evening meal, dinner

to use / to employ / to make use of, to apply / to spend

cooked rice / a meal of any sort

(archaic) (as for) today

today, this day / nowadays

Same as こんにち above

good day, good afternoon: a Japanese greeting used in the daytime

cooking

(と〜) thinking that […] (with the next clause explaining that the truth is contrary to expectations)

to seem, to appear