Sunday, August 21, 2011

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.

Monday, August 8, 2011

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.