Solo Cooking In Endrykas

Taylani attempts to cook a meal.

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Not found on any map, Endrykas is a large migrating tent city wherein the horseclans of Cyphrus gather to trade and exchange information. [Lore]

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Cooking In Endrykas

Postby Taylani on November 6th, 2013, 8:02 pm

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Time Stamp 30 Fall 513 -6th bell-

The morning had dawned and the Windchaser pavilion was up and about, already preparing to begin their morning. No one remained asleep, least of all the captive Taylani who did not quite fit in with the family. Skylar worked the leathers for the family, Fallan helped him or helped with the herds, or did whatever Fallan did when he wasn't pestering her. That wasn't fair of her to think that way, he was truly trying to teach her how to be the good little Drykas captive..Sighing Taylani exits the area that she and Fallan slept in trying to rid herself of the annoyances that she had woken up with. It seemed to her more and more often of late she was surly and grouchy. Which considering that she was Fallan's captive and being forced to breed might seem the most likely emotions but she disliked living like that. So Taylani tried to push aside the tide of emotion, and had requested that she might try her hand at breakfast for the family.

She was almost surprised when Fallan's mother and the other women -various wives Taylani figured but really didn't make too much of an attempt to get to know any of them- had agreed so readily. Perhaps they were tired of, how did Fallan put it, having a captive that was a taker. Growling to herself as she moved into the cooking area of the pavilion. She was hesitant to use the fire pit that was set up, afraid she might catch the cloth of the pavilion on fire, even though the Drykas had placed it where it was unlikely to do that,

She had been showed which packs held which items and she found them easily enough. Two skillets and a spatula, lard, salt, and pepper. Then the eggs and the slab of mystery meat that Taylani had no clue what kind it was so she just planned on frying it until it looked like it was probably done.

She hung both skillets over the iron rod that was set up over the fire. It was odd using skillets that had a handle over the top and not jutting from the side, but it wasn't too different then cooking on her mother's stove. She dumped a little bit of lard in the skillet and let it begin to sizzle, dusting a little salt, a little pepper into the lard as well. It took just a moment for the lard to begin to sizzle.

In one skillet she cracked one egg, then another into the sizzling oil. The yolk was complete, it did not break though the whites of the egg actually started to turn white rather soon, a signal that the oil was too hot. In the other pan she placed three slices of the mystery meat into the cooking oil.
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Postby Taylani on November 6th, 2013, 8:22 pm

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The heat from the fire was not as hot as it used to get in her mother's kitchen back in Syliras. Of course her mother's kitchen didn't have a vent built in to let the heat and smoke escape either. That was a nifty little invention Taylani thought, and if she survived two children here and got back to Syliras it would definitely be something that she would tell her mother about. If her mother would accept her back...that thought sent a chill through her, and she almost dropped the spatula in her hand.

Not even thinking about how she would convince the knights to let her back in, she half expected that they probably wouldn't even remember her little squabble especially after the time that must past to deliver and wean two children. Taylani worried over what to tell her parents. If she didn't tell them the truth what would she tell them she had been doing for years? She sent the message that she was going to work with a dance troupe, and her physical condition was already deteriorating away from that of a dancers. Oh to most other people they would still see a very trim very fit young woman, but Taylani was already starting to notice how her muscles and tendons were tightening now that she wasn't stretching them as much as she did when she worked on Dance for four to six hours a day.

So lost in her thoughts that it took the smell of burning meat to pull Taylani back to the present, and she cursed under her breath when she saw that one side of the slabs of meat was black. The eggs were a little rubbery too when she took them from the oil, but by now she has worked herself up to not even caring if they choked on rubbery eggs and burnt meat. However she did move the skillet further along the iron rod so it was not directly over the fire when she dropped two more eggs in the skillet.
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Postby Taylani on November 6th, 2013, 9:00 pm

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With the sizzling in the air and the smell of meat and eggs cooking, Taylani sprinkled a little more salt and pepper in the skillet with the eggs. Unable to help herself from thinking of her mother and her mothers reaction if she found out what Taylani was doing.

How could she tell her mother that she paid her way back to Syliras with her body? Selling children from her womb to Fallan in exchange for eventual freedom. Would her mother hold her close and try and comfort her? Or would Taylani see revulsion in her mother's eyes at what her daughter has become. The thought of that caused her chest to constrict, and she brought the spatula down a little too hard in the skillet with the meat splattering the liquid lard over her hand. Fortunately for Taylani it was just a small splatter, painful but not debilitating. With a heavy sigh, Taylani let a tear slip down her cheek before she pushed her maudlin thoughts aside.

The meat came out of the pan, burnt on one side but the other side was pretty decent. The second set of eggs were less rubbery then the first so she felt she must be doing something right. A third set of eggs is introduced to the pan and two more sets of meat are cooked. This time she was rigidly aware of the food, not letting her thoughts drift at all. When the family sat to eat their breakfast no one said a word of the burnt meat and rubbery eggs.
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Postby Magpie on December 13th, 2013, 2:05 pm

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Taylani :
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Cooking +3
Observation +2

Lores:
Cooking: Don't Cook Eggs in Oil Too Hot
Fire Heat Not the Same as Stove Heat
Dancers' Muscles Need Regular Stretching

Notes :
So sad... Another lovely thread, as always.


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