11calls: is it true you went missing for five days? (questioning)
Alex Reagan ([personal profile] 11calls) wrote in [community profile] thespherelogs2020-03-23 11:06 pm

Domes have smoke detectors, right?

WHO: Alex Reagan and Richard Strand
WHERE: Personal dome 300
WHEN: Today.
WHAT: Richard is trying to teach Alex to do some simple cooking. I'm sure it will go well.
WARNINGS: Nothing this is a cute damn thread because the world is a shitshow.


Strictly speaking, Alex Reagan can't even bake. The cookies that she makes around holidays and such are technically no bake ones, and whenever she tries to make any other kind they end up a disaster of the first order: burnt or raw, salt instead of sugar once at Nic's house, definitely without enough flour one time she picked up powder sugar for almond meal when she was trying to be gluten free. Of course, her attempts at actually cooking were something that were somehow even more laughable.

The biggest lie that Alex Reagan told on her show (other than that whole bit at the end, of course) was that with Hello Fresh she had managed to whip up gourmet meals. What she'd actually whipped up instead was gourmet ashes and a broken smoke detector. Which was fine! Living in a city had advantages, and the fact that you could get anything delivered to you was one of them. And there was also things like drive thrus, ez mac and frozen chicken nuggets.

But now she was trying to learn to look something that Richard said was easy, but then again it's Richard who had once been asked to be on Podcast Chopped, and Alex wasn't even allowed an EZBake oven as a kid. And now here she was trying to cook eggs. With a voice that had a bit of dubiousness in it, Alex can't help but to ask: "am I doing this right?"
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[personal profile] nobasisinfact 2020-03-28 05:25 am (UTC)(link)
Watching Alex cook was a wonder - or, an exercise in wondering just how badly you were going to need the fire extinguisher. For quite some time now Richard had banned her from the kitchen for anything other than coffee and sandwiches (things you didn't have to bake and an idiot would screw up). Now, however, she'd wanted to learn. He guessed it was because of all the things going on of late. So he'd obliged.

"If you like shell in your omelets." Reaching over he handed her a spoon. "You'll have to scrape them out."
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[personal profile] nobasisinfact 2020-03-29 03:19 am (UTC)(link)
"Use the spoon." Richard isn't going to let Alex use those stupid Buzzfeed things when there's a perfectly good spoon to work with. Besides, knowing her she'd just get more shell rather than getting the bit that's in there back out.
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[personal profile] nobasisinfact 2020-03-29 03:49 am (UTC)(link)
His brows raise as he watches her attack the eggs, then he can't help the smirk at the triumphant chirp. He figured she would get it out. It was just a matter of how long it would take for her to do so. "It seems we won't be having crunchy eggs."
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[personal profile] nobasisinfact 2020-03-29 05:11 am (UTC)(link)
"I'd beat the eggs before that." He gestures to the fork. Technically, she doesn't have to beat them at this moment, but Richard tends to do so to make sure they're beaten good.
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[personal profile] nobasisinfact 2020-03-30 11:26 pm (UTC)(link)
Reaching behind her he tilts the bowl slightly to keep the contents from spilling out. "A bit less vigor." There's a note of amusement in his voice.
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[personal profile] nobasisinfact 2020-04-03 03:46 am (UTC)(link)
He's going to ignore her snarky comment about their sex life. "The eggs are supposed to stay in the bowl, not on the counter."
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[personal profile] nobasisinfact 2020-04-03 04:17 am (UTC)(link)
"Yes." He lets go of her hands and stands back.
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[personal profile] nobasisinfact 2020-04-03 04:59 am (UTC)(link)
"You can use one if you want." It's not something he worries about. Sometimes you just don't want to wash all those dishes.
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[personal profile] nobasisinfact 2020-04-04 04:32 am (UTC)(link)
Richard simply sits back and watches. "When it's mixed well enough, put some butter in the pan and put it on low."
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[personal profile] nobasisinfact 2020-04-05 01:04 am (UTC)(link)
"You're not going to keep it on low."
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[personal profile] nobasisinfact 2020-04-05 01:43 am (UTC)(link)
"So you don't burn yourself on the butter splash."
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[personal profile] nobasisinfact 2020-04-05 02:10 am (UTC)(link)
"Not if you do it right."
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[personal profile] nobasisinfact 2020-04-05 02:34 am (UTC)(link)
Richard reaches over and turns the heat of slightly.

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