Wednesday, July 29, 2009

Cooking Games – Muffin Pizzas


If you’ve never enjoyed English muffins, perhaps you simply didn’t know how to prepare them correctly. You can certainly toast the English muffins and eat them with butter or peanut butter, but my personal favorite way to prepare English muffins is in a pizza.

Ingredients for Cooking Games
You’ll need to gather a few ingredients for the cooking game:

* English muffins
* Toaster oven
* Pizza sauce
* Mozzarella cheese
* Basil
* Pepperoni or other toppings as desired.

Instructions for Cooking Game
Slice the English muffins in half so that you have two circles. Carefully spoon on sauce and spread it around to the very edges of the muffin. Sprinkle cheese on top of the sauce. Follow the cheese with a dash of basil for additional flavor. Finally, add a few slices of pepperoni if you’d like.

Bake the muffins in the toaster oven for about twenty minutes. Be careful removing the pan as it will be hot and enjoy!

Saturday, July 25, 2009

Cooking Games – Popcorn Buffet


Creating a popcorn buffet is a simple way to make a movie with friends even more exciting. You’ll need to collect at least three or four different kinds of popcorn to make this work, and if you can find divided bowls of deeply divided plates, you’ll be doing even better to share your popcorn buffet with friends.

Cooking Game Instructions
Microwave popcorn is simple and inexpensive. You can use a traditional popcorn air popper if you’d like and add toppings later – it’s up to you and what your guests will enjoy.

Pop the popcorn one bag at a time. Since you’re sharing the various flavors, you probably don’t need to pop more than a single bag of each of your four flavors. As you pop each one, pour the popped corn into a bowl and place it on the counter. If you have truly unusual popcorns, such as pepper and garlic, a small sign beside the bowl can help guests make up their mind.

When all four bags are popped, offer your guests bowls to fill or plates to fill with the popcorn of their choosing. If they’d prefer to keep it separate, it’s easy enough to use multiple small bowls, or they can fill a larger bowl or bag with a mixed assortment of the various popcorns.

Wednesday, July 22, 2009

Cooking Games and Candy


One of my favorite elements to use in cooking games are the various forms of candy. You can use your favorite types of candy in any number of cooking games, although they are almost certainly going to be desserts or sweet snack foods. The following are a few of my favorite candy cooking games.

Gingerbread Houses – Decidedly a winter treat, gingerbread houses let you slather sheets of gingerbread with icing and then decorate with your favorite candies. If you get creative, you can figure out all kinds of things to do with candy. Licorice laces can be piping. Candy canes can be fence posts. Tootsie rolls can be logs for the fire and colored sugar and sprinkles can make paths and rivers.

Ice Cream Sundaes – Who can resist the idea of ice cream lathered with chocolate and sprinkled with your favorite candy and nut combinations? Of course the best way to eat a candy ridden ice cream sundae is with whipped cream and cherries on top.

Frosted Cookies – I think frosted sugar cookies are one of the greatest ways to send a message. Ice the cookies and then spell out letters and symbols using small candy pieces. Arrange the statement you’re making on a plate or cardboard and deliver.

Saturday, July 18, 2009

My Favorite Cooking Games


I love cooking games, and among the hundreds available online, I like the ones that are a bit different. Granted, everyone loves cooking games that include making pizza or flipping burgers, but pushing the envelope into something new and different is much more rewarding to a gamer such as myself.

Breakfast cooking games are among my favorites. I love to pull all of the pieces together for a great breakfast. The beauty of playing breakfast games is that there are so many varieties and levels of detail you can do even for simple family of five or six. Start with a simple breakfast of eggs and bacon. Perhaps grill some toast as well.

Then you can move on to the truly exquisite breakfast items including quiche and frittatas. Finding online cooking games that have the full variety of breakfast games will be tricky, certainly, but when you find one, you’ll be practicing not only your most crucial skill of flipping eggs, but you might wind up tossing a few pancakes as well.

Wednesday, July 15, 2009

Great Cooking Games for Growing Closer


Cooking games are a great way to grow closer to someone. If you’re interested in a guy, for example, you already know that the best way to his heart is through his stomach, but it is more than a big meal that can make you close to the guy in your life – it’s the intimacy and fun of preparing food together.

Stand shoulder to shoulder while you slice and dice. If this sort of closeness is cramping your style or your elbow, switch your seat across the island so that you’re looking at him while you both cut and prepare items. Being able to glance at each other while working helps conversation to flow easily and well. It is this conversation that begins the real work of the cooking game relationship building exercise.

Talk about food or anything else you might find interesting that pops into your mind while you work. Look for meal ideas that include foods that cook quickly and require constant attention. This will keep you both in the kitchen working rather than moving on into other rooms of the house while something bakes for an hour, for example.

Saturday, July 11, 2009

Cooking Games and Pizza


If you’ve tried cooking games online, you know exactly how much fun it can be to make pizzas. Throw toppings onto virtual pizzas and get them baked in time to feed hungry customers. As you progress from one level to the next, your skill improve and you’ll be putting yourself to the test. Making your own pizza in the kitchen, however is just as much fun – especially if you try something different.

Traditional Pizza – You can make pizza by creating your own crust or buying crust in a tube. Roll it out, toss it around if you dare and then bake for a minute. Add some ingredients, cook and enjoy. You can add some different styles of ingredients such as macaroni and cheese or chicken to this sort of pizza to add a bit of extra flavor. Don’t be afraid to try something new.

Fruit Pizza – A fruit pizza is a bit different from a normal pizza. Start with sugar cookie dough and roll it out. Cook the cookie until it is barely done and allow it to cool. Slather the cookie with icing and start adding some of your favorite fruits – berries are especially good on a fruit pizza.

Wednesday, July 8, 2009

Cooking Games and Your Hands


You might not think about your hands in relation to cooking games, but you probably should. Playing cooking games in your own kitchen can actually be a bit dangerous if you’re not being careful. It’s not only a concern for you how you treat your hands, but a concern for others as well.

Keep your nails trim and clean. Imagine someone with long, scruffy looking nails. Would you want potentially gross nail junk down in your food if that person were making it for you? If you’ve got long nails or short ones for that matter, keep them cleaned up and absolutely clean. Use a nailbrush to remove as much gunk as possible from underneath them as well.

Wash and protect you hands before you cook. Look over your hands. If you have any cuts or open sores on your hands, you don’t need to be kneading bread or making burger patties. Not only will it sting when the juices get into your cuts, but germs can also be getting into the food you’re preparing. If you’re working with meat, you also run the risk of getting bacteria in to the cut and earning yourself a nice infection. Use plastic gloves or wait until you’re healed to avoid this problem.

Saturday, July 4, 2009

Cooking Games Online


When you play cooking games online, you’re able to enjoy a whole different variety of girl games. Cooking games are special because they are different from the more typical dress up game. My cooking game favorites include:


Pizza Making Games – I love to create virtual pizzas almost as much as I like to create the real thing. Making pizza is a fun way to exercise a bit of creativity in the placement of toppings and a nice way to practice online for something you might very well make on your own that evening.

Grilling Games – I also really like the games where you get to grill things. It’s a race against the clock to get the right things on the grill and get them served up and flipped before your run out of time or things get burned. Getting it right level after level is especially challenging.

Ethnic Games – I also love the cooking games from other countries where I get to create the various ethnic foods I love so much in real life. Making different items online gives me a pretty good idea of what it takes to make that sort of thing in my own kitchen.

Wednesday, July 1, 2009

Cooking Games and Injuries


If you’re enjoying cooking games at your home, it’s very likely you’ve had some trouble with injuries. There are many ways to get hurt in the kitchen, and even with the most cautious approach and careful handling, burns, scrapes and other injuries happen.

Burns – With so many different sources of heat in the kitchen, it’s no surprise that you wind up burned from time to time. When you do get burned, run the burned area under cold water to take away the sting and maybe apply ice. Do not put butter or lotion on the burn as it locks in the heat and can make the injury hurt more. If the burn is large or seems severe, call your doctor or the emergency room.

Cuts – Knives and other sharp kitchen utensils make it more than likely that you’ll wind up cut at some point. You should always be extremely careful with knives and handle those and other sharp objects carefully. If you receive a shallow cut or scrape, have a parent clean it out with an antiseptic product or do so yourself. Bacteria which causes infections is rampant in a kitchen, so you must clean a cut before covering it with a bandage or two. If your cut is severe, doesn’t stop bleeding or is a puncture wound such as a deep spot where an ice pick went into your hand or arm, see a doctor for treatment.