Cooking Games and Popcorn

Popcorn is a simple snack to make and it’s often the first snack that we learn to cook ourselves. To make popcorn you have a couple of options depending on how your family normally pops the corn. Avoid stove top methods as they are usually unsafe, but you can easily grab a bag of popcorn and toss it into the microwave. Read the instructions carefully on the bag so that you can see which side is supposed to be facing up and how long to leave it in the microwave. The bag will be hot when it’s done, but give it a minute, pull it open and you’re ready to eat.

The other sort of popcorn that is easy to cook and enjoy is air popped popcorn. This cooking game requires an air popper, a bowl and some seeds. Follow the instructions on how to put the seeds into the popcorn popper. Then simply plug it in (and turn it on if necessary) and the air popper starts to heat the seeds. As they pop they spill out of the popcorn maker and into the bowl. Be careful with an air popper – it can put a tremendous amount of popcorn in a single setting!

Cooking Games and Candy Cakes

A yummy treat you can give a friend for her birthday, candy cakes are becoming hugely popular, and they are very simple to make as well. To start the cooking games, you’ll need a regular cake mix in your friend’s favorite flavor. Chocolate is always a good choice. Once you’ve made a round cake, use icing to put the two layers together. Now you’d normally ice the outside of the cake and make it look good. Go ahead and put the icing on, but don’t worry too much about how it looks – this is all about the candy, now.

Start with Kit-Kat bars. You want the small ones that have only two bars stuck together. Carefully place them bars around the outside of the cake like a little round fence. They should be stuck firmly in the cake. Then, grab your friend’s favorite candy – M&Ms are popular, as are Reese’s Pieces and pour a big bagful directly into the middle of the cake basket you’ve created with the standing-up Kit-Kats. Spread the small candies around to hide the icing on top and your candy cake is complete! Enjoy!

Cooking Games and Variety

It’s hard to find variety with cooking games. If you’re not a blessed cook, you may find that cooking games tend to be the same things over and over again. The first meal you cook that turns out well might be the start of your food choices for the next few years with only a few meals rotated out and through the menu for your cooking games in order to be sure that you’re always serving something everyone likes and something that you’re good at.

But perhaps the most fun of cooking games is branching out and trying something new. To do this, however, you need to find cooking games and recipes that you’re willing to try and have a willing test audience as well. A family with picky eaters may not be the best ones to try some new experiments, but if you have some friends with iron stomachs, invite them over to share in your cooking games. You can create food together and then enjoy it together, too.

Cooking Games and Queso

If you’re in love with the gooey yellow cheese queso you’re in luck! You can make a batch right in your microwave if you’d like – all you need are a few simple ingredients to give it a try.

Assemble your ingredients for the cooking games. In this case you’ll need a block of Velveeta cheese and a can of Rotel tomatoes with chilies. Get the can of Rotel to suit the level of spiciness you’d like in your queso.

Cut up the chunk of Velveeta or similar processed cheese into small cubes. Place the cubes into a small crock pot if you have one or a small microwavable dish if you don’t. Then, open the can of Rotel. Drain off the extra water in the can of tomatoes before you add it to the cheese.

If you’re using the crock pot, simply plug it in and wait. If you’re using a microwavable bowl, place the bowl in the microwave and cook for two minutes. Remove the bowl and stir the concoction before replacing it and stirring again. When the cheese is smoothly melted, enjoy it with your favorite tortilla chips.

Cooking Games and New Years

There are some excellent traditions for New Years that we should definitely take advantage of for this New Year’s celebration. Among the best of the food traditions, you’ll find black-eyed peas and corn bread. If you’re into cooking games, you can whip up your own version of black-eyed peas and corn bread this year and bring them along to a party or just have a few friends over to enjoy your culinary delicacies before the group heads out for a big night on the town.

To make black eyed peas, you can do better than opening a jar – although opening a jar isn’t the end of the world either. Start with the dried beans and plan ahead – you have to soak the beans over night before you can start cooking them. Make some bacon and set it aside. Then, using the bacon grease, sauté some onion. Add the peas to the pan along with some salt, pepper and water. Cover the pan and cook for about an hour. Once the beans are tender, top them with the crumbled bacon and serve. Happy cooking games for the New Year!

Cooking Games and Candy

Candy is definitely delicious, and it’s a bit of a challenge to make at home, but that doesn’t mean you can’t use candy in all of your various creations! Candy is an excellent way to decorate a cake and to try out new cookie ideas. If you’re ready to get serious about holiday baking, bring along some candy as well to include everyone in the holiday cooking games.

Your holiday cooking games will likely start with a few friends coming over to join in the fun of the holiday baking. The ingredients will be laid out all over the counters and there is plenty of room for everyone to join and be part of the party – especially the younger kids.

The youngest members of the party are the perfect decorators! Just pass on the candy for the cooking games to the kids and they can spend hours making new designs on the top of the cupcakes and finding fun ways to embellish cookies and just about everything else you create on your day of cooking games. Just realize, of course, that more than a bit of that candy may disappear into the mouths of some of those hard working children.

Cooking Games and Fudge

One of the best cooking games I’ve come across lately was the box of fudge. Once upon a time you had to assemble the ingredients for fudge all by yourself. There were boxes and bags of ingredients and then you had to dig out the old family recipe so that you could figure out how to make the actual dessert. Now, however, there are boxes of fudge ingredients that you can easily make at home in a single sitting. These cooking games are simple, but they taste identical to the fudge recipes that were so tedious to make before.

Using the box of fudge, you’ll start by pulling out the various ingredients and checking to be sure that everything is there. Then, simply follow the instructions to melt the chocolate and blend the ingredients together to make the smooth fudge batter. Finally, you’ll press the fudge in the paper tray provided in the box and your cooking game will be complete – all you need to do is chill the fudge and then eat it to your heart’s content.