Good Stomach-Warming Porridge

Do you remember the last time you had porridge? Are you feeling unwell, or are you so busy that you forget to eat and sleep? Who cooked that bowl of porridge for you? ... Porridge, a warm food, always appears when you and I need warmth. Although the taste is not as good as the Manchu-Han banquet and delicacies from the mountains and seas, the moment you hold it in your hands, the warmth spreads to your hands. Scoop it up with a spoon and put it into your mouth. The soft and smooth texture slides into the body along the throat without having to chew. Happiness and satisfaction begin to spread outward, sweeping away the fatigue and discomfort that originally occupied the body and mind. The author, Bo Hui, is a soft-spoken Jiangnan girl who grew up in her hometown with distinct seasons and abundant products, and then married into this land. "I remember when I was a child, when the weather started to get colder, the white rice that was originally on the top quietly turned into a bowl of steaming white rice porridge. Sometimes corn crumbs were added, sometimes sweet potato cubes... Blow a few mouthfuls carefully, and then drink it while it's hot. After that, I quickly went to fill up a bowl. After a while, the bottom of the pot of porridge was gone, and I was sweating slightly." It was precisely because Bo Hui could not forget this simple bowl of hot porridge that she wrote the taste in her memory into words, paired it with pictures, and compiled it into a book. And her porridge recipe also has a strong flavor of life that cannot be dissolved, just like what her mother and mother-in-law talk about at the stove all year round. When the weather is cold to warm up, or when the weather is hot to cool down, no matter what season it is, eating porridge is an appropriate thing. Cook a bowl of good porridge with your heart, and love the important people around you with your heart.