afterlogs | ( open-ish )

WHO: House A and/or visitors
WHERE: House A Kitchen
WHEN: Dinner time
WHAT: NPC!Yuri decides to try her hand at making dinner for the house. Family dinners are normal after all. Also getting turned back to normal, but this is open so more than one person may reply!
WARNINGS: Bad cooking.

[ Anyone in House A might have been a little confused about the cheerful humming coming from the kitchen, clearly from the only girl in the house. As a matter of fact, she's humming as she puts a layer of cake on the window sill to cool off. Yuri turns around and wipes off the counter off with a cloth to get excess flour off of the surface, then brushes her apron off and goes to start cooking something else.

That something else would be boiling vegetables in plain water for probably longer than they should be. And mixing ingredients together to make fresh udon noodles (flour, salt, water), then when it gets firm after only a bit of kneading she pushes in the parts that are sticking out and gets a bit of water to smooth out the surface. Time to roll it out with a rolling pin, so she tosses a little more flour on top and starts trying to roll the dough, which keeps sticking to the rolling pin despite that she put flour on so she just adds some more flour... more and more flour until it's not sticking and she's putting all of her body weight in to try to roll it out. Vegetables still boiling.

Once she gets it flat enough (there are only a couple of ten tears or so) she takes a knife and starts cutting it into thick strips. (Too thick? Nah, no way. It's more noodle flavor.) Even though it's supposed to sit for hours, dinner's much sooner, so she just puts the noodles in the same pot as the vegetables. No point in wasting water, they're going together anyway.

That said, most of what she could find in her trip to the convenience store was soy sauce and dried spices, so she just starts putting about a tablespoon of everything into the boiling pot and about half a bottle of soy sauce. More spices is more flavor. Yuri prods at the noodles with chopsticks like she's trying to test if they're done.

..Someone should probably 86 this whole situation. ]

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

[ There is a long moment of doubtful silence in response as he continues to study the contents of the pot. ]

I don't even fucking know if I've ever taken home ec, but what I wonder is if those aren't... too many spices?

[ He has a feeling there is more that is off but not even having an NPC life to look back on, how can he be sure? ]

How do you not know?

[ She definitely doesn't get the whole amnesia thing. Hell, even if he explains it, if she's still an NPC it won't really even matter the next day. ]

It just adds extra flavor.

Because I don't remember anything more than three days ago, ugh. We've been over this. Maybe your memory's suffered a bit as well, huh?

[ Meanwhile memoryless Kohaku is still not entirely understanding how NPCs work. And how much he hates them. ]

Have you ever tried any of that mess to check how it tastes?

My memory's just fine!

[ Why does she sound proud about that? ]

I tried the vegetables. [ Before she put them in. ]

But the water's boiling hot, I can't try it now.

Don't be a coward, if you cool a spoon down a little that should work.

[ And to prove he is not a coward, he is now looking around for a spoon. His situation can't get worse than it already is by trying some over-spiced food, right? ]

You try it then. I don't like things that are too hot. I was going to let it cool before serving it.

[ There's a spoon. Looking inside the pot before taking out a spoon full, Kohaku already kind of regrets this choice. What a pointless thing to do.

He only waits a short moment for it to cool down and maybe that's good because burning your mouth at the same time as tasting something at least kind of distracts from the taste. Not enough. ]

Wha--- I'm not even sure 'flavour' is the word for this anymore!!