Alex continued pondering his cooking, his head still in the fridge as wondered if maybe he should make some vegetables and decided 'yes'. Rummaging through the fridge again, he pulled out some broccoli and some canned mushrooms (which he had carelessly thrown into the fridge a while ago, not registering it was canned), tossing it on the cutting board with the parsley. He reached up into the highest shelf (one that seemed only reachable for people over six feet tall since it was ridiculously high) and pulled a knife from the block, setting it on the board. Looking over at the beer Tessa had gotten him, he briefly wondered if what would work if he was out of cooking wine. Pulling out several small stalks of parsley, he began to carefully pull the leaves off of them before starting to dice them to keep them from being in too large leaf-pieces in the sauce. Immediately after, he took the parsley and threw half in the tomato sauce, following by sprinkling in the tiniest bit of sweet basil. He contemplated on adding rosemary, but slowly shook his head. He was making dinner for his housemates not competing on freaking Iron Chef. He liked to go all out, definitely, but then someone would have to go shopping again tomorrow, even if Tessa had just picked up stuff today.
Alex turned down the temperature on the pasta quite a bit as he lowered a small metal, elevated strainer into the pot of boiling water. He chopped some pieces of broccoli off the... whatever the hell the rest of it was called, Alex didn't even know. Stalk? Screw it. Placing them into the strainer in the water, he glanced over at the canned mushrooms. He pointed to the can and laughed a bit at himself but eventually just faded and smiled, which is when Kieran entered. He didn't pay attention until he asked about Tessa and Alice though. "Tess is catching some Zs, haven't seen Alice all day." he said as he opened up the canned mushrooms (raw mushrooms were a bitch to cook, he was too lazy for that shit right now) and dumped half of them into the tomato sauce. Okay, so he was getting lazy. It was still gonna be fan-fucking-tastic.
Looking up to Cassie, he hummed a bit, thinking of what he could have her do to help him. "Actually," he started. "I don't think anything right now. Well, actually, i gotta keep an eye on this stuff since it's all pretty close to ready. If you could just find a bottle of cooking wine... uh, somewhere... you could pour in something like... a fourth of a cup. Then stir it around and let me know when you got that done." Alex, fascinatingly enough, could cook amazing food - But couldn't tell you quantities, amounts, kinds, or anything else worth shit, an improvising gourmet chef. Turning back to the sauce, he stirred it for a moment before looking at the pasta. Just about ready on the pasta. Then after, he checked the broccoli - Of course they didn't take long, almost ready as well. All he needed was that sauce and he could plate up and it would be golden.