fandomhigh | Food Photography; Friday, First Period [07/23].

After being stuck in a hole for several weeks, Ignis had been using his past week to make up for lost time and attempt to counteract every single feeling of uselessness and idleness that he had artfully tried to push deep into some sort of hole inside of himself the whole time, and move past it.

At the very least, returning to Insomnia after being indisposed for so long and seeing the state of Noctis's apartment due to his absense had assured him that his absence had made a marked difference somewhere. And now he hoped to get back to the structure of leading a class again, too, to help sort of return that balance of normalcy, of control, of usefulness.

"At long last," he started, with a faint grin to the class, "we can get a proper start on this class now that we're hopefully all here and in an environment where we can all do what we came here to do, and that is, create some incredible food and know how to properly show it off. Now, my apologies for the last few weeks; I'm sure you're all well aware of the fact that several of us were quite...indisposed, but that is the benefit, I suppose, of having two instructors, because I know Prompto here," he gave the other teacher a grateful nod, "rose to the occasion and did a fine job of handling the class solo while I was...gone.

"For those of you who don't know me yet," he offered, "my name is Ignis Scientia, I've taught a few cooking courses here so far, and I will be handling the cooking portion of this class. We'll not waste any more time, as the island's particular quirks have already stolen quite a bit of that from us already, and we'll dive right into our first recipe, which I hope you enjoy, a breaded cutlet with tomato sauce. It is a simple though hearty meal good for bolstering one for the day ahead, and one of my personal favorites, and the true challenge in it will be in how you might choose to present such a simple dish in an intriguing way, but we'll get to that once we actually have food to be plated."

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Finally! Some ~~good fucking~~ food!

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"Traditionally," Ignis started, once he instructed everyone to take a moment to look over their ingredients and the recipe print-out at each of their stations so that they might follow along, "this dish is prepared with anak meat, which is a creature native to our planet," he was staunchly ignoring the little pout Prompto was giving over his own ingredients at this, "that does not exist on this one. Flavor wise, a good substitute is pork. I have provided both for you, if you're not feeling adventurous enough to try the anak yourself, although I highly recommend it, the pork will do the trick, but it's still not quite the same...

"Now, the first thing we're going to want to do is get started on our tomato sauce..."

And with that, he began the recipe in earnest, for the students to follow along and hopefully manage to avoid too many misteps or mistakes, while giving him a good idea of just where the students actually were in their culinary skills to adjust the rest of the course accordingly.

So....how did your dish turn-out? Is it photography ready? Prompto, who had definitely been letting Ignis take the lead so far because the first part of the class was way more his territory, now stepped up because this half was his moment to shine.

"Alright, guys!" he said, looking at his own...less than impressive dish and knowing he had his own work to do to make it more presentable. "Now is the fun part...besides actually getting to eat the food itself, anyway! Remember your lighting and other tips from the last class if you were around for it; there's plenty of things you can use to garnish and dress up your food for a good shot, too, and I'll come around and have a look at what you've got and how your shots look, okay? So let's get plating and let's get shooting!"

Man. Barring any really big disasters, this class was going to just wind up making him hungry by the end of it, wasn't it?

Because they're both actually here and you're actually there in class!

Normally, Prompto might feel a little bad that his part of the class seemed way lighter than what Ignis did for it, but since he'd pretty much had to wing it and take charge the last few weeks, maybe this just made them even?

....as if Ignis didn't completely and fully revel in taking charge and just running the class like Prompto's part in it was little more than an afterthought.

(And, truth be told...it kind of was).

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