Today is Laba rice. I pickled Laba garlic and cooked Laba porridge .
To make Laba porridge, we use "Xunwei" rice companion mixed miscellaneous grains and rice, millet, soybeans, mung beans available at home, peanuts, red dates, wolfberries and raisins. It is simmered slowly for forty minutes on low heat. Brown sugar is added when it is out of the pot. It tastes sweet, hot and comfortable.
Eating Laba porridge is a repertoire of Laba every year, except last year I didn’t do it. Last year was the darkest moment for me and red panda , and I don’t want to experience it again for the rest of my life.
Pickling Laba garlic is the first time I have made it in my life.
After dinner on the seventh day of the twelfth lunar month, the red panda and I sat opposite each other. He was playing with the computer, while I was peeling garlic. On the morning of Laba, the first thing I do after getting up is pickle Laba garlic.
First, I mixed rice vinegar, mature vinegar and rock sugar in a pot and heated it over low heat until the rock sugar melted; secondly, while waiting for the rock sugar to melt, I used a kitchen knife to cut off the roots of the garlic, then put the garlic in a basin and sprinkled a little salt to taste; third Three steps, after sweet and sour sauce two sheets, I added a little white wine to enhance the freshness; finally, I carefully put the garlic mixed with salt into the glass bottle with gentle movements, filled the bottle with sweet and sour sauce and tightened the lid.
In previous winters, I often made homemade tangerine peel. The tangerine peel used at home now was made with the two red pandas the winter before moving into the current home. A total of five bottles of tangerine peel were made that year, and I still have a lot of them to this day. Every time I open the bottle of tangerine peel when cooking, a strong medicinal aroma comes out. As the years go by, the taste of tangerine peel becomes more and more rich and mellow.
Whether it is pickling Laba garlic or making tangerine peel, they are all delicacies that require effort and time to make slowly. If you do it perfunctorily, they will also perfunctory you in terms of taste.
In fact, the same is true for interacting with people.
Good interpersonal relationships are not only as sweet as that bowl of Laba porridge, but also like tangerine peel, which brings you fragrance and heals your mental and physical ailments.
Bad interpersonal relationships are like a clove of garlic that has not been soaked in sweet and sour sauce. It passes through the mouth, throat and reaches the stomach, giving you a spicy feeling that burns your internal organs.
For many years, especially when I was young, I loved to prove myself and pursue the meaning of everything in my life. At that time, no matter how you prove and pursue, the truth will always be on your side.
Nowadays, I often find myself naive and immature. It is obvious that half of his life has passed. As the years of growth have accumulated, he finally understands the principle of "life has limits, learning has limits". For example, garlic cloves soaked in sweet and sour sauce have undergone changes in the hands of time, giving the originally spicy garlic a sweet and sour taste. As we get older, all we have in our memories are sweet memories, while all the pain and suffering we experienced back then have long been forgotten.
December 30, 2022
