Food of the past Collected vegetables is a concept that includes the synthesis of vegetables that grow in the garden. Basically, cook whatever you want. A few sprigs of spinach, a few tops of amaranth, amaranth, a little water spinach, spinach, jute, purslane, especially when there are a few handfuls of chili leaves… Many people call it the soup of memories. and it is absolutely a “solution” soup when other vegetables are not available. According to the Vietnamese dictionary, the meaning of the word “collection” is only found in the combination of “vegetable collection”. In the North, collected vegetables are usually amaranth, purslane, centella asiatica, spinach, jute… In the South, sage is the common name of a collection of vegetables such as gotu kola, spiny amaranth, purslane, plantain, plantain, coriander, guava leaves, clams, cilantro, cilantro, scallions… According to an article by Dr. Pham Van Tinh, Ph. In Hoang Phu Ngoc Tuong’s literature, the word “treasure” belongs to the collection of herbs, which is wild grass, and “collection” is a collection of many types of vegetables. As for the Hue people, for “collection” is to read the sound camp of “decade” (the ten is ten, implying many types of vegetables combined). Vegetable soup is usually cooked simply, because it is mixed with vegetables, so it has a very unique taste, the strong smell of chili leaves, the sour taste of sam vegetables… Of course, it is a rural dish, so it is never available. face on the guest tray. Now, with the trend of going back to the past, vegetable soup suddenly becomes a specialty, it is raised to a higher level when cooked with crab or mussels, shrimp, fresh shrimp or minced lean meat. Of course, no matter what it is cooked with, it is still a special kind of soup. Nowadays, in Hanoi, there are not many gardens that still have vegetables to collect and pick up every meal. But small markets, mainly toad markets, sometimes come across a few baskets of vegetables for sale for only 5,000 VND/tang, as much as you can eat. Of course, it is not a vegetable that is innocently picked out of the garden and sold, but mixed intentionally. When wild vegetables become a specialty Now in mid-range restaurants, the menu sometimes also has collectible vegetables. Vegetables are sold at city prices. Not only the vegetables that suddenly become a specialty, many wild vegetables such as cilantro are also an example. It is a small grass-like vegetable that once filled the garden. People who have been through the difficult subsidy period often have eaten this vegetable. Vegetables are often used to cook soup or mixed in a bowl of vegetable soup. Along with cilantro, there is also nettles. This is a plant belonging to the eggplant family, so it is somewhat similar to eggplant in terms of both leaves and fruit. If you want to find stinging nettle, just wander along the field, along the road or garden corner in the countryside, it is easy to pick the whole basket. In the past, sturgeon was considered a poor family dish, a vegetable to save hunger in rural areas when economic conditions were still poor, people picked it to eat through meals. And until now, sturgeon is naturally upgraded to a specialty, loved because it is a clean vegetable that grows wild, does not contain preservatives, is both delicious and healthy. Dishes made from sturgeon have been improved and are very diverse such as cooking, sautéing meat, boiling, eating hot pot… However, the most popular is still stir-fried sturgeon with garlic according to the old flavor. The best sturgeon is the newly picked young shoots, giving a sweet, sweet taste. And if the vegetables are just plain cake, when cooked, the taste is a bit bitter. Along with that, there are sam vegetables. This is actually a year-round grass, with many smooth, smooth branches. Purslane grows wild in wet places. Although it is liked by many people to eat and use as a medicine, no one seems to question growing this vegetable. Therefore, it is really a plant that only grows wild. When picking purslane, people usually pick the whole plant, cut off the roots and then wash them, use fresh or dry or dry. Spinach is often boiled or mixed with amaranth rice, which is also a vegetable that grows mainly wild, rarely grown officially. Referring to wild vegetables without mentioning ground ginseng would be a big omission. Ginseng grows wild, the tubers are used as a medicine, the leaves are very cool and a bit like spinach. Ground ginseng is also one of the vegetables, which can be included in the bowl of traditional vegetable soup of the Northern people. Although growing wild, it is not difficult to propagate ground ginseng. Ground ginseng usually flowers purple, if grown on moist soil, the plant grows quite quickly, the seeds are small, when the seeds are old, they will be black. Put that seed to sow in moist soil, the plant will germinate very quickly. According to the Vietnamese dictionary, the meaning of the word “collection” is only found in the combination of “vegetable collection”. In the North, collected vegetables are usually amaranth, purslane, centella asiatica, spinach, jute… In the South, sage is the common name of a collection of vegetables such as gotu kola, spiny amaranth, purslane, plantain, plantain, coriander, guava leaves, clams, cilantro, cilantro, scallions… According to an article by Dr. Pham Van Tinh, Ph. In Hoang Phu Ngoc Tuong’s literature, the word “treasure” belongs to the collection of herbs, which is wild grass, and “collection” is a collection of many types of vegetables. As for the Hue people, for “collection” is to read the sound camp of “decade” (the ten is ten, implying many types of vegetables combined).

The veteran actor works hard in sports and lives a disciplined life. Every day, the actor regularly exercises in the gym for 2 hours. He also spends time participating in sports that require fast movement such as swimming, skating, horseback riding, cycling, etc. to maintain health. “Beyond 80 years old, I still pursue other goals in my life. You can find and develop your abilities. If you say it’s too late to pursue, it may just be an excuse to back you down. step,” said Vuong Duc Thuan. Vuong Duc Thuan participated in more than 50 Chinese film and television productions. Due to the Covid-19 epidemic, Vuong Duc Thuan limited going out to work. 3 months ago, the actor had just injected 2 vaccines against the epidemic, so he returned to the studio with peace of mind. He just finished his roles last May. Although not young, Vuong Duc Thuan is still full of schedule with movie activities, advertising, speeches… He is also a familiar face for famous fashion brands in the Mainland. The image of the old man confidently striding on the catwalk, showing off his solid body is commented on not inferior to any professional male model. In an interview with CCTV , Vuong Duc Thuan said his life went up from zero. At the age of 14, he started working hard to earn money to support his family. At the age of 24, Vuong Duc Thuan started his artistic career as a theater actor. The actor, because he could not afford to go to school when he was young, took additional cultural studies in the evening. At the age of 50, he went to Beijing to study mime and started bodybuilding. Vuong Duc Thuan is also a person with great merit in spreading Chinese pantomime to the world. The actor has a happy farm life with his wife. Vuong Duc Thuan has a simple and faithful lifestyle with his wife and children. He and his wife are always like “picture and shadow”, together anytime, anywhere in daily life. In addition to filming and performing, Vuong Duc Thuan also enjoys taking care of his grandchildren. When working for a long time, he often complains that he misses his grandchildren and hopes to come home soon. “That’s also a sign of old age, isn’t it,” he laughed. Vuong Duc Thuan in ‘Ỷ Thien Do Long Ky’

Where are the leaves and flowers – a wild plant that grows a lot in An Giang. Photo: Tourism Newspaper Prohoc sauce (prohok – boo hoc), according to my mother-in-law, the climate in the South has two seasons: rainy and sunny. In addition to the rice season, the fish season is also the main season of the Khmer farmers in the South. They catch fish in many forms such as slapping or fishing, spreading nets, fishing nets, etc. Where they can be caught, they can be dried there with large fish, while small fish are made into beef sauce. Every house makes two or three jars to eat all year round. Bo hoc sauce is almost considered as the main dish in the culinary life of the Khmer people as well as the Vietnamese people’s snakehead, choke, and roe sauces. Although their way of making prohoc fish sauce is similar to that in Cambodia, but through the stages to become bohoc sauce, it is necessary that there is no longer a musty smell, especially without maggots. Usually they use snakehead fish more than other types of fish, of course, snakehead fish to make fish sauce will be more delicious. Select suffocated snakehead fish, scrape the scales, scrape the blood on the spine, wash and soak in cold water for a day and a night (24g), then take it out and leave it in a basket to drain. Use a knife to gradually fish the fish, add a small pinch of salt and a little cold rice, mix well. Incubate in a sealed container, the next day take out the fish and place it in a thick basket, cover the basket with a piece of mocha, use a rock or heavy object to ballast the water with a fishy smell. Then, put the fish in a jar or glass glue, use your hands to receive the fish easily, cut the mo areca to fit the mouth of the jar or glue it on, use a bamboo brace to fasten it. Then proceed to cook salt water poured over the fish and then dried in the sun. About three months, the fish sauce can be eaten, but only used for making stewed, fried, seasoned soups, cooked vermicelli or cooked with potted rice noodles with shaved corn with straw mushrooms and snakehead fish or shrimp. If you want to eat it raw, you must leave it for a year or more, the longer you leave it, the more delicious it will be. Beef broth of Khmer people. Usually fish sauce is eaten raw with thinly sliced ​​​​fruit or paired with herbs of all kinds. In particular, when cooking vermicelli, fish meat is shredded, boned, put in a mortar with wormwood vermicelli, boiled, combed for water, then added fresh snakehead fish, pork, minced lemongrass into the pot of water. leo. Those who have never eaten prahoc sauce, when they heard the name mentioned, they were afraid. But if you happen to stand in the wind, someone is cooking fish sauce, the sense of smell can enjoy a faint aroma mixed between the pungent smell of brewed fish and the sweet aroma of fish sauce. That taste makes us drowsy, listening to the hungry stomach. Having a sip of spinach soup or a bowl of vermicelli, there was nothing happier than that. Happier if you can eat a piece of raw fish sauce sandwiched with the fruit, the sour and sour taste of the fish sauce mixed with the sweet and fragrant taste of the fish sauce, the warm and spicy taste of minced lemongrass, dissolved in a sip of wine cooked with rice, is nothing better. It’s like listening to the wine pushing the fish sauce and slowly drifting into the throat, slowly ripening… gradually…, falling into the stomach. Please bear with me, I don’t know what language to use to describe all that “delicious” pleasure! Where is the dried gourd salad with choke fish . Photo: Tourism Newspaper At home, my wife gently washes each bunch of young leaves, each tiny bunch of tiny aluminum flakes, drains before mixing the salad with cucumber, thinly sliced ​​tomatoes, and purple onions. Similar to the way to mix durian salad of the Vietnamese people in Sam mountain (Chau Doc, An Giang), it is mixed with dried snakehead fish, shredded grilled snakehead fish or with shrimp, tiger, boiled bacon cut into pieces and eaten together. coriander leaves. But, with the Khmer it is a little different. After washing vegetables, tomatoes are grated into thin circles; thinly sliced ​​purple onion; cilantro, chopped coriander only; chili, minced garlic. After that, my wife started to process the mixed water and put the cooked tamarind in a bowl to make boiling water, stirring to dissolve the tamarind rice. Then she began to process the mixed water, using cooked tamarind in a bowl or cup, boiling water in, stirring with chopsticks until the sour substance was diluted in the water. Prahoc sauce is also put in a bowl, add boiling water, and crumble until the meat is broken. Then, comb the water to decant the fish baits and bones. Crush garlic, chili, add a little granulated sugar and then add two kinds of tamarind juice, fish sauce, stir well, sweet and sour seasoning. When the shrimp or tiger is cooked, take it out, take out the cooked meat and cut it into thin pieces. Put both in a bowl of vegetables, add the mixed water, mix well with the leaves and flowers, then start enjoying. Unlike at home, where I sit to eat on a chair around the table, Khmer people eat on a plank, all the dishes are arranged in the heart of the board. Everyone in the family, along with my father’s two brothers and my (mother’s) brother, my wife sat cross-legged around the tray of rice. My father is the oldest person in the family, holding a cup and chopsticks to invite: “Each oot kho nia hop bai” (the whole family eats rice). I took each chopsticks of salad into my mouth, chewed slowly, the sweet and sour taste of cucumber, tomato, the spicy taste of garlic, chili, laksa leaves, coriander mixed with the sweetness of shrimp meat, the fat of pork belly. shine in the district with the sweet and bitter taste of sorrow. All of these are imbued with the sweet aroma of beef sauce, creating a delicious taste. Sorrow salad is no longer a favorite dish for men to sip with kh Kha wine, there is nothing better than telling stories in gatherings. My father-in-law holds a bottle of wine that is fermented with home-cooked glutinous rice that my uncle and I bring in according to the Khmer custom in the days of Sene Dolta (anniversary ceremony). He poured out a small glass, clear drops of wine slowly sparkling, showing a very high alcohol concentration. Picking up the glass, he said: “Onh Chon ate every ounce of happiness” (inviting everyone to drink wine). He brought a glass of wine to his lips, gulped it down, then wheezed, said: “Sê Chchanh” (good wine) and then poured a pass for each person. When I came to my circle, I refused because the wine was too strong, but my uncle said: “Num salinh top brother chon” (Ba Thuong Ba just invited). Hearing that, I couldn’t refuse and reached out to accept the wine glass. Before drinking, I picked up a chopsticks of salad, put it in my mouth, chewed it slowly, enjoying the sweet aroma, then swallowed, then gulped down the glass with my breath, the spicy alcohol on the surface of my tongue and then “swallowed” the salad pieces for them. drifting slowly, slowly, heating up as if they were ripening, softening and disintegrating. Enjoying this delicious dish, I realized that, no matter how sad, but when chewing a piece of melancholy salad, the sorrow is also broken and blended into the delicious taste that gradually drifts down to the stomach, leaving only a sweet, bitter aftertaste on the tip of the tongue that we always feel like eating more! Chau Doc (An Giang), where is known as the “kingdom” of fish sauce. Photo: Huynh LamTGTT On that day, when the cool winds swayed the surface of the Hau River, the first rain of the April season watered the fields and awakened the young shrimps that were still sleeping in spring in the shells clinging to the field or in frogs and crab burrows. , eels, snakes… At that time, the uncles started a self-reliant life. This is also the time when Khmer farmers are busy for the rice sowing season. The lush green carpets grow with the water. The shrimps are also growing up. By the middle of the eighth month of the lunar calendar, the rice begins to ripen and the fields are golden, and people are anxious for the harvest. The fields are drained and the water flows down the canals and canals. This is the season of catching shrimp. Children, adults, women, young people, anyone can participate. People use bamboo slats, walk in the deep corners of the fields or use fine nets to drag along the canals. But the most common is to use scrubbing to place the free place to drain the water flowing down the canals to catch shrimp. Shrimp is an inexpensive source of wild food, but rich in protein, calcium, and easy to prepare. Can be boiled with rice paper, raw vegetables; fried dough; warehouse; roasted… but the best is to make fish sauce. The Khmer shrimp paste, called bo-ot, is different from the type of shrimp paste we usually use. The method is also simple, but must be carefully selected, remove moss, snail shells, dead leaves, grass, garbage, etc. Most importantly, remove the ones on the head with luminous substance by putting the shrimp in the ball. dark for easy viewing. If chosen incorrectly, when making fish sauce, it is easy to be poisoned. After choosing, wash, and use 1kg of shrimp with a high concentration of base wine, 50gr of granulated salt, marinate, cover for about 30 minutes, drain water, mix in a cup of cold rice, 100g of white granulated sugar, Get the cloves into the glue. About three days later, add chopped ginger, garlic, and crushed chili, mix well into the glue. Try eating a piece of ginger, if it tastes sour, the fish sauce has been eaten. Bo-ot fish sauce is very delicious, sour, sweet, aromatic, spicy… stimulating the digestive system, it is difficult for any kind of shrimp paste to be compared with its unique flavor. Shrimp sauce is served with raw vegetables of all kinds along with fresh vermicelli, rice paper and pineapple, acrid banana, sour fruit, thin slices when the family has an anniversary, party… But it is also used as food in daily meals. family day. When eating sandwich with grilled catfish, beef sauce gives me its wonderful taste, so I can’t help but “work hard” to bring my wife back to visit her family whenever I have the opportunity. And every time, besides visiting the health of my wife’s parents, and then gathering around the family tray of rice, I often enjoy the unique taste of beef sauce and beef sauce in a meal full of love. feel dear!

Pumpkin is a good food for people with colitis (Illustration from the Internet) Note that vegetables should use the young part, remove the fiber, old and hard. Dishes should be mainly cooked in the form of steaming, boiling, and limiting frying and stir-frying. In addition, you should drink enough water. Foods that should not be eaten include grilled meat, fatty meat, grilled fish, fried spring rolls, black beans, white beans, onions, raw onions, potatoes, bamboo shoots, wine, beer, coffee, carbonated soft drinks. because these foods can cause flatulence and bloating. Also, do not eat foods with a lot of lactose such as cow’s milk, with a lot of sugar such as too sweet fruits, honey, sweet candies, because these sugars will cause bloating, gas and diarrhea. Avoid hard foods such as tendons, cartilage, head, neck, chicken wings, bamboo shoots, raw vegetables, peas, cowpeas, boiled corn, boiled beans, roasted beans…