Sweet and Savoury

[Megan Sims]

Megs checked each kitchen station in the home ecconomics room and made sure that everyone had what would be needed for that day, checking that the dairy products were in each of the refrigerators, and then grabbed four bits of card with names printed on them and stuck them to each of the stations. Station 1: Cortney - Chase. Station 2: Christophe - Cara. Station 3: Blythe - Irina. Station 4: Miranda - Amber. Station 5: Cassian - Kevin. She felt slightly guilty that she was splitting up Miranda and Cortney, but the girls were both strong cooks and she knew they would do well with students new to her class.

She then placed two recipes on each of the benches so that the students would know what they were doing as soon as they arrived.

PIZZA COOKIES

Ingredients:
Sweet Cookies:

1. 4oz butter
2. 4oz sugar
3. 8oz flour
4. 1-1.5 tsp of mixed spice
5. a little egg or milk to glaze
6. glazed cherries
7. red, yellow and green writable icing
8. dark chocolate chips
9. 350g of milk chocolate

What to do:

1. Pre-heat oven to 325- 350/ Gas mark 3
2. Put the butter and sugar into a bowl and cream them together with a spoon, this will only take a minute to do. Try to achieve a nice cream texture without lumps. Add the flour and mixed spice. Then knead them together into a dough with the creamed butter and sugar.
3. Put your dough onto a flat surface and roll it out. Then get a regular round pastry cutter and press into the dough to make your pizza bases. Place them down onto a greased baking tray, or a baking tray with grease proof paper.
4. Get your left over cookie dough and break off small pieces. Roll them into snake shapes and put them onto your pizza bases to create little pizza crusts. Then lightly coat your pizza cookies with milk or egg to give them some strength and gloss. Put them in the oven for 15-20 mins. Keep an eye on them in the oven. They will expand. They will be finished when they come out a nice golden colour. They can burn easily.
5. When the cookies are done take them out of the oven and let them cool a moment before you put them onto a cold plate. When they first come out they will be a little soft. They will harden up, but will retain a moist consistency.
6. When the cookies are cool enough take some icing and draw around the inside of the fake crust. This will act as a barrier which will help a little when you put the hot chocolate on.
7. Break up your yummy 350g of chocolate, use what ever kind of chocolate you like best and put it in s glass bowl. Put water into a saucepan and boil it, gently putting the glass bowl into the pan. The chocolate will melt as you stir it, doing it this way and not in the microwave will ensure that it doesn't get they nasty clumpy black chocolate burn. Carefully spoon the melted chocolate onto the cookies. Then put the cookies in the fridge for a few minutes to allow the chocolate to set hard.
8. While the chocolate sets in the fridge chop up your glazed cherries. Take the cookies from the fridge then put some yellow icing onto the chocolate. This looks like cheese and it also makes the cherries and chocolate drops stick to the cookie. Then take some green icing and make little drops over it, these are your green peppers. Put them back in the fridge for a few minutes more. The icing will set and the cookies will come out yummy and intact.

Savoury Cookies:

1. 4oz plain flour
2. 2oz butter
3. 2oz grated cheese
4. 1egg yolk
5. Basil
6. glazed cherries
7. Salt
8. Sundried tomatoes
9. Ham

What to do:

1. Turn oven up up to 425- 450 F or gas mark 6-7
2. Measure out flour and butter, add as much basil as you desire and a pinch of salt. Put them together in a bowl and rub in the butter to the flour and basil. This will produce a bread crumb appearance. Add cheese and yolk to the mixture, mix together and knead into a dough ball
3. Do the same as you did with the sweet version.
   Roll out the pastry.
   Cut out circles
   Add crusts around the edges by making snakes out of the left over pastry.
4. Add some chopped sundried tomatoes and ham to the top of the pizza biscuits.
5. Put them in the oven and they should only take 10-12 minutes to cook.
6. They, like the sweet cookies will gain a slightly golden appearance not as gold as the sweet cookies however. Allow them to cool and they should slide off the tray easily.

Once the students had arrived she smiled around the room. "For those of you who are new to my class. I'm Ms Sims. Today we are making pizza cookies. Have fun and you will find everything you need for the recipe in your pantry of fridge. If you need any help, don't be afraid to ask either me or the person you are working with." She normally liked starting her classes with a get to know each other game, though they had too much to do that day to spend time chatting.

Calling:
 Cortney Smit - @running9
 @radix - Cara-Jean Kitchi
 Adonya van Rutherford - @ira
 Miranda Florin - @neigh
 Cassian F. De Fiore - @neigh123

[Miranda Florin]

Miranda stopped by the bathroom to scrub her hands before moving on to her next class, Creative Cooking. As she entered, she grinned at the teacher, as she was the first to arrive, “Hey Ms. Sims!” Walking over to her normal bench, she was surprised to see a card with names on it... Not hers. Looking around, she found the bench that she was apparently supposed to work at. Looking at the other name, she realized that she didn't recognize it, but it wasn't Cortney. Crestfallen, she looked up at Ms. Sims, knowing that the woman must have a reason, even if she didn't like it.

Before anyone else walked into the room, though, her face was a blank mask again, as she didn't want her partner thinking she was upset about the pairing, even if she sort of was. However, as Cortney entered, she looked over with a small smile and a shrug, before turning back to the recipes that they were to prepare that day.

She waited for Ms. Sims to begin the class, then looked over at her partner, “Well, as you've probably guessed, I'm Miranda. Would you prefer to do the sweet cookies or the savory ones?” She could do both, she knew, and it wasn't as if there was a major difference in what they would be doing, so she might as well let the younger girl decide.

[Adonya van Rutherford]

Blythe pushed her way out of the bathroom, ignoring the girls that were trying to enter, who stepped out of her way anyway as they saw her. She made her way to the electives wing of the building, then dodged through all of the other classes to get to the home ec classroom, entering second of the class.

After looking over at Ms. Sims and greeting her, the blonde walked over to the benches, looking at the name cards before finding the one that had hers. She chuckled as she saw that the teacher had remembered her nickname from the previous year, and looked up to Ms. Sims to give her a small nod of thanks. Her partner was unknown to her, but that didn't mean much, just that she wasn't on the cheer team. After all, most of the students on campus were beneath Blythe.

She tied on her apron, so as not to sully her clothes, and then looked at the recipes. As her partner arrived, she looked over, already judging the girl's clothes and appearance, “You can do the savory cookies.” There was no way she was going to let this newcomer decide what she was doing. As Ms. Sims started the class, Blythe listened, although there wasn't anything of interest being covered, then began gathering what she would need to start her sweet cookies.

[Cortney Smit]

Cortney danced into the home economics room, she loved creative cooking! "Hey Ms S!" She said as she floated past the teacher and headed toward Miranda. Her steps faltered though when she saw that her name wasn't beside her cooking buddy's. "Oh." She pouted and looked at Miranda with a trembling lip and wiped a mock tear from her cheek. "Cooking shall never be the same again." She placed her hand over her heart and walked away, looking for the station with her name on it. "He'd better be able to follow orders." She muttered as she grabbed the black apron and slipped it over her head so that it covered her cheer uniform and tied it behind her back.

She pulled her recipe folder from her bag, and shoved the bag in the corner out of the way, and grabbed a recipe off the bench and after looking at it quickly, stored it in the cakes and cookies tab, leaving the folder open to that page. She quickly read the recipe and began to pull things out of the cupboard and lining them out on the bench.

"I'll make the sweet cookies." Her voice was firm, a clear instruction that wasn't open for discussion.

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Food was Chase’s favorite thing pretty much. He loved all and any type of food, mostly. As he made his way to the electives hall his mouth began to water at the thought of the possible dishes they would be making today. He wasn’t a big baker or cook, but he would do it if it meant he got to eat. Before he got to the classroom he made a pit stop at the bathroom to wash his hands.

As he got done to the creative cooking class he saw that he was the fourth student to show up and the first male. Giving a smile to Ms. Sims Chase looked around the room to see his assigned partner and station. He smiled at his partner as he saw she was already there. Listening to Ms. Sims give a small introduction to the course and what they were doing today, Chase was ready to get cooking.

Not any longer than a few seconds of Ms. Sims getting done with her intro Cortney was telling him what she was going to do. He had no problem doing either, but he shrugged off her forwardness. ”Alright that’s fine.” With that he looked down at his paper and read over the ingredients.

[Cara-Jean Kitchi]

Cara brushed down her pantsuit as she walked toward the home economics room. For the amount of time she actually frequented the cafeteria, one would think that this was a strange class choice for her - and one she actually chose - but Cara thoroughly enjoyed cooking. Her mother had been a chef for her own catering business, so Cara thought that may have been where her love of creating dishes had come from - not that anyone actually knew she enjoyed cooking as it was a part of herself that she hid from the world, even when she was working as a maid in someone's house.

Walking into the classroom, she glanced around the room. Bowing her head toward the teacher she walked to the station that had her name and that of another person on it. She walked over to the aprons, unbuttoned and shrugged off the jacket she was wearing and slipped the apron over her head so that it covered her oyster coloured shirt and tied it behind her back. Her fingers shook as she unbuttoned her cuffs and rolled her sleeves up, baring her forearms, before she washed her hands.

Listening to Ms Sims' introduction, she took one of the recipe sheets and looked through it before she placed it on the bench again and then took everything that would needed, for both recipes out of the pantry and refrigerator, and then turned the oven on to the temperature to cook the sweet cookies. "If you do not mind, I'll make the savoury biscuits... cookies." She said softly, as she had no interest in touching the sugar concentrated things.

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Irina left the bathroom after checking her hair, and makeup. Her hair didn't have a strand out of place and her makeup was impeccable. She navigated through the hallway. Her tall height making it easy for her to see. The two inch heels she was wearing helped. She was now taller then most of her peers with the heels on. Though she was taller then most even without heels on. The black heels went nicely with her black formal pants and her blue blouse. Irina normally wore heels to school and just out of the house but sometime she wore boots instead. Especially during the cold winters of Russia. Though they weren't the boots that most Americans would wear during the winter. Even during the mild Kentucky winter that most considered to be cold. The Kentucky winter was a piece of cake compared to Russia's. Irina could go out in jeans, and a long sleeve shirt and be fine. Her boots always had at least a little bit of heel to them and they had to go nicely with her outfit. 

Walking into the Creative Cooking classroom she was exited for this class. She liked cooking and was good at it. Though she had only cooked Russian dishes as that was what her family was used to. Her mother often helped with the cooking and so did Natka but Natka didn't enjoy it as much as Irina. Though Natka had to learn how to cook and had learned so during her time in the orphanage. Why the orphanage had a six year old cooking her own meals Irina didn't know and was grateful her parents had fostered her at such a young age. Who knew what would've happened to her sister if they hadn't made the decision to foster a young child. 

Irina walked to a bench and found that the bench had a name tag on it but neither of the names were hers. She finally located the bench that had her name on it but she didn't recognize the other girl. It was likely the other girl was in one of her classes but they hadn't meet. She hadn't meet anyone yet at the Academy besides the person who had checked her into Blue Ridge. The only other person she had talked to was her sister and the occasional 'hello' and 'goodbye' to her teachers. 

Irina grabbed a black apron and put it on tying it behind her. It covered her blue shirt. Irina read over the recipes on the bench and didn't bother saying anything to the girl who was her partner. The girl, Blythe, had already decided what recipe she'd be doing. She was irritated at the girl for deciding what recipe she'd be doing but none of her irritation showed at all. She would've probably chosen the savory recipe anyway but only if her partner didn't want to do it. It didn't matter to her. She had never done any of the recipes before and they would both be in a completely new direction for her. "Alright." She said. Her voice was cold. The way it normally was. The tone of her voice never bothered any of her friends or family but she had no idea how the regular tone that she had to her voice would affect the student's here. 

Once all the students arrived the teacher started the class. Once Mrs. Sims finished her introduction Irina went to go and get the ingredients and supplies she would need to make her savory cookies. 

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"Hello Ms. Sims" Amber greeted, as she walked into creative cooking class.  She was glad that she had gone to baking day and had briefly met her.  She looked around and saw that everyone was working with a partner, and not by themselves.  Amber would have preferred to work by herself, but at least she would be assigned a partner.  She hated it when teachers would tell everyone to pick their own partners because she never had anyone to partner with and she would either partner with the last person left or the teacher would put her in a group with some other students.

Amber looked around and found her name.  She recognized the girl she was working with but had never actually met her.  She looked at the other card and back at the girl, taking her spot beside her.  "Hello um... Miranda" she greeted, glad that the girl had a normal name and not a weird one that she would not be able to read or pronounce. 

Amber had never heard of pizza cookies before, but it seemed like an odd combination.  She glanced at the recipe.  "Um... I guess sweet" she answered, when she was asked, "if that's ok with you."

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With Mer at his side as she usually was, he entered the classroom that held his Creative Cooking class. He was curious how he'd be received - he figured dogs weren't all that welcome in there, but here of all places he preferred to have Mer by his side. Though a variety of ovens, microwaves and other equipment would make noises, he needed the extra set of ears for his beeps and buzzers. He really rather would not set his new school afire already, not when he actually quite liked it here, even if he was still the awkward new kid.

He greeted ms. Sims with a friendly smile and a not, got his apron , glad he was certain enough of his masculinity to wear it proudly and went in search of the station he was assigned to. It wasn't that hard to find, given that it was the second station. He ordered Mer to lay down next to it, hopefully out of the way, and looped the leash around the table leg once. He didn't make a knot, as he wanted her to be able to pull free if she needed to, but at least there was the illusion she was tied up. Sort of. A little. Only after that did he step away from Mer towards his partner for the day, offering the girl a hand and a smile. "Cara?" he asked, having read the name on the sign earlier. "Hello,[/i]" he then said, for her benefit, and signed, his own habit. "Sure," he signed after that, not minding having to work with the sweet recipe. He liked a little bit of sweetness, and the recipe was a rather unknown one, which would make it all the more interesting. Though cookies shouldn't be that hard. Technically. Although, having to decorate them while they still were not entirely cooled down complicated matters.

[Megan Sims]

Megs greeted the students as they entered and was pleased with how quickly her returning students got to work, even though she could see the puzzled looks from the pair that were used to being partners, and in some ways she felt sorry for the boy she had paired up with Cortney, but the girl would deal. She was impressed with the way that some of her newer students were fitting right into the stations and getting things sorted and ready to begin.

After her intro, she floated around the room as she watched the students begin their baking, letting them know that she was there if they needed her for anything. Though the first day of class was the only day that she actually floated, the rest of the classes, she would remain at her own station, possibly creating the same foods that the class were working on. She had another recipe for them on her bench, but there would be time for that later.

She clapped her hands to draw the students' attention, and because she knew the noise would also signal Kit to look up. "And just to throw a curve ball at you, there will be an added bonus for the team who each present their cookies the nicest." She left it at that, to give them the freedom of how they were going to present their cookies.

[Miranda Florin]

Miranda smiled as the girl that approached her table ended up being the girl that had also been present at the baking day during the summer, although she couldn't recall having seen the girl anywhere else before. But then, guessing by the age, she was an underclassman, so it wouldn't really be surprising if they didn't share any of the core classes... And she was focused on her horse during the equine ones.

As Amber decided on doing the sweet cookies, Miranda nodded, “Sounds good. Savory it is for me, then. If you have questions, though, I've taken this class for pretty much the past two and a half years, since I came to Blue Ridge, and I don't mind helping you out.” She wasn't sure about the girl's experience, but it couldn't hurt to offer. Hearing the teacher's voice, she grinned, looking at Amber, “We can do that.”

After checking the instructions for both cookies, she turned one section of the double oven to 430 F, before she began going through the cabinets to find what she needed. She pulled out a few bowls and began grating the cheese from a block, not wanting to use the pre-grated version that she found tasted different in cooking. After setting aside that bowl, she used a smaller one to separate the egg yolk, for when she needed it, before pulling out a mixing bowl and actually beginning to measure out the flour and butter. She then adding in a few pinches of basil, not too much, because she wasn't really a fan of the herb, but enough that the dough would have some flavor. Once done, she added in the cheese and yolk, mixed it together, and then finally formed it into a ball.

[Adonya van Rutherford]

Blythe ignored her partner's response, already knowing that she would ignore the other girl. As long as she knew enough to get out of her way, Blythe couldn't care less. As she was pulling out bowls and setting up her half of the oven, she heard Ms. Sims' voice, and nodded, glaring at her partner, “You'd better do your part. We're going to win this.”

After she had finished kneading the dough, she spread some flour on her workspace, making sure there was some on the rolling pin as well, and then began rolling out the dough into a big flat piece. Once that was done, she picked up the pastry cutter that she'd already dug out and began placing them onto the tray she'd prepared, before placing the ring into the middle of the shared space.

After adding little crusts, she used some milk to glaze the crusts, hearing the beep of the oven before she'd gotten halfway through. Rushing to get the rest of them done, it didn't take too long before she was pushing the tray into the oven, then turning to set the oven timer to fifteen minutes. She would be able to work from there if the cookies took a bit longer, after all.

[Cortney Smit]

Cartney arched an eyebrow when Chase replied to her. "It wasn't a question." She told him curtly.

Her eyebrow rose again at their teacher's words, though she wasn't too surprised as Ms Sims' loved doing this to them, adding a little extra pressure and reminding them that the class was about presentation as much as it was on the ability to follow a recipe.

She glared at Chase as she floated around the kitchen as she threw all of her ingredients into a bowl and mixed them together into the needed dough. "You had better not burn your half of this." She then rolled it out on the floured surface and grabbed the large circle cutter and stamped out six circles, which she transferred onto the lined baking tray and moved back to work the dough into the pizza crusts and then put them onto the bases and glazed them with the milk before she slid the tray into the preheated oven and set the timer on the microwave.

While the bases were cooking, she put the chocolate into a bowl, which she set over a pot of boiling water on the stove and set it to simmer to keep the water at an even temperature as the chocolate melted. And where she was standing also gave her a good view of what was happening in the oven.

[Cara-Jean Kitchi]

Cara turned back from turning the ovens on and froze when her eyes locked on the canine sitting on the floor and... she was returning from gymnastics, there were a number of cars parked outside the lot, meaning that there was a card game going on inside. As she walked though the yard, she knew something wasn't right. That was when she heard the first snarl and the lights offering the yard a shadowy effect, caught the eyes of a rather large canine. The first snarl was accompanied by another and another until there were a dozen of them surrounding her, eyes reflecting, lips curled and teeth showing.

Then, she heard the first of the laughing that would haunt her for months after the event, the laughter and then the voices that egged the dogs on. Encouraged the dogs to close in on the waif of a child. There was one voice that told her all she had to do was beg. Beg, and they would call the puppies away. She stood like a rock, keeping her breathing even as the dogs got closer and closer, the pack was closing in. One dog managed to tear a bit off her leotard, catching the skin on her hip with it's teeth before she crumbled and begged the men to call the dogs off me. She didn't cry, even back then she wouldn't show that much weakness, she just stood there and pleaded for them to call the dogs back.

The dogs were called off her and returned to their cars. Then the men told her what she had needed to do to thank them for calling the dogs back... she drew in a shaky breath as the memory dissipated and the home economics room returned to focus, her heart pounding as though she had just done a routine on the uneven bars and landed a new skill. The memory had taken no more than seconds to wash over her, but it had felt like a life time and she felt frozen because of it and she clenched her fists, as she could feel herself trembling. Shaking her head to clear it, she was instantly clear-headed again as she stepped forward.

She caught the signed answer and replied in like, without even thinking about it signed:I'm not too much of a fan of sugar. She set to work at one end of the bench, closest to the sink, starting with grating cheese, trying to keep her hands as far away from touching the crumbling block as she could. She closed her eyes when it was time to rub the butter into the bowl, washing her hands as quickly as possibly afterwards. Maybe cooking wasn't the best choice of classes for her? She raised her eyebrows at the teacher's words, though pushed them to the back of her mind as she used her hands to mix the ingredients in the bowl into a slightly sticky dough.

Once the pastry dough had been rolled out, she pressed the circular cutter into the dough and transferred the circles onto the readied tray. Cutting the ham into small pieces, she sprinkled ham, tomato and a hint of cheese onto the bases before she slid them into the oven keeping a careful eye on the time so that she didn't burn them.

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Pressing his lips into a line, he said no more than three words and he was already getting attitude from his partner. He wanted to take this class, but he as of right now he didn’t want to be with this girl. He rolled his eyes and looked at the recipe. He was actually glad that she had chosen the savory cookies for him as the recipe was shorter which he was fine with. Listening to Ms. Sims he knew he wouldn’t have a problem making the pizza cookies more than edible looking.

He set the oven to correct temperature and as it heated up Chase began to gather the ingredients for the “cookies”. Grabbing a large bowl, he wanted to make sure he would have enough room for all the ingredients. Starting with the flour and butter, the boy didn’t know if he was a fan of basil so he just added two pinches, along with the salt. He read the recipe to make sure the crumby appearance was supposed to happen, which it was. He let out a relieved breath and continued to work.

He hoped Cortney wasn’t critiquing him as he went, but then again what if she was Chase didn’t need her approval. Adding the cheese he had previously grated and egg yolk the dough started to come together. Smiling he spread some flour on the counter and began rolling out the dough. Once he was done with the rolling he cut out the circles. With the left over dough he added crust, with the toppings he decorated it to the best of his ability which was pretty nice looking. He slid them into the oven and set the timer.