Cooking Games and Breakfast

Of all the online cooking games, my favorite is easily the breakfast one. I am a terrible cook in reality and can barely make toast, but online I am a cooking whiz. I can whip up a delicious breakfast without blinking. And I can do it again and again. I start with the hot griddle. Then I start tossing on the important things – pancakes, eggs and hashbrowns. Then comes the bacon and ham. All of it cooks at once while I start filling plates.

It’s tricky to stay on top of the orders, but I have it down to a science. I cook and serve in the online cooking games until I just can’t keep up anymore. The first time I played, I didn’t even get two order out the door – I cooked the wrong things that burned up accidentally. But today I could probably play for close to an hour just moving up the levels and storing up points who who-knows-what. Fortunately, it’s not the points that matter in this game – it’s the amount of fun you have playing it!

Cooking Games and Cleaning Up

The worst part of playing cooking games for me is the clean-up. Nobody wants to clean up at the end of the day, but unfortunately, it’s just one of those things that has to happen – especially with my version of cooking games. When I cook, I’m a bit hard on the countertops and pans. I make a huge mess. But then, if you ask me anyway, what fun is cooking if you don’t make some sort of mess? It’s just part of the process of cooking games.

But with the messes I make, I know full well that I have to be responsible for what happens next. I have to clean it up. While not the most fun I could have in a day, I realize that cleaning up is a fact of life. To clean properly I load up the sink with the dirty dishes and then attack the countertops. Once the counters are clean, I load up the dishwasher and start it. Then, as the last step, I sweep up anything that might have fallen to the floor. It seems like it takes forever, but the full cleaning process really only takes about fifteen minutes tops.

Cooking Games and Simple Foods

A lot of the meals we see being made on cooking shows and in cook books are complicated recipes that include a large number of ingredients. While these cooking games are a great deal of fun, there is also much to be said for cooking that that just use simple foods. As much as possible we should be eating foods in their natural forms. This means instead of steaming carrots and dipping them in rich sauces, we should just grate the carrot up and put it over lettuce.

When you eat simple foods, you are getting the closest thing you can to put nutrients. The foods aren’t rich and they are filling. Imagine a meal as simple as a banana, a hardboiled egg and some whole wheat toast with crushed fruit topping. That’s a full meal, really, it’s simple to prepare and the ingredients are simple. Not only are these sorts of cooking games easy to prepare, they are easy for your body to digest as well.

Cooking Games and Picking Strawberries

I think one of the most important parts of cooking games is preparing for them adequately. If you’re doing something fun like a strawberry dessert or making strawberry jam, preparing for the cooking games can be as simple as going out to pick some strawberries yourself. If you don’t live in a hugely urban area, or even if you do, search your local listing for farms where you might be able to go out and pick your own strawberries.

This is the season for strawberries and they freeze very well making them easy to use later, too. When you pick the strawberries, find ones that are very ripe but not soft. You want firm strawberries that are bright red and ready to be used. When you have a nice collection, take them home and use some immediately with some cream or in a dessert. But then take the rest and freeze them up for use later. It will be nice to have fresh strawberries for your cooking games in the winter, too.