Lane Smith | Ting-yu (abandonedguide) wrote in thereincarnates, @ 2011-01-31 22:06:00 |
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Entry tags: | lane smith, regan sexton |
Who: Regan and Lane
What: Lane tries to make Christmas dinner
Where: Their apartment
When: December 25th
Warnings: Excessive cute? And Lane fails at domestication.
Lane might have had an easier time of it if he’d thought to ask when Regan would be getting home from work, but he was going to do his best to put together some sort of Christmas feast for the two of them anyway. Of course, it would also have helped if he had any familiarity with the kitchen, as well. A holiday meal was likely not the best time to start trying to learn to cook, but since he’d already gotten started it was much too late to back out.
For starters, he’d not been entirely sure what you were supposed to make for holidays. He knew it was supposed to be fancier than the normal fare, but to be fair, there wasn’t much that wasn’t fancier than what they’d grown up with. He’d figured that he couldn’t go wrong with turkey (well, except for trying to cook it on his own, that had probably been a bad choice, but at least he’d only gotten a breast since there was no way he and Regan could eat a whole turkey), roast potatoes, and some brussels sprouts, and then cranberry sauce from a can. The sprouts he’d bought frozen, and so the only things he really had to cook were the potatoes and the turkey breast - that couldn’t be too hard, could it?
It was about time for Regan to get back from work, and Lane was staring at the turkey, sitting in its pan on the rack he’d pulled part way out of the oven. The potatoes he’d managed to salvage, he thought, after several attempts. As for the meat... well, he probably should have figured out how to tell if it was done before he got started, because he had absolutely no idea. The bag of brussels sprouts was sitting, melting in a growing puddle on the counter where he’d forgotten it when the first batch of potatoes went up in flames.
At least he couldn’t mess up the cranberry sauce.