Melete

creates jewelry infused with Arcane magic





working on a thing:

Despite her two clanmates previous failures with the cooking challenge, Melete was giddy with excitement to test her cooking skills! Since her grandhatchlings had begun to visit her every now and then, she had been doing a lot more cooking than metalworking. She had even begun to work her magic into her dishes, just as she did with the jewelry she created. Melete felt confident that she would blow away the judge with her cooking!

Though she was an herbivore and none of the mystery ingredients were plants, she did not feel discouraged. Her familiar - an Enchanting Goblin - had taken to helping her cook, tasting anything that Melete could not personally eat.

"Okay Goblin, are you ready to work some cooking magic? Help me carry these ingredients back to our work station." Melete said. Goblin simply nodded at her and began picking up the ingredients as Melete pointed them out. In addition to the mystery ingredients (Satin Mice, Fallout Whispers, and Balloon Belly Magis) they gathered some Fissure Crawdads, Steppes Pinchers, Sweet Potato Vines, milk, flour, butter, onions, celery, pepper, and corn.
Melete quickly got to work cleaning the ingredients, chopping them up, and turning it all into a chowder. As she worked, she chanted and carved runes into some of the ingredients. Occasionally she would have Goblin taste the ingredients after they were seasoned with a bit of salt, pepper, and garlic. When Goblin nodded to her to indicate the taste was good, she would move on to the next ingredient.

She had just put the finishing touches on her dish when the judge came by. She set the bowl and a spoon in front of him. The chowder seemed to subtly be changing colors and the steam coming off of it was shaped like stars.

"Hello there!" Melete said, greeting the judge with a smile, "Today I have for you a surf and turf chowder! I enchanted it to temporarily change your colors and to make you able to breathe out little puffs of stars. The effect should last about 5 minutes or so after eating it."

"I will tell you how I used each ingredient while you taste the chowder. I began by making the base of my chowder with the milk, flour, butter, onions, celery, pepper, Sweet Potatoes and corn since they would all take the longest to cook. The Satin Mouse meat has been seasoned with roasted leaves of Sweet Potato Vines and toasted Fallout Whispers, which I ground together into a flaky seasoning. I then grilled the Satin Mouse meat before adding it to the chowder. I carefully extracted the meat from the Balloon Belly Magi, Fissure Crawdads, and Steppes Pinchers and added that to the chowder just before adding the garnishes. Finally, I topped the chowder with toasted Fallout Whisper wings for a bit of crunch and additional color.