Breakfast
Nano 2013
Malus wandered around the kitchen, grabbing things out of cabinets and the refrigerator and setting them on the counter before she brought down some bowls of varying sizes. She grabbed the large spoons and looked around to double check that she had everything. Hopefully this attempt at cooking would go well. Picking up the box of pancake mix she read over the directions and scoped out the amount of mix needed for a small serving of pancakes.
Her long red hair was tied back as she took a measuring cup over to the sink and filled it with the correct amount of water. She double checked to make sure she had the right amount of water before pouring it into the bowl and mixing it. Once she was done mixing Malus turned the stove one and put the frying pan on it, letting it heat up she put the box of pancake mix away. She poured some of the mix into the pan and waited for it to cook before flipping it over; some more waiting and then she scoped it out and placed it on a plate. Cooking sure seemed to have a lot of waiting. She repeated the pancake cooing processes a few times before grabbing a few chocolate-chips and mixing them in with the pancake batter. Chocolate chip Pancakes were on the menu of the breakfast places she went to. They were really good and she figured it couldn't be too different than normal pancakes, you just added the chocolate chips in right?
Wait, flip, wait, remove, and pour. Pancake cooking was a lot more repetitive than she had though it would be. Why was there so much waiting involved in cooking? She was tempted to take them off earlier but had learned the hard way that you couldn't rush cooking; you also should not get distracted while cooking either. Which made cooking not only boring but annoying because she couldn't do anything else while she was making it.
Luckily pancakes were still faster cookers despite her internal complainants and it wasn't long before Malus had used up the rest of the batter and was able to put the spoon and bowl in the sink and move onto the next course of action. Eggs. She grabbed one of the eggs out of the carton that was resting on the counter and cracked it on the side of the frying pan. It wasn't a clean break and she had to quickly scoop the egg shell pieces out with a fork before they got cooked into the egg. The next one went better and there were not shell pieces in the egg. Malus smiled as she cooked, she cracked a few more eggs, trying out different styles of cooking them while taking off the ones that seemed to be finished. Once she was done she put the plate of eggs over on the table with the plate of pancakes and moved onto the next and final task, Bacon.
She scraped the frying pan clean once again and laid a few strips of bacon on it and waited for them took cook. She was starving by now; the smell and the sizzling of her attempts at cooking were enough to jump start her stomach into pestering her to eat some of them. She put the spatula in the sink and grabbed the tongs so she could flip the bacon; it was easier it grab the strips with tongs than to try and get them out with spatulas she had been told. Soon it would be finished and she could actually eat the food! She took half the bacon out of the pan and left the rest in, apparently the only difference between chewy and crispy bacon was how long it was cooked. She waited a bit before poking it with the tongs and seeing if it was done. Seeing that it appeared to be done she pulled the rest of the bacon out and set it on the plate.
She shut the stove off and put the frying pan in the sink before moving the plate to the table with the other two. Malus grabbed some Saran Wrap and wrapped up some of the pancakes before placing some of the eggs and bacon in containers. She had cooked too much for her to eat all at once but it was good to have food ready for the next day, or to have as a snack if she wanted some. She moved the remaining food to one plate and stuck the other two in the sink; she'd do the dishes after she ate and sat down at the table with her silver ware. "Let’s see how it tastes shall we?" She said to her apple which was resting in the middle of her table.
Malus cut a piece off one of the plain pancakes and ate it. She was pleased to find that it tasted good. "Looks like I did it!" She cheered to her apple after she had finished swallowing her food. The chocolate-chip pancakes were even better, she loved chocolate. She had devoured her pancakes before realizing she still had to try the bacon and eggs. The eggs did not taste too bad but the bacon was delicious. "Oh it looks like I forgot to get a drink" she said with a laugh and skipped off to the fridge to pour herself a glass of milk.
She settled back down at the table and finished eating, and drinking her breakfast. Once she was finished she picked up her apple and moved it closer to the sink before grabbing her plate and starting to do the dishes. She would have had the apple on the counter while she was cooking but she didn't want to accidentally knock it into the frying pan or something. A little soapy water wouldn't hurt it but she didn't know what would happen if it got chopped up or burned and she didn't really want to find out.
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