My Lady Chef novel Chapter 15

Linda's POV:

That beast!

The duke must have been rough with my lady judging from the slow way she was mincing her steps as she rubbed her hip while we worked in the main kitchen.

But despite her discomfort; she managed to make three kinds of pasta using only what we have here.

We left the pasta to dry as she started teaching me different ways to cut vegetables and fruit. I always thought cutting up ingredients mean just roughly chopping them and throwing them into a pot.

" Different cutting techniques will affect how your dish will come out. It also affects the cooking time of an ingredient. This is why learning how to properly cut and prep your vegetables and fruits are crucial." She showed me that mincing garlic helps give a pasta dish a great garlicky flavor without any bitterness if the heat was controlled right and how rough cut vegetables take a longer time to cook but it gives stew some robust flavors.

"Milady. Have you cooked for a long time?" I asked in awe of her passion for food.

"Actually. It was a new hobby I picked up not too long before I married the duke. But it seems like I might just have a gift for it because I want to make lot more types of food..even the foreign cuisine from the Exotic Lands." she said as we continued to cut more veggies for the surprise my lady has for the duke and his knights.

Amongst the nobility. A few could boast that they have their own knights but the Duke is said to have his own separate order which is stationed here at his manor and some were sent to his other lands for training.

But I heard that the ones here are the best of the best and I have seen a few of the maids at the main mansion develop crushes on a few good-looking ones.