“Oi, Akihisa, is there a wok that’s of better size?”
“Hehe~, actually, that rack has a paellera on it.”
“When you say paellera, are you talking about the wok used to cook paella? I didn’t think that your house would have something so special. Even my house doesn’t have it.”
“…Mine neither.”
“That’s something my mom gave in the house. What I’m saying is that since our house had such a thing, I used it to cook paella, and it was rather nice. Since then, paella became one of my favorite dishes.”
“So that’s how it is.”
In the kitchen where I was most proud of at home, Yuuji, Muttsurini and me were ready to prepare dinner for tonight.
My house was one that was bought for a family of 4 to live in, so it is rather spacious. It’s so spacious that I would feel somewhat lonely when living alone, and it’s difficult to clean up. There’s not really much benefit to say…but with three guys in a kitchen, I do feel relieved that the house’s spacious enough. However, I do still feel restrained having 3 big boys packed in a kitchen.
“But are you really going to cook paella? I thought your sister would prefer Japanese cuisine…”
“…Nee-san said that she’s fine with anything.”
“…These ingredients are obviously meant to cook paella.”
“Yeah. If it’s just prawns and clams, we can still think that it’s spaghetti, but with saffron.”
“Yeah. I can’t think of any dishes that uses saffron other than paella…arre? What’s this bottle of tomato sauce used for?”
Amongst the ingredients nee-san bought, she actually added a bottle of tomato sauce. Is this really an ingredient for cooking paella? I never heard of it before.
“…There’s also paella that’s made from mixed celery, onions, garlic and tomato sauce.”
“Eh? Tomato sauce?”
“(Nods head)… it’s a tomato sauce called soffritto in Italy.”
“Heh~so that’s how it is. I never used tomato sauce when I made it before.”
Muttsurini actually knows about such things. Is there something related to sex in Spanish restaurants for Muttsurini to be this interested?
“Akihisa, don’t tell me you actually did such a troublesome dish like paella so many times.”
“Yup, I like it very much, so I do make it often.”
However, the last time I actually made paella on my own was more than a year ago. I didn’t have enough money to cook something good ever since I started living alone.
“Since you did it so many times, why did she buy some unrelated ingredients? Isn’t this weird?”
“Really? I think it’s my sister who bought the wrong thing. Normally, I would be the one in charge of buying ingredients and cooking.”
“Really? Oh well, maybe she did buy the wrong thing.”
Yuuji was still puzzled about the ingredients, but still agreed with what I said. Does he feel that something’s wrong? There shouldn’t be any problems if it’s just the ingredients, right?
“Oh yeah, Akihisa, I just thought of something.”
“Hm?”
“You didn’t let your sister know what kind of life you lived, right?”
