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Make Your Own Pizza!, Monday, Period 2

Once the class had assembled in the home ec room, Raiden greeted them all with, "Good morning, everyone, and welcome to Make Your Own Pizza!, the class where we, uh, make our own pizza." Obviously. "I'm Raiden, and if you're wondering about my qualifications, I run the pizza parlor in town and have been a big fan of pizza since it was invented." Possibly its biggest fan, lbr. "For those of you who aren't familiar with pizza, first off, I'm sorry about your lives thus far, and second: pizza is a kind of flatbread, invented in the country of Italy. It's usually round, and these days most commonly topped with a tomato-based sauce, mozzarella cheese, and a variety of optional toppings like meats and vegetables--but there are loads of other options out there, and I encourage creativity, so please, don't feel trapped by those rules. There are no rules in my kitchen other than 'try not to hurt yourself or someone else' and 'don't steal the measuring spoons.'" Maybe that one was just for Castor.

"Before we get started, why doesn't everybody introduce themselves, tell me where you're from, and what your favorite kind of pizza is if you have one, and what your cooking experience level is like if you don't."

"This week we're going to get started with making the dough for our crust. The recipe I've selected is really good for beginners because it's really flexible: it'll work with bread flour or all purpose flour, and it has a couple of options for mix-ins for additional flavor right in the dough. Neat, right?" Raiden thought it was, anyway. "Also, depending on what works best for you, you can make the dough by hand or in a stand mixer. Sometimes I like to knead by hand--it's kinda relaxing--but sometimes I use the mixer so I can do other stuff while the dough works. There's no wrong answer."

Raiden proceeded to demonstrate how to get the dough started in the mixer before he walked everyone through how to make it by hand, wrapping up by telling them, "Now it's your turn! Your dough will need to rise before it can be used, and we don't have time during today's class, so I'm going to wrap it up and freeze it for you--and yes, you can freeze pizza dough! Those little yeasty friends will just come right on back to life when it thaws out--and we'll pull it out and use it when we actually make pizzas. For now, I've got a ~~handwavey~~ assortment of your more typical pizzas from the shop for you guys to try out, in case you aren't familiar with it yet."

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Like there's pizza.

Eddie Diaz

Annie Hargreeves

Henry

Senshi

Ghanima Atreides

Big guy, big enthusiasm.

Admittedly, Senshi zoned out on part of the lecture trying to get his station set up and organized so everything was within his reach, not the reach of people with Tall-Men and elven proportions. Which included finding something sturdy to stand on, sigh.

He left the stand mixer where it was. Didn't need it. Didn't trust it.

Oh! That was what he'd forgotten. "Oh, Senshi!" Raiden exclaimed. "I couldn't get one of the stations lowered--can't get one raised for me, either, but, y'know, we make do, right? And I didn't want to just move into the Danger Shop because I don't think I trust a hard light oven. So I grabbed a stepladder from the supply closet? And I hope that helps?" And was not somehow offensive?

Senshi waved down to the stepladder he was standing on. "This works just fine for me, I'm not picky," he said. "But couldja tell me more about the Danger Shop? I've got some thoughts I've been mullin' over."

"I'm not sure how much I can tell you," Raiden said. "I don't understand that much about it myself, and, uh...well, most people will tell you, I'm not that bright. But it's sort of like, um, illusions? But they're very real illusions, and I've been assured it's science, not magic."

"Where do you go to use it?" he asked. "How do you make it work?"

Actually wait, it sounded very complicated.

"After my class later, could you show me how to use it?"

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"I can do my best to help you," Raiden hedged, because he was so not the guy most people went to for help with advanced technology. "It's on the first floor, so if you want to meet me there later?"

He was still ahead of Senshi on that. "Sounds good," he said.

Still a little skeptical it wasn't magic, but intrigued enough to learn!

You know the drill.

"I'm Annie," she offered, waving to the group. "Um, I'm originally from Des Moines, and...is this a safe place to say I like Hawaiian pizza? Like, I like anything, but bacon and pineapple?" She actually went ahead and did a little chef's kiss. "But I'm kind of a bad cook and I have two kids now, so I figured this might be a fun one to learn?"

Her kids would be pizza-eating age before she knew it. Best to prepare now.

"This is a safe space, Annie. You like what you like," Raiden assured her. "Lots of people like Hawaiian pizza or it wouldn't be on menus."

"Henry," she introduced herself. "I came here from Barcelona," which was true insofar as it had been her last place of residence but also said in a decidedly American accent. "I like a good meat pizza and I'm a shitty cook in general but I did spend a few months working at a Surf'N Pizza so I can at least manage throwing toppings on and putting it in the oven."

"That's a good start," Raiden said. "You've got enough familiarity with the toppings to know what's usual and what you like, and now you can build on that knowledge, maybe try out some new things," he encouraged.

"Love Barcelona. What's the food like there these days?" Only the important questions here.

"So much fried food."

Which was not actually a complaint.

Okay, introductions were a thing he would need to do for his own class. Good to know.

"I'm Senshi," he said, standing there with his helmet on like that was a normal thing. Because it was. Y'all had to wait almost a half a season before you got to see him in his natural, bare-headed glory. "Originally from Izganda, now I live in the dungeon under The Island."

Not this one. Different island. This island didn't have a dungeon under it. ~~Yet.~~

"I'm still not really sure what you're talking about, but it's pretty hard to go wrong with dough, cheese, veggies, and meat. It's a healthy cross-section of your important major food groups, sounds like it's easily tailored to your surroundin's and what's readily available, and can be customized to everyone in the party's individual tastes and dietary needs."

"Yes!" Raiden exclaimed. "Exactly! It's the perfect food!"

"Lots of different lands in my world do similar things," Senshi said. "Not really the big circle like you've mentioned, but more like little filled pockets of dough."

"Oh, sure," Raiden agreed. "Dumplings, hand pies. Lots of places have some kind of flatbread, and have for millennia. But there's just something about pizza that's like...that perfect symphony, y'know?" He sighed happily.

"Well, not yet," Senshi said. "But hopefully by the end of the class I'll have a better idea."

"Ghanima Atreides," Ghani said with a cheerful waive. "Happy to be on the student-end of learning for once."

"Pizza was the first Earth-food my newfound friends introduced me to many years ago when I first arrived in Fandom. I want to learn how to make it in their honor."

"That's a good reason!" Raiden exclaimed. "Food is good at holding memories like that, and bringing them back to life, yeah?"

Raiden is on standby if anyone needs any help.

Senshi lugged his giant adamantine cooking pot on top of his station and started making his pizza dough in it. Just to be safe, he went in for a double batch and spent the rest of the class cheerfully kneading dough.

This was his happy place.

The moment you've all been waiting for.

A new cuisine to try! Senshi was excited to try different slices, walking by and muttering notes to himself about the pizza's flavor, nutrition, smell, mouthfeel, dough consistency, the works.

He miiiiiiiight have a mouthful of pizza.

Well, now I want pizza.

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