Eguchi Campfire Cooking in Another World with My Absurd Skill: Volume 7

1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-1-7183-4312-2
Verlag: J-Novel Club
Format: EPUB
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E-Book, Englisch, Band 7, 287 Seiten

Reihe: Campfire Cooking in Another World with My Absurd Skill

With another dungeon behind them, Mukohda and party (and Elrand for some reason) take a well deserved rest to collect themselves before hitting the road again. And now, with many more levels, Mukohda has earned another new Tenant. But Mukohda doesn't have time to sit back and enjoy it, nor to nurse his freshly wounded heart - they're on the clock to ditch Elrand back in Dolan! Meanwhile, in the divine realm, the gods who have been mooching off Mukohda all this time may have met their match! And will Mukohda finally find something worthwhile to spend all of his money on...?

Autoren/Hrsg.

Eguchi, Ren

Weitere Mitwirkende

Masa

Chen, Kevin

Leseproben

Chapter 1: No Way, God of All Creation!

“All right then. We are leaving.”

«Right on, let’s go!»

«Master, we’re leaving~.»

“Sure, sure, have fun.”

All three of them dashed off into the forest and disappeared.

Like yesterday, we were spending the day at a forest near Aveling. Personally, with all the shocking events that had happened yesterday, I couldn’t really muster any motivation though.

By the way, from what I’d heard, her grandkid in Dolan was a ten-year-old boy. Apparently, since elves aged slower than humans, he still only looked five.

He was Feodora’s first grandchild, so she doted on him a lot. It seemed that the reason her party had ended up staying in Dolan close to a year was because Feodora hadn’t wanted to leave him.

My love died before it really got a chance to bloom.

“Excuse me, how about we start butchering?”

“Huh? Ah, ahh... Yeah. Let’s start. Let’s start now.”

This time, on the table that I’d made with Earth magic yesterday, there was a red boar that was just under two meters long. It was one of the monsters Fel and the others had hunted down yesterday.

The knife, which seemed extremely dangerous and evil, compelled me to use Fel’s super-high-powered Appraisal on it, but this is how it ended up:

?Vampire Knife?

A knife made using magic iron with vampire bones mixed in. This knife, which hungers for blood, will suck blood without end. Wounds made with this knife are more difficult to heal from and won’t clot well either. Depending on circumstances, it can become lethal.

It was just a knife, but it was pretty brutal.

Once I was done draining the boar’s blood, Elrand started his butchering lecture.

“First, open up the belly while making sure not to damage the innards. Be careful, if you damage the innards here it ruins the meat.”

From Elrand’s explanation, it was best to do this with the blade of the knife tilting upwards, so I did as he said.

“Right. That’s right. It’s fine to take it slowly at first. What’s important is that you don’t damage the internal organs.”

I did as Elrand said, and slowly cut an opening while making sure not to damage any organs.

The belly opened wide, exposing the boar’s innards.

After taking a deep breath, I looked straight at the red boar.

“This organ and this organ both contain feces, so be especially careful when handling them. For this part that contains fecal matter, remove it along with the surrounding meat and skin, and dispose of it along with this other feces-containing organ that’s connected to it.”

“The other organs would normally be disposed of too...... Are you going to eat them?”

“I’d have to take a look, but maybe.”

I did plan to eat them, but that would have to happen after appraising them.

............From what I could see with Appraisal, red boar organs were completely useless.

Almost all of them came with the sentence, “Edible, but is extremely smelly, and has an awful, gamey taste.”

Thus, I removed all of the useless organs and tossed them in a hole I made with Earth magic. After that, under Elrand’s instruction, I cut off the head and gently peeled off the skin so that I wouldn’t damage anything.

“Now that we’re this far, all that’s left is to separate the meat into cuts. So we’re almost done.”

Just when we’d reached a decent stopping point, Fel and the others came back from the forest.

Lunch ended up being yakitori rice bowls using the leftover yakitori from yesterday. It was a simple dish; I just put shredded seaweed on rice and laid a bunch of yakitori pieces with sauce on top.

Once they were filled up, Fel and the others happily went back into the dense forest. As for Elrand and I, we reopened the butchering class.

Once we’d finished separating the red boar’s meat into cuts, we started on a second boar.

After draining its blood, I opened up the belly while being careful not to damage anything......

“Whew, it’s finally over.”

With Elrand’s instructions in mind, I somehow managed two entire red boars.

It only occurred to me after I started butchering these:

“Elrand, aren’t we going to age the meat?”

“Age? What’s that?”

“Uhh, you see, when you store meat for a certain amount of time in a cool place, it becomes more delicious. Or so I’ve heard......”

“Hahaha~, no way. We do use cold storage places to preserve the freshness of meat. But in the first place, monster meat is always more delicious the fresher it is.”

From what Elrand said, for monsters as the freshness drops, the flavor also drops. So as long as you didn’t use salt and turn them into jerky, the meat would turn black and start emitting miasma in about seven-to-ten days.

Of course, once that happened, it would become inedible, and would just start to rot from there. Given that, conventional wisdom apparently suggested that the fresher monster meat was, the more delicious it would be.

“So will today’s dinner be something using this fresh red boar?” Elrand hit me with a look full of hope and expectation.

? ? ? ? ?

Once we got back to the inn, I got what I needed with my skill and started preparing dinner. The recipe for botan hot pot was something I’d learned from watching a neighbor back at my parents’ home when he’d made it and shared it with us after catching a boar.

Fel and the others were singing a chorus of hunger, so I concentrated on speedy cooking.

~?~?~?~

Take a clay pot filled with water and add bonito, seaweed, dashi base (powdered), grated ginger (from a tube), sake, soy sauce, sugar, mirin, and miso, bringing the mixture to a simmer. When the time is right, take some freshly butchered red boar meat, cut it into thin slices and add them to the pot, cooking the meat at a low heat. Carefully scoop out any scum that forms, and once the meat is partially cooked, add...