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Gooseberry Mods (goosemods) wrote in gooseberry,
@ 2016-11-04 08:03:00

Entry tags:

! bonding activity, ! ic/ooc, philippa nightingale

SOPHOMORE BONDING: November

SOPHOMORE MONTHLY BONDING

On this chilly November afternoon, the sophomores meet in the kitchens for a bonding activity with Prospero, assisted by his companion elf, Ambrosia.

Students are broken up into pairs or groups of three, and they're given a basket of secret ingredients that they must make a dessert out of. They have exactly 90 minutes, after which their creations will be judged by Quinn Cunningham, Theresa Noble, Magdalen Gillis, Robin Youngblood, [Senior/Junior Volunteer E]. The volunteer judges won't know who made what dessert. (OOC: Please allow players who do not play a sophomore to have first dibs on volunteer slots. If there are still open spots by 10 PM Mountain Time, then anyone may volunteer.)

Prospero is his usual gentle, supportive self. Meanwhile, Ambrosia keeps giggling affectionately at the proceedings, and seems very excited to watch the volunteers try the (likely questionable) results of this game. There are other house-elves in attendance, ready to assist the sophomore contestants.

Everyone's basket of secret ingredients contains:

Bananas
Candied ginger
Dark chocolate (vegan)
Maple syrup
Curry powder

Each dessert creation must use every ingredient in the basket. House-elves will retrieve any other requested ingredients (e.g. flour, eggs, sugar, avocados), but Prospero will be on the lookout for anyone who is rude or makes unreasonable demands. Contestants are allowed the use of magic, assuming they are responsible with it, and are given access to all the equipment in the kitchen. House-elves will help students with equipment they don't understand, or with anything they feel unsafe doing (i.e. knife use).

The sophomore pairings are as follows:

Hayley & Regan	Joanna & Susana	Solomon & Frances
Gabriela & Micah	Cole & William & Estella	Calvin & Philippa

Please give your character's cooking skills a rating from 1 to 10 and discuss with your partner(s) what your characters are going to make! The results will be calculated with help from the RNG, but volunteer input/reaction may be taken into account.

The winning team gets to pick the menu served to the whole school on Monday for breakfast, lunch and dinner.

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Calvin & Pippa

evercreep
2016-11-04 11:46 am UTC (link)

Calvin is nervous about this team-up. He's going to be trying hard not to make things difficult, especially since Pippa seems sensitive right now. CAN HE MANAGE IT? WE'LL SEE.

Calvin knows how to cook on a very basic level. Lots of irresponsible siblings and overworked parents means he had to figure out how to feed himself and his little brothers periodically. However, he's very utilitarian about it. He's around a 6 for skill.

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Calvin & Pippa

orangepip
2016-11-04 04:55 pm UTC (link)

Pippa has MIXED EMOTIONS at having to ~bond~ with Calvin, but she really enjoys cooking, and the challenge of using secret ingredients sounds kind of fun, so... let's do this? [INSERT WARY GLANCE HERE] Pippa has had a lot of practice with experimental vegan baking, and she likes making the effort to pretty up a finished dish, but the end result usually looks rustic rather than refined. Her skill level is about 7.

"You can make vegan ice cream out of bananas and maple syrup," she tells Calvin. "We could chop up the ginger and chocolate and add that in. But I don't know where the curry powder comes into it?" She sometimes adds sliced bananas on top of curry, but would a curry banana ice cream work with chocolate and ginger? Should they do something more advanced, like a banana bread? Oh dear. This is starting to feel like a puzzle she doesn't know the answer to.

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Calvin & Pippa

evercreep
2016-11-05 05:18 pm UTC (link)

Calvin narrows his eyes at the competition. For better or worse, this is bringing the Slytherin back out in him.

"No, they're all doing ice cream. We have to stand out." And he's just taking the vegan thing as one more goal they are going to meet and impress everyone with. He likes the idea of a banana bread, and asks with serious focus how you make vegan bread. He has no idea how this works.

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Calvin & Pippa

orangepip
2016-11-05 05:34 pm UTC (link)

Pippa is surprised but grateful that Calvin goes along with the vegan thing. She explains that mashed bananas are used as an egg substitute when you bake, so with banana bread you just... add more bananas...

"We'll need flour, sunflower oil, sugar --" Pippa stops, and looks at their ingredients. "I guess we could use the maple syrup instead of sugar?" Chunks of chocolate would also make a nice addition to banana bread, and probably the ginger would work too, but that still leaves them with the curry powder. Does Calvin have any ideas, or are they going for a curry-flavoured banana bread...?

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Calvin & Pippa

evercreep
2016-11-05 05:56 pm UTC (link)

Calvin chews on his lip. This is way beyond throwing together an ugly but edible dinner.

"I've heard that you can make curry chocolates. I've never had it, personally, but we could gamble on a curry chocolate glaze for the banana bread." He looks over at Pippa, kind of intense, but he's just thinking reeeaaally hard about how to say the right thing. SHE'S SO SENSITIVE. "Do you know how to do that?"

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	Calvin & Pippa orangepip 2016-11-05 06:12 pm UTC (link)
	Pippa tenses up under Calvin's scrutiny. WHY does he have to look at her like he's a python and she's a bunny rabbit? "I -- um -- no?" she stammers. "But you could probably just melt the chocolate with a little maple syrup and stir in a spoonful of the curry powder...?" (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Calvin & Pippa evercreep 2016-11-06 03:42 pm UTC (link)
	"Right." Calvin breaks eye contact and grabs the syrup, chocolate and curry powder. He's not even DOING ANYTHING and she's nervous. "I'll do that, then, since our experience melting chocolate sounds about on par. You can work on the bread." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Calvin & Pippa orangepip 2016-11-06 06:14 pm UTC (link)
	Pippa blinks when Calvin snatches up the ingredients. Is he mad at her? What for?? This was his idea! Flustered, she goes to get the extra ingredients for the banana bread, although in her distraction she ends up spilling flour all over the work surface. (Reply to this) (Parent)

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