Shredded potatoes with salad

When I was a child, my family was poor. Except for the Chinese New Year, I couldn't eat anything good. The grains and vegetables were all grown in my own fields. If I were to put them now, I would definitely be envious. The ones produced at home would be so safe and secure! However, at that time, I felt that life was very difficult, and there was rarely any meat in the meal. Imagine that the family of five could only eat 10 kilograms of soybean oil a year. I really don't know how my mother, as a housewife at that time, managed to use 10 kilograms of oil to eat it for a year.

However, although my life as a child was harsh, compared with my neighbors, my mother still put a lot of effort into making food. For example, in autumn, my mother would go up the mountain to harvest wild walnuts, dry them, break them, and pick out the walnut kernels for us to eat pancakes. We use the radishes produced at home to cook us radish meatballs, cabbage buns, and dry fried potato cakes (the so-called dry frying means no oil is added). In short, my mother will not be like other neighbors 'mothers who only know how to stew radish and cabbage. My mother will try every means to use the only ingredients and seasonings at home to make the food as delicious as possible. Seeing how delicious we eat it, she feels very comfortable, just like my mood for my son now!

One of the best things my mother created in my memory is this cold shredded potatoes. Since the potatoes in the field were taken home, the potatoes have been eaten almost every time on the table. Hoo potatoes and stewed potatoes are nothing more than these two kinds of eating methods. You can rarely eat fried potatoes, and there is not so much oil! But sometimes I get tired of eating like this, so my mother began to change things. This cold shredded potatoes was one of the most common tricks she used. However, there was no sesame oil or chili oil at that time, so she just mixed it with spicy food.