Cooking for Beginners and Not-So-Beginners, Monday 3, Week 3

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"I hope we're all back to normal," Steve said, since you never knew who might be an animal this week or gremlin bit or who-knew-what else, "because we're going to be covering the most important meal of the day: breakfast. It's very important to eat breakfast because it gives you a solid nutritional foundation for the day ahead, and means you're not ready to eat all the dougnuts by ten AM. Now, the good thing about breakfast is that most breakfast foods are designed to be prepared first thing in the morning, when even the most accomplished cook is not at their mental best. At a very basic level, breakfast can be a bowl of cereal and a banana, a bagel with cream cheese and lox, or some yogurt with honey and fruit, but...those aren't really cooking. So let's talk about cooked breakfast foods."

Steve started by handing around a packet containing instructions on how to prepare all of the dishes he was going to cover in this lecture, then began, "Eggs are commonly prepared for breakfast, whether soft boiled, scrambled, or fried, although fried eggs do require a little bit of practice to get right. Eggs are commonly accompanied by fried bacon and toast, and sometimes hash browns.

"While delicious, this isn't the sort of breakfast you should have every day, as it's not really nutritionally sound. Sometimes maybe you could have oatmeal--the instant stuff is perfectly fine, but it can't hold a candle to oatmeal from scratch, so please, try it sometime--or, as your cooking skills develop, French toast, waffles, or pancakes. You can serve cut-up fruit on top of any of those three dishes, or add it to the waffle or pancake batter, to make it healthier and change things up. Or you can go all-out with chocolate chips and whipped cream. I'm certainly not going to stop you. And, for the more advanced among you, or for special occasions, there are always pastries like cinnamon rolls, and while we really don't have time for those in this class, I encourage you to try them out in your dorm kitchen." Where Steve wouldn't have to clean up.

"Now, we have a full handwavey array of ingredients and equipment here, so get started on whatever sounds good, or whatever you feel comfortable cooking at your skill level--if that's toast and a scrambled egg, that's great, if that's waffles with strawberry compote that's great too. And if you need help please don't hesitate to ask me or your classmates."

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Like it's time for breakfast.

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Princess Ariel

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Kenzi

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During the Lecture

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Is he making you hungry?

Re: During the Lecture

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Not only was the lecture making Ariel's stomach rumble a little bit in anticipation, but it was also making her think of how nice and comforting a lot of these foods would be now that it had gotten cold again. The only question remaining was which one sounded best! Or if any of them could be combined to be extra good...

Cook Something

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Giant messes expected, but discouraged.

Re: Cook Something

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Bacon bacon bacon! Yeah, Kenzi was trying to fry some, craving something hot, and trying to avoid random spatters of grease.

BACON.

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"Mmmmmm!" Really, Ariel couldn't help commenting. It was basically requisite. "Bacon!"

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"Baconnnn!" Kenzi enthused, poking at it with a fork. It was just starting to curl up around the edges. "This is way faster than ham," she added, mouth watering.

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"Mmmmmm," Ariel gave a happy sigh, moving her less than impressive eggs around with a spatula. "Ham is good, too, though, but bacon is better! Bacon goes well with eggs! I'll share a little of mine if you want to share a little of yours."

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Kenzi looked over, and then shrugged agreeably. "Works for me. We got hot sauce? I like mine with that." She grinned. "Now we just need to find someone who can make us fluffy waffles."

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Ariel basically wanted to make everything, but she decided to start with eggs...

Which meant a grand event of a great big mess that managed to focus all her attention on trying to not screw them up but continually doing so that had her abandoning all hope of managing to get to the French toast next.

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Fortunately, breakfast was the one thing Seifer was good at. He started off with bacon, and was pouring the grease from the first round into a separate pan to fry his eggs in.

Bacon was gooooooood.

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Yeah, Tony was a New Yorker. His idea of a hot breakfast came from a street corner.

Otherwise, it was something sweet and from a box.

So, it wasn't his fault that trying to cook an egg ended with a blackened mess in the bottom of the pan.

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Cassidy is cheerfully starting to make eggs and bacon and whatever else catches her eye.

There may end up being a lot of extra food when she was done.

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Billy got together all the ingredients he'd need for blueberry pancakes. It might not have been special, but he knew what to do with them, and he figured that was what mattered.

Talk to the Teacher

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He's munching a scone he made this morning. He has more. He might be persuaded to share.

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"You can buy cinnamon rolls at the store," Tony informed him helpfully. He was going to get a butler now, Steve. And it was all your fault.

Re: Talk to the Teacher

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"Yes, you can," Steve agreed. "But they'll never be as good as the ones you make yourself. Or as fresh out of the oven."

And here Steve thought the butler was all the money's fault.

Re: Talk to the Teacher

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...maybe. Shhhh.

"I could do those ones from the can."

Re: Talk to the Teacher

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"It would be better than nothing," Steve agreed, because he'd done the same thing himself a time or two (shhhh dont' tell), "but it's not as good as from scratch." He paused. "I would advise not trying to make cinnamon rolls from scratch until you've mastered cooking an egg without burning it." At the very least.

OOC

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I'm really hungry now.