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Food Fayre!

Ashan 83, Arc 720

On the 83rd of Ashan, Devin Thorn, thief, conman extraordinaire and recently initiated Becomer stood in the kitchen of the Knight’s Rest, a popular tavern in Scalvoris Town, wearing an exceedingly frilly apron with the words “Kiss The Cook” over his fancy clothes.

His roommate and friend with occasional benefits, Aidan, stood next to him. He looked at Devin worriedly for a moment before his gaze drifted towards the huge cast-iron pot in front of the Mortalborn and the collection of random cooking ingredients that he had arranged on the table behind him.

“Are you sure that this is a good idea?” he asked. What Devin was doing was completely out of the ordinary and out of character for him. The thief never cooked, but preferred to dine at exceedingly luxurious restaurants. Sometimes, he also persuaded Talieson and him to cook for him.

“You don’t have any experience!” he pointed out.

“Of course it’s a good idea!” Devin retorted, smiling brightly, grabbed a knife, grabbed an onion, peeled it and started to chop it into pieces that were much too big. Having done that, he dumped it into his pot before he added half a dozen gloves of garlic – and then a few more.

It only occurred to him that he should probably have added a bit of butter or oil when the onion and garlic that he had planned on frying started to turn brown and smell kind of strange.

“Doing something that you have absolutely no experience in is fun! Besides, who knows, maybe I’ll discover that I gave a hidden talent and find out that I’m actually a natural when it comes to cooking – and win this damn contest!” he told his roommate as he quickly added an exceptionally large stick of butter. The more, the better!

Having done that, he turned around for a moment and flashed one of the other contestants, a rather curvy lady with wild blonde curls who looked at him doubtfully a brilliant smile. It was just then that …

“Devin”, Aidan pointed out. “Your onion and garlic pieces are starting to smoke! Do you really think that you should …”

Devin grabbed a wooden spoon and started to stir the contents of his pot somewhat frantically before he claimed, “I’m flambéing them. This is a cooking procedure that involves setting your food on fire; and setting something on fire usually involves smoke!”

“I don’t think that this is how flambéing works”,
Aidan remarked. “I think that you should …”

Devin stopped stirring and looked at the other man, narrowing his eyes as he did so, before he muttered, “Flying turds!”

Flying turds was a curse that you used when encountering a person that you really didn’t want to deal with, and he definitely didn’t want to deal with Aidan and his comments right now. Normally, he quite liked him – in fact, he really enjoyed his company sometimes – but nobody, absolutely nobody was allowed to insult his cooking! He knew exactly what he was doing!

He …

He stopped that train of thought abruptly and stared at his pot somewhat dumbfoundedly when a strange smell hit his nose. Its contents were smoking even more now!
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            Since the smoke was really getting on his nerves, Devin opened the window that was located behind the stove in order to let some fresh air in before he grabbed a jar of cream and dumped its contents into the pot in order to extinguish the smoke. He had wanted to make some sort of gravy anyway!

            Having done that, he added a pinch of salt and a whole lot of pepper to it because he quite loved the taste of pepper before he removed the pot from the stove and started to work on the next part of the dish that he had just invented a few bits earlier – the meat!

            Aidan had moved away from him in the meantime. The student had crossed his arms over his chest and glared at him as if he was really mad at him. Seeing him like that gave Devin the strangest feeling. For a moment, he was actually … no, he was not sorry!

            He was never sorry!

            With that thought in mind, he grabbed two chicken breasts, cut them into pieces, tossed them into a pan, poured a generous amount of olive oil over them, added a variety of different herbs such as basil, parsley and cilantro, and started to fry them. The pieces of chicken breast actually turned a nice golden color and started to smell really delicious. The herbs on the other hand turned kind of black so that they resembled little pieces of charcoal!

            Devin was quite an adventurous young man; he wasn’t interested in eating charcoal though. For that reason, he grabbed a spatula and scraped the charred herbs off the chicken breasts and dumped them into the trash before he set said chicken breasts down on a plate – and decorated them with a few fresh herbs. Food presentation was important!

            He was just about to add the gravy when he heard Aidan’s voice. “You forgot the potatoes”, the student reminded him, softly, as if he had been debating whether he should say anything at all. Devin looked at him for a moment, before he nodded curtly and very reluctantly – and reached for the sack of potatoes that stood on the floor next to the stove.

            He tossed about a dozen of them into a pot that he filled with water and then he waited, and waited some more, until he began to grow bored. Why did cooking potatoes take so long?!
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                      “I’m really bored”, Devin complained to Aidan before he walked over to the other contestants who were still busy cooking their meals. He looked into their pots and pans – until a rather burly fellow with a bald head raised his rolling pin threateningly and glowered at him.

                      Sighing, he returned to his pot and went back to watching the potatoes boil and hopefully become soft and edible and such. After a while, he couldn’t stand it anymore though and removed the pot from the stove. The potatoes would probably still be a little crunchy, but crunchy was good!

                      So, he started to peal them which was even more frustrating than watching them boil which was why he eventually slid the pot towards Aidan who still looked as if he were a little mad at him.

                      “Help me?” he asked and made puppy-dog-eyes at him.

                      “No”, Aidan replied flatly.

                      “Why not?” Devin complained. “I’ll give you an extra-large portion!”

                      “I don’t want your food. I want an apology”,
                      the student informed him in no uncertain terms.

                      Devin murmured something that was as good as unintelligible.

                      “I can’t hear you!” Aidan told him.

                      “I’m sorry. I shouldn’t have insulted you because you were just trying to help me”, Devin muttered between clenched teeth and shuddered because he really hated apologizing.

                      He never apologized!

                      Aidan looked at him for a moment as if he were thinking about whether his apology had been good enough, and then he let out a sigh, grabbed a knife and began to help him peel the potatoes.

                      Approximately ten bits later, Devin’s amazingly creative and delicious meal was finally finished!
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                                Once all the contestants had filled a plate with their food and arranged the plates on a large table in the common room, Whit, the proprietor of the Knight’s Rest, joined them and sampled each dish, nodding and making a compliment here and there … until he reached Devin’s plate.

                                He speared a piece of chicken breast with a fork, dipped it into the gravy, put it into his mouth – and immediately started to gag, a look of utter revulsion on his face. He reached into a pocket of his pants, produced a handkerchief – and proceeded to spit Devin’s food into it.

                                “This is inedible, Councilor Thorn”, he informed the Mortalborn. “The chicken breast is still a bit raw inside, and you used too much pepper. You should go back to improving our education system!”

                                Devin just stared at him for a moment. His face turned bright red, and he clenched his fists as it took all his willpower for him not to punch the tavern owner. How dare he call his food inedible?

                                "Treid's bile!" he muttered.

                                Whit didn’t pay the angry Mortalborn any mind. He just went to inspect the next contestant’s creation.

                                “Miss Jamison is the winner!” he announced a bit later, when he had sampled every dish, and smiled at the curvy lady with the blonde looks who had made some sort of breaded chicken that she had filled with mushrooms, ham and all kinds of other stuff. “Mister Thorn gets the consolation prize!”

                                ~~~

                                “It was not that bad, was it?” Devin asked Aidan when they walked home. He looked so absolutely dejected and disappointed that the student just couldn’t be mat at him any longer.

                                “It was your first try. You’ll get better at it”, he consoled him before he abruptly reached into a pocket of his jacket and handed something to Devin. “Here. Maybe that will cheer you up. I found it the other trial, and I immediately thought of how much you like shiny things. It’s quite pretty, isn’t it?” he asked and smiled at the Mortalborn.

                                Devin’s eyes lit up as he saw the gem in Aidan’s hand and he immediately took it.

                                It was indeed quite pretty!

                                His mood improved instantly. He looked at the gem, and at Aidan and then he did another thing that was completely out of the ordinary for him. He opened his mouth and said, “In the future, if you have any advice when it comes to cooking for me, I’d really like to hear it! I won’t be mad at you anymore. I shouldn’t have been mad at you in the first place. Maybe we can win the next contest if we work together! Two cooks are better than one, aren’t they?”

                                A moment later, he remarked, “Unless I’m a culinary genius and Whit just misunderstood me? Geniuses are misunderstood all the time!”
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                                          Devin's cooking is ...extraordinary! It was as usual a fun read.

                                          He's such an absolute beginner but with the attitude of a famous triple-star cook. Everything in this thread is entertaining, from the unplanned "flambéing" to how he ends up as "misunderstood genius".

                                          Aidan is more and more coming off an older brother putting up with a brat because they love the brat sincerely despite it all. The apologies and reconciliation in this thread were sweet. Happy end! Still - What would happen if Aidan would leave Devin?

                                          An entertaining comedy yet with serious things to reflect on.


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