Let see. I was going to stay overnight here today, but first of all, lets have lunch. Yeah, its still before noon.
Since I just taught Arle how to cook rice, our lunch would be rice. I would also prepare two side dishes. Originally, they planned to clean up the house and purchase missing items, so they bought pieces of bread ho to eat it imdiately. But now they could eat bread at night.
Anyway, lets start by polishing the rice first.
I think the reason why rice was unpopular in this country was mostly that they didnt polish it. They also didnt know how to cook it. Without polishing it, the taste and texture would be affected But then, the nutritional value for unpolished rice would be higher.
Thats why I prepared a few mortars and wooden pestles to do that. I had so of these in my [Storage]. I made it in bulks when I taught the landlady how to cook rice. I could just polish the rice using a glass bottle? I wouldnt do sothing so troubleso. I prioritized the ti efficiency when smashing the grain of rice.
The group who would polish the rice was the girl with free ti, Maricle, and Ryuu. Cain and Boman didnt look like they would be useful since they were being too depressed. I didnt want them to bother , so I pushed them into their room.
What should I make for the side dish? Since we just talked about it, how about making sothing from potatoes? Who cares if they just had a dispute over the food stall! What harassnt! No, I admit I wanted to harass him, but thats not the main reason I wanted to cook it.
I taught this recipe to Arle, not to Boman. If Boman wanted to know the recipe, he had no choice but to help Arle. If he really wanted to open the stall, he should help her out He should be aware of his mistakes and do sothing on his own to achieve his dreams.
I realized that I was being a bit too generous on him, but I didnt care since half of my intention was to harass him. Maybe I should use the potatoes for dinner too. As I pondered so, a visitor ca. It was Gim.
Apparently, he ca to give Triela and the others so orc ats to celebrate their move. Hmm, at For the ingredients, we had potatoes, so vegetables, plus onions and carrots. There were so bacon and ham, but I guess we should go with raw at first?
By the way, this ham and bacon had been processed at the pelt processing shop introduced to them by Gim. Its great that they checked it out.
Anyhow, what should I make? Ah How about at and potato stew? Since we were cooking rice, that dish would be perfect.
This dish didnt suit the stalls, but who cares. Even if soone forced themselves to do it, the preparations would be troubleso. Its unlikely that the public would be excited with stalls selling stews. Yeah, lets just go with this.
I wanted to have soup too, but using too many ingredients would be troubleso. This should be enough.
I wanted to use seasonings like dashi and mirin, but I only used soy sauce as the basic flavoring. After all, those seasonings were hard to obtain. Personally, I wasnt satisfied with the taste. But the sweetness of the onion and carrot and the taste of the at was making the stew delicious, so its okay. By the way, I didnt put shirataki. I think its only who could make it anyway.
With Arles help, the preparation of the at and potatoes took almost no ti. Still in the pot, I pull it off the heat. This step was important to make sure the broth was absorbed into the at giving it that extra flavor. Just reheat it again a few minutes before eating.
Next was the rice. Since a large number of people polished it earnestly, the amount of rice was not bad. But then, I planned to cook rice for the dinner, so the rice polishing hell would continue soon. Good luck! They could use the rice-bran that ca out after rice polishing as their detergent when washing, or as a body soap when taking a bath. By the way, I didnt teach them how to make a fernted rice bran bed since it was too troubleso. Well, I admit that it was delicious and nutritious. Rice bran had many other uses, but cramming too much unnecessary information into their heads was not worth it. Ill only teach them this for now.
Anyway, ti to cook the rice. I should cook two servings for each No, lets make three servings each just in case. I wouldnt forget how they continuously kept asking for another serving when I cooked pork rice bowl before I wonder if the stew would be enough? Oh well. If we ran out of it, I could just make rice balls.
Gim would join our lunch since Maricle asked him to stay here, so how about ten portions including ? I didnt think we have enough space in the living room Hmm, just have Cain and Boman eat in their room. They were too gloomy anyway.
And lunch was completed.
As I thought the at had absorbed the taste of the stew, making it delicious. But I wasnt satisfied with it. Also, everyone kept asking for second servings. The disastrous hell happened again
In the afternoon, we went out to purchase necessities. Gim took out Cain and Boman with him. Since Gim was knowledgeable, he told them various stories, which motivated the boys.
The girls wondered if they should buy so spare clothes or sothing like that, but clothes were expensive, even secondhand ones. I decided to give them so of the linen clothes I bought at Harula. Well, my current clothes were made of silk or mithril, so I didnt wear linen anymore Thats why I gave them so of the clothes I made back then. Triela refused again, but I ignored her. The fools had to buy their own clothes!
We returned when it was already evening.
There was no chitter-chatter event with the girls We only talked about daily necessities when we were shopping. It was a delicate topic. They got a little excited when I brought out the clothes once we returned, but the atmosphere beca sowhat complicated when I sized them. Hmm.
We would take a bath after having dinner. My last hope was at the bathing ti For now, lets prepare the dinner at once.
The staple food for dinner was bread. The side dish was bacon and potato galette. After a brief explanation, I cooked the thinly chopped potatoes and bacon, then baked the surface until it hardened. You didnt need to use oil since the bacon oil would co out. No, I knew it wouldnt be enough If possible, use a small amount of oil in the beginning. But with the poor household, you could say that they either didnt want to use it or couldnt use it The girls could add cheese to make it taste even better, but I only explained that to them. I didnt actually add any cheese.
I also cooked rice. This was for tomorrows breakfast.
I would make the cooked rice into soy sauce-grilled rice balls. I also made so soup. It would taste better if I let it sit overnight. Basically, spices and flavorings were expensive, so they only had a few types of seasonings that I could use right now. Therefore, the only way to improve the taste was by pre-cooking it and leave it for hours to mix the taste well.
The ingredients for the soup were minced orc at mixed with finely chopped vegetables to make atballs. Everyone worked together to make the minced ats. They got angry when I took out the at chopper after all of their hard work, but they should learn how to make it when they had no tools.
I cooked the atballs on the frying pan and added half of the ready to serve ones to the vegetable soup. I wonder if you could call this atball pot-au-feu? The other half was for tomorrow morning. They should heat it before eating to enjoy the difference in texture. The girls had taken a bite even before I cooked it, so the portion had decreased a little. Since the atball tasted delicious to eat raw1, it might be good to let everyone choose how they wanted to eat it.
Cain and Boman were still in their room during dinner. I could hear Boman talking about sothing from the second floor. Its most likely about how he could sell the potato galette in the stall No way, you wouldnt be able to sell such oily food, okay!
Papers were sold at a reasonable price in this world, and they could use it as the wrapping paper. Even so, it wouldnt be worth it when thinking about profitability. And its easy to have a rough idea on how to make sothing similar just by looking at the appearance, so many people would copy it imdiately. In that sense, it wasnt suited for sale.
If he wanted to open so stalls, he could make fried potatoes, but it would be hard to prepare a large amount of oil. Thats why fried foods were generally treated as high-class foods. Fried potatoes as a fine dish what a strange world!
I had seen fried potatoes sold at stalls several tis since I ca to the royal capital, but the color of the oil was black. That looked really dangerous. I would have a stomach ache if I ate that
Forget that. Its the long-awaited bath after dinner!
However, I had to teach them how to use the bath. Thats why I worked the bath alone as all the girls entered the bath one by one.
I taught them how to use the water heater and how to wash their body using rice bran. For the rice bran, I already made a rice-bran bag before dinner. They could scrub their body with it. But they shouldnt do it too roughly, so I had to teach them to be gentle. By the way, the rice bran could also be used as a hair conditioner. The girls were happy since their hair beca glossy. However, the rice bran couldnt remove dirt. They had to wash their hair with a lot of soap and then rinse it with the rice bran.
Soap was expensive, so the girls could wash their hair once in a few days and rinse it with rice bran every day. Well, I used shampoo and conditioner every day, so what?
The bathtub could fit two people if they held their knees and glued with each other. Thats why I had two of the girls entered each ti to make it more efficient to clean and remove the dirt. So there were three people in the bathroom, including myself. Too narrow.
First, I put Triela in the bathtub and have her soak in the boiled water for a while. After that, Rico ca into the bathroom and enter in the bathtub.
I washed Trielas hair and body while Rico was soaking in the water. And when I was done, I had Triela enter the bathtub again for a while. When her body got a little warm, Triela finished her bath. She got out of the bathroom and called Arle next. When Arle ca in, I asked Rico to get out of the bathtub We repeated the sa process several tis. I had to change the hot water in the bathtub frequently. Yeah, its full of dirt Uh.
By the way, I was inwardly delighted when feeling the squishy skin when washing the first girl I got bored midway of the second girl.
When all of the girls had washed their hair, my hands were wrinkled I felt like I was washing vegetables even though I was giving a bath to the girls.
Yeah, I enjoyed it a lot more when I took a bath with Lily She was as old as , and her chest was flat, which was exactly my type. If I think about it, I could see her very thoroughly until a year ago
In the end, this was a disappointing bath experience. Damn it.
The boys? I only verbally explained it to Maricle and Ryuu. So what?
Now its ti to sleep with everyone! Were going to have a lot of fun gossiping! Huh? But we had shared a room with the girls when I was in the orphanage, so nothing really changed from that ti?
No, no. It should be a little different! I pulled myself together and moved to the girls room. Since there were only two bunk beds, I would sleep on the floor. But before I could spread out a mat on the floor the girls started a fierce competition to sleep with ! It was only rock-paper-scissors, though. By the way, the winner was Kuro.
Apparently its only who had noticed this, but Kuro was waiting to see the other girls move before doing anything. Using her great dynamic vision and reaction speed, she made sure no one would notice a thing I only noticed it because I had [Hawk Eyes]. Kuro, what a scary child!
After that, we talked about various things.
For example, they couldnt et Kuros big brother even after coming to the royal capital.
Kuros older brother was a lot older than her. He left the orphanage to beco an adventurer many years ago. In the beginning, he sent her letters once in a while, but he stopped doing that in the last few years.
His na was Raven. He was a black cat, but his na was Raven and his sisters na was Kuro, so I didnt think their parents have a good naming sense. By the way, Raven was a chuunibyou.
That being said, one of Ravens eyes was actually a magical eye, so it wasnt that painful to watch him not really. He looked really pathetic
Other than that, Triela said that she wanted to send so money to the orphanage.
She wanted to buy the right of managent of the orphanage if possible, but thats not realistic. However, even if she knew that she couldnt do it with her current situation, she was studying whether she could do sothing to make it achievable
And then, we talked about everyones future dreams.
Arle wanted to beco successful in the cuisine industry. She wanted to make a restaurant or sothing like that.
Kuro said that she hadnt really thought of it, but she wanted to follow when she had beco a little bit more skillful How cute!
Rico wanted to improve her magic, but she also wanted to stay with Triela or . For the ti being, her goal was to train her magic and make herself known as an adventurer.
Triela seed to be at a loss. She had so thoughts about her future, but its still hard for her to say it. Hmm, everyone was thinking a lot
? I had three things I wanted to make, so my current primary goal was to make them.
It would be impossible to make any of them without trial and error, learning various skills, and above all, preparing tons of materials.
For now, I would focus on raising my skill level and collect the materials. Part of that was buying a large amount of mithril from the master.
Im not in a hurry, so its okay to do it slowly.
As we talked about such things, before we knew it, everyone fell asleep. They had been busy from the morning So they were tired Uhh.
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