Not Being a Trainer This Time

Chapter 49: Chapter 39: S-Tier Milk Porridge

”No problem, the construction cost is a total of 20,000 League coins, but by the way, is there still wood in the ranch?” Keri asked.

She remembered that the last time she went over, she saw that almost all the trees in the ranch had been cut down.

Keri pitched: ”If not, you can buy it in the store, one piece of wood sells for 100 League coins, the price of stone is cheaper, only 50 League coins.”

The 20,000 is the labor construction cost. If the rancher doesn’t have materials, they’ll need to buy from them.

Naoki thought for a moment, these days he’s been busy fishing and hasn’t cut any trees.

The trees in the ranch are limited. Even though there are many trees in the back mountain, large-scale logging would destroy the environment and also make some Pokemon homeless.

After a slight thought, he said directly, ”Buy from you then!”

Keri smiled: ”Okay, the construction team will go to the ranch this afternoon to start building, you’ll be there, right?”

The Salt House is a standard format, and Keri knew very well how much material was needed to build one, and how much land it required.

Naoki nodded, then paid, spending a total of 25,000 League coins.

After leaving the carpenter shop, he went to Porto Marinada Market to buy some fresh ingredients.

He hadn’t developed a new dish for a long time.

Due to limited ingredients in the ranch and being busy with work, he could only make the same few dishes back and forth.

Now with eggs and milk available, it was time to start experimenting with new recipes.

By the time he returned to the ranch, it was almost noon.

Naoki didn’t have time to rest and started processing the ingredients.

Since there were many eaters, and with Koraidon’s huge appetite, if there wasn’t enough food, it might end up with an empty stomach.

Because of this, Naoki had to prepare a large amount of food every day, which also made the cooking time longer.

Initially, he lacked experience and worked late, but later he simply started cooking in advance.

For example, right now, it was only 10:46, but Naoki started bustling around.

He scraped the fish scales, removed the guts, added ginger, Galar leek, a little garlic, and then used a prepared sauce for extra freshness and flavor enhancement, and finally placed it in the pot for steaming.

While steaming the fish, Naoki began multitasking.

He cleaned the ribs he bought, blanched them, and then put the ribs with diced white radish into the rice cooker to stew.

Cooking every day improved Naoki’s culinary skills, even his knife skills became much more proficient.

As time ticked away, the rich aroma of the pork rib soup spread.

The boiling broth kept bubbling; the steam from the rice cooker made the lid bob up and down, making a bubbling sound.

Koraidon and Cyclizar were attracted to it, gazing longingly at the steaming rice cooker.

Naoki, wearing an apron, shook his finger at them: ”No, it’s not done yet, have to wait a bit more before eating. You guys go play outside for a while.”

”Gaoo...”

”Grrr...”

Cyclizar and Koraidon didn’t want to play outside, so they sat on the wooden floor and watched from there.

Seeing them like this, Naoki shook his head helplessly and started simmering the rice porridge.

The ordinary rice porridge Naoki had made once before was E-level cuisine, with the effect of slightly restoring Pokemon’s energy.

But this time, looking at the rice porridge in the pot, Naoki suddenly fell into deep thought.

What should be added to it?

A list of names appeared in his mind.

Century egg and lean meat porridge, carrot and millet porridge, mushroom chicken porridge, oatmeal porridge, eight-treasure porridge, corn porridge, purple sweet potato porridge...

But unfortunately, he didn’t have most of these ingredients at home.

Naoki turned to look back.

The window sill was empty, Smoliv and Alcremie were probably playing in the sunshine now.

Compared to the meat-loving Koraidon and Cyclizar, Alcremie and Smoliv have a preference for sweet tastes.

And with the steamed sea bass and white radish ribs soup which are meat dishes, one more dish that Alcremie and Smoliv like was still missing.

Thinking of this, Naoki turned to open the cupboard, looking at the ingredients inside, he finally took out a bottle of MooMoo Milk and white sugar.

He poured the MooMoo Milk into the pot, added an appropriate amount of white sugar, and soon, the name of the dish in the pot changed.

[Milk Porridge (B): Milk porridge with added white sugar and MooMoo Milk.

Cooking Effect: Better Milk Lv1, for milk-producing Pokemon only. After eating, it will slightly enhance the quality of the milk produced by the eater, making it taste better and more nutritious, also having the effect of restoring energy.

Evaluation: A nutritious milk porridge, suitable for all ages.]

Oh? A new product?!

Naoki raised his eyebrows.

Better milk.

As the name implies, eating it can improve the quality of the milk produced by Pokemon.

The suitable Pokemon for it...

The image of Miltank and Skiddo’s family appeared in Naoki’s mind.

”Interesting, just when visiting Nacli this afternoon, I should see if there’s a chance to capture a Skiddo.”

But sadly, the effect level of this dish is only Lv1.

Naoki guessed it might be because the rice he used was of average quality.

If replaced with higher quality rice and white sugar, the enhancing effect of the dish should increase further.

Seeing the porridge was almost ready, Naoki wanted to serve it and call Smoliv and the others back to eat.

Then he suddenly remembered something.

There was still a small piece of black truffle he had left in the cupboard!

Thinking of this, Naoki immediately turned and took out that piece of black truffle.

Information about black truffle popped into his mind.

[Black Truffle: A top-quality premium ingredient, a rare and delicious delicacy, can be made into black truffle steamed egg with eggs, or creamy thick soup with butter, though it doesn’t possess its own benefits, it can significantly enhance the effects of a dish.]

Sure enough, he didn’t remember it wrong! It’s an enhancing cuisine effect!

Naoki’s heart skipped a beat. If he put it into the milk porridge...

Thinking of this, he immediately cut off a quarter of that small piece of black truffle and added it to the pot.

Soon, the name of the dish in the pot changed again.

From ordinary [Milk Porridge], it became [Black Truffle Milk Porridge].

[Black Truffle Milk Porridge (S): Milk porridge with added black truffle, white sugar, and MooMoo Milk. The additional black truffle greatly enhanced the quality of the dish.

Cooking Effect: Better Milk Lv3, for milk-producing Pokemon only. After eating, it will significantly enhance the quality of the milk produced by the eater, making it taste better and more nutritious, also having the effect of quickly restoring energy.

Evaluation: An exquisite milk porridge, rich in nutrients suitable for the growth of all Pokemon, and a rare delicacy.]

Whoa!

An S popped out!

Naoki looked shocked.

He immediately realized the importance of black truffle.

If... if...

At this moment, Naoki even thought about adding black truffle to the pork rib soup and steamed sea bass to see the effect.

But rationality stopped him, because the effects of pork rib soup and steamed sea bass are very ordinary dishes.

One enhances stamina and strength temporarily, while the other restores energy.

”Forget it, better save this for later,” Naoki muttered.

He carefully stored the remaining black truffle, simultaneously planning for the future in his heart.

Raise pigs! Must raise pigs!

Raise a large herd of Oinkologne and send them to the back mountain to help find black truffles!