...and you will be cooking for weeks! haha Of my 2 kids, DS is actually the one who likes food the most. Not just eating it (although he's pretty good at that!) but picking out recipes, watching Top Chef and Ace of Cakes and things like that. He's even started asking for that we try a new food item with each large shopping excursion (this time, starfruit). Unfortunately all he likes to bake right now are cookies; he much prefers going through my cookbooks and picking out things for ME to make. Well, at 14, it's time he starts to learn how to make more than cookies and fried eggs. :-)
A while back we bought a fundraiser cookbook that benefitted a Mennonite school at DS's request. He has gone through it and checked off some recipes he'd like to try. So one of my goals this month is to start having him help me with dinner preparation. Most of the recipes in this cookbook are basic foods, nothing too wild and crazy, and they should be fairly successful on the first try - grilled chicken, baked country chicken, oven-barbecued pork chops, glazed sausage bits, fluffy omelets, things like that. In fact, we may start with the pork chops this week.
My ultimate goal is to have both kids have a least 2 weeks' worth of dinners that they can prepare by high school graduation, if not sooner (not counting fried eggs, spaghetti and mac and cheese!), and I've been casually looking for a journal-type book for each twin to start as their own recipe books of family favorites. I still need to get DS involved in meal planning and grocery shopping, but that will come. For now, cooking - and cleanup! - will be the first step.
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