Tuesday, November 16, 2010

Cooking Games and Personalized Cookies


To help celebrate the holidays with good friends, why not have a cookie decorating event? While this might sound more like something kids do, there are more than a few adults who would love to have a chance to smear around some icing and play with sprinkles. Invite your friends over for this cooking game, and you can make it into a casual tea party. Make a pot of tea and set out a platter of plain cookies on the table. Then, use a bit of icing to decorate each one.

If you’re like you can have a contest before everyone starts devouring the yummy treats. Another option is to make large cookies decorated especially for each of your friends. Take a message from the cookie companies that decorate cookies like real cakes. Use icing to create a picture on a large cookie. Or just write some initials and use some sprinkles to jazz things up a bit. When you arrive at work or school with all of your cookies in tow, you’ll be the hit of the crowd.

Wednesday, November 10, 2010

Cooking Games Online


One of the most interesting games to play online are the cooking games. With the cooking games, you’re doing much more than just trying to get from one point on the screen to another. You’re not shooting anything or driving a car. The point of the cooking games is to get orders correct as if you’re a short order cook. With the cooking games, you are a cook or chef in a busy establishment. Orders start coming in and it’s up to you to determine the best way to cook everything to get the orders finished up and out the door.

To get the cooking done correctly, you’re in a constant battle against burning certain food items and getting others on the griddle in time. As things are ready, you move them along and the game continues. Naturally the cooking games increase in difficulty as you play, making them more challenging while also making them plenty of fun, too. You might even become inspired to put down the mouse and pick up a spatula of your own to create a yummy feast all your own.

Wednesday, November 3, 2010

Cooking Games and Popcorn Balls


What could be better for fall than popcorn balls? You can make these simply cooking games at home on a cold fall afternoon, although you should plan to eat them right away. Popcorn balls don’t last long and can get harder over time if they are not wrapped or eaten immediately.

To make the popcorn ball cooking games, you’ll start with salted popcorn. You can use unsalted, plain popcorn, but it makes everything a bit bland. Pop your popcorn and put it aside. Melt half a stick of butter in a very large pot and then add ¼ cup of brown sugar. Stir the sugar and butter together before adding 4 cups of marshmallows. Melt the marshmallows and stir very well. Turn off the heat and then add the popcorn. Stir it gently until all of the popcorn is covered in the marshmallow mixture.

Press the balls into shape by hand and wrap or eat immediately. Letting the balls sit will make them dry out almost immediately.

Wednesday, October 27, 2010

Cooking Games and Fires


The colder season is the perfect time to fire up the outside fire pit for some fun cooking games. And with the fire pit you can have a bit of fun with your children and even by yourself. Grab some long sticks and a few hot dogs and marshmallows and roast yourself up something nice. The fire pit is a great way to keep warm on a cool night, but you can easily spend some time on the weekend enjoying the fire pit during the day even if the weather isn’t that cold.

Build a fire and let it burn down enough that you have some nice embers. When it’s lunch time or just time for a bit of fun, haul out the hot dogs and sticks and teach your children or just enjoy roasting your own hot dogs. Get creative with the fire and cook other things as well on various sticks. Marshmallows are an easy choice, you can also cook cans of things like chili in the fire or even potatoes if you really want to get serious about open flame cooking. Always practice fire safety, of course, in these sorts of cooking games.

Wednesday, October 20, 2010

Cooking Games and Ooey Gooey Brownie Sundaes


If there is anything better than ice cream, it’s ice cream over a brownie. Brownie ala mode or really just a brownie sundae is easily one of the most delicious ways to consume countless calories while practically passing out in ecstasy. It’s for this reason that I truly love cooking game – you can make such delicious desserts.

When you make an ooey gooey brownie sundae, you can’t start with just any brownie. You need fresh brownies, preferably thick ones that are heavy. Don’t use the “cake-like brownies” in your recipe – you want the richest ones you can make. Once you have the brownies baking, take them out of the oven just a minute or two before they are well and truly done. You want them to be on the verge of being under baked so that they are extra moist and gooey.

Cut a hefty square of brownie and then dump a large scoop of ice cream on top. Cover with caramel and fudge sauce and top with plenty of whipped cream and cherries. The result is delicious, messy and rich. Yum!

Wednesday, October 13, 2010

Cooking Games and Dinnertime


Even if you enjoy cooking games, dinner time can be a challenge depending on the time that you normally eat. If, for example, you like to eat dinner early because you have young ones to put to bed, even the best cooking games can’t be done in the fifteen minutes you have to whip something up. You’ll need more time to dice and cut and prepare than you can find on a typical Monday afternoon. The solution to this is to not cook on a Monday night.

Cook on a Sunday instead. Make Sunday your family day to cook and then freeze or put away food items that you can pull out on a moment’s notice to prepare. Grab the casserole dish and reheat it on Monday. Use the crock pot on Tuesday and just dump in the basics before you leave the house. Wednesday is ideal for leftover and Thursday might leave you with the seasoned meat and potato dish you created. It’s hard to make cooking games fit in before dinnertime, but if you’re savvy, you can make it all work beautifully .

Wednesday, October 6, 2010

Cooking Games and Football


Football season is a great excuse to cook. You can create all sorts of yummy treats during football season that you can’t always get away with during the warmer months. If you like fall cooking games, invite a crowd over for a football game and you’ll be in business. Start with the main dish for the meal – it should be something relatively easy to eat while seated on the couch. Bowls of chili are nice and warm or sandwiches are easy as well. Perhaps create giant sandwiches to cut and share.

Your snacks are the central part of the game, of course. You can start with pretzels and chips, but then expand into things that are more fun for everyone. Pigs in a blanket and different kinds of pastries. Dips are always a huge hit and you can enjoy plenty of cooking games if you start to incorporate all of the fun dessert options as well. Cakes, pies and decorated cookies – there’s something for everyone during football cooking games.