I am homesick. Suddenly, my homesickness is too strong. The villagers on the second floor are cooking prunes and burning meat again. The unique fragrance wafted in from the window and caught my taste buds at once, reminding me of the name of this dish, my hometown, and grandma's specialty: roasted meat with dried plums, which is salty and delicious.
My grandmother's dried plums are famous in her hometown. I remember that one year during the Spring Festival, the Li family came to Shanghai, and Lao Li specially asked her to cook this dish, and also asked her to make a backup and bring it to Shanghai. Grandma's roast pork with prunes is delicious because the materials used to make this dish are exquisite, otherwise the dish tastes bad. Dried plums must be preserved, cooked, dried and cut into small leafy Chinese cabbage after "winter". Meat should be fat and thin, and it is best to see three or four layers of fat and thin pork belly. Dried prunes made from this meat are of good quality.
I am used to grandma's cooking. Plum dried vegetables burn meat, and I always feel that when I eat this dish in other places, I always feel that there is something missing in the taste. I left my hometown and went to work in the city. When I go back to my hometown to see my grandmother on holidays, my grandmother always forgets her old age happily and personally cooks prunes and barbecues for me with a spoon. When a plate of dried plums with bright sauce, sweet and salty taste is served, she will first put a piece of braised pork wrapped in dried plums in my bowl and say to me with a smile, "I knew you liked this bite. Today I will go back to the pot and let you eat it." Grandma always cooks dried plums and barbecues first, and then heats them. Grandma said that the dried prunes and barbecue cooked in the pot taste better. The dried plums that have been returned to the pot are brown, ugly and soft, full of gravy, and the more you chew, the more fragrant they are. And "pork belly" is more delicious because it is back in the pot. Salty with sweetness, moderate hardness, not oily or greasy. Take a bite, and the halogen will be full of lips and teeth. At the dinner table, the more I eat, the happier my grandmother is. I looked at her smiling face and felt how amiable and kind she was. I am the happiest person in the world with such a grandmother.
One day, grandma said goodbye to us and went to a far away place. Every year in Tomb-Sweeping Day, I visit her in the cemetery. At the thought of grandma's good life, tears can't stop falling like broken pearls. After returning to the city, I will immerse myself in all the stories of my grandmother's life for several days, thinking about my hometown and grandma.