Take a picture of the New Year's flavor The old foundation for the New Year is still a bit exquisite.
Let's just say eat. There are a few side dishes, ordinary people in Shanghai will cook them themselves during the New Year, unlike now, when they don't go to the deli to buy finished products or cold and fresh semi-finished products. For example, smoked fish, Sixi barbecued bran, bamboo shoot barbecue, three fresh soups, etc., are all "New Year's famous dishes" in the magic capital!
On the one hand, the bamboo shoots are almost only close to the New Year, and the southern goods store will dry the bamboo shoots; On the other hand, cooking is not as convenient as it is now, because the dried bamboo shoots are bought home, and it takes many days to cut them into thin strips, and then they have to continue to soak for a few days, wash the white foam from the bamboo shoots, and then dry them for cooking. So, when to buy dried water shoots? How many days does water work? Is it seamlessly connected to the Chinese New Year after it is burned? This is a test of the wisdom of the head of the family.
My mom would always cook a casserole full of bamboo shoots and grilled meat before Chinese New Year's Eve. In fact, it is braised pork with water shoots, and Ningbo people (Shanghai people like to call Zhoushan people and Ningbo people "Ningbo people") like to call the braised side dishes "grilled"! The word "roasted" both vividly and correctly describes the cooking process.
Mom will put the bamboo shoots in two drum porcelain jars, which are placed on the north-facing windowsill, and the bamboo shoots will freeze overnight for easy storage. By the Chinese New Year's Eve, when preparing the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, a vegetable bowl will be dug out and served on the table after steaming and heating, and there will be pork belly in the bamboo shoots at this time; When you invite guests in the Spring Festival, you will dig out the bamboo shoots from the porcelain jar and put them in a pot, and steam them to the table when the guests have eaten three rounds of wine, and you will hear the praise every time, and often the bamboo shoots are eaten and emptied, and the braised pork is rarely cared about.
Two porcelain jars of bamboo shoot barbecue can be eaten at least until the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, but at that time the pork belly is basically no shadow, all melted in the bamboo shoots, remember the most flavorful way to eat is to eat through the rice, sandwich two long tender bamboo shoots with meat jelly, buried in the steaming rice soup, the whole bowl of rice taste delicious......
Now that the New Year is celebrated, it is becoming less and less particular. This is because the main element of the traditional Chinese New Year, "eating", does not need to be carefully prepared. On normal days, the fresh goods of spring, summer, autumn and winter can be eaten in any season, and the old people will buy cooking specialties during the New Year and festivals, and they can be tasted at any time and every day. Therefore, the Chinese New Year is becoming more and more lacking in rituals.
Perhaps in order to retain the "sense of ceremony" of this special feeling, yesterday I burned a casserole of bamboo shoots and barbecue! Just wait for it to freeze in two days, and then eat bamboo shoots with meat jelly and soak rice, which is also beautiful to think about.