Wild vegetables are shaped like caterpillars, but they are delicious after cooking, and they are hard to find in cities today, have you ever tasted them?
Eating wild vegetables is especially popular in spring. Dating back decades as children, wild vegetables have been an essential part of people's daily lives, especially in times of material scarcity. In the fields, on the branches, there are wild vegetables that can be eaten everywhere.
At that time, the children's favorite was the unique "game" on these trees, such as toon buds, strings of locust flowers, and elm money hanging on branches, all of which were delicious food for us to play.
In addition to this, in the bushes beside the road, there is a tassel of plants, which is the joy and memory of our childhood. This delicious wild vegetable, which few people know about, may no longer be the daily diet of most people.
In March of each year, the tree blooms, forming a complete flower spike. Trees, a type of tree that is common on both sides of country roads, are known for their resilience and can even grow in crevices of barren rocks or beside concrete pavements in modern cities.
Probably less well known, it actually blooms in the month of March of the lunar calendar. Although this flower looks inconspicuous and even makes people ignore it, in fact, the flowers of this tree are like a string of small dark green insects, inconspicuous, and if you don't look closely, you can't tell that this is a blooming tree.
It has two types of spikes, one is a sturdy female inflorescence, and this plant produces bright orange-red balls in the summer. On the other hand, there is no fruitless male plant, which looks useless, but the green shoots are a good wild vegetable, delicious and popular, even former children will praise this plant.
There is a saying in the Book of Songs: "When the flowers bloom in three autumns, they will become spikes", which accurately says the best time to pick trees, which shows that these delicious wild vegetables are the most popular in ancient and modern times.
When the spike is the length of the thumb, it tastes the best, the flesh is delicate, suitable for picking, and it can fill the stomach at one time. I remember when I was a kid, we used to go with our friends to pick up tree branches, because the road was full of trees. In spring, the leaves of the tree are scarce, but the tree bears a lot of fruit and can be easily picked.
There are some tall trees, we will climb the trunk to pick, and we can get dozens of kilograms of fruit every time, and this feeling is still vivid. Compared to other vegetables grown on trees, this fruit tastes much better, and when you bite into it, it looks like eating fried fish, which makes you have a lingering aftertaste.
The general practice is to boil it in water. First of all, wash the freshly plucked tree from your home to remove unnecessary leaves and debris, because there is a lot of dirt on it, so you should wash it repeatedly with water to ensure that it is clean and does not get dust. After washing, it needs to be dried and then well mixed with other nutritious foods such as flour, cornmeal, etc., to ensure that each ear is covered with a layer of starch.
Then, put the flour-coated spikes into the steamer and steam them for about ten minutes, at which point the spikes are ready to ripen, but be careful not to steam them too long and get too old.
When out of the pot, sprinkle some salt in the pot, and then season with minced garlic and sesame oil. The cherries cooked in this way are delicious and have an aftertaste.
Every arrival. March and April are the best times for harvesting rice ears, but by the end of April, the rice ears begin to senesc, the flowers are scattered, and the nutritional value is greatly reduced. Now is the time when cherries are ripe, and if you live in the countryside, be sure to try them. Unfortunately, such delicious wild vegetables are not often found in the city, and even if they do, few people will make them.
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