02.Nov.20, 01:37 AM
"I suppose if all I had was the same thing to eat every day I would get tired of it too. It's a good thing seasoning exists! That will be the longest and most important lesson. You can make the same piece of fish taste very different depending on how you season it. But first, we're going to chop everything up into smaller bits for this dish." Zelly made sure A'tay could clearly see as she started to chop up the vegetables and slice the meat until it was all roughly uniform and bite sized.
Once the pan was hot and she was adding in ingredients she waved him over. "Okay, you're going to season this for me. I'll point to something and you'll put some in until I tell you that's enough. That way you'll get a feel for how much of each seasoning goes into the dish, and when you can taste how it all comes together it'll help you get a better idea of how things just... work. Seasoning is hard to explain, when you cook you know."
Zelly walked him through the rest of the time cooking, pointing at various spices and ingredients. "Add a dash of that... no more. More. Okay and now a generous amount of garlic. That's perfect just stop there." As A'tay added the ingredients she would pause to taste a bit, offer him a taste as well, and then move on until the food finished cooking. "Here, try this, tell me what you think, and if you wish any part of it was a little different. And then tell me about the exile. That was in Katila I think? You were there too right?"
Once the pan was hot and she was adding in ingredients she waved him over. "Okay, you're going to season this for me. I'll point to something and you'll put some in until I tell you that's enough. That way you'll get a feel for how much of each seasoning goes into the dish, and when you can taste how it all comes together it'll help you get a better idea of how things just... work. Seasoning is hard to explain, when you cook you know."
Zelly walked him through the rest of the time cooking, pointing at various spices and ingredients. "Add a dash of that... no more. More. Okay and now a generous amount of garlic. That's perfect just stop there." As A'tay added the ingredients she would pause to taste a bit, offer him a taste as well, and then move on until the food finished cooking. "Here, try this, tell me what you think, and if you wish any part of it was a little different. And then tell me about the exile. That was in Katila I think? You were there too right?"