(a)

After my mother came back, my daily routine was mainly cooking. When my father was there, he mainly cooked the three meals in the family, and he cooked each meal as if it were his job. His family's admiration for his cooking skills is the biggest reward for him, and after each reward, he cooks more diligently. He not only cooks three meals for his family, but also feeds small birds and fish, which are usually bought as fish food. He gave cats and dogs braised chicken necks every day or two, and the taste of the braised chicken was no different from the one he bought, and it was even better than the one he bought. Ya and the sisters sometimes smell the rich fragrance and can't help but pick it up and eat it.

Every time his father went out, the cats and dogs would follow him and watch him wagging their tails. Every time he came back, probably at the entrance of the alley, the cat and dog would come to the door to welcome him. "Cats and dogs are mouthful" is the father's mantra. In addition to his conscientious work, his daily life was full of cooking, but he never showed boredom with cooking, but was full of interest.

After my father left, my mother began to cook voluntarily once she returned home. The sisters knew that their mother's cooking was not as delicious as their father's, but now they had changed their minds. Not only did my mother do it perfectly, but she also surpassed my father. My sister's shop is next to the school cafeteria, and there are many cooks and canteen workers who come to the shop to buy things and repair things, and everyone is familiar with them after a long time. My mother was kind and approachable, and many of the female workers in the cafeteria called her sister when she saw her mother, as if she were a relative, and my mother humbly asked them for cooking skills. When my mother came back, she said to Ya how to stir-fry the vegetables to be delicious and beautiful, and how to steam the steamed buns to be empty and white.

Leafy greens are most susceptible to discoloration because of their abundance of chlorophyll. Chlorophyll is very fragile and is afraid of light, heat, acid and oxygen, so it is a big problem to keep it stable. To prevent the green leafy vegetables from changing color, they should be processed before putting them in the pot, and the cut vegetables should be soaked in cold water to isolate them from the oxygen in the air. The most important thing is to shorten the cooking time. Generally speaking, stir-frying quickly, blanching quickly, and then cooling the water can keep it green well. In addition, do not cover the pot when stir-frying green vegetables, so as not to make it difficult for the organic acids in the vegetables to volatilize, forming an acidic environment and decomposing chlorophyll. At the same time, do not add vinegar and other sour seasonings.

Crispy vegetables need to be put with some vinegar before cooking, such as fried shredded potatoes, bean sprouts, and lotus root slices, which can be put with some vinegar before leaving the pot to make the dish more crispy and delicious. But stir-fry rape, cabbage and some green vegetables, do not put vinegar or it will turn yellow and wilt. 

When cold radish and stir-fried red cabbage, add a little vinegar to make the color of the dish more red and bright. 

When stewing pork ribs and some meat dishes, putting a little vinegar can dissolve the calcium in the bones and promote the absorption of the body. 

When stewing pig's trotters and some paws, adding vinegar can break down the collagen and make a delicious "beauty soup". 

When eating seafood and river crabs, it must be dipped in vinegar, because there are inevitably some microorganisms and parasites in aquatic products, and vinegar can play a role in sterilization, and it can also be fishy and fresh.

So why do some people like to add a little sugar when making noodles? Because sugar is actually a kind of yeast food, adding some sugar to the dough is more conducive to fermentation.

In addition, some steamed buns taste particularly strong, how do you make them? It's because salt is added. If only yeast and sugar are added to the steamed bread and noodles, it will be very soft after steaming, but it is not strong and there is no chewiness. After adding salt, the dough has gluten, and it tastes chewy. The timing of adding salt should be grasped, not when mixing the dough, so that the dough will not be kneaded, but should be kneaded into it after the dough is set.

There is a practical trick, after the dough is reconciled, add a little salt, knead it evenly and shake it on the cutting board, and pat it a few times to make the dough in a relaxed state, and the dough effect will be better.

Steamed steamed buns are not white enough? It's because the kneading time is too short. The kneading time is longer, the force is greater, and the steamed buns will be white. The steamed bread machine and noodles in the steamed bread shop are strong and long, and the steamed bread is all white. In addition, adding less sugar and milk can also make the steamed bread whiter and more fragrant.

Sometimes the steamed steamed bread will become a dead steamed bun, because the water vapor dripped onto the steamed bread during the steaming process, or the lid was opened immediately after the steamed bread was steamed.

Ordinary steamed buns use low-sugar yeast, add less sugar when mixing the dough, add a little salt after the dough is kneaded, knead the dough for a longer time, and the strength is a little greater, and the steamed bread is whiter and more chewy. Use high-sugar yeast to make bread and desserts, and add less milk to make it softer and more fragrant.

In summary, blanching with boiling water before stir-frying can keep the dish crisp, and the bun should be kneaded more to make it easy to be empty and white.

When my father was alive, he fed twenty or thirty black chickens, and he fed the chickens with leftovers mixed with chicken feed, most of these chickens were hens, and the eggs they laid could not be eaten, so my father used yellow mud to marinate them in ceramic jars, sometimes for several months. My mother learned the quick egg pickling method from the cook, which can be marinated in two or three days, that is, boil a pot of water with various condiments, and put the eggs in after cooling.

Although my mother does business all year round and doesn't do housework, the noodles and dumpling skins rolled out are as neat and beautiful as if they were made by a machine. Every year when winter comes, my mother dismantles and washes the bedding, and the stitches are as uniform as if the quilt is sewn by a machine.

Until now, my mother still seized the opportunity to ask the people in the cafeteria about the methods and skills of cooking delicious food, she probably knew that the children missed the taste of their father's cooking, and she hoped that the children would praise every time they ate her cooking, and they would smile with satisfaction as they did for their father's cooking. Every time I came back, my mother's cooking skills improved a lot.

My mother even learned how to make lasagna, a favorite delicacy when she was in school, but she bought it mainly at street stalls. At that time, Ya thought: one day I must learn how to make mille-feuille.

Prepare the ingredients you need, mix the noodles first, add yeast, sugar, warm water to the flour, stir them with chopsticks to form a flocculent, and then knead them into a smooth dough by hand. Let it sit for 5 minutes, then rub it again and let it rise in a warm place. 

The dough rises to 2 times the size, and the dough is pulled apart, and the inside is dense honeycomb.

Take out the dough, sprinkle flour on the board to prevent sticking, knead the dough evenly and roll it into a large rectangular sheet, evenly brush with a layer of cooking oil, and then sprinkle an appropriate amount of salt and pepper powder thinly, and cut three knives on each side of the upper and lower sides. 

Starting from the right, fold it up and down once. 

Continue to fold to the left, fold up and down again, and continue to repeat the fold. 

Fold it until the end, wrap it in the upper and lower dough sheets, and pinch it tightly to seal the mouth. 

Press lightly to form a circle, roll out a large round cake with a rolling pin and brush with egg wash or water. 

Sprinkle an appropriate amount of black and white sesame seeds on the surface, the sesame seeds are preferably raw, and cooked sesame seeds are easy to paste. 

Place the dough cake on a steamer covered with a cloth, close the lid and let it rise for 30 minutes. After the dough cake is obviously fermented, turn on the high heat and steam for 20 minutes. 

After the dough is steamed, take it out, brush the electric baking pan with a layer of cooking oil, put the dough in the electric baking pan, and burn it on high heat until both sides are golden brown. It can also be eaten directly after steaming, but it does not have a golden and crispy appearance.

In general, the method of this mille-feuille cake is still very simple, as long as the fermentation is in place, there is nothing bad to do. After steaming, you can also do without using an electric baking pan, and you can eat it directly by cutting it, but you will have a layer of golden crispy skin when you brand it with an electric baking pan, which tastes more delicious and is also very beautiful. If you use an electric baking pan to cook directly, the inside is not easy to cook, because after all, the mille-feuille cake is too thick.

Men who can cook are easy to give the impression of being gentle, loving, and responsible, and even arouse the admiration and adoration of girls. Men who can cook enjoy a relatively high status in the family, and whoever is in charge of the cooking has more weight in what they say. Cooking a meal for a loved one will make it sweet in the mouth and in the heart, and make a better impression. A man who can cook will make his family have a strong attachment to him, regard him as a pillar, and with him, home is like a warm harbor. People who can cook can firmly tie the hearts of their lovers and family members, just imagine, when the three meals come, the hungry stomach is full of the fragrance of your rice, how can you not deeply miss your love and your good? Cooking is also a powerful tool for married men and women to resist third parties, as the saying goes, "If you want to capture a man's heart, first grab his stomach." This is the secret and magic weapon of strong love. In the impression of many people, when a man is the most handsome is when he takes out his wallet and cooks, how can the bold action of picking out his wallet and the skillful cooking action of flowing clouds not make people ripple with joy and envy in their hearts?

A woman who loves to cook is undoubtedly someone who loves life, enjoys her family, and cares for her family. They cook with peace of mind, a happy and contented smile on their faces, and a love for their family. Zhang Ailing once said: "Love is not enthusiasm or nostalgia, but it has become a part of life over time." "From the full girlish feelings to the symphony of pots and spoons brewing for three meals a day, love is integrated into firewood, rice, oil and salt, and transformed into dishes with full color and flavor.

No matter how the soul jumps in the mountains, rivers, lakes and seas when you are young, and finally confined to the day and night of the family, let the kitchen become a garden of love. The heart is full of love for the family, and the meals made condense strong love, and peace and harmony have become the atmosphere of the family. A woman who loves cooking is an artist who loves life, firewood, rice, oil, salt, sauce, tea vinegar is the brush in her hand, and she conceives in her heart to brew the harmony and beauty of the layout picture.

No matter how many places we walk, we cannot be completely intoxicated by thousands of rivers and mountains. When I think of my parents in my hometown, "Mom's Taste" and "Daddy's Taste" come from afar. The faint fragrance of bluegrass on my mother's body, the mellow aroma of my mother's cooking, and the strong fragrance of my father's cooking are the lingering aroma that lingers around our noses.

Cooking is a person's most basic survival skill, cooking and eating are the basic needs, and pondering how to make it is the sublimation of a heart that loves life.

Who can say no to good food? Enriching the taste buds is a manifestation of happiness. Boiled cabbage in water every day is too bland. A variety of flavors make the tip of the tongue flow and be satisfied.

When people meet on weekdays, they often use the question "Have you eaten?" "Saying hello shows how natural and normal it is to eat." If you can't cook, what else will you do? It is a sentence on the lips of many people, but it is "the road to simplicity", and eating is a means for people to communicate with each other about harmony and relationship. There are all kinds of delicacies in the market to meet people's needs, and hotels can meet the needs of relatives and friends, but in the end, it takes a lot of copper plates, and cooking a good meal at home is the daily life.

(b)

The mother likes to tease Ya's son when she cooks, after all, the son is one of the few men in the family. For a family that is prone to having a girl, it is not easy to have a son. The brother and daughter-in-law married into this family with many girls, and the pressure to have a son was not small, although no one told her that she must have a son, and her father and mother always said that "it is the same to have a boy and a girl", "plant melons and get melons, plant beans and get beans". But the neighbors will say something unpleasant.

My sister is a daughter, and my sister, brother, and Ya's first child are all daughters, and Ya remembers that when she was seven or eight months pregnant with her daughter, an old lady in the neighborhood actually said to her: "It's about to be born, this is always a son." The old lady in the neighborhood, who has three sons and a daughter, said unhappily: "This is not our family's child, it is the child's father's family, and the child's father likes his daughter." ”

My husband's family doesn't seem to lack sons, my father-in-law has two older sisters, and he is the only son in the family. My husband's grandparents regarded my father-in-law as very expensive, in that poor era, my husband's grandmother circled around the stove and fields every day, and my husband's grandfather worked in the brigade department, and his hobby after work was to play mahjong. After Ya got married, he saw his grandfather eat every morning, and after eating, he was seen playing mahjong in the town with a crutch, and the grandfather did not come back at noon, but bought and ate on the street, and came back to eat at night.

Legend has it that the old man played mahjong very well, he held the mahjong tiles in his hands, shook them in his ears a few times, and he could hear what the cards were. I heard my grandmother say that he played mahjong and lost only one wall in his family, and later won all of them back.

The people here seem to be obsessed with playing mahjong, and the main entertainment of people is to play mahjong during festivals or agricultural slack. Both men and women here seem to play mahjong and have a keen interest. Because this is a mountainous area and far away from the market, people here like to walk away, which is equivalent to entertainment. When they arrived at the host's house, the host called some people to accompany the guests to play mahjong and cook a large table of sumptuous dishes to entertain the guests.

Father-in-law and mother-in-law like to go to other people's homes, of course, the main thing is to go to the mother-in-law's maiden house. Most of the other two don't have parents-in-law, so they need to be at home alone to watch the door and go to the house alone. And Ya's father-in-law and mother-in-law because they have grandmothers cooking at home to feed pigs and watch the door, so the two of them often go together, and even play for two or three days before coming back, where red and white ceremonies generally need to be done for two or three days. Ya doesn't know how to play mahjong, she wants to learn a little, but she always feels complicated and fearful, and feels that she can't learn. She is quite interested in reading, writing, painting, and painting. After being married for so many years, Ya has never learned to play mahjong, she doesn't like to leave, and even if she leaves, she is just coaxing her children. Sometimes watching other people's mahjong play hot, and she can only take the child to stop in a corner of the courtyard, the excitement is others', the loneliness is her own, and the loneliness arises spontaneously. I want to understand and learn to play mahjong has become a cinnabar mole in Ya's heart.

Ya even bought a book on how to play mahjong at a second-hand book stall, but she couldn't calm down and read it.

Mahjong is a recreational activity, learning mahjong is good for physical health (except gambling), can promote people's thinking, improve people's flexibility. Mahjong integrates behavioral science, psychology, co-ordination and other disciplines. 

Mahjong has a total of 144 cards, among them, the flower has: plum, orchid, bamboo, chrysanthemum, spring, summer, autumn, winter each one, wind cards have: east, south, west, north, middle, hair, white each four, tiao sub: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 each four, the tube has: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 each four, ten thousand sons have: one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten each four. Of these, 136 are available, and the flower is used only as an out. 

A game of mahjong is played, there are a total of 19-20 rounds, and each person has a chance to draw cards 19-20 times. 

A game of mahjong can be divided into three stages: one is the early stage (1-4), the second is the middle stage (5-11), and the third is the end period (12-paste cards). Then let's analyze the three stages of the line, the first stage, regardless of the good or bad of the card, to keep calm, not arrogant, this is the most basic psychological tactics of playing cards. Don't be in a hurry to eat or touch the cards for the first time, because "the card passes in front of the door, it is better to touch one", "the head does not eat the child" This is a famous saying left by the ancients. The second stage, if the front plate is not smooth, then the middle plate will begin to change, then there must be eating, there is a bumper, there is a lever, the card is in a touch to move forward, the most important thing is 8-10 circles of cards, to pay attention to the house, what to leave on the house, what to dismantle the next house, leave the pair mainly, supplemented by the pair, try to touch the cards, to pay attention to the surroundings, judge the situation. The third stage, a game of cards can be played to the end, indicating that everyone's cards are about the same, at this time can not be anxious, to keep a clear mind, try not to put the paste, really want to put the paste as much as possible to put the small family paste, can not paste, the dead card is the best ending. 

Cards are also very important, a single put aside, do not throw into the sea, first give up the card, if you want to do the card do not give up the card, because others know that the wind does not do the card, on the contrary, the word card will be more and more dangerous after leaving in the middle of the game. Then round 1, 9 cards, this kind of cards do not have much value, 1, 9 cards are also called old cards, a single card is finished. Then play the composite card, the compound card is a lot of variety, to play according to their own needs, such as 223 how to give up the card? Novices generally knock out 3, in fact, play 3 will lose, because you hit 3 to leave 2, you have two 2 in your hand, there are two outside, the probability is too small, if others also have two 2, then your 2 is not much use, can only be done. If you play 2 out, 1, 4, and 5 are all useful cards. After playing the cards, you should often change the position of the cards, and there should be no gaps between the cards, and it is best to spend a match, so as to avoid the opponent guessing your cards. Another important thing is to always look at the lost cards in the sea, and the cards in your hand, and then decide how to give up the cards, which is also a key, this should be used in practice. 

Let's talk about the face value of the card. What are the good cards? Which hands come next? Let's talk about this, the main thing is the value of the number of cards, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 these cards to touch which can be given up first, the above said 1, 9 is the old man card, touch these should be given up first, and then 2, 6, 8 should not stay, there is a saying is gold 3 silver 7, 1, 3, 5, 7, 9 do the pillar, this must not be observed, 1, 4, 7 play less, 2, 5, 8 hit, 3, 6, 9 play more. Look at the home and stare at the grinding home. 

The above is some common sense content about mahjong on Du Niang.

The grandmother gave birth to several sons, and when the two of them were not at home, one of them got stuck eating fish or peanuts, and when they came back, the child was weak and breathless. There are sons who lost their lives because they went swimming in the river, and there are sons who left because they were sick and did not receive timely treatment.

There is a very deep pool in front of my husband's house, and people call him "Bomb Pit", which is said to be a huge deep pit blown out after thunder, and it is bottomless green all year round. Ya Zeng saw her husband swimming in it in the summer, and the old man stood on the shore very uneasily and kept calling him out. The loss of several children was heartbreaking and made him look down on his only grandson. The sister-in-law now complains about the grandfather's partiality: the grandfather is willing to buy whatever the elder brother wants, but he is not willing to buy it for her.

When my husband and sister-in-law were one year old, they began to sleep with their grandfather one night and one with their grandmother. My husband's grandfather carried my husband on his back wherever he went, and once, my lively and active husband sat on the old man's shoulder and danced happily, and he fell off the old man's shoulder all of a sudden. The old man was burly and tall, and his husband fell from such a height, and he couldn't cry at that time. The old grandfather didn't dare to tell his parents-in-law about it, and after that, his husband always had a fever, and he couldn't see a doctor everywhere, and finally someone told his parents-in-law about it, and they knew what was going on. Fortunately, my husband didn't leave any sequelae.

My husband sometimes says that he didn't read and became famous, which is probably related to falling off his grandfather's shoulder when he was a child. He is very good at mathematics, but he can't remember things in Chinese, and he is very envious of Ya's memory: a book can be memorized for eight or nine. Ya feels that her husband's body is still strong, and he is generally not sick, but once he has a fever, it is more serious, and it will not be good if he does not lose water. It is said that my husband was not in good health when he was a child, and he often had a fever and cold, according to his husband, he slept with his grandfather when he was a child, and wanted to pee in the middle of the night, so the old man pulled him out of the hot quilt and stood outside the gate to pee. The big man with young children is indeed not as delicate as the woman.

The mother-in-law said that she also had a sister-in-law when she got married, and the sister-in-law was only 9 years old at the time, and her big eyes were very beautiful. Once, the sister-in-law carried a bamboo basket to the river to cut pigweed, and accidentally slipped into the river. When he was found, he had already surfaced, and at that time the old man was in the mahjong parlor and the old grandmother was in the ground. Someone ran into the field and called the old woman home, and the old woman was almost blind from crying, and he lost several sons and the youngest daughter.

It is not easy for children to grow up healthy and safe without adult supervision when they are young, and dangers exist everywhere. Humans claim to be the most advanced creatures, but they do not possess the skills that some creatures are born with: fish can swim in the vast seas, birds can flap their wings in the air, monkeys can climb trees, tigers and wolves have sharp teeth, and they have running speeds that humans cannot match......

Many animals are able to walk soon after birth, but humans take up to a year, during which time they have to be attended to by adults. Trembling and stumbling to grow up, it is accompanied by countless dangers: the duckling falls into the river and has no worries about his life, and the child falls into it, and if no one rescues him, he may die. The bird flies away from the danger alone, and the child may encounter unexpected dangers when running on the road, such as speeding car crashes, sadistic dog bites, and so on.

As a highly intelligent human being, we do not just live for survival, but also have to think about many things, from the international national society to the meaning of personal survival. Some people in their prime choose to commit suicide because they can't get through the stumbling of their minds. There are thousands of rivers and mountains in the world, strange and beautiful, without stepping on heavy mountains, without seeing the vast sky and wilderness, they will drink hatred with grievances, and be ashamed of the high intelligence and good image that God has given to mankind. There are also people in the world who are born with disabilities, even no hands and feet, with their love for the world, they also live a wonderful life, they are a banner arranged by God in the world, a burning torch, the blazing fire illuminates you, me and him, they live to give people hope.