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[center][b]Day 5 Thursday[/b] [url=https://www1.flightrising.com/dragon/85074958][img]https://www1.flightrising.com/rendern/avatars/850750/85074958.png[/img][/url] [url=https://www1.flightrising.com/dragon/81784925][img]https://www1.flightrising.com/rendern/avatars/817850/81784925.png[/img][/url] [url=https://www1.flightrising.com/dragon/78694537][img]https://www1.flightrising.com/rendern/avatars/786946/78694537.png[/img][/url][/center] “What am I doing here?!! I can’t cook!!!” Levin flailed and attempted to run away, but Madel chased after him and grabbed him with just one arm, keeping him in place. “Mochi wants you here.” She asked for the two of them specifically, much to everyone’s surprise. Neither Madel or Levin are known for their cooking skills (though they’re pretty good at social deduction games). “You don’t even have to do anything, just stay and watch. [i]Maybe[/i] you’ll be asked to do something, but it’ll be helping her stir things or get ingredients. It’s not much. Plus, you know her and Cocoa are buddies. It’ll be fun for them.” Cocoa is Levin’s familiar and is about the same size as Mochi. Madel and Levin glanced over at the station where the little Bantam Fangar was watching Mochi prepare the [b]Brussels Sprouts[/b]. Covering them with cinnamon and a lot of sugar. They looked so happy. Levin sighed and approached the station. “Soooo, Mochi. Whatcha making? Do you-do you need anything in particular? Any help?” [i]Please say no.[/i] Levin thought to himself. Mochi stared at him, at Madel, and at the chickens that are often following Madel around fearlessly. She then pointed at the Coral Grouse. [center][b]“Comfort food! Fried chicken!!”[/b][/center] [quote=Day 5] Use at least [b]THREE[/b] of the following ingredients in your entry: [center] [item=Coral Grouse][item=Cricket][item=Pumpkinseed Sunfish][item=Brussels Sprouts] [b]Coral Grouse / Cricket [/b]/ Pumpkinseed Sunfish / [b]Brussels Sprouts[/b] [/center] [/quote] “Don’t look.” Madel said to the chickens, perhaps they don’t know what’s happening. Or they don’t care, many winged fowls have been cooked during this festival. With a shrug, she got to work: plucking the feather, breaking down the [b]Coral Grouse[/b], and preparing it to be fried. Buttermilk and [b]Cricket flour[/b] are mixed into a bowl. Levin was terrified of the blender, but he figured out how to get cricket flour by using the mortar and pestle to crush the crickets first and then a handheld pepper mill to throughly grind them. Meanwhile Mochi was melting at least three [gamedb item=51956] in a pot. Together, they’ll coat the pieces of Grouse in the buttermilk-cricket flour mix and then fry them in butter. [center][b]Serve the Fried Grouse with some roasted Brussels sprouts, voila![/b][/center]

Day 5--Comfort Foods [url=https://www1.flightrising.com/dragon/29058499][img]https://www1.flightrising.com/rendern/350/290585/29058499_350.png[/img][/url] Tomato Soup is the comfort dragon of the clan, everyone turns to her once the theme is revealed. She looks at the ingredients, thinks for a minute, and says 'some quick bread is always a comfort!' The [b]crickets [/b]get put into a flash freezer, then pulverized into a flour. The [b]sunfish[/b] are roasted and salted as usual. The [b]brussel sprouts[/b] are shredded into small pieces. She mixes the cricket flour into a batter with some regular flour, baking soda, and sugar, and beats in an egg and some oil (thankfully vegetable oil today, not fish oil). She folds in the shaved brussel sprouts and the toasted pumpkinseed fish, and adds some chopped cherries as well. The entire mass has a green cast from the sprouts, but smells yummy. She pops it into the oven for an hour, and goes over to befriend the [b]grouse[/b], which coos happily at Tomato. After letting the bread cool, she puts thick slices onto plates for the judges. It's a simple dish, but quite homey!

[center][url=https://www1.flightrising.com/dragon/19986709][img]https://www1.flightrising.com/rendern/350/199868/19986709_350.png[/img][/url] [/center] The dish Leonidas enjoyed the most after a long workday was a very simple one: skewers! Practical and quick, you could just prepare them with your favorite food, whatever it was. [center] [item=Coral Grouse][item=Cricket][item=Pumpkinseed Sunfish][item=Brussels Sprouts][/center] Although these brussels sprouts didn’t evoke comfort to him, appearances could be deceptive. He tasted one of the small vegetables and grimaced, it was really awful. The spiral settled at a table after picking up a few extra ingredients to make his favorite sauce and also to do something with these inedible sprouts. Oil, finely diced garlic and a pinch of spice were poured then mixed in a recipient. He plunged the brussels sprout in the mixture to let it marinate for a bit. Next, he prepared the barbecue sauce. He crushed some tomatoes and boiled them in a pot. He added some vinegar, a lot of sugar and a little oil The grouse and sunfishes were respectively plucked and scaled, he seasoned them afterwards along with the crickets. These ingredients and the marinated sprouts were carefully threaded on several bamboo sticks. Leonidas set the skewers on a grill and hummed while the food was cooking. He loved the distinctive smell of charcoal and grilled meat. He merrily displayed the skewers on a plate and added a small ramekin full of barbecue sauce on the side. [color=transparent]-[/color][i]Grilled food was the best![/i]

[quote]Use at least THREE of the following ingredients in your entry: Coral Grouse / Cricket / Pumpkinseed Sunfish / Brussels Sprouts[/quote] [url=https://www1.flightrising.com/dragon/89500818][img]https://www1.flightrising.com/rendern/350/895009/89500818_350.png[/img][/url] Hmmm, this one is particularly challenging... Mus Rattus thinks hard about it before coming up with an idea. He takes some potato onions and peels them before setting in a pot to boil. While they are cooking, he takes some brussel sprouts and washes them before peeling them into leaves and chopping them. Putting a bit of vegetable oil over them and salt, he sets them in the oven to roast for a short period of time. The pumpkinseed sunfish is seasoned and baked until the flesh is a golden brown and a bit crispy to the touch! Mus Rattus waits for it to cool before peeling slivers off and setting into a bowl. He doesn't want to get burned! Finally, he takes some crickets and mashes into a paste. When the potato onions are done, he waits for them to cool before mashing them. Then, he mixes chunks of fish, slivers of brussel sprouts, and cricket into the mixture. With his claws retracted he forms patties from the mix. He then heats some more vegetable oil in a pan and fries the patties until crispy on the outside. Voila, some delicious potato onion cakes!

[center][size=5]Round 5[/size] [url=http://flightrising.com/main.php?dragon=44582027][img]http://flightrising.com/rendern/avatars/445821/44582027.png[/img][/url][url=http://flightrising.com/main.php?dragon=48996522][img]http://flightrising.com/rendern/avatars/489966/48996522.png[/img][/url][url=http://flightrising.com/main.php?dragon=70115558][img]http://flightrising.com/rendern/avatars/701156/70115558.png[/img][/url][/center] [color=green]"I'm out,"[/color] Gladys laughs, not wanting to take the reigns for this. Nearly everything she makes could be considered comfort food. [color=maroon]"If I give you tomorrow and Saturday, can I take this one?"[/color] Spire asks, wiping her paws on a clean towel [color=magenta]"Sure! I don't mind!"[/color] [color=maroon]"Nice! I've got something that'll work"[/color] [quote name="Cricket Fritters"] [center][b]Round Captain:[/b] [url=http://flightrising.com/main.php?dragon=48996522][img]http://www1.flightrising.com/rendern/portraits/489966/48996522p.png[/img][/url] [b]Dish type:[/b] Bar Snacks and Appetizers [b]Subregion: [/b] Aswon Wilds [b]Diet: [/b] [emoji=insect size=1] [emoji=plant size=1] [emoji=seafood size=1] [b] Required Ingredients:[/b] [item=cricket] [item=pumpkinseed sunfish] [item=brussels sprouts] [left][b]Additional Ingredients:[/b] [item=vegetable oil] frying oil with a high smoke point [item=salt] [item=blacktongue pepper] salt and pepper to taste [item=red chicken] 2 whole eggs [item=bell goat] 1/2 cup of milk [item=red maple leaf] maple syrup for drizzling [item=cindermint] a pinch of cindermint (cinnamon also works)[/left] [/quote] Gladys and Spire have made hush puppies before. These are not hush puppies. While the cornmeal treats are certainly comfort food of their own right, these fritters are lighter, fluffier, and run very little risk of becoming greasy if ill-prepared. Gateau sifts the cricket flour carefully, ensuring that she measures by weight and not volume. Gladys and Spire tend to the fish and vegetables. Sunfish are selected, filleted, and toasted until flaky. The brussels sprouts are cut into small pieces; they can't bog down the fritters with their weight. Gateau carefully folds her eggs, spices, and milk into the cricket flour. [color=magenta]"Spire, I think we're ready!"[/color] While she and Gladys mix the fish and brussels sprouts in, Spire contents with the fryer. Oil is heated to a ripping hot temperature. They drop spoonfuls of batter into the pool, turning when they become golden brown. Soon they're draining on a wire rack, and Spire drizzles maple syrup over them. [color=maroon]"Fried food is always a comfort; it's a quick way to pack on weight in the lean months."[/color] [color=magenta]"Or the less-than-lean months,"[/color] Gateau chuckles. [color=green]"Never let it be said any of us are skinny chefs,"[/color] Gladys concurs.

[quote=Day 5] Use at least [b]THREE[/b] of the following ingredients in your entry: [center] [item=Coral Grouse][item=Cricket][item=Pumpkinseed Sunfish][item=Brussels Sprouts] [b]Coral Grouse[/b] / [s]Cricket[/s] / [b]Pumpkinseed Sunfish[/b] / [b]Brussels Sprouts[/b] [/center] [/quote] [url=https://www1.flightrising.com/dragon/70169796][img]https://www1.flightrising.com/rendern/350/701698/70169796_350.png[/img][/url] Fen hums in thought. "Well, I'm short on time today, so I'll just be wokking the ingredients." Fen washes and starts cooking the rice, after which he cuts the brussel sprouts into halves, slices onion and debones the fish. he also prepares the bird by removing the meat and cubing it. Then he minces the garlic and heats up a large wok, adding a generous dash of sunflower oil. He tosses the brussel sprouts, then puts them aside in a bowl and adds more oil to toss the garlic, onion and chicken. Then he adds fish sauce, oyster sauce, chili, brown sugar, ginger and cayenne pepper and finally the fish. "Whew, let's put some of our fluffy rice in a bowl, add a generous amount of our worked dish with some sesame seeds on top... Enjoy!"

The coral grouse was the first thing Pyre noticed. One of the few foods that she'd eat that wasn't insects. Practically buzzing with delight, she pulled off the legs and beak before defeathering.

As she began roasting the bird, she descaled the fish and began to char it, along with the brussel sprouts. Simple, yes, but it'd be right on theme.

Finally, she took some nearby sticks, kebobing the crickets before roasting them. The food was simple enough to arrange, meat in the center with sides of brussel sprouts, fish, and cricket kebobs.

She flew the dish over to the judges, hoping they'd be satisfied with her simpler meal this time.

[b]Mistral Meals - Day 5[/b] [center][url=https://www1.flightrising.com/dragon/90015474][img]https://www1.flightrising.com/rendern/350/900155/90015474_350.png[/img][/url][/center] Scorch scowled at the Weyr’s Sandsurges, who had come as a group to “support” him - if all the ribbing they were dishing out qualified as support. “You can cook?” [url=https://www1.flightrising.com/dragon/89249985]Suforuth[/url] had laughed when his name was pulled from the hat that morning, “I thought you only burned things!” And the rest of them seemed to think that meant they should bring up every single dish he’d ever … singed ... as if that weren’t all in the past! “Hey, hey,” said [url=https://www1.flightrising.com/dragon/90294918]Reishith[/url], “he did all right with those mushrooms I gave him to barbecue last week!” But that didn’t convince them, and they’d all decided to tag along and watch. As if he needed the extra pressure! The theme was comfort foods, which was a bit of a relief. (He was going to be wanting some when this event was done, for sure!) For him, that meant fried food, and it looked like all the required ingredients would fry up well. But the timing might be tricky. He filled some pots with neutral oil and fired up the heat, monitoring the temperature closely as he considered his prep. “What are you going to do, Scorch, [i]FRY[/i] everything?” called [url=https://www1.flightrising.com/dragon/93316353]Lizardeth[/url]. “As a matter of fact, I am!” he retorted. He made a sudden decision: “And you’re going to help! ALL of you!” He dragged them into the prep area and began assigning tasks, leaving the actual cooking to him. The [b]Coral Grouse[/b] needed to be plucked, cleaned, and cut into pieces, bone in, then floured, dipped in buttermilk, and then into seasoned breadcrumbs before going into a wire basket to deep fry in the largest pot. The [b]Pumpkinseed Sunfish[/b] was easily filleted, and given a beer batter coating, before being gently dropped into the hot oil of the second pot. The [b]Crickets[/b] first had to be frozen dead and then went directly into a greased skillet to pan fry with a little garlic and salt, until golden brown and nutty. “Ugh,” complained [url=https://www1.flightrising.com/dragon/93316352]Leapinth[/url], “my hands stink from that garlic you made me peel!” “Well, you aren’t done with it yet! I need some more minced up for the vinaigrette!” Everything had been pretty basic so far, but the [b]Brussels Sprouts[/b] were a little more involved. They had to be trimmed and sliced and deep fried until crispy, then mixed with some added ingredients. “[url=https://www1.flightrising.com/dragon/89249524]Heilequinth[/url], were you able to find everything on my list from the stores?” “Sure did!” she showed him. He had her measure out parsley, scallions, walnuts, currants and capers, passing the nuts and herbs to [url=https://www1.flightrising.com/dragon/89251841]Avelidarth[/url] to chop. “[url=https://www1.flightrising.com/dragon/89247009]Sassanath[/url], is that honey-Dijon vinaigrette ready?” “Just waiting on the garlic!” she replied. Scorch tossed the fried sprouts with the remaining ingredients, then poured the finished vinaigrette over and mounded it into a bowl. He tried a sample, and was pleased - it tasted just like his mom used to make! A bowl of fried crickets, a platter of fried chicken and fried fish… oh he was looking forward to some of that! He slapped Leapinth’s hands from the bowl of crickets. “Keep your garlicky mitts out of those until after the judges have sampled them!” he teased. She stuck out her tongue at him. Truly, they'd been a great help, and he hoped they'd all get a good meal out of it!