Posted March 29, 2021, 12:35 p.m. by Lieutenant Faye Calloway (Mission Specialist) (Lindsay B)
Posted by Lieutenant Kiama Naim (Chief Science Officer) in Side Sim: Friends and good food -what else does one need?
Posted by Lieutenant Kiama Naim (Chief Science Officer) in Side Sim: Friends and good food -what else does one need?
Posted by Lieutenant Faye Calloway (Mission Specialist) in Side Sim: Friends and good food -what else does one need?
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Kiama laughed softly and said, “I can imagine. I imagine that it must be … satisfying.” She searched for the right word and wasn’t sure if ‘satisfying’ was the one she was looking for. But it seemed close enough. “What do you prefer to put into salads and hasperat you make?” she asked without knowing that there was a very personal story behind the hasperat Faye makes.
~Lt. Naim, CSO
Focusing on the food on her plate, Faye knew she couldn’t hide from Kiama, nor did she care to, but at the same time she wasn’t sure she was ready to go there just yet. “Um, well, salads can be various. I like dumping vegetables, raw or sauteed onto greens a lot and if I add a lentil or meat, it’s a full meal. But hasperat is… different. It’s often regionally based and many Bajorans make it the way their family has for generations. So it depends on where you lived and where you got the recipe. The one I have uses common vegetables from Bajor, so I’m going to grow some of those and has a seed pod that is extremely spicy as the heat component.” Faye shrugged nonchalantly and ate more of her curry.
~Faye Calloway
While eating another forkful of curry, Kiama nodded thoughtfully. She had a feeling that there was more to it than Faye was telling, but she didn’t want to pry. For while she was very curious by nature, she also valued privacy and tried to give it to everyone as much as was possible. Maybe one day Faye would be ready to tell her more about it, but for now she’d let it rest. Instead she asked, “What are your favourite vegetables?”
~Lt. Naim, CSO
It was an innocuous question but not one Faye had given much thought to. Did she have a favourite? She had a favourite food because of the memory associated with it, but she wasn’t sure if she could think of a favourite vegetable. She shook her head slowly as she dragged her fork slowly through the curry. “I don’t think I have one? I mean… I suppose on the fruit side I love perfectly ripe homegrown strawberries but that’s a rare thing to have in space. Especially since the growing method does affect flavour. But honestly, I guess I just had enough times in my life where any food, regardless of quality was appreciated because…, well, otherwise I would have starved.” She shrugged her shoulders. “And after the Romulans, I lost a lot of my tasebuds and it’s taking a long time to get them fully back. But it’s happening. So I think the answer will be one that will change in the near future.” Faye frowned. She wasn’t sure if she had mentioned her stint with the Romulans to Naim or not. That was the problem lately with her ‘spells’- they confused her memory slightly.
~Faye Calloway
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