Thursday, January 27, 2011

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.

Tuesday, January 18, 2011

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!

Tuesday, January 11, 2011

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.

Tuesday, January 4, 2011

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!