There's a D/C fic I don't remember if I bookmarked where Castiel decides to cook for Dean because he remembers Jimmy valuing home cooking and he thinks Dean never had it, and Sam's helping out and Dean catches them and takes over the whole thing with exasperation.

I figure he can put together meatloaf and fried chicken and stuff like that. Staples. Those are staples, right? I never had them growing up.

Baking Dean is love and makes me think of Dark Side Of The Moon. It's absolutely something he'd never take the time to do...but, yeah, the idea of him having experimented is adorable.

Meatloaf I can see, and cake from a mix (with canned frosting), but fried chicken is sort of a process and not easy to do well the first time out. (Um, I am also afraid of frying things in oil, which pyro!Dean probably wouldn't be.)

If you didn't bookmark the fic you mentioned, well ... you get a demerit.

Well, we know he knows how to jury rig a ham. Improv food.

I think there might have been something about Castiel's characterisation that prevented me from bookmarking it. I don't see anything in my bookmarks that looks like it. And google is incredibly unhelpful with the whole "dean castiel lasagna" thing. But if I stumble on it again, I'll toss it your way.

I appreciate that you Googled "dean castiel lasagna" just for us, though.

I remember that fic too ita. I remember Dean taking over in the kitchen was bittersweet as it brough back memories of trying to get by with the few supplies for food they had to cook when they were kids or something like that.

I don't have a link though maybe you linked it here before? Much if not all of the D/C I have read was linked here.

ehab, that sounds like the one. It wasn't in my consolidated rec post, though. How annoying! I thought I was being better about taking notes--if I rec something here, it should be bookmarked.

Now I need to read it again to see what I'm thinking was wrong with the Castiel. Perhaps too humanly effusive/emotive. A few writers give him access to understanding via Jimmy's memories, but that's a fanon choice I think is ripe for sloppiness.

I'd rather see Castiel the angel start handling human things than take a short cut. Given some of the really disappointing stuff I've read recently, many writers seem to want to hop right to the schmoop, and just coincidentally name these guys Dean and Cas.

Has anyone read the post-apocalyptic D/C with a kid fic from this year's big bang? I confess I enjoyed it.

I did not.

First, they turfed Sam for no good reason, and secondly they made Dean too clueless in toddler raising. Dude, he totally knows how to fake normal for a toddler on the road. It's his thing.

But I've been very disappointed with the big bang so far, especially from a D/C perspective. I hope the RPF and Wincest people are having a better time. At least D/C has their own big bang coming up. I will be going back and trying more of the gen and het stuff, but most of those summaries didn't grab me.

I agree about Sam. That was really disappointing. I think I appreciated the post-apocalypic aspect as I'm a fan of dark fic but I have to agree Dean would have been much better at dealing with a toddler than portrayed.

It takes some doing to convince me that Castiel would be the go to parenting figure for a toddler. And the author didn't quite pull that off. The D/C stuff itself was nice, though.

Also, some of the post-apocalyptic details confused me. The technology fail, for instance--no internet, specific mention of crippled cell towers, but they communicate effortlessly by cell the whole time? Kinda random.

My favourite big bang story so far is probably the one by maychorian (sp?) where Castiel possesses Jimmy Novak early and finds the Winchesters while they're still young. I didn't love it, but thought it was sweet. Odd that she was remixing herself, but I will go back and read what she's redoing.