Reply #15: My pre-teen godson has a real interest in cooking

[beac]

but doesn't get much opportunity to practice at home(three siblings and busy schedules), so whenever he visits we make a point to cook together.

Some of his favorites have been Asian stir fries and curries (easy, fun and lots of variations possible), a cheesy breakfast casserole (made with faux sausage in this vegetarian house, which he declared even better that the 'real' kind) and a mixed berry sauce which we used on everything from ice cream to pancakes. He also loves seafood and came up with a quite tasty caper marinade for salmon steaks and did a nice job with pan-seared scallops seasoned with Old Bay.

I'm childless by choice, but it makes me so happy that I can pass my love of cooking down to him.