Gemma quickly mixed her a cherry Italian soda and sprayed a whole bunch of whip cream on top...and without even checking to see if any students were watching she tilted her head back and sprayed some whip cream into her mouth and with a little giggle she swallowed it down.

Once she had all the whip cream swallowed she reached for the third basket and placed everything out on the table as she started sipping her Italian soda. Once it was all spread out, she continued, "Okay, so now let's create a salad from England. This is actually called the Best of England Salad." she said as a picture of the salad flashed on the screen.







OOC: Let's say two posts to get credit for this recipe. DESSERT IS NEXT!!! Have fun and I'll be back later with the dish this afternoon!

Nerida put her salmon bites to the side deciding she would try it with her italian drink! She grabbed the Kiwi flavored syrup and measured seven tablespoons and put it into her amazing cup and then added the ice cubes. She picked up the bottle of Half and Half and measure one fourth and poured it into the cup. She then added the club soda after measuring. She then picked up the stiring stick and stired her drink.
Yay! Whipped Cream!! She picked up her spoon and took a big scoop of Whipped Cream and topped it on her Italian Desert Drink!




Nerida picked up one of her salmon rolls and tried it, it tasted good but she didnt really like the paste that they had put on it...Next she tried her Kiwi Italian Drink! It was amazing, she realized she had made this with her Aunt Sky-Light before, except those were Pineapple.

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Jory decided on Kiwi flavour. He measured out the syrup into a cup and then added loads of ice cubes. After he added the creamer, he poured in the club soda. Then he helped himself to a generous amount of whipped cream. He took sip of the drink. He loved it instantly! Actually, he loved anything with whipped cream.

After Jory had tried a salmon roll, he cleared away for the next dish they were going to make. A salad. He'd eaten loads of salads but new this one. But he loved trying new stuff, anyway.

Placing the pretoasted bread in front of him, the Puff carefully sprinkled it with cheese. After cutting each toast in half, he cut the pepper into strips. Then Jory placed the pepper strips to form the flag on top of each toast.

Post 1: Best of England Salad
 

Alyssa took a sip of her Cherry Soda while listening to the Professor explain what they were making next. It was going to be some kind of salad. Alyssa looked down at the recipe in her hand first looking at the ingredients.



Alyssa reached into the next basket and started pulling out the ingredients and laying them in the order of what she would be using first. Then she looked at the Recipe and read the instructions on how to make the salad.



She read the directions over and over a couple of times and tried to figure out what the Professor meant by a St. George's flag because she couldn't see any flags anywhere. Not even miniature ones!! Then she looked at the picture that the Profesor had flashed on the screen and it dawned on her. She was supposed to arrange the ingredients to look like St. George's flag. Duh!!.

'Okay now that I've got that figured out, time to make with the bread.'Alyssa thought to herself. She first picked up the 4 slices of pre-toasted bread and placed it on a plate in front of her. Next was the sliced cheese. She picked the cheese, broke it further into smaller pieces and sprinkled each slice of bread with it. Looking at the directions, she picked up a knife and carefully sliced each pre-toasted bread into half, until she had 8 halves of bread in front of her lying on the plate.

Alyssa reached for the bottle of roasted red peppers and took them out one by one, letting the brine drip off them before placing them on the cutting board. She then picked up her knife, picked up the first pepper and carefully sliced it into thin strips. Then she did the same for the rest of the peppers. Once she had all the peppers sliced into strips, she picked up one strip of pepper and lay it across one of the halved slices of toast. Then she picked up another strip of pepper and lay it across the first strip forming a cross on the toast. She had just formed St. George's flag. Alyssa smiled. She repeated the steps until all the bread toasts looked like they had St. George's flags on them.

Alyssa reviewed the directions in the recipe and scratched off what she had completed.

Nerida grabbed the ingrediants and started to sprinkle the cheese on the bread. She then cut them in half.
Setting the bread aside she grabbed the one roasted red pepper and let the brine drip off back into the jar before she placed it on the cutting board in front of her. Once it was finished dripping she began to thinly slice it, she did the same for the remaining peppers. She then picked up the slices and distributed them evenly between the eight halves of bread. Once she was finished she stuck a St. George flag in the middle of each.

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"On to the dressing,'' Jory said to himself. Into a bowl he poured in oil, lemon juice, honey and some seasoning. Carefully, he whisked them together making sure that none spilled out of the bowl.

With that done, the Puff now placed the lettuce, radishes and strawberries onto a platter and drizzled the dressing over them. Finally, he placed the toasts on top and his salad was all ready.

Salad Post #1
 

Vickers set the plate of the salmon roll-ups to one side then brought out the ingredients for the next recipe, the scourgified his tools off of any remnants from the previous ingredients. He took the cheese to the cutting board first and began slicing them thinly, gauging that they be enough to cover four bread slices. He took a small plate and lay the bread pieces onto it, then took the cheese slivers and carefully layered them onto each bread. He waited for a few minutes for the cheese to settle before slicing the bread in half, doubling the number of pieces instantly.

He then began to work on the pepper, slicing it down into narrow strips. Carefully lifting a piece he lay it across a bread slice, angling one way so he can lay the next one in the opposite direction. He worked on the bread slices until each had a crisscrossed red pepper across its surface, then set the plate aside so he can proceed with the next steps.

Post 2: All England Salad
 

Alyssa reviewed the recipe to see what she needed to do next. She had the pretoasted bread prepared, now it was time for her to make the dressing for the salad.



She picked up the bottle of Sunflower oil and poured 2 tablespoons into her measuring spoon. She added the contents of the spoon into a glass bowl. She then measured out one tablespoon of lemon juice and added it into the glass bowl. Next she picked up the bottle of clear honey and measured out 1/2 a tablespoon into her measuring spoon before adding that into her glass bowl. Picking up a wire whisk, she picked up the glass bowl, dipped the whisk into it and started mixing the contents together. Once she was sure that the mixture was thoroughly mixed, she put down the whisk and picked up the salt and freshly ground pepper shakers and sprinkled some of both into the glass bowl.

Laying the bowl aside, Alyssa picked up an empty platter and placed it in front of her. She then opened the bag of mixed lettuce leaves, separated them out, and arranged them on the platter. Then she picked up the container of strawberries, took out the strawberries and arranged it on the lettuce leaves. Then she picked up the packet of sliced radishes. Taking out the slices, Alyssa added them to the lettuce and strawberry arrangement. She then picked up the glass bowl containing her dressing and drizzled the dressing on top of the salad. Once the entire salad platter was covered with the dressing, Alyssa put down the glass bowl and picked up the plate of pre-toasted bread. Picking up each slice, one by one, she carefully arranged them on top of the vege/fruit arrangement.

She reviewed the directions on her recipe to make sure that she had completed the steps to making the salad.



She then scratched off the list of ingredients to make sure that she had not missed out any of the ingredients.



Seeing that she had no leftover ingredients and that she had followed the directions as directed. Alyssa sat back and waited for the Professor to give them the 'okay' to eat what she had just made.

Sipping slowly on her soda, Kurumo moved on to the next basket and opened it up to see an array of fresh vegetables. Now this was more along the lines of Kurumi's taste. Fresh beautiful produce. Her eyes eager Kurumi immediately began placing all the vegetables out on the table, grabbing a bowl to put water in and rinsing them off before doing anything else. She wanted to begin slicing, but instructions said to deal with the bread first.

Cue a frown from the Gryffindor.

Taking her pretoasted bread, Kurumi hurridly and rather sloppily sprinkled cheese over them and used a bread knife from inside her basket to cut it. Once that was done, Kurumi's smile returned as she picked up one of the paprika and began to thinly slice it. Glorious red pepper juices and smells filled her station. Too bad she needed to put it on the bread. Oh well. Making small crosses on each piece of bread, Kurumi grabbed a new bowl and organized the ingredients for the dressing.

Now...where was her whisk? Kurumi attention now went back to her basket as she searched for the item.

Salad Post#2
 

Vickers pulled out the cleaned bowl, then started measuring out the sunflower oil, lemon juice and honey, tipping each of the ingredients into the bowl as he went along. He located the whisk and began mixing the ingredients in the bowl, pausing from time to time to add in the pepper and the salt to taste. Happy with the resulting mixture he set it aside and focused on the next step.

He started to prep the lettuce leaves, snipping its ends off and then washing them down with a combination of Aguamenti and Scourgify in another large bowl. After drying them up a bit he lay them down onto a large, decorative plate, spreading the leaves a bit before turning his attention back to the radishes and the strawberries. Once again he washed them down before transferring them back onto the chopping board to be halved and sliced. Once completed, he took the slices and distributed them across the lettuce bed, then drizzled the oil mixture over the entire set.

He reached out for the plate with the bread slices and carefully lifted each piece, laying them down at choice spots around the salad bed. He emptied the oil mixture across the finished ensemble with a flourish. Hmm, looks pretty good if he must say so himself.

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Nerida said Time for the dressing! She got the two tablespoons of the oil, one tablespoon of lemon juics and one half of a teaspoon of honey and mixed it all together. Adding some salt and pepper to taste. Then she took the lettece strawberries and radishes and arragened those on a plate then drizzled the dressing over the plate and topped it with the silton toasts.

There it was! Picking up her whisk now, Kurumi measured out the proper amounts of oil, lemon juice, and honey - changing the recipe just a bit because she wanted more of the tangy flavor than sweet - and began to whisk everything together using her wrist as the axis of rotation. It took a bit, which was to be expected with oil, but eventually everything was blended together well enough to be considered dressing and she set it to the side.

Grabbing a plate now, Kurumi washed the remaining vegetables and tore the lettuce apart with her own hands and arranging it in a neat mound on her plate. She placed the strawberries and remaining things in random locations on the plate before using the whisk to pour the dressing over it all. Once this was done, she set the bread-flag-things around the edge and pushed the dish to the center of her station. All done!

The professor finished making her salad and took a few bites before looking up. She loved salads and could eat them everyday...well...she would have to mix some meat in every once in a while, but salads were aaaaammmmaaazing...

She glanced up and said, "When you're done putting together your salad, feel free to eat away...you don't really have to wait for my permission..." she said seeing a few students looking at her anxiously.

She took a few more bites and then pushed the plate to the side and grabbed her fourth basket, "Now onto the best part of a meal...the DESSERT!!!" she said as she flipped the lid open enthusiastically. "We are going to be putting together a no back dessert from Ireland called a Kahlua Dessert..."

Gemma laid out all of the ingredients on the table and then flicked her wand and the ingredients and recipe appeared on the screen.







OOC: Let's say two posts...this is the last course, so I'll be posting homework for this lesson this evening...Thank you to everyone that has played along...I thought I would make the last lesson of the year pretty easy since I figured we are all pretty busy in RL. *huggles you all*

Post #1 - Best of England Salad
 

Finished making her soda drink, Amelia took a sip of it and found that it tasted delicious. She was definitely going to keep this recipe and make it again another time.

Since they were about to start on another dish now, she stopped sipping her drink and instead wrote down the new instructions. Hopefully this salad would be delicious too.

Instructions written down, Amelia started gathering everything she would need and placing it right in front of her. Then she looked at the instructions again.

First thing she did was to move the slices of pretoasted bread closer to her. Then she took the cheese and started sprinkling it on top. When she was done that, she now cut each piece of toast in half before grabbing the red peppers. Thinly slicing the peppers, she arranged them into a St. George flag on each piece of bread.

This class was moving so fast and Selina was having trouble. In fact, that was an understatement. Something about cooking made Selina think about potions. Perhaps it was the fact that the Professor kept referring to the different parts of the food as ingredients, which was a potions word. And Selina was getting performance anxiety. It was just too much for her to handle and it was getting to her quickly.



She looked at the directions and went to work with the first few bits of what she needed to accomplish. First she cut the pound cake into cubes and put it layer on the bottom of her bowl. Once that was done she drizzled Kahlua over cake. It was looking decent, not great, but she really panicked when she grabbed the pudding and put it over the cake. There was just so much that could go wrong and it was too much for her.

Post 1: Kahlua Dessert
 

The moment Professor Cerulean gave them the okay to eat their salad, Alyssa grabbed a fork and scooped a piece of toast into her mouth. She sighed with delight. This salad was delicious. At least that's what she thought. But now for dessert. She laid aside the salad platter for now and looked at the recipe before looking into the basket and removing the ingredients from the last basket.



Alyssa placed the ingredients in the order of which she would need first. Then she reviewed the directions in the recipe to see what she needed to do.



According to the directions, she first needed to cut the pound cake into cubes. Alyssa picked up the 3 slices of Sarah Lee Pound Cake and placed them on the cutting board in front of her. Picking up her knife, she carefully sliced each slice of cake into cubes. Once she was done slicing the cakes into cubes, she gently picked up the cubes of cakes and layered them on the bottom of her serving bowl, leaving the remaining cubes of cake for the second portion of the recipe.

Then she picked up the bottle of Non-Alcoholic Kahlua and poured about 1 1/2 of it into her measuring spoon before drizzling the contents of the spoon over the cake in the bowl. Looking at the recipe directions, she then picked up the package of instant chocolate pudding, opened it up and poured a layer over the cake, before folding over the opening of the package of pudding and laying it temporarily to the side as she would be needing it later again in the recipe.

Now for her favourite part. The Cool Whip again. She removed the lid, shook the can and then tilted the nozzle to the side, spraying a layer of cool whip over the pudding. This time before replacing the lid over the nozzle, she looked to see whether anyone was watching, before squeezing some of the whipped cream into her mouth. She quickly wiped her lips before placing the lid over the nozzle and laid the can aside next to the package of pudding.

Alyssa then picked up the package of Heath Bits and taking out some of the bits, she crushed them with her spoon before sprinkling the crushed pits over the whipped cream in the serving bowl.

She then reviewed the recipe and scratched out which steps she had already completed.

Post #2 - Best of England Salad
 

Amelia knew that she was a little behind now as the dessert was now being prepared, but she wasn't too worried about it. The class was moving a little fast, but there weren't too many steps that needed to be done. So it wasn't with any great rush that Amelia looked at the next step she had to do for her salad.

Grabbing a clean bowl, she proceeded to add the oil. lemon juice, and honey before mixing them all together. This was to be the dressing for the salad.

Moving the dressing to the side for the moment, Amelia then started setting a plate up. She put the lettuce leaves on the bottom until the whole plate was covered, and then added both the strawberries and radishes trying to make it all look as pretty as possible. The dressing was drizzled on top of everything.

Lastly, she placed the pieces of toast on top. Now her dish was done, and it was time for her to start on the dessert!

Selina was ready to run out of the classroom screaming. Anything that had ingredients in it made Selina want to have a panic attack. Perhaps, she was being a tad dramatic with everything being pre-made and all, but then again Selina was not the most rational person in the world when her mind equated anything with potions. And right now all she could see was this class as potions yummy step-cousin from Essex- delicious, but dangerous.

Then she tried to calm herself down to finish the last two steps. With some deep breaths she put a layer of Cool Whip over the pudding. Then she sprinkled the top with Heath bits. After perfecting that she redid the entire process to give it another layer. Then it was done.... not so hard.... yeah right.

Post #1 - Kahlua Dessert
 

Even though class was moving on, Amelia decided to try some of the salad she had made. Grabbing a piece of toast, she started eating it, musing as she chewed. This was actually pretty good. She munched away at it until the whole piece was gone, then speared some of the actual salad with her fork. That was pretty good too! All in all this was a nice dish.

After a few more bites, Amelia decided to move on to making the dessert. Putting the fork down, she picked her pencil up again and quickly jotted down the instructions for the dessert. When she was done, she started putting the ingredients for it together in front of her.

The first thing she did was to cut the cake into cubes and layer them on the bottom of the bowl. She made sure that she didn't squish the pieces and that she covered the whole bottom. When that was done, she took the Kahlua and drizzled it over the cake. The pudding needed to go on next, and she carefully added a layer to the cake. Mmm. This was looking pretty yummy so far!

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Nerida took another drink of her Kiwi Italian Drink and took a bite of her salad, it was good for a salad. Usually she didnt like salads, and wasnt a big eater of them, but this one was good.
She grabbed her ingrediants and set them down and looked at the recipe, sounded easy enough. She took the three slices of angel food cake and cut them into cubes and layered some on the bottom of the bowl . Then carefully dripped the Kahlua over the cake. Then she poured a layer of the already made chocolate pudding over the cake layer. Then she took some cool whip or as her dad liked to call it quick whip...She didnt really understand why he called it that but what ever floots his boat.. and then sprinkled pieces of Health over it!! She loved Health, yum!

Post 1- England Salad
 

Belle decided to make the salad. She loved eating healthy things! So she went up to the front of the classroom to get the ingredients to begin. Then she followed the directions. She sprinkled the cheese on pretoasted bread, then cut each toast in half and then thinly sliced the peppers and but the flag on each one. It was a very relaxing easy recipe that she might make with her mother soon.

Nerida took the left over cake and layered it on top of the first set of desert and then took the pudding and added another layer. Then took a huge glop of cool whip and added it on the top of the second set of cake and pudding, and then she added the last of her heath crumbs!

She stepped back to look at her masterpiece, smiling she thought Looks delicious!! She picked up her spoon and took a bite..
There was only one word to descirbe it, scrumpdillyupcious!!

Post #2 - Kahlua Dessert
 

With the pudding on the cake and smoothed out, Amelia now took the cool whip and placed a layer on top, making sure to smooth it out over the pudding so that everything was covered. Taking the Heath bits, Amelia now added them on top of the the cool whip, sprinkling them all over the cake.

Now it was time for her to repeat the process. More cake was broke into pieces. It was placed on top of the cool whip and Kahlua was drizzled on top of it. She grabbed the rest of the pudding and spread it over the cake, covering it all before adding more cool whip on top of that. Lastly, she sprinkled more Heath bits over the entire thing.

She was happy to be finished her dessert.

Post 2- England Salad
 

Belle got down to the dressing part. She got the ingredients all set after she washed her hands. She looked it up, she was supposed to whisk the 2tbsp of oil, 1tbsp of lemon juice and ½tsp clear honey together. She added the pepper and salt in for taste. Belle got to her favorite part and started decorating the plate. She arranged the lettuce, strawberries and radishes onto the platter and drizzled dressing over topped with stilton toasts! All in a days work!

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