welcome to chopped

[eternalwaltz]

Who: Ludger Kresnik & Yukiko Amagi
What: Yukiko needs someone to show her how to cook, and Ludger is teaching!
When: On this day
Where: Amagi Inn
Why: ....she really needs to improve.
Rating: PG because Ludger is a Disney princess

[ludger had brought over his own ingredients, since what they were making today would be things he knew would be relatively simple. ludger wasn't a world-class chef or anything, but he had been employed as one back home because of his skills. he had promised to teach her what he knew, and they would be starting off with the basics.

they were both situated in the amagi inn's kitchen, and ludger was fishing through his bag of goodies. he was wearing his own apron that he had brought from home, since he had a feeling this may be a messy day. ludger took out a tomato from the bag, showing it off to her.]

Let's start off with tomato soup. [super easy.]

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[firefandance]

[Yukiko had managed to take a break from work, but was still wearing her work uniform of a pink kimono for when she would need to. But for now her focus had been on getting better at cooking even more and not causing another mystery food x situation.

Moving to put her own apron on and for once putting her hair up she looked on over.]

Tomato soup... That sounds really simple. So do we blend tomatoes or is it done a different ways?

[eternalwaltz]

Yeah- we can put them in a food mill later to extract the juices. For now-

[ludger gestured to a cutting board and a knife he had set out.] Mind cutting up the tomatoes for me? I'll be cutting up some onion. We'll put this all in a stockpot and let it boil for about twenty minutes.

[she had better be okay with a knife at least.]

[firefandance]

I'll be happy to.

[She nodded slightly. She could at least chop things. That had never been a problem to her. So moving to pick up the knife she picked out the first tomato and began chopping them up. So far so good at least.]

Why twenty minutes?

[eternalwaltz]

[he continued on with his task, now putting the onions and other chopped ingredients into the pot.]

It really blends the flavors together.

[firefandance]

[Yukiko listened as she picked up the next tomato and cut it up. Once she was sure they were all done in the same way she glanced on over.]

There we go. Do I put those in the pot as well? Do we need to add anything like like salt or wasabi?

[eternalwaltz]

Like... huh?!

[salt was fine, but wasabi?! ludger blinked at her, looking pretty confused. now he understood why she said her cooking was... well, bad.]

Um... Yukiko? Do you always add stuff like that in when you cook?

[firefandance]

At times, yes. We had to once cook a cake a good couple of time because we kept doing it wrong. I know you need to add certain things to get certain tastes after all.

[She just tended to think of the wrong things.]

[eternalwaltz]

Yes but... wasabi...

[nevermind. anyways, now that everything is in the pot, they'll just be waiting for about twenty minutes.]

I think I need to make you a list of do's an don'ts for cooking.

[firefandance]

I thought it would make it a little bit spicy.

[She thought anyway.]

Do's and don'ts. So there are such things?

[eternalwaltz]

But.... why would you want it spicy?

[yukiko.... and yes, he nodded at her, now crossing his arms.]

There really are. So, I'm guessing you would like that list then? I can make one up for you and send it to you later in the week.

[firefandance]

I thought it would need something like that.

[She nodded slightly, with a small smile.]

I would. it would be very helpful.

[eternalwaltz]

Okay, sounds good to me.

[...they still needed to wait a bit for the mixture. small talk, small talk....]

Sooo.... um. There sure are lots of people here in Genessia with some unique powers, do you have anything like that?

[firefandance]

Not really.

[Not unless one had been around when Adachi was a thing, but if he had been she was pretty sure he would know.]

I'm not exactly like most people here who do.

[eternalwaltz]

I don't know, I think everyone can be pretty unique and different. What do you 'do' then?

[he'll try and explain his own abilities.]

I fight using artes, and luckily I have this thing called a Allium Orb, which helps to hone my artes. I can do all sorts of abilities with my artes.

[firefandance]

I'm just an inn keeper.

[Which was the truth in a sense. She was, but she knew that was probably not what he meant at all. Even though by now a good few people were aware of her abilities, she still found herself not being open to everyone.]

Artes... Sounds similar to Art, but that is a completely different thing.

[eternalwaltz]

Really different.

[he doesn't know how else to really explain his own abilities besides that. she knows about the lack of mana lobes, so at least he won't have to add that in.]

I think the mixture we put in is good to go, we can do the next step.

[firefandance]

[Since they were now moving on, Yukiko figured she won't talk about it much longer, at least while they are doing something else.]

Then what is the next step?

[eternalwaltz]

Time to use-

[ludger gestured at a food mill that was close by.] This. We're going to extract all the juices from this mixture.

[firefandance]

Extracted them? But why?

[And how would have been a better answer but considering what he was gesturing to might have given the young woman a clue.]

Won't it lose taste or something?