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Sara Smith || Innocent Sweetheart || Bliss Stage ([personal profile] otomechapilot) wrote in [community profile] synopsychic2018-03-04 07:30 am

Hey baby I hear the blues a-callin, tossed salads and scrambled eggs (ota)

(A peppy - dare I say Jaunty - tune is sent into the heads of the newcomers and old guard alike...)

Heeeey what’s up guys, welcome to Liminal Space. The voice in your head courtesy of our psychic network is Sara Smith, and I figured what better way to welcome new and veteran Travellers alike this month of Easter and Passover with a bit of holiday cooking?

You can, of course, tune this out or listen in at any time - I’m making this private but unsecured, so it won’t bother you if you don’t want to see out of the eyes of a girl offering to teach you how to cook and explaining a bit of how we do things here. “But Sara,” you may ask, “how do you secure a psychic message?” That’s a great question, and if you ask, I’ll teach you! Until then welcome to Snackin’ with Sara.

(Yeah, about that. Making an opt-out is what she thinks she’s doing. What she’s actually doing is, uh, publically livestreaming. Whoops.)

(She starts the livestream, and as promised, you see out of her eyes - in an industrial kitchen made mostly of stainless steel.)

Today’s dish is from my homeworld, classic scrambled eggs on toast. Say what else you will about a world where a 15 year old is a lieutenant in a giant robot squad fighting aliens, we always had really fresh chicken eggs, laid every morning by our girls Tagine, General Tso, Lemon Pepper and Veloute. Now we don’t have a henhouse in Liminal Space. What we do have...

(She snaps her fingers, and suddenly, eggs. One in her hand, two more on a plate, and for that matter there’s also now a log of chevre and a stick of butter.)

...is Liminal Manipulation. Yes, in return for this itty bitty living space and the mark of one of our hosts - (she waggles her hand, the one with a stick figure merrily dancing off a number zero) - We get phenomenal cosmic powers, which I’d be happy to teach. Your first tries are probably going to look, taste, and feel like paper pulp, but with practice you should get beautiful delicious eggs just like Tagine used to lay, and that’s for starters.

So what you’re gonna do is melt this much butter - like two tablespoons, be generous - in a small saucepan over medium heat. Let it get nice and frothy before cracking in three eggs - wash them if they aren’t American prewashed ones that you keep on ice - and stir, gently, and constantly. You’re going for maximum floof here, make it nice and creamy, and remove it from the heat if it’s cooking too fast. They shouldn’t brown.

Add two generous tablespoons of creamy goat cheese - or shredded swiss or cheddar, I’m not your boss, but it’s what we had at base - and salt and pepper to taste. Herbs de Provence also work great here. Keep stirring until where the egg ends and the cheese begins is a mystery. When it’s done, it’s done, and take it off the heat!

Spoon it over toast - I like a thick slice of sourdough fried in butter but I’m from Postapoc Anime San Francisco - and sprinkle with chives. And now you have a delicious almost custardy hearty breakfast. Add some bacon and fried mushrooms, tomatoes and squash on the side and you have a meal substantial enough for combat cond-

(A claxon sounds, and a red light flashes, with a gravelly-voiced warning of “Nightmare detected. All Pilots and Anchors to the ANIMa creche immediately!” Sara, unable to maintain kayfabe, giggles.)

Aaand gotta eat and run, duty calls. If you have any questions, especially dumb newbie ones, please ask! I’ll be serving food in my room, look for the amazing technicolor dream-cat. Thanks for Snackin’ with Sara, toodles!
neverfeltthatway: (instability the anime the manga)

[Private, psychic protection ii]

[personal profile] neverfeltthatway 2018-03-05 06:46 am (UTC)(link)
...I should probably tell you that that wasn't actually a private channel. Everyone could see it, if they didn't have psychic mute active.

And if it had been a private channel, only those you were directly streaming to or those with filter intrusion would have been able to see it. I'm afraid we don't currently have an option to opt in to a network post, barring the audience having the skills I mentioned.
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[personal profile] neverfeltthatway 2018-03-05 06:56 am (UTC)(link)
Well, the network isn't something you stream over. If someone else had something important going on, you don't get one or the other, you get both at the same time. Though it's true it can be hard to keep track of, if you're not used to it.

It's not something we currently have, no. But I don't know if anyone's ever looked into working it out. I don't generally make group posts, and when I do it's usually important enough I want everyone to hear them. So it's not something that had occurred to me before to work on.
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[personal profile] fruitknife 2018-03-05 08:48 am (UTC)(link)






You named one of your chickens Tagine. [Someone sounds like he's not sure what to make of that.]
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[personal profile] fruitknife 2018-03-05 08:59 am (UTC)(link)
...Yeah, okay, fair.
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[personal profile] fruitknife 2018-03-06 06:09 am (UTC)(link)
More likely to just make shit myself, you know. [Which isn't telling her to stop by any means. Competent cooking instructions are a thing Shinji Approves Of.]
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[personal profile] neverfeltthatway 2018-03-06 06:15 am (UTC)(link)
Would you like to get together to work on figuring it out?

[Because sometimes it's easier to talk about things in person, and Armin often finds that brainstorming ideas fits into that category.]
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[personal profile] fruitknife 2018-03-06 06:52 am (UTC)(link)
Might see what I can challenge you with, then.
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[personal profile] blinktomissit 2018-03-07 09:01 am (UTC)(link)
Hey, yeah, so, hi. Big fan. Love the program, great exit. But quick question - how do we get from pulp to delicious fresh eggs? Asking for a friend.
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[personal profile] neverfeltthatway 2018-03-08 06:59 am (UTC)(link)
Whichever you prefer.
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[personal profile] fruitknife 2018-03-08 07:18 am (UTC)(link)
Maybe. We'll see. [That has nothing to do with Sara's whole cooking show in general and everything to do with Shinji's general self-confidence issues.]

You really think you're gonna run out of ideas that quick?
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[personal profile] fruitknife 2018-03-08 07:35 am (UTC)(link)
...oh yeah, guess you did miss Cannibal Zombie Mermaid Hell. Bunch'a plague-carrying fish and no fresh shit to work with unless I went and made it myself. [The less said about his attempt to cook for Lupa, the better. At least he got portals out of the deal and could cut and run during the worst of the Deepsinger bullshit.]

Fuck if I know. If I figure out how to make magic food that tastes like whatever you want it to taste like, I'll let you know.
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[personal profile] fruitknife 2018-03-08 07:42 am (UTC)(link)
Or a lotta salted fish. Either way. [The sushi's probably better, though.]

...Fuck it, I'll do proper ramen for one of these things. Half'f everybody here probably thinks the packaged shit is good enough, or they hate it 'cause it's all they've had.
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[personal profile] fruitknife 2018-03-08 07:48 am (UTC)(link)
Of course real noodles and real soup. And heated sesame oil, can't forget that.

...Might be able to recreate a Hagakure Bowl. [Which means something to probably one person here, but hey.]

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