bakerstreet | Cooking Meme

The Cooking Meme!

Cooking is a daily part of life. You don't always think about it, but even when preparing the same meal, it's never quite the same each time. Cooking can be wonderful and relaxing or completely horrifying. For some it's very personal and for others it's just another part of the day...

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1. The way to a person's heart... You want to show your affection and what better way than home cooked food, with your special ingredient...~~SHITLOADS OF SALT~~ LOVE!

2. Cooking lesson! You would like to be able to cook, but...you have no idea what you're doing. Luckily, you have a knowledgeable friend to show you how!

3. OH GOD HELP ME Oh God Oh God Oh God You have to cook dinner for a party/your in-laws/your visiting family/whoever and it's so much and it's super important but there's no time Oh God. But luckily your wonderful, brilliant and incredibly good looking best friend ever will help you, right?

4. Hnnngh need food so bad. So hungry. Can't move. And you just don't feel like cooking. Oh, the sorrow of an empty stomach! But you're so lucky to know someone that cooks well. Or cooks at all.

5. NO STOP COOKING NOW. Awful. So awful. Eating it doesn't just make you sick, it forces your soul out of your body and into the astral plane. You'd better hope you can get out of this. ...Do you smell fire?

6. REVENGE MEAL! So mad. Just...SO. MAD. You want to show this person how much you hate them and you're going to do it through cooking. You have cooked the most barfatrocious meal you can. They will rue the day they messed with you!

7. Competition! Who's the best cook in this kitchen? It's time to find out, HERE AND NOW! It's an all out cooking battle and the two of you are going to do your best to one up the other! Allez cuisine!

8. MAD ~~SCIENCE~~ COOKING! No one ever discovered something good without some experimentation, right? Are you trying to improve on something old or are you doing something new entirely? No! What are you doing?! YOU CAN'T PUT JELLY IN THAT! YOU'RE MAD!

9. Preparation! You can't cook without ingredients! Before you go home to start tonight's meal, you're going to the store. Are you pinching pennies or going for the good stuff?

10. Eating right! So much junk food...they really should eat better. Well! They're getting a homecooked meal this time. PUT DOWN THAT TAKE OUT MENU, I'M COOKING HERE!

11. Other Pick a Scenario or come up with one of your own!

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[Mara curls his tail around him.] I don't like cats.

She isn't a permanent resident here, don't worry. I'm asking Clare to take her back to France when she visits again, I tend to be out too much to be able to properly look after her. [She shifts so that she's holding the kitten properly in her arms.]

... Is your tail okay?

[He lifts the end to look.] Just a little scratch. I've had worse in India.

[Pause, before she nods. One day she'll be able to wrap her head around the fact that she's talking to the actual people from the legends and such...]

Right, and give me a moment. [Just gonna go and put said kitten in her room so that it doesn't try to attack Mara again.] ... I apologize for that.

N-no, it wasn't your fault. So, thank you. [Swallow.]

Right! Cooking!

You're welcome. And yes, cooking. [She turns back to what they were doing and looks back at the cookbook.]

... Hmm, I just need to finish the meringues and we can start on the buttercream... Mara, can you put a third of a cup of water and one and a half cups of sugar into a saucepan and heat that up over the stove?

[Third of a cup, carefully measured- oh that's too much, let him just pour it into the sink- now it's too little- too much- too little-]

[Zoe just watches him for a moment, before reaching out to stop the cup when he gets arounf the right amount.]

It doesn't have to be exact, Mara. Just a general estimate will work.

It's your dinner. If the water's wrong it won't be my fault.

[Pout.]

It's more like dessert, and this isn't exactly a recipe that needs to be precise. It's basically a cake made out of cream and meringue.

[Then she takes out some parchment circles and a tray to place said circles on, before spreading the mixture evenly on the circles.]

It looks like it'll be good...

Would you like to try some when it's finished?

I couldn't! It's for Lucifer and he'll want all of it!

If he complains, I'll make his boa eat the rest of it.

He'd hate that... well, I could try a bite.

Too bad for him. And glad to hear it. [And once she's spread the mixture all out on the parchments, she places the tray in the over to cook.]

Right, we're almost done, besides the 'waiting for all this to cook' part.

That was easy! [Relatively speaking.]

It's a pretty easy recipe to follow, it's something my memere- ah, grandmother showed me a few times before.

[And she cracks more egg whites into another bowl and starts to whisk that too.]

Is she a very good cook?

[Can Mara study under her?]

She's incredible. She helped teach mother how to cook, and she tended to make the big meals in the house.

[Depends on if he can stand the grandmothers coddling after an hour.]