First Bowl [Ship Planning Video]

[ricebird]

[Kotori planned on this being a text post. Keyword being planned, because the tortoiseshell cat on her shoulder decided to bat at the light box and press the "live video" button.]

Ah! Slowburn-chan, no--!

[Oh. They're live. Lovely. Not how she wanted this to go, and her face is RED on camera, but no choice but to roll with it.]

Ahaha, um... hi, everyone. So um... I meant to text this, but... I guess I have a few questions?

So someone brought up the idea of a restaurant ship, one that'd be open to both sides and serve food from our worlds as well as recipes from this one, and... I kind of like that?

B-but I'm not that good a cook yet, let alone able to run a restaurant! So... anyone interested in being a head chef? And ideas for names? And any recipes you'd like included? Sorry I know this is a lot... and thank you...

[And this is why she wanted this to be a text.]

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video; un: maria

[summonbeasts]

[Maria very deliberately uses video. Text is easier now after some practice but it still wears her out to some degree.]

I did help my mother quite a bit in the kitchen but I'm afraid I'm nowhere near good enough to be a head chef. If you need helpers though I would love to assist.

I have plenty of French and Russian recipes to recommend as well.

[ricebird]

[Kotori nods; getting a head chef is the biggest snag so far, but having more line cooks is important too.]

Thank you, that would be a big help. French and Russian, though? That's really cool, what kinds of recipes do you have in mind?

[summonbeasts]

Oh, well, pirozhkis are easy to make and quite portable. Plus you can do all sorts of fillings for them.

[ricebird]

Ooh yeah, I think I had a couple at the Ghoul's Moon festival, they were so tasty~! And French food is so delicious too, like crêpes and croquettes and pot-au-feu and chicken fricassée! Are there any dishes here that are your favorites too?

[Oh yeah, someone's fired up now.]

[summonbeasts]

[Maria looks momentarily surprised and then she laughs.]

I suppose I should have expected you to know an awful lot about food! We do eat our fair share of pot-au-feu at home when there's meat for it. The same with the fricassée.

[Her smile grows some.]

Personally my favorite thing has always been my mother's homemade bread. I could likely duplicate it but I'm not sure it would be quite the same.

[ricebird]

Oh, fresh-baked bread would be amazing! I haven't made bread from scratch before, but I have made yeast doughnuts? If you want to try figuring it out together, that is.

[summonbeasts]

I would love that actually. It would be ... very comforting for me, you could say.

[Like having some bit of her mother still with her.]