Shavri sighs a little, though she's smiling. "Jisa, I like to have at least one vegetable with my dinner. Can you pick one?" 

"Ew." 

"It can be in bread. Or with cheese. Just, something green, please?" 

"Fiiiine. The egg-pie can have spinach in." 

"Maybe you would like a vegetable you haven't tried before! Have you had... artichokes? Celery root? Seaweed? Eggplant? Peppers? Bamboo?"

"You can eat seaweed? Huh! I thought bamboo was a tree. Not a vegetable. I read a story about a merchant in Seejay who had a house made of bamboo." 

"Bamboo is very versatile! Parts of it can be eaten as a vegetable. Do you want to try it? Or seaweed?"

"Are you going to make me eat all of it before I can have any biscuits?" Jisa says, suspiciously. 

"That doesn't seem like my job."

Shavri ruffles her daughter's hair. "You don't have to finish everything this time. It's a special occasion." She looks over at Cam. "What are 'artichokes' like? I don't think I've ever had one." 

So Cam will make halibut-filled buns with a little lemon and bayleaf, and a cheesy quiche, and a selection of various pickles from capers to pickled green beans, and spinach artichoke hors d'oeuvres on tiny toasts, and seaweed snacks, and a bamboo stirfry, and biscuits with assorted jams.

Jisa's eyes go HUGE as the food appears! She looks pretty suspicious at some of the unfamiliar kinds of pickles, but Cam's presence, and the sheer excitingness of food appearing from nowhere, gets her to try at least a bite of almost everything. 

She declares that the bamboo 'isn't a real vegetable' because 'it's not green' and eats several pieces, but mostly she chows down on the fish - eating a lot more of the bun part than the fish part - and the quiche. 

Shavri is mostly quiet during the meal. She smiles at Jisa's chatter and occasionally reminds her not to chew with her mouth full, but she's clearly preoccupied. 

"Are only green things real vegetables?" Cam wonders, appearing on Jisa's plate a bit of eggplant and a bit of cauliflower and a bit of fennel, all infused with various flavors demon-style.

Jisa seems kind of suspicious that this is a SCHEME, but the bamboo was actually tasty, and after some indecision and mostly playing with her food, she does eventually try a bite of each. 

"That one's good!" she acknowledges about the cauliflower. "It's sort of like bread." She's less a fan of the fennel, which 'tastes like medicine tea', and the eggplant, which is 'slimy', but - after a quelling look from her mother - she doesn't spit out either one, and thanks Cam diplomatically enough. 

She can have some more cauliflower if she'd like. Battered and fried? In various sauces? Mashed? Roasted?

Jisa LOVES the battered-and-fried cauliflower! She keeps asking for more! 

Awwww. 

All the battered cauliflower she wants. "I can give you seeds for this if you want," he tells Shavri.

"Neat! How hard is it to grow?" 

"I don't think unusually so but I do not personally keep a garden. I will translate you some care instructions." He does this and presents her with a little card and a bag of seeds.

"I don't garden much either but I'll bring this to someone who knows what to do with it. The bamboo really is delicious, by the way. Would that be hard to grow here?" 

"Probably not that hard." Culinary bamboo seeds, bamboo care instructions.

"Thank you! This is wonderful." 

"Mama can I have dessert now?"