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TCA - Taking the initiative

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The Cooking Academy

Natalie Pickering & Taking the initiative.

Tales of the Professor gluttony around the academy are becoming legendary, so much so it is becoming increasingly difficult to determine fact from fiction. One such rumour, says that she ended up spending an entire weekend in one of the  academy classrooms, as she was too stuffed to leave or just could not stop eating.

Even people who don't have a class at all with her seem to think they have the latest scoop on the immense Prof. Nimmersatt. She even seems to have caused ructions within the faculty of the college, as I went to hand in an essay to  Prof. Hobart, I heard him on the phone saying something about why could they not see that behemoth of a woman was going to destroy the academy.

One story that particularly intrigued me however was when I heard one guy bragging to one of his friends that he was acing her class, after he'd done a deal with the Procurement Officer to get him the largest ingredients of what ever they happened to be cooking that day, be it a hunk of beef or largest of the tuna fish they were using .

I personally had decided that enough was quite simply enough and finally I think I know what it is I need to do to pass Prof. Nimmersatt's class, I need to think outside of the box.  Today's challenge is to cook wild boar shoulder, but instead I have managed to acquire a whole boar to use, which will hopefully win me a few extra brownie points with her. Probably not what my parent had intended my large allowance to be used for, but hopefully it will be worth every penny.

The biggest problem however is how do you actually cook an entire wild boar, it is not something you are going to find in your usual cooking book, now is it? No, it just is not the something you would ever cook whole. I had to start hours before the class actually started to make sure it would be ready to eat at the end of class, slow cooking it in one of the new larger cookers they had added just to the Professors room.

So once I got to the class later in the day it was just about getting the taste right, therefore I ended up having to try a couple of platefuls of the spare meat I'd gotten, with different combinations of other ingredients. Finally I came up stew with wild mushrooms, chestnuts and chorizo ,which was something I loved and mixed it in with the now fully cooked boar and was ready to give it in for tasting.

"Okay I'll give your marks for today's offering out at the start of the next lesson once I've eaten them all, but for now class dismissed, but Natalie would you mind staying behind for a minute?"

To say I was worried what was about to happen would be an understatement, I was readying myself for another verbal lashing, for what the professor saw as my poor attempts at culinary mastery.

"I am sure most teachers don't like students sucking up to them, but I am not most teachers, now I am not saying you have got everything right just yet, but I must admit you are showing signs of promise Miss Pickering and you will never get me criticising someone who chooses to give a little bit extra."

"Errr thanks, well hopefully next time I'll do even better."

I left the class feeling extremely satisfied with myself, it may not have been a glowing report, but it was at least a sign that maybe I wasn't going to flunk this class after all.  To celebrate I decided to go out with one of my good friends, Ashley Mitchell, for a nights partying off campus.

It was alarming when I went to put on a pair of jean I had brought only over the summer break and yet although I could fasten them, they dug in a great deal and a lot of flesh hung over the top of them. I also struggled to fine a top that did not leave my belly roll on show for all to see, although I did find a t-shirt which may not have been the height of fashion, but did cover the unwanted plump.

Once out, as we entered  a bar I saw our reflections in the door to the place and it got me thinking about things. Ashley when we started together at the academy just over a year ago was considerably heavier than myself.  I know it is bad of me for thinking this way, but It is nice to have a best friend who is bigger than yourself, it made me feel better about my own body.

During the first year we probably put on the same amount of weight, but on Ash it did not look as noticeable on her already larger frame than mine. It was still easy though to see which was the thinnest of the two of us was me and helped me to still feel relatively good about things.

This year however while I have been packing on the pounds, she has got away almost unaffected so far, probably as she has avoid getting any classes with the noted professor. It means that if I am not careful I could end up being the same size as her or god forbid larger than her, I know she is fine with the extra pounds, but I just can't seem to make myself feel the same. At least for now however she is still the fat one, whenever we hang out together.

Determined however not to ruin my cheery mood of earlier, I decided to stop thinking about it and to have a fun time while we were out. So the two of us had some drinks, chatted together, danced and even flirted a little with a couple of hot guys. Back in my room at the academy, I went to bed that night feeling quite content about things, having had a both good day and night.
Third part with Natalie Pickering, a student at the cooking academy.

More stories from the academy came be found here
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DeleterLink's avatar
Can't wait til Ashley gets her own story ;D