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How to Survive Your Own Cooking [Class 4]

"The business of the day is stew," Lulu began. "Most stews are thickened with flour, or occasionally corn starch; this recipe is one I prefer, in which the barley, and to a lesser extent the rice and lentils, thicken the stew on their own. Stews usually take much longer to make than would be available in a class period -- so, instead, thanks to some interesting functions I found here in the home ec lab la la handwavy Fandom magic la la, each cooking phase, which normally takes 25 minutes for this particular recipe, will instead take only 7. This should give you plenty of time to complete the stew during this class period."

Lulu went over the recipe, explaining what each of the different terms -- such as 'simmer' -- meant. "Also," she said, "you will be making biscuits to go along with the stew. Everything you need is available at your stations. Please, pair up -- again, with a new partner, someone you haven't yet worked with -- and go to your stations."


[Plz to be waiting for OCD is up!]
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Re: Assignment: Stew and Biscuits [Class 4]

[identity profile] electric-sitar.livejournal.com 2008-01-31 03:22 am (UTC)(link)
"The best way to do that is to show me," Demyx challenged, flailing just a little bit.

Re: Assignment: Stew and Biscuits [Class 4]

[identity profile] iseewhatyoumean.livejournal.com 2008-01-31 03:24 am (UTC)(link)
"Fine," she said flatly and stepped forward. Then, keeping herself between Demyx and the stove, she fiddled with some knobs and then turned them back to their original settings and stepped back.

"No you try."

Re: Assignment: Stew and Biscuits [Class 4]

[identity profile] electric-sitar.livejournal.com 2008-01-31 03:26 am (UTC)(link)
Demyx was just gullible enough to fall for it, but that didn't stop him from flailing. "But I'll light myself on fire. Again!" He edged back toward the stove nervously.

Re: Assignment: Stew and Biscuits [Class 4]

[identity profile] iseewhatyoumean.livejournal.com 2008-01-31 03:28 am (UTC)(link)
"But you can just put yourself out again with the water thing," Cassandra pointed out.

Because that would make it totally less painful.

Re: Assignment: Stew and Biscuits [Class 4]

[identity profile] electric-sitar.livejournal.com 2008-01-31 03:33 am (UTC)(link)
"But...I don't like burning!" Demyx squirmed, poking the knobs. Of course, turning the one with the numbers to the biggest number had to be the best way to do it. It would go quicker, that way. Right?

Re: Assignment: Stew and Biscuits [Class 4]

[identity profile] iseewhatyoumean.livejournal.com 2008-01-31 03:36 am (UTC)(link)
That was precisely the way Cassandra did things. She was so proud of her brilliant student. "It'd just be a little fire." Probably.

Re: Assignment: Stew and Biscuits [Class 4]

[identity profile] electric-sitar.livejournal.com 2008-01-31 03:37 am (UTC)(link)
Demyx spazzed, shaking the sleeves of his coat to make sure he wasn't on fire and backing away quickly from the stove.

Re: Assignment: Stew and Biscuits [Class 4]

[identity profile] iseewhatyoumean.livejournal.com 2008-01-31 03:40 am (UTC)(link)
"Okay."

"What do you think we should do now?" Cassandra asks, trying to sound like it's a teaching question that she already knows the answer to and that she's just testing him.

Re: Assignment: Stew and Biscuits [Class 4]

[identity profile] electric-sitar.livejournal.com 2008-01-31 03:41 am (UTC)(link)
"Um. Make stew?" Demyx fidgetted.

Re: Assignment: Stew and Biscuits [Class 4]

[identity profile] iseewhatyoumean.livejournal.com 2008-01-31 03:42 am (UTC)(link)
"Yes, but what's the next step?" she chided. Not that she actually knew.

Re: Assignment: Stew and Biscuits [Class 4]

[identity profile] electric-sitar.livejournal.com 2008-01-31 03:45 am (UTC)(link)
"I don't know?" Demyx dug out his notes again.

"'If the subject fails to'-- no, no, wrong notes." Demyx shoved the paper in his pocket again, searching for his class notes.

Re: Assignment: Stew and Biscuits [Class 4]

[identity profile] iseewhatyoumean.livejournal.com 2008-01-31 03:50 am (UTC)(link)
Cassandra would offer him hers... if she had any. Instead she adopted a patient pose and waited... very casually.

Re: Assignment: Stew and Biscuits [Class 4]

[identity profile] electric-sitar.livejournal.com 2008-01-31 03:51 am (UTC)(link)
Demyx patted himself down completely, coming up empty. "...I lost them."

Re: Assignment: Stew and Biscuits [Class 4]

[identity profile] iseewhatyoumean.livejournal.com 2008-01-31 03:52 am (UTC)(link)
"Well then," Cassandra tried to sound like an exasperated teacher. She didn't do a very good job. "In that case, what do you think should come next?"

Re: Assignment: Stew and Biscuits [Class 4]

[identity profile] electric-sitar.livejournal.com 2008-01-31 03:53 am (UTC)(link)
"Stuff?" Demyx suggested. It was a brilliant suggestion!

Re: Assignment: Stew and Biscuits [Class 4]

[identity profile] iseewhatyoumean.livejournal.com 2008-01-31 03:55 am (UTC)(link)
"Well then... get to it!" she said with an utterly straight face. Do stuff, Demyx. Do stuff!

Re: Assignment: Stew and Biscuits [Class 4]

[identity profile] electric-sitar.livejournal.com 2008-01-31 03:56 am (UTC)(link)
"...Get to what?" Demyx shifted from foot to foot. "I guess we're waiting? How about music?" He pulled his sitar out of the air, playing a few notes.

Re: Assignment: Stew and Biscuits [Class 4]

[identity profile] iseewhatyoumean.livejournal.com 2008-01-31 03:58 am (UTC)(link)
Cassandra looked back and forth between the sitar to the pot on the stove for nearly a minute as if waiting for something to happen.

"It's not working," she eventually decided.

Re: Assignment: Stew and Biscuits [Class 4]

[identity profile] electric-sitar.livejournal.com 2008-01-31 03:59 am (UTC)(link)
"I can't make water boil. I can make it disappear, though?" Demyx kept playing. It was something for him to do, at least.

Re: Assignment: Stew and Biscuits [Class 4]

[identity profile] iseewhatyoumean.livejournal.com 2008-01-31 04:01 am (UTC)(link)
"The water isn't supposed to disappear," Cassandra pointed out. "It's supposed to make stew. And you're supposed to help it." With the implication that 'and you aren't helping' hopefully clear.

Re: Assignment: Stew and Biscuits [Class 4]

[identity profile] electric-sitar.livejournal.com 2008-01-31 04:08 am (UTC)(link)
"Me? I can't. I give up." Demyx smiled sheepishly. "All yours."

Re: Assignment: Stew and Biscuits [Class 4]

[identity profile] iseewhatyoumean.livejournal.com 2008-01-31 04:11 am (UTC)(link)
"You can't give up." If Cassandra used words to communicate more often she'd probably sound desperate. As it was she sounded ever so slightly agitated.

Re: Assignment: Stew and Biscuits [Class 4]

[identity profile] electric-sitar.livejournal.com 2008-01-31 04:12 am (UTC)(link)
"I give up a lot, actually. I'm dead." Demyx was...much too cheerful about this.

Re: Assignment: Stew and Biscuits [Class 4]

[identity profile] iseewhatyoumean.livejournal.com 2008-01-31 04:14 am (UTC)(link)
Cassandra blinked in confusion and reached out to poke him. "Don't look dead."

Unnoticed on the stove the water bubbled furiously in the pot.

Re: Assignment: Stew and Biscuits [Class 4]

[identity profile] electric-sitar.livejournal.com 2008-01-31 04:18 am (UTC)(link)
"Nope! I'm totally dead, but I'm somehow alive again. I'm not questioning it. I was already a Nobody to begin with, but I'm guessing I get a second chance or something? I don't understand it." Demyx shrugged happily. "I like it here."

The water was starting to climb up the sides of the pot, and over. But Demyx was far too interested in his own life - or death - story to care.
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