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Boar Meat and Mushroom Dinner
After asking Greeve to process the pelt and as I slowly looked through the leather products inside his house, it was evening before I knew it.
The house owner, Greeve, does not care about me as he went to the work room at the back and been working there all along.
I will probably be a bother if I continue to stay here any longer than this.
I was thinking of buying a key case for the keys to my house in Howling village and the mansion, so I bought one as a nuisance compensation and headed out.
Then I use teleport to quickly go home.
After opening the door to my house, I fixed the key in place on the metal fittings on the key case instead of putting it inside my pocket. This will eliminate the possibility of my losing the key.
And it’s a fact that having a stylish key case with me makes my heart aflutter.
「Now then, let’s take a short break and have some dinner. It’s also a rare chance I have some boar meat, shall I try to make something with it?」
I tried muttering my plans out loud, but when I thought about it again, it all seemed to be a hassle.
Now that I think about it, I’ve been out in the forest gathering mushrooms since morning and dismantling the wild boar during the day. After that, I requested to make a doormat and basically spent the whole day moving around.
It felt like the whole day of fatigue suddenly overwhelmed me when I arrived home and I felt relieved.
And because I didn’t kill the boar clean enough, the blood draining process wasn’t perfect either.
I can’t just make yakiniku as it is, so I will probably need to treat it properly to remove the smell. I’ve been living alone for so many years that I can make a simple meal, but if you ask whether I could handle the boar meat to suppress its gaminess, I’m not confident.
Having said that, I feel awkward visiting Andre’s house right now. I also told Andre to go back first because I was going to look at the leatherworks earlier.
「……I wonder if Elza can do it?」
Elza is a maid after all, but she is a very good cook even though she’s not a chef.
Maybe she could do something to remove the gaminess and cook it if it’s her.
Thinking like that, I decided to teleport to the mansion in the royal capital.
I teleported to my room in the mansion and rang the bell on the table.
No one will notice if I return to the mansion via teleportation and I will just end up causing unexpected trouble.
Doing this will let everyone in the mansion know that I’m back.
Soon, there was a knock on the door.
「Welcome home, Kureto-sama」
「I’m back. I’m sorry for being sudden, but can Elza make a dish with boar meat? The blood is not completely drained, so it might be a bit gamey」
「I can」
I tried asking timidly, but Elza answered immediately.
She can cook it.
「I see, then, can I ask you to make dinner with boar meat and mushrooms?」
I’ve gone through the trouble of gathering mushrooms anyway, so I would like to try some mushroom dishes.
I take out the dismantled boar meat and the gathered mushrooms from the subspace and give it to her.
「It will take a bit of time to prepare the meat, but will that be fine with you?」
「I don’t mind. I’ll take a bath in the meantime or do something else to pass the time」
I’m not the kind of fiend who asks for them to prepare dinner immediately after teleporting in.
They will probably need to do all sorts of preparation to remove the gaminess and so I will just wait patiently.
「Understood」
「Sorry for always asking you to prepare the food even though you’re not a chef」
「If it is what the master wishes for then we as maids must answer it with all of our efforts」
Elza politely bowed and walked to the kitchen.
That’s a cool line that makes you feel the pride of being a maid.
I grabbed a change of clothes and a towel from my room and moved to the bath.
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「Kureto-sama, dinner preparations are complete」
「Okay. I’m on my way」
Arche came to tell me that just as I was relaxing in my room after getting out of the bath.
Feeling hungry, I got up from the bed and headed to the dining room on the first floor.
Sitting in my usual seat, the food was already lined up there.
「We have boar ragu pasta, herb-grilled boar meat with mushrooms, and grilled shiitake mushrooms with grated radish and negi」
「Ragu pasta?」
「It is a pasta mixed with a sauce made from the stewed boar meat. It is like bolognese」
「I see」
I tried asking since I heard an unfamiliar word, and Elza politely explained it to me.
Certainly, it contains finely chopped vegetables and boar meat and it feels similar to bolognese.
It really looks delicious, with tomatoes, herbs, and mushrooms in the sauce.
They were able to prepare this much in such a short time.
「Thank you. Well then, I'll eat them now」
「Please take your time」
After bowing politely, Elza quietly stepped back and stood by.
I can’t hold back any longer with such delicious-looking dishes right in front of me.
I take the tableware from the cutlery set and immediately try the main dish, the wild boar ragu pasta.
The wild flavor of wild boar meat was enhanced by the umami from the stewed tomatoes, carrots, onion, and celery.
The small amount of the richly flavorful mushrooms also acted as a hidden support in the flavor.
The sauce formed a complete whole with the pasta, making it very delicious.
「How is the taste? Does the gaminess bother you?」
「No, it doesn’t bother me. This is truly delicious」
「I see. I am relieved to hear that」
Elza pressed her hand to her chest in relief when I told her that.
It's difficult to process the meat of wild animals with their unique smell, even at the best of times.
And moreover, not being able to taste the gaminess of the meat despite the blood draining process being imperfect is likely due to Elza’s cooking skills.
Elza is as high-spec as ever.
I also tried to eat the herb-grilled boar meat while continuing to eat the ragu pasta.
The boar meat’s surface was grilled to a fragrant crisp, while the inside was incredibly juicy. Even so, it can be said that it is a characteristic of wild animal meat that they have little excess fat.
Perhaps it is due to the thorough preparation of the ragu pasta that it had almost no gamey smell and was moist and tender.
The grilled white mushrooms have a really rich flavor and a different juiciness from meat comes out when you bite into them. And the herbs tying the whole dish together gave off a sharp, refreshing aroma that cut through my senses.
The third dish is grilled shiitake mushrooms with grated radish and negi.
A generous mound of grated radish and onion had been piled under the thick shiitake mushroom cap. It is topped with a citrusy sauce. There’s absolutely no way this is not going to be delicious.
When I resolutely took a bite of it, the rich flavor and umami from the shiitake exploded inside my mouth.
The grated radish and negi that wrap the dish up, and the sourness of the citrusy sauce bring them all together in an instant.
「Uooh, the mushroom is also delicious…..!」
「The mushrooms Kureto-sama brought back were very flavorful and had an extraordinary savoriness in them. Were they gathered in the Howling Village?」
「Un, that’s right. I just gathered them this morning」
They are still in good condition since I stored them inside my subspace, but it is probably because the mushrooms picked in the Howling Village forest are simply of a high quality.
I feel as happy as if they were my own when Howling Village ingredients are praised.
「Even guests in the restaurants will be happy to have such a delicious ingredient」
「Indeed! I think I will give some to Emilio tomorrow」
The produce exported from Howling Village will also change as the season changes, so I thought it was time to discuss it with Emilio.
It might also be a good idea to suggest mushrooms as one of the export products right away.
Although it is better to eat the dishes right in front of me rather than thinking about work.
It would be rude not to focus on such a delicious meal after all.
I quickly changed my train of thought and decided to immerse myself in eating the food right in front of me.
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