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.