(eng) P. S. Power - Avery Rome 03 by Dragon Queen

Author:Dragon Queen [Queen, Dragon]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter fourteen

There was no rest that vacation day for Avery.

It was annoying at first, though by the time everyone came back for the evening meal, she was fairly pleased with the whole thing. They’d cooked over an open fire, or more correctly, three of them, with Phillip working under her instruction making sauces and gravies for the whole thing. They managed to add a vegetable dish as well, and had two kinds of cake. There was no frosting, so she’d used a burning coal over some table sugar to make a crystalline toffee topping. That had been hard to manage, but there was an ancient man in her memories who’d managed to learn the trick, about three thousand years before.

She didn’t even burn the cakes that had the topping, trying it. The other, which was a walnut cherry cake, got a thickened syrup glaze on it. That was a bit moist, for her taste, but Denis thought that it looked nice, if nothing else.

Mark, of course, was less impressed with her offerings. Though, Avery had to think that was mainly nerves. It was just too different seeming and his entire life was about cooking. If things didn’t turn out well, the man wouldn’t blame her for it. No, he’d be taking that on himself, as if it were really about his failures.

Still, when the time came to eat, with the heir to the Noram throne, his wife and child sitting around the magical fire, they all seemed to be fine with the food. Mark on the other hand was really harsh about it all.

“Well, the roast isn’t dry, so there’s that. It’s lacking something though. I think we could have upped the spices by about fifty percent. The rice is good. It’s just jasmine rice though. That lacks a bit in presentation. The plum sauce is a little sour, Phillip. We should try cutting that with water the next time? Just about twenty percent.”

Most of the people sitting there, including Alphonse Cordes, actually stiffened and seemed mildly scared, suddenly. True, Avery didn’t love hearing that kind of thing. No one sane would. That didn't mean it probably wasn’t true. The meat could be a bit more heavily spiced, she had to allow. Rice really wasn’t hard to make at all, so giving it some color would be possible, next time.

She did have to stop herself from talking back to the man, under the magical lights that had been set up so they could get video at night. Sitting well back, off camera, Leslie hunched over. Probably fearing that Mark, being an Elder and a man, was going to publicly beat her daughter for her perceived failure. Avery got ready for that, since she was only a woman. So it was interesting when Kerry spoke up. Firmly.

Taking Mark, a man and an Elder, to task for his words.

“So, in other words she only did ten times the job that any of us could have done over a fire pit like this?

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