Log: Catseye and Sarah

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Catseye and Sarah adventure in the kitchen.


Catseye wasn't sure how Angel and Callie had done it. She wasn't having any luck at all making Chocolate Covered Bugs. It was too hard to keep them in the bowl! They kept crawling out! But if she squished them the didn't taste good!

She'd just chased down a rather ambitious ladybug and returned it to the bowl, promptly throwing a book over the opening of the bowl and trapping it in with a dozen or so other bugs she'd found in the garden when she heard footsteps approaching, head whipping around excitedly as she anticipated that she was going to get some help.

A bag of bread in hand, Sarah made her way to the kitchen intending to have it out with the toaster. She smiled, however, when she found she was not alone in her culnary adventures. "Hi, Cats. What are you up to?" she asked, plopping the yellow bag onto the counter. A few smooshed slices wouldn't make a difference in her experiment - or to the birds she would feed the outcome to.

"Catseye is trying to make chocolate covered bugs but the bugs won't stay in Catseye's bowl while Catseye melts the chocolate!" she exclaimed, exasperated. "Can Sarah help?"

Chocolate covered bugs?? "Um, I guess I can help," the shorter girl replied with a weak smile. "You'll need to tell me what to do, though, because I've never made this particular dessert before."

"Neither has Catseye," she assured Sarah. "Catseye thinks it is just melting chocolate and then putting it on bugs and then eating it all together. That is what Angel did but Angel's powers could melt the chocolate. And there was only one bug that time." She gestured to the bowl with the book overtop of it. "Catseye wants to try putting chocolate on bugs and then putting it in the freezer and then taking out the chunks and putting them in ice cream!"

Sarah did her best not to wrinkle her nose in disgust as she looked at the bowl that presumably held the captive insects. There but for the good graces of friends... "What do you need my help doing, exactly? Melting the chocolate or dipping the bugs into it?" She hoped it was the former.

Remembering Sarah's reaction to the mouse, Catseye pointed to a pile of pots on the stove. Two held burned chocolate, the third was clean so far. "Melting the chocolate? Catseye cannot do it right."

"That I can do. I used to help my Nana make chocolate covered pretzels sometimes." The young technopath left her bread aside and moved to the stove, setting up a double boiler. "You need two pots to melt the chocolate right so it doesn't burn. One down the bottom with water and then the top one is the one you put the chocolate in."

Catseye's eyes went wide. "Ohhhh! Yes! Catseye understands! Then the water gets hot and makes the chocolate hot, but the chocolate is not on the stove getting extra hot from the coil the burns!" She turned from her bowl of bugs to watch Sarah prepare the double boiler. "How come Sarah brought so much bread to the kitchen? Does Sarah want lots of pastrami sandwiches? Catseye has some deer in the freezer if Sarah wants deer sandwiches?" The idea of someone making pastrami sandwiches out of a whole loaf of bread made her a little nervous.

"Exactly," she replied with a smile. "The water boils and the chocolate doesn't burn and is perfect for dipping things in." Once finished her task of setting it up, the technopath turned back to look at her friend and answer the questions asked of her. "I bought the bread because I wanted to make toast. Or, well, to see if I could make toast. That toaster never works right for me so I wanted to do some testing on it."

"Toaster experiments?" Catseye asked, intrigued. "The toaster works for Catseye, Catseye thinks." She didn't use it very often, though. "Is it because of Sarah's powers? Can Catseye help with the experiments after the chocolate bugs are ready?"

The younger girl shrugged. "I don't know if it's because of my powers or what. I put bread in and it never comes out the way I want. Usually, it's burnt or not toasted at all but you can definitely help me with the experiments after we finish making your treat." Melting chocolate she could do, but Sarah was still wary of handling the insects, much less actually eating them.

Catseye turned to the bowl, but her book had been knocked askew somehow and when she removed it, it was empty. "Nooooooooo! Catseye's bugs ran away!"

"All of them?" Sarah made a face and quickly looked to the floor to make sure none of the escapees were crawling on her shoes.

"Don't be scared; Catseye will find them!" she exclaimed courageously, and shifted to catform before darting around the room.

Grimacing again, the brunette put the bowl on the floor to make it easier for her friend to collect the bugs before moving as close to the counter as possible, hoping to avoid stepping on any.