Dinner?

[katayoku_tenshi]

There have been quite a few recent additions to the Cavite household, and we've all been so busy I'm not certain we've actually all met each other. Since Yachiru is going to be joining us as well, I thought we ought to make some introductions, and perhaps get to know each other over dinner.

My rather hasty research seems to indicate that most

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[spunky_chocobo]

Woah...

Maybe you should stay away from all cooking appliances…you do sound kinda clumsy *sniffle* no offence.

If I wasn't stuck in bed with...well I aint quite sure what it is I got...but I got it, I'd help you out. I'd assist you in making some interesting stuff!

Ma taught me a few tricks I can make stuff like rumaki, deviled eggs, almond chicken, potato salad, flaming fruit kebabs, and pineapple granita...

Mmmm...Lemonade would wash it all down nicely!

Though I am also partial to hot dogs, what teenager doesn't like a hot dog!

[katayoku_tenshi]

Not so much clumsy as impatient, I believe. I've always been good at making things burn. It's been ...educational, learning that more fire is not always the correct solution when you would like your food to be edible sooner.

So I'm fairly confident that I could handle flaming fruit kebabs; a liberal application of some flavored or scented ethyl alcohol concentrate makes quite a useful pyrotic accelerant as well as a flavor booster, after all.

The pineapple granita I am unfamiliar with, but since it sounds rather like an explosive device, I suspect military training might cover the essentials.

I've never heard of rumaki. What is it, and does it require cautious or enthusiastic application of heat in the preparation? As I mentioned, I'm all about the enthusiastic application of heat... :3

[spunky_chocobo]

Hahahahahahahahaha~! You kinda remind me of someone I know.

Hmmm...I think for your own safety you should keep any and all food as far faaaaaaaarrrrr away from any thing with a burner, a match, flint...anything flamable. When I'm feeling better I could...eh...probably help you make stuff.

Pineapple granita is a dessert, no military training...needed?

Rumaki is an hors d'oeuvre...I guess you have to have a taste for it. Its chicken livers and water chestnuts wrapped in bacon. Naaa~ if you need any help with the whole cooking thing just gimme a tap.

[katayoku_tenshi]

Someone you know? Does he or she have silver hair too? If so, I'd better keep a look out. Why is there only one of us in all the worlds who turned out even mostly sane (although addicted to sugar in truly alarming quantities) and the less said about the rest of us the better?

Really? It sounds as though it ought to look a bit like a grenade, between a pineapple's shape and the word's sound, and presumably contain something either explosive or much more vividly flavored so that one's mouth feels as though one's tongue is being assaulted... oh. This is more of that peculiar cook-speak, isn't it? The dialect where 'batter' doesn't have anything to do with 'hit repeatedly'? Cookbooks really ought to come with translation guides...

Whenever you're feeling better, I'd be delighted to take you up on that offer. I'm going to need to cook rather more often since Cloud is gone on business so often and there are so many children in the house now.

By the way, have you met Daisuke? He's also very fond of cooking and remarkably patient with my

[angel_thief]

I'm glad you've been practicing! And if you want, I wouldn't mind helping out with dinner. It's been a bit quiet at home lately....

[katayoku_tenshi]

Really? That would be wonderful.

I've been browsing through some cookbooks in my spare time, particularly the ones with pictures. But they all seem to be fond of that peculiarly misinterpretable subdialect in which 'beating' means nothing of the sort and 'dashing' has nothing to do with either acceleration or sartorial elegance. And words like 'aioli' and 'ceviche' and 'chiffonade' are tossed about as though they were somehow intelligible to the rest of us.

So a translator from cook-speech to the-rest-of-us-speech would be greatly appreciated... particularly since I don't mind eating food I've ruined, but I'd hate to serve it to others.

[angel_thief]

Beating usually has to do with batters, when you mix them quickly so that the ingredients will come together and spread out evenly. And dashing is adding just a hint of the ingredient, usually a condiment or the like.

I suppose a cookbook does have a lot of unique uses for common words though. I'll be more than happy to come over and explain things, along with helping make dinner

[katayoku_tenshi]

That would be wonderful. Would you like to meet Zell also? He's another young chef, very enthusiastic about food that sounds as though it ought to explode has unusual names, and he mentioned being interested in trading recipes with you.

I'm grateful that you're willing to teach me; Zell seems to think that teaching me is a more hazardous prospect than it's worth, and yet I need to learn such things in the interests of integrating more carefully into civilian society. I'll do my best not to cause damage or explosions, I promise.

[roseate_sprite]

I think that a family dinner sounds wonderful. If you'd like some help cooking, Yumi and I are always happy to help.

[ishiyamasan]

Yup; always happy to help. Though I lack in culinary skills completely.

[roseate_sprite]

That's not true! You're a genius when it comes to making those no-bake cookies!

[ishiyamasan]

"No-bake" totally being the key word there.

[chibi_yachiru]

Confetti candy. :o

[katayoku_tenshi]

Um ... what is confetti candy? I've heard of cotton candy, but I'm not familiar with the confetti type. Though I'll do my best if you can tell me what it is...

[chibi_yachiru]

It's the best type of candy ever and ever!

[katayoku_tenshi]

That's... remarkably unhelpful good to know. I'll attempt to get right on that.

[embraced_dark]

I can't say I envy your situation. Not a lot of thought in that, I have to say.

[katayoku_tenshi]

I'm trying my best.

...Do you have a family yourself, sir?

I'm in rather desperate need of advice; I was raised in a laboratory, spent twenty years in the army, tried to destroy the known world in frustration, got myself killed several times, and came here.

I really didn't learn much about how families were intended to work in that process, and I need to make up for lost time rather quickly now that there are so many of us living in the bar and Cloud is away on business so often.

And I find I have deep-seated instinctive objections to the lifestyle recommendations modeled by most of the female protagonists of that Harlequin Romance series the city librarians are so inexplicably fond of showcasing in their windows...

[embraced_dark]

I... hate to say it but I'm an orphan. I never had a real family. The closest thing I ever had to a family was my girlfriend... but that's a different story. Not something I'm goin' through again, at least.

[katayoku_tenshi]

Oh. I'm sorry...

Would you like to come to dinner some time? There's only one person living at the bar who isn't an orphan, and so if you'd like to learn family basics with us, well, we're all learning too.