Supercorp: Unexpected Feelings

Chapter 57

It is now a few minutes later, and Ashley and Natalie have joined Kara in the kitchen to help her make the dinner for everyone, successfully incentivising them with the promise of ice cream later, once they have finished their dinner. Once Natalie and Ashley agreed to help Kara though, the trio all kind of shooed Lena out of the kitchen to do her own thing, and allow them to get on with making dinner without Lena either asking if she can help, or just standing over them and watching. This has just allowed Lena to sit in her living room and relax while reading a nice book. Admittedly, hearing Kara talking with Natalie and Ashley in the kitchen while they are cooking together is also relaxing for Lena, and puts a smile on her face.

"Okay, so now we have washed our hands, and got everything we need to make our dinner out of the cupboards, what do we do now?" Ashley asks, Kara.

"Well, this is all going to actually be a rather quick process." Kara says, "We will be done within a few minutes, just because these steaks only need to be cooked for a few minutes. So, because of that, we are going to need to be really organised."

"Alright." Natalie nods, "What should we do then?"

"Well, I'm going to focus on cooking the steaks, because they only need a little time to be cooked, and it's not an easy thing for people new to cooking to figure out how to perfectly cook a steak. As, you don't want to cook it too little, and you don't want to overcook it either." Kara says.

"I thought undercooking food makes people sick?" Natalie says, in a bit of a confused voices.

"No. Not all food Natalie. Some foods are different." Ashley answers.

"Oh." Natalie replies.

"Yes." Kara nods, "Most foods you don't want to undercook, but when it comes to steak, well, you can undercook it, as most people will talk about not overcooking it. Some people think it's a sin to overcook steak. For steak specifically you only need to cook it so it gets to a high enough temperature just to kill any harmful bacteria inside. For some people, this means they'll only cook the steak for a few seconds, but others will cook it for longer. Cooking it only for a few seconds makes the steak very bloody, and personally I don't like that."

"What type of steak do you like, Kara?" Natalie asks.

"Uhh.... I kind of prefer a medium steak." Kara says, "Although, I prefer it closer to medium-well than medium-rare, as eating steak that's a bit rare always gives me a stomach ache for some reason." Kara says.

"Okay. So, you are going to be cooking the steaks. What are Nat and I going to do?" Ashley asks.

"Well, as we are going to be having wraps, which we will be making ourselves, we are going to need more ingredients for the wraps to put in them. Otherwise it would just be boring to have steak alone in the wraps." Kara says, "So, we are going to be including some vegetables and cheese. You two can work on chopping up the vegetables, and grating the cheese for me."

"Okay." Ashley nods.

"I remember now!" Natalie says, "These are the wraps you told me you used to make with Alex and Eliza growing up! You told me you did them with chicken a lot!"

"Yes." Kara says, with a smile, "That is exactly what we are making."

"I think you made these for us to eat with mom a few weeks ago too, before we went to Midvale with you." Ashley comments.

"Oh, okay. Well, I think the two of you get the gist of what we are making then." Kara says.

"Yeah. I think so." Ashley nods.

"Great." Kara smiles, "So, in those shopping bags over there I bought some vegetables and cheese with me. I'm not sure if there's some of those vegetables and cheese in the fridge you just want to swap out and use instead, as those haven't been refrigerated for a little while. But either way, I firstly want you two to start on cutting up the green, red and yellow bell peppers I have got, as we want to do those first because we are going to be putting those in the frying pan along with the steaks in a little while, and let them cook. All the other vegetables we can just put into their own separate bowls and pick and choose from them, and put them in our wraps, eating them raw."