Eight bowls and eight dishes

Qiao's family also has a different diet on holidays, which is called "eight bowls and eight dishes". Among them, eight bowls are mainly hot dishes, which refer to Lama meat, braised meat, roasted meat, sweet porridge, braised elbow, honey, mutton, carrots and meatballs; The eight dishes are mainly cold dishes, which refer to-braised dried meat, shredded chicken, leek, assorted silk, dragon claw, fried salted eggs, ribs and bacon. Lama meat is a kind of meat dish similar to crispy meat, while meat stew is an oily stew, roast meat and elbow are all cooked with soy sauce, honey sauce is a kind of dessert, assorted shredded vegetables are mixed with pickled tofu, dragon-grabbed vegetables are cauliflower, and fried salted eggs are cooked salted eggs. Judging from these foods, it is still very simple. However, these dishes do not lose their nutritional value, and the collocation is reasonable. Not only was the variety of vegetables rich in Shanxi at that time, but also many marine plants with less inland were selected, and the cold and heat were reasonable and the meat was suitable. Especially for braised dried meat, pork with pork belly soaked in soy sauce is selected, sliced, arranged one by one with the best Kaoru Miki, steamed together, sliced, seasoned and mixed well. The meat has a fragrant dry taste, unique taste, fragrant dried meat absorbs oil, is smooth and palatable, and the whole dish is cool but not greasy, with unique flavor and reasonable nutritional structure. These dishes are called eight bowls and eight dishes as a whole, but they can be adjusted according to the time and purpose of eating. For example, in summer, mutton and carrots can be changed to shredded yam, and elbows also have different methods such as crystal elbows. And if you want to entertain internal or external guests, there will be different grades of materials for eight bowls and eight dishes. For example, there will be more sea cucumbers, squid, fish maw, Nostoc flagelliforme, etc., but there are still eight bowls and eight dishes.
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