There is indeed a problem with my summoning spirit system

Chapter 252 249. Assorted Hot Pot

Kotomine Kirei returned to the basement of the Holy Church, just like last night and the night before, when he returned to the basement, he saw Gilgamesh lying on the sofa enjoying red wine.

"What an ugly face, Kirei. Did something interesting happen to you?"

Kotomine Kirei didn't reply, but closed the door with his backhand, and silently sat down on the other sofa not occupied by Gilgamesh.

"Heh, this is the first time I've seen such a reaction on your body."

Gilgamesh sat up, took out another goblet, first poured a little wine to rinse the glass, and then poured half a glass of red wine.Put it on the table and push it in front of Kotomine Kirei.

"The night is still long. Have a drink with this king and talk about what you have seen and heard today. This king has a hunch that your story will be very interesting."

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"berserker, what's going on tonight..."

Kenneth opened the door and was about to say something, but was shocked by the sight in front of him.

Berserker, who put on modern clothes, held Matou Sakura in his left hand, and two large plastic bags in his right hand. Inside the plastic bags were various ingredients and bottles and cans.He looks like a Gu family husband who is forced to carry things when he goes out with his wife.

Zhao Yun put Matou Ying on the ground, while the bag was still held in his left hand.

Seeing Kenneth looking at him with a strange expression mixed with surprise and doubt, Zhao Yun turned to Kenneth and asked:

"what happened?"

"Berserker, what are you doing here?"

Kenneth pointed to the shopping bag in Zhao Yun's hand.

"After going to Weiyuanchuan, I took Sakura to buy some vegetables. It's normal, what's wrong?"

"Buy groceries?"

"Isn't it a common thing to buy materials to make food?"

Kenneth and Zhao Yun looked at each other in bewilderment at the same time.Neither of them understood the other's meaning.

After staring at each other for a few seconds, Zhao Yun patted his head.Suddenly, he asked:
"Could it be that Mr. Kenneth, you haven't seen other people cook?"

Kenneth recalled for a moment and nodded.

Thinking about it, Kenneth was born in El-Mello, a family of magicians, and he was a magician genius who emerged from a young age. He became the monarch of the clock tower at a young age. It would be strange for such a person to understand the cooking process of ordinary people.It's better to say that even Kenneth must have never seen their maid cooking.

For this kind of situation, it can only be impressed by people seeing it with their own eyes.

"Anyway, it's getting late now. I'm going to cook. Mr. Kenneth, if you are interested in this, you can come to the kitchen to have a look."

"No, I'll just stay here. I have some thoughts about the insect magic of the Matou family, and I want to take a closer look at these engraved insects that are used to replace the magic circuits."

Kenneth held a dead engraving worm in his hand.

After most of the magic circuit was destroyed by Emiya Kiritsugu's origin bullet, Kenneth changed from a practical school to a theoretical school.For some seemingly boring problems, he also worked hard to find the root cause.

"Uh, I see. Then, Mr. Kenneth, you can continue to study. Xiao Sakura, do you want to just play here, or watch me cook?"

Matou Sakura ran over in two or three steps, raising her hands expectantly to indicate that she was going into the kitchen.

"Okay, then come with me."

The Matou family's mansion has a long history. Although it was built a long time ago, a room like a kitchen is a must for every household, and the Matou family is no exception.Even due to the wealth of the Matou family, the space left for the kitchen is quite spacious.

Due to the Holy Grail War, most of the members of the Matou family have already gone on "annual leave", and only a handful of people remain.The kitchen of Matou's house is now on a much smaller scale, and the kitchen is extremely clean because it is rarely used.Fortunately, the spices and the stove are still well placed, and normal use is not a problem.

Zhao Yun opened the storage cabinet placed in the corner of the kitchen, and sure enough, most of the unused and unopened seasonings were sealed and stored inside.He even found a nearly new cassette gas stove inside.

"Mirin, salt, bonito flower, there is already soaked kelp here, that's just right... I bought fresh ginger slices and shiitake mushrooms, but the dried shiitake mushrooms have a stronger flavor, so use them to enhance freshness."

Mirin, bonito flower and kombu are all commonly used seasonings in daily food.

Kelp can basically be regarded as kelp, both of which are algae plants of the order kelp, but kelp belongs to the kelp family, and kelp belongs to the pterosaur family, and the taste is also different;

Bonito flakes come from the deep-sea bonito that has been baked and dried many times. The dried bonito is extremely hard and can even be used to make murder weapons. Before eating, it must be cut into extremely thin shavings with a special plane, so it is called Bonito flower, the shadow of bonito flower can be seen in all kinds of Japanese soups. It originated from takoyaki (octopus balls) in Osaka, Japan, and bonito flower is often used in ingredients;
As for mirin, it is a kind of wine condiment, which is characterized by a relatively sweet taste. It has most of the basic functions of wine seasoning, but mirin also has the function of tightening protein, which can prevent cooking food especially When the fish is boiled, mirin is also a traditional Japanese tempura dipping sauce and a common seasoning for eel cooking.

After choosing some seasonings that will be used later, Zhao Yun returned to the kitchen counter with bottles and cans, put on a clean apron hanging by the kitchen door, and started cooking.

From the edge of the kitchen counter at a height of about 1.2 meters, a cute little face poked out, full of curiosity.

"Uncle Zhao, what are you doing now?"

A pot of kelp is cooking on the stove, which is the main ingredient of Japanese-style dashi. On the kitchen counter, Zhao Yun skillfully cuts the back shell of the shrimp with a knife, and gently picks out the flesh of the bamboo shrimp with the tip of the knife. , while explaining:
"Of course I'm making a hot pot. After the water in the pot boils, you can add various ingredients to it. In the end, the flavors of all the ingredients will be mixed together, which is very delicious."

Matou Sakura nodded with a vague understanding.Seeing her curious look, Zhao Yun couldn't help but touch her smooth forehead with the back of his hand that wasn't stained by the sticky shrimp's mucus:

"If you want to watch me cook, you can move the little stool next to me. Xiaoying, you are not tall enough now. When you grow taller, you can cook by yourself."

So, Xiao Ying moved a chair behind the kitchen counter with her two short legs.

Zhao Yun's attention returned to the chopping board,
Slice ginger, cut long onions obliquely into sections, remove the roots of Flammulina velutipes and rinse them quickly with water, make a cross knife in the center of the brown side of fresh shiitake mushrooms, take the core of cabbage, cut the stalks into sections, cut the leaves into large pieces, and wash the shellfish carefully again. In particular, the surface of the carapace is repeatedly scrubbed with a brush to prevent impurities from entering the pot.

The cod fish bought from the supermarket has been cut into long strips. Although it can be directly put into the pot like this, in order to make the fish more firm and tasty, Zhao Yun added salt to the surface of the fish and marinated it slightly, and alternately overheated the fish and ice water, dry with kitchen paper.

These basic ingredients are prepared with ease and are all completed while the kombu is boiling in the pot.

Just as Zhao Yun was thinking about the combination of seasonings, Sakura who was standing on the stool on his right tugged at his sleeve:
"Uncle Zhao, the water in the pot is gurgling!"

"That means the water is boiling, Xiaoying, you should also remember that if you see the water in the kitchen pot turning like this, remind the adults to turn off the fire. But don't touch the buttons and electric sockets on the stove by yourself. Here If there is water, it is easy to get an electric shock.”

Zhao Yun turned down the stove, took out the kombu from the pot with chopsticks, and added a proper amount of soy sauce, mirin, ginger, salt and cooking wine.Then add various ingredients.

Cabbage leaf stalks, enoki mushrooms, fresh shiitake mushrooms, cod, bamboo-jointed shrimp, etc., which need to be cooked for a long time and are not easy to ripen, are put into the pot first.

The production of hot pot is very simple. As long as you master the selection and seasoning of ingredients, the final product will not be bad.The ingredients that Zhao Yun chose tonight were all relatively light seafood and vegetables. Without red meat, the soup was basically relatively clear.

After the soup in the pot boiled, Zhao Yun took half a spoonful of soup from the pot and poured it into a tasting plate.Handed it to Matou Sakura who was watching carefully:
"Sakura, try it and see how it tastes?"

"Zi~"

After Matou Sakura tasted it, her eyes widened immediately, and she sucked up all the soup in the small dish.

"Delicious!"

The flavors of the ingredients are subtly combined in the soup, creating a wonderful taste experience that lingers on the tip of the tongue.

"Well, it seems that there is no problem with the seasoning. Sakura, go and call Mr. Kenneth and tell him that dinner is ready."

"Ok!"

Matou Sakura jumped off the stool, bouncing all the way to the auditorium to find Kenneth.

And Zhao Yun took out a pair of chopsticks, and took out the ginger slices and shrimp heads that were put into the pot one by one.

In order to facilitate eating while taking into account the flavor of the soup base, he took out the shrimp meat of the bamboo prawns, put the shrimp meat and shrimp heads into the pot at the same time to cook, and used the shrimp heads to impart the flavor of the soup base shrimp.He specially cut all the ginger slices into large slices before putting them into the pot, and now he took out these large slices of ginger, just to avoid the young Sakura and Kenneth who lived in the island country not long ago Eating by mistake.

I am afraid not many people will like the taste of chewing ginger slices directly.Especially children's sense of taste is very sensitive, and most of them are unacceptable to spicy and stimulating taste.

He hoped Matou Sakura would have the most delicious food tonight.It is best to use this to forget the unpleasant mood of the past year.

The pot was covered with a lid to seal off the boiling heat of the hot pot, and it was served on the cassette gas stove he found in the cabinet.

Walking out of the kitchen is the dining room. When Zhao Yun came out with the cassette stove and pot, Kenneth and Matou Sakura had already sat at the dining table.

The bowls and chopsticks have been prepared before, and only the main topic of tonight-assorted hot pot is on the scene.

"The hot pot is here, be careful when you eat it."

Lifting the lid of the pot, bursts of white mist rose up.When the first burst of heat dissipates, pink shrimp meat, green chrysanthemum chrysanthemum, white scallions and enoki mushrooms, brown mushrooms with white cross star patterns, clams, cod, triangular tofu, all kinds of ingredients are placed in a pot Formed into a neat circle, the orange-yellow soup wrapped in the ingredients was bubbling and bubbling.

The food in front of them stimulated the eyes, nose and taste buds, and the three people sitting around the table moved their chopsticks and spoons one after another.

"Haha~haha~"

Matou Sakura struggled to pick up a piece of triangular tofu, and kept blowing on it with her mouth.

And Kenneth is still not used to using chopsticks, so instead of using the "clamp" method, he directly uses the chopsticks to "pig" a piece of meat and stuff it into his mouth.Although an adult has a stronger tolerance to heat than a child, the thing just taken out of the boiling pot is hot after all, and Kenneth also panted heavily with his mouth puffed out.

Seeing the two eating happily, Zhao Yun's mouth curled into a smile.He took the bowl in front of Matou Sakura, and put a lot of vegetables from the pot into it.

"Put it in a bowl first, and you can eat it directly after it cools down. There is still a lot in the pot, eat slowly. Mr. Kenneth, do you want to give you another spoon?"

The clams are full of umami, the fish meat is firm and delicious, the shrimp meat is springy and slightly sweet, and the chrysanthemum, cabbage, and tofu are all full of soup, and the color is delicious.Served with a hot and clear soup base that mixes the umami of all ingredients, every bite is a warm feeling in your mouth.

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After a "fierce battle", the whole pot of ingredients was wiped out by the three of them.Even Matou Sakura, the youngest, ate a lot, half lying on the chair, supporting her round belly.

"Sakura, do you want to eat more?"

Matou Sakura shook her head, her stomach was already full.But Kenneth, an adult, obviously wasn't completely full yet.

Zhao Yun had expected this situation a long time ago.After all, he didn't put too many ingredients in the pot, so he also prepared some staple food in the kitchen to fill his stomach.

Zhao Yun stood up, turned off the gas stove, and after the pot stopped rolling, he used a colander to remove the foam on the surface of the soup, and threw a ball of slightly green buckwheat noodles into the pot.

The soba noodles that have been boiled and let cool are stirred in the soup with chopsticks, soaked in the residual heat of the soup and heated for a few minutes, and then taken out, it is a bowl of delicious soba noodles.

While eating soba noodles, Zhao Yun turned his head and saw Matou Sakura's finger resting on his lips, staring straight at the bowl and chopsticks in his hand, so he smiled, he picked up a few noodles, and then used a bowl Move to Matou Sakura.

"Try it? But don't eat too much. If you eat too much, your stomach will feel uncomfortable at night."

Matou Ying's eyes lit up, and she bit off the noodles held by Zhao Yun's chopsticks in one bite, chewing the taste of pasta and soup with a blissful face.

This was the first dinner she didn't feel lonely after she came to Matou's house.

Many years later, whenever Matou Sakura recalls the past, she always thinks of that day, the first dinner that the eternal young man who she regards as her elder and calls her uncle cooks for herself.

Since then, this is Matou Sakura's memory of "The Taste of Home", and it has become the most important taste memory in Matou Sakura's life.

(End of this chapter)