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Cooking for Beginners & Not-So-Beginners, Monday 3, Week 6

"We were going to cover something a bit more practical this week," Steve admitted, "but I know everyone had a rough week last week, and the island seems to have been sending me a message today..." Oh, look, he found another piece of chocolate in his desk drawer. He held it up illustratively and said, "So, instead, we'll be making brownies and chocolate chip cookies.

"A quick note on baking. In cooking, experimentation is encouraged. Expected, even. In baking...not so much. There's a lot of science, chemistry especially, involved in baking, and if you mess with the ingredients and don't know exactly what you're doing, you're going to end up with a disaster. So it's really best to stick to the recipes, especially the first time you make something, and even after that, if you're not an expert, it's probably a bad idea to play around. Something like omitting nuts or switching walnuts out for pecans probably won't cause a problem, but if you, say, substitute buttermilk for regular milk, or use medium eggs instead of large ones in a straight numbers swap, you're not going to be happy with the results. So. Stick to the recipe." He was unaware of Karla's reputation, not living in the dorms and all, or he might have been looking directly at her, if she was present.

"So, get to baking. Please don't hesitate to ask for help if you need it, or if there's something in the directions that is confusing you. And if you feel the need to snack on the chocolate while you cook, there seems to be plenty more where that came from."

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Mmm chocolate.

Karla

Toby Logan

Seifer Almasy

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If he needs to be more stern about following the recipe when baking, he can be.

The problem with Steve's lecture was that he included the caveat that you could experiment, assuming you knew exactly what you were doing. And the problem with Karla was that she was convinced this was exactly the case with her cooking skills.

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Toby was still looking a little, er, grey around the gills today (not literal gills, thank god) with a few patches of scales here and there, but his eyes were back to their normal blue and his fingernails weren't black anymore, so he was happy to listen to the instructions- and nibble on a bit of chocolate because, hey, free chocolate.

"Heyyy, you got sick too?" Kenzi said, leaning forward to examine his skin, nibbling away on the chocolate. "Dude. I was hoping Radio got it wrong."

"Yeah," Toby said, tugging on his sleeves self-consciously. "Not my best look, huh? You- didn't get attacked or anything, did you?" he asked.

"Naaaaah," Kenzi lied, thinking of Bo's attempt to choke the living shit out of her. "I was smart, stayed inside. Played cards with Peter." She looked rueful. "Not really all that helpful. I wish I could've been cooler and more helpful, somehow."

Bake some brownies or cookies. Or brownies and cookies. And then there's plenty of cold milk and vanilla ice cream available to eat them with.

Having mastered cookies, Karla was moving on to brownies. They wouldn't be too hard--

--Except for where she'd misread the direction and was melting the butter and chocolate in the pot of boiling water, instead of above it.

"Whoa, whoa, Karla, what are we doing?" Steve asked. Well. That pot was going to have to be scrubbed out.

Karla gave Steve a blank look. "Cooking?" she tried.

What did it look like? Honestly! She was mastering the art of baking, Steve. Duh.

"Well, okay," Steve said, subtly grabbing the pot with the mess in it and putting it in the sink to be dealt with later, "but it works better if you use a double boiler instead of putting it directly in the water, because, how were you going to get it out later?"

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