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How to Survive Your Own Cooking [Class 2]

"Today," Lulu began, after the class had come into the home ec room, "as it says on your syllabus, we're going to be studying breakfast foods. As it's still fairly early in the class, we'll focus on more basic foods -- if you'd like more advanced recipes, or even some extra instruction, feel free to see me after class and we can discuss it.

"One of the most basic breakfast foods is cold cereal -- generally, in this world at least, you buy it boxed, and simply add milk, potentially some form of sweetener, occasionally sliced fruit such as berries or bananas, or even eat it as is, straight from the box. Unfortunately for you all, you're not getting away with that today. If you'd like, you can attempt to make your own, but that's not required for today's class.

"One of the staples of breakfast -- although, indeed, it is a great food for any time, including snacks -- is the scrambled egg." Lulu demonstrated proper whisking behaviour, then took her students through the process of cooking the eggs so that they'd be able to recognise when their own were finished.

"Breakfast wouldn't be complete without bacon and toast," Lulu continued. "I will add that I added the toast 'recipe' today," and you could hear the airquotes, "because it amused me greatly -- but do try to follow it as best you can. It is helpful, for all that it seems to be frivolous.

"Your assignment today is to make a complete breakfast -- cereal, eggs, bacon, and toast. If you prefer not to make the homemade cereal, you may used boxed cereal, but everything else requires preparation.

"All of the recipes you need are at your stations. Pair up -- in different pairs than last week -- and cook away! Everything you need is available either in your stations, except for ingredients if you wish to make the cereal, or if you wish to make a variation on the scrambled eggs; for those, you can find the ~~moddable~~ ingredients here at the front of the class."

Lulu smiled. "As a drink, I recommend apple or orange juice, as they will help round out the meal. Coffee and hot chocolate, however, are also provided. You can find the drinks at the front of the room as well." She paused. "Feel free to drink them during the class as well."

[OCD ~~will be up in a few~~ is up! I'm hungry now.]

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"Okay, just pouring cereal is a little basic, even for me," Shawn said, looking at the boxes. "I'm sure we can do better than that."

"Well, just a start," Chad said. "We have to make a full breakfast, right? This is like stretching before practise. Important. And then maybe we'll move onto..."

Chad considered the other stuff, trying to determine wha tmight be easier. "Bacon's pretty damn easy..."

"You just kind of throw it all together and hope for the best, and something vaguely edible usually comes out," Shawn said. "Or, at least I find that. My mom usually turns her nose up at it, though."

"Well," Chad said, tilting his head thoughtfully, "that does work. It does make it edible, and that's the important thing, but there's no finesse. It's like..."

Chad took in a considering breath.

"It's like playing Stairway on a broken guitar, dude."

Now that was a comparison Shawn could understand and get behind.

"Aw, man. That's just wrong," he said, pulling a face.

"Exactly," Chad said. "There's kind of an art to food sometimes. You could just listen to something 'cause it's there, but why listen to crap when you could listen to masterpieces? Same with food. Unfortunately, cereal, bacon, and toast is kind of limited. Could do a lot of cool things with eggs, though..."

"Maybe we try eggs next?" Shawn suggested, poking through the ingredients on the table. "Experimentation is probably half the point of this class."

Noticing Shawn poking through some of the ingredients, the wheels in Chad's head started turning, too. He was thinking that there should be some Tabasco around here somewhere. "Know what we could do?" he said.

Shawn cautiously put down the bag of rolled oats he's been examining Shawn looked up at Chad. "So long as it's good to eat, I am open to all options," he said. "What are you thinking of?"

"Combining the bacon with the scrambled eggs," Chad said. "And then maybe get some cheese. Then, it's like...an easier, poor-man's omelette."

"Bacon, cheese and egg." Shawn grinned. "I am all kinds of up for that. Sounds good, man."

"With cereal too, obviously," he added, picking up the packet again to look at it. "We just mix some stuff up and warm it, right?"

"Yeah, I think so," Chad said, tilting his head to take a peek at the packet. "Simple stuff, really."

Shawn decided the best thing to do here, was just dive in, so he looked at the recipe a moment before dropping what he hoped was the 1/2 cup of butter into the pan.

"I get the feeling this is gonna be really different from the usual Lucky Charms," he remarked, as he put it back down again.

Chad took about two seconds to consider what it would be like to add a few marshmallows into the mix before he grunted an agreement. "Yup," he said, tilting his head at Shawn getting the butter before considering the sugar. "'Depending on personal preference,'" he read out loud. "I think we gotta do brown sugar."

Because they were musical men. It just made sense.

Shawn laughed and nodded, "I'll go with that," he agreed.

"Looks nicer anyway," he added, just to give that little bit of extra justification.

"I think it's better for you, too," Chad said. He...had no idea, it just sounded like a smart thing to say. He very carefully started to measure it out, asking as he did, "Do we wanna add any cinnamon or stuff like that to it?"

"I always liked cinnamon grahams," Shawn put forward ~~although his mun isn't entirely sure you even get those in the US~~.

"So, totally be open to that. You're the expert, man, I'm just gonna be here trying to remember this for the next time. Summer would probably appreciate breakfast in bed sometime."

"Not on this, man," Chad pointed out. "This is all new. But I like the cinnamon grahams ~~which you so totally can, yay!~~ idea."

There was a pause. "Breakfast in bed idea ain't too bad, either," he mused, although imagining doing the same for Teddy resulted in Chad being called a dork a lot.

"Breakfast in bed is never a bad idea," Shawn said with a laugh. "Not in my book, anyway."

"So how about we add the cinnamon, and if it tastes oooky, we remember not to add it if we do this again?"

"Let's do it," Chad grunted importantly, determined, as he figured that the butter was melted enough to add the oat things. "I got the sugar, you got the cinnamon."

"Here goes," Shawn agreed with a nod, snagging the pot of cinnamon from the side and adding a generous portion to the butter in the bottom of the pan.

"I do like that we're getting graded for something we can eat later. I really do."

"That hopefully we could eat," Chad pointed out. But with the smell of the cinnamon and the toasting oats had him feeling pretty sure that they wouldn't need to worry about that.

"Well, I don't know 'bout you," Shawn said, taking a sniff himself. "But I'd eat anything that smelt like that."

"Jus' 'cause you'd eat it doesn't mean it tastes good," Chad said, lightly teasing. "You said you'd eat almost anything."

Shawn shrugged. "And I would," he said with a smirk. "But that really does smell good."

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