Tuesday, December 28, 2010

Loving Cooking Games


Cooking games are a great things, both online and off. When you play cooking games, you’re getting a nice set of benefits whether you realize it or not.

Cooking games online can help you with fine motor skills. If you find your attention drifting, pull out some cooking games and you’ll be engaged with the game and you’ll be forced to move rapidly as well. The end result is rapid hand and eye motion, and how can that be a bad thing?

Cooking games give you time together with family. When you play cooking games at home, you might invite your sisters or parents to play with you. Try new experiments and pull out new recipes to use for dinner that night for a bit of family adventure

Cooking games introduce you to new foods. Why not try some new foods? Cooking games give you plenty of options of things to try that are both delicious and fun to make as well.

Wednesday, December 22, 2010

Cooking Games and the Holidays


Cooking games are a natural part of the holiday season. Many families come together to make cookies or treats for teachers and other family members. When you share the experience of the cooking games, it’s easy to really get to know everyone without the pressure and the drama of the shopping malls or the even the grocery stores.

This holiday season treat your family to a real event in your household. While everyone is away at school or at a friend’s house, make a huge batch of cut-out sugar cookies. Then mix up icing in a variety of colors and arrange it into bowls. Sit your kids down after dinner and have them start decorating the cookies. Make it a rule that nobody can get up until every cookie is decorated. Even if your teenage children don’t get into as much as you’d like, they might still enjoy the experience and you’ll have given them a chance to enjoy a fun holiday treat during the most important time of the year.

Wednesday, December 15, 2010

Cooking Games and Family


Cooking games are a great way for families to spend time together. When your family is playing cooking games together, you get endless amounts of time in a real activity. Not only will you have plenty of stories to tell about how the activity actually went, you’ll have a chance to get through to your children in a non-awkward kind of way.

Cooking games tend to not be as staged feeling as some of the chats or talks that parents have with their kids. Instead of the kids all sitting still while mom and dad lecture them, the family is all involved in making dinner or cutting out cookies for the family dinner or dessert. When you’re working side by side, it’s much easier to have a natural conversation with a kid – especially your own kid. Keep everyone’s hands busy and you’ll soon have some serious family cooking games to cherish.

Thursday, December 9, 2010

The 12 Cooking Games of Christmas Part 2


To continue the ideas I have for the 12 Cooking Games of Christmas:

Day 4 Cooking Games – I’m going to make some Rice Krispie treats with some holidays marshmallows blended into for some extra colors.

Day 5 Cooking Games – The plan for this day is to back off the sweets again and go for a salty treat. I might make Chex Mix or I might bring up a simple dip and chips for everyone to share.

Day 6 Cooking Games – Back to the yummy sweets! This day is for fudge – the original chocolate kind complete with walnuts.

Day 7 Cooking Games – We’re going to scale it back this day and get a bit simpler again with some peanut butter cookies.

Day 8 Cooking Games – It’s time for a bit of meat, so I plan on making a sausage tray with cheese and crackers – snacks that are easy to share, but that have a bit of heft to them as well.

Day 9 Cooking Games – After all that meat, it’s time for more sweetness, and it might be a plate of gingersnaps rolled in cinnamon.

Thursday, December 2, 2010

The 12 Cooking Games of Christmas Part 1


I’ve decided to give my special someone a unique gift this year. I’m going to use my cooking games and skills in the kitchen to bring him the twelve cooking games of Christmas. He works in an environment where there are plenty of other guys around and he’s there for long stretches of time during the day. What this means to me is that I can make him a different yummy treat every day and take them up to his work for him to share with friends. Here are the ones I have in mind so far.

Day 1 Cooking Games – I plan to make some chocolate chip cookies. You can’t go wrong with the original, right?

Day 2 Cooking Games – I’m going to be making some trail mix with festive colors of M&M candies mixed in for good measure. I might even individually package it up for some friends or put it in a big festive bowl for everyone to dip into and share.

Day 3 Cooking Games – It’s time for more sweets, and this time it’s going to be cupcakes. I’ll make him a dozen of his favorite type – vanilla with vanilla frosting and deliver them in Christmas wrapping.