Recipe Requests?

[a_sweet_little_peach]

From: Ralsei
To: Everyone
Subject: Cooking!

Hello, folks! If you have any recipes you'd like to learn to make, I'm thinking about starting a radio show for teaching cooking.

Please suggest recipes here! I'm happy to work with you in person to figure out exactly what you're looking for too; just get in touch!

Comments

Sender: Isabela

[senorita_perfecta]

I got a recipe for something called arepas. They are these flat circular pancake like snacks that have assorted fillings inside them and are often made with ground maize flour. This recipe I have on hand comes from my Mama and she makes some of the best arepas you’ll ever get to taste.

[a_sweet_little_peach]

Oh, that sounds wonderful, Isa! I doubt I could ever match your mother's cooking, but I'd be delighted to share the recipe! We can work on getting everyone else to appreciate the cooking from your home, too!

It sounds like theyu're savory? Or are they one of the dishes that has variants for both savory and sweet versions?

[senorita_perfecta]

That is great to hear. It is going to be difficult to match up to her skills but she would be more than happy to see people getting to learn how to make arepas and enjoying them so much.

They tend to be the savory side most of the time and they are plenty of filling options to choose from. The most common recipes I am familiar with have either cheese or butter as the main filling but you can stuff them with eggs, meat, fish, shrimp, beans, tomatoes, or yuca and fried pork rind.

[a_sweet_little_peach]

Oh, that sounds wonderful!

Butter makes everything better, in Ralsei's experience. And here in Reverein, they don't even need to worry about making sure food is healthy. He hopes his cooking habits don't transfer back over to his real -- other -- self. Not that he normally needed to for himself, anyway, but it's a bad habit to get in for cooking for friends.

It sounds very versatile! I'll have to try and work out how best to make it myself, and then you can tell me what I'm doing wrong, heehee. I'm not familiar with yuca, though; what's that?

[senorita_perfecta]

Certainly. I will definitely help with the cooking and test until we’re able to get to the result that we all like the most. That’s the fun of cooking: trying until you get the perfect recipe down.

Yuca is a type of starchy root that are harvested from a woody shrub of the same name. The roots are usually long and tapered with a firm flesh of homogenous nature encased in a thick and rough detachable brown rind.

It is commonly used in a lot of tropical based cuisines on Earth like the Americas, Africa and Asia. And we do use it in Colombian cuisine quite often: on soups, desserts, bread, and meat pies or even its own.

sender: sephiroth

[sefirot]

Are there not more important things to discuss on a show?

[a_sweet_little_peach]

Maybe! But Alastor's asking for people to host shows, and I had an idea for one. I bet he'd be happy to have you host one if you'd like to as well!

What sort of show would you want to have?

sender: Flowey

[your_best_friend]

Hold up. Are you sure you know how to cook physical food? I don't think anyone here knows how to make magical food.

[a_sweet_little_peach]

Yep! I had to learn a while back because most people can't make magic food, and I wanted to be able to share recipes. Turns out it's kind of fun to do, anyway!

I'd recommend it!

[your_best_friend]

Show little old me proof. Make me a physical Soufflé. Without it collapsing. I'll be there when it should be done!

[a_sweet_little_peach]

Oh, a challenge! I'll do my best! Call it... four hours from now.

That should give him enough time to figure it out. He's seen the recipe before, but never made it. It shouldn't prove too much trouble for him, though. He spends almost as much time cooking as manning his shop. Oh, he should maybe get Flowey a little wool cozy to keep him warm; winter is on its way, after all... Later, though!

Sweet or savory?

[your_best_friend]

Savory! Four hours, okay! Little old me will see you then!

[And now to do something else for four hours.]

Sender: Madoka

[puellamagi]

This is really nice of you. But, there's so much I want to try to make, I'm not sure where to start...

Would choosing something to bake be okay...? I think being able to bake a cake would be a lot of fun. But... I've never been all that good in the kitchen...

[a_sweet_little_peach]

That makes sense! I'd recommend starting with cupcakes. It's not quite the same thing as a cake, but it's a good place to start with baking things, and will help you get a feel for it. I'll be sure to include a recipe for cupcakes on one of my first shows for you!

If you need help with making them, let me know, and I'll be happy to come over and help in person, too.

[puellamagi]

That's really kind of you. I wouldn't want to be a burden, though... Especially when you're already offering to help so many people already.

But... I can give it a try! At least, it'd be really nice if I could bake something for my friends both here and at home...

[a_sweet_little_peach]

Oh, you wouldn't be a bother at all, I promise!

It's really fun to be able to make food for people. I bet you'll love it!

A smiling goat stick figure is drawn in the margins.

Is there anything you already know how to make, or are you learning cooking for the first time?

[puellamagi]

( Oh, no... How cute! Madoka draws a cat in return. It's a messy sketch, but it's easy to tell what it is all the same. )

It's always fun to share food with the people you care about, so... I'm sure that it's even better to make something for them, too.

I've never really tried baking at all before... I think that sometimes... it can be hard to try to start something new, but a friend told me that it was all about just following a recipe.

But, if you're sure then -- I'd love to try to learn.

[chocobosnap]

Do you think people can learn to make pizza that tastes like take out?

I mean, unless you know how in which case...give me your secrets!

I miss pizza so bad.

[a_sweet_little_peach]

I know how to make pizza, but unfortunately it has that homemade flavor to it, haha! I can ask around to see if anyone knows how to make it how you'd like it, though.

[chocobosnap]

It's okay if you can't, take out pizza is practically magic.

[a_sweet_little_peach]

Maybe we can work together to figure it out! Then I can teach you to make it, and you can provide take out pizza for everyone!

[herewardbound]

Do you, perhaps, have an option for people who appear to be supernaturally incompetent at cooking?

[a_sweet_little_peach]

I can teach you personally, if you'd like!

But for the show, yes, I intend to have at least one beginner-friendly recipe per broadcast. These will have very precisely-apportioned ingredients, and explicit instructions on everything you are to do.

If you or anyone you know has trouble with those, let me know -- the intention is that they are easy enough to make for people that aren't familiar with cooking, like yourself, so it's a failure on my part if they don't work out!

[littletomato]

Oh, I have lots of recipes I can share, if you want! I've had to kind of adapt all of them to different ingredients, since I've been here, but I'm really proud of them!

[a_sweet_little_peach]

Oh, that would be wonderful!! I'd be happy to share your recipes, or even have you on for a guest show some time.

Maybe Isa -- Isabela, sorry, she's a friend of mine -- could help you get some of the original plants you used to make them from? I can help grow things with my dreamotion powers, but I can't make it of nothing like she can. Except vines.