The Cooking Princess - Chapter 105

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Chloe thought about what menu items to choose for the ‘pardon commemoration party’ with just her family,

and contacted Eshir again to apologize for abruptly cutting off the communication.

‘The reason I was so carefree was because my parents were safe.’

[Well, I don’t particularly mind. More importantly, you said you were pardoned.]

When Chloe briefly explained the situation, Eshir praised her, saying it was amazing that she escaped from crisis by engaging in psychological warfare with the Emperor, then added.

[Since the Duke might be related to the monsters’ rampage as the Duchess thinks, I’ll investigate that too.]

So now she should rest and spend time with her family, Eshir said before cutting off the communication.

Chloe’s nose tingled at Eshir’s considerate behavior, who had been so rude before.

‘I guess I haven’t lived my life completely in vain after all.’

Even though Shuel was at the frontline, when Chloe was accused of treason, he said he couldn’t believe it and was on his way straight back to the Imperial Palace.

Eshir had checked on the Garnet Estate’s condition even before Chloe contacted him.

And Shurya consistently wrote and sent letters even while Chloe couldn’t communicate properly through the magic device.

Since she was confined under suspicion of treason, she was only allowed to receive them and couldn’t reply.

‘But now I can reply to them too.’

When she realized that she had been neglectful not only to her family but also to her friends because of all the incidents that had occurred, tears welled up in Chloe’s eyes again.

‘I’ll really do well from now on.’

She wiped away the tears with her sleeve while thinking about the food to serve at the pardon commemoration party.

Since the manor had collapsed and a considerable number of monsters had escaped, it was difficult to compete with only the ingredients available at the villa.

‘But fortunately, there’s still prepared chicken left. This time I should serve Korean food.’

She decided to make the food she was best at.

She also resolved to bring a table full of dishes she hadn’t dared to try before for fear of mixed reactions.

If it was a diet considering health, her parents would enjoy it even more.

Chloe kept tearing up while cooking, touched by their warm parental love.

‘I wonder if there’s still seaweed and dried pollack that I gathered from the sea last time.’

Fortunately, there was.

Chloe soaked the seaweed in water to soften it, then decided to start with samgyetang first.

Since she had stored the large chicken with the meat already removed from the bones, Chloe decided to make it not as a complete samgyetang, but by adding glutinous rice and medicinal herbs together.

Imagining the visual that would be closer to chicken porridge rather than samgyetang, Chloe added chestnuts, jujubes, garlic, etc. to the broth and tasted it.

It was better than expected.

She soaked the glutinous rice in water and made the broth first.

In the meantime, she confirmed that the dried seaweed had softened well, squeezed out the water tightly, and cut it into bite-sized pieces.

Then she poured oil into a pan, stir-fried the dried pollack, added the soaked seaweed and water, and boiled it. When the flavor was sufficiently extracted, she added soy sauce and salt to season it, completing the seaweed soup.

‘Hmm, perfect.’

Chloe wanted to eat rice cakes, but people in this country didn’t even properly refine flour.

What does that mean? It meant that rice flour, which is the basis for rice cakes, was hard to find.

She had found glutinous rice before, but how fortunate it was to find something similar to regular rice flour, even if belatedly!

This wasn’t a monster either, so although it was a bit damaged, she successfully brought it from the front yard of the house.

Chloe worked hard to process and grind this plant so it would have a similar appearance to regular rice flour.

For work impossible with human hands, she borrowed the power of Magic Tower tools, and for parts requiring delicate handwork, she did it herself.

Finally, finely ground rice flour was completed, and Chloe immediately poured water on it to soak it.

‘This needs to be soaked for much longer than seaweed, and since it’s dessert, I’ll finish it later.’

Just then, the samgyetang broth seemed ready, so Chloe added the chicken along with the soaked glutinous rice.

She boiled it thoroughly for about 30 minutes and tasted it.

The kimchi she had made in advance couldn’t be left out either.

Since she was planning to make grilled deodeok as the last dish, Chloe first made the sauce for the grilled deodeok.

She mixed soy sauce, gochujang, sugar, minced green onions and garlic, salt, and a small amount of oil to make the seasoning.

Then she cleanly peeled the deodeok skin and pressed it well to make it easy to eat.

After that, she cut and prepared it to an appropriate size, mixed oil and soy sauce to coat it, and grilled it.

Then she just needed to coat it with seasoning not too thickly and grill it.

Grilled deodeok was also complete!

Chloe tasted a bite of the grilled deodeok.

‘Opinions might be divided, but if you’re going to recuperate, you should eat this kind of food.’

All the food she had served to her parents so far had been dishes that everyone would like without divided opinions.

But now it was different.

Though it was called a pardon commemoration party, it was actually a place to comfort her parents and household members who had suffered physically and mentally while confined.

Chloe hoped her parents would eat nutritious food and rest well, even if opinions might be somewhat divided, rather than delicious but less nutritious food.

She set the table for her parents who were resting at the villa instead of the collapsed manor, feeling slightly nervous.

Before long, her parents sat down for the meal.

At the unusual appearance of the food, the Duchess’s eyes sparkled like an excited child, and the Count seemed to be observing Chloe’s food with interest.

“I told you I was making health food. It might be less tasty or relatively not to your taste compared to the dishes I made before…”

Chloe swallowed nervously once and added.

“Since these are foods for health. You must eat a lot.”

The Count couple, deeply moved by Chloe’s words, diligently used their forks and spoons to eat the food.

The Count first ate a piece of grilled deodeok and his eyes widened as if slightly surprised.

The Duchess first picked out the meat from the samgyetang in front of her, and seeming to like it, began eating only that.

“Our daughter’s cooking skills are truly excellent. Who would have thought foreign food could be this delicious.”

Fortunately, the food Chloe had put her heart into making seemed to suit her parents’ taste as well.

While also providing chicken porridge and other side dishes to the knights, Chloe smiled brightly and added.

“Really? What part is especially delicious?”

“You called it samgyetang? This is delicious too, but especially this… seaweed soup is also very tasty. If you put mayonnaise on this, it would taste absolutely perfect.”

…It seemed her mother’s cooking sense was still terrible.

It wasn’t just Chloe who imagined mixing mayonnaise with seaweed soup, as Grania Garnet, Count’s complexion turned pale.

“Th-ahem. Chloe. I think it’s really good just like this.”

The Count hesitated for a moment, then cleared his throat and passively objected to the Duchess’s opinion.

He seemed afraid that Chloe might follow the Duchess’s advice.

Although the house had collapsed and the location was different, seeing her family appear to have completely recovered otherwise, Chloe smiled brightly.

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After pardoning the Garnet Family and receiving reports on the subsequent situations—fortunately, reports that the Garnet Family was safe—the Emperor immediately summoned the Empress.

Since she was still at the Imperial Palace, she quickly responded to the Emperor’s summons.

“I greet the Emperor. You’re calling me after a long time.”

The Empress, who had spoken affectionately and raised her head, immediately lowered her head again upon seeing the Emperor’s face, which was fiercely contorted as he glared at her. She seemed to be reading his mood.

The Emperor, paying no attention to the Empress’s reaction, asked her.

“Do you know anything about our son?”

“Pardon? If you mean the Duke, isn’t he at the frontline right now? Other than that… I don’t know anything.”

At the Empress’s quick answer, the Emperor spoke as if chewing and spitting out each syllable.

“Yes, I didn’t expect you to readily admit it.”

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