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fandomhigh2024-06-11 05:11 am
somethingwithturquoise) wrote in fandomhigh2024-06-11 05:11 am
This Sh*t is Bananas; Tuesday, Third Period [06/11].
"Today's featured recipe," Summer, who had brought a very large bottle of presumably water with her to class today, was so pleased to announce her lesson for today that she totally skipped right over the preamble to get right to it, "is not actually all that weird or disgusting,. I know, I know, who even am I anymore? But sometimes, I just come across something simply too good to not share with you guys, even if it goes outside the criteria of my whole disgusting oeuvre, so, yes, even though we're in the middle of June, we're getting a little Halloween-y as I present you..."
She dramatically removed the cloche.
"The banana spook cake! Ooo~ooooh! Isn't it spoooooky? And kind of ridiculous, right? This actually comes to us from the National Banana Association, because, look, they were pushing bananas hard in the mid-20th century, I'm sure that's something we can delve into and talk about if anyone really wants to, but this was yet another 'creative,'" she of course did the finger quotes, "way of making your bananas more fun and frightening! Plus it actually sounds kind of delicious? And I know you weirdos are going to have fun decorating your own bananas for ghosts. So we're doing it. We're making the banana spook cake.
"However," Summer gave a significant pause and a look toward the fact that there were two cloches, actually, "I can't let you guys think I'm getting soft, so we're also going to be making..."
Off went the cloche.
"tomato-banana tarts. Literally just bananas on tomatoes, probably with, like, mayo to hold them in place. Because why not? Two recipes, both scary in their own right, both for different reasons. Let's begin."
She dramatically removed the cloche.
"The banana spook cake! Ooo~ooooh! Isn't it spoooooky? And kind of ridiculous, right? This actually comes to us from the National Banana Association, because, look, they were pushing bananas hard in the mid-20th century, I'm sure that's something we can delve into and talk about if anyone really wants to, but this was yet another 'creative,'" she of course did the finger quotes, "way of making your bananas more fun and frightening! Plus it actually sounds kind of delicious? And I know you weirdos are going to have fun decorating your own bananas for ghosts. So we're doing it. We're making the banana spook cake.
"However," Summer gave a significant pause and a look toward the fact that there were two cloches, actually, "I can't let you guys think I'm getting soft, so we're also going to be making..."
Off went the cloche.
"tomato-banana tarts. Literally just bananas on tomatoes, probably with, like, mayo to hold them in place. Because why not? Two recipes, both scary in their own right, both for different reasons. Let's begin."
Class Activity: Make and Discuss! - Bananas, 06/11.
And the tomato banana tarts as well! Though no points for skipping either the tomato or the mayo. Otherwise, what's the whole point?
Discussion and commentary on either dish are very welcome.
Re: Class Activity: Make and Discuss! - Bananas, 06/11.
He had nothing complimentary to say about the tarts.
And if he was giving some odd and suspicious looks to a fellow student... well, so what?
Re: Class Activity: Make and Discuss! - Bananas, 06/11.
With a little bit of a curl of his lip and slip of his eyes toward Summer, he then looked back at his cake in progress with a huff of a sigh.
On the other hand, he didn't really feel like the obvious and easy would cut it today, and was finding himself....regrettable, reluctantly, revolutionarily....inspired to be more original and creative. Of course, it would all be for naught if they didn't even have what he was looking for in the pantry, and so, with slouching stomps, he went to inspect his options, and, lo and behold, almost as if it knew it would be needed, he found what he was looking for.
Slightly disgrunted, he grabbed a bag of cotton candy and a bag of mini marshmallows that also seemed like a good idea, marched back to his cake, and started dressing his banana ghosts up in them, cloaking them carefully in swatches of light, ephemeral candy floss to give them more of that spectral, ghostly appearance.
And he thought they looked pretty good, too, thank you, but please, let the stern look of unwilling discontentment fool you otherwise.
Re: Class Activity: Make and Discuss! - Bananas, 06/11.
Hannibal was absolutely carving his bananas into skulls and screaming faces.
If this left him with very little time to waste on the tomato monstrosity, such was life.