Class met in the Danger Shop today. If Eliot spent part of the class staring suspiciously into the corners, well. Last time he was in here, it was trying to kill everyone. Still, it was either this, the school's actual facilities, or his own house, and his house had people recovering in it and the using the school facilities just sounded mean. ( Read more... )

The work tables were covered in a thick layer of old, threadbare, worn out clothes today, including shirts, socks, and hats, all full of variously sized holes. There were needles and thread in every color to match the clothes, and it all smelled faintly like mothballs. Eliot scowled at it all ( Read more... )

"Right." Eliot clapped his hands. Too much had happened in too short an amount of time -- again -- and he was full of tightly controlled manic energy. "Today's project takes for freaking ever, so we're going to jump right in." He dropped a box onto the teacher's desk and pulled out a sack of flour, a canister of salt, a packet of yeast, a bowl, and ( Read more... )

Someone had decorated the classroom. Possibly several someones ( Read more... )

The home ec classroom was reasonably well decked out, Eliot was pleased to find. He'd sworn off the Danger Shop for at least the semester, and had been a little worried that this would mean trying to teach the kids how to cook pasta on a hot plate using buckets of water. But the room was lined in little kitchenettes, complete with small fridges, ( Read more... )

"Congratulations!" Steve said. "You've made it to the end of the semester, and I didn't even have to break out the first aid kit once. You've been a great class, and I really hope you've learned something. If we can get through today, well, you'll be doing really well. So, your final. Since we've been studying cooking for half the semester, ( Read more... )

"I had intended to teach you all to make cheesecake this week, but circumstances conspired against us," Steve said ruefully. "So instead, I've brought cheesecake which I made at home for you all to enjoy, and the recipe, which you'll have to try on your own time. Instead we'll be making ( bread )

"We're going to have to combine two classes this week, I'm afraid if LJ and my internet connection ever stay up long enough for me to effing post, but you'll get muffins and cookies out of it, so I don't think you'll complain too much, right? Anyway, today we move on into baking. Baking is complicated. It doesn't just matter which ingredients ( Read more... )

"So, okay, you can boil pasta and pan-fry something to go with it," Steve said. "You can probably keep yourself alive. Now we're going to move on to a very versatile cooking method: roasting. There are two different ways this works--one with lower temperatures and one with higher ones--but both involve sticking something in the oven, so. Low- ( Read more... )

"This week," Steve said, "we'll be sauteing and pan frying. These two are very similar, and some people even use them interchangeably. Others argue that the amount of oil used, or something like that, makes them different. You can make up your own minds; I won't tell you how to think. Both methods involve cooking food in a shallow pan in a ( Read more... )