Food for Gamers
Thinking of starting a food blog with my housemate focused on eats for raid nights, LAN parties, or gaming households. The three biggest focuses for us are cost, ease, and nutrition. I’m in a household of five gamers, none of which are more than adequate cooks. Making food for the household or guild meetups can get expensive too, so I think that’s an important part. Last, as someone on tumblr posted during the Diablo 3 release, its much better to binge on gaming without binging on junk. We were thinking monthly/bi-weekly posts with snacks under 100-200 cal/serving, or other health restrictions.
One of my (awesome) housemates made everyone dinner last week, but 3 of us were raiding and the dishes were mostly cold by the end of it because juggling a fork and a mouse is not our strong suit. So stuff that is “snackable” but more substantial is another consideration.
For example (although maybe not the most healthy example), tonight we are testing out bacon wrapped chicken. We sliced 3 lbs of chicken into ~2 inch pieces (2 bite size?), then wrapped them each in half a slice of bacon.
We then slathered it with a sour cream/cream of chicken mixture >.> but it stands to see how that will work out. Bake at 225 for 4 hours, then 350 for 15 minutes. [edit: cover with tinfoil previous to baking] $16 for 5 people (or just over $3/person). Its not done yet, so I’ll edit with results.
So far, its an opportunity to learn more about cooking, and cheaply provide food for the household. And I have creative roommates— the last guild meetup, Fork brought butterscotch jello shots, and the bbq before that, she and Mal did lemon wedge jello shots (inside of actual lemon peel) and cheesecake filled strawberries.
Any ideas/suggestions/requests welcome :)
(edit#2: turned up heat after 4 hours. “smells like burning”…and that’s how we learned there are no smoke detectors near the kitchen)
