Cooking Games and Quesadillas

Easily one of the most delicious foods you can make on a cold day is a Mexican treat – quesadillas. The quesadillas are best if you make your own tortillas and some stores have tortilla dough ready in the cold food aisle. Look by the cheese and biscuits to see if your store has some. Otherwise, use a premade tortilla to make the quesadillas.

Butter the quesadillas on one side while you heat up a skillet. When the skillet is warm enough, toss in the tortilla butter side down. Sprinkle a hearty dose of cheese over the tortilla along with chicken, beef, spinach, mushrooms, shrimp or anything else you might like on your quesadilla. Then lay the other buttered tortilla on top with the buttered side up. After the first side has cooked to a slight crisp, carefully flip the whole quesadilla over so that the other side can cook as well. The end result is a delicious treat and a great way to get a bit more calcium in a day.

Cooking Games Online

While trying to think of new recipes to cook for a healthier you, look through the huge number of cooking games you can find online. The cooking games online are varied and have plenty of options for how to amuse yourself. A few of my personal favorites follow.

Pizza cooking games. Everyone loves pizza, and I’m not an exception. To play the pizza cooking games, start with a blank canvas of a crust and add whatever you need to make it delicious. You can add toppings in an elegant pictorial fashion or just chunk them on there to get the pizzas in the oven and out the door more quickly.

Cake cooking games. In the cake cooking games, you get to not only make the cake, but to decorate it as well. I think decorating large wedding cakes is easily one of the most amusing things I’ve done in a while.

BBQ cooking games. In the BBQ cooking games, you start with a grill and then the orders come pouring in. Grill up the food and serve it quickly if you plan to advance to the next level.

Cooking Games and 2010

In 2010, most of us are going to resolve to be healthier, and that starts no place other than the kitchen. Playing cooking games in 2010 can make a huge difference in how healthy we are and how great we feel. When you look forward to 2010, start your cooking games in a different way – plan around the sorts of food you should be eating.

It can be as simple as working in a fruit or vegetable at every meal. We should be having five or six servings of fruits and veggies every day, but if you’re counting French Fries as a vegetable, you might start with a single serving at every meal and then add more to the list. Once you get in the groove, you’ll be better off.

If you take foods away in your cooking games, be sure to replace them with others. When you leave a hole in your diet, you’ll likely fill it with the same foods you used to eat. So it’s better to add those fruits in to replace the sweets you used to eat to keep your cooking games more balanced.

Cooking Games Sugar Cookies

One of the most basic forms of cookie is perfect for the holiday season. Playing cooking games with sugar cookies can entertain you for hours and give you something yummy to munch on, too.

To play sugar cookie cooking games, start with a roll of sugar cookie dough. You can make it from scratch, but it is far easier to just make the cut cookies from the dough you already have. Roll out the dough and sprinkle it with flour. Dip a cookie cutter in flour and press into the dough.

Carefully remove the cutter and the sugar cookie shape will be left behind. Do this for all of your dough and once all the shapes are made, use a spatula to transfer them to the cooking sheet. Making cut sugar cookies can take quite a bit of time as there is so much rolling, cutting and moving, but despite how long it takes, this form of Christmas cookie is a holiday favorite.

When the cookies are cut and baked, it’s time to decorate them with tubes of icing and perhaps small candies stuck to the cookies with a dot of icing on the back.

Christmas Cooking Games

Cooking games bring the family together all year long, but there is something especially special about Christmas and the way it encourages families to come together over little gingerbread men or sugar cookie shapes. Among the favorite Christmas cooking games you’ll find:

Gingerbread Houses – a simple kit can be purchased at the store or you can make your won by baking the gingerbread pieces ahead of time. Use heavy icing as paste to squish everything together and hold it in place. Small candies decorate the gingerbread house along the roofline, windows, doors and elsewhere.

Sugar Cookies – Cutting out sugar cookies and then baking them to be frosted and decorated with bright icing is a Christmas tradition in many families. Make the cutting and decorating a family adventure and then give the cookies as gifts to unsuspecting friends of the family and grandparents.

Fudge – Making fudge can require some heat, so always be with your children while the fudge is cooking. But once it’s off and running, add some walnuts, smooth into a pan and enjoy the delicious rich chocolate treat.

Cooking Games and Successes

Finding success in the kitchen isn’t too complex, but that doesn’t take anything away from how rewarding it can be. When you’re creating thing in the kitchen you focus is on the steps of food preparation, and getting everything right is certainly something worth celebrating. But the true successes of cooking games are a bit less visible.

The best parts of cooking games is sharing your creations with others. When you prepare something for the first time and it turns out well, you’re likely thrilled. But when you’re able to show others how well you did and boast proudly of how you added the spices and things on your own accord you’re giving the others a chance to praise not only your efforts, but your creations as well.

The more you cook and work to prepare food for others, the greater your reputation for culinary skill will grow. Who knows, you might someday be celebrating your success in a fancy restaurant thinking back to the cooking games you enjoyed when you were just a kid. And those around you can brag that they knew you before you were ever famous.

Cooking Games and Spices

Learning to use spices in cooking games is one of the more advanced elements of the experience. Cooking games begin as basic exercises in food preparation. You might make some fruit salad by cutting up fruit with a plastic knife. As you age and gain more experience you get to move into other cooking games such as using the microwave or learning to use the oven properly.

Eventually you’re able to cut things and handle sharp knives and hot pans. When you’re able to use the appliances and avoid any cuts or burns while preparing dishes you can serve your family, you’ve probably moved into the realm where spices are a real possibility.

Cooking games are fun on many levels, but when you’re able to truly personalize the things you’re making, you’ll be able to show the sorts of foods you really like and make it simple for everyone else to enjoy those sorts of things too. Be bold and try new combinations of spices following the advice of chefs and recipes at first before bolding moving into your own preferences.