A son who loves to cook......

louidog

Please feel my pain here folks.....

My 14 year old son has chosen "food tech" for one of his GCSE options. Great news Today he decided he wanted to cook chocolate brownies and some sort of bun with jam in. Not a problem until he told me halfway through mixing the eggs into the flour that he didn't remember the recipe for the brownies :rolleyes: Thankfully with a little help from me they were quite nice and the buns were lovely too! You should have seen the state of the kitchen too after he had used every untensil, bowl and baking tray in the house :eek:

What I want to know is, does anyone have any recipes that I could give him to cook that are pretty failsafe?

sethsgran

LARGE fudge cake

Use same mug to measure throughout

2 & 1/2 cups SR flour
2 cups sugar
1 cup cocoa powder
1 cup veg oil
1 & 1/2 cup cold water
1 tsp vanilla ess
3 eggs

Place all ingredients in a large bowl and mix well together, I use a balloon whisk.
Pour batter into a greased roasting tin and bake 35 mins 180

Icing

2 &1/2 oz marg
10 cubes cooking choc, plain or milk
2 tbsp cocoa powder
3 tbsp milk
1 tsp vanilla ess

Melt all together and then mix until smooth.

Add 8oz icing sugar and beat well

Pour mixture over cooled cake . When icing sets cut cake into squares. This cake does freeze well if it gets that far. I like to warm a slice up, about 40 seconds in microwave, and serve with ice cream.

kazmeister

Try getting him Sam Sterns Cooking up a storm. He's a 15 yr old lad who wrote the book and is full of cool stuff and is written in a way that appeals to teens. He's also written a follow up real food real fast.

BigDaddyBlue

i used to love cooking when i was a young'un and still do when i have the time.

Check the bbc.co.uk/food website for loads or recipies... from beginer to expert there's loads of things on there

Olliebeak

louidog wrote: »

.................You should have seen the state of the kitchen too after he had used every untensil, bowl and baking tray in the house :eek: quote]

awwwwwww come on now louidog .................he's a male (albeit a 14 year-old one!) - they ALL do that! Mr.Ollie can't even make a cup of coffee without using two mugs and six spoons - one spoon for the coffee, one for the sugar and one to stir it with - the other mug and three spoons is for the attempt that he got wrong and had to throw away :rotfl: !!!!!

Ollie

ps - but you do honestly have a sympathiser here. My 35 year old son recently moved back in with me for a while and was attempting to learn to cook (his failed relationship was with a female chef!) - the devastation was something akin to that left behind by the marauding army of Genghis Khan. His ex had insisted on having a dishwash - which I don't have - so he hadn't learned to wash dishes either!!!

Becles

I've got an 8 year old that loves the Be-Ro book!

He makes cakes and biscuits for his teachers at the end of term

thriftlady_2

kazmeister wrote: »

Try getting him Sam Sterns Cooking up a storm. He's a 15 yr old lad who wrote the book and is full of cool stuff and is written in a way that appeals to teens. He's also written a follow up real food real fast.

Curses, I was going to say that My 12 yo son has these books, but hasn't actually made anything much from them -they are good though I hate people cooking in MY kitchen so that has probably got more to do with their lack of use than his lack of interest.

kazmeister

thriftlady wrote: »

Curses, I was going to say that My 12 yo son has these books, but hasn't actually made anything much from them -they are good though I hate people cooking in MY kitchen so that has probably got more to do with their lack of use than his lack of interest.

LET HIM IN THE KITCHEN !!!! The sooner they learn the better. My lad when he's moaning and hungry if I havent done any cooking, gets in there and 1/2 hour later I usually have a mess but fab chocolate muffins. Mmmmmmmm muffins .......:D

thriftmonster

kazmeister wrote: »

Try getting him Sam Sterns Cooking up a storm. He's a 15 yr old lad who wrote the book and is full of cool stuff and is written in a way that appeals to teens. He's also written a follow up real food real fast.

Thanks Kaz - think I'll add this to ds1's birthday list.

thriftlady_2

kazmeister wrote: »

LET HIM IN THE KITCHEN !!!! The sooner they learn the better. My lad when he's moaning and hungry if I havent done any cooking, gets in there and 1/2 hour later I usually have a mess but fab chocolate muffins. Mmmmmmmm muffins .......:D

I know, I know -must make more effort

Just noticed he has book number 3 out http://www.amazon.co.uk/Get-Cooking-Sam-Stern-Susan/dp/140630560X/ref=sr_1_3/202-5197691-7152669?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1192962557&sr=1-3

Seakay

Re the mess in the kitchen - when I was doing cookery at school the state you left the kitchen in contributed to the mark, and friends told me that this was also the cae at O level. Not sure what the situation is at GCSE, but never to young to learn that cookery also involves checking the ingredients first, clearing up after and alerting someone that ingredients have been used up WHEN IT HAPPENS!