Tondemo Skill - 301 - Dora-chaaannn~~
We plan to leave Doran tomorrow, therefore today was spent preparing for the trip.
The preparation was mainly food preparation: Deep-fried food such as fried pork cutlets, fried minced pork, Salisbury steaks, miso-pickled at and minced at soboro are a must, of course. Aside from these side dishes, I’ve also prepared pork soup, seafood soup and lots and lots of rice for the various rice bowl dishes.
“Phew, this should be enough. I sohow ended up with a whole bunch of different things.”
Ever since ‘Cook’ appeared under my Occupation status, I found that cooking [6] had beco sothing like an instinctive action and almost always ended cooking more than I ant to…
This isn’t really a problem since I have these gluttons to feed anyway. [5]
Still, it’s a testimony of my skills when I ended up with more leftovers than before.
[6] Not cooked leftovers but…
[8] I scratched my head as I studied the large bowl of minced Orc and Minotaur at. [5] [6] I had already made Salisbury steaks and minced cutlets but there’s still so much left… [5]
This was partly due to Sui’s special Mithril Mincer which minces up at almost without any effort.
I guess I could just put it away in the [Item Box] for another day but I feel like I should make sothing with this pile of at…
Let’s see, minceat~ minceat…
Alright, let’s go with that!
‘That’ being at pies.
I’d made these before when faced with the sa problem. Sotis, when minceat goes on sale, like a hypnotised consur, I'd usually buy too much. Still, the pies were unexpectedly easy to make and were delicious. Thank you internet.
“Alright, let’s add at pies to our dishes!”
[9] With [Net Super] on my side, I can just buy stuff like frozen pie sheets which really cut down the work on making pies.
I already have at and eggs as well as the necessary seasonings but I bought so more onions and carrots to be added to the pie.
First, the onions and carrots are diced into small cubes. On a hot frying pan, I drizzled a bit of oil and stirred the onions and carrots in until just tender before putting the minced at in. Once the at has browned and crumbled to pieces, I added ketchup, Worcestershire sauce, crumbled a consommé cube over the dish and adjusted the flavour with salt and pepper. You can add grated nutg too if you like. [6] I forgot to buy it so let’s do without for now.
[9] Finally, sprinkle so flour over the minced at to further thicken the sauce and remove the pan from the fire. While the at is cooling, I cut the defrosted pie sheets into four equal parts. [6] This will make 2 square pies.
[9] I placed the minced at in the middle of two pie sheets before covering it with a second layer and crimped it down with a fork. The design is rather crude but it works. Finally, a layer of egg wash to make it look glossy before it goes into the oven.
[9] The pies were relatively small and the insides were already done so it baked very quickly. For this pie, I used onions and carrots according to the original recipe. More often than not, I’d use frozen mixed vegetables since I’m lazy…
Also, curry powder is a good addition to give regular pies an extra twist. In fact, I should make so one day…
[9] As for the shape, I chose to make a rectangular hand pie without bothering with moulds or anything since it’s much easier. Smaller pies cooked faster too and frozen pie sheets are really fun and easy to work with. I’ve made round, triangular and even gyoza shaped pies but it all depends on a person’s taste. The key is to make relatively small and flattish pies that fit into the palm of my hand. Hence, 'hand pie'...
I should try making other shapes next ti…
Oh, there goes the tir, my pies are done baking.
“Hmm, the pie shells looked well cooked, the egg wash gave it a really nice colour. Of course, I’ll have to taste it to check if it’s really done…”
The fragrance of freshly baked pastry seduced into taking a bite.
Crunch.
“Tasty~”
The crisp and savoury texture of the pie is just irresistible [2] and matches nicely with the well-seasoned minced at, especially since I’ve packed in the at generously.
“Oi, you’re eating sothing delicious, aren’t you. Give .”
“” too!””
“”Sui wants so too~~””
[4] “…I was just taste testing…”
Fer and Co had been attracted by the delicious sll of baked pastries. [8] Since the two pieces of pies weren’t enough for everybody, I got to work prepping more pies and ended up giving them platefuls of at pies as a snack.
“Oh, that’s right. I can make pound cakes with the dried fruit Tirza-san [5] gave .”
I plan to inform Elland-san and Ugor-san that I’ll be leaving Doran tomorrow. [8] It would be nice to give them so cakes made with Tirza-san’s dried fruits [5].
Once my cakes were baked I wrapped up so at pies [1] and put them in a basket before heading towards the Adventurer’s Guild.
The mont I arrived at the Adventurer’s Guild the staff mber imdiately guided to the second floor [1] where I found both Elland-san and Ugor-san still stuck under a pile of docunts.
[8] “Oh, it’s Mukouda-san! Ugor-kun, look, it’s Mukouda-san! A break! A break! It’s ti for a break!” [5]
“[5] Idiot Master, just keep working. I shall speak to Mukouda-san.”
“Wh-whyyy…..” Elland-san’s excited voice trailed off in a whine. [5]
My condolences to Elland-san but I suspect you're the reason why you're both stuck under a mountain of docunts...
“Apologies for keeping you waiting, Mukouda-san. What business might you have with us?” [3] Ugar-san said, ignoring Elland-san with practised ease.
“Oh, I’m just here to drop off a small report… and to thank you for your gifts and your care,” I said.
“No, no, my family is very happy with Mukouda-san’s gift. We are very grateful for the delicious food.”
“Ah, anyway, since I’ve received sothing, I thought I’d reciprocate a little, here you go,” I handed the basket of pound cake baked with Tirza-san’s dried fruits and the at pies.
“Why only Ugor-kun?! Unfair!”
“...and this is Elland-san’s portion,” I said, handing another basket over with a slightly forced smile.
“Ohh Mukouda-san, I’ve always believed you! Thank you so much!” [3] Elland-san declared as he shalessly poked through the basket.
Ugor-san rely sighed.
“Anyway, the reason I’m here today is to let both of you know that I will be leaving Doran tomorrow,”
“Oh? Is that s-”
Crash! Bang!
“Eehhhhh! M-Mukouda-san, you’re leaving Doran?!” Elland-san had stood up so violently that the chair behind him tipped over and crashed to the floor.
“Idiot Master, you’re too loud. Calm down.”
“How can I? Mukouda-san is leaving Doran!?”
“What are you talking about? Mukouda-san is an Adventurer, so it makes sense for him to leave Doran.”
Ugor-san, thank you for being the voice of reason.
“W-well, that’s true but I thought surely it would be fine to stay a little longer… oh, right! Why don’t you base yourself in this city? Doran has a great dungeon and this is a great city! Don’t you think so?”
“Well…” as Elland-san said, Doran is a great city, “but I don’t plan on settling down for the mont.”
I want to travel a bit more first.
“Ehhh, don’t say that. D-Dora-chan will be far away…” Elland-san wailed heartbrokenly.
Ah, so his real intention ca out.
“Ahem, you’ve been a great help to , please accept my thanks,” I said to Ugor-san with a professional smile.
“Mukouda-san, do co back to Doran again,” said Ugor-san.
“I will,” I said. However, I have no idea when I’ll be back in this city. Thanks to a certain pain in the butt Elf and Dora-chan’s disgust against said Elf, it probably won’t be soon. [5]
[6] “I’ll be back soday,” was the best promise I could make.
[6] Ugor-san nodded understandingly and I left.
Just as my foot stepped over the threshold of the Adventurer’s Guild, a loud wail of ‘Dora-chaaaannnn!!!’ startled my party so badly that we quickly ran away from the Guild.
““This place has a good dungeon, but I’m fine not coming for a while,”” muttered Dora-chan as he shivered.
Sotis, when love is too intense, it creates trauma instead of joy.
Speaking of which, Sui has been peacefully resting inside the leather bag all this ti.
“Where do we go next?” asked Fer.
I’ve already made up my mind about this, “Calerina, the first proper city I stayed in.”
“Oh, that one?”
“It’s a little early, but I want to pick up my Wyvern cloak. There’s one other thing I want to do too. Early tomorrow morning, we’ll return the key to the house. After a final stop at the Guild we’ll leave right away.”
“Umu,”
“”Ou, let’s hurry up and get out of this place!””
Early next day, we left Doran and made our way towards Carelina.
[Gumihou: Haha, Elland-san is way too intense here.]
[1] Structural Change: Combine 2 paragraphs
[2] Structural Change: Combine 3 paragraphs
[3] Structural Change: Combine paragraph & dialogue
[4] Structural Change: Change passive sentence to dialogue
[5] Delete Repetitive or Pointless Information
[6] Additional Information for Aesthetic Purpose
[7] Add Dialogue Tag
[8] Creative Licence Taken
[9] So major changes to the sentence structure and order of information to make the whole thing more coherent and interesting. Also, so of the original pie making instructions were… iffy.
Applying egg wash to edges of pie before crimping it together for example. An absolute No.
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