Cooking With Ashton Anchors
Who: Ashton and Azula
What: Cooking lessons?
When: February 4th, shortly before noon.
Where: Azula and Sokka's place, Tetha
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What: Cooking lessons?
When: February 4th, shortly before noon.
Where: Azula and Sokka's place, Tetha
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"Welcome~!" She greeted him. From her spot on the couch, Renamon groaned.
"Don't tell me you're going to be shoving things down my throat all day"
"Shut up," Azula snapped darkly at her partner, but then regained her previous, almost creepily happy composure.
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Gyoro and Ururun grinned down at her from over Ashton's shoulders and gave a loud grunt in greeting.
Dracomon peeked past Azula to look at Renamon, then he laughed. "I wouldn't worry too much. Ashton'll eat anything, the dragons on his back usually don't let him eat on his own," he told her.
Ashton chuckled and shook his head, reaching up to pat Gyoro and Ururun on the head before he reached down to clap Dracomon on the back. "Seriously, a good teacher has faith in his student. I'll be happy to eat whatever you prepare with my instruction. I'm sure you'll do fine," he said with a friendly tone. "And like I promised, I'll make the dish first so you can have a full stomach before we begin. Why don't you tell me what you've been trying to make, and we can start from there?"
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"Well, I tried to make decent mashed potatoes, but I failed...six times. I tried to cook some steaks, but that was even more of an epic failure...And then there was my demon cookies as Renamon was calling them...They were supposed to be chocolate chip..."
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Dracomon laughed openly at Ashton at that.
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"Not my fault your boyfriend is a complete moron," She stated boredly.
"But yeah...I guess steak was sort of complicated...But all Sokka ever wants to eat is meat. He prides himself in being the 'meat and sarcasm' guy..."
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"...On his knees begging me...?" Azula questioned, a smirk on her lips as she imagined Sokka at her feet begging for her to cook for him. She liked that mental image. She liked it a lot. Azula laughed, pushing the image, although enjoyable, off to the side, "I don't really care what we make, as long as its actually edible. My brother and Renamon could barely even swallow the things I was making yesterday!
So I suppose we could start with the stew...If I don't screw that up and accidentally blow up the city, then we can move on to steak and other fancy things like that."
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Ashton didn't hear his digimon, and it was probably for the best that he didn't. "Great! If you can start chopping some carrots and cubing some potatoes, I'll start on the meat. That'll be the hard part for now, as it takes the longest time to cook and it needs to be browned first. I'll have you brown some meat after I do, and that will go into the stew itself," he said, smiling. "Stew takes a while to cook, so we'll only have time for one batch, but I'll oversee you to make sure it's good. It's easy, just time consuming."
He headed to the kitchen and immediately began harvesting ingredients from the fridge, as well as grabbing cooking utensils that they would need. "If you need any instruction on the basics, don't be afraid to ask," he told her. "I'll handle measuring the ingredients for this. Plus, after I show you how to brown the beef, we can have some steak for lunch."
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"I like my potatoes, " She protested as she focused on him and how he was cooking, "They're...unique!"
Once his steaks were done, she took a deep breath and looked up at him for a moment. He really was confident in her. Why she wasn't confident in herself was beyond her. She picked up a pan and plopped the steaks in it. Ignoring the stove in front of her, she held her other hand beneath the pan, igniting a small blue flame in it to start cooking the meat.
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"Nobody said they were bad," Ashton told her, smiling warmly. "They'll do just fine, I know it. I merely offered so that in the future, you can do it faster."
Ashton took aside his steaks so that he could season them some more as he watched Azula cook. He'd finish cooking them after her, for now he had shown her exactly what she needed to do. She could handle this part, he was sure. "Remember what I said on the comm, cooking is about repetition. You're going to be paying a lot of attention to these steaks, and turning them to cook evenly as they start to brown. I'll tell you if you start to overcook them, but don't worry about that. You'll do fine," he told her, then he smiled. "And I like the flames. It'll add a personal touch to it."
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If either of her hands were free, Azula would have smacked herself. Why hadn't she thought of that before...? That must have been why she wasn't getting it, it wasn't clicking.
"Repetition....Just like firebending..." Azula murmured to herself as she concentrated on the flame, breathing with it. "I just feel more comfortable doing it this way. I tried using the stove yesterday...it just felt weird. "
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"This stove heated up a lot quicker than the ones I'm used to," Ashton said, nodding in agreement. "Unfamiliarity with a tool never helps. And that technique of yours must be useful too! You can probably get the heat right where it needs it most. Most of the time, the pan will do all of the work, but sometimes if you need to pay specific attention to one part of the meat, direct application of flame can help. Don't keep it too long, though, we don't want these too cook all the way through."
While she was putting the finishing touches on her steaks, Ashton was putting the finishing touches of seasoning on his own. "You're almost done. Once it looks ready, just put it on a plate. You're almost done with the hard part. The next part's easy."
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With a smirk she flipped the steaks. They actually looked edible. She didn't know about the taste though. Looking good was still an improvement. When she guessed they were done, she set them out on a plate, like she was told.
"Here, I hope they're done enough..."
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Ashton smiled and looked at Azula's handiwork on the plate. "Let's see now, only one way to find out," he commented, poking the steaks with a fork experimentally. "Not bad! This should do nicely! Okay, now I want you to prepare a pot with five cups of water. I'll measure out the seasonings the stew will need, and when we're both done, I'll show you what's going in, and how much of it I'm using. And after THAT, I'll finish cooking our lunch ( ... )
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