Gourmet Emperor : Building A Nation

41 Tortilla

After thinking a while, finally I make my decision.

"Silvie, can you give me this chicken feed and use other things to feed the chicken?"

"I don't mind. But Ikki, you want to eat that?"

"Yes. It can be cook into something good"

"Really? I can't wait until Ikki cook that chicken feed to something good"

"Of course, it's not now. It need some processing first before can be eaten. I want to use something that already available to make food first"

"Okay, what Ikki want to make today?"

"I must see what available in your kitchen first before deciding what to make"

"Let's go to the kitchen, Ikki"

"What do you talking about? We must finish this washing first"

"Tee hee~ I almost forgot that"

Then we continue to finish our washing and after we done, we dried it in drying stick. After all been placed in drying stick, we come to the kitchen to look what kind of ingredient stored there. In the bottom of the shelf, there are big jars that covered with animal skin lid

"That's powdered food in the bottom rack, like jagung, kentang, wheat" said Silvie

I check the content of each jar by open the lid. And as Silvie said, inside the jar is corn starch, potato starch, wheat flour, grain flour.

"The rack above the powdered food is dried fruits" Silvie explain to me after I finish looking at the jars on the bottom side

When I look at the jars Silvie mentioned, there're indeed contains dried fruits like plum, kumquat, raisin, dried berries, dates, and apricots.

"And the top rack are jars contains roots that I used for medicine herbs" Silvie explain the content of the jars in the top shelf

I see the content of the jar on the top shelf indeed something that harvests from its root like ginger, turmeric, garlic, onion, horseradish.

Looking at the ingredient and spices on that jars I palm face myself. I can make many dishes if I know there are some spices available here. But they not tell and I do not ask, so here we are, stagnating in cooking.

"Ikki, is anything here you can use to cook?"

"Yes Silvie, basically everything here can be used to cook. I'll show how to make a simple one. It's called tortilla"

"Show me! Show me!" Silvie's eyes look excited knowing I'm going to teach her cooking something.

So I take some ingredients that needed to make a simple tortilla and my chopping board for kneading surface. The ingredient that I prepared is: 2 cups flour, 1/2 teaspoon salt, 3/4 cup water and 3 tablespoons olive oil/lards/coconut oil. Since there's no olive oil here, I use lard that usually uses to frying meat here.

First, in a large bowl, I combine flour and salt then stir in water and oil. Turn onto a floured surface; knead 10-12 times, adding a little flour or water if needed to achieve a smooth dough. After it all done I let the dough rest for 10 minutes.

After letting the dough rest for 10 minutes, I divide the dough into eight portions. On a lightly floured surface, roll each portion into a 7-inch circle

Before I start to make the dough, I already lite the stove and heating a frying pan before

In that frying pan, I cook tortillas over medium heat for 1 minute on each side or until lightly browned.

It only takes around 30 minutes to start and finish making the tortilla. When I show the tortilla to Silvie, she looks at the tortilla with excited eyes

"Ikki, only need that little ingredient to make this?"

"No, actually this only half finish. You can add some minced meat or mushroom to make a topping and fold this tortilla into a half-moon shape. After that, it would be perfect. If you don't have flour, you can use cornstarch too"

Ah right, I still have some mushroom in my back. It would be better if I make the topping too.

"Wait, I think I still have some mushroom left. I'll show you how to make the topping too"

I left the kitchen and go to my room to take the mushroom from my backpack. After I take it, with also take some garlic from the jars in the shelf, then chopped them into small pieces.

After that, I'm sautéed the mushroom and garlic together using some oil. After that mixture smells fragrant and change color to golden brownish, I remove them from the frying pan and divide equally over the tortilla that already made.

"Now, it's done, Silvie. Would you like to taste one?"

"Um. I already drool looking at that tortilla'

We are just about to eat that when Chief Harvard suddenly enter the kitchen.

"I don't know why suddenly there's fragrant smell in the room, actually master Ikki already make something this morning. Can this old man have a taste too?"

"Good morning chief, we made plenty here, of course, you can have a taste too"

"Hohoho..you're really thoughtful master Ikki, alright this old man will not hesitate then"

Chief Harvard picks one tortilla that already given topping and takes a bite.

"Hmm..it's good! Although there's no meat inside this food is tasty!"

"I already teach Silvie how to make it, chief. You can eat that anytime later"

"She did? Very good! Alright, I have to check the field first. We go to Lukas place later after I return, I hope you don't mind master Ikki"

"No problem Chief"

Chief Harvard leaves the house after taking another tortilla and eat it while he walking. We also take a bite on tortilla we made before we do something else.