Naturally, I thought of all the delicious things I wanted to eat, such as hot pot, jiaozi, rice and noodles ... I kept showing food in the form of movies in my mind, and finally stopped at the two foods I used to eat most and loved most when I was a child.
Winter in the north is always so long and cold. In the era of material shortage in the last century, Chinese cabbage was a kind of vegetable with easy storage and low price. As far as I can remember, nothing is more delicious in winter than potato cabbage soup and bottles of homemade ketchup in medical salt bottles. These two kinds of food are the warm source of winter in my heart, and I can't forget them so far.
I thought of Chinese cabbage and Pan Lixiang's clear water cabbage. I always like to read articles describing delicious food, so that my eyes can taste all kinds of delicious food and dishes through those vivid words instead of my stomach and taste, and sometimes I can even feel the wonderful taste better than myself.
The first time I read this article was in the monthly novel. My reading habit is often not from the first page to the last page. I like reading the topics in the collection of novels, and choose the reading order according to the topics. That "Clear Water Cabbage" is the first novel I selected at a glance. Maybe I was a little hungry at that time, but reading novels is not an article about food. Although I didn't achieve the original intention of reading, the whole article left a deep impression on me. In the days to come, I opened it and other novels I like many times and read them again and again.
The plot of the novel is relatively simple, with only three characters, the hero, the wife and the lover. Men are handsome and rich, wives are gentle and virtuous, and lovers are young and lovely. The basin of clear water cabbage carefully cooked by my wife runs through the whole article. From the beginning, he described that "he scooped half a bowl of soup from the crock." The soup is clear, there are no oil flowers, vegetables, white tofu, and three or five red berries, and the rest is gone. But it is delicious. It is plain and mellow; It is thick and completely light; It is light and sweet; And there is no modification of monosodium glutamate and chicken essence at all, which is as natural as clear water hibiscus.
Just one bite, the whole stomach is comfortable, and the sensory recovery of the whole day is numb. The expression on her face changed, as if a thin shell was broken, and all the muscles and textures came alive. What a good soup! "
In this passage, the soup looks so simple, although it tastes good.
Until later, he missed the pot of clear water cabbage in his lover's house, and his lover specially went to the home where he had never been back and asked his wife about the practice of making soup. Readers know why seemingly ordinary soup has such an unforgettable taste.
"To prepare a lot of things. Superior ribs, Jinhua ham, Subei grass chicken, Taihu live shrimp, Moganshan bamboo shoots, clams, mushrooms, and a crab when there is a crab in Yangcheng Lake. Second, put all these things in a crock and light them with slow fire for three or four hours. Add enough water at a time, no salt and no seasoning. When you're done, fish out all those things and don't leave any fragments. Wait until you want to eat, then put down the tofu and vegetables. These things can absorb oil. "
At this moment, the lover deeply understood the woman in front of him and the difference between love and not love in this world.
"Do you have to make such a can of soup every day?"
"yes. Go shopping in the morning, then prepare slowly in the morning and stew slowly in the afternoon. Anyway, he always comes back late and comes in time. "
Clear water cabbage soup, the name is so simple, the content is so simple, but behind this not simple taste is a wife's love and time for her husband.
The last thing a lover says to his wife is, "I can do it, but I don't have to." I'm not you. "
A month later, the husband went home without warning. He was still greeted by a familiar crock. He took a sip with joy, but the taste was very weak, and it was no longer a familiar taste.
His wife told him, "This is white water and cabbage soup. What do you want it to taste like? " At the same time, what the husband knows is that his wife has found a job as a teacher in cooking school, which means that she won't keep a pot of soup for him for hours as before.
It turns out that it takes time and love for any simple ingredient to make a taste that is not simple.
If you love me and you love me, I will wash my hands and cook for you every day, quit my job and cook for you carefully in the fireworks kitchen; If people are not yesterday and their hearts are not old, I can't spend all my time in your kitchen. Without time and love, that basin of clear water cabbage is really just clear water and cabbage!