Wednesday, March 30, 2011

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.

Thursday, March 24, 2011

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.

Tuesday, March 15, 2011

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?

Wednesday, March 9, 2011

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.

Wednesday, March 2, 2011

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.

Wednesday, February 23, 2011

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.

Wednesday, February 16, 2011

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.