A Meal You Like

My favorite meal is hand pilaf cooked with mutton. The ingredients are fresh mutton, carrots, onion, oil and rice. Actually, there are more than 10 different kinds of hand pilaf. We can also use chicken or vegetable to replace mutton, but the most common is the one using mutton. During festivals, funerals and weddings, people would like to eat hand pilaf. 

In the past, when I was in high school in my hometown, my mom cooked it once a week. And she knew I like it very much, so she decided to teach me how to cook. Now, I’m far away from my home to study here, so I really miss my hometown’s traditional meal. I usually eat hand pilaf with my friends in the Xinjiang restaurant. I like to eat it because it always reminds me of the taste of my hometown, of course including my parents and friends. Every time, when I’m upset, I must eat much a lot of hand pilaf because it helps me release my sorrowful mood. That’s why I enjoy it very much.