spindizzy | Reaction Shot: Today's Menu for the Emiya Family Episode 3 (or: OH NO IT'S CUTE) (Reply)

We're back! I continue to have feelings about Today's Menu for the Emiya Family! Today: ILLYA GETS TO BE ADORABLE AND LOVED AND THIS IS GREAT FOR ME AND MY HEART.

I love that Taiga apparently knows everyone. I know that Illya at least is probably because of the Taiga Dojo thing in the original game, but it's just! Everyone knows Taiga! And she is so happy to see everyone!
"Being the nice person I am," THERE IS AT LEAST ONE TIMELINE WHERE YOU STRAIGHT UP MURDER EVERYONE FOR THE FUN OF IT ILLYA.
"Don't ask any questions. I just want you to go change clothes." THIS IS SUPER LEGIT.
Oh, so is the stranger-lady there to make sure that Illya is dressed properly? OKAY, that explains why I have no idea who she is! Or is this Taiga's house and I don't recognise her because she lives there?
Illya looks SO CUTE. THE CUTEST. AND SHE IS SO CONFUSED.
"Oh I wouldn't want to spoil the surprise!" TAIGA THIS IS A KIDNAPPING.
Saber being the knight escorting Illya is SO GOOD. And now I'm having feelings about Irisviel, Illya's mother, who ALSO got gallantly escorted by Saber! Waaaaaaaah!
(SOMEONE GIVE ME THE HAPPY AU WHERE SABER AND IRISVIEL RUN AWAY SOMEHOW AND RAISE ILLYA. I GUESS KIRITSUGU CAN COME TOO.)
Awwww, everyone's there to see Illya! And she's SO SUSPICIOUS that they're plotting against her!
(Rin is so offended by this suspicion, but let's be fair: THE SHOE FITS, RIN.)
THE ROOM IS SO PRETTY, omg omg, look how fancy and pretty that is! That must have taken so much effort, this episode has so many people who care about Illya and want to do something fancy and nice for her!
Ah, okay! This episode is centred on Girl's Day, that makes sense! And explains why everything is so sweet!
They're introducing Illya to Japanese culture, waaaaaaah, that's so kind! Also, Shirou, worrying that you don't belong in an all-girl festival is maybe a LITTLE LATE NOW.
LOOK AT HOW FANCY THIS MEAL IS, THAT IS AMAZING.
(Unrelated, I found out that in the manga, Illya is supposed to be eighteen but stuck in the body of a twelve year old for Magic Reasons, and friends I am not having that. Not when every other form of Fate canon is just like "Why is there a murder child?")
THEY MADE HER SUCH SWEET THINGS! Omg omg.
Watching Rin and Sakura go "Oh, you're like THAT" at each other is so nice but also so heartbreaking, because THEY ARE SISTERS AND THEY BARELY KNOW EACH OTHER. ;_______; They are both mortified by figuring each other out, this is so cute.
And! Rider helping to decorate! While Saber goes on stand-by until the time is right! Bless them all! (I'm not gonna lie, Lex has put me on standby while he cooks before, so I'm kinda glad to see it happen to fictional characters too.)
Recipe at the end at usual!
Sakura and Shirou tag-teaming a recipe! I love that he does the practical bits, and then specifically calls Sakura in to make it FANCY while Rider and Rin look absolutely bamboozled!
She made a rose! That's really cool!
Rin looks so grouchy and embarrassed about wanting to use the kitchen to do something nice, and Rider looks so fond of all of them.
She took inspiration from the dolls and made food shaped the same! That's the most precious thing! Especially because she's in such denial about ever doing a nice thing for someone, that would be awful, couldn't possibly be her. ... And then she aggressively starts piling food up in front of Illya as a distraction, awwww.
ILLYA IS SO HAPPY! LOOK AT THIS LOVELY FUSS THAT EVERYONE HAS MADE OVER HER!
Everything is flowery and cute! ... I'm kinda jealous, I want MY food to be flowery and cute too.
Bless Illya trying to be dignified. "I guess these boisterous events aren't bad, either.""Is that right."
HE LOOKS SO FOND OF HER, I'M SO HAPPY THAT EVERYONE GETS TO HAVE THEIR RIDICULOUS FAMILY IN THIS TIMELINE.
Illya wants to be told that she looks cute! GO ILLYA, LIVE YOUR DREAMS. TORMENT RIN. ♥
Recipe! Chirashizushi:
- Rinse the rice and strain the water out.
- Slice carrots, lotus root, bamboo shoots, and rehydrated shiitake. Soak the lotus roots in water.
- Put all of your sliced ingredients in the rice cooker with the rinsed rice. Add a little less (water?) than the water-level marker, then to season add soy sauce, sake, mirin, and the dashi liquid from the dried shiitake. Normally you'd boil the ingredients separately, but rice cookers are easier!
- Next, the kinshi egg. Mix the eggs, season with salt and sugar, then strain them to make a thin egg crepe. Julienne the eggs and your kinshi tamago is done.
- Bring the snow peas (strings removed) and the carrots and lotus root you'll be using for garnish to a quick boil in salted water, then cool them off in a bowl of water.
- Add sake to this pot and heat the shrimp. Then marinate them in sushi vinegar.
- When the rice is done, pour the sushi vinegar, minus the shrimp, over it all.
- Then mix the rice in a vertical chopping motion. When your rice scoop starts to feel heavier as you're mixing, stop mixing, then cool it off by fanning it. From time to time, flip your rice over to expose the hot parts. Cooling it off all at once gives the sushi rice a nice sheen.