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Beginning Gourmet Cooking Techniques | Tuesday, per. 2

"If you have been paying attention to the calendar," Hannibal said as the students sat, "you will know that today is your final exam."

He sat in a comfortable chair at his station. "So, cook me something. The more of our lessons you use, the greater your score. If you have any questions, please ask."

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Cooking

Summer Smith

Ringo Noyamano

Extra points for cutting things, using pans, chocolate, gelatin, flowers...basically anything that was covered in class.

Oh, man, asking Summer to incorporate everything learned in the class was just asking for a complete behemoth. Luckily, Summer's memory was...not exactly the best. Still, she was going to attempt to work in as much of it as she could remember.

Obviously, there was gelatin, duh. She'd probably make something like that, even if it hadn't been a bit of a focus in the class (something that she felt a little preeningly proud and grateful for). And since mentioning a potential jalapeño jello for Miss Hera with BDG was fresh in her mind, that's exactly where she was going with it, which would show off those knife skills she'd worked on, making sure they were nice and prettily cut when they were displayed inside.

Hmmm, what else? Obviously the centerpiece of the jello would be some of that gelatin art they did last week...she'd make it look like a cactus flower. Go for a whole Southwest thing. Ooh, and did they have cactus? She could grill a couple of those, use them as a base or plate...it was all about presentation. Right, so she was doing mini jello molds on top of grilled cactus, little cactus flower art in the middle, with the pretty jalapeños and maybe some red chilis for variety inside...

Anything else? There was that week with chocolate, of course she remember that, but she couldn't think of how to work that in, and there was the meat week...again, no, didn't really fit, and this was already way more effort than she would have put into any other class, so...

Yeah, that was good enough. She would just add a little sprinkle of shredded cheese and lettuce around the base of each one, little artful dollops of pico de gallo and guacamole she'd whipped up while waiting for the gelatin to set, and ta-da!

Disgusting! Which made her even more proud of it than she had any right to be.

Edited 2018-04-17 18:39 (UTC)

And Hannibal was equal parts disgusted and delighted. He had no intentions of eating the things, but they were quite an attempt.

"Ms Smith, I'm delighted to see you have come so far." He smiled. "Congratulations."

Ringo flashed Hannibal a cheeky grin. "If we weren't paying attention to the calendar, does that mean we don't have a final?"

"Unfortunately not, Ms Noyamano," Hannibal said, giving her an amused and exasperated look. "That only means you won't have been aware of it."

"Well, can't blame a girl for trying," Ringo declared with a laugh and a shrug.

Guess she should get down to cooking.

"Of course not," Hannibal said, grinning back. "But you do still have to cook."

Present him with your masterwork.

Once she pings in

Summer was there, duh; even if she got struck with mega-seniorites and ditched all her classes in the last week, she'd still come to this one.

You might have to try a little harder to get her attention away from Instagramming her...eclectic contribution.

Note Hannibal isn't promising he'll eat things. Just make them.

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