Cooking With Gladio

[callmegladio]

Who: Gladio and OPEN
What: Gladio cooks. ^^ Come by and eat his food, it's not half bad!
Where: Kitchen, mainly.
When: Fiddlesticks day 8. Afternoonish.


While he may not have been a fancy cook or professional in any way, Gladio wasn't a slouch in the kitchen. He knew his way around and he could rustle something up in a pinch if he needed to. So that's how he ended up in the kitchen with Noct teaching him how to make a simple spaghetti and sauce meal. Though he did go a little adventurous and make meatballs for it as well.

It was strange to make something for so many people though. He normally had a hard time gauging amounts and would often make too much of a thing. Now they were deliberately doing that to make sure that everyone on the train had a chance to eat (and seconds, if they wanted!)

With the train rocking as it was, once the HUGE pan of spaghetti was made, Gladio kept it in the kitchen where it was safe. He had bowls ready. When the guys got hungry, he would be ready.

In the meantime... he decided to make cupcakes as well.

Comments

[sonoflucis]

Noct shook his head. "I've watched Iggy make cake and stuff, but I've never made any myself." He was excited. "We're going to color the frosting?"

[callmegladio]

"If you want to." He'd pulled them down just in case Noct had wanted to be a little more adventurous.

Once he had everything he thought they would need, he flashed a wide smile at his boyfriend. "What I want you to do is mix the butter and sugar for me." He said, even as he started to add those things to a bowl. He passed the bowl to Noct with a wink. "Light and fluffy, that's the texture you're going for. I'll work on the rest to add to it when you're done."

[sonoflucis]

"Yeah! Colors are always good." He grinned. When he was handed the bowl he nodded and started mixing. "Light and fluffy..." He murmured, concentrating on his mixing. When he thought the texture was right, he looked at Gladio. "Like this?"

[callmegladio]

In another bowl Gladio sorted out the dry ingredients, the flour and cocoa powder and wondered if they should add any chocolate chips... But when Noct spoke and pulled his attention away from his musings, he remembered another thing.

"Yeah, those are great. Just need to add eggs." Gladio reached for them and with a laugh he held one out. "Think you can crack it without it exploding?" He took one and showed Noct how to do it first, tapping the shell against the bowl and breaking it in half into the bowl.

[sonoflucis]

Noct was as focused as he would be during training, on his good days. He nodded and attempted to break the egg. He cursed softly as a tiny piece of shell fell in. "Should I dig that out?"

[callmegladio]

Kind of expecting it, Gladio had a spoon waiting and handed it over.

"If it helps... first time I cracked an egg I actually did explode it. Ruined the whole thing." A little shard of egg shell was easy to get out. Many shards, not so much.

[sonoflucis]

"How did you make it explode? Did you just squeeze it?" Noct laughed. He tried to imagine Gladio with egg all over.

[callmegladio]

"Kind of..." Gladio winced at the memory. "I didn't crack it enough, tried digging my fingers in the tiny crack I'd made and... egg everywhere." And Iris had laughed so hard he'd worried she'd rupture something.

Chuckling, Gladio nodded to the bowl. "Get to stirring, Princess. We've cupcakes to make!"

[sonoflucis]

Noct continued to laugh and mix at the same time. He started humming as he continued. "This is going to be so good!"

[callmegladio]

Gladio didn't mind being laughed at. It had been pretty funny. Not at the time of course, ruined cake mix and egg on his face had been enough to make hum grump. But afterwards he had found the humour in it.

He added another two eggs as Noct mixed the wet ingredients, they were making cupcakes for a lot of people after all. And when he thought the mix was ready, he slowly began to add in the dry ingredients while Noct continued to stir. "Hard to make them taste bad. What do you think about chocolate chips in the mix? Would that make them more muffin like?"

[sonoflucis]

Noct continued to mix, shaking his head. "I think the thing that makes muffins what they are is that they have no frosting." Noct said. "So let's put them in!" Chocolate chip cupcakes sounded amazing.

[callmegladio]

"That's one way of looking at it." Gladio chuckled and went off to grab the chocolate chips he'd seen in the cupboard. Then he added a good amount to the mix with a grin. "Really hope that doesn't ruin them... But should be hard. It's chocolate!"

[sonoflucis]

"I can't imagine they would be ruined!" Noct grinned. "Even if the textures different, it'll still be a chocolate pastry!" And there was nothing wrong with that. He mixed the bowl eagerly, humming softly. "I just want to eat the batter, honestly."

[callmegladio]

Gladio chuckled and gave a shake of his head. "Lets not risk you getting sick, huh?" He reached out and gave Noct's hair a gentle ruffle before he pulled away to find a baking tray.

"Won't take long for them to cook. Should have enough for a few batches there..." While he was at it be found an ice cream scoop they could use for scooping up the batter to make uniform cookies.

[sonoflucis]

"Yeah, don't worry. Once when I was little was enough to teach me." Noct laughed. He didn't know why, but he loved when Gladio ruffled his hair.

"I hope everyone will like them." He smiled gently. "Would be a waste if they didn't."

[callmegladio]

The cupcake tins were greased as well as Gladio could get them. Without liners it would be tricky to keep them from sticking. So with a smile he handed the scoop to Noct.

"Once is always enough. You wanna get the batter into the trays?" He asked as he slid the tray closer to his boyfriend.


(ooc: I realise I said cookies before. I'm clearly an idiot!)

[sonoflucis]

Noct smiled and began scooping the batter into the tins. After scooping all the batter in, he looked up at Gladio. "So now we just bake, yeah?"

[callmegladio]

"Now we bake! And then clean." Gladio grinned widely. The ovens were already warmed up so he gestured for Noct to take two of the trays to put in one oven while he put the other two trays in the one beside it.