Cooking Games and New Years

There are some excellent traditions for New Years that we should definitely take advantage of for this New Year’s celebration. Among the best of the food traditions, you’ll find black-eyed peas and corn bread. If you’re into cooking games, you can whip up your own version of black-eyed peas and corn bread this year and bring them along to a party or just have a few friends over to enjoy your culinary delicacies before the group heads out for a big night on the town.

To make black eyed peas, you can do better than opening a jar – although opening a jar isn’t the end of the world either. Start with the dried beans and plan ahead – you have to soak the beans over night before you can start cooking them. Make some bacon and set it aside. Then, using the bacon grease, sauté some onion. Add the peas to the pan along with some salt, pepper and water. Cover the pan and cook for about an hour. Once the beans are tender, top them with the crumbled bacon and serve. Happy cooking games for the New Year!

Cooking Games and Candy

Candy is definitely delicious, and it’s a bit of a challenge to make at home, but that doesn’t mean you can’t use candy in all of your various creations! Candy is an excellent way to decorate a cake and to try out new cookie ideas. If you’re ready to get serious about holiday baking, bring along some candy as well to include everyone in the holiday cooking games.

Your holiday cooking games will likely start with a few friends coming over to join in the fun of the holiday baking. The ingredients will be laid out all over the counters and there is plenty of room for everyone to join and be part of the party – especially the younger kids.

The youngest members of the party are the perfect decorators! Just pass on the candy for the cooking games to the kids and they can spend hours making new designs on the top of the cupcakes and finding fun ways to embellish cookies and just about everything else you create on your day of cooking games. Just realize, of course, that more than a bit of that candy may disappear into the mouths of some of those hard working children.

Cooking Games and Fudge

One of the best cooking games I’ve come across lately was the box of fudge. Once upon a time you had to assemble the ingredients for fudge all by yourself. There were boxes and bags of ingredients and then you had to dig out the old family recipe so that you could figure out how to make the actual dessert. Now, however, there are boxes of fudge ingredients that you can easily make at home in a single sitting. These cooking games are simple, but they taste identical to the fudge recipes that were so tedious to make before.

Using the box of fudge, you’ll start by pulling out the various ingredients and checking to be sure that everything is there. Then, simply follow the instructions to melt the chocolate and blend the ingredients together to make the smooth fudge batter. Finally, you’ll press the fudge in the paper tray provided in the box and your cooking game will be complete – all you need to do is chill the fudge and then eat it to your heart’s content.

Cooking Games and Thanksgiving

The fun of Thanksgiving isn’t just the food, it’s the many conversations we have over the food as you enjoy it. If you’re going to sit down to Thanksgiving cooking games, don’t over think the experience. You should be able to make the food in a way that is stress free and fun to be sure that you can enjoy the whole day – not just the meal itself.

Start with the preparations a few days ahead of time. You’ll want to ask family members to help if possible with some of the dishes so that it doesn’t all fall into your lap the day of the big meal. Side dishes, breads and salad are easy to cook up at other homes and can arrive the day of the meal leaving you with the main course. Of course, having friends and family members over with you to help prepare the meal had some fun side benefits as well. Think of the fun you’ll have in the kitchen as you whip up some great meals and some even greater conversation at the same time.

Cooking Games and Comfort Foods

As winter approaches, it is absolutely time to start thinking about comfort foods. You should be firing up your crock pot right not to make a batch of chili. Or maybe you’re more into baking and you have plans for hot bread and brownies later. Cooking games are a great way to relieve some of the stress that builds during the countless hours you spend indoors in the winter, while giving you something important to work on as well.

This is your time to start perfecting some of your favorite cooking games. Work on finding the perfect balance of color and frosting in your cupcakes. Try adding some new nuts or candies to your brownies and cookies to see if you get a great new flavor. All of those recipes you’ve cut out of magazines? Let’s give them a try! The holidays are a great time for old favorite and an opportunity to try out some new ones as well. Bake up a storm this holiday season and you’ll be bringing comfort not only to yourself, but to all of your coworkers, friends and family members as well. Enjoy!

Cooking Games and the Crock Pot

The crock pot is a great way for busy people to play cooking games. Start with a collection of ingredients and then combine them all together to make up a delicious dish ahead of time. You can cook large cuts of meat easily in the crock pot by just dumping it in the pot with your seasonings and spices and then you walk away. Head off to work and when you get home you’ll find your main dish for the day finished. All you need to do then is create the side dishes in just a few minutes and your meal is complete.

Crock pots don’t just cook meat. You can make any number of soups, dips, side dishes and even casseroles in the pot. Some crock pots even have multiple compartments you can use to cook different items at once. Those allow you to walk into your home at the end of the busy day and have a full meal ready to go. What could be better at the end of a long, hard work day than to see the fruits of your cooking games bubbling up and ready to be served.

Cooking Games and Bread

If you’ve never made bread from scratch, it’s one cooking game you definitely to try. When you make bread, you’ll feel closer to your ancestors who had to make bread themselves every single day, day in and day out. Bread was the primary sustenance of the early settlers and even the more recent ones. Today we walk into the store to buy a loaf or two, but just a few decades ago you were more likely to find a loaf of homemade bread than a store bought one.

Bread takes a few hours to make, but it’s the sort of thing you can do in bits around other parts of your day. You’ll start by mixing up the bread dough with a spoon and then by hand. You’ll have to knead the bread dough to get the last of the flour into the dough and to work out any air bubbles. Once you’ve mixed it, the bread will rise for about an hour. Then, you’ll punch it down and it will rise again in the loaf pans. Finally bake your bread, and you’ll be able to enjoy the results of the cooking games immediately.

Cooking Games and Recipes

It’s hard sometimes to buckle down in the kitchen and get any cooking done. If you’re not a natural cook, playing cooking games can seem a bit foreign initially, but this is certainly not a reason to stay out of the kitchen. You need to jump in there and learn how to cook and pretty soon, if you have some solid recipes and you’re pretty good at following directions, you’ll see a dramatic difference in how well you can play cooking games, regardless of how much cooking you’ve done it the past.

Cooking games offer countless hours of fun, and in addition to just having fun cooking up desserts, breads and entrees, you’ll also be creating something you can enjoy eating. How much fun is it to settle down with a slab of cake that you created that morning? It’s even more rewarding to make a sandwich out of bread that you baked than the store bought variety. Learning to cook will also teach you just how many things you can make that don’t cost much to create – an excellent way to stay on a budget.

Cooking Games and Watermelons

It would seem like a silly thing to play with, but watermelons are great for cooking games. The watermelons are an easy way to make a bowl for your fruit salad, and they are a natural ingredient in the salad as well. Start with a round watermelon that isn’t too big – you want it to be manageable. Cut off a tiny slice on the bottom of the melon. This is just to give the melon something to sit on – not to drip from, so be sure you don’t cut off more than just a sliver of rind.

Then, cut open the watermelon and using a melon ball scoop, start scooping out little balls of watermelon. Cut open a cantaloupe and do the same thing with that as well. Store the balls in a large bowl until the watermelon bowl is empty. Cut out the rest of the watermelon inside and then pour the balls back in. Mix them up with some blueberries and perhaps strawberries to finish off the fruit concoction. Easy dessert and beautiful to boot!

Cooking Games and School Fun

One of the best things you can do for school is to make yourself a lunch group. Rather than go through the trouble of packing up your lunches every morning, you can enjoy something new and different every day through your lunch group. You bring one dish and your friends bring a dish and then you have a full collection of food to eat for lunch.

If you have four friends who all sit together for lunch, you just need to assign each person a course and you’ll have a full lunch every week. For example, you might bring sandwiches on Monday and your friends bring a big bag of chips to share, a few cookies to share and a pack of cokes. If you buy big enough packs and store the extra in your locker or in a fridge overnight, you can enjoy all sorts of things without having to remember to do more than grab four cans of soda first thing in the morning.

Cooking Games and Coffee

Who doesn’t love to head to the local coffee shop for a drink with friends? Just watching the baristas make great coffee makes me wonder how much fun I could have playing cooking games with coffee. While I might not have an espresso machine or a way to create my own steamed milk for cappuccino, I can play around a bit with the many forms of coffee creamers and flavors to see what sort of tasty concoction I can make at home.

For example, in my cooking games, I might start with a pot of black coffee. In a blender, I could pour in some coffee and put in a scoop of ice cream. A handful of ice and a generous squirt of chocolate syrup might just make a frozen coffee drink that is worthy of praise. Perhaps you can develop your own signature coffee drink you can whip up and serve to all of your friends every time they come over to visit.

Cooking Games on the Grill

Over the summer, I’ve decided that I’m not going to use the oven unless I’m making a sweet treat. Rather than cooking up large items that require the oven, I’m using the grill. It’s been a long time since I actually used the grill to cook, and the first time I fired it up this summer was probably the first time I’ve fired it up in a couple of years. But this was my summer to learn some more cooking games, and learn them I did!

I now know how to play cooking games with steak, chicken, pork, sausage and hamburgers. I am almost experienced enough to cook a meal every day of the week on the grill and not have to repeat myself. Sadly this is much more accomplished than I am using the oven or the stove, and I’m rather proud of my accomplishments. Thanks to a gas grill, I’m able to fire up the grill for some cooking games, take a few minutes to get the meat ready, and then simply throw it on the grill. It cooks while I work on side dishes and just like that – we have delicious summer cooking games!

Cooking Games – Breakfast for Dinner

One of my favorite cooking games to play is to make breakfast for dinner. It’s actually rather simple, but you almost wouldn’t know it from the elaborate supper plans I often make. Sometimes I start thinking about steaks and salads and frou-frou desserts, but in reality the easiest and often healthiest thing you can have for dinner is a bit of what you might normally have for breakfast.

For example, French toast can be made with egg whites, skim milk and some whole wheat bread. Cook up your French toast while you prepare a bit of turkey bacon. When it’s all finished, have your French toast with bacon, fresh fruit and a cup of milk. You’ve hit every food group, made a minimum of mess and you’re able to enjoy your food knowing it’s healthy, it’s easy and it’s the sort of cooking game you can enjoy both morning and night.

Cooking Games: Shut Down the Oven

If your kitchen is already hot this summer it’s going to just get hotter when you turn on the oven. A hot oven may be great for making a giant batch of cookies, but when it makes your whole house that much hotter, it’s barely worth it. This summer, all of our cooking games should be done without using the oven at all. Need some ideas of cooking games that shun the oven? Try these!

Microwave – if you can, just microwave whatever you’re eating. Sure you can’t make cookies in the microwave, but you can cook a whole chicken in the microwave so why even use the oven?

Toaster Oven – The best $20 you’ll ever spend is on a great toaster oven. Get one that is large enough for a frozen pizza or a small tray of cookies and you’ll be able to do everything you’d normally do in the big overheated oven with minimal heat waste.

Grill – Fire up the grill outside and you won’t have to cook in the house at all. Learn to make all of your meals on the grill and you can go weeks without turning on any kitchen appliance.

Cooking Games: Layer Cakes

Today I played some cooking games with my sons. We made a layer cake, and frankly after those cooking games, I’m feeling a bit sick right now. Our layer cake is delicious. My oldest son was convinced that rather than just a stacked layer cake, we needed to have a layer cake that more closely resembled a wedding or tiered layer cake. He wanted at least four layers to be present in decreasing size.

I took this request as a challenge to overcome with my cooking games, and after whipping up a box of cake mix, I used a collection of casserole dishes and baking pans to get my four rounds of varying size. The best part of the cooking game came when it was time to stack the cake. The four little layers I’d made for the cake weren’t very big – I only had one bag of cake mix, after all. The end product of our cooking games was a tiny layer cake that looked like a doll’s wedding cake. It might look tiny, but it was delicious!

Cooking Games and Healthy Food Choices

It’s hard thought to think of cooking games that focus on the healthier food items that don’t use a bunch of sugar or processed food items. With our cooking games today, we spend a lot of time reheating processed foods and thanks to huge time limitations, we often skip making real foods. The goal of our cooking games should be to eat foods as close to their natural state as possible. This means you should shop the edges of the grocery store to get meat, fruit, vegetables and flour. All of the basic ingredients combine to make the kinds of foods our ancestors ate.

By avoiding all of the chemicals and junk that is found in processed foods today, our cooking games will be healthier and better for us. Our bodies can digest fats and oils from things like real butter much better than it can digest all of the chemicals that we tend to pour into our body on a daily basis. It’s a huge change, but perhaps if we all move away from prepared foods and get into healthier alternatives, we’ll be better overall.

Cooking Games and Pizza Chefs

If you’ve ever wanted to try something new, like perhaps being a pizza chef, the cooking games online are a great place to give this new occupation a try. When you play cooking games, you’re going to have a chance to master your skills decorating pizzas and then getting them out of the oven fast enough for all of your customers. With the pizza cooking games, you will have a chance to actually design the pizzas you cook. Add all of the toppings you want to make a delicious looking pizza, but be careful – you have to match the pizza you’re making with what your customers want or you’ll be in trouble!

The cooking games move fast and you have to create the pizzas in order to keep up with demand. You’ll get one request after another to make a pizza. Get the pizzas right and you’ll be able to stay ahead of the line as the orders come in. Make a pizza wrong or get it out of order and you’ll almost immediately be in trouble as you try to manage the orders and make it all work again. Don’t be surprised if you have to try your hand at the cooking games multiple times before you find the perfect balance.

How to Play Cooking Games

Cooking games are a grand adventure online. Not only do the cooking games give you a chance to test your skills n the kitchen or over the grill, but they improve your fine motor skills and help you improve your hand-eye coordination as well. Playing cooking games generally happens the same way, although there are various kinds of cooking games, and they certainly aren’t all cut from the same cloth.

In cooking games, your job is to make the food as the orders come along. You might find yourself the chef of a fine restaurant, a pizza man or outside on the beach manning a grill. As the orders come back to you, you need to get the right items on the stove, in the oven or on the grill and cook them as quickly as possible in order to get the food back out the door again.

Of course, the game gets a bit tricky as it continues. The food starts to burn if you don’t move fast enough and the orders keep coming making things feel intense and pressured. Fortunately you’re touch enough to handle that in your cooking games.

Cooking Games and Cupcake Sprinkles

It seems like such an easy thing to put sprinkles on cupcakes, but it’s really not. One of the simplest cooking games is to make cupcakes and then decorate them, but how do you decorate cupcakes to look well done as opposed to simply slapped together. That’s not to say slapped together, hodge-podge cupcakes aren’t delicious, because we know they are, but when you’re playing cooking games, you like to get your decorations just right.

To apply sprinkles to your cupcake in a more attractive way, simple roll the edges of the cupcake through the icing. Start with a paper plate full of sprinkles. Put icing on the top of the cupcakes. Holding the bottom of the cupcake, roll the iced top through the sprinkles turning the cupcake along its edge. This coats the edges in sprinkles and makes a very neat, professional looking circle of sprinkles around the edges. Simply drop a candy piece in the center of your sprinkle circle and your cupcakes are ready to go!

Cooking Games: Online Cake Shops

I love baking and I love the idea of being able to decorate a cake. Unfortunately, I’m not really very good at either, but I at least get to play around with the idea of fanciful cupcakes and fun when I’m playing cooking games. Of the many cooking games available, the best are the cooking games that bring you inside an online cake shop. In these games, you’re given any number of desserts to improve with icing and designs.

If I were to ever try and frost a cake by hand, it would be an interesting mess. Doing the cake decoration as part of a cooking game, I’m able to see just how much I can really do with my creativity, even if my hands aren’t trained to hold an icing tube. Playing cooking games like the cake shop let me flex my creative muscle which is very nice in a day and age often without creativity. I like trying things that are new and fun for me, and decorating cakes as I can n online cooking games is definitely something new and exciting.

Cooking Games and Easy Toddler Foods

I was blessed with a picky toddler, and as other mothers who have picky toddlers know, you have to get a bit creative with your cooking games if you’re going to make it through the day. When you’re playing cooking games with your toddler, the first thing you need to remember is that toddlers have a stomach roughly the size of their fist. They are going to eat a lot, but not all at once. The toddlers usually graze during the day and this behavior can continue for years as they grow. Your job is to provide them plenty of healthy foods that make up a meal over the course of a day, not all at once.

Make your toddler foods enticing to your toddler by picking out some favorites an making them available. Put blue berries in a special bowl. Use a cookie cutter to make a sandwich a special shape. Have healthy oatmeal cookies in the middle of a tea party. However you arrange your food, be sure that it’s in a way that seems fun to you. If it’s fun for you to make it, it will likely be fun for your toddler to eat it.

Cooking Games and Fruit Dip

Making fruit dip is an easy and fun cooking game. When you’re playing cooking games, you want o find a collection of food items that are tasty together and also ones that are fun to work with. Fruit and dip satisfy this requirement of cooking games perfectly.

To make fruit dip, you’ll first need some fruit. Cut up the fruit into bite sized chunks. You can skewer the fruit if you’d like to make it easier to hold and dip, or you can just leave the fruit on the plate in chunks. In the center of your fruit collection, you’ll make a fluffy dip for the items. This is especially good with berries, but it works well for all cooking games.

To make the dip, simply combine a container of strawberry yogurt with half a container of Cool Whip. The result is a fluffy, tasty fruit dip. A very nice cooking game to say the least.

Cooking Games and Fresh Fruit

It’s a great deal of fun acquiring your own food. There are plenty of opportunities to grow your own fruit and vegetables today. The first is the large number of farms that offer you a chance to get out into the fields and actually pick the fruit yourself. This is big with younger people especially, but it can be a fun cooking game for anyone since it’s a treat for those of us that live in the bigger cities where we don’t ahev strawberries at every street corner.

If you can’t pick your own fruit, you can grow your own fruit just as easily. A container garden makes it easy to grow a few plants of your own. Plant some tomato plants in a pot and you’ll be on your way. The tomato plants grow well in containers so long as you keep them watered. You can do the same with peppers, onions and even items like grapes or strawberries. The biggest trouble with growing your own product in the backyard is keeping the birds away – the love vegetables in the middle of the city as well.

Cooking Games and Dips

Collectively we have a love affair with dips. What better way to spend an afternoon that sitting on the couch watching your favorite show than when sharing bean dip, or spinach dip, or onion dip with your best friend? The dips allow us a wide choice of flavors and new food items without being overbearing, but making all of those dips can also be great cooking games!

Cooking games are a great way to experiment with different food items, and dips are a lot like soups. You can throw all sorts of things together to make one meal and the more you figure out about how to make a particular kind of dip, the better prepared you’re going to be for the evening at home on the couch. The cooking games for making dips can be very easy. In fact, many of them don’t even require using the oven. The microwave is enough for many of them, and others just require mixing some packets of ingredients together. What could be easier than that for cooking games?

Cooking Games and Appliances

It’s a shame, but cooking games can be ruined by bad appliances. There’s a reason that so many people spend huge amounts of money to update their kitchens. They want the top of the line appliances, and this makes sense if you’re struggling to come up with the right conditions to cook your favorite meals and play some serious cooking games.

For example, last night I was playing some cooking games of my own. I went to make brownies. I started the cooking games as you always should by following instructions about preheating the oven. Unfortunately, my oven is about thirty years old and doesn’t heat very well, or at least not evenly. So the cooking games I was playing didn’t really work out. The brownies I was trying to make for a friend almost burned around the sides, but the center was still absolutely dough. You could actually reach in and scoop it out the same way you could in the bowl I mixed it. It was a very frustrating, although delicious in a gooey way, cooking game.

Cooking Games and Easter

There are only a few traditional items that pop up around Easter, and most of them are chocolate or coated in sugar. When you’re working with cooking games, you’ll want to find something new and exciting to create. There’s no sense in making something that’s been done countless times before if it’s not something you really want to make. Why not get creative with your Easter cooking games?

Start with the favorite candies of the holidays – jelly beans, bunnies and chocolate. Then why not build a house, much like a ginger bread house, but out of those items? Icing can seal everything together for the finished project. Or if you’d rather do something simpler, play with the jelly beans – spell out messages, make skewers with patterns or package up some for your best friend. The Easter cooking games are an opportunity to really create something special.

Cooking Games and Knife Safety

If you’re going to play cooking games in your kitchen, one of the most important things you can do is learn how to handle a knife correctly. When possible, you should always handle a knife in the company of someone else who can help you remember to use the knife safely. Having someone else there is also great insurance against a mistake simply because that friend or family member might be the one to drive you to the emergency room if you do goof somehow.

When you’re using a knife you should follow a few simple rules:
Always use a sharp knife. A sharp knife will cut more cleanly and more quickly. A dull knife, however, will be harder to use and it is more likely to slip when you’re trying to cut and cut you instead.

Always cut away from yourself. Don’t leave your fingers in the way of the knife and push the knife away from you rather than pulling it toward you where it can slip and jump into your hand, arm or chest.

Point knives down in the dishwasher. If you’re washing knives by hand, don’t drop them into soapy water where you can’t feel what you’re grabbing. If you’re loading the knives into the dishwasher, put them into the racks with the blades facing downward for safe handling for the next cooking games.

Healthy Cooking Games

There are so many fun cooking games out there to play, but a huge number of them all seem to have health issues. The cooking games we enjoy most are the ones that include things like making cookies, adding sprinkles and frosting and baking cakes. It’s time for us to find more cooking games that can be considered healthy!
Fruit Salad – Fruit salads are one of the easiest cooking games for those looking to find a healthy alternative to the non-healthy cooking games. Cut up all sorts of pieces of fruit and combine them together. Make a berry salad or use skewers for the fruit to make it more exciting.

Muffins and Bread – If you make your muffins and bread from scratch, you can limit the amount of sugar you use by making healthy substitutions. Using applesauce instead of sugar, for example, or bananas and nuts to flavor a rich bread is absolutely delicious and healthy.

Cooking Games and Avoiding Sugar

There are too many sugary delicious items out there for me and my cooking games. I loved making cookies, brownies and cakes with my kids and I still do at times, but it’s starting to bother me how little there is that’s fun to make that is sugar free. Not only is sugar bad for all of us, but it’s been affecting my health and my energy levels lately. I’m bound and determined to find cooking games that require less sugar and healthier overall.

The one area where I’ve decided to start my new cooking games are the breads. Making bread is actually pretty fun, especially if you start mixing in different ingredients. Granted, there is still sugar in bread, but there is considerably less in the dark breads than the white breads, so I’ll be starting there. I’m going to play cooking games with my kids and we’ll all have fun with steaming, hot bread for snacks this winter.

Cooking Games and Cookies

Cookies are one of the first things kids learn to make that involves more than pushing a button on the microwave. If you’re working with your children to playing cooking games for cookies, always remember that the safety should be your first less. Your kids will likely be using scissors and almost certainly the oven as they cook.

Start with the place and bake style cookies. Simply grease a tray and then cut open a pack of dough. Your children can place the cookies on the tray on their own and once they have them arranged, it’s a simple matter to fire up the oven and bake them. The hardest part is teaching your children how to use the oven correctly – a full hand oven mitt will help protect their arms and hands from burns, but supervision for the first few cookie making experiences will certainly serve you well, too.

Cooking Games and Campfires

One of the most enjoyable ways to cook is with fire. While obviously dangerous and never something you should try at home, cooking games over the campfire have the kind of appeal that is hard to ignore. Many of my best memories involve food cooked over a campfire. If you’ve never cooked over a campfire, you’ll need to start with some straight forward cooking games rather than trying to do anything that might be especially challenging.

The best cooking game over a campfire are s’mores. S’mores are simply a toasted marshmallow with a bar of chocolate squished between two graham crackers. The result is a oozy, gooey marshmallow and chocolate mess. Once you’ve mastered cooking on a stick over the fire, you can try cooking hot dogs or sausage. Simply stick the meat on a sharp stick and settle in. Roasting it over the fire gives the meat a delicious smoky taste – an excellent result to a cooking game.

Cooking Games and Spinach Dip

What is it about spinach and cheese that goes so well together? If you like spinach dip, you’ll love this easy cooking game. For spinach cooking games, you’ll start with a frozen package of spinach. Unceremoniously dump the frozen spinach into a microwave safe bowl. Then start cutting. You’re going to need to cut up a rectangle of cream cheese and a block of Velveeta cheese. Dump those cheese cubes into the bowl with the frozen spinach. Finally, open a can of Rotel tomatoes and drain it. Dump the tomatoes on top of the rest and put it in the microwave.

The dip will need to cook for at least five or ten minutes. As it cooks, stop the microwave periodically to stir the mixture together. Keep cooking until the spinach is cooked and the cheeses are all melted and smooth. A few final stirs will have the concoction ready for some crackers or chips. Heavy pita chips are great with this dip as are many sorts of crackers. Enjoy the cooking games!

Cooking Games and Soup

There is nothing more delicious than a cup of soup on a cold winter’s night. And the last time I checked outside it was certainly winter. The winter months bring on the nasty, biting weather that seeps in under windows and doors. Fight back against that cold with some cooking games of your own.

Start by looking for soup recipes online or in your favorite cook book. The perfect recipes take little in the way of preparation and they can be left to stew for hours at a time. Then, play these cooking games in the crock pot. Dump all of the ingredients together in the crock-pot and start it cooking. If you’re feeling adventuresome, you can start a loaf of bread in the bread machine as well.

If you time it all just right, you’ll wind up with a hot bowl of soup and fresh, crusty bread at dinner time. You’ll have the added effect of being surrounded by the smell of it cooking all day long.

Cooking Games and Fun

Cooking games are fun for the whole family. When you play cooking games at home, you’re often pulling out new recipes and giving yourself a great opportunity to try some new things. Including your family members in that fun means they get to see how the food is made and you’ll be spending plenty of time together, too.

Families today are more distant than that the families in the past. We are all so busy that we almost pass each other in the night. It’s easy to make more time in the day, however, if everyone is coming together to play cooking games as a form of dinner preparation. You can even make it be part of your chores. The end result is an organized dinner, some new recipes and fun foods to try and a great opportunity to share the experiences of the day without stress. Hurray for family fun!