On Sun, 01 Feb 2009 01:22:15 +0000, Horry wrote:

> Is anyone able to suggest recipes suitable for a 12-year-old to cook/
> prepare?
>
> At the moment, he's basically limited himself to baking cakes -- and I'd
> like to expand his repertoire.
>
> Dishes suited to a 12yo's palate would be best -- as he'd be reluctant
> to cook things he doesn't like to eat
>
> Obviously, no naked flames, hot liquids, sharp knives (unless it'd be
> possible for an adult to pre-prepare the parts of the recipe requiring
> those things).

The kid is 12 years old and can't handle hot liquids or naked flames?

On Sun, 01 Feb 2009 03:10:39 +0000, Administrator wrote:

> On Sun, 01 Feb 2009 01:22:15 +0000, Horry wrote:
>
>> Is anyone able to suggest recipes suitable for a 12-year-old to cook/
>> prepare?
>>
>> At the moment, he's basically limited himself to baking cakes -- and
>> I'd like to expand his repertoire.
>>
>> Dishes suited to a 12yo's palate would be best -- as he'd be reluctant
>> to cook things he doesn't like to eat
>>
>> Obviously, no naked flames, hot liquids, sharp knives (unless it'd be
>> possible for an adult to pre-prepare the parts of the recipe requiring
>> those things).
>
> The kid is 12 years old and can't handle hot liquids or naked flames?

He's probably quite capable of handling hot liquids and naked flames.

"Horry" wrote

> He's probably quite capable of handling hot liquids and naked flames.

So nice to chat with you last night Horry! Well, night for me at least ;-)

For the others, he meant pouring boiling liquids and for flames meant things
like flambe's or since he was specifically addressing cake making, those
little blow torches you see chefs with on TV. Stuff like that. Not normal
things like heating a soup or using a burner on the stove (or in his case,
mentioned hot plates being what they have and use mostly).

Sensible. Charlotte wasnt allowed to dump over a pot of boiling pasta from
the stove to the sink colander at that age either.

cshenk wrote:

> "Horry" wrote
>
>
>>He's probably quite capable of handling hot liquids and naked flames.
>
>
> So nice to chat with you last night Horry! Well, night for me at least ;-)
>
> For the others, he meant pouring boiling liquids and for flames meant things
> like flambe's or since he was specifically addressing cake making, those
> little blow torches you see chefs with on TV. Stuff like that. Not normal
> things like heating a soup or using a burner on the stove (or in his case,
> mentioned hot plates being what they have and use mostly).
>
> Sensible. Charlotte wasnt allowed to dump over a pot of boiling pasta from
> the stove to the sink colander at that age either.
>
>

My son is a long-term pastaholic and has been boiling salted water and
draining cooked pasta in a colander since he was 7. He's 14 now. He
most probably has gotten himself a steam burn or two since then but the
idea of possibly losing the right to cook his own pasta at will has kept
him from ever mentioning any such incident.

He's still got all his fingers, never needed a skin graft, has no
visible scars. And he makes an absolutely rocking alfredo sauce.

At some point, I suspect that this, combined with his ninja "garlic
bread, caesar salad and loading the dishwasher" skills, will probably
score big points with the ladies.

On Sun, 01 Feb 2009 13:24:17 -0600, Kathleen
> wrote:

>At some point, I suspect that this, combined with his ninja "garlic
>bread, caesar salad and loading the dishwasher" skills, will probably
>score big points with the ladies.

Let me tell you, it does!


--
I never worry about diets. The only carrots that
interest me are the number of carats in a diamond.

Mae West

"Kathleen" wrote
> cshenk wrote:

>> Sensible. Charlotte wasnt allowed to dump over a pot of boiling pasta
>> from the stove to the sink colander at that age either.

> My son is a long-term pastaholic and has been boiling salted water and
> draining cooked pasta in a colander since he was 7. He's 14 now. He most
> probably has gotten himself a steam burn or two since then but the idea of
> possibly losing the right to cook his own pasta at will has kept him from
> ever mentioning any such incident.

Grin, good on ya both there! Part of Charlotte's reason was she was too
short still to see well enough over the sink back then. She's probably at
full height now and a whopping 5ft2 (grin, so happy to be an inch taller
than me! Lords it over me all the time!)

> He's still got all his fingers, never needed a skin graft, has no visible
> scars. And he makes an absolutely rocking alfredo sauce.

;-)

> At some point, I suspect that this, combined with his ninja "garlic bread,
> caesar salad and loading the dishwasher" skills, will probably score big
> points with the ladies.

Oh yeah!

cshenk wrote:

> "Kathleen" wrote
>
>>cshenk wrote:
>
>
>>>Sensible. Charlotte wasnt allowed to dump over a pot of boiling pasta
>>>from the stove to the sink colander at that age either.
>
>
>>My son is a long-term pastaholic and has been boiling salted water and
>>draining cooked pasta in a colander since he was 7. He's 14 now. He most
>>probably has gotten himself a steam burn or two since then but the idea of
>>possibly losing the right to cook his own pasta at will has kept him from
>>ever mentioning any such incident.
>
>
> Grin, good on ya both there! Part of Charlotte's reason was she was too
> short still to see well enough over the sink back then. She's probably at
> full height now and a whopping 5ft2 (grin, so happy to be an inch taller
> than me! Lords it over me all the time!)
>
Yep. My son is 6'1" now and awfully damned pleased to be taller than
his 5'11" mother.

His big sister was annoyed to top out at 5'7".

>
>>He's still got all his fingers, never needed a skin graft, has no visible
>>scars. And he makes an absolutely rocking alfredo sauce.
>
>
> ;-)
>
>
>>At some point, I suspect that this, combined with his ninja "garlic bread,
>>caesar salad and loading the dishwasher" skills, will probably score big
>>points with the ladies.
>
> Oh yeah!

In article >,
Kathleen > wrote:

> Yep. My son is 6'1" now and awfully damned pleased to be taller than
> his 5'11" mother.

I remember reading the riot act to our son once when he was about 16 or
something. He had a sh**-eating grin on his face and I growled to know
just what was so damned funny. "Oh, nothing, Mom. I just wondered if
you realize that you're looking up at me." How could I not laugh?
--
-Barb, Mother Superior, HOSSSPoJ
http://web.me.com/barbschaller
http://gallery.me.com/barbschaller/100041
-- a woman my age shouldn't
have this much fun!

On Sun, 1 Feb 2009 14:13:14 -0500 in rec.food.cooking, "cshenk"
> wrote,
> Charlotte wasnt allowed to dump over a pot of boiling pasta from
>the stove to the sink colander at that age either.

I saw on a cooking show a pasta pot with an inner perforated pot that
you just lift out. It looked a lot easier than lifting the weight of
all that water, and a lot less tricky than pouring over the sink. At
least on TV.

On Wed, 04 Feb 2009 13:58:03 -0800, David Harmon >
wrote:

>On Sun, 1 Feb 2009 14:13:14 -0500 in rec.food.cooking, "cshenk"
> wrote,
>> Charlotte wasnt allowed to dump over a pot of boiling pasta from
>>the stove to the sink colander at that age either.
>
>I saw on a cooking show a pasta pot with an inner perforated pot that
>you just lift out. It looked a lot easier than lifting the weight of
>all that water, and a lot less tricky than pouring over the sink. At
>least on TV.

They are *not* inexpensive. That's why I don't have one.


--
I never worry about diets. The only carrots that
interest me are the number of carats in a diamond.

Mae West

sf wrote:
> On Wed, 04 Feb 2009 13:58:03 -0800, David Harmon >
> wrote:
>
>> On Sun, 1 Feb 2009 14:13:14 -0500 in rec.food.cooking, "cshenk"
>> > wrote,
>>> Charlotte wasnt allowed to dump over a pot of boiling pasta from
>>> the stove to the sink colander at that age either.
>> I saw on a cooking show a pasta pot with an inner perforated pot that
>> you just lift out. It looked a lot easier than lifting the weight of
>> all that water, and a lot less tricky than pouring over the sink. At
>> least on TV.
>
> They are *not* inexpensive. That's why I don't have one.
>
>


Isn't it messy to lift out the inner pot which is dripping all over?

And it makes TWO big, starchy pots you have to wash by hand.

gloria p

On Thu, 05 Feb 2009 09:02:17 -0700, Gloria P >
wrote:

>Isn't it messy to lift out the inner pot which is dripping all over?

Haven't you seen them used on TV? It's not messy.
>
>And it makes TWO big, starchy pots you have to wash by hand.

No biggie for me. It's easy enough to clean up.



--
I never worry about diets. The only carrots that
interest me are the number of carats in a diamond.

Mae West

David Harmon wrote:
> On Sun, 1 Feb 2009 14:13:14 -0500 in rec.food.cooking, "cshenk"
> > wrote,
>> Charlotte wasnt allowed to dump over a pot of boiling pasta from
>> the stove to the sink colander at that age either.
>
> I saw on a cooking show a pasta pot with an inner perforated pot that
> you just lift out. It looked a lot easier than lifting the weight of
> all that water, and a lot less tricky than pouring over the sink. At
> least on TV.

I had one and it was a POS. The pot was too small and too thin, and for
some reason it took *forever* to bring the water to boil. Then when you
go to lift up the inner colander up and out you're dripping water
everywhere. Feh.
Gimme my good large pasta pot and I'll drain into a colander in the sink
any day.

Goomba wrote:

> David Harmon wrote:
>
>> On Sun, 1 Feb 2009 14:13:14 -0500 in rec.food.cooking, "cshenk"
>> > wrote,
>>
>>> Charlotte wasnt allowed to dump over a pot of boiling pasta from the
>>> stove to the sink colander at that age either.
>>
>>
>> I saw on a cooking show a pasta pot with an inner perforated pot that
>> you just lift out. It looked a lot easier than lifting the weight of
>> all that water, and a lot less tricky than pouring over the sink. At
>> least on TV.
>
>
> I had one and it was a POS. The pot was too small and too thin, and for
> some reason it took *forever* to bring the water to boil. Then when you
> go to lift up the inner colander up and out you're dripping water
> everywhere. Feh.
> Gimme my good large pasta pot and I'll drain into a colander in the sink
> any day.

I have a pot that sounds kind of like the one you describe - small,
thin, etc - but it never occurred to me to try to boil pasta in it. One
of my SILs gave it to me one Christmas. I use it for steaming veggies.
And any time I've tried to use it for anything else, the bottom scorches.

Since the kids and I are tall, with strong wrists and well-developed
senses of self-preservation, we just use a Farberware saucepan for
boiling pasta and dump it out into a metal colander in the sink.

Or, as my son sometimes prefers to do, draining the pasta by holding the
lid loosely onto the pan while tilting over the sink, thereby avoiding
the need to wash a colander.