COOKING MEME: Ultern Edition

[ulternnpc]

No matter in the fire, water, through grass or the forest--eating is essential! Even in the sunny and peaceful island region of Ultern people are out and about getting ready for today's meal. Now, what's on the menu for today?

 

1. Kame Kame Attack
You want to show just how much you care through your food! Even if the person (or pokemon) is stuffed, they need to eat more! They're so thin and withering away! What better way than to tell them there's always seconds or thirds?

2. One Minute Cooking
Is it your first time in the kitchen? Do you want to improve on how to cook? Time to turn to a friend or family member for help!

3. Koffing Class Curry
WHAT EVEN IS A BAKING SHEET? Oh my Arceus what am I doing?! Who even eats goya or yago anyway?! Everything is happening so much in the kitchen! You're a hot mess (as is the kitchen!), and you can't help but panic. Who do you call in a pinch like this?!

4. My stomach's growling like crazy!
Man that smells so good... what's there to eat?! You're just so starving you're withering away. If only there was someone with a nice meal to the rescue. Or are you able to fight your stomach and go down to the closest store to grab some food?

5. Augh...my stomach…
What was in that meal just now? The person who gave it to you meant well probably, but their cooking skills are not up to snuff. Is there a polite way to tell them to stop? Or perhaps it’s beyond the point of being polite. Either way it’s time to stop before anyone else falls victim!

6. REVENGE BENTO
Revenge is a dish best served cold. Or y’know be a bento box with nothing but rice in it with nori bits spelling out “curry” while claiming you made curry for lunch. Or whatever other petty ideas that are in store to make the receiver of this meal to get your message.

7. Allez Cuisine!
Wild card! Pick and choose your prompt or come up with something new!

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[ulternnpc]

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[ulternprofessor]

If anyone wants to include Professor Banyan into some cooking shenanigans here's a thread top for him too!

wild card!

[gold_drum]

There's cooking going on in Banyan's kitchen today. Gold and a yukata-clad man who Banyan hasn't seen before, but who sure sounds a lot like Umbar, have taken over the kitchen. They're baking cookies. The batter is rising in a bowl, but for some reason, Gold is crushing something crunchy-sounding with a mortar and pestle. Umbar is watching with a sense of morbid curiosity.

"Egg shells?" he finally asks, with a raised eyebrow.

"They're edible," Gold says, as he keeps crushing them up. "You can mix them in like flour if they're fine enough."

"Ah." Umbar should probably put a stop to this, but he's very tempted to see how this goes.

[ulternprofessor]

Banyan here was entering into the kitchen without his trademark sunglasses, lab coat, or his hat once again (who needed those things inside the house?). He was just walking in with making some tea in mind until he noticed Gold and a man he was sure he hadn't met before.

Of course his first instinct was to approach to two eager to greet the new face.

"Ulsai you two!" He's beaming wide. It doesn't take him long to notice what was going on, as he saw the bowl of batter, and Gold working hard with crushing something. "Ooh? What's this? Gold are you baking something?"

[gold_drum]

"Ulsai!" Gold says with a cheerful grin, and Umbar just waves with a smile. "Yeah, we're baking cookies!" Gold says.

"Indeed," Umbar says, his smile a little forced now, as he glances at what Gold's crushing. "Cookies." He decides not to introduce himself, waiting for Banyan to realize who he is on his own.

[domeinion]

[From Napoleon's inedible poffins to Tulio's "sure, throw on one piece of lunch meat and call it good" sandwiches, one thing has been true throughout the years: Hosts cannot cook. So, while Alice is... trying, whatever is in that pot looks burned on one side and undercooked on the other, and even her Pokémon look wary.]

Come on, this can't be that difficult, can it?

[serperiority]

... that doesn't look safe to eat.

[Rude and uncalled for? Well, yes, but he felt it necessary.]

[domeinion]

[She pokes at it with the spoon and tries to stir the mess.]

I can't even tell what happened with this.

[serperiority]

… do you need help destroying the evidence?

One Minute Cooking [please help.......]

[timidlyblooming]

Lusamine was absorbed in her work for so long, she hadn't paid Lillie much attention (yet smothered her with excessive affection the rare times she was home... to Lillie's annoyance) and certainly hadn't been there to teach her many life skills. Her memories of cooking were very, very faint ones from early childhood (no help at all, sadly) or struggling to properly cut vegetables while the more motherly and present Professor Burnet guided her.

Although Lusamine had been regretful, up until very recently, Lillie and her family were too busy travelling in search of her long lost father to spend much time learning to cook and such... she could manage a soup or stew, though. It couldn't be too hard, right? As long as Snowy didn't try to help and accidentally freeze things.

Hot water, stock, some fresh vegetables Lillie cut a bit awkwardly and sometimes had to finish separating with her wooden spoon... that should do the trick, shouldn't it?

Oh, why wasn't the soup all changing colour? Was the stock supposed to sit in the middle there, like a strangely moist lump of sand at the bottom of the pot?

"U-um..."

[the cooking helper you need, but might not want]

[gold_drum]

Somebody's cooking? Awesome. Gold peers at Lillie, but doesn't notice she's having trouble, as his attention is drawn elsewhere.

"Hey, you gonna eat those?" Gold asks, pointing at the leftover vegetable pieces on the cutting board. The carrot ends, the onion outer layers, potato peels or whatever might be left. "If not, can I have them?"

After all, it's a waste to not eat something that can be eaten, in Gold's opinion.

[pampered princess couldn’t imagine it!]

[timidlyblooming]

“H-huh…? Oh! Yes, of course, but… can you really such things? Eat onion peels?” Lillie asked, dubiously. “If you’re hungry, I’m sure you can have a whole carrot! It’s much more filling.”

[gold_drum]

"I'll take a whole carrot too, if you've got some to spare," Gold says with a shrug, as he grabs a carrot end, "but I don't wanna see food wasted when I can still eat it. Onion peels can be kinda annoying to eat but if you fry them in oil they're good." Good in Gold's opinion, at least...

"Whatcha cooking, anyway?" Gold asks, before taking a bite of carrot and crunching away on it.

[lockedtrainer]

[ Listen. Tallie's not a bad cook, per se - there's only so many Lava Cookies a person can eat before they need to consume some protein - but there's a difference between throwing berries together in a pot while holed up in a secret base and hoping for the best, and cooking in a legitimate kitchen. (not to mention she never really made pokeblocks... whoops.)

As such, out of her element. There's a recipe on the counter in front of her, along with an array of ingredients to make something she's no doubt never heard of. There's a knife in her hand, too, held more like a weapon than a tool to chop with, but at least she has no intention of stabbing the person with her.

In fact, she's looking between them and the recipe card, before finally asking ] ... Do you know what this is?

[domeinion]

A knife?

[She's not even asking why the girl looks like Camila. Lots of people look like each other in TPP land. She's still going to think, though.]

Oh, wait, or did you mean the food?

[lockedtrainer]

[ ... okay, yeah, much as she wants to roll her eyes, that's not an unfair assumption to make. So she lowers the knife. ]

I meant the food.

[domeinion]

Oh! That makes more sense. Well, it looks like a recipe for some of their local food, so I'd assume the noodles can be used in something like ramen... I think I can recognize some of these berries, but some are a little strange, aren't they? It's like a pecha berry, but entirely the wrong texture.

[monologing]

[Today in Tallie's Kitchen live: Red. Has he cooked before? Questionable. He knows how to peel an apple, and open cans! That's a plus right? ...right?

Red on the other hand was staring at the apron he had been handed. Why did it have so much frills? Did he have to wear this? Before he could get lost in thought he turned to Tallie tilting his head.]

No. ...s'my first time trying to cook. Did you find that somewhere?

[droppedballs]

[ Good news: you have a semi-competent kitchen assistant in your endeavors.

Bad news: he can't seem to stop juggling the ingredients. Call it a bad habit or purposeful, but he might have every onion in the kitchen in his hands. Stop him? ]

Pokemon scarlet spoilers - so many spoilers

[past_it]

[She'd never cooked before.

There was no need. There still wasn't, she didn't need substance. Even outside of the lab and on this island, the crystals embedded in her skin hidden away under her clothes fueled her.

The professor hadn't cooked much either. It took too much time, she's stuck with things that were quick or could be cooked in a microwave.


And yet... Here she was in a kitchen armed with a frying pan and zero experience. Okay, the cooking time for this was ten minutes? Hm? But it was smoking at six minutes. She'd just observe it, it still had four minutes to go right.]

(Or just send a wildcard )

eats all the spoilers

[goingallout]

[The moment he caught a whiff of the scent of smoke, Ash immediately SLAMS THE KITCHEN DOOR OPEN and quickly sends out his Dracovish.]

Quick, use Water Gun at the stove!

[In no time, water splashes over Sada's frying pan. Ash then turns to her wearing a worried look.]

Are you okay ma'am!?

It's a whole feast of them

[past_it]

[It was fine, really. It still had two minutes of cooking time left. Not that it'd get those two minutes. The water had chilled the pan and waterlogged the 'dish'.

There was a lot to process here. Her cooking being ruined, the odd pokemon, the unknown child. Slowly she turned, expression flat.]

You smother the flames on stoves. Water can react to with the oil, making it worse.

[Safety first! Though she still wasn't sure what had caused him to be so concerned. ]

I wasn't in danger...

4 (small cw: disordered eating, immortal edition) + wildcard

[disarmingvoice]

[As an immortal, Calem has been able to ignore quite a few of his needs. The need for sleep is purely optional until he physically passes out or Florges and Gothitelle bully him; eating? Eating is simply something he does when he has no other options, and even then, he never usually eats well. Or very much.

It seems today, that's coming back to bite him in the rear. His stomach is growling, and it's more than enough to be heard, and he'll fix anyone who sees him with a sheepish glance.]

Ah--sorry about that, I don't know what's going on with me today...

((OOC: or, feel free to wildcard me~))

[ulternnpc]

[Here was Manzana in the middle of going out on a personal errand (to buy eggs) that his expression lit up seeing Calem. As he was approaching closer, happy to see Calem under more favorable circumstances.]

Calem, ulsai!

[It was then did he hear that growl. Manzana froze, staring at Calem like a Deerling caught in headlights when the younger boy had apologized to him. It felt like a slap to the face. He should have realized, Calem was out here all on his own. Maybe he was similar to how he had been when first arriving in Ultern. Afraid, alone... Calem was different from that kids he came across in Kalos. There was still a lot about him he didn't know, but what he did know now was Calem was walking around hungry!]

Sorry if I am overstepping but... have you had anything to eat at all today?

[disarmingvoice]

[Ah, Manzana...any other time he'd be a welcome sight, and even so, the man still is and gets a warm smile from Calem.]

Ah, ulsai, Manzana--

[Oh. Oh no, he heard--Calem chuckles a bit and rubs the back of his head somewhat sheepishly.]

Ah, no, no. You aren't overstepping. I've simply been so engrossed in my work that I haven't gotten the chance to eat today.

[It is probably nebulously evening time. Meaning he has skipped breakfast, lunch, and perhaps is aiming to skip dinner.]