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 Posted: Mon Feb 27, 2012 7:04 am
Theo watched as Basia scanned through the list of available cookie options with a frown. He hoped one appealed to her, because that would be really disappointing if the idea of something other than the traditional cookies was met with skepticism. It was always good to step outside the box. Now only if he'd adopt this mentality to his powers, he might be set for this whole confidence thing. As if that was going to happen...
When Basia finally picked a recipe, Theo's eye brows definitely went up in surprise at her choice. Pomegranate White Chocolate Chunk? He though to himself for a moment. I hope it isn't too complicated. She'd probably think I'm a flake or a liar if I messed this up.
When she flipped to the page with the recipe on it, Theo sighed internally. The ingredient list was long, but it was definitely not complicated. Although, he didn't know how to open a pomegranate, so this was going to be a bit of an adventure? He'd had pomegranate seeds before, but they were always already removed. His mother simply hated having to dig through them, so she bought them by the pound from the market where they were already separated from the rhine.
"Uhm. This, uh, this looks good!" Theo said, offering Basia a reassuring smile to her choice of cookie to make. It sounded like it was going to be a nice sweet and tart cookie. He really liked when a cookie had some tartness to it.
"Let's find the ingredients than," He said, clasping his hands together in a bit of a go-getter fashion. "Uhm, I know this is, uh... A stupid question, and I don't mean to be offensive or whatever, but, uhm.... uh... You know what a pomegranate looks like, right?"
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Posted: Mon May 07, 2012 10:53 am
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Basia smiled grew as Theo told her she’d made a good choice, this was going to be the best learning experience ever.
“Sure.” Basia grabbed the book and scanned the ingredients quickly, to his question Basia looked up from the book. “Of course, I’ve only read about it though. I remember someone mentioning something about them at the library and I went to investigate.” She’d found the history of the fruit far more interesting than the actual thing, her mom never bought one and ultimately Basia had never tasted one. “Do you know what they look like?” She asked, curious to see how far Theo’s knowledge extended. if he didn’t know what a pomegranate looked like, she was going to have to question his baking skills.
Reading down the list of ingredients, basia moved towards the fridge to get the eggs, pomegranate and butter. Those two looked like the only ingredients she was going to be finding in the large fridge, for everything else she was going to have to rely on Theo to find. Basia left the eggs and butter near where they’d settled and followed Theo, helping him when needed to grab an ingredient from the cupboards and such. It didn’t take long for both students to have found everything on the list, including the fruit, and placed everything around the bowl in a neat fashion.
Basia put down the book by the bowl, and started reading out the instructions quietly. Once done, she turned her attention on Theo. “I think this is your part now.” Even though the instructions had been clear, Basia had never even touched an egg, much less any of the other ingredients.
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Posted: Thu May 17, 2012 10:31 am
Theo listened as Basia answered his question. So she'd never actually eaten one, but she knows what they look like. He felt rather excited over the prospect of experimenting with things Basia had never eaten before. Granted, he had eaten a pomegranate before, but never in a cookie. Usually he just ate the fruit by itself whenever his mom decided to buy some.
"Yeah," Theo responded, with a small smile, "They're a roundish deep-ruby colored fruit, and the top of them makes them look like they have little crowns. They can get pretty big sometimes. I've seen some than, uhm, they look like the size of baseballs, and some that get really big like softballs."
They were relatively expensive in the part of Ronth he lived in, so he only seen them every now and again. Being able to freely use them to bake was nice, and it already prompted him to devise plans on how to walk out with shirt-fulls of them. He loved fruit, after all.
When Basia came back with the eggs and butter, he smiled and walked off with her to get the rest of the ingredients they would need. As they came back and placed everything in the open, Basia looked over and read the directions out loud for him.
He smiled as she verbally gave the reigns over to him, and looking back over the instructions once again, he quickly skittered off for another bowl, filled it half-way with water, and brought it back, setting it in front of Basia along with a small but sharp little knife.
"Ok, uhm, you're going to get the pomegranate seeds for us," He said with a smile, grabbing one from around the bigger bowl and taking the knife from in front of her. "This is how you get the seeds out."
He took the pomegranate and near the part he described as a crown he stabbed it into the side, making sure the knife was facing away from him. He than cut upward through the crown and set the knife down
"When you cut through the top, you can than just crack it open. And inside," He said, opening it to show her, "Are all the seeds. Picking them out one by one is really, really hard. So, uhm, this is what the bowl of water is for. We can rip the pomegranate into pieces, and than shove it into the water to free up the seeds. The good seeds will sink, the husk and the bad ones will float."
He put the pomegranate into the water for Basia so she could work on de-seeding them, and smiled at her, "It's, uhm. It's not the easiest part of the job, but it's not too hard either. Just kinda long. I'm gonna go start the oven awhile."
Feeling confident that Basia was capable of seeding the pomegranates, he walked off for a moment to go set the oven, grab bakings sheets and parchment paper, and grab a hand-mixer. He hoped by the time he was done combining most of the ingredients, Basia would have the pomegranates deseeded. Combining ingredients was actually pretty easy. By the time he finished it, the oven would already be pre-heated and than all they needed to do was put the cookies on the sheets.
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Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2012 2:22 pm
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Basia listened quietly as Theo gave his explanation, she nodded once in response once he was done. What he said made sense and added up the the description she’d once read in her book.
His next task for her should have been relatively easy, but as Basia watched him she almost narrowed her eyes at the knife when she picked it up in her hands. If they needed to cut it in halves and such, why didn't she simply just create a hole big enough for the seeds to come out and stick them in the water? Decided that this would be a way better way of doing things, thats what she set herself to do. Of course she could only do two pomegranates at a time, but while she kept up her concentration she helped Theo combine the rest of their ingredients.
It ended up being much harder than she thought, and most of the time she let Theo do some of the work just so she could relax her mind a bit and close up her portals to gather some of her energy. Though Basia liked the hard work, she knew she’d be able to someday hold out on her own longer and with more portals. So she sucked it up, and thought about sinking her teeth into the cookies they were making. By the time they were done, all the seeds had been taken out of the pomegranates and Basia had taken out the now empty pomegranates to throw them into the garbage.
The seeds were the last ingredients they needed, so Basia turned to theo once more for instruction. “So, looks like we're done!” She'd put the seeds into their mixture and was watching the dough come together with a smile. “I am getting really hungry.” Basia wiped her brow once, she wondered how Theo could do this much work all the time!
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