Illustration. I don’t know since when did the Phu Tho people think of a way to pickle the tops of cassava vegetables to process into dishes. Perhaps stemming from years of hunger and deprivation in wartime, the Phu Tho people had to use cassava tops to supplement their meals. And today, cassava vegetables have become familiar dishes in daily life, becoming famous specialties of the people of Phu Tho. Vegetable cassava is not a delicious food, even more not colorful, respecting the form, but it requires the processor to be very picky. From the stage of choosing cassava vegetables was not simple, not all cassava can be picked edible leaves, cassava vegetables used for salting as well as for eating must be glutinous cassava vegetables (also known as tapioca), have green leaves, tubers are used to boil food. As for the dwarf Chinese cassava, also known as bamboo-leaf cassava – because its leaves are small and long like bamboo leaves, purple in color should be limited, because this type has a lot of plastic, if not processed well, it is easy to get drunk. A special point is that cassava vegetables for eating are only picked at the fence, or in the bushes of cassava in the garden to wait for the planting season, because the tops of cassava here are picked more often, so they are younger and softer. People never pick cassava vegetables from crops grown on the field, in the fields to get tubers – because then the cassava plant will have less tubers and the tubers will give less starch. Sour cassava vegetable soup For standard taste, you must choose young, big and stout cassava buds that still have the fine powder at the top of the buds. After picking, it must be preliminarily processed through cassava vegetables, keeping about 2 or 3 petioles from the top down. After picking vegetables, wash them and rub them thoroughly to remove all the plastic. Crunching cassava leaves is an important step to bring out the flavor of the dish, the person must skillfully make the cassava leaves soft, the waves are whole, not broken into pieces. After rinsing, wash the vegetables several times with water until the water is no longer cloudy, that is, the vegetable has no plastic. After grinding, the cassava leaves are mixed with a little salt to make the taste more intense. Doing so also helps to make cassava vegetables sour faster and can be left for a long time without being damaged or scum. Therefore, when adding salt, you also have to choose so that the vegetables are not too salty, nor too light to easily spoil the vegetables. After being mixed with salt, the cassava vegetables are put in a jar or jar and left for 4 to 5 days to silage. It takes about 5 to 7 days to bring cassava vegetables to cook soup. Tapioca can be eaten without rice or processed with other ingredients such as fish, pork leg, meat, or peanuts. Just take out the cassava vegetables, squeeze out the water, and then put it in the pot with the fish, season with a little seasoning, put the water and then simmer it. Cassava vegetable soup stewed as delicious as possible. Because then the fatty, delicious, and sweet taste of pork leg and fish will be absorbed into the cassava vegetables; while the sour taste from cassava vegetables penetrates deeply into the fish, eliminating the fishy smell of the fish, making the piece of fish smell of melon and delicious. The little secret when cooking cassava vegetable soup is not to season it from the beginning, because it is easy to get salty, because the cassava vegetables have been salted relatively recently, so when cooked and then seasoned, it will be more standard. Cook melon with peanuts or pork leg, or stir-fry with garlic, with meat… any processing method creates special delicious dishes. The cassava melon is still delicious, a bit stale, intense and full of sour taste, combined with the same ingredients, making the dish attractive and unforgettable. Although cassava vegetables do not look beautiful on the outside, but they are very delicious, everyone who has tried them is passionate and hard to forget this typical dish. Cassava vegetables are also a catalyst for the nostalgia of the children of Phu Tho away from home, the most simple and loving things of this land. Those who have been attached, it can be a reminiscent and evocative scent, it is a beautiful old memory, highlighting the culinary culture of the people of Phu Tho homeland. For each Phu Tho resident, cassava vegetables are not only a dish, a specialty but also a symbol of their homeland. For generations, cassava vegetables have become a familiar dish on the rice tray of people in the midland area of ​​Phu Tho. No matter where they go, how far away from their homeland, the children of the Ancestral land will always remember the simple bowl of sour soup with vegetables and cassava. Many people have the opportunity to enjoy, have enjoyed and praised the vegetable soup as the number 1 specialty of Phu Tho. If you have the opportunity to visit the land of Hung Kings, do not forget to enjoy this interesting Phu Tho cuisine and buy it as a gift for relatives and friends to enjoy. The land of Phu Tho is loving, the people of Phu Tho are hospitable, “specialty of sour cassava vegetables” is an idyllic gift with the rustic soul of the Ancestral people for tourists from all over the world every visit.

Recently, on a social networking group for people who like to grow clean vegetables at home, a member posted 2 pictures of “unique” roots and asked: “Has anyone eaten rubber? What out? ” Looking at the image of a tuber with brown skin, peeled white, and powdered like tapioca (tapioca) has made many netizens skeptical: “chayote have tubers?”; “Never heard of a condom”; … However, it is true that someone has made a very delicious stewed chayote soup with bone. They even shared that the rubber that was cooked up to eat had a very unique chewy taste. Latex is formed from the bulging root portion of a plant, usually planted over a year and has a new good nutrition for the tubers. Each bulb weighs 200 ounces to both pounds and is edible like any other vegetable. Perhaps it’s because people are so accustomed to how to collect fruit and rubber on a high platform without even knowing that there are edible rubber under the ground. Latex is not a surprising rare case in the online community. Before that, some other foods also made many people “eyes wide open” because they first knew the origin. County é A familiar food but perhaps few people know where “origin” gathered from, that is seed é. The é seed is a seed of the thyme family (Occimum gratissimum). This plant also has many other names such as white basil, white basil, hairy basil, hairy basil, … This is a subspecies of the familiar basil plant to us. Green basil, also known as white basil, is different from purple basil, because the stem is white and has feathers. While the basil plant is purple in color, the stem is smooth, hairless. White leaves are also an indispensable ingredient in the famous chicken hotpot in Tuy Hoa (Phu Yen), Da Lat (Lam Dong) … Potatoes Potato vines, also known as wild potatoes, are air potatoes. These potatoes do not grow into tubers underground, but bear fruit on trees. In Vietnam, there are also many families growing this plant. Potatoes with scientific name is Dioscorea bulbifera, the same family with yams and originated from Florida, USA. The tuber appearance is quite similar to the potato we often use. However, the vines have a hard outer shell, underneath the brown skin is the green skin. Peel off this blue skin and you can use it. This climbing potato has a bitter taste, but when cooked carefully removes that bitterness. They are most commonly used in the pharmaceutical industry. Watermelon climbing scaffold The image of watermelon lying crawling on the ground like “little pigs” is too familiar. So you might not have expected these round watermelons, dangling from a trellis this high. In Vietnam, the model of growing trellis watermelon was first experimentally planted in Phu Tan district (An Giang), directly cultivated by farmer Nguyen Thanh Phong. This is one of the promising models, suggesting a new transformation direction to bring high economic value to farmers. Because watermelon belongs to the gourd family, it has very good clinging ability. The trellis cucumbers are of moderate size, suitable for the consumer needs of the people. Potato melon Cucumbers potato scientific name is Cucumis sativus little potato, originated from India. Despite being like a melon, but due to the shape of the fruit is like … a potato, it has been Vietnameseized as a potato cucumber. Potato cucumbers are just as easy to grow and care as a traditional cucumber. The unique fruit shape is also loved by many people to grow as an ornamental plant and as a delicious food. This exotic cucumber has a cool taste and aroma like lemon, and is a popular food used in salads, smoothies, as food decorations. Asparagus tree Asparagus is considered the nutritional emperor of vegetables, is a favorite dish of many people because it is very healthy. Asparagus trees are shrubs, soft conifers, and shoots that grow from the ground up to be used as foods of high nutritional value. However, perhaps not many people know that the willow branches, bamboo shoots, used by flower shops to attach with roses, lotus flowers, and in the old days used to arrange flowers in weddings were the leaves of asparagus this.