#Kerch palate

[dreamtigress]

Several Sentence Sunday...

I'm going to do something a little different today, since I am currently working on a story where Kaz takes Inej out for their first real date in public.

I've had a lot of fun researching various foods that I think would occur within a Suli and Ravkan restaurant. I've pulled from eastern European, Russian, Romani, and Middle Eastern foods, figuring the Suli have picked up a variety of cuisines in their travels, and perhaps each caravan has family recipes and specialties. So here's what I've worked up for Pelegrini's menu:

Suli & Ravkan cuisine as seen at Pelegrini: 

Skillet bread: A variety of unleavened bread is available, similar to naan, including plain, garlic stuffed, and almond and raisin.

Spiced tea: Somewhere along the lines of chai. (Inej’s favorite tea; Kaz declines, ordering Ravkan black tea instead.)

Djuveci: a curry-like fish stew. (Inej offers it up, but Kaz decides on the cabbage rolls instead.)

Sarma: stuffed cabbage leaves, filled with a mixture of ground meat and rice, mildly spiced. (Inej recommends these for Kaz as they will be milder.)

Tzatziki: thick yogurt sauce with garlic, chives, and dill. (Inej shows Kaz to dip the sarma and bread into it.)

Ajvar: red pepper sauce. (Also for dipping various foods into. Way too spicy for Kaz.)

Paprikas Csirke: chicken, onions,and potatoes in a medium spicy paprika curry sauce. (Inej orders this for herself, but lets Kaz sample some.)

Pirogo: a sweet noodle casserole dessert, with eggs, raisins, walnuts, cream and cottage cheese. (They share this for dessert.)

Pomdrakon: dragonbowl, a Ravkan dish created by lighting raisins on fire. (Kaz opts out of this one, says he’ll try it next time!)

Here's a few sentences from the story. (I love that we all seem to agree Kaz has a Kerch palate when it comes to spicy food...)

They munched mostly in silence for a while, until Inej insisted he at least try a bite of the garlic stuffed skillet bread with ajvar. There was just enough challenge in her tone that he felt obligated to rise to the occasion. Besides, Inej had described it as milder than her father’s version of the sauce. She dipped the bread, and held it up for him with a grin. The moment the sauce hit his tongue, three thoughts occurred in quick succession.

Oh fuck, that’s spicy!

How hot does her father make this?

I’m going to need more tea.

He didn’t cough, sputter, or spit out the bite. He did note his eyes start to water. His glass of iced tea was in hand before he’d even swallowed. Inej tried valiantly to stifle her giggle, but failed. “Okay, no more ajvar for you. Sorry about that.”

“I think…” He cleared his throat. “I think I’d believe that apology if you weren’t still laughing.”

“Have some more tzatziki, it will help more than the tea.”

I've added the info about Pelegrini to my Wiki, sampled here:

And in full here:

[intosnarkness]

it's 1:15 am but i think i just finished draft one of this story (!!!!) and it includes this line:

Kaz has a typically Kerch palate, and she’s watched him sweat and gulp water at food she finds on the bland side. He once called an orange spicy, which had left Inej laughing for weeks.

Because - and I swear this is true - Nat, who is a purebread white guy from the Pacific Northwest sometimes bites into celery and calls it spicy and I want to put him in a jar and study him. Barring that, I will mine his weirdness for my stories.

Also I need to go the fuck to sleep.

[wesper-ao3feed]

Bevrediging

read it on AO3 at https://ift.tt/xpO8ul2 by DreamTigress, MDTiger11 (DreamTigress) Inej has another educational chat with Jes & Wy about kink. Kaz takes her out on a date in public to Pelegrini, for an amazing dinner. Upon return to the mansion, their evening gets very kinky. Inej takes control, tries out some new toys, and hilarity and hotness ensue. Kaz comes to grips with a new phrase from Inej. There are explicit, sexual and kinky scenes between consenting adult characters. See also: Jes & Wy are their kink gurus, Inej gets IDEAS, And new toys, Dinner Date, In Public Even, With PDA, Kaz is still a scheming security squirrel, Kaz’s Kerch palate versus spicy food, Inej loves spicy food, Sharing dessert, Forehead kisses, Kink time, Leather fetish, Inej’s Inner Sadist, Kaz is a masochist, But he does finally safeword, Kaz remembers why he loves subspace, Kaz has a praise kink, Inej breaks his brain in all the ways, Who’s a Good Boy, Her boy, Kink as therapy, Kaz & Inej deal with feels, Words are hard for Kaz sometimes, Battling with PTSD. Words: 24125, Chapters: 2/2, Language: English Series: Part 14 of Kanej Wensen Fandoms: Six of Crows Series - Leigh Bardugo, The Grisha Trilogy - Leigh Bardugo, Nikolai Series - Leigh Bardugo, Shadow and Bone (TV) Rating: Explicit Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Categories: F/M, M/M, Other Characters: Kaz Brekker, Inej Ghafa, The Crows Ensemble (Six of Crows), Jesper Fahey, Wylan Van Eck, Original Characters Relationships: Kaz Brekker/Inej Ghafa, Kaz Brekker & Inej Ghafa, Jesper Fahey/Wylan Van Eck, Jesper Fahey & Wylan Van Eck, Original Character Relationships - Relationship Additional Tags: Kaz Brekker Loves Inej Ghafa, POV Kaz Brekker, POV Inej Ghafa, Kaz Brekker Needs a Hug, Soft Kaz Brekker, Protective Kaz Brekker, Kaz Brekker Has PTSD, BAMF Inej Ghafa, Captain Inej Ghafa, Inej Ghafa Needs a Hug, Soft Inej Ghafa, Inej Ghafa Has PTSD, Protective Inej Ghafa, Love, Sex, Praise Kink, Enthusiastic Consent, Consent is Sexy, Kink Negotiation, Erotica, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - PTSD, Rope Bondage, Leather, Kaz has a plan, Inej has a Plan, Kaz & Inej Deal with Feels, We Never Stop Fighting, Touching, Panic Attacks, Sexual exploration as therapy, Explicit Sexual Content, Implied Sexual Content, Humor, Jesper is a bad influence, Tactile, Kaz & Inej get Snuggles, hair fetish, kink as therapy, words are hard sometimes, Kanej - Freeform, Inej Ghafa Loves Kaz Brekker, Forehead Kisses, PDA, Dinner Date, Kink Conversations, Good Boy Kink, Safeword Use, Nipple Clamps, Food as a Metaphor for Love, Podfic Welcome read it on AO3 at https://ift.tt/xpO8ul2

[dreamtigress]

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[dregs-of-the-barrel]

What is each crows favorite dessert food and favorite meal (that’s not a dessert, obv)? Sorry if this is a weird question lol but thanks in advance

hello!!!!! This is a super cute question i love it. I will start with

nina bc the dessert question is very easily answered:

WAFFLES

aside from that i think she loves any kind of creamy dessert (maybe bc ice cream and whipped cream go with waffles so well lol)

I see her liking refined food. Fancy food. Like those very fancy food arrangements, interesting flavour combinations, beautiful plates that you get at fancy restaurants. However, i also see her as someone who can appreciate good streetfood, especially on a damp day in ketterdam. Some fried potatoes from a street vendor, sat behind his little coal barrel oven on the pavement near the bridge opposite from her rooms is a particular favourite of hers.

I think matthias would be into hearty, simple food. Big stew fan. Lots of fish, too. Maybe like a fish stew, with barley and winter roots. Well salted with dark rye bread on the side. He pretends to be disdainful of desserts, but does appreciate honey cakes. Or honey on bread. Or plain honey.

Jesper, much like nina, would enjoy fine dining, i believe. He also has a particular talent for identifying poor quality, such as bread baked by bakers who thought they could stretch their flour with chalk. Granted, his powers help, but he also swears he just has that fine a palate.

I think he loves zemeni spices and bemoans the tragically plain kerch fare. However, he will gladly join nina for fried potatoes. He will also procure the apricot jam filled doughnuts a ravkan street vendor sells in different places around the city. his favourite meal, though, is definitely steak.

Kaz would go without eating, if he could, because he simply can‘t spare the time. Pure focus on sustenance. Eats so fast he hardly has time to taste what it is that he‘s eating. Once got food poisoning that way because he realised too late that the fish he was eating might have been slightly off. More careful now.

Loves dark chocolate. Especially the kind with chili.

Inej is vegetarian, I think. She loves to eat meals from her childhood, though she is unfortunately not much of a cook, herself. There is a small suli restaurant tucked away in a side alley off the market square. She goes there for the food at first, then the friendship.

In terms of dessert, Inej loves fruit. Especially the kind that just won‘t grow in kerch, because the weather is never hot enough. The cook she befriends gives her dried dates and mango, whenever she can find them at the market - the fresh kind is in short supply. When she eats the dried fruit she can almost feel the sun that once ripened it warm her face. On sea again, she smiles at the thought of arriving at warm shores and feeling mango juice stick to her fingers as she gets her hands on fresh fruit.

Wylan is a staunch defender of kerch food and will not hear any abuse of it. Mussels with fried potatoes is his favourite dish and he will finish every meal with kerch pralines. He keeps them in his pockets for when his brain needs some extra fuel, but there have been unfortunate incidents of them melting onto some important chemistry supplies in his pockets. Inej helped him by offering to sew an extra pocket just for pralines into his coat (her bein an expert on maximizing storage options in her clothing, as all her daggers will attest to). There haven‘t been any similar incidents since.

[libidomechanica]

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