CHAPTER 44: Dessert Making Continues

Zero's Point Of View

"What was these drink called?". Rose asked that hit me in a sudden moment. What was this called again? Ah right I remembered. "This is called Fruit Shake". I said with confidence. "But that doesn't fit in because you used a Ripened Mango?". She said that made me smile. "I just made it only using a Mango to illustrate the procedures needed, actually you can do it using different fruits". I said to flear her misunderstanding of the matter. "So who taught you to make these desserts?". The Chef asked with intense curiosity on how I acquired such recipe.

"Ah, Eh, it's a trial and error, I tried to make it like that". I said with troubled voice because really I just watched a tutorial to make them in a simple way, so making excuses is difficult. "This is very intriguing". Chef Ram stated at me as he looked at me a very intense way. "Intriguing indeed". Kitsune agreed to him. Then a moment of silence covered the room that was then broken by a question. "Zero what will yo use these eggs gor?". Valerie asked as she held a tray of them. "Ah right, I almost forgot, thank you for reminding me". I said as I take the tray at her. "Can I use the stove?". I suddenly asked that made the Chef suddenly stopped. "Fine use it as you please". He said then leave the Kitchen and go at the hall as his daugther followed him in there. "Zero? Zero?". Eugene says as she pull my shirt. "What was it?". I asked as I turned on the stove and put a pan in it. "What were you going to make this time?". She asked with such shy cute voice. "I was going to make Leche Flan". I said that made her clueless that also caught the attention of the other girls.

"Leche Flan? What kind of food is it?". Kitsune asked that nearly impossible to happen in this situation. She was a type of person that ask a Question very seldomly. "It is a kind of dessert of my homeland Country, well you'll see and taste it soon enough, so wait for a moment please". I said to them that made them looked at each other with excitement and so I continue what I was doing for preparation. For it is a very nostalgic feeling for me to make such a delicacy that made my Country proud of.

So then I turned to the pan. And put the Llanera in it. Thus it was being heated over a medium temperature. Because heating it so suddenly in a high temperature would be a mistake and made the metal melt since it was a tin can. After heating the Llanera I put sugar in it. A brown sugar respectively. Then, I added a portion of water in it. A little bit for a later purpose as it mixed into the sugar melting it in the process. "Why were you putting some water in it?". Merleona asked as she observed me.

"Just watch". I casually said to her without any hint. As I left it in there for the time being. Letting it to simmer until it thickens turning the mixture into caramel. Not so thick that it will harden but just a fluid like caramelized sugar. After making it I turned off the stove and let it cool down in ther as I prepare the other ingridients needed for the next process. So then I separated the egg yolk and egg white is that what was called the while liquid that surrounded the yolk. "Why were you separating them?". Kitsune asked me in the middle of making it. "It is because I will only need its Egg yolk". I answered her without any interruption.

After separating the yolk of the egg I added condensed milk, a evaporated milk in a bowl. As I mix those ingredients finely as possible as the mixture blend as one. I Strain the egg mixture and pour it in the llanera. As I place it in a water bath, the water is lower than that of the llanera's widht so that it would not mix with the mixture. Bake or steaming it at 180°c for. And since I can use magic. I adjust the degrees with temperature magic. As the baking process must be a half hour to firmly cook. As the cooking process finished. I take out the Leche Flan and transfer it into the plate by putting the open part facing the plate making now the caramelized sugar to be at the top. As I spread the remaining caramel around making a plating style. "Hmm, what's that sweet aroma I was smelling?". Chef Ram stated that seemed to have smelled the finished product.

"Is it this?". Valerie asked upon seeing the food. "Yes it is". I replied with confidence as they come at it. "So let us dig in". Merleona said and scooped at it. Eating it as she enjoyed the tadte closing her eyes. "Sweet!!! I was saved!". Rose exclaimed from tasting her share. "True, there is a balanced sweetness of sugar and creamy egg texture". Kitsune says as a comment to the Leche Plan. Then,

Eugene's time to eat hers. Upon tasting it she screamed. "Delicious!". She mouthed as I was aware of Valerie at the side enjoying her share but then Merleona took some of it.

"Hey!". Valerie shouted with depressed emotion. "You already have yours, why would you take mine?". She asked Merleona but she got provoked instead. "Why? I only takea little bit, is it wrong?". Merleona asked her. " Of course it's wrong to take someone else's share!". Valerie replied at her. "So what- Ouch thay hurts". Merleona said that didn't finish because I flicked her forehead. "That's a bad attitude of a Goddess". I said as I silently said the last one. "But I want to eat more of it". She uttered but I signed with my fingera warning. "Yes but don't take someone's food it's stealing, if you do that I won't let you eat it Whenever I make one from now". I warned her that made her teary-eyed. "Huwaahhh!!! That's unfair, Okay Fine! Fine! I won't do it again so let me that again!!!". She shouted as she beg for it in the end.