The most popular is probably gonna be PIZZA!!! So I'm going to share with you some of my top secrets for that...

The key to an outstanding pizza is to pre-bake the crust. The simplest way is to get some frozen bread dough at a nearby grocery store, but to make it from scratch the basics are this:

3 parts flour, 1 part liquid (water, or water and an egg or two)

Dry mix the flour with whatever seasonings you might want to add, such as garlic, Italian spices, dried onion bits, etc...

Also into the dry mix be sure and add a tablespoon of salt. *Light salt can be used to avoid sodium

In a large cup, tumbler, or what have you put your water, and an egg if you wish, a tablespoon of sugar, and a packet of active dry yeast. The water should be as hot as you can get it from the tap, or warmed to about 90-100 degrees f. This is called proofing the yeast - what you will do is set this in a warm place until it foams up very well.

When you mix the "WET" with the "DRY" what you use is a large spoon and hold it with a finger in the concave part, so that you push things around with the rounded part.

IT IS NOT NECESSARY TO MIX IT ALL UP PERFECTLY.

There is a step here called "Letting the Dough Rest", and what it is about is covering the bowl you are mixing up the dough in with some sort of cover - I use a large WOK lid

The trick with letting the dough rest,is that after a very few minutes really - about fifteen - the water will be equally absorbed into the flour mix. You don't have to work at it, let the flour do its job. It is rather like dumping kitty litter on an oil spill...

TOP SECRET!

If you have an extra pizza pan (and this recipe is for a sixteen inch pizza) once you have your dough halfway spread out in the first pan, then cover it with another pan that is inverted. This prevents the dough from drying out. Because:

Next step is to heat your oven to its lowest temperature. In the USA that will be about 170 degrees f. Turn the oven off at this point

Slide your covered pan(s) into the oven and let the dough rise a bit. This will enable you to finish spreading the dough out to the edges nicely...

Then leave the covered pans back in the warm oven until the dough rises to nearly fill them.

You can at this point press down the middle of the crust, so that it is thinner in the middle. I prefer to let it go ahead and rise into a nicely formed

bread-like shape about half an inch thick.

BAKE IT at 325 degrees for right about 25 minutes on the top rack.

If you have got all of the above correct, you will have made yourself a perfect "BOBOLI" that is light and fluffy.

Having THAT - you can make a pizza from it by adding the sauce of your choice, all the goodies you ever dreamed of on a pizza, and about a half a pound of shredded cheese of your choice. Pre-baking the crust means that you only have to bake it with the topping on it long enough to melt the cheese - roughly fifteen minutes.

* Rubbing the crust with Parmesan and/or Romano cheese before spreading sauce on it will bring out a stronger cheese flavor

* Rubbing the crust with oregano or Italian spices will give it a Sicilian style flavor

* Combining tomato paste, diced tomato and green chili's, olives, mushrooms, Jalapeno pepper slices or whatever your personal taste demands will evenly spread out many of the goodies in the sauce

The cheese of course goes on last, after whatever meats you select - assuming you are not vegetarian

GOOD EATING!

~Wolfie

How long does this normally take you, from the moment you start to the moment you shove the pizza into your mouth? I'm normally lazy and buy a 5 dollar frozen pizza and just throw it in the oven. I'm the worst cook ever, I throw money at everything.

What I generally do is to make at least three pizza crusts this way ahead of time (I have six pizza pans for this reason). When I want a pizza, I pull one out from the middle shelf of the fridge, and in fifteen minutes I have a mouth-watering example of gustatorial brilliance tailored to my own personal taste!

.....I'm a weird guy so I usually eat protein bars or fruit while playing games (I even do sit ups and push ups at random times while playing...)

Don't know if you knew it - but the whites of eggs (albumin) are pure protein. All of the fat and cholesterol are in the yolk.

(which naturally is the best tasting part...)

The trick is to make egg whites taste good.

I suggest you get a copy of Corinne T. Netzers "Book of Food Counts", it has suprising info in it for body builders and nutrition conscious people.

Chicken Salad:

A load of Rocket or Mescalin.

Shredded Chicken.

Cherry Tomatoes

Avocado

A very sharp, aged cheddar, or crumbly blue, or feta.

Dijonaise or some other condiment.

Put in bowl. Toss. A minute thirty at most.

This is what you meant by gaming food right?

I dunno about you, but where I'm from "munchies" tends to mean something very specific...

So with that in mind, I suggest buying about five bags of Haribo and then eating them all despite the fact that they were supposed to be for something else.

Step 1: Buy Doritos

Step 2: Eat Doritos

I don't cook things when I play games.

Finger Sandwiches: Peanut Butter &Jelly

I usually get some wheat bread from La Madeleine (a French bakery/cafe here at select locations in the US) and toast it. I also get some of their blackberry jam or get some store bought jam (must be graqe or blackberry). I use the Peter Pan peanut butter (usually crunchy). I cut the bread into triangles (halve the sandwich, then cut the halves into triangles).

Yum!

Finger Sandwiches: Roast Beef

Roast Beef: Boar's Head or another Deli's cuts
Horseradish: as much as you can stand (store bought)
Toasted Wheat Bread or Baguette bread : (bakery bought)
Lettuce: store bought (unless you have a vegetable garden)
Cheese: Extra Sharp Cheddar cheese & PepperJack (or whatever you prefer)
Oregano: sprinkled on the sandwich

Cut into halves, then cut the halves diagonally for the triangle shape.

Wings, pizza, chips!

Cooking before gaming? Ain't nobody got time fo that!

I don't eat and play since eating probably divides my attention, but i do eat and watch videos. Normally i'll be chomping snacks like chips though. And stuff like lunch.

A pot of coffee. As needed, I'd pause to make room for coffee/refill my cup. Sometimes I'd pause long enough to eat something, then continue the game. I almost never ate/munched while playing.

For gaming sessions? I don't use recipes. I want stuff that I can take a bite of in between mouse clicks or something. I'm definitely not one to spend a lot of time making something, when all I want to do is get back to my game.

So...beef jerky and diet Mt. Dew. Otherwise, I order take-out.