180 • White day, Asta day - Jomtien

Jomtien - it is noon.

Let's move on to Xuanrong Pavilion first.

Ri-Sudra and then two young hunters from Rutim and Ray came down as promised, so I left the stall with Rayna-Rue and four Rud-Rue escorts.

Usually Rudd-Lou wants to follow me to the kitchen, but Sin-Lou took the role today, and the other three were to watch outside the store.

"Look, if you see a hungry ghost with red hair, you're definitely not going to stick around alone, are you? Blow the grass whistle and call the others."

Rudd-Lou, giving instructions that way, felt somewhat full of anticipation.

He is greatly intrigued by how skilled the one called Masala's Hunter, who also defeated Sin-Lu.

Saying goodbye to them like that, we set foot in the Xuanrong Pavilion.

"Nail, I brought you the promised giva meat"

In the kitchen, Nail glistened with great pleasure as I spread the envelope.

"Thank you. Today's meat is for taste, isn't it?

"Yes, Giva meat tastes different depending on the area, and since there are also so many differences in the amount that can be taken from one head, I thought I still needed to change the price slightly for each area."

As I explained, I opened the package one after the other.

"It just doesn't mean the quality will be higher just because there's less to take. Regardless of the price, each area has its own delicious taste, so please check first"

"I see. Caron is supposedly softer and tastier on the torso than on the leg, but what about Giva's meat? Very interesting."

Nail looks around at the meat on the table with a serious look.

Today, I was allowed to bring about 200 grams of four types of meat at a time.

That is, four types: shoulder, loin, rose, momomo,

Rare areas such as fin meat and shoulder loin are not included in the lineup because the price increases.

"Giva is also the meat on the back leg that gets the most, so I'm going to make that the same price as Caron's leg. And then we used that as a basis to determine the percentage of the price based on the amount that we could take."

Nair offered to buy me ten meats a day for dinner, roughly two or five kilos.

Then the price is...

Momo has nine red copper coins.

Shoulder meat, 11 red copper coins and half.

Fourteen red copper coins and a half.

Rose meat, 16 red copper coins and half.

- It was combined with the number.

"Bake or simmer, but the flavor changes completely, so give it a try. Of course, there's no problem with the way Momo buys five meals and five shoulders."

"Thank you. By the way, is there a distinction between the area you deserve for a grilled dish and the area you deserve for a simmered dish?

"Personally, I think simmering is easier to eat because the momomo and shoulders are hardened in flesh. But if you beat it with a jar or a stick of wood in advance and crush the fiber of the meat, cut the suzi or thinly slice it, you can also soften it a lot."

"I see. This is going to be worth the effort"

That being said, Nair narrowed his eyes with pleasure again.

Something like inn cooking is only an extension of home cooking, Camus said.

However, among other things, this nail and the Naudis of the Southern Dai Tree Pavilion were under the impression that they put a lot of effort into something called cooking.

Underlying this, I'm sure, is a strong desire to satisfy customers from the east and south who have left their homeland to come to Genos.

I suppose that's why they offered to buy exotic condiments with little value and also to serve dishes at stores for inexperienced leftovers like me.

"Then let me get to work for you today."

With Raina-Lou's help, I decided to work on a 30-service "Sautéed Arabiata Style of Giva".

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After cleaning up the "Xuanrong Pavilion" job in less than an hour, it is now moved to "The Great Tree Pavilion in the South".

Yesterday at this hour we were attacked by the red-haired boy Zida on this road, but today we were able to reach the Great Tree Pavilion in the South without a thing.

"Oh, I've been waiting for you, Asta."

I can greet your husband Naudis with a smile.

But when I asked the hunter by the woods to keep an eye on the entrance and exit again from today, that smile got a lot clouded.

"Is something wrong again? Is that how you talk to the people in the castle?

This is the fifth explanation, following Milan-Math, Dora's father, Sanjula and Nair.

Not only did he not reconcile badly with the man of the castle, but this time he was attacked by one who had a grudge against the people by the woods. So it's a rather noisy story about wanting us to reinforce our escorts.

As the explanation progresses, Naudis' face becomes more and more cloudy.

"Hmm... that's a difficult story..."

Unlike the nails, Naudis seems to be dealing with the people by the woods with a flat stance. I don't have the muscle to repel the people by the woods, or to defend them. It just feels like you respect me as an important business partner.

So I don't think there's a chance that if this goes on too long, it could be detrimental to engage us, either - and so far today, they didn't tell me to "go home".

"I guess the problem is that the castle people won't try to give us any notice when they say there was that kind of noise the other day. There were deficiencies in both the people by the woods and on the side of the castle, and in the future it is there to try not to repeat the same mistakes - but I think the people in the lodging town would be more comfortable."

And Naudis even told me that.

"That kind of disgust, like it's all brightened up, like it hasn't, leaves me and others with a lot of it in my chest.... Well, it's unlikely that the castle people will speak of their own shame or failure."

It was also a term that often revealed the rarity of the relationship between Castle Genos and the town of Accommodation.

It's been a month and a half since I first set foot in Accommodation Town - I've never come across a scene where the people of Accommodation Town make a favorable statement about Castle Genos, guards, etc., at one time.

Shouldn't that future Lord Genos named Melfried be the one to worry and break this status quo?

"Well, that's our business anyway. We are looking forward to feeding you new dishes today."

"Yes, then let me move on with my work for today."

The dedication in the Great Tree Pavilion in the South will also be changed from today.

Today's contribution is juice.

I wonder what the name is. Would it be "Giva Soup Tailored with Tau Oil"?

Well, as a matter of fact, this was pretty much the same dish as the pot I was serving at Fa's house for dinner.

Giva's meat comes in three varieties: momomo, shoulder and rose, and vegetables in four varieties: aria, tino, chacci and ghigo. It is the latest edition of "Giva Soup," a ginger juice-conscious version that simmers them and makes them taste with rock salt and tau oil.

The number of vegetables is abundant, but the cost ratio is also the lowest, 23 percent without meat and 60 percent with meat. Because of the large quantities of tau oil and fruit liquor used in "Giva's Horned Braised", the cost ratio also rises by about five percent.

The only thing that was different from the usual soup was that when the meat was first simmered, the leaves of Leelo were thrown to thoroughly remove the odor.

In fact, there is no strong odor left because it is meat that has been drained of blood. Still, there seems to be a few people who don't like the flavor of gibberish meat better than kimus and carons, so I decided to go through the trouble.

The sale of this dish would still be Chacchi and Guigo.

Chatch like potatoes and gigo like potatoes.

The chach is carefully simmered from the water stage, and the gigo is thrown after all the vegetables have been simmered. Now, both of them.

"Okay. Then when you're done removing the ash, keep the low heat after that, okay?

"Yes, I'll take care of it"

Rayna-Lew smiles.

Reyna-Lew has the same or more skills as me when it comes to making soup, so I can let him rest assured.

For the record, I still haven't been able to get the word "Asta tastes better" from Ai-Fa. The last thought I received was, "Almost mutually, I would have to say..."

Anyway, I'm going to work on today's tasting.

Naudis, who convinced me of the flavor of "Giva Soup," is also eager not to take "Giva's Braised Horns" off the dedication yet. What will be unveiled today was a new meat dish in lieu of its "Gibba's Horned Stew".

"Does today's dish also have a name?

"Yes, I call it the Meat Chatch."

To my answer, Naudis rounded his eyes properly.

"Is it 'meat chatch', not 'giva chatch'? Why is it called that?

"Haha. They used to call me that in my hometown. Also, I was wholesale the dish" Giva Chit "in" Xuanrong Pavilion, "so I thought I'd make a distinction from that."

However, there was no vegetable named Chatch in my hometown.

What was present was a potato, with a flavour very similar to that of a chatch.

So this was the equivalent of 'meat potatoes' in my hometown.

This guy was made in the sawdust shop.

However, the recipes are different because the environment is different.

The ingredients are sufficient substitutes for chachi and aria, potatoes and onions, but there is no soy sauce, no sugar, no mirin in my hand.

There is only tau oil, which is very similar to soy sauce, and fruit wine, which is very similar to wine.

However, this fruit liquor has a sugar content that seems to be much stronger than wine. If I hadn't, I probably wouldn't have been able to get started on this dish either.

(Regardless of the ingredients, I wonder if I can handle the small amount of seasoning)

With that in mind, drop a pinch of lard in the iron pan and fry the rose meat.

At a stage where redness remains a bit, Aria and Chatch are also put in.

When the fat turns in good shape, add the tau oil, fruit liquor and water.

Once simmered, take the ash juice and simmer the tree lid over medium heat.

And then if the heat passes until the chatch is tender, it's done.

"... so all you have to do is wait, Asta?

and Rayna-Lew, who was eager to follow the steps of the work from next door Kamado, calls.

"That's right," she replied. "So that's a lot easier to cook."

"Yeah, that's easy to work with. For that matter, I think the taste changes a lot due to the ratio of tau oil to fruit liquor, the time to simmer, and the intensity of the fire."

Moreover, neither metering cups nor gas stoves exist in this world. In such an unstable environment, the maker's senses will become so important.

"Until a long time ago, even in my hometown, it was a dish like synonymous with home cooking, wasn't it? It might be harder to tell you how to cook this kind of dish than a hamburger or a square-boiled dish."

"Really?" Raina-Lou said with such an enthusiastic eye.

"Hmm. You have aromas of tau oil and fruit liquor," Naudis says, causing her to have a big nose.

"I never used fruit liquor for cooking either, but I didn't use it as boldly as Asta did. I think the mellow sweetness brought from the fruit liquor really suits the taste of the people of the South."

"Oh, speaking of which, there's sugar in Jagal, right?

But I remember saying that around Aldas.

"Let's even exist in Genos. However, I have never seen them sold outside the stone walls."

"Is it so rare that it is only handled in the castle town? Um, there's a thorough shortage of condiments in this lodging town, isn't there? Even tau oil wouldn't be available without a special connection to the southern pedestrians, would it? If you think about it, there is no such thing as condiments that are normally sold other than rock salt?

"I don't, I guess it's most accurate to say. It's up to each person to think of herbs such as Myrmu as vegetables or condiments."

I nod "I see" as I throw a little firewood at Kamado.

"Speaking of which, Pico and Leelo leaves are barely sold either, right? Very occasionally, I saw them being sold in the same store as rock salt."

"Around here, Pico and Leelo can only be picked in the Morga Forest. It's one of the few privileges for the people of the woods to be able to collect whatever they want."

It has been conveyed that Naudis is carefully choosing words to avoid dislike or sarcasm.

I'm sure Naudis is also willing to make sure that he doesn't give special attention to the people by the woods.

"So the only way to preserve meat in the Inn Town is to salt it."

"Right. Buying fresh meat every day is a hassle, and if you don't buy it in bulk in one go, the price will go up, so you will usually buy a few days worth of meat and keep it soaked in salt"

"I see."

Hopefully, I'll be using that caron or Kimmus meat to give Milan-Math a cooking guide.

Whether you can use meat other than giva to lump a decent dish. As far as I'm concerned, it was quite a development that inspired the spirit of challenge.

"Oh, excuse me for a second"

I thought it might be time, and I took the lid off the iron pan.

Indeed, the water vapor containing the aromas of tau oil and fruit liquor is explosively dispersed.

The moisture that had been poured so much that the ingredients were soaked in one spot had been reduced to about half.

I used a piece of the iron pot with a wooden straw, and then I stabbed the chutch with a grigi yangzhi.

Without any resistance, Yang Zhi buries it when he does.

So, what about the flavor?

Carry the broken chutch and rose meat in the mouth one piece at a time with the yang branch.

Sweet and gentle on the palate.

The chatch is blemish and the meat is moderately soft.

When chewed, further sweetness and flavor are combined and spread to the mouth.

(Still, the sweetness is weak, so I guess the darker flavor would be ideal)

I draped only half of the tau oil from the earthen bottle into a wooden spoon, dissolved it in the stock in a wooden dish, and then added it to the pan.

Carefully stir so that the chatch does not collapse and see the flavor again.

Sounds good.

It is best to let the flavor soak up once it has cooled down, just as it would if it had been a braised corner. It also has a satisfying taste at this stage.

I shrugged the contents of an iron pan into a new wood dish.

"Enjoy. The amount is now half a serving."

The meat is around 120 grams, the aria is for half, and the chatch is for a quarter.

I'd like to ask Chutch for more volume if possible, but this was the best I could do to keep the cost as low as' Giva's Horned Stew '. Chatch is a pretty expensive vegetable, one about the size of an adult male's fist is 0.5 red copper coins.

So, for the other half of the serving left in the iron pan, let it crease into another wooden dish and give it to Raina-Lou.

"I'll change the turn of fire, so will Raina-Lou see the flavor too?

"Uh, okay?," Raina-Lou rejoiced like a child.

Naudis is laughing at me no less than Raina-Lou.

That's how the two carried the wooden spoons to their mouths at the same time, exploding their delightful colors at the same time.

"Asta, it's delicious!

"Uhm, this is delicious"

Especially Naudis, whose eyes and eyebrows have fallen so low that he has no more.

"Oh, it's really delicious. The softness of the chatch is wonderful, as is the lumpy aria with a sweet flavour. Yeah, but the giva meat is delicious too... and this seems to be a dish that utilizes the flavour of vegetables more than the dish called kakuto!

"Thank you.... but this doesn't use Leelo leaves unlike square-boiled or soup, does it? It's not so strongly flavored, and I'm just a little worried that Guiba meat scum won't be hated by the customers of the southern people."

"Let's be okay with that. In other words, I wondered whether it was necessary to add the leaves of Leelo even to its giva supine. Thanks for the strong aroma of Leelo's leaves, which seems to inhibit the taste of tau oil."

That was quite a sharp point.

If Leelo's leaves were so harmonious with the taste of 'giva soup', I would have used Leelo's leaves even in Fa's house. This was only a bitter way of eliminating odors.

"In the first place I don't even think Giva meat has that much odor. I find it strange that there were customers who didn't like this flavor."

And, with a smile, Naudis tilted his little neck.

He is a man with a mustache and a magnificent age, but he is quite a charming trick.

"Maybe that's the assumption that it's not something a decent human being eats, such as a giva? It is true that the taste of Giva meat is very different from that of Karon and Kimmus, and it is certain that the flavor is strong, so if linked to such thoughts, disgust and the like may sometimes arise"

Indeed - that's how Balan's men tasted 'Giva Burger' and rated it as unsavory.

But a month later, he bought me a large quantity of dried giva meat, not carons. "If you eat it for a month, it can also have a strong flavor," he said.

"It's been over a month since Asta started trading stalls, hasn't it? Then the reputation that giva meat is enough meat to eat would have spread to the lodging town as well. This flavor is the delicacy of Giva, so it doesn't seem necessary to focus on flavors that weaken it."

"Really? … it is very comforting for you to say so"

I was able to respond to Naudis with a smile, too.

"So can you buy this dish too?

"Of course!... Oh, but I still want to throw away my dedication to Kaku. It could be on the 5th, or the 10th, so I was wondering if you could sell Kaku...?

"That's about how often. I'll take care of it, if you don't mind. So how about on the first day of the ten-day contract, we prepare" Giva's Horned Stew, "and then we offer this" Meat Chatch "and" Giva Soup "every other day?

Guess Naudis himself is craving 'Giva's Horned Stew' as well as the reputation of the customer. Unlike Naudis, he seems to have eaten the dishes he bought from me at dinner himself.

It must be an honor for you to think that you can't help but eat at the expense of that one meal earned.

Whatever it is, because cooking time was the reason I wanted to remove 'Giva's Horned Stew' from the dedication. At the top of the 10th, I can also manage to fold it with other jobs. If you can't put it on, there's nothing else to shorten your time standing in the stall just that day.

(Yeah, but in the current situation, I guess I'll have to add more escorts in the morning... I figured by the time I can start working in another inn, I want it to be like I don't need an escort)

If I had thought about that, Naudis, who still has a slightly unreliable look, would have called me even more.

"By the way, Asta... you were talking about taking the top day off from business from now on, right?

"Yes, so I would like to ask for ten days at a time for future contracts to coincide with that day"

"Of course you can do that. But - this time, you're going to take two days off the seventh and eighth of the White Moon, right?

"Yes. I thought I'd like to study cooking myself a little bit."

"Really......" Naudis gets annoyed.

In the meantime, Raina-Lou was recommending his' meat chatch 'to Sin-Lou.

I sneak in to see Sin-Lu narrow his eyes satisfactorily with it, and then I turn back to Naudis.

"What's up? Is there a problem as well?

"The problem is, there is. But this is a problem that I have to do something about myself."

That's how Naudis looked up resolutely and said.

"Asta, you once said to me, why don't you buy me some giva meat and cook it yourself? Is that story still valid?

"Yeah? Yes, of course."

"If so - I would like to buy Gibba's meat"

"Why? I couldn't help it."

Naudis should not have been so positive about my proposal.

"That's for business, of course. If Asta's food doesn't go on for two days, our customers will go to other shops for dinner."

"Well, isn't that too much to think about? I'm going to take a break from all the work at the inn when I'm off, so they're not selling my food anywhere that day, right?

"But will Asta sell Gibba's meat to her husband at the Xuanrong Pavilion? And even" Westwind Pavilion "and" Kimmus's Tail Pavilion "said they wanted to wholesale the food. … then it may be that all of those inns will start selling their own Giva dishes? I fear it."

"Ha..."

"I don't think the other innkeepers have as many arms as Asta. But can the grievances of not being able to eat Giva's dishes still only be filled with Giva's dishes? At least that's what I would think if I were in your shoes"

That being said, Naudis has bowed his head deeply.

"Sell me the meat of Gibba, too. In the few days that I have managed to stay, I would like to make dishes with my wife that I am not ashamed to serve to our guests"

And of course I was supposed to bow my head, "Thank you," too.

It is a development that is too thankful and distracting.

All that day, he was able to finish his business in the Inn Town without being attacked by the red-haired boy Zida or reaching out to Cycleus.

On the one day of the strangely full white moon, this was finally the end of about two-thirds.