Home Economics - Cheap Food with a Twist

[pinkgingham.livejournal.com]

Who: Sable, her class and anyone else that pops in!
What: It's Home Economics! This week covers a little cooking.
Where: The Home Ec. room
When: Tuesday, June 8th
Warnings: Make sure your food is cooked all the way through, especially meat! Getting sick is never good.


“Hello, everyone,” Sable greeted the class. Throughout the past couple of years, her confidence in teaching a class only grew more with every week. Of course, at times things were a little shaky, but at least she wasn’t nearly as nervous as she was when she first got started.

“Well, we might as well cover the bare bones of this class to start. Home Economics is a wide topic, and it does cover many subjects. Over the course of this semester, we’ll cover some physical things such as sewing, cooking and cleaning to more mental things such as maintaining good relationships and being a good host or hostess. Today, we’ll cover a little bit about cooking when you’re on a small budget.”

On her desk were a few cheap foods, things like plastic cups of instant noodles and boxes of macaroni and cheese. “I know that if you don’t feel like eating any food in the cafeteria, you can always cook something that’s relatively quick and easy, like the stuff I have up here. However, it’s entirely possible to get tired of this pretty quickly, and if you don’t have enough money to go out somewhere and eat, then you’re out of luck! Fortunately, there are ways to spice up cheap food!”

She pointed to another counter that was filled with all sorts of different ingredients, from spices such as salt and cinnamon to more practical foods such as eggs and bacon. Among these foods were a few odd things such as chocolate, jelly beans and beef jerky.

“What I want you to do,” Sable continued, “is to make a dish first using something that’s easy to make, such as a cup of noodles or macaroni and cheese, and then add something else on the other counter to it to twist things up a bit. For example, you could fry up some bacon and put it on top of macaroni and cheese. You could also do something as simple as making some toast and then putting on some peanut butter and bananas on it. The possibilities can be endless!”

Comments

Attendance!

[pinkgingham.livejournal.com]

Re: Attendance!

[toyboxarmy.livejournal.com]

General Guy was there, because he had been planning on getting better at cooking for a while. Also, this class was at the exact period of time between two classes that his room mate had. The reason he didn't want to see his room mate might have had something to do with the bandages running up his arm and his neck.

Re: Attendance!

[pinkgingham.livejournal.com]

As Sable marked General Guy as being here, she did take notice of the bandages. That...looked painful. She decided to take note of it, just in case there were any more wounds that popped up between this class and the next one.

Re: Attendance!

[notstevejobs.livejournal.com]

Iiiiiit's Apple Kiiiiiiid.

Re: Attendance!

[solfirecat.livejournal.com]

Blaze is here, woooow.

Poor Sable.

[bombgoesboom.livejournal.com]

It's Bean. :I

Re: Attendance!

[watermelon-yum.livejournal.com]

It wasn't as if Yoshi skipped classes, but the surefire way to assure his attendance was to have food involved somehow.

Re: Attendance!

[bestsweater.livejournal.com]

Please don't mind Squinty McBoulderbadge lurking in the back, looking very attentive.

Re: Attendance!

[pkmachomega.livejournal.com]

Claus was there. And ready to GET SERIOUS about cooking.

Re: Attendance!

[coveredinsoot.livejournal.com]

Of course Fuel would be here. The rest of this class, he might not have cared about too much, but any excuse to cook.

Also any excuse to prove that he was better at cooking than Claus.

Re: Attendance!

[thewunderkind]

And there was Lash, hoping Sable wasn't going to force her to use a fork.

[rockinthrutime.livejournal.com]

Oh no, it was god pony hacks.

Re: Attendance!

[snarksterpilot.livejournal.com]

Nester's in your class, Sable, because he has nothing better to do.

Beware.

Re: Attendance!

[ohjeffums.livejournal.com]

Tony likes this class. ♥

Re: Attendance!

[hasbandanacap.livejournal.com]

Oh man home economics. Brendan was certainly excited to learn in this class...!

Any questions?

[pinkgingham.livejournal.com]

Re: Any questions?

[bombgoesboom.livejournal.com]

Oooo! Oooo!!

Do I really only have to take from what's on the table, or can I run off for a sec and grab some BETTER ingredients for my portion? :)

Let's get cooking!

[pinkgingham.livejournal.com]

You can use anything you want in the classroom, from mixing bowls to the stove and oven. Just as long as you combine something that's quick and easy to make with something else, you're golden!

Re: Let's get cooking!

[notstevejobs.livejournal.com]

"One time," said Apple Kid to himself, "I made an eggplant parmesian machine, but I had to take it apart." Hmm, that was an idea - pasta.

Apple Kid waddled over to the cooking area and looked for pasta. He was going to do something with pasta. But what.

Cookity cook.

[solfirecat.livejournal.com]

Blaze looked at the array of cheap food ingredients before her. Some of these items seemed rather... ghetto. But she suspected that making something good out of any of these things is the challenge Ms. Sable was going for.

So, in a matter of no-time Blaze had whipped up some instant-Mac & Cheese. She couldn't stand the smell of over-processed powdered cheese and salts. Glancing around the selection of spices and her (poor) knowledge of how they work, she stirred in some small twigs of broccoli and some bacon bits. To finish things off, she put a slice of margarine on the very top to melt and accent the combination of flavors.

She wasn't entirely sure how it would end up tasting, but she imagined, with the ingredients she added, that it'd definitely taste better or more interesting then plain-old Mac & Cheese from a box.

Re: Let's get cooking!

[watermelon-yum.livejournal.com]

Yoshi got to work buttering up slices of bread and tossing them butter-side down into a frying pan. As the bottom side sizzled he added some apple slices and sprinkled cinnamon, then places a slice of cheese on top followed by another pieces of buttered bread. Then he started flipping them to make sure both sides got nice and toasted. By the end, he had a couple of grilled-cheese sandwiches that smelled decidedly fruity.

Re: Let's get cooking!

[snarksterpilot.livejournal.com]

Instant noodles? Macaroni and cheese? No problem!

Nester made the instant noodles real quick, and then whipped up the macaroni and cheese. He then proceeded to pour out some of the juice from the noodles, and mix it in with the macaroni and cheese. To top that off, he mixed some bacon and some tomato inside.

Um... ew?

Re: Let's get cooking!

[hasbandanacap.livejournal.com]

For a trainer striving to become the best coordinator, Brendan knew some basics of cooking. To start with something simple, he decided to go with jelly donuts rice balls with various different stuffings.

Re: Let's get cooking!

[ohjeffums.livejournal.com]

So many possibilities to choose from... Tony stared at all the boxes of instant food and back at the ingredients on the other counter. Cheese gave him a start, and the more he thought about what would be good with cheese, a lightbulb finally clicked in his head. This would be simple, fast, cheap, and hopefully good to the taste!

He grabbed a bagel or two and got to work making pizza sauce and shredded cheese to put on top. The next part would be the most fun- toppings! Since there wasn't any pepperoni, Canadian bacon would have to do. Maybe some tomatoes and peppers, too. Basil would give it an extra kick! Now all that was left for him to do was slide it in the oven.

Re: Let's get cooking!

[pkmachomega.livejournal.com]

Claus tried. He really did. But he definitely needed to start again. What was in front of him at the moment couldn't really be qualified as food. He reached for more ingredients.