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Chapter 250 - That Evening's Dinner 2. Dressing and Salad

For Yuri, it was a bolt from the blue.

In his past life, to say nothing of mayonnaise, there were all sorts of dressings lining the store shelves, like French, Italian, sesame, and Japanese-style. There were also soy sauce, ponzu, tentsuyu and mentsuyu, Aurora sauce, mustard mayonnaise, tartar sauce... To put it dramatically, the accompaniments for salad were too numerous to count.

Did none of those exist here?

(Ah... but I guess it's not that hard to understand. It seems mayonnaise and soy sauce aren't known here...)

As Yuri came to this conclusion in his mind...

"...From the look on your face, it seems you know quite a bit, Yuri-kun?"

But Adon, a masterful merchant, did not let it slide.

"Well, yes, I know a little... but most of them are made with mayonnaise as an ingredient. Naturally, their properties aren't that different from mayonnaise either."

Yuri implicitly warned him, eating too much of them would still make you gain weight. Even dressings that weren't mayonnaise-based used oil as a primary ingredient, so eating too much would still cause weight gain. However, liquid dressings weren't applied as heavily as mayonnaise, so that could be considered an advantage.

Soy sauce-based dressings were low in fat and healthy, but...

(...It's not that I want to keep it a secret, but it's still unfinished...)

As a Japanese person from his past life, his pride would not allow him to hand over an unfinished soy sauce.

"...For now, I'll teach you a few, so please try them later."

"That would be a great help."

Adon quickly began to calculate.

The new sauce recipes Yuri was offering, along with the mayonnaise, would undoubtedly become a weapon for him. If they were mayonnaise-based, then keeping the recipes secret, at least for the time being, would not be difficult. However, they all seemed to be recipes for salads, for raw vegetables. That meant that tasty, raw vegetables were a prerequisite. Relying solely on Yuri's vegetables would be inconvenient for those serving the dishes. He would have to purchase vegetables from other places and check their flavor and other qualities.

On the other hand, his wife and daughters were obsessed with eating vegetables. In that case, there was no need to stick to raw vegetable salads. There ought to be vegetable dishes that didn't use mayonnaise.

"Yuri-kun, if you don't mind me asking, do you know of any other healthy vegetable dishes?"

Yuri thought for a moment. He knew several vegetable dishes, but did they exist in this country or not? Without knowing that first, Yuri couldn't offer any advice.

"Let me ask you instead, how are vegetables eaten in this country? Aside from salads."

"Ah... usually they're put in things like soup, or stewed. Some are boiled or steamed... oh, and sometimes they're sautéed in butter."

Hmm, Yuri mused. In that case, it didn't seem too different from the vegetable dishes he knew. The difference, if any, was the use of miso and soy sauce as seasonings. However, neither miso nor soy sauce was at a stage where he could present it to others. Therefore, he had to assume that Japanese-style seasoning was not an option.

(The first thing that comes to mind is vegetable tempura, but... that's a no-go. I can't carelessly spread tempura without tentsuyu.)

(French fries, too... I haven't started cultivating Papas potatoes yet. I could import them from neighboring Fulst, but that would make things too complicated... and more importantly, it seems the ladies are aiming for beauty, weight loss, and health. French fries and potato chips go in the exact opposite direction.)

(Then there's... not really a dish, but pumpkin pudding and glazed carrots. But... those aren't exactly diet-friendly either. And besides, the Boka... no, the pumpkin... isn't nearly as sweet as the pumpkins from my past life yet, so it's not great as an ingredient for sweets.)

One after another, ideas were rejected, and what remained was...