Peach Cobbler

I don't exactly remember when I heard about a cobbler for the first time but it might have been while playing The Sims 3 or Left 4 Dead 2. Then one day I found a recipe for a plum and ginger cobbler, tried it and it was fantastic (one day I'll share that recipe). I looked for more recipes for cobblers and found this great peach one. If you don't know what a cobbler is, well, the wikipedia says that cobbler is a dish "consisting of a fruit or savoury filling poured into a large baking dish and covered with a battered pastry which forms a thick crust when baked in an oven". Apparently you can make it from a variety of fruits, however, the last time I tried it with strawberries, I failed horribly. But here I am with a recipe for a great treat made of peaches and seriously, is there anyone who doesn't like peaches?

A Touch of Evil - cooperative game

I think it's about time I wrote about A Touch of Evil. I played the game couple times to be able to speak about it, however each of the time, I played a cooperative game. I'll devote two posts to the game, one to the cooperative mode I know quite well by now and one to the competitive mode when I get to it.

So the game's background is somewhat reminiscent of Arkham Horror. There is one big bad and the players are in roles of investigators who walk around a town of Shadowbrook and gather investigation tokens (clues) about the big bad's presence. When they feel ready, they go and challenge it in a showdown and kill it for good. In the meantime, the big bad spawns minions, kills town citizens and wreaks general havoc, slowly growing more and more powerful, so the investigators can't take forever to buff up or the evil will engulf the town.

Chocolate Chip Cookies

They're like the standard cookies. Also, everyone likes them. Like every cookies, they are ridiculously easy to make and the process takes from 1 to 2 hours only so it's good for anyone who doesn't want to spend whole afternoon baking something complex. I had some spare chopped almonds (they sell pre-chopped almonds here in Spain, so weird) so I added them in and they blended very well with the bitter-ish taste of chocolate for cooking I chopped roughly (each small square into 4 pieces) instead of buying chocolate chips. They don't sell them in Spain anyway, I think.

Agricola

My first encounter with Agricola was few years back on one of our annual board game sessions at our cottage. Some people in the back were playing it, I quickly glanced in their direction and was told that the game is fun but it's long and has sheep in it. That sparked my interest (I like sheep, I think they're funny), however I didn't play it.  Fast-forward to last year's April 26th when I bought the game. It was on sale in an internet shop, I had the money and BoardGameGeek ranks it as the third best game in their list.

In Agricola you play as a head of a family taking care of a farm in Europe of the 16th century. You have a small house for you and your spouse and a large lot to expand. Each member of the family is capable of performing one action during a turn and next to a choice of default actions at the beginning, a new action is added every turn.

RoboRally

ROBOTS!

I believe it was New Year's Eve 2009 that I played RoboRally for the first time. It was one of the games that I somehow knew about but never played - it turned out that it's much more fun than I expected.  It's one of the games that DOES have some kind of strategy to it but is much more fun playing without planning too much... Well, since I almost never win, perhaps I'm playing it wrong but at least I'm having fun.

As the name suggests, the game is a race between robots. Each player gets to play as a robot in a... well, some kind of factory. It's a place filled with moving conveyor belts, pushers, lasers and pits that cause much mayhem during the race. Fortunately, to avoid repetition, the game comes with an abundance of map-grids, some easier, some more difficult, some short, some longer but many of them have a theme of sorts... like "swirling vortex of terror" or "laser grid" or other fun things like that. But the fun is not only in being pushed to a bottomless pit by a pusher or blown to pieces by a fellow robot.