These new cookbooks are inspired by our favorite family games!
Ticket to Ride has long been our family's favorite board game to enjoy together! We love the strategy behind building tracks across America (other countries and continents together) and the long game time. Our entire family (older elementary, teens, and adults) enjoy the game. We love it more than Monopoly.
We love the inspiration behind the new Ticket to Ride: The Official Cookbook. Based on Alan R. Moon’s iconic board game, Ticket to Ride: The Official Cookbook offers dining car menus inspired by your favorite destinations throughout the United States and Canada.
Those who love Ticket to Ride know that each game is new and exciting, an opportunity to not just connect cities and routes, but to connect with friends and family. So, while you’re out exploring the map, cutting off your fellow continent-trotters’ routes, collecting tickets, and racing to travel through as many cities as possible, take that full-steam-ahead wanderlust to another level via these can’t-lose snacks, desserts, meals, and drinks.
The 75+ recipes are organized by the Destination Tickets you know and love from the core Ticket to Ride game, featuring unique dining-car menus inspired by the cities through which you travel. Each of the 15 routes includes an appetizer, a side dish, a main course, a dessert, and a cocktail (with or without alcohol)—all with deliciously strong ties to destination cities. Inside you’ll find easy-to-follow recipes and full-color photos for local favorites, regional desserts, and cocktails, including:
- New England Clam Chowder (Boston, Massachusetts)
- Hot Chicken (Nashville, Tennessee)
- Poutine (Montreal, Canada)
- Possum Pie (Little Rock, Arkansas)
- Half-Smoke Sausage Bites (Washington, DC)
- Cheesecake (New York, New York)
- Mai Tai (San Francisco, California)
- And much more!
Bring together your friends, family, and fellow passengers to snack on treats, collect destination tickets, build routes, and reimagine game night as a tasty adventure. Order Ticket to Ride: The Official Cookbook online.
CATAN®: The Official Cookbook
Our family loves Catan, the classic strategy game. We also love theme nights. With the new cookbook CATAN®: The Official Cookbook, you can take your next Catan game night to the next level. With CATAN: The Official Cookbook, fans of Klaus Teuber’s iconic game can now fuel up while road-building and negotiating trades. From snack-worthy appetizers to feast-level entrées, this full-color cookbook includes more than 75 fun and easy-to-make recipes inspired by the game, including Scalded Feta Barbarian Skewers; Adventurer’s Charcuterie Board; Over-Knight Oats; Caravan Vegetarian Chili; Robber’s Discard Delight; Great Hall Rack of Lamb; Forest Mushroom Risotto; Rocky Road Cookies; Desert (Prickly Pear) Margaritas and much more! Available for purchase here.
Pizza! Pizza! Pizza!
No matter what game you love for family night, pizza is always a crowd pleaser. If you're in the mood for fresh ideas, this is the cookbook for you. You can even make Pizza Night into a game itself - let everyone try a new recipe from the cookbook and have a tasting contest to see which one is the favorite. Easily customizable and always delectable, pizza is the one food where you can be certain—there really is something for everybody! Pizza! Pizza! Pizza! takes full advantage of this variety, with over 75 unique recipes for everything from savory homemade sauces to perfect pizza extras like salads and desserts. No need for guesswork or frozen pizza anymore, Pizza! Pizza! Pizza! provides in-depth instructions for creating delicious pizzas including vegetarian and vegan options.
Pizza! Pizza! Pizza! is filled with instant favorite recipes that are as easy to prepare as they are to love, including:
- BBQ Chicken (a crowd pleaser in our family)
- Double-Dough Pan Pizza
- Peach & Jalapeño
- Hummus & Roasted Red Pepper
- Spicy Southwest (another family favorite)
- Roasted Tomato Margarita
- Chicken Giardiniera
- Hot Hawaiian (and a summer fave!)
- And so much more!
So fire up the stove. Tonight’s pizza pizza pizza night! Available on Amazon.
Bonus: Try some of our Favorite Food Inspired Games:
Slamwich
We love GameWright games in our family. They are known for easy-to-learn creative games. Slamwich is a slapping game, reminiscent of old school Slap Jack with a modern twist. The game involves real-time, pattern recognition. The cards that are die-cut to resemble slices of bread topped with sandwich items, sandwich thieves, and sandwich munchers. Whoever collects all of the cards wins! Ages 6 and up. Available on Amazon.
Taco Vs. Burrito
Our family LOVES to play games together and we LOVE to try new games. Taco Vs. Burrito is our FAVORITE new game to try this year by far (for all of my kids ages 11-17)! This fun card game was designed by a 7-year-old, which you'll quickly see when you discover the rather funny (and disgusting) combinations you create in this game. The goal is to build the "most valuable" taco or burrito before the game ends. Cards help you to gain or lose points. This fast, easy-to-learn game, is tons of fun and simple to play. Each game lasts about 15 minutes, making it a favorite "before bedtime" game in our house. If you love games like Sushi-Go or Moose in the House, you'll love this. Purchase online here.
Sushi Go!
Another excellent game from GameWright, Sushi Go is a super-fast moving card game. Score points for collecting the most sushi rolls or making a full set of sashimi. How to Play: The dynamics of "draft and pass" are brought to the fore, while keeping the rules to a minimum. As you see the first few hands of cards, you must quickly assess the make-up of the round and decide which type of sushi you'll go for. Then, each turn you'll need to weigh which cards to keep and which to pass on. The different scoring combinations allow for some clever plays and nasty blocks. Round to round, you must also keep your eye on the goal of having the most pudding cards at the end of the game! Available on Amazon.
Taco Cat Goat Cheese Pizza
This fast-paced card game keeps the family laughing. It takes a few minutes to learn and gameplay lasts for about 10 to 15 minutes.
How to play: Taco Cat Goat Cheese Pizza! Keep these 5 crazy words in mind. As soon as there is a match between a card and a spoken word, race against each other to slap your hand on the central pile of cards. The last one to do so must take them all. Be quick to be the first to get rid of all your cards. But watch out! Your mind will play tricks on you. This addictive game is as unique as its name. Available on Amazon and local retailers.
SIXEM Sour Patch Kids
My girls love to play games and often ask to play right before bed or during a meal, this is one of those quick grab-and-go games that you can play in under thirty minutes. The fast-paced dice game with the beloved Sour Patch Kids theme, is easy to learn and fun. Grab your favorite SOUR PATCH KID board and pick a token at random to name the pattern. Then, the frenzy begins! Sour Then Sweet. Play SOUR to erase Xs from your opponents or play SWEET to give Xs to others. The first player to match the pattern with six Xs in a row wins! Every game is different in this wild race. SIXEM is the game that combines strategy, speed, and a dash of mischief in one exciting package. Perfect for anyone who loves a good challenge with a side of fun! Six dice. Six rows. Endless kicks as you roll to six! Ages 13+ I Game Duration 15-30 Min I Available July 2024 on Amazon. Tip: Check out Hootenanny Games, where you'll find a “How to Play” page with videos!