Ch 64 -- My Personal Cooking Style, Quick and Dirty
So, ti to make dinner. The problem is, what? I’ve only got Rock Bird at right now so it will have to be sothing in the chicken line.
Recipes, hmmm I’ll go with an old favourite of mine, Szechaun chicken in spicy sauce. Fer will complain if that’s all there is so I’ll do so stir-fry as well, fried chicken and green peppers. I don’t hate peppers like so people do, I like the sharp taste they have. I’ll tweak the amounts so there’s more at than normal to keep Fer happy.
First up, shopping at the Net Super. Let’s see, tomatoes, cucumber, green peppers and so red and yellow peppers too. They add colour to the dish. I put in my order, not forgetting to buy the most important side-dish, premium beer. I deserved so beer to toast the successful solving of my Guild ranking problem.
Excellent, now to get started with the Szechuan chicken. First I boiled Rock Bird breast in wine and salted water. While the at was cooling down I sliced the tomatoes and cut the cucumbers into thin strips. I shredded the at with my fingers then laid lots of it down on a bed of tomato slices and cucumber strips topped off with sesa seed dressing. I cut back on the spiciness since I expected a certain soone to complain otherwise but a simple sesa seed dressing should be fine. I like it anyway... If you want it hotter you can add chili oil with the sesa seed dressing.
On to the stir-fry, chicken with green peppers. I prodded so Rock Bird at with a fork to open it up a bit then cut it into bite-sized pieces before marinating it in a ziploc bag with soy sauce and sake. I chopped up the peppers to size while the at absorbed the flavourings.
Once the at was properly scorched both sides in a hot oiled pan I took it off the heat and added the peppers. Once they softened I added the seasoning, so oyster sauce from a tube then fired it up again and started tossing the contents in the pan until it was ready.
I use a lot of oyster sauce for soups as well as stir-fry and I always keep so on hand. The tubes of ready-made sauce are really convenient and I’ve been buying them ever since they started appearing on the shop shelves.
I turned out the chicken and green peppers stir-fry onto a dish.
"It’s ready," I announced to the waiting audience behind .
"It’s not just at, is it?" Fer sniffed suspiciously.
"Let’s eat it, it’s delicious-"
"What’s th-... *chomp*... *chomp**chomp**chomp*..." Fer settled down to so serious eating.
Sui’s telepathic declaration that "It’s delicious, Aruji-" was enough proof for that the dish was a success. Sui’s so cute...
I started on my own helping of Szechaun chicken and green pepper chicken stir-fry accompanied by a beer. The beer was first, of course.
"Psssh," the can foad a little as I opened it. "Glug glug glug..." as it went down my throat.
"Fuuu, a beer is just the right thing right now." I filled my mouth with Szechaun chicken. Munch munch, yep it’s delicious as Sui said. The sesa seed topping has a refreshing taste. I followed it with another mouthful of beer. Nice. Next, so stir-fried chicken, well stir-fried Rock Bird and green peppers which have a nice crisp texture as I expected. The seasonings worked really well and they’re so simple, I just add them to the cooking. All praise to the Japanese food industry! I toasted them with another mouthful of beer. It’s delicious.
Oh, I forgot to cook rice but I suppose bread will do in a pinch. Lessee, can I put the Szechuan chicken between two slices of bread? Hmmm, munch. "Oh, that works fine." I worried that the bread would get soggy from the tomatoes but if I eat it quick there’s no problem. Hurry hurry... and so more premium beer. My enjoynt of my Szechaun chicken and stir-fry and green peppers and premium beer combo was interrupted by a loud voice.
"Hey, seconds here."
"Sui too-"
Yeah yeah. I’ve gotten used to their gluttonous demands but I wasn’t going to be rushed so I continued enjoying my dinner and my beer while I made seconds for Fer and Sui.
"So? Was it good?" I enquired afterwards.
"It was so-so." grumped Fer. It couldn’t have been that bad really, he finished off everything I put in front of him.
"Sui thinks it was delicious-" Ahhh, Sui’s so honest. And cute.
"Well, I should get a lot more at tomorrow so I’ll grill so Orc King steak next ti."
"If you’re grilling steak do it like you usually do." Yeah yeah. Fer really likes steak, especially with soy sauce. I’d prefer to cook so curry instead but doing it in an inn, the sll is a bit strong... I guess it’ll be a while before I can eat curry again. While I was daydreaming about curry I noticed Fer was stretching and yawning. Eating so much had made him sleepy.
"Move over and I’ll put down a futon for you." I ordered, poking him in the side.
"Yeah, do that." Fer settled down as soon as I had laid down a futon in his stall.
"Right, we’re going back to our room." Fer wagged his tail in reply, his eyes already closed. He was totally out of it. Shall we go back to our room then, Sui-chan?
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