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.