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[redheadedlion]

Week Name/Date/Time: 'Summer 06' / July 16, 2006 / 4:11 pm
Location: Mike's Residence
Open To: Mike
Currently Involving: Maddy

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[mike_kilbane]

Mike laughed at his younger cousin's exuberance over baking, nodding and going along with it. Cooking, he could do. The Leaky Cauldron had so many contraptions and charms to make everything easy. He, however, was not as skilled, and had not as many charmed cauldrons and ovens in his flat.

"Ginger!" he smiled. "Ah, getting all fancy here, are we? Whatever you want, Maddy," Mike said, reaching into the icebox to gather milk and eggs. If those were even in a cake, he didn't know!

Placing them on the counter, he bit his lower lip in thought. "Well. . .I'll just accio some! The Leaky's sure to have some!" he smiled, grabbing his wand from his pocket and pointing it to his left, down the street towards his place of work. Surely they wouldn't care. . .

"Accio ginger!" he said, instantly being hit in the forehead with a large clump of the spice, appearing almost to look like a miniature mandrake. That was of course followed by a parcel of crystallized ginger, landing just in his wand hand.

"That went better than expected!" he laughed, opening it and putting it by the other ingredients.

[redheadedlion]

Maddy took out four large eggs from the carton before replacing it, along with the untouched milk, back in the ice chest. It was a fine guess though, if she had gone with chocolate he would of been right on the money.

She looked up from the ice chest at just the right moment to witness Mike being struck by a block of ginger, and she couldn't help but giggle. "I'd hate to know what you were expecting then." Maddy joked, but head injuries, however minor, weren't usually better than expected. He was indeed very resourceful though. Maddy tended to forget about magic while she was cooking, maybe just because she was underage and couldn't use it to help out anyways.

"How about I separate the eggs and you chop that up?" She suggested, motioning towards the crystallized ginger, as she pulled out two small bowls from a cupboard for the eggs.

[cake recipe fyi :D http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/recipe_views/views/231208 ]

[mike_kilbane]

Mike watched his younger cousin in amusement, impressed with her know-how in the kitchen. "Well, I'll have to have you over more often, Maddy, you're a regular chef!" he smiled as she took charge with the ingredients in the ice chest.

He laughed and shrugged, "I didn't really know what to expect, it's not everyday I need ginger." Mike blinked at the ginger root, not really knowing what to do with it, so he simply threw it over on top of the ice chest. Maybe he'd have use for it someday, though it looked rather daunting.

"I know how to do that!" he said triumphantly and took the crystallized ginger to a cutting board on the counter, grabbing a knife from a drawer and chopping it into small, ragged pieces. He was better at cutting things up, as he tended to avoid using magic on any sharp instruments down at The leaky Cauldron, and finished quickly. "Anything else?"