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Made in us
The Last Chancer Who Survived





Norristown, PA

So.. lots of us like to cook (and eat).. I was just thinking it might be cool if there was a Dakka cookbook.. basically you submit a recipe for something awesome, and when we reach a certain amount I could compile them into a book and set it up as a print-on-demand book through Wargame Vault.

But then I was also thinking, it wouldn't be regular ole sit-down dinner recipes, but the recipes would have to be something easy-ish to eat while gaming. Something you could cook when the gang is coming over for all day or all nighter gaming session, or something you might want to make and bring along with you to share.. Or at the very least a gaming themed name with fluff to match. It could be appetizer / finger foods, deserts, sandwich innards, whatever.

I think if we have like 50 recipes, that would be good for a 100 page book (1 page for the recipe, and a full page picture of the finished dish next to it?). I think a 100 page hardcover book on war game vault would be like $20? There could be a PDF version too of course. Or, I could set it up as a blog style website easily enough, and save the best recipes for the books?

Anyway, would you be into something like that? Do you have recipes you’d like to share? I have a few recipes of my own, but not enough for a whole book so I thought it would be a fun community kinda thing. Wadaya think?

 
   
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Mad Doc Grotsnik's Bacon Heaven.

1kg home cured Bacon
1/2 a Cos Lettuce
6 ripe tomatoes

Directions.

1 cook the bacon to taste
2 throw out the rest of the ingredients
3 scoff all the Bacon, hissing at anyone that comes near.

   
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Planet Earth

1 cook the bacon to taste, 2 throw out the rest of the ingredients, 3 scoff all the Bacon, hissing at anyone that comes near.




Love this...also I think the cookbook idea is fantastic!

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Los Angeles

 Necros wrote:
So.. lots of us like to cook (and eat).. I was just thinking it might be cool if there was a Dakka cookbook.. basically you submit a recipe for something awesome, and when we reach a certain amount I could compile them into a book and set it up as a print-on-demand book through Wargame Vault.

But then I was also thinking, it wouldn't be regular ole sit-down dinner recipes, but the recipes would have to be something easy-ish to eat while gaming. Something you could cook when the gang is coming over for all day or all nighter gaming session, or something you might want to make and bring along with you to share.. Or at the very least a gaming themed name with fluff to match. It could be appetizer / finger foods, deserts, sandwich innards, whatever.

I think if we have like 50 recipes, that would be good for a 100 page book (1 page for the recipe, and a full page picture of the finished dish next to it?). I think a 100 page hardcover book on war game vault would be like $20? There could be a PDF version too of course. Or, I could set it up as a blog style website easily enough, and save the best recipes for the books?

Anyway, would you be into something like that? Do you have recipes you’d like to share? I have a few recipes of my own, but not enough for a whole book so I thought it would be a fun community kinda thing. Wadaya think?


Sounds like a fun idea, but I am not sure about monetizing it. Who does the money go to?


I'll add a favorite snack dip that I used to make for my RPG group.

This recipe goes together in about 10 minutes including cooking time.


Cheesy Bacon & Bean Dip

Ingredients:
2x 11.5 oz Cambell's Bean & Bacon condensed soup (generic versions also work fine)
1x cup of salsa (Pace Picante recommended)
2x cups of shredded cheese (cheddar or Monterrey Jack recommended)

Preparation:
Open cans of soup and combine salsa and cheese in large sauce pan. Heat contents and stir until warmed and mixed thoroughly.

Serve with chips (tortilla are best) or with hunks of sour dough bread.
   
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Bristol

 DarkTraveler777 wrote:
 Necros wrote:
So.. lots of us like to cook (and eat).. I was just thinking it might be cool if there was a Dakka cookbook.. basically you submit a recipe for something awesome, and when we reach a certain amount I could compile them into a book and set it up as a print-on-demand book through Wargame Vault.

But then I was also thinking, it wouldn't be regular ole sit-down dinner recipes, but the recipes would have to be something easy-ish to eat while gaming. Something you could cook when the gang is coming over for all day or all nighter gaming session, or something you might want to make and bring along with you to share.. Or at the very least a gaming themed name with fluff to match. It could be appetizer / finger foods, deserts, sandwich innards, whatever.

I think if we have like 50 recipes, that would be good for a 100 page book (1 page for the recipe, and a full page picture of the finished dish next to it?). I think a 100 page hardcover book on war game vault would be like $20? There could be a PDF version too of course. Or, I could set it up as a blog style website easily enough, and save the best recipes for the books?

Anyway, would you be into something like that? Do you have recipes you’d like to share? I have a few recipes of my own, but not enough for a whole book so I thought it would be a fun community kinda thing. Wadaya think?


Sounds like a fun idea, but I am not sure about monetizing it. Who does the money go to?


How about we turn it into a charity thing? Could send all the profit to something like Child's Play?

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 DarkTraveler777 wrote:

Sounds like a fun idea, but I am not sure about monetizing it. Who does the money go to?


Add in the fact that pretty much all of my favorite recipes to cook come from famous chef cookbooks so... no amount of changing names on things will cover up that fact. And I suspect that many of us, even if we've memorized a recipe from somewhere, got it originally from a copy written source.
   
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The Great State of Texas

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
Mad Doc Grotsnik's Bacon Heaven.

1kg home cured Bacon
1/2 a Cos Lettuce
6 ripe tomatoes

Directions.

1 cook the bacon to taste
2 throw out the rest of the ingredients
3 scoff all the Bacon, hissing at anyone that comes near.


A true Dakka recipe.

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Los Angeles

 A Town Called Malus wrote:
How about we turn it into a charity thing? Could send all the profit to something like Child's Play?


That is a good idea!

 Ensis Ferrae wrote:

Add in the fact that pretty much all of my favorite recipes to cook come from famous chef cookbooks so... no amount of changing names on things will cover up that fact. And I suspect that many of us, even if we've memorized a recipe from somewhere, got it originally from a copy written source.


Yeah, a good point. My bacon soup dip recipe may have come from the back of a can of soup once up on a time. I've been making it so long I can't remember the source, so a cookbook of this nature could run into some issues pretty quickly.


Still, if this could be pulled off and money made, a charity donation sounds like a great idea.

   
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Norwalk, Connecticut

Chicken tenders recipe:
1 1/2 lbs chicken tenders (or breasts you slice up yourself)
Flour
1 Egg
1/4 cup Milk
Italian breadcrumbs
Oil
Deep fryer


3 bowl: one flour, one egg/milk, one Italian breadcrumbs
Fill deep fryer with vegetable oil, heat to 355
Flour the tenders
Milk and egg wash mix
Italian breadcrumbs
Deep fry for about ten mins til a nice dark brown.


Not too much breading. Lots of chicken, not too much breading.

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Norristown, PA

I like the charity idea too But money wise it wouldn't be going to anyone except wargame vault for their printing costs. The book would cost exactly as much as it costs to produce. Don't wanna make a buck, I wanna make food

website wise, I already have a hosting plan for my biz and setting up a wordpress site is really easy, I'd be happy to foot the bill for a domain name too.. like gamecooks.com or something like that. There's also lots of free web hosts out there too, but they all have ads. Maybe a website would be better though, for legal/copyright reasons? Easy to delete if something happens. How do they handle that kinda thing when other clubs or organizations put together their own little cookbooks? I doubt every one of those recopies are totally original either.

 
   
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Tornado Alley

Not copywritten recipe, learned in Afghanistan.

1 package Ramen Noodles chicken flavor
1 jar cheese wiz or 1/2 lb velveeta cheese
1 can weenies(vienna type or even hot dogs)

Cook ramen as directed, drain most water out using spatula to hold in noodles. Do not completely drain

Add in chicken flavor packet and 1/2 jar cheese wiz or 1/2 lb cubed velveeta

Stir until cheese is completly melted in and you see just one noodly cheesy mess of goodness.

Add in chopped cooked hot dogs or vienna sausages and stir in while everything is good and hot.

Let sit for 3 min or so and enjoy. Can be made from MRE Cheese, canteen cup and water heater from the MRE. Great when you are tired of eating the MFing same thing every day for months on end.

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Cheesus Christ, we have the largest defense budget in the world and you guys are eating ramen, cheez whiz, and Vienna sausages?

   
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 Dreadwinter wrote:
Cheesus Christ, we have the largest defense budget in the world and you guys are eating ramen, cheez whiz, and Vienna sausages?



Our non-MRE field rations actually have stamped on them "Only fit for US Soldiers and Prisoners". . . or something to that effect. So yeah... we don't fork out for food.
   
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 redleger wrote:
Not copywritten recipe, learned in Afghanistan.

1 package Ramen Noodles chicken flavor
1 jar cheese wiz or 1/2 lb velveeta cheese
1 can weenies(vienna type or even hot dogs)

Cook ramen as directed, drain most water out using spatula to hold in noodles. Do not completely drain

Add in chicken flavor packet and 1/2 jar cheese wiz or 1/2 lb cubed velveeta

Stir until cheese is completly melted in and you see just one noodly cheesy mess of goodness.

Add in chopped cooked hot dogs or vienna sausages and stir in while everything is good and hot.

Let sit for 3 min or so and enjoy. Can be made from MRE Cheese, canteen cup and water heater from the MRE. Great when you are tired of eating the MFing same thing every day for months on end.

See, this reminds me of a childhood favorite. Macaroni and Hotdogs
I still make it, but with more pizaz. like white cheese and sausage

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Tornado Alley

 Dreadwinter wrote:
Cheesus Christ, we have the largest defense budget in the world and you guys are eating ramen, cheez whiz, and Vienna sausages?



dude if you have been eating MREs for 3 months and the only occasional hot meal was literally barely edible no matter how much Texas Pete's hot sauce you put on it, then you learn to be inventive when you are back on the FOB. Yep though the food was paid for well and the REMFs ate quite well back on the large FOBs and logistical areas. I did travel to Kandahar one time in 04 and got to eat sitting down at a table and I was so angry when I left not because I ate so well but because all the non combat ass hats were walking around clean, talking like they were on vacation and I was hoarding Ramen sent monthly but my wife.

I digress, try it out, your arteries may hate you but damn if it isnt good. I still make it for my kids occasionally and call it authentic deployment gourmet.

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