Nourish! The Azerothian Menu

If you’re like me, you’re probably wondering just what happened to Nourish. We started off pretty strong, and then things fell off. Sharply.

Life takes its toll on all of us. I’ve been busy as hell. The economy certainly hasn’t helped. People are losing their jobs, and it’s just been a general mess all around.

My authors have all been busy with their own lives. We have a giant backlog of recipes that haven’t been made and photographed yet. Part of it is my fault; I haven’t been the taskmaster that I should have been.

However, all is not lost!

Nourish will continue. New posts will be forthcoming. Pix will get back in the kitchen, and make you some pie (so to speak).

Sorry to keep you all waiting!

Contest time is over!

I want to thank everyone for their emails and comment suggestions; there were some excellent name ideas thrown around, and the assistance is greatly appreciated.

So, I guess everyone is just dying to see who won, so…

First place goes to Jeff for Bom’Bay’s Echo Island Voodoo Chicken! As promised, Jeff will receive a loot code for a Sandbox Tiger – congrats, Jeff!

The runner-up prize for Papa Hummel’s Old-Fashioned Pet Biscuits goes to Aislinana for Tel’abim Sugar Chicken!

The winners will receive an email from us later in the week, and the recipe for Bom’Bay’s Echo Island Voodoo Chicken will be posted this evening.

Once again, thanks to all the entrants, and congrats to the winners!

Okay, ever since I made one of my recipes while I was on vacation, I’ve been racking my brain, trying to come up with a name for it.

I’ve failed.

Repeatedly.

So, here’s the deal. I’m going to tell you guys the ingredients (just not how much) and you get to suggest what to call it.

First, the ingredients.

Brown sugar.
Soy sauce.
Butter.
Chicken.

Next, here’s what I’m looking for in the name:

1) Needs to relate to some in-game World of Warcraft reference. Hopefully nothing too obscure.
2) Needs to have a tropical theme. These are, after all, based on a Hawaiian recipe of mine.
3) Needs to be better than ANYTHING I’ve come up with so far. That shouldn’t be hard.
4) Needs to be fun, humorous, or otherwise tasty-sounding, and MUST be original!
5) Suggestion must be received before July 19, 11:59pm PDT.

So now that you have the ground rules, you can participate in one of two ways: either via email (see to the right, there) or by commenting!

“But wait,” you ask. “What’s in it for me?”

Well, I’ll tell you.

The winner of this contest will not only get credit for the marvelous name they’ve come up with for this fantastic (if I do say so myself) recipe, they will receive a Sandbox Tiger loot code!

But wait!

We’ll have a runner-up prize, too!

The runner up will receive a loot code for Papa Hummel’s Old-Fashioned Pet Biscuits (great for pet collectors, and anyone who really wants to scare the bejeezus out of people with a giant-sized Pengu. Or something)!

Good luck, and may the best name win!

Hi!

If you’re like me, you’re wondering, “what happened to Nourish!? I adored that blog, and I wanted to give the authors lots of money and millions of hits a day, but they haven’t updated for two weeks!”

(Okay, that middle part might be wishful thinking.)

And it’s true. We haven’t updated since June 17, which in Internet terms is like not updating since 1984. We do have awfully good reasons, though, I promise. I’ve been moving house and dealing with illness, Pix has been on a much-needed and well-earned vacation, and Anea answers to no man so we really have no idea what she’s been up to even though we keep asking. (This is like the Witch-King of Angmar, so I bet we could get her to talk by getting one of our female friends to ask, but Cadistra won’t help would have helped but we assumed she was too busy with her comic that you all should be reading, and Jezriyah’s been distracted by her new boyfriend.) Also, we prefer to post recipes with pictures, and because of all of this vacationing in Bora Bora and visiting the doctor every third day and answering to no man, we really haven’t done a whole lot of cooking recently, so we haven’t had anything to take pictures of.

Not to worry, though! We’ll be back in action very soon. Here’s a preview:

Isn’t that exciting? I can’t wait!

Until next time,
Your friendly neighborhood Cheferman
Chris

“Nourish!, food blog. A blog, barely out of its infancy. Gentlemen, we can rebuild it. We have the technology. We have the capability to build the world’s first* bionic blog. Nourish! will be that blog. Better than it was before. Better, stronger, faster.”

1. In order to have more flexibility and control over the blog, we’ve moved to a full WordPress install. The new address is http://nourishmenu.thestorythusfar.com/ – but then, if you’re reading this you probably already know that.
2. We have a Twitter account. It will be the world’s first* bionic Twitter account, fully integrated with this blog but capable of direct human interaction as well. You can find it at @NourishMenu.

This blog post will self-destruct in fifteen seconds**.

* May not be actual first.
** Post may not self-destruct.

This isn’t your usual gamer blog. You won’t find us talking about the latest video game release or the most recent World of Warcraft content, here. We just talk about food.

So why are we doing this?

Well, let’s be honest. Gamers aren’t exactly known for their healthy eating habits, right? It’s all too easy to rush into your living space after a long day, throw a Hot Pocket into the microwave, and slide into your computer chair for an evening of smashing pixels… with other pixels. The problem with that isn’t the fact that you like to game, it’s that what you’re eating… probably isn’t really good for you.

We’re here to help.

We are dedicated to providing awesome meal recipes that are easy to make, and usually require little or no preparation or time spent monitoring your cooking, with easy-to-follow instructions, and no hard-to-find ingredients. The best part is, these recipes aren’t being provided by professional chefs (or if they are, we don’t know it); they’re gamers, just like you.

So pause your game, pull up a chair, and check out our recipes – we’re sure you’ll find something you’re going to love!