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Community center class: Yes, You Can Actually Cook

May 18, 2016 00:47

"Starch," Eliot said, as soon as it looked like they had all the students they were going to get, this week. There was still a large pile of vegetables on the front desk, and diced up waiting for the students at their work stations. There would always be a large pile of vegetables in this class. No one -- in Eliot's culture at least, and he was ( Read more... )

vanessa carlysle, sparkle, john constantine, eliot spencer, kanan jarrus, cc class: cooking, community center, wade wilson, ringo noyamano, jaina solo

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Sign in vdistinctive May 18 2016, 04:48:59 UTC

Living off of ramen

Re: Sign in uncertain_dume May 18 2016, 10:45:59 UTC

Kanan Jarrus

Re: Sign in myownface May 18 2016, 11:11:40 UTC

Sparkle

Re: Sign in talentforlying May 18 2016, 13:06:56 UTC

John Constantine

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Listen to the lecture vdistinctive May 18 2016, 04:49:18 UTC

Wonder what made that flavor packet so evil. (Salt. It was salt.)

Re: Listen to the lecture uncertain_dume May 18 2016, 10:56:14 UTC

Kanan's mouth twitched a little into something resembling an amused smile. He appreciated that 'that spent more than the last two weeks' classifier there.

The funny thing was, he did actually know rice to see it. And noodles, even if those ones were different from any he had seen before.

His galaxy was a funny place.

RE: Listen to the lecture solo_sword May 18 2016, 18:42:47 UTC

Jaina had had an ex who went to college. She definitely knew ramen.

Hey, she was lucking out in this class so far!

Boil some starches! vdistinctive May 18 2016, 04:49:57 UTC

Be it ramen noodles, or rice for your stir fry, chili, or jambalaya.

Don't forget the salt. Yes, Eliot realizes this seems contradictory. But there are types of salt. Amounts of salt. Context matters, dammit!

Re: Boil some starches! uncertain_dume May 18 2016, 11:04:41 UTC

Kanan poked through the recipes, looking for one that had the most ingredients he could actually guess at. If that meant a fairly basic bacon and egg breakfast ramen dish, well, at least he still had to guess at 'scallions.'

Everything else he wasn't sure about, like nori or chicken broth, was at least neatly labelled on the package. And 'broth,' he knew. But what the hell was a chicken? Or a Korean, for that matter?

Re: Boil some starches! myownface May 18 2016, 11:15:22 UTC

Okay, so, Sparkle was basically flinging himself entirely into the deep end today, grabbing for that Jambalaya recipe like his life depended on it. A little bit because it looked the most complicated, yes, and partly because he'd already basically perfected every tight-ass ramen recipe the world had ever seen.

Mostly, however, because he was desperate for the distraction, and taking one of the slightly more complex recipes seemed like something that could drag his focus into it and away from the gnawing worry about Atton that was growing every day.

Re: Boil some starches! soniaroadsqueen May 18 2016, 14:41:42 UTC

Ringo frowned as she looked around her station. "Where's the rice cooker?" she asked, not realizing that she was talking out loud. "How do you cook rice without a rice cooker?" The concept just didn't compute for her.

Looked like she was going to make something with Ramen.

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Talk to Eliot vdistinctive May 18 2016, 04:50:20 UTC

Ask what happens if you only almost cut your finger off.

OOC vdistinctive May 18 2016, 04:50:45 UTC

There was a guy in my high school who would put boiling water in a thermos and break ramen into it before leaving for school. To eat it for lunch. It was like a disintegrated ramen smoothie. I also knew a kid who would save up the flavor packets and eat them straight when he got hungry in class.

High schoolers are weird.

Re: OOC uncertain_dume May 18 2016, 11:06:34 UTC

... The idea of a disintegrated ramen smoothie makes me never want ramen again.

Fortunately, reading all of those recipes saved it for me again. These will supplement my ramen omelette nicely. (College was a dark time.)

Re: OOC vdistinctive May 18 2016, 17:49:34 UTC

I burned out on ramen young (two parents who worked full time and weren't enthusiastic cooks to begin with = middle school me breaking plates in the microwave trying to make pizza out of white bread, baloney, and american cheese. Ramen was brought home to save the crockery). But researching those recipes last night has made me wonder if 20 years later it's time to try it out again!

Re: OOC uncertain_dume May 18 2016, 17:52:07 UTC

Oh, I know the pain of ramen burnout, too, but if it's made right and you throw enough other ingredients in there, it's still pretty good. Occasionally.

... I'm back in the Ramen Zone for another few weeks, since I don't have another contract until mid-june. This class was very timely.

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