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 Posted: Sat Sep 10, 2011 4:26 pm
Natalia wasn't exactly the best candidate for cooking in the kitchen. She'd have been better off cleaning up dishes as they were dirtied or being a gofer than a chef. However, fifteen minutes after the scheduled time and still no one else that had been assigned cooking duty today had shown up.
This irritated Natalia easily. One, she didn't like waiting. She had too much excess energy for that. And two, well, there was no two. She was just generally impatient.
So as the fifteen minute mark ticked by, Natalia decided help or no help, she was going to get down to business. Even if she didn't have the foggiest idea what she was doing. At this rate, everyone would end up with PB&J sandwiches - which, she would like you to know, was a 'perfect protein.' Useless random facts go! - but then she had to wonder if they actually had enough of either of those ingredients to make over 59 (if you counted the senshi) sandwiches. It would be dreadfully monotonous to make them all.
Clearly someone needed to show up before everyone had to suffer through a meager, sticky, lunch.
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Posted: Sat Sep 10, 2011 4:45 pm
Joshua remembered, in the middle of hammering a couch leg back on it's frame, that he'd forgotten something very important.
He'd been assigned to cooking today, hadn't he ?
...Whoops.
Still, he didn't run. He didn't rush to make up for the lost time, no - he just simply got to the kitchen without pause.
...Looked like he wasn't the only person who had forgotten.
"Sorry. I got busy with something else, and I forgot I was doing cooking today." His tone was definitively apologetic, but not frantic. He'd screwed up, he'd apologized, and if the brown haired girl wanted to be pissy about it, then it was her problem.
Hands went to untie the vest-turned-tool belt from his waist, set it into a counter out of their way, when he went to the sink to clean his hands and face. "Through it's look im not the only one who forgot." His voice carried part amusement and part annoyance. "I don't think I've talked to you in great length before... Im Joshua."
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Posted: Sat Sep 10, 2011 4:56 pm
Natalia was still puzzling over what to make - hot ham and cheese, grilled cheese, pb&j? - when Joshua came in. Well, at least someone showed up. Maybe the rest would follow suit. Better late than never after all. Right?
"It's alright. I guess not many are concerned about lunch. Situations being what they are, I'm surprised we're not being limited to just one a day anyway."
It did seem counter-intuitive considering the lack of supplies. Natalia could have dealt with that. And she'd have dealt with anyone that complained about it too. With a knuckle sandwich. She didn't have the patience for whiners or anyone who felt entitled. Especially in a situation such as this.
"I was thinking about just making some sandwiches," she shrugged, finally turning around and leaning against the counter. "what do you think?"
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Posted: Sat Sep 10, 2011 5:37 pm
Joshua had ran out of patience for the whiners pretty much in the middle of day one. There was a reason he spent most of his time holed up to fix things, after all. Well, multiple reasons, but one of them as to avoid the irritants.
Why do I have to stay here to heal ? Why do I have to cook for everyone else ? Why why why b***h b***h moan moan.
Ugh.
He probably would just inwardly cheer when she punched them.
He used the washcloth to dry his hand. "Thankfully, I don't think sandwiches are above my area of expertise." He said, amused now. "Did you have anything specific in mind ?"
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Posted: Sat Sep 10, 2011 5:50 pm
"Well, first I was thinking PB&J but then I remembered 'o hey, wait, the peanut butter here probably isn't the fake stuff I have to eat.' Peanut allergies, you know? And then I got to thinking about other people's allergies. So then I though, maybe a ham and cheese, or grilled cheese, but I don't know if anyone here is lactose intolerant and quite frankly I don't think we have enough TP for that..." Natalia said rapidly and finished with a heavy sigh.
"Although at this point I'm about ready to say to hell with it and give them the grilled cheese anyway. At least that I can make. And if anyone complains about that, then...then maybe a basic vegetable soup to go with it?"
Natalia wasn't a fan of vegetable soup herself, but hopefully it was a decent enough compromise.
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Posted: Sat Sep 10, 2011 6:12 pm
"Hm..." Crap. This was something he hadn't even come close to thinking about. Allergies.
"I havn't heard of anyone having an allergy or being lactose intolerant, or anything like that." Through from the sound of it, she had a peanut allergy.
"Well, there's a bunch of cans of tomato soup in here." He gestured toward the cubobards. "And some dried herbs to spice it up. ....Basil goes with tomatoes right ?"
Oh my.
Hopefully someone was gonna come save them.
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Posted: Sat Sep 10, 2011 6:18 pm
Well then, hopefully they'd be lucky and no one would be experiencing chocolate rain later.
"I think so," Natalia reached for a large cooking pot. If you can get the cans, open them, and put them in here, I'll fiddle with the herbs and see what other veggies we have. After that, if you can throw together the sammiches? Then while the soup is on the stove, I'll grill them? Sound good?"
It was a lot of work for two people to make lunch for over 60, but at least....maybe they'd manage? They had to! Natalia was now determined! She'd show them that it didn't take an army to feed an army!
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Posted: Sat Sep 10, 2011 7:39 pm
"Yeah, that sounds..." He eyed the cupboard. How many cans did it take to feed over sixty people ?
...Maybe he should have thought this more.
"...Doable." Opening the cupboard, he took hold of one can. "Says it's two servings for this big one, one for the smaller... Hn."
Well, even if he was off, there would be grilled cheese. So he gathered as many cans as he could, as well as the biggest dang pot he could find, and started on the task to opening all of them.
Good god. At least he could sit while doing this but.... by his lonesome, it was gonna wake awhile.
"So... What school do you go to ?" They were gonna need the small talk.
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Posted: Sun Sep 11, 2011 6:15 pm
"Meadowview. You?" was her distracted reply as she got more of the supplies out.
Soon the soup was on the stove and more ingredients tossed in. Natalia wasn't exactly sure when to tell when it was done but hopefully no one would end up with over or under cooked soup. At least it smelled good. As it warmed up, the smell began to waft through the room.
So now it was time to throw together the sammiches...
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Posted: Sun Sep 11, 2011 6:34 pm
"Azure." Joshua answered, working though the cans then filling in the water that the cans called for to dilute as they continued to chatter, and eventually it was on the stove.
Thankfully canned soup wasn't rocket science, but so much of it would take awhile to warm...
"How it is ? I mean... an all boys school kinds of really suck sometimes." Joshua was very straight, thank you.
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