Marvelous

I did, too. When guests were over, she used to oversee meal preparations rather than leave it up to the family chef and his assistants. Using her own family’s magic-assisted recipes, she would serve the most incredible dishes: meat roasts cooked uniformly inside and out, soups that changed flavor, desserts that sparkled like stars and melted on the tongue. Though dinner guests had ecstatically given their compliments to the lady of the house, Father would firmly rebuke her in private.