Bitter gourd… wild Bitter gourd has a bitter taste, that’s why many people can’t eat it, but there are also many people who get used to it… addicted to that bitter taste. Since ancient times, the use of this fruit has been recognized by Eastern medicine, which is the effect of tonic blood, does not contain toxins, promotes the detoxification mechanism of the liver, and clears heat for the body. Modern medicine also has many studies showing the effects of bitter melon on human health. Specifically, the vitamin C content in bitter melon is nearly 20 times higher than that of cucumbers; Eating bitter melon will help increase glucose metabolism, reduce blood cholesterol, strengthen the immune system, protect the heart … For those who are used to eating bitter melon, there is no need to undergo preliminary processing to reduce bitterness when processing. For those who are not used to eating, before processing, it is necessary to peel off the intestines of the melon, blanch it in boiling water, and wash it many times with cold water. By doing so, the bitterness of the dish will be much less and it will be easier to enjoy. About a dozen years ago, the source is unknown, first from a few sidewalk beer shops, a mannequin dish appeared, at that time it was called by the curiously-sounding name “crocodile crossing the river”. But actually, it’s a type that can be called salad or mannequin is not wrong. Bitter melon is thinly sliced, soaked in ice to make it crispy, the heart of the plate is left with a lot of ice, covered with a food wrapper, and on top is a display of bitter melon and shrimp. Bitter gourd soaked in ice cold water has a crunchy texture, and when eaten with salted water, it is delicious and especially not bitter. In addition, it is also possible to make a normal loofah mannequin. Bitter gourd salad includes bitter gourd, bell pepper, onion, garlic, sugar, soy sauce, sesame oil and vinegar… All ingredients are preliminarily processed, sliced ​​thinly and mixed together. The dish is especially suitable for summer people who want to lose weight. In folklore, bitter melon is always used by Vietnamese people to make food in their daily meals, in addition, bitter melon is also used as a tea to help clear heat. And according to research by Japanese nutritionists, bitter melon is a longevity food with nutritional value “full of flavor”. With simple processing methods, it will help us to have a simple dish and drink. The most common in the dishes from bitter melon is bitter melon stuffed with meat. This dish, in addition to bitter melon, also has minced lean meat, wood ear, shiitake mushrooms (you can have it but you can’t), pepper, dried onions… If you leave the whole fruit, cut it along the body, remove all the intestines of the melon and put it into a pile. meat that has mixed the above ingredients inside, otherwise it can be cut into small pieces, putting the meat inside the intestines. Bitter melon stuffed with meat can be cooked into soup, when eaten, sprinkled with spring onions or can also be eaten with tomato sauce to eat with rice. Nature’s gift Another popular dish from bitter melon is stir-fried bitter melon with eggs. Bitter gourd is gutted, finely chopped, sautéed purple onion, chopped with lard, fragrant onion, put the melon on a large fire, then break the egg and stir well. The high heat makes the cooked eggs entwine with the bitter gourd pieces. When scrambled eggs with bitter melon, the bitterness in the melon is minimized. It is also a stir-fried dish from melon that can be sautéed with beef, with pork kidney or fried with mushrooms for a vegetarian dish. Hanoi market now has almost all stalls selling strabismus. Fish bought with onions, dill, a little chopped chili, flexible fish can be stuffed into each chunk of gutted melon and then cooked in soup. You can also chop melon like stir-fry and then cook soup with scallions, sprinkle with scallions when eating. This is a refreshing and nutritious dish. Also with the soup, you can cook bitter melon fish soup. Ingredients include 2-3 bitter melons, 1 fish, green onions, coriander, spices, sugar, salt, pepper. Clean the fish, drain it, blanch it in boiling water, then take it out and let it dry. Bitter melon washed, halved, gutted, cut into pieces about 2-3cm as you like. Boil about 2-3 bowls of water and then put the fish in the stew. Tasting spices to taste. When the fish is soft, add the bitter melon and cook on medium heat until the bitter melon is soft. Season with spices, pepper to taste, then remove the scallions, chopped coriander, you can turn off the stove and scoop out the bowl. Similarly can cook bitter melon with shrimp. Raw materials include melon, cleaned and peeled shrimp, raw spring rolls with scallions, coriander, salted fish sauce just enough. Shrimps are mixed with raw spring rolls, pepper, salt and dried onions. Then leave for 10 minutes for the shrimp to infuse the spices. Boil a sufficient amount of water, when the water is boiling, put each spoon of marinated shrimp in the pot and continue to boil on high heat to bring the water to a boil. Cook until the shrimp is cooked to the surface of the water, then drop in the bitter melon. Continue cooking until the bitter melon is cooked, then season to taste and then turn off the heat. Bitter melon is also suitable for making braised dishes. Can store copper fish, bitter melon with soy sauce. Ingredients include carp or carp, carp. Big fish are cut into pieces, cleaned, put under the same layer of fatty meat or pork skin, the cleaned bitter melon layer is divided vertically into 4 layers, then the second layer, then the fish, add a layer of bitter melon and finally pork belly. , add cork sauce, a little water, salted fish sauce, and then simmer for about 1-2 hours. Braised carp with bones is the best. However, when it’s time to eat, the fish always runs out after the bitter gourd. If you don’t stock with fish, you can braise bitter melon with soy sauce, then add a few drops of sesame oil, it will be very fragrant, eat with hot rice, salty vegetarian can use. Bitter gourd can also be sliced ​​thin, dried and then boiled in boiling water to drink like tea. Bitter gourd tea has a detoxifying effect, very good for health.

A girl posted on the social networking group “praying for help” to netizens: “My husband challenged me to go to the market with 40K and cook 3 dishes of dinner. The ladies pointed at me with high hands, let me beat his face” . Surprisingly, the post attracted tens of thousands of netizens, many advised the girl to have a very delicious dinner, ensuring enough quality and quality according to the challenge that the husband gave. Some menus including delicious rustic dishes in the hot summer are constantly offered by netizens: “3 eggs 9K, 10K beans, 3K tomatoes, 2K onions, 10K vegetables, 6K pickled tomatoes. Beans with tomato sauce, fried eggs, vegetable and tomato soup”; “10k fish in this season are cheap, add 5k pickles to have a bowl of soup, 10k get 3 fried duck eggs in a plate, 10k liver sautéed with garlic. Eat rice or drink it if you like it”; “Buy 5K tofu and fry. 2K squash + 10K shrimp soup. 2 6K duck eggs poured egg rolls. 5K price + 5K fried fat meat. Done at 33K. 7K people eat tea”. “7k fried tofu with fish sauce. 7k boiled water spinach. 7k fried eggs or steamed in a water bath. 8k sets of chicken gizzards + bean sprouts (fried chicken gizzard heart) like melon still has money to buy more melon fruit. There are 4 extra items of change, the change to buy green onions with a little chili is enough seasoning “; “20k minced meat divided into 7k vegetable soup + fried with 2 5k chicken eggs + fried with 8k beans, 40k enough. Sometimes I can eat 2 meals. It is estimated that 40k for 3 dishes, 2 people have many choices. “; “Buy 2 slices of 10k scallop, about 3 fish, cut into small slices to the warehouse. Raw vegetable sauce, buy 2k raw vegetables, 5k bitter melon sliced, buy 10k shrimp to cook melon soup. Buy 10k of thigh meat and chop pomegranate seeds with 2k fish sauce can be stored in a pot of meat shrimp paste. With a balance of 1k, leave pigs for children “; Someone even gave evidence that I used to make a 40k meal for a family of 6, causing fever in the online community for a while: The image of a 40K meal caused fever in the online community. However, in addition to the sincere counseling menus, many funny people consulted the girl: “Tell my husband that I can not do it, from now on I will just go to the market all day for 40K”; “This time we do it successfully, from then on, don’t expect your husband to spend more money on the market.”; “Ask my husband to bring 40K and then go to fill the car with gas and drive to my house to have dinner. In the countryside, I can still go to the market, but in the city, I don’t have any meals at the supermarket. “The elderly say they are full when they eat well, and when they are smart, they will be warm. You will see many marriage lessons after that.” In your opinion, with 40,000 VND, can you go to the market to cook 3 dishes for your family?

Posts & photos: THUY THIEM Friday, April 9, 2021, 14:34 + | Print The joy of being full of fish. In the months from September to March of the lunar calendar every year, Bau Gun (An My commune, Tuy An district, Phu Yen) bustles with the sound of dams at night. Over a long period of exploitation with environmental “complications”, people began to wish to preserve the lagoon as their livelihood. Job “chicks” feed through the day Bau Gun is a freshwater lagoon with immense lilies. With an area of ​​2.5 km², there is also a job here “chirping” fishing in the Bau. Each end of the year, in the September of lunar calendar, heavy rains pouring in from high places create the floating water season in Bau Gun. That is when the cocoons of caviar and snail eggs still buried in the mud, clinging to the grass tops are proliferating and proliferating. This is also the fishing season for people living in villages bordering on Bau such as Hoa Da village, Giai Son village, Phu Long village, Phu Hoa village. People fish in the plain with many different tools, depending on the type of fish catching, they have suitable fishing methods and times. Some tools can be mentioned as fish net, ignoring fish to lure, net to grab snails or a bamboo that locals call it to lure shrimp, crab … In order to get fresh and delicious fish, the farmer had to do a lot of work from preparing the fishing equipment to removing the fish from the net to be intact. In the past, to make a net, it took three to four days to complete. From the work of buying freight and weaving into a net, boiling boiling water through the net, then floating boats, lead pairs, each stage requires perseverance and meticulousness. But now that is better, there are ready-made fish nets on the market with reasonable prices. Doing this job, regardless of time, sometimes goes out and pulls the net two or three times a day. Those who work for a long time will have experience and know the direction of the water flow, when the fish runs to keep track of the time and place of fishing. At 1 am, when everyone was still asleep, Uncle Le Van Muoi (59 years old, Hoa Da village, An My commune) started a new job with fish nets on an old daily boat. This boat has been with me for several seasons of floating water and is my best friend on Bau Gun. Not only uncle, in that time frame, in the quiet night, we can hear the boats gliding on the water very clearly, asking each other: “So early today, uncle Muoi”, “Today Is it okay, Mr. Tu ”. At this moment, there are more and more lights, people, splashing water, fish fluttering in the cabin. Everyone was quick and hurried, looking forward to more fish in time for the first day of the market. White fish nets were pulled back at four o’clock in the morning, under a light in the middle of the yard, the uncle Muoi and his wife carefully removed each fish so that they were intact for sale at a high price. And the fresh tilapia, swimming in the brass. “The story of the bird, water fish is difficult to say, some days are many, some days are less. Everyday, we can sell 200 thousand dong only, some days we get a few dozen ”, said Ms. Nguyen Thi Nhung, wife of Uncle Muoi. Find a way to recover Field fishing in Bau Gun is considered a traditional profession every time the water season returns. The people following this profession are mostly men, after finishing farming, they prepare for a season of fishing to earn extra income. Because every water level comes back, Bau Gun has many fish and shrimp such as anabas, crayfish, catfish, trout, catfish, shrimp, crab, and snails, just fishing is enough for everyone to have a meal. delicious rice, bold home taste. What is more wonderful, after hard working hours, everyone has time to gather with the family rice tray, enjoy sweet cooked crayfish, add tomatoes, a few slices of chili, the aroma of seasoning vegetables. Adding a plate of water lily next to it is nothing. But in recent years, the number of fish and snails on the Bau gun has decreased significantly. Some types of high economic value such as crustaceans, snails, snails, black snails gradually disappear. That is a sign that the sneaky use of “electric batteries” in the fishing process, the destructive fishing style has greatly affected the reproduction and breeding of these types of aquatic products. In addition, the use of agrochemicals in the cultivation process at Bau Gun in the past is also one of the reasons for the egg cancer of aquatic species remaining in the mud, plants. Wishing to restore an old gun, some people are looking for ways to rebuild lost aquatic breeds by catching, farming, and buying seeds from other places to breed for breeding. . At the same time limit the use of agricultural chemicals to protect aquatic resources, step by step maintain traditional jobs here.