Cooking Games: Your Future in the Making?

You like cooking games. Presumably, you also like working in the kitchen. Does this mean you’re destined to become a chef or a fantastic cook? It might be.

Considering Your Interests
When deciding what career to choose, you should always consider your interests. If you look cooking, look into careers that use that skill – such as restaurant chefs or becoming a caterer. Loving what you do will make working life much more enjoyable.

Love Makes Money
There is a school of thought that says if you love what you do, you’ll find a way to make money from it. I’m not sure how many paid positions there are for kids to play cooking games all day, but there are certainly many paid fields in gaming, graphics, and cooking.

It’s Just for Fun
It might be that you play cooking games for fun now, but how many of your friends play them as much as you. Your true interests are defined early and not much changes to your basic personality after that.

Cooking Games – Homemade Pizza

Do you like pizza? It’s easier than you might think to make your own at home – from scratch, or close to it!

Assemble the Ingredients
You’ll need the following to make your own pizza
- Pizza pan
- Biscuits – ready to cook in a tube
- Pizza sauce
- Mozzarella cheese
- Favorite toppings

Make Pizza!
The biscuits will be your crust, so open your tin and start mashing them together. The more biscuits you have the thicker your crust will be – and the longer you’ll need to cook your pizza.

Mash the biscuits together and then spread them across the pan. Spread a thin layer of pizza sauce over the crust before adding the cheese and other toppings.

Bake at 350 degrees for fifteen minutes and check to see if it is done. Continue cooking and checking until it is. You’ll know when the center of the crust is firm and no longer gooey.

Cooking Games – The Perfect Coney

Conies, otherwise known as chili cheese dogs, are a delicious treat to be enjoyed on a cold winter day – or a hot summer day. They are so delicious, it doesn’t matter when you eat them.

To make an authentic coney, you should start by using a good hotdog. You can use a regular one if you like, but using a premium hot dog and bun will give you a premium product.

Pull a bun out of the package and set it aside while the hotdog boils. Heat some chili on the stove or in the microwave and pull shredded cheddar cheese from the refrigerator. When the hotdog is ready, put a line of hot mustard down the hot dog bun if you like mustard and then place the dog in the bun.

Put the bun and dog on a very sturdy plate and carefully spoon chili on top of the hotdog. Sprinkle the concoction with shredded cheese and add a bit of relish if you’d like. Your coney is best served with your choice of chips, although fries work well too as you can use them to scoop up the chili that falls off the hot dog. Enjoy!

Cooking Games – Root Beer Floats

It might be cold outside, but that is no reason you can’t enjoy a root beer float. These classic ice cream treats are great anytime of the year and have a different flavor than you might be expecting, so be prepared to enjoy a new kind of treat!

Start by grabbing a large glass to hold your treat. Use a spoon or ice cream scoop to scoop up two or three large scoops of vanilla ice cream. It is best to go with a plain vanilla here – vanilla bean might have a bit to much flavor for proper blending. Place the ice cream scoops into the glass.

Open a fresh bottle of root beer. Different brands have different flavors, so you might get recommendations from a friend if you haven’t tried them all before. Slowly pour the root beer over the ice cream in the cup. You can expect a great deal of fizz as the ice cream reacts with the root beer, but that’s part of the fun. Grab a thick straw and get to work enjoying your delicious treat.

Cooking Games Keep You Warm in the Wintertime

When it’s cold outside, there is nothing better than warm food to heat you right back up. That is the best part about cooking games – in the kitchen or online, you have the opportunity to create delicious hot treats for yourself and others.

Keeping Active
It’s easy to feel cold or be down about yucky weather when you’re just moping around. Quit whining and feeling sorry for yourself, use the time indoors to build your skills in something you like, namely cooking games. You can sit down at the computer along with a sweatshirt, warm socks and nimble fingers to see how far you can take your skills, or head to the kitchen where you can put your skills to the test in a real way.

Staying Focused
Once your mind is focused on something, it’s easy to get carried along on a wave of fun. You might decide to play a few rounds of cooking games online and then see just how well those skills carry over into the kitchen. Before you know it, you might have mastered the online barbeque and find yourself in the kitchen testing marinades and preparing to cook a delicious dinner for the whole family.

Cooking Games: Gingerbread Houses

I love gingerbread houses. If you don’t cook them exactly right, you wind up with cookies a bit too hard to eat easily, but that just makes them that much better for decorating. The ideal, of course, is to make your gingerbread house firm enough to decorate easily, but soft enough devour when the holiday mood strikes.

Making Gingerbread Houses
The easiest way to make gingerbread houses is to buy the mix from store that requires just a handful of ingredients or even better, buy the ready made dough that you can just roll out and start cutting. Cutting out your gingerbread house will require a knife and steady hand rather than cookie cutters. You'll need to make the four wall and the two roof sections before baking.

Decorating Gingerbread Houses
Cut out the gingerbread sections and bake them according to instructions. When they are baked to a golden brown, allow the sections to cool before decorating. Use icing tubes to stick the sections together and then candy to decorate the little house. Your gingerbread house can be a great decoration or you can start nibbling on it just as soon as you get it all put together.

Cooking Games – Frito Pie

Long a cold weather favorite, Frito Pie, or chili pie in some areas, is extremely easy to make and mighty tasty on a snowy or rainy day. To make Frito Pie, you’ll need:

• Fritos Chips
• Cheddar Cheese
• Chili
• Onions
• Jalapeños

Start by dicing the onions into tiny pieces. You want a bit of flavor, not texture in your dish, so make them extra small. Always use the knife carefully, of course.

Put the onions aside and pull out the Fritos. Pour the Fritos into a casserole dish. Open the can of chili and pour it over the Fritos being sure to cover them completely. Throw in a handful of onions over the chili before coating the concoction with shredded cheddar cheese. If you like the taste of the jalapeños, you can add them on top – but if you don’t like hot things, simply leave them off.

Bake your Frito pie in the oven for about fifteen minutes to heat the chili and melt the cheese. Remove it from the oven and serve it up in bowls or plates – enjoy this hot, yummy treat as often as you want!