The mellow
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When I was a child, there was a small vegetable garden in the backyard of the old house in the home. My father planted water radish , small cabbage , green onions, planted sweet potatoes, and the mother planted pumpkins to the yard, bringing a unique pastoral style.
Pumpkins are a must-plant for mothers every year. Every early spring, my mother always nags: "Growing melons makes melons, and planting beans makes melons." Then, she took a small shovel, dug small holes after holes in the ground, and then removed the pumpkin seeds. The pumpkin is splashed and grows vigorously. Soon the pumpkin leaves look like a big palm fan-shaped fan, with yellow flowers held between the stems and leaves. Soon a large pumpkin with white frost formed on the stems and vines. In August, when the grass is ripe, my mother muttered: "On August 8th, I will choose melons." So she carried a basket and began to harvest the "planting melons and reaping melons".
There is a clever way for mothers to choose melons. She said: "The older the pumpkin, the better, and it will be sweet when it is ripe. When choosing pumpkins, pinch the melon skin with your fingernails. If there is no finger marks, it means that it is ripe. There is a small amount of white frost on the surface. At this time, the pumpkin is sweet. If the pumpkin has folds, it contains more water, and the melon body and the melon stem will last longer."
At that time, the family had a large population and had a difficult life, so pumpkin became a common occurrence at home. My mother is skillful and makes pumpkin rice with a rich flavor. The pumpkin bun and pumpkin flower dumpling soup made by my mother has a unique flavor. My mother peeled the selected pumpkin with a knife, removed the seeds of pulp, cut it into thin strips, put the fine salt on it, squeezed it dry with white sand cloth, add shrimp skin and chopped green onion, and mix it into a filling. Then rolled corn bread , which is the pumpkin filling corn bun. It tastes bright and refreshing, and it brings saliva to your mouth. My mother also used pumpkin flower to cook soup. First, cut the pumpkin into pieces, then put pumpkin flowers on it, and stew the soup with chopped green onion and seasonings. Then, scald the corn flour with boiling water, stir in one direction, and add some fine salt, so that the dough can be tougher and eat better. When the pumpkin is almost boiled, put the corn balls in water with a spoon, wait until the dough floats up, add the soup and stew until 90%, then remove the internal stamens of the collected pumpkin flowers, wash them clean, tear the petals into a surface, and put them into the soup piece after the soup is stewed, and the fragrance of flowers is overflowing. A plate of pumpkin-filled corn buns are smooth and sweet; a bowl of pumpkin flower soup is simple and delicious.
Later, my family became richer, so my mother started making meat-filled flour, pumpkin buns and dumpling soup .
After my parents passed away, the old house moved. In the garden of our new courtyard, we also planted pumpkins like our mother in the harvest season. As the harvest season, we also made pumpkin buns and pumpkin flower dumpling soup like our mother back then, savoring the taste of the past years. Time flies and family affection is unforgettable.
soft water flows for a long time, moistening things silently. The mellow fragrance of the mother cooked with pumpkin in the past shows her mother's skill, and also permeates her mother's warm maternal love and kindness.
Author Profile: Tian Ying , real name Tian Junming , member of of Chinese Writers Association, former president of Dalian Prose Society, director of Liaoning Prose Association, executive director of Dalian Entrepreneurs Association, vice president of Dalian Writers Association, and currently consultant of Dalian Writers Association.
authors include: "Durian Love", "Sakura Love", "That House Love", "Bali Love", "Angkor Love", "Kiwei Love", "Athenian Love", "Haitian Love", "Sakura", etc. "The Love of the Year" (to be published).
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