Nature never deviates from the people it loves. - Wordsworth
Looking forward to it, summer has come, although due to this year's epidemic has affected the convenience of people going out, but still can not stop people's yearning for summer, can not stop the food temptation of barbecue beer and seafood. In recent years, people's requirements for delicious food have become more and more stringent, but the requirements for food have become more and more extensive, and creatures that could not enter the eyes before will be transformed into tempting delicacies in the hands of working people and gourmets. Just like the crayfish that dominates the summer night market, it is actually an invasive species, a pest of the local ecological environment, but later it has become a food network celebrity, and similar to the crayfish, there is also a pest in the reed field, if you play the flashlight at night, you can catch hundreds of pounds, and the taste is absolute after cooking.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > relative of the crab</h1>
Every year around autumn, is the most suitable season to eat crabs, Yangcheng Lake hairy crabs are famous, if you go to October to buy, not only the price will increase, but also may not be able to buy authentic hairy crabs, buy home or steamed or stewed, with a little red wine, feel the first bite of delicious after autumn. If you want to taste hairy crabs on the food street, you may encounter relatives of crabs, which look like a miniature version of crabs, only a few centimeters up and down, don't think that this is a crab before the full moon comes out to work, in fact, this is a species called crab.
Crab, is a freshwater type of crab, there is a zheng'er bajing scientific name is the amake crab, in the countryside people used to call him small crab, popular and image, crab looks more square, because its head and breastplate are slightly square, the color is generally bluish brown, the claw is particularly thick, the large claw of the crab is not only a dish, but also can be used to sell money. In the 1980s or so of the last century, there were relevant records, the purchase price in 2008, each kilogram of crabs can be sold for four yuan, in Changzhou Jiangyin farmers rely on crab catching a day to earn as much as two or three hundred yuan, a year can earn about 100,000 yuan, which is a lot of income.
The body of the crab can be used as livestock feed, but also can be used to refine crab shell, its diet is similar to crab, mainly some microorganisms and shells in the river, commonly found in rice fields and reeds, which is the main reason why he is regarded as a pest. Because in the field of these crops, the crab will bite off the roots of these plants and suck the juice inside, which is a natural temptation for the crab, if there are many, it will bite down a large piece, causing tons of damage to the farmland, so it is found that the crab should be caught in time and sent to the table.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > flashlight is fixed as soon as it is illuminated</h1>
How do I catch a snail? Friends who have experienced rural life should have a lot of ideas in their minds, and friends who have played in the farm may also know a rough idea. In fact, the crab is not so easy to catch, can reproduce to today's species, which is not two brushes, especially like the crab such a horizontal walking species. Running fast during the day, the slightest wind and grass will disappear in front of people's eyes, because he is good at punching holes, small and difficult to find.
But in the evening, the opportunity to catch it comes, in the summer night, especially when the weather is sweltering, it will rain, waiting by the river or next to the embankment, there will be crabs out of breath, because when it is about to rain, the atmospheric pressure is reduced, the oxygen content in the cave is reduced, the crabs will drill out of the hole, this time do not act rashly, do not just come out on the grass to startle the snake, to wait for it to stand steady, breathe oxygen is in full swing, open the flashlight you prepared in advance, a photo is accurate, it is strange to say, In this way, the crab will not move, at this time you can pick it up casually, if you find the right place, you may harvest hundreds of pounds a night.
There is also a high-end method of catching, which requires experienced old hunters to operate freely, find the cave where the crabs inhabit, do not need to take a flashlight, do not need to take other tools, grab a reed of moderate thickness, put it into the mud pit or bunker, wait quietly like fishing, wait until you feel that the crab clamps the reed, you can slowly pull it out, when it emerges, you have to clip it with a clip at the first time.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > add some wine to it</h1>
After the opening of spring, the omnivorous food in the belly of the crab has been exhausted, and the crab yellow crab meat at this time has gradually become plump, the meat is tender, the paste is like gelatin, it has a high nutritional value, and it has always been regarded as a treasure delicacy, and some people call it the freshest in the world. Due to the wide distribution of crabs, the cooking methods of each place are also unique.
In Jiangsu, it is popular to eat only two large claws, after catching the crabs, generally will reduce the two large claws, rinse them, and then release the crabs, in their eyes, only the large claws of the crabs are worth tasting delicious, the general practice is to use spices such as five spices and onions, ginger, garlic and other spices to boil together, each store will add their own secret spices, launch their own unique large claws. There is another special cooking method, that is, the famous drunken crab, this dish can maximize the delicious taste of the crab, after catching the crab, to clean the water repeatedly three or four times, after cleaning into the liquor for pickling, you can choose your favorite flavor of the liquor. In this process, you can mix the marinade, put in some Chinese herbal medicine angelica, party ginseng, licorice, tangerine peel, red dates, etc., first for three hours of fierce cooking and slow frying, this time the added herbs to the maximum release of medicinal properties, each drunken crab has taken into account the delicious and health.
Crabs can also be made into starch fried, a bite is very crisp, you can also make them into crab sauce, the caught crabs are cleaned, cut off the tail, add spices together to marinate, after about 12 hours can be ground into sauce, this homemade crab sauce is the best for bibimbap. The nutritional value of crab is relatively high, containing a variety of minerals and high-quality protein, improving cellular immunity.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > and eat and cherish</h1>
Although the number of small crabs such as crabs is more, but also can not eat more, spleen and stomach deficiency of people should not eat too much, people with gastroenteritis can not eat more, after eating try not to drink tea, if you eat unwashed crabs are also easy to cause diarrhea, serious people will be poisoned.
Crabs are becoming more and more popular and are also the embodiment of improved quality of life, but in recent years, prices have also risen steadily, first of all because there are more people eating, the supply exceeds demand, resulting in price increases, and because human activities have destroyed the living environment of crabs, resulting in a decline in production. In fact, many of the original naturally conceived ingredients are showing a decreasing trend, many have been added to the category of artificial breeding, factory flow-through processing operations, so that although the output has been increased, it has also lost the charm of the natural world, there is no pleasure in holding your breath and concentrating on the arrest, there is no sense of achievement in carefully modulating the aroma out of the pot, and there is no happiness in the beginning with friends blowing the wind of the summer night and bathing in the moonlight.