Su Dongpo's career life is not satisfactory. After all, he is still a scholar, and he can't keep his mouth shut in class, so he often offends the face of the dragon or his colleagues. So he was demoted several times, and most people died a long time ago. However, Su Dongpo was very open-minded. He just took the opportunity of being demoted to travel around, eating and eating, never picky about food, not only eating, but also writing poems. Filling the emptiness and loneliness of officialdom with delicious food, ordinary people may not know Su Dongpo's life and poems, but almost no one does not know the delicious food named after Su Dongpo, and life is happy and true. This title of eating goods deserves its name!
Next, let's take a look at what Su Dongpo, the originator of foodie, has done in the food industry.
Dongpo meat:
1080, Su Dongpo was demoted to Huangzhou (now Huanggang, Hubei). Because there were too many pigs in Song Dynasty, the local people didn't want to eat them, so Su Dongpo initiated the revolution of reviving pork. Dongpo pork is said to have been invented by mistake when Su Dongpo played chess with his friends and forgot to stew the meat on the stove. There are poems as evidence:
Huangzhou good pork, the price is as cheap as dirt.
The rich refuse to eat, and the poor don't know how to cook.
Slow fire, less water, beautiful when the fire is enough.
Now Dongpo pork pays attention to choosing the best pork belly, boiling it with strong fire, adding cold water to remove foam, and then simmering it slowly after boiling with strong fire. Dongpo meat juice is tender, fat but not greasy, crisp but not rotten, and the entrance is slightly sweet, which can be described as full of color, flavor and taste. No matter how hard you try to face the fat, it is hard to resist the temptation of this kind of food.
Dongpo cake:
During his stay in Huangzhou, Su Dongpo often went to ankokuji, Huangzhou to chat with monks there. Knowing that Su Dongpo likes crispy food, the monks entertained him with exquisite thousand-layer crispy cakes, and Su Dongpo made improvements on this basis. Later generations named this cake Dongpo cake, which is a title for Dongpo. This kind of cake is made of fine flour in the shape of Jackie Chan, fried with incense, cut into thin strips, and sprinkled with snowflake sugar. It is sweet and crisp, and it melts in the mouth and has a special flavor. Now it has become a famous local snack in Hubei. Later generations have poems:
Gong Jin, I'll have tea to continue Dongpo.
Dongpo elbow:
This time, Su Dongpo was exiled to his hometown of Meizhou, Sichuan. His wife, Wang Fu, accidentally cooked her elbow at home, so she quickly added various ingredients and cooked it to cover up the burnt smell. I didn't expect her to make this famous dish by mistake, so the name of this dish is Su Dongpo's infringement and misappropriation of his wife's name. Now this dish has become a famous dish in Sichuan, which is red in sauce color, fat but not greasy, crisp but not rotten, especially the elbow is rich in collagen, and it is also an excellent beauty food.
Dongpo tofu:
When Su Dongpo was demoted to Zhenjiang, Jiangsu Province, he was congenial to Fo Yin, a local monk in Jinshan Temple, and often drank together. Su Dongpo lost a PK match with a monk in Fo Yin. It is worthwhile to cook vegetarian food for Fo Yin, so he created this Dongpo tofu and wrote:
Boiled beans are smooth and crisp.
Later, where he was demoted, this dish spread to the local area. This dish is based on Huangzhou tofu, wrapped in a paste made of flour, eggs and salt, then fried in a 50% hot oil pan and taken out. Then put the oil, bamboo shoots, mushrooms and various seasonings into the pot, and finally add the drained tofu and cook until it tastes delicious. Dongpo bean curd sauce is red, fresh and bright in color, fresh and mellow in taste and rich in nutrition, and it is a fine product in vegetarian food.
Dongpo fish:
Su Dongpo likes eating fish very much and often cooks fish for himself. As long as it's fish, he'll take almost anything. He has eaten carp, bream, blackhead fish, cuttlefish, mandarin fish, bass, abalone and so on. Even dare to eat poisonous puffer fish. In a word, he never falls behind anyone who swims in the water. When he is High, he writes poetry, which is totally a show.
Fried shad with ginger and purple vinegar, the snow bowl is more than two feet. There are peach blossoms in spring, which taste better than perch.
So there are all kinds of fish named after Dongpo everywhere, but this Dongpo fish in Huangzhou is the most famous. Marinate the fish with salt first, then fill the stomach with Chinese cabbage leaves, then fry the fish and onion until half cooked, and add ginger, soy sauce and cooking wine to stew. Before cooking, sprinkle the cut orange peel on the fish and serve it on a plate.
Dongpo soup:
Dongpo pork and Dongpo elbow are the most popular now. In fact, Su Dongpo paid great attention to health care all his life and preferred vegetarian food. Before entering the official career, he was a poor man who loved to eat. Besides studying hard at the cold window, he also studies all kinds of delicious food with his wife in his spare time. In Song Dynasty, vegetable soup was still the main food for ordinary people. The rich eat broth, while the poor Su Like Dongpo cooks radish, kohlrabi, mustard and other vegetables with bean powder. Because they have a good grasp of oil and heat, this soup is not only delicious, but also has high nutritional value, which can soften blood vessels, reduce blood fat and promote digestion, and is widely welcomed by people. No wonder Su Dongpo proudly wrote in Dongpo Zhi Lin:
In Dongpo, if you try to cook fish soup with a gun to entertain guests, the guests will be called good.
Good food must be accompanied by good wine. Su Dongpo himself is still brewing wine, Huangzhou brewing rice wine, Dingzhou brewing pine nut wine, Huizhou brewing cinnamon wine and Hainan brewing "real wine". His poems are always full of the fragrance of wine. Although he is suspected of drowning his sorrows in wine, he is more often a praise and blessing to life:
Cup to persuade the horizon and the moon, may the moon be round. It is more important to raise a glass to persuade the flowering branches, hoping that the flowering branches will grow and not leave the slope. A glass of flowers is drunk before the moon, regardless of life and death. How many people know this joy and don't drink every time they spend it? What time?
Later, Su Dongpo was demoted and went to Hainan Island, but he still enjoyed himself, drinking coconut juice on the island and wearing a hat made of coconut shells on his head. Of course, delicious seafood can't be missed. He also learned to cook oysters and wrote to his friends to show off:
I don't want doctors in China and North Korea to know, so I'm afraid I'll try to move to the south to share the taste.
In addition, there is nothing he doesn't like about all kinds of fresh fruits in Hainan, especially litchi. He left a famous sentence through the ages:
300 lychees a day, I don't want to grow up to be a Lingnan person.
Other dishes named or invented after Su Dongpo:
Dongpo fried peony, Dongpo crisp, Longjing shrimp, braised pork with bamboo shoots, Dongpo bean jelly, braised pork with plum vegetables.
It is said that there are 66 dishes named after Su Dongpo in history, and they are worthy of being high-skilled diners. Only people with love in their hearts can make these delicious dishes. A standard foodie must be a person who loves life very much, because only in this way will he not mistreat his stomach. Life is only a few decades, no matter what situation you are in, enjoy the beauty brought by delicious food, just Dongpo, Su Like.