Parmesan Anzu Chicken

Ok Warcrafters, time to 'fess up.  How many times have you farmed Sethekk Halls to get that swanky Raven Lord mount?  Once?  Twice?  100 times?  /pat I understand how frustrating that bird is.  Everyday you head out to a ghostland of a zone, kill rooms full of baddies, then kill that bird yet get nothing to show for it.  I say it's time to get a taste of revenge.  While we can't cook Anzu himself, this Parmesan Chicken will make even the most frustrated farmers feel a bit better.

Prep Time: 15 Minutes
Total Time: 7 Hours
Serves: 4
Skill Needed: Apprentice

Ingredients: 

• 1/2c Breadcrumbs 
• 4 boneless skinless chicken breast halves 
• 1/4c Parmesan Cheese 
• 1/2t Italian Seasoning 
• 1/4t Black Pepper 
• 1/4t Kosher Salt
• 1 T Olive Oil
• 8-12 Slices of Mozzarella Cheese 
• 1 Jar of your favorite Marinara Sauce 

Directions:

1. Spread olive oil into bottom of CrockPot.
2. Grab 2 dishes.  In the first dish, whip the egg with a fork.  In the other dish, mix breadcrumbs, parmesan, seasoning, salt & pepper.
3. A piece at a time, take your chicken and dip it into egg to cover it.  Now dip it into seasoning bowl to coat.
4. Place coated chicken in the bottom of your crock.
5. Put 2-3 slices of mozzarella onto each piece of chicken.
6. Pour marinara sauce over chicken.
7. Cook on low 6-7 hours or high 3-4.

Fresh Potatoes Au Gratin

I've introduced you to the greatness of NukaCola from Fallout 3, but cola isn't all the game has to offer your hungry avatar.  There's tons of snacks and meat but let's face it, in a post apocalyptic world full of radiation you want fresh!  Put away those Fancy Lad Snack Cakes and search out some Fresh Potatoes!

Prep Time: 5 Minutes
Total Time: 8 Hours
Serves: 5
Skill Needed: Apprentice

Ingredients: 

• 6 brown potatoes
• 1 onion
• 1 1/2 stick of butter 
• 6 T flour
• 3 1/2 cups heavy cream
• 2 t dried thyme
• 2 t kosher salt
• 4 t dried mustard
• 1 t black pepper
• 2 cups shredded cheddar cheese 

Directions:

1. Wash and peel your potatoes.
2.  Slice potatoes longways, then slice in 1/4 inch slices
3. Dice your onion.
4. Put veggies into slow cooker.
5. Melt butter in a medium saucepan over medium heat. Slowly add your flour, stirring constantly for 3-5 minutes. Then slowly add your cream, and spices, stirring continuously to blend.
6. Pour mixture over potatoes and close the crock lid.
7. Cook on Low for 8-9 hours or high for 4-5.
8. Before serving, stir in the shredded cheddar cheese until it disappears.

NukaCola Roast

 

If you've ever played Fallout 3, you are no doubt a fan of NukaCola.  Just like radiation, it's everywhere!  There's NukaCola trucks, vending machines,  signs...  it's regular, ice cold, Quantum... it's a drink, it's ammo...  ok, ok, you get the point.  It's time NukaCola was given a real word tip of the hat so here at The Hungry Gamer we present NukaCola Roast!

How moist and tender does that look? NomNomNom

Prep Time: 5 Minutes
Total Time: 8 Hours
Serves: 5
Skill Needed: Apprentice

Ingredients:

• 4 pounds Chuck Roast
• 1 can Cream Of Mushroom Soup
• 1 envelope (1 Oz.) Dry Onion Soup Mix
• 1 Can of Cola (I use Coke)

 Directions:

1. Spray the inside of a slow cooker with cooking spray. 
2. Place roast in the slow cooker. 
3. Pour cream of mushroom soup over roast to cover meat. 
4. Sprinkle dry onion soup mix around the top. 
5. Pour cola over the roast. 
6. Place lid on slow cooker.
7. Cook on low for 8 hours.

 

Ranch Glazed Wild Carrots

Carrot on a stick and plain old Crystalsong Carrots step away.  There's a new carrot in town!  The poor Wild Carrot is so underloved in Warcraft.  We fly past it, feed it to wild horses but never cook them.  While our characters might not know how to cook these Grizzly Hills beauties, here at the Hungry Gamer we concocted a recipe that would make an anti-carrot raider eat carrots like Bugs Bunny!

Prep Time: 5 Minutes
Total Time: 20 Minutes
Serves: 4
Skill Needed: Apprentice
Ingredients:

• 1 (16 ounce) package frozen baby carrots
• 1/4 cup butter
• 1/4 cup light brown sugar
• 1 (1 ounce) package ranch dressing mix 

 Directions:

1. Cook carrots according to package directions.
2. While they're cooking, melt butter in a large pan over low heat.
3. Add sugar and stir until it's all dissolved.
4. When carrots are ready, drain them well and add the carrots and Ranch mix to your large pan, stir until carrots are coated.
5. Increase heat to medium, and stir until carrots are hot and glazed.  Should take about 5 minutes.
    
     
    

Ritzy Tilapia Talsone

Fishing in video games can be as fun yet challenging as the real sport.  You get your pole, your bobber, bait and head out to your favorite fishing hole with high hopes of catching the perfect catch.  As fishing trainer Talsone will tell ya...  Whether you actually get that catch or just an epic tale of the one that got away, in our gaming world you know at the end of your fishing trip you've got nothing to cook up.  Don't worry gamers today's recipe let's you cook up some tasty fish before you even cast that first line!

Prep Time: 15 Minutes
Total Time: 40 Minutes
Serves: 4
Skill Needed: Artisan

Ingredients:

• 4 tilapia fillets
• 24 Ritz crackers
• 1 tablespoon parsley
• 1 tablespoon all purpose Greek seasoning
• salt to taste
• pepper to taste
• 1 egg
• 2 tablespoons skim milk
• 2 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil

Directions:

1. Crush ritz crackers.
2. Add parsley, greek seasoning, salt, and pepper to ritz mixture.
3. Combine egg and milk.
4. Heat large skillet over med-high heat.
5. Dip fish in egg wash and ritz mixture.
6. Cook in olive oil in skillet 3 minutes on each side.
   

Spicy Brewfest Pretzels

In Azeroth we are kicking off the Brewfest holiday. A festival honoring the finer things in life like Sausage, Ram Racing, Pretzels and of course Brew. There's dailies to do, a boss to kill, achievements to gain. I'll be honest, you'll be needing a few Brews after ram racing everyday... hic! The dailies need something spicy added to help keep you going and these little pretzels are perfect to snack on while your helping the Dwarfs. So whip you up a batch while your avatar enjoys a The Essential Brewfest Pretzel!

Prep Time: 5 Minutes
Total Time: 5 Minutes
Serves: 12
Skill Needed: Apprentice
Ingredients:

• 1/2 cup oil
• 1/2 teaspoon lemon pepper
• 1/2 teaspoon garlic powder 
• 2 packages dry ranch dressing mix
• 1 1/2 teaspoon cayenne pepper
• 1 (16 ounce) bag Twist style pretzels

Directions:

1. Mix everything except pretzels in a large bowl.
2. Pour pretzels in on top of the sauce. Stir until well coated.  Make sure all of the ingredients are on the pretzels.
3. Ready to serve right away but best after the oil has absorbed into pretzels.  Store in an airtight container.

Pirrrate Day Rrrum Cake

Ahoy!  Welcome to the Pirrrrrrrrate's Day edition of ye hungrrrry gamerrrrrrrr!  Avast and Behold today's beauty you dessert lubbers out therrrrre!  This cake is a grog lubbers dream.  So drop ye anchor smartly lass and bake up some booty better than a treasure chest of doubloons! 


Prep Time: 10 Minutes
Total Time: 1 Hour
Serves: 12
Skill Needed: Apprentice

Ingredients:

Cake

• 1 Yellow Cake Mix
• 1 (3 1/2 ounce) package Vanilla Instant Pudding Mix
• 4 Eggs
• 1/2 cup Cold Water
• 1/2 cup Oil
• 1/2 cup Rum

Glaze

• 1/2 cup Butter
• 1 cup Sugar
• 1/4 cup Water
• 1/2 cup Rum

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 325.
2. Grease a 13x9 cake pan.
3. Mix cake ingredients together.
4. Pour batter in pan and bake for 45 minutes.
5. Before time to remove cake from oven:  In a small saucepan, melt butter and add in sugar, water and rum.  Boil about 5 minutes stirring to ensure sugar dissolves.
6. Remove cake from oven and prick holes all over cake top with a fork.
7. Slowly pour hot glaze over cake.

Freezes great!

Outbreak Soup

Warcraft Death Knights aren't the only people with Outbreak.  Here in Tennessee the weather is changing, farmers are spraying crops, and a chain reaction of coughing, sneezing and sniffling has begun.  Gaming is just not fun sick and there's no real medicine to help the season change sniffles...  but there is food!  I call today's recipe Outbreak Soup.   I'm convinced Chicken heals all but to me it's too early for chicken noodle soup.  This has chicken but is still tangy enough to wake those sick little taste buds right up and have you feeling better by first pull.

Prep Time: 10 Minutes
Total Time: 4 Hours
Serves: 6
Skill Needed: Apprentice

Ingredients:

• 1 can Pinto Beans
• 1 can White Beans 
• 1 can Corn
• 1 can Rotel Tomatoes & Chilies
• 1 large (28oz) can Diced Tomatoes
• 1 package Taco Seasoning Mix
• 1 package Ranch Dressing Mix
• 1 lb Chicken, shredded

Directions:

1. Cook, Drain, and Shred your chicken.
2. Add Chicken into slow cooker.  I recommend at least a 3.5qt Crock Pot. Even that size was snug.
3. Pour pinto beans, white beans, corn, rotel, and tomatoes into slow cooker right out of the can.
4. Sprinkle taco and ranch mixes on top.
5. Stir everything well!
6. Cook on low for 4 hours.
   

Farmer's Crop Pork Chops

Ok, I admit it... Miss MMO Raider here has done it before. I used to get up early and tend to my crops. Corn, Fruit Trees, Peppers... Harvest it all, sell it, replant. Yeah even I played Farmtown once upon a time. I have since retired my plow but my Mom still tends hers regularly & is pretty adamant about reminding me that her crops are just as important as my dragons. Today's recipe reminds me alot of those farming days. Fresh Peppers & Onions and we all know you're gifted way too many pigs when you play. ;)

Prep Time: 10 Minutes

Total Time: 6 hours
Serves: 4

Skill Needed: Apprentice

Ingredients:

• 4 pork chops
• 1 medium onion, chopped
• 1 large green pepper, sliced
• 1 (14 ounce) can stewed tomatoes
• 1/2 cup ketchup
• 2 tablespoons cider vinegar
• 2 tablespoons brown sugar
• 2 tablespoons cornstarch
• 2 tablespoons water

Directions:

1. Mix onion, pepper, tomatoes, ketchup, vinegar and brown sugar.
2. Layer the mixture and pork chops into slow cooker.  Make sure there's some of the saucy mixture on bottom and on top of pork chops.  How many layers depends on the size of your crock pot so just divide mix accordingly.
3. Cook on low for 5 1/2 hours.
4. Mix water and cornstarch together and stir into crock pot.
5. Cook 30 more minutes.

Ranch /Chicken

Us Warcraft nuts understand the importance of a well timed /chicken.  Opposing faction interupts your fishing, you flag but they won't...  /chicken.  You challenge someone to a duel, they decline...  /chicken.  You are 1 pet short of an achievement & realize you never completed the quest !Cluck to get the Westfall Chicken... /chicken /chicken /chicken.  A well timed chicken doesn't have to end in Azeroth my gamers.  This recipe is like most all masterpieces from a Crockpot.  It's easy, fairly low maintenance...  except this is a weekender. 

A weekender needs a little attention.  These are slow cooker meals you can't leave unattended from assembly till time to eat.  I call these weekenders because you can start it and do your normal weekend chores... laundry, mow, clean, farm gold, whatever you generally do as long as you are back in the kitchen on and off as needed.  Let's look at this baby' maintenance...

Prep Time: 20 Minutes
Total Time: 6 hours
Serves: 4

Skill Needed: Artisan

Ingredients:

• 4 boneless skinless chicken breasts
• 2 tablespoons butter, melted
• 1 dash paprika
• 1 package hidden valley ranch dressing mix
• 1/4 teaspoon garlic, minced
• 1 can cream of chicken soup
• 8 ounces cream cheese, cubed
• 1/2 cup chicken broth
• 1/8 teaspoon dried oregano
• 1/4 teaspoon dried parsley

Directions:

1. Place chicken breasts in bottom of your slow cooker.

2. Sprinkle paprika and dressing onto chicken.  Drizzle with 1 tablespoon of melted butter.

3. Cover with lid and let it cook 4 hours.

4. After 4 hours, in a large skillet mince your garlic and saute it in 1 tablespoon of butter. Add broth, soup, cream cheese, oregano and parsley.  Stir on medium heat until smooth.

5. Pour into slowly into cooker to cover chicken.

6. Cover with lid and let it cook 2 more hours.

   
   

   Really good with noodles!

Chocolate Eclair Cake

I can't take credit for today's recipe but guarantee this piece of heaven is a gamer's dream. My mom made this for years while raising 2 gamers of her own. It's so easy to make and few desserts I've had even held a candle to this one. It's quick enough to make that mom always had time to get it done, keep an eye on kids and still have time to get in a daily fix... of Tetris!

Prep Time: 20 Minutes
Total Time: 6 hours
Serves: 12

Skill Needed: Apprentice

Ingredients:

• 1 box Graham Crackers
  
• 2 small boxes Instant Vanilla Pudding
  
• 3c Milk
• 1c Powdered Sugar
  
• 8oz Cool Whip
• 1 can Chocolate Icing

Directions:

1. In a bowl, mix pudding, sugar and milk till smoothe.
   
2. Add in cool whip and mix well.
   
3. Butter a 13x9 pan.
4. Layer graham crackers, then half mix of the pudding mixture, another graham cracker layer, then rest of pudding mixture, and add a graham cracker layer on top.
5. Spread chocolate icing over graham cracker layer.
   
6. Refrigerate 6-12 hours and serve cold!

Wrecked Cheeseburger on Flatbread

Gamers are like jellybeans, we come in many many flavors. Some play MMO's (like yours truly), some like the FPS [First Person Shooters]. some wee lads long for ye olde RPG [Role Play Game], but today we honor those quick thinking speed freaks. That's right boys, we're talking racing! Today we're cooking up some Wrecked Cheeseburgers on Flatbread. Seriously, this delightful meal looks like a cheeseburger that ran into Lightning McQueen headon! Only 1 piece of bread which is flat as a tire, the body has all hamburger staple toppings all crumbled together, and cheese strode everywhere. So grab your helmet, buckle up your seatbelt & Boogidy, Boogidy Boogity Let's Get Cookin' Boys!

Prep Time: 5 Minutes
Total Time: 50 Minutes
Serves: 6

Skill Needed: Apprentice

Ingredients:

• 1lb Ground Beef, Browned & Drain
• 1/2 Cup of Water
• 1 tbsp Apple Cider Vinegar
• 1 pkg Dry Onion Soup Mix
• 1/2 cup Ketchup
• 2 tbsp Mustard
• 1 garlic clove, minced
• 2 tablespoons vegetable oil
• 11 oz Can of Pizza Dough
• Package of Kraft Shredded Four Cheese

Directions:

1. If you haven't already, brown your Ground Beef and mince 1 clove of Garlic.
   
2. Add browned ground beef to a skillet, then add Water, Vinegar, Onion Mix, Ketchup, Mustard and minced Garlic. Mix well and let simmer on low heat.
   
3. For Flatbread: Open pizza dough and unroll it. Cut the dough into 6 squares. Roll each square into a rectangle shape.
4. In a new skillet add Vegetable oil and heat on low.
5. When oil is nice and hot, fry each piece of dough until each side is golden brown and bubbly. Remove from skillet and place on a paper towel to cool slightly.
6. Top each Flatbread with our Meat and top with Cheese!
   

Poppin' Bacon Jalapenos

I think of a meal as a raid group. You got the tank, that main portion that definitely keeps alot of your attention. The DPS, the sides that totally need to be there to help chip away at your hunger and to compliment the tank (although the tank would never admit it). The healer, aka dessert, is there to make everyone feel better in the end without stealing the rest of the meals glory. How many times have you heard "That meal was amazing. Oh and the desert was devine"? Today though I give you an appetizer. To me an appetizer is a Leeroy Jenkins of the food world. They rush in before any of the others are ready, they aren't very filling, but in the end you seem to not forget them. And hey (depending on your menu), atleast you have chicken right? ;) Let me introduce you to your first Jenkins..err..I mean appetizer...

Prep Time: 40 Minutes
Total Time: 1 hour to 2 hours
Serves: 10

Skill Needed: Artisan

Ingredients:

• 4oz Cream Cheese
• 1/4 cup Sour Cream
• 1/4 cup Shredded Parmesan Cheese
• 9 Slices Bacon crumbled
  
• 1/2 cup Shredded Cheddar Cheese
  
• 10 Slices Bacon uncooked
  
• 10 Jalapenos
  

Directions:

1. Cook 9 slices of your bacon. We fried ours, but I know some people prefer microwave cooking their bacon. When cooked crisp, set aside to cool.
   
2. Slice your jalapenos lengthwise. Make sure to protect your hands either with gloves, or use a clean plastic storage bag as a glove. Now here's your choice on how hot you want your poppers... Leave seeds in for "burn your mouth" hot, Scrape out seeds for milder poppers. Set to side.
3. Crumble your now cool cooked bacon.
   
4. In a bowl, add cream cheese, sour cream, Parmesan cheese, cheddar cheese and crumbled bacon. Mix well!
5. Get your peppers and spoon filling mix into each pepper.
6. Get your uncooked bacon and cut each slice in half.
7. Wrap a piece of the cut uncooked bacon around each jalapeno using a toothpick to secure it.
8. Pop them into a 275 degree oven for 1 hour or until bacon is cooked. Alternatively you can grill on indirect heat until bacon is done. The choice is all yours!

So why would I give you guys a recipe that is so time consuming? These things can be completely preassembled the night before then refrigerate till time to cook!

Jacked Up Peach Chicken

Ahhh Jack Daniels has always been a sweet friend. Mostly after a horrible raid night to take the edge off but today we're hitting the sauce early! No not to drink (although if you do get a shot, I won't tell if you don't... my lips are sealed!). Today Jack is literally the sauce, atleast part of the sauce. Add some peach preserves and barbecue sauce and your chicken will thank you. Let's get cooking:

Prep Time: 15 Minutes
Total Time: 5 hours
Serves: 4

Skill Needed: Apprentice

Ingredients:

• 1 Clove Garlic
• 1 Bottle Masterpiece Barbecue Sauce
• 1/2 an Onion Diced
• 1/2c Jack Daniels Whiskey
• 12oz Peach Preserves
• 4 Skinless Boneless Chicken Breast
  

Directions:

1. In a bowl mix barbecue sauce, Jack Daniels whiskey, and peach preserves.
2. Dice 1/2 of a medium onion and crush a clove of garlic then add to sauce bowl.
3. Stir well
4. Cover bottom of crock pot with half the sauce, lay chicken in bottom, then cover chicken with remaining sauce.
5. Cook on High 5 hours.

Sweet BBQ Pork Tenderloin

Summer is coming to an end, school is beginning, and in my current game we are mid patch content.  That means we are logging 6 hours a week to kill current content before new comes out.  Off nights have left us in old content grabbing achievements/gear, and let's not forget PVP.  I wish I had time to get those lasts sweet tastes of summer in...  but who has time to grill and in this 100 degree heat?  Not to worry hungry gamers we will not miss out!  Grab your materials, grab a crockpot & cook yourself up some Sweet BBQ Pork Tenderloin.  You'll thank me later.

Prep Time: 15 Minutes
Total Time: 6 hours
Serves: 8

Skill Needed: Apprentice

Ingredients:

• 8 Pork Tenderloin
• Bottle BBQ Sauce 
• 1/4 cup Honey
• 1/4 cup Brown Sugar
• 1 Tablespoon Mustard
• 3 Chipotle Peppers Minced
• 2 Teaspoons Worcestershire Sauce 
• Salt and Pepper to taste.

Directions:

1. Mince Chipole Peppers.
2. In a bowl mix Bottle of Barbecue Sauce, Honey, Brown Sugar, Mustard, Peppers and Worcestershire Sauce, Salt & Pepper.
3. Spray your crock with cooking spray and pour about 1/3 your sauce into bottom of Crock.  Add a layer of Pork Tenderloin. Add 1/3 more sauce.  Add a layer of Pork Tenderloin. Add rest of sauce.
4. Cook on Low for 6 hours.

 Delicious and longing for veggies to share their plate!