He agreed wholeheartedly; he always put his heart and soul into his cooking, and it looked like Eve was the same way. He charged into the cupboard and pantry--at first he didn't expect there to be too much to work with because, well, it was a dorm's pantry. But this was the Culinary Collegia! What culinary institute that had a focus on food battles would have a bad pantry?!<br/><br/>Sato wasn't disappointed.<br/><br/>All manner of fruits to use--some of them typical like apples, oranges, or bananas--some of them a bit less common, like jackfruit or starfruit. There was a whole array of vegetables--broccoli, cauliflower, asparagus, corn, carrots, all manner of peppers. There were extracts to add for flavor or scent--rose, lemon, chocolate, vanilla, rum, jasmine--the list went on and on. And the spice cabinet looked like a dream come true. There were all sorts of raw ingredients useful for pastry, too...<br/><br/>Oh! There were Japanese red beans...that gave him an idea.<br/><br/>"Eve, have you ever had dorayaki? (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorayaki) It's a red bean paste between two delicate pancakes. I think we could riff on dorayaki and make a lot of filled pancake desserts. It's Japanese, so I'm familiar enough with it, but it's got the pancakes as the star--essentially a breakfast pastry. What do you think?" Sato asked her.<br/><br/>He had thought about dorayaki because it was quick to make and potentially had a lot of little ways it could be modified--additions to the flavoring of the pancake, changes in the filling--although at least one needed to be red-bean paste--and they could be all manner of sizes...<br/><br/>Would Eve want to do that, though? Her background was super different from his!