Culinary Fundamentals; Friday, First Period [03/19].

[chef_chocobro]

Sorry, everyone. You were not making sausages today.

But what you were going to be making was clearly just as thrilling.

"Good morning, everyone," Ignis's voice had a slight chipperness to its usual precise timbre thanks to a particularly good cup of coffee that morning, and a clear eagerness to get on with today's exciting lesson. "Today we're going to cover yet another important, versatile, and significant staple to most balanced diets and that staple is bread. Now, people have been making bread for as long as they have been growing the wheat to make it from, and since bread is essentially just a paste of flour and water cooked, it's simple make-up make it endlessly open to variations and styles. Now, as far as this planet goes..."

At this point, if you weren't expecting an exhaustive history of the thing you were making, have you even been to this class? And while Ignis certainly mentioned the connection between the advent of bread and the usefulness of beer in those societies, you were definitely getting a bad joke about how, no, sorry, you will not be making beer in this class.

"And now...onto the actual bread making. For the sake of time, we will be skipping the step of adding the yeast to your mixture to let it rise; I have already prepared that for you, but it is a very simple process..."

After explaining how he had prepared the yeast and the dough in the early hours of that morning for them, he then went into the process of kneading and punchings processes with the dough, discussing what else could be added to make the bread more interesting, and then they could get to baking.

"Now, since there is some time before we see how our breads turned out, we can use this time to talk about bread and its various uses in the meantime. Perhaps we can whip up some quick spreads to put on the bread? Anyone know how to make their own butter? What about ingredients to put into a phenominal sandwich? Let's use this time to come up with some new recipes."

Especially since he imagined, after that aroma of fresh baked bread started to fill the room, they'd all start feeling just a little bit hungry!

Intro to Performing Arts | Friday, 2nd Period

[defenderofdesmoines]

Annie had received an extremely interesting email from Vought on her way to class today, and she was now incredibly grateful that she'd chosen to teach something she knew how to do very well today, because there was no way she'd be able to focus.

"Hey, everyone." The classroom had been modified to look like a dance studio, with a cubby near the mirrors holding shoes of pretty much every size. They were pretty specific shoes, though, and eagle-eyed students might notice that Annie, she of the perpetual sneaker, was wearing heels today. "I figured you guys might want to try some movement today, and so we're going to be dancing."

She hit a button on a remote, and Pharell's 'Happy' started playing as Annie smiled for a moment before counting off and falling into quick, practiced, clicky tap steps.

When the first chorus had completed, she quickly paused it, a little out of breath. "Tap dance is one of those things that looks super impressive, even if you're just doing simple steps. Today, we're going to work on these steps, just in the chorus."

This time, she went through the steps much slower, naming each specific move, then went through the routine once more with just counting.

"Pick out some shoes," she concluded, gesturing to the cubbies. "If you're feeling ambitious, the heels are fun, but don't feel like you have to." These were just the shoes she had, though it belatedly occurred to Annie that she could have programmed shoes in for herself. "And let me know if you need help or want further demonstrations -- and for that matter, if you'd rather just freestyle, that's totally fine, but I'd love it if you at least tried a brush or a buffalo."

Advanced Phys Ed: Xtreme Edition, Friday

[magnusrushesin]

The classroom this week was actually a pool. Because everyone wanted to go swimming in March, right? Right!

"So, today is water polo. But we didn't get horses and I'm pretty sure horses are an important part of it. So we improvised!" Magnus said proudly.

So proudly.

"Once you've managed to mount your noble steeds, your goal is to hit the ball through the goal with this." Yes, that was a pool noodle Cara was brandishing. Yes, she had managed to say that with a straight face.

"It's basically the same sport you all know and love!" Stretching it a lil' bit there, Maggie.

"Just better." For who, Cara? For who?