Jessica Byrd (greenwillpower) wrote,
@ 2011-10-23 00:11:00

Testing! All the pretty lights
Jess is staring into the pantry. This is scary. Someone had bought all of her favorite things.

And what looks to be like everyone else's too. She raises one eyebrow and then the other. For a moment she isn't sure if she should laugh or not. Instead she shakes her head and moves to sit on a stool in the big and very shiny looking kitchen at their new head quarters.

She is hungry but all the food that appeals to her different tastes is off putting just a bit. It's too easy. That's when she gets a bright idea.

She starts to dig around for materials. She'll try making pizza. That will make things just hard enough to be interesting.

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	loveontherocks 2011-10-23 05:22 pm UTC (link)
	"Look... don't... don't worry about it, okay?" Heather started to say. No food. And especially no liquids. She'd learned that one the hard way. They caused her to slosh. Saishu made her nervous too, frankly. She'd never met anyone like her before. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

godownswinging
2011-10-23 07:58 pm UTC (link)

Saishu seems pretty comfortable with making everyone nervous. She hasn't changed on the outside - she always dresses like this. She's got that warrior confidence the rest of these folks seem to lack - and compared to pretty much anyone here, isn't very worldly.

"Thank you." she responds, genuinely, to Cindy, then Florian. "Flatbread with tomato paste, cow, spinach and mushrooms? That sounds very good. I can help slice things if you would like assistance. I'm very good with a knife." she adds, helpfully. Sort of helpfully, anyway.

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	littleladylord 2011-10-23 08:52 pm UTC (link)
	"No problem, Lenny," Cindy says. "It is apparently pizzatime." She nevertheleses continues on her Cheez-its. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	hope_on_wheels 2011-10-23 09:20 pm UTC (link)
	"Pizza? Awesome! When pizza's involved, all has to be well... relatively speaking." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

greenwillpower
2011-10-23 10:13 pm UTC (link)

Jess quirks a grin.

"Well food is amazing.... I think we have a second bag with already made pizza dough if we really want to make that much pizza," Jess mentions out loud. "Honestly... I don't think it matters too much?"

She's really hungry. A lack of a clear cut plan is starting to annoy her as she's hungry and wants food. "I honestly think it's easier to make just two. It'll only take twenty minutes for each pizza if we do two. If we do six or five that's ten to fifteen minutes for every pizza."

Do they really want her to wait that long? She grumble faintly and moves to steal a few crackers looking like she might chew someone's leg off for a moment.

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	loveontherocks 2011-10-23 10:19 pm UTC (link)
	"I don't think I get a vote on this one." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

in_reserve
2011-10-23 10:20 pm UTC (link)

"Alright", Harry smiles a Heather and continues his mushroom chopping. He knows when not to press anymore.

"Umm I'm good with just making two big ones. She's right, it'll probably be faster and I'm sure people are hungry. We can do individual ones next time."

His response to Saisha is considerably more quiet and nervous. "I'm pretty much done the mushrooms but there's spinach over there and we've got onions and peppers too if anyone would like. You can cut those." Oh, better not let her think he's telling her what to do, he's really not. He mumbles the last bit. "I mean if...you'd...like. Or something..."

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be_afraid
2011-10-23 10:30 pm UTC (link)

Florian has to turn his head to hide a smile at the way Harry backpedals. He shouldn't be amused that the other guy was so uncomfortable, but he really couldn't see the reason for it.

"That's fine. The sauce is almost mixed. It doesn't need to boil since you're in a hurry, it'll just heat while baking."

He'd make an extra smaller one for himself after they were through, and take the leftovers with him when he went home.

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godownswinging
2011-10-23 10:41 pm UTC (link)

Saisha nods pleasantly enough, even if her grin when she gets hold of two kitchen knives, one in each hand, is just a little too vicious.

After very briefly setting the knives aside, she piles onions, peppers and spinach onto a cutting board in neat rows, grabbing as much of the vegetable matter as she can without being in the way of the others, and sets into them with a knife in each hand. The resulting sound of the cleaver chops with the left hand and knife-slices with the lighter blade are about at steady, even and consistent as a machinegun set to a drum machine beat.

What's either impressive or scary isn't so much that she dices the vegetables - an amazonian figure with a cleaver and a lighter, precision knife making quick work of a bunch of vegetables may not be too surprising. A little more surprising is that it actually is pretty clean and precise, chopping the bigger pieces into manageable sections with quick cleaver-hacks, and mincing with the knife, the end result pretty close to what a blender might have done.

The blender might be a little quicker - maybe.

"I hope that was quick enough to expedite the flatbread dish? I am very hungry."

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	littleladylord 2011-10-23 10:49 pm UTC (link)
	Well, that was hot. "Right. Sauce looks just about ready for spreading, we've got the crusts out and prepared, let's do this thing." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	greenwillpower 2011-10-23 11:31 pm UTC (link)
	"Okay. Um...Henry? Do you want to do one and I'll cover the other." She has the crust rolled out onto two different round and vaguely pizza shaped pans. She's ready to spread sauce and everything. Honestly she's looking forward to every little thing. Somehow this has turned into a big group project but it's starting to feel like fun. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	loveontherocks 2011-10-23 11:43 pm UTC (link)
	With all the fresh cut veggies and everything else, Heather was pretty sure the kitchen was smelling pretty good right now. And she couldn't smell any of it. She looked down, clenching a fist. She felt something on her cheek, reached up, and came away with a small piece of violet crystal. She cried crystal tears. Of course. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	hope_on_wheels 2011-10-23 11:53 pm UTC (link)
	Lenny noted Heather's sadness, but really didn't know what to say to her. He wondered though..could his healing powers help her somehow? He filed that thought away for later. "So is there anything I can do?" (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

in_reserve
2011-10-24 12:01 am UTC (link)

His eyes go wide at Saisha's demonstration. He can't quite decide to be terrified or in awe. Luckily he hears Jess before he has to decide. Henry? Who's...oh!

"It's Harry actually but it's okay really! Don't worry about it! Common mistake, I don't mind!" Great...he's rambling.

While Jess works on one Harry starts on the other. He's not sure if the sauce is done so he collects the ingredients and starts grating the cheese.

"I could use a hand with the cheese, we need enough for two pizzas." He's secretly glad the other group pacifist is here, it makes him less nervous. One less person to worry about when it came to people fighting.

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be_afraid
2011-10-24 12:09 am UTC (link)

Since Harry took up the cheese grating, Florian stirred the sauce a couple of more times and handed on pot off to Jess keeping the other to begin spreading the sauce himself. He bites his lip, noticing Heather's solid tear, and knowing that she's terrified that she's not anything even remotely human anymore. He decides to take a stab at lightening the air.

"All we need now is some Deano music. A little "Mambo Italiano" to set the mood."

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	godownswinging 2011-10-24 12:21 am UTC (link)
	"I am not familiar with that term." Go figure. "This is dance music? Italian and... Spanish influence?" she guesses, as she idly whirls the knives about in her hands without paying them much mind until she can set them by the sink without running into anyone. She notices Cindy looking her way, lifting a brow. She was helpful before. "Correct?" (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	littleladylord 2011-10-24 12:51 am UTC (link)
	"Yes, those are the cultures being cited by the song. Written by an American, though. and best performed by Rosemary Clooney." Cindy shoots Florian a look and a smile. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

greenwillpower
2011-10-24 01:04 am UTC (link)

"Harry?" Jess stops and flushes but it doesn't show up much on her skin.

"Sorry. I'm still trying to remember who everyone is." She dips a spoon into the sauce and uses it to coat the crust she made with a decent coat. She wants to be sure there's enough to get a good taste of the sauce with the toppings.

"Should this be the veggie one or the other one," Jess asks.

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	loveontherocks 2011-10-24 01:09 am UTC (link)
	"Who?" Heather asked Cindy, trying to distract herself. "I have no idea who either of you are talking about." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	hope_on_wheels 2011-10-24 01:23 am UTC (link)
	"Just smile and nod, Heather. Eventually they may move on and start to talk sense," he jokes lightly. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

in_reserve
2011-10-24 01:30 am UTC (link)

"Really, it's okay. It's all kinda new so I don't expect you to remember."

He turns to Heather: "They're singers pretty much and the song goes like- actually wait I've got a better idea."

There's a flash of Indigo light and Harry teleports away. He remembers seeing the intercom system somewhere...

Another flash and he's back with a large goofy grin while the speakers start playing Dean's version of Mambo Italiano. He turns to Heather. "There you go! It's quite good music really."

He glances at Cindy with an apologetic smile. "I promise to put up Clooney's version after."

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be_afraid
2011-10-24 01:41 am UTC (link)

Florian wags the spoon he had used to spread the sauce out with at Cindy. "That's practically blasphemous. Dean Martin has the best version."

Absently, he answers Jess as he scrapes the extra sauce into a container to save for later. "Yours should be the veggie one, the one I spread already has meat in the sauce, so we might as well load it with the works. Thank you, Harry."

He adds the last bit as he finishes turning around with a grin. He sings along in tune and on beat while he steps out of the rest of the chefs ways and begins to mambo.

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	godownswinging 2011-10-24 01:49 am UTC (link)
	Saishu listens to the music a few moments, then watches the start of the mamboing. Interesting. She has nothing more to chop up, and everything else seems handled, so she glances again at the person who seems most interested in introducing her to these things in useful detail. "Cindy, you are a fan of a different version of this song? Do you dance as well, then?" (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	littleladylord 2011-10-24 03:36 am UTC (link)
	"Yes and only on occasion, respectively," Cindy says, smiling. "I make a better audience than I do a dancer, most of the time." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	in_reserve 2011-10-24 04:52 am UTC (link)
	He's gotten a lot more relaxed now that the music is on. He's certainly not as nervous as before, and everyone involved has been quite nice. Harry laughs as he joins Florian in the mambo. "Come on Cindy, we'll make a mambo line. I'm sure you're a lot better than you say. And if we get five then I'll have to put on mambo number 5!" (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)