I got home yesterday and we ate it all. It wasn't bitter at all and was very delicious."

No one believed her and thought she was talking nonsense. How could bracken not be bitter? It was bitter and astringent and very unpalatable.

Seeing that they didn't believe him, Zhou Guo said happily, "Okay, since you all don't like to eat it, when we get to the mountain, that large piece of it will all be mine, and no one will snatch it from me."

Everyone waved their hands and said, "What's yours is yours, and we won't snatch it from you."

Chen noticed something different and asked Li, "What's wrong? Is it really delicious? I went back and cooked it, but it was still bitter."

Li smiled and said, "It tastes good. It turns out that this thing tastes bitter because we didn't cook it right..."

As we were talking, some people came over. When they heard that this thing had to be boiled and soaked before it could be eaten, many of them thought it was too troublesome. "It's too troublesome. I don't have the time to cook a wild vegetable. I won't eat it."