"Throwing shit at the wall and seeing what sticks seems to be as good a plan as any at this point."

He clears some things from the table to make room for their special project, mostly by just sweeping the stuff off with his arm. (It's okay, if anything was breakable, they'd landed on some piles of clothes.) Then, flipping the book open to the appropriate chapter, he lays it out flat.

"Okay, where do we start... How about garlic? Garlic is nice and straightforward."