Purrmaids #7 by Sudipta Bardhan-Quallen

Author:Sudipta Bardhan-Quallen
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Random House Children's Books
Published: 2020-01-06T16:00:00+00:00

“What’s harder?” Dad asked, swimming up behind Shelly.

Shelly sighed. “I wanted to think of brand-new recipes,” she said.

“But all your ideas sound like things purrmaids already eat all the time?” Dad asked.

Shelly frowned. “How did you know?”

Dad pulled her into a hug and whispered, “Fathers are good at reading their daughters’ minds.” He kissed Shelly’s forehead. “You girls should know that most recipes are inspired by familiar foods,” he said. “There are two ways that chefs make foods seem really different from the same old meals. One way is to mix flavors in different ways.”

“Like mixing something spicy with something really sweet?” Shelly asked.

Dad nodded. “That actually sounds like it might taste fin-tastic,” he said.

“What’s the other thing chefs do?” Coral asked.

“We change the way something is cooked,” Dad said. “Here at the restaurant, we use our oven a lot. That makes food taste completely different from what purrmaids expect.”

Suddenly, Shelly’s eyes grew wide. “I can’t believe I didn’t think of this before!” she purred. “The oven is our secret ingredient!”

Cooking in Kittentail Cove was a little tricky. On land, humans used fire to heat and cook their food. But fire didn’t really work underwater! So cooking for most purrmaids involved chopping, seasoning, spicing, and mixing. But at the restaurant, the Lakes were able to do more—because they had an oven.

Mom and Dad chose a special location for the restaurant. It was built over an opening in the ocean floor called a thermal vent. The water that came out of a thermal vent was very hot—sometimes hundreds of degrees! The Lakes built a long tunnel over the thermal vent that reached almost to the surface of the water. That way, the heated water didn’t hurt anyone. But the tunnel ran through the Lake Restaurant kitchen—and it made a wonderful oven for cooking.

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