Cooking Games: Fruit Smoothies

Fruit smoothies are an easy way to up your fruit intake while sipping on something cold and delicious. Add a bit of protein powder and your fruit smoothie will be great after a work-out or for breakfast in the morning. But even when you’re just interested in a healthy snack, a good fruit smoothie will hit the spot.

Gather Materials:
You’ll need the following to create a smoothie:

• A blender
• Frozen fruit
• Orange (or any kind of) juice
• Protein powder as desired

To make the smoothie combine as much frozen fruit as you’d like. Throw in a banana if you want your smoothie to be extra smooth. For optimum health, you can make your fruit smoothie completely out of fruit without any need for ice cream, yogurt, or even ice. The frozen fruit takes care of the ice required by most smoothies.

Once you have all of the fruit ingredients in the blender, add a slug of juice. Orange juice is popular or so is pineapple among some crowds. Start the blender and add juice in small amounts to keep the smoothie thick. More juice will help to water it down as needed.

Once the blended smoothie is ready, serve it up and enjoy consuming so many of your fruits in one glass.

Cooking Games: Jello Jigglers

A favorite cooking game for all ages, Jello Jigglers are the kind of cooking game that is simple to do, but enough fun that you can use it at a party or some other fun occasion.

Gather Materials:

• Jello mix
• Water
• Gelatin
• Cookie Cutters
• Jelly Roll Pan

Make the Jello according to the package instruction. This will include adding hot water and then stirring. When adding the hot water, also add the extra packet of gelatin. A single extra packet will be plenty.

Stir the Jello very well to be sure it is mixed completely and then pour it into the jelly roll pan. If you don’t have a jelly roll pan, you can use a 9x13 inch baking pan, just be sure to keep the layer of the Jello thin.

When the Jello is cooled completely the extra gelatin will have made the Jello a bit harder than it would have been otherwise. Use cookie cutters and great care to actually cut shapes from the pan of Jello. Display and enjoy the Jigglers to your heart’s content.

Cooking Games: A Big Breakfast

I think the best way to play cooking games as a family is to make a big breakfast, and then have it for supper. Breakfast is the most important meal of the day, so why not have it twice? It’s also the kind of home cooked, delicious food that is perfect to sit down to at the end of the day while everyone gets caught up.

Food Choices
Making breakfast is easy once you complete the list of foods you want to serve. Rather than complicate matters with imposing casseroles, you’d do better to make the following and serve it buffet style so that everyone can grab what they want:

• Scrabbled eggs
• Bacon
• French toast
• Pancakes
• Toast
• Grits
• Fresh Fruit
• Waffles
• Muffins
• Biscuits
• Fruit Juices

You don’t need to serve everything all at once unless you’re entertaining a multitude, but picking the items you like the most will make the breakfast a fun experience.

Once you’ve gotten the basics of the breakfast meal for dinner, you can elaborate and start making omelets and those delicious breakfast casseroles. Just be sure you’ve mastered the basics before moving on.

Cooking Games: French Toast

One of my favorite cooking games is perfect for a light meal or a snack. I prefer it without syrup, but French toast is also great smothered in maple syrup.

Gather Ingredients:

• 2 Eggs
• 3 Pieces of whole wheat bread
• Milk
• Cinnamon
• Butter
• Syrup as desired

French Toast Instructions
Break the eggs into a bowl and add a healthy slug of milk. Beat the mixture with a fork for about a minute to be sure it is blended smoothly.

Turn on the stove top and place a large skillet on the burner. When the skillet is heated, drop butter or margarine on the pan and allow it to melt.

In the meantime, drop the first piece of bread into the egg mixture. Flip the bread from side to side to try and get even coverage. Sprinkle the toast with cinnamon for added flavor.

Cook the French toast in the skillet for about four minutes on each side. The final product should be a beautiful golden brown color and a delicious smell!

Three Cooking Games You Have To Try

There are plenty of cooking games out there, but some stand heads and tails about the rest.

Pizza Makers – Everyone loves pizza, so who wouldn’t love to make it virtually. Throw the crust, if you can, top with sauce and then start adding those toppings. You’d better get it right or you might not make it to the next round. At the end of this game, you’ll be hungry for the real thing.

BBQ Games – There is something about a game that grills meat that is universally appealing. You can grill just about anything, but the most common food items are hamburgers, hot dogs, and chicken kabobs. Keep your hands moving to make those plates and you might come out on top.

Cake Games – If you’re a fan of any cooking games, you’ll certainly be a fan of cake games. Virtually bake and then ice your own cake. Then you can start adding all kinds of toppings and garnishes to your completed cake.

Cooking Games: Clean Up Is Important

One of the most overlooked parts of cooking games, and any other game for that matter, is cleaning up. In all things, it’s important to clean up, but especially in the kitchen. While making the various components of your cooking games, you’ll likely spill something onto the counter that needs to be wiped up or maybe you’ll spill clumps of something on the floor that need to be swept. Going off and leaving these sorts of things behind is rude to the next person to use the kitchen and might even attract bugs.

When cleaning up after cooking games:

Put your dirty dishes in the sink or place them in the dishwasher. You’ll want to rinse them first and be sure you’re not putting a dirty bowl in a dishwasher full of cleaning dishes.

Wipe the counters. All manner of germs and other gross things can grow on a counter that looks clean, but isn’t. Use an antibacterial spray and get all the nasty stuff off – especially the items you can’t see.

Sweep the floor after wiping the counters to be sure that you’ve collected all fallen food and dirt.

Cooking Games: Your Future in the Making?

You like cooking games. Presumably, you also like working in the kitchen. Does this mean you’re destined to become a chef or a fantastic cook? It might be.

Considering Your Interests
When deciding what career to choose, you should always consider your interests. If you look cooking, look into careers that use that skill – such as restaurant chefs or becoming a caterer. Loving what you do will make working life much more enjoyable.

Love Makes Money
There is a school of thought that says if you love what you do, you’ll find a way to make money from it. I’m not sure how many paid positions there are for kids to play cooking games all day, but there are certainly many paid fields in gaming, graphics, and cooking.

It’s Just for Fun
It might be that you play cooking games for fun now, but how many of your friends play them as much as you. Your true interests are defined early and not much changes to your basic personality after that.

Cooking Games – Homemade Pizza

Do you like pizza? It’s easier than you might think to make your own at home – from scratch, or close to it!

Assemble the Ingredients
You’ll need the following to make your own pizza
- Pizza pan
- Biscuits – ready to cook in a tube
- Pizza sauce
- Mozzarella cheese
- Favorite toppings

Make Pizza!
The biscuits will be your crust, so open your tin and start mashing them together. The more biscuits you have the thicker your crust will be – and the longer you’ll need to cook your pizza.

Mash the biscuits together and then spread them across the pan. Spread a thin layer of pizza sauce over the crust before adding the cheese and other toppings.

Bake at 350 degrees for fifteen minutes and check to see if it is done. Continue cooking and checking until it is. You’ll know when the center of the crust is firm and no longer gooey.

Cooking Games – The Perfect Coney

Conies, otherwise known as chili cheese dogs, are a delicious treat to be enjoyed on a cold winter day – or a hot summer day. They are so delicious, it doesn’t matter when you eat them.

To make an authentic coney, you should start by using a good hotdog. You can use a regular one if you like, but using a premium hot dog and bun will give you a premium product.

Pull a bun out of the package and set it aside while the hotdog boils. Heat some chili on the stove or in the microwave and pull shredded cheddar cheese from the refrigerator. When the hotdog is ready, put a line of hot mustard down the hot dog bun if you like mustard and then place the dog in the bun.

Put the bun and dog on a very sturdy plate and carefully spoon chili on top of the hotdog. Sprinkle the concoction with shredded cheese and add a bit of relish if you’d like. Your coney is best served with your choice of chips, although fries work well too as you can use them to scoop up the chili that falls off the hot dog. Enjoy!