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milliways_bar2024-08-06 08:48 am
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Sunshine and Max Caulfield - Milliways kitchens
There is artistry going on in Milliways kitchen, this morning.
Sunshine was feeling artistic when she woke up today - more traditionally artistic than her usual baking experiments, anyway - and has made a number of pans of focaccia dough. There is so much one can do with the delightfully simple bread, so during the dough's first rise she assembled a wide array of potential toppings.
And now the dough has been separated into multiple pans for its second rise, Rae is decorating one of the pans of dough with starbursts of sliced olives and strips of sweet orange and red peppers on a sea of thinly-sliced herby cheese.
Max, who had technically only come in search of early-morning coffee, has succumbed to curiosity and is composing her own focaccia landscape with flowers made of halved cherry tomatoes and thin slivers of red onion, accented with basil leaves and sprigs of parsley.
Sunshine was glad of the help, but there were still three or four pans of dough to decorate while the oven preheated. It was Max's idea to put up the sign that soon adorns on the kitchen door:
"Delicious Dough Decorators Desired! Inquire within."
Sunshine was feeling artistic when she woke up today - more traditionally artistic than her usual baking experiments, anyway - and has made a number of pans of focaccia dough. There is so much one can do with the delightfully simple bread, so during the dough's first rise she assembled a wide array of potential toppings.
And now the dough has been separated into multiple pans for its second rise, Rae is decorating one of the pans of dough with starbursts of sliced olives and strips of sweet orange and red peppers on a sea of thinly-sliced herby cheese.
Max, who had technically only come in search of early-morning coffee, has succumbed to curiosity and is composing her own focaccia landscape with flowers made of halved cherry tomatoes and thin slivers of red onion, accented with basil leaves and sprigs of parsley.
Sunshine was glad of the help, but there were still three or four pans of dough to decorate while the oven preheated. It was Max's idea to put up the sign that soon adorns on the kitchen door:
"Delicious Dough Decorators Desired! Inquire within."
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"Good morning" she announces with a warm smile. Looking around there is a flash of surprise when she see's how many people are already inside the kitchen. The surprise quickly fades as she realizes this is Milliways and there are always many willing to come to the aide of others.
"Where do you want me?"
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There are three or four unclaimed pans of thoroughly docked focaccia dough on the kitchen table, rising in the warmth of the kitchen, and in the middle of them all is a collection of small bowls, each filled with potential toppings to choose from.
The younger girl, brown-haired and quiet - maybe eighteen, if that old - looks up from her own pan of focaccia with a slight smile. "There's all sorts of toppings - veggies, mushrooms, herbs, cheese, some fruit too."
Max just knows sliced pears and halved figs would be amazing on focaccia. She isn't quite daring enough to try out the blackberries, though; she isn't sure how it would turn out.
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"Focaccia is a wonderful choice. Much like Milliways a constant companion." picking up another pan after setting aside the first. "Perhaps something tropical this time."
Looking up at the group. The baker looks familiar but can't recall ever speaking with her before, the other two are unfamiliar so she ventures and introduction, "I'm Amanda. Who might you all be?"
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"A slave-driver, clearly," the smaller girl grins at Rae, glancing up from her landscape of tomatoes and red onion flowers wreathed by basil leaves to also smile at Amanda. "I'm Max. I just came in for coffee and got put to work."
"And she's just so miserable about it," Rae chuckles.
"Anguished," Max beams at her. "Though..." and she glances at Amanda to include her in the question, "I hope neither of you mind me taking some photos of the finished art? Bread is not my usual medium."
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Turning her head towards the smaller girl and nodding, "And you Max. Wouldn't mind at all if you took some photo's. I have always appreciated quality art." a mischievous grin sparkles her eyes briefly before she sobers up. "What is your usual medium?"
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Knowing Milliways' weirdness, she'll add in 'Earth' if need be.
"We actually have Arcadia in common," Sunshine remarks, moving the freshly-caramelized onions from the cooking pot to a bowl and adding it (with a small pair of tongs) and a bowl of crumbled goat cheese to the collection of potential toppings. "Though my New Arcadia is far nearer the east coast than west."
"West Coast, best coast," Max chimes in, cheerfully. "What about you, Amanda? Where are you from?"
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"I'm currently living in Sydney, Australia." tilting her head as she places some blueberries and cheese in one of the pans, "I haven't spent much time in Oregon. What's it like there?"
Turning back to Rae, "Where is your Arcadia? Most of my time in the United States has been spent in New York. "
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Sunshine glances at Max, but doesn't follow up on her curiosity towards what she sees in Max's face. Instead, she adds sliced figs, small pieces of sauteed pear, and chunks of gooey brie to a pan of focaccia, and remarks, "New Arcadia isn't on the coast, but about... oh, a little over a hundred miles northwest of New York City, if your world also has that. It's practically a baby city, surrounded by forests and hills."
Independencia is close but is not entirely the same as the United States, but New York City is usually a reliable overlap.
"You must have traveled a lot," Max adds. "What's Sydney like?"
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Coming back to the here and now she looks up, "Yes, there is an Arcadia near New York City. But I have never been there."
"I do, usually stay in one place for a few years and then move on. Sydney is beautiful and busy."