Alyssa thought and looked at the map. Scotland....hmmm...She slowly raised her hand and gave her answer. "Professor there's this Scottish dish called Haggis. It is a type of pudding that contains sheep innards and other stuff like onions and spices, and it used to be served encased in the sheep's stomach, but thankfully they now use sausage. I know that it's sounds very untasteful but I guess some people like it."

'I do hope we're not going to make it because I'm definitely not eating it.' Alyssa thought to herself.

Amelia bit her lip as she tried to think of a dish to contribute. Hmm. Finally she raised her hand. "There is Bouillabaisse from France. It's like a fish stew with at least three different kinds of fish in it. Sometimes shellfish and other seafood is added. It also contains vegetables like onions, leeks, tomatoes, potatoes, and celery. Traditionally the broth is served with a rouille, which is a mayonnaise made of olive oil, saffron, garlic, and cayenne pepper on slices of grilled bread." She felt like an encyclopedia now. :/

Jayden raised her hand slowly, listening to the other students answers as she waited. "Professor, there are the Bratwurst and Sauerkraut dishes that come from Germany." She piped up after being called upon. "The Sauerkraut is a more tangy kind of dish that is made with shredded cabbage and it works really well with the Bratwurst, which is a type of fried or baked sausage. Yum!" She finished, reminiscing the first time she had eaten it last summer on her trip out to Germany with her parents. Just the thought of all the delicious German cuisine made her mouth water.

Kennedy centered the stubborn chef hat on his head, it kept leaning from one side to the other. It was probably time for another hair cut. He listened to what was going on around him, while drumming his fingers on his lap. The energy of participating had left, in fact the energy of doing anything at all seem to have left him the minute he received a letter from his father.

He looked up and felt the chef hat wobble. Stay hat, stay! He figured since he was already in class he might as well do something, so he raised his hand. "There's Rote Grütze from Germany," he said. "It's a dish composed of berries and vanilla custard." He wasn't about to explain everything about it, just a bit of it. Plus, the time he had eaten it he hadn't cared what was in it just that it was good.

Vickers sat quietly, fidgeting with the Chef's hat in his hands. There was A LOT of European dishes he can choose from and pondered which country he would even start with. Might as well say something from his birthplace. He raised his hand as he replied "Professor, in Italy, there is a popular dessert called Tiramisu, its a layered cake made of savoiardi--more popularly known as Ladyfingers-- dipped in coffee and layered with a mixture of egg yolks and Italian cheese called mascarpone"

Lily liked the idea of making something for this class, especially something they could eat after. She sat quietly and listened to some of the other students before remembering a food from one of the countries. She raised her hand and spoke once it was her turn. "There are crepes, made of some sort of batter, from France. Then you put all kinds of toppings on them...I like putting chocolate on them or fruit..." The little ravenclaw grinned. Crepes would be perfect for this class. They were really easy to make and tasted really yummy.

Hannah thought about the question and tried to pay attention to everybody to make sure that she wasn't repeating any of the answers. With a raised hand she said "Professor there is Moroccan food which is famous for lamb and the flavoring of lemon pickle."


She had heard that they ate camel too, but surely that was a joke that just seemed nasty and weird.

Tayla took a sip from her cup of Cinnamon Dolce Latte and studied the map. Remembering something a childhood friend once let her taste, Tayla raised her hand and answered, "There's a sweet chocolate rice porridge called 'champorado' from the Philippines."

The professor felt her stomach growl a little bit as each of the students shared different dishes. They all sounded yummy and she couldn't wait to get started making and tasting their four dishes of the day.

As each student said their dish, they dish magically appeared on the screen and a dot appeared on the map place mats on the country of origin at each table. When the students had created a pretty good list, the professor continued, "Well it seems that majority are like me and favor the sweet stuff." she paused as she walked towards a table at the front of the classroom.

Once she reached the table, she grabbed the first basket on the left side of the table and opened the top. "Today we are going to be putting together four different dishes from the Western Hemisphere. None of these require any cooking just the preparation. You will find everything you need from the recipe to the ingredients to the preparation utensils in each of the picnic baskets. " She reached into her basket and as she mentioned each part, she would pull out an example from her first basket. "We are going to make a predinner snack, a salad, a fun drink, and a dessert all from different countries." She glanced out to make sure everyone was following what she was saying.

"So let's start with our first basket." she said holding up the basket slightly. "If you will go ahead and open the top and start laying out all of the contents on your table." She started as an example and named off everything she held up from the basket, "A recipe...a plate to place your predinner snack on when you are done...preparation utensils...and the various ingredients......" she laid everything out so that it was more accessible.

"Our predinner snack is from Australia and is known as Salmon on the Barbie Bites...these snacks are not native to Australia but are well known in the country. " She said as a picture of Australia appeared on the screen. "They are pretty simple to make...so let's give a try..." she said holding up the recipe. "Please follow the directions to create our first dish."








OOC: Please RP creating the first dish. You should use atleast two posts to complete the dish. Please continue to keep conversations to a minimum.

After titling her parchment with Western Hemisphere recipes, Kurumi jotted down the instructions on the board and then went to open her basket when...she got confused. Wait, did Professor Cerulean just say Australia? But...that wasn't in the Western Hemisphere. Before beginning, Kurumi raised her hand. "Um...professor...isn't Australia in the Eastern Hemisphere?" It was easy to mix up directions in one's head, so perhaps that is what had just happened?

Grabbing a bowl and using a cloth to make sure that its contents were clean, Kurumi added her cream cheese, sour cream, lemon juice, and chives to it before grabbing a spatula to begin working everything together. Really, she was tempted to just use her hands. That always made the ingredients warm up which helped with the mixing process, but she refrained for now and continued to work away with the spatula until everything was blended together and smooth.

Now grabbing a cutting board, she didn't want to get the table covered in salmon juices, Kurumi laid out the salmon so it was nice and flat and then returned her attention to her spatula so she could begin applying a thin layer of the mixture to each one.

Amelia blinked as they were told that they were going to start off the class with a dish from Australia. Last time she had checked Australia was in a different hemisphere from them. She was about to raise her hand and mention it when Kurumi beat her to it. Meh.

She started copying down the instructions as she waited to hear the answer to the question.

Feeling a little bit embarrassed the professor replied to the two students' questions, "O yes...I meant Eastern Hemisphere...sorry everyone...I get my directions confused alot..." she said with a little nod up and down....she had to admit that she was a little embarrassed and frustrated...couldn't the girls have figured out what she meant...she was only human and made mistakes after all...

Amelia didn't like that the Professor was embarrassed, but she was still a little confused right now. Hopefully she wouldn't mind anther question. She raised her hand. "It's okay, Professor. Happens to us all. So we're doing dishes from the Eastern Hemisphere then?" she asked for clarification.

Alyssa listened as the Professor explained that they would making dishes from the Western Hemisphere...no correction...Eastern Hemisphere. So she opened up the basket floating above her table as instructed and looked inside. She reached in took out everything that was lying in it and laid them on the table in front of her. There was the recipe, plates, cooking utensils and the ingredients. Their first snack was going to be an Australian one. 'Cool. The Meal from Down Under' Alyssa thought to herself as she looked at the recipe.





Alyssa studied the recipe instructions again, and scratched her head. She was good with certain stuff but cooking wasn't her forte. But how hard could it be to follow directions. That was something she was good at. So looking at the first steps to making the dish, she identified the cream cheese, sour cream, lemon juice and chives and placed them in front of her. She had to mix them together to form into a paste mixture. "Now that's not too hard to do."Alyssa said to herself. She picked up a mixing bowl and almost took out her wand to clean it before she realized that this was a Muggle Studies class and the Professor might not be too happy to see magic being used in it. So she looked around, until she found a clean towel and first cleaned the bowl and the utensils before stuffing it into her apron pocket.

Now that she had cleaned the mixing bowl, she added the cream cheese, sour cream, lemon juice and chives into the bowl before picking up a wooden spoon and started mixing up the ingredients until everything was properly mixed in together and the mixture in the bowl had the texture of paste. "Okay we've got that done, now for the next step."

Alyssa looked at the instructions again. 'Salmon...okay I know what that looks like.' Alyssa thought to herself. She took out her towel from her apron and wiped down the work surface that she was standing in front of to make sure that it was clean. Then she picked up the slices of Salmon and laid them one by one in front of her. Picking up the mixing bowl containing her cream cheese mixture, Alyssa scooped up the mixture with her wooden spoon and spread the cream cheese evenly over each of the salmon slices.

Adam got out a small cutting board and placed it onto his table and a small bowl at the same time. He got the needed ingredients for the first step. With the sour cream,cream cheese,lemon juice and chives he dropped them into the bowl and began to vigorously spin the mixture with a spoon until it was creamy yet sticky substance.

The next step was to add the mixture onto the salmon. Adam placed that flat onto the board and stared at his bowl then to his salmon for a few seconds. His stomach was turning on the inside. Salmon and cream cheese in one dish, and not even separately but into one component didn't seem to go well. He just prayed it'd taste good. He gently dabbed the mixture onto the salmon and once spreading it evenly, he rolled it up and moved them to his plate.

Alyssa checked the directions on the recipe and scratched off what she had already done, just to make sure that she was on the right track.



According to the directions, now it was time for her to roll up the salmon slices and then transfer them onto a plate. So she first grabbed the plate and placed it closer to her and then rolling up her sleeves, she bent over and slowly but delicately, rolled the first slice of salmon starting from the thinner end and working her way to the larger end, until the salmon was fully rolled up. She made sure that the salmon slice wouldn't unroll itself, before placing it on the plate. Then she started working on the next slice of salmon, rolling it up and adding it to the first one on the plate. She repeated the steps until all her slices of salmon had been rolled and were now lying on the plate.

Then she picked up the soft cheese and started breaking it up with her fingers until they were almost the size of crumbs. Picking up the cheese crumbs with her fingers, she lightly sprinkled the cheese over her rolled salmon until all the salmon was covered with cheese. Once she was done with the cheese sprinkling, using her fingers again, she picked up the basil and sprinkled that on top of the rolled salmon slices as well.

Now for the last part of the directions. Toothpicks. Where were the toothpicks? Alyssa couldn't seem to see them on her table. So she searched through the preparation utensils but couldn't find it there. It definitely wasn't with the ingredients either, so Alyssa decided to search through her basket one more time, and was glad that she had, because stuck in the corner of the basket, was a small vial containing toothpicks.

Alyssa pulled it out of the basket and poured out the toothpicks into her hand. Taking one toothpick at a time, she pierced each rolled salmon piece right down the center.

She then checked through her recipe directions one more time, to make sure that she had done everything as directed, scratching off each step, just to be on the safe side.

Kurumi immediately regretted asking from the look she had received, but the Gryffindor was genuinely confused and looked over when Amelia asked a follow up question. Truth was, Kurumi was wondering as well. The introduction had implied a more European view of food, so she just wanted to make sure that her notes were complete and organized - no mislabeling things as it were.

While she waited, Kurumi continued to use her spatula to 'paint' her strips of salmon and she was reminded of home suddenly. Her mother often ate salmon and cream cheese on bagels in spring. She bit her bottom lip and tried to regain her focus as she scooped some more of the mixture from her bowl and smeared it onto the last strip of salmon. Now that that step had been finished, Kurumi set the spatula back in the bowl and looked at the salmon. She wished that there were some gloves for them to wear, this looked as though it could get messy and touching raw fish and meats was always something that worried the Gryffindor. At least she knew her hands were clean.

Kurumi turned her cutting board around so that the thinner ends were facing towards her and began to slowly roll them up. She had to use her hand from time to time to try and keep the filling from spilling out of a few of them since she had overstuffed them, but things worked out somehow - even if she had to return some of the filling to the bowl. Wiping her hands first, Kurumi took a plate from inside her basket and set the rolls on them. This proved to be a little more difficult than expected and sort of wished that the instructions were to tookpick them before moving. Might help keep them together or something. Avoiding mild disaster, Kurumi wiped her hands again and then crushed some cheese and basil in her hands before sprinkling it over the rolls.

Removing the bits of cheese and basil from her hands with a towel again, Kurumi removed the cap on the container of toothpics and screwed each one and then put the cap back on it and then set it to the side.

Now that the dish was half complete it was time to finish it up to perfection. Adam picked up the extra cheese he still had and lightly smushed it into his hand so that little tiny pieces of cheese crumpled up and then dusted it off his hands transferring it to the roll at the same time. Then he grabbed the basil and sprinkled that on top of the cheese on top of the roll. Once done with that he jabbed the salmon roll with the toothpicks they had been provided with and set them aside.

He just hoped that he wouldn't puncture the inside of his cheek if they were going to eat the dish with the stick still impaled to it.

Vickers brought out the different plates and ingredients from the basket, looking at each item carefully. He looked up for a moment when other students said something about Australia and which hemisphere it belonged. His brows furrowed ever so slightly as the first though in his head didn’t quite match any of the others. He would’ve said Southern Hemisphere only because it was most commonly referred to as such… then again this wasn’t a geography lesson.

He laid a bowl before him and scourgified it, along with the other kitchen tools he would be using then. Old habits from Potions class easily found their way into this cooking class it seems. Vickers then dropped in the cream cheese, adding that spoonful of sour cream right after. Wedging the Chives carefully under the knife he began to cut them to tiny pieces. He sliced open a lemon and squeezed in a few drops over the bowl, carefully making sure that the seeds doesn’t fall in. He then tipped the chopping board over and swiped in the chives, then using a spoon he began mixing them together evenly.

Oakey silently laughed a little at Professor Cerulean's mix up of where Australia was. If it made her feel any better Oakey would have said it was in the Northern Hemisphere if he didn't have the map in front of him.


Adjusting his chefs hat on his head he then began to make the Australian snack food. He scooped up the appropriate amount of cream cheese, and sour cream and plopped them into the bowl. He set down the spoon and reached for his bottle of lemon juice. Tipping the bottle upside-down, a few drops landed themselves onto the cream cheese, and sour cream. Setting the lemon juice aside Oakey took the chives and sprinkled them over everything. Taking the spoon once more her started stirring until it all looked like a bowl of white cream with green specks in it.

Opening up the basket infront of him, Daichi placed the ingredients down on the table before he waited for the instructions. He was a little dissapointed that they weren't going to make a giant chocolate cake but listened as the Professor had told them something wrong and Kurumi was correcting her. Hehe~ But everyone makes mistakes so he let it go and looked back at his ingredients.

He pushed his chef hat up as it slided down again. Covering half his eyes, the Slytherin grabbed a bowl and began to measure the first ingredients on the list until he had 20g from each of them. Grabbing the mixer from the basket, Daichi began to mix the cheese Sour Cream, Chives while adding a few drops of lemon juice while stiring. This was like a potion lesson. But then without a cauldron. Dark dungeons and a not-knowing-what-mood-she's-in Lafay! Not to mention that these ingredients smelled much nicer than the ones in the potions they used.

After a few moments of stiring the mixture began to get a certain color and after Daichi looked around what the other students had he stopped. The chef hat was sliding down again and the Slytherin mumbled "Stupid hat" under his breath.

Daichi grabbed the salmon and rolled them out. He scooped up the mixture from the bowl and filled the salmon with it before he began to roll it in to a sort of ball starting at the thinner end. The instructions didn't say how many rolls so he simply made a few and transfered them on the plate.

Again, his hat obscured half of his vision as he looked down at the plate and Daichi couldn't take it anymore. He wanted to have a chef hat on but not this one! "Professor?!" He called from his table as he held his hand in the air. "Professor, can i have another hat please?"

Jory listened to Professor Cerulean and made a few notes. After fixing his chef's hat, which was slowly sliding over to the front of his head, he took out his ingredients and utensils.

First, he mixed the cream Cheese, sour cream, Lemon juice, and Chives until they formed a kind of paste. Jory was tempted to keep mixing the ingredients- he liked their combined look. But remembering he was in class, Jory quickly put some salmon slices on his work station and then spread the nice mixture all over them.

Oakey took about ten strips of the salmon and laid them out neatly in front of him. Taking his spoon once more he scooped up a small spoonful of the mix and spread it across one of the thin slices of salmon. Taking the thinner end of the slice he rolled it up the best he could. He repeated this process for the last nine pieces. Once he was finished with this he grabbed the loose cheese and basil and set it close to him. taking a pinch of each he sprinkled them over each of his salmon rolls. Then taking the toothpicks he carefully stabbed them in the center and all the way through so they would hold in place. Thoroughly pleased with the outcome he set his hands down on the work station and waited for the rest of the class to finish as well.

Finished smearing the spread all over the salmon, Jory started to work on rolling them up now beginning with the thinner end. As he finished each one, he placed them on a plate.

Satisfied with his work, Jory took the cheese and scattered it over the rolls then he did the same with the basil. When this was done, he grabbed some toothpicks and stuck one in each roll.

When he was finished, the Puff couldn't help admiring his work. He sat back and waited for the rest of the class to finish.

As Amelia waited for the Professor to answer her question she decided to get started on her class work so that she wouldn't fall behind. She picked up a bowl and then looked around until she found a clean towel. She assumed that since this was a Muggle Studies class, it would be better if she resisted her natural inclination for magic and just did it the muggle way.

Finally locating a towel, she started cleaning her bowl, humming a tune as she did so. Hopefully this dish would taste good, because she wasn't sure if she'd like it or not at this point.

Once the bowl was clean, she started taking the ingredients out of the basket and carefully placing them on the table. It was time for her to do the first step in the process.

Looking at the written directions for a moment, she then grabbed the cream cheese, sour cream, lemon juice, and chives. Moving them closer to her on the table she then added them each to the bowl in turn while making sure to put just the right amounts in. Picking up a clean spatula, she started mixing everything together.