When fate plays its hand (Miranda)

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By evening, the wonderful smell of cooking wafted from the kitchen as Lionel brought out the seafood stew. “I just learned the recipe for this. Tell me what you think!”

Miranda looked at the table full of her favorite food. There were mashed

potatoes with bacon bits, a garden salad, grilled sea bass, seafood stew, and meatballs in bolognese sauce.

Mindy dished the most tender part of the grilled fish and handed the plate over to Miranda. “Your dad sucks at making grilled fish, but I just tasted this and I could tell it was made exactly the way you liked it. Here, have some more.”

Lionel didn’t look happy when he heard what Mindy said. “What do you mean by that? I don’t suck at making fish. I’m just human, and all humans err anyway!

Miranda burst out laughing.

Meanwhile, Mindy nodded and said sarcastically, “Of course, your culinary skills are out of the world! It doesn’t matter whether you’re grilling fish or making any other kinds of food because you‘ mehow find a way to make

them work. Happy now?”

“That’s more like it,” Lionel said. “Zion from next door just learned a few recipes from me yesterday! Just be grateful that I’m always doing all the cooking for you to enjoy.”

“Alright, alright. I’ll enjoy every second of it. Hurry up and start eating so you’ll stop talking!”

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helping of grilled fish. “Have some more food, Mimi. Tell me, what do you think of

she listened to her parents bantering. She then took a bite of

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the fish. Just before lifting the fish out of the pan, he had then basted it in

way, it would preserve and enhance the natural sweetness of the fish

Miranda could remember, Mindy had rarely ever stepped foot

for Lionel in the staff room. Then, when Lionel got

market on their way home. Lionel was very

Mindy never bought groceries from the farmers‘ market because she didn’t know how to pick good produce. She co thought that it was a hot and noisy

sea bass and omelets. These were two of Miranda’s favorite foods, and Mindy made an effort to

comments and feedback only fuelled Lionel’s desire to cook even more, inadvertently letting him hone his skills and

would cook, clean, and prepare everything for him so that he would be able to come home to

the cooking,

same as they had in the past, making Miranda realize that they had always

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that the sea bass Dad makes is the best sea bass