Chapter 94 (1/2)

Volume 1

Chapter 95

Ch 95 — Beef Bowl and Beef stew

“Fer, why aren’t you back yet?”

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“Fer-ojichan, why aren’t you here?” Sui added plaintively .

Sui and I were waiting for Fer to come back from hunting but there was no sign of him at all .

I didn’t think he’d forgotten about us but I couldn’t be sure . I expected he’d be back once he got hungry so instead of just waiting around I got started preparing dinner . What to cook though . . . well, there’s lots of Bloody Horn Bull beef so maybe we want to eat some of that . Right, beef bowl it is . Quick to cook, delicious to eat and the pinnacle of cheap fast food in Japan . It brought back memories — sometimes after I finished work I’d stop by a local store for a quick beef bowl . It’s simple, sliced beef over plain rice with some sweet sauce .

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I checked my stocks, I had onions, soy sauce, sweet cooking sake and ginger . I was short on regular cooking sake and instant dashi soup granules so I bought them from the Net Super .

Right, let’s get started . First of all, I sliced up some Bloody Horn Bull beef . Since I planned to make two large pots of beef bowl I sliced up a lot of beef .

I peeled the onions and sliced them up then I put water in the pots and added the soy sauce, sugar, cooking sake and the dashi granules before squeezing out some grated ginger from a tube and stirring it in as the mixture came to a boil . I added the onions to the pots and after they softened I added the sliced beef . I let the sauce reduce over a slow heat for about ten minutes . It smelled really good, how did it taste? I tried a mouthful, the beef was tender and juicy and the onions fell apart in my mouth . Just right .