中文： 四川家常菜：家的味道
The Chinese New Year holiday is coming soon. It is like Christmas to Americans. Families and friends get together to celebrate the most wonderful time of the year. It is also the time that can make us really homesick. I miss everything back home, especially my grandma’s kitchen. That is the taste of home I can’t recreate here in America.
My husband grew up in Sichuan, China. It locates in the southeast of China. It is mostly famous for Sichuan cuisine which is hot, spicy and tasty. These are part of the food photos I took during our last trip back home. They are actually from my mother-in-law’s kitchen. They all taste so good. That is right; the secret ingredient is love!
I might not be able to translate every dish’s name here. But I can assure you they are all fantastic!
Garlic chives and pork
Peppers and pork
Smoked aged pork
Sichuan sausages
pork
More aged pork are in process.
Spicy cucumber salad
beef
Smoked pork
One of the local salads. It has a unique and distinctive smell and flavor.
Freshly harvested vegetable
pork
Chicken and duck feet
pork
Pork again
Chinese celery and pork.
Hot pepper and pork
Sichuan sausage. I can literally eat it every day and never be tired of it.
Salad
Cucumber salad
Stir-fried vegetable
Dried beans braised with chicken stock
Rice cakes
pork
Oyster mushrooms and chicken soup
We visited father-in-law’s brother. They were busy preparing vegetable pickles. It is a great way to preserve vegetables.
Sundried vegetable
Fresh ones
The vegetable hearts are the best part. The leaves will become dinner for farm raised pigs.
Deep fried fish
Smoked beef
goose
Sweet rice
Taro roots
Pork and daikon soup
pork
Dried tofu and garlic chives
Pork and garlic chives
Pork and mixed vegetable
Stir-fried vegetable
Smoked pork
Dates and white mushroom soup
Corn cakes
pork
Lotus roots
Hot and spicy pepper with diced beef
Chicken and duck feet
Pork and celery
goose
Celery and pork
Hot peppers and pork
Pork and white garlic chives
Pickled duck eggs
Smoked pork
Sichuan sausage again.
pork
Pork and celery
It is been such a great and wonderful trip!O(∩_∩)O~