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10 year olds cooking - veg heavy recipe book?

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Peregrane · 16/02/2024 13:17

My 10 year old son and his classmate have started cooking together on weekends, supervised/directed either by me or his friend's mother. Their idea, super happy.

They like browsing and choosing recipes from cook books that also show the pictures of the finished meal. I tend to cook from recipes on the net so haven't really invested into cook books - when they are at mine, they use one called "Simple and cheap recipes" that my son picked up at a school book fair to choose starters, and I dictate them recipes for the mains.

I want to get a recipe book they could use that features a lot of vegetables in tasty recipes. We are flexitarians, I like gourmet food and my 10 year old is a reasonably adventurous eater. (My five year old is appalingly picky, to even it out!)

Any recipe books you would recommend in this situation?

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AmaryllisChorus · 16/02/2024 13:22

How about The Green Roasting Tin. All veggie recipes, most of which use just one pan for prep! And great practise for when they leave home and cook for themselves but hate washing up.

BoohooWoohoo · 16/02/2024 13:23

There are food magazines for veggies. I’ve definitely seen some with titles that suggest that they quick and easy

BoohooWoohoo · 16/02/2024 13:26

I often see books like this in charity shops

Good Food: 101 Veggie Dishes (Tried-and-Tested Recipies) https://amzn.eu/d/aARkiNH

https://amzn.eu/d/aARkiNH?tag=mumsnet&ascsubtag=mnforum-food-and-recipes-5009234-10-year-olds-cooking-veg-heavy-recipe-book

toastofthetown · 16/02/2024 14:12

I love Meera Sodha’s East. It’s a vegetarian cookbook. It has recipes inspired by recipes from all over Asia. There are starters and sides for him to choose from, the recipes are generally vegetable heavy, ingredients available from a large supermarket, the recipe testing seems good, I’ve never had a recipe fail from there.
Disclaimer: I have no idea the cooking skill of the average ten year old, and they’d need to be able to use knives, the hob, the oven etc.

Edit: she runs a vegan column in the Guardian if you want to check out her style.

willproblem · 18/02/2024 19:19

I'm not veggie, but the "Roasting Tin" series of books could be useful.

The original omnivore book gave timings for the different ingredients, so they could count backwards from meal service to "put in the oven", to "switch on oven" to "chop veg" etc.

Peregrane · 20/03/2024 17:07

Thank you very much for the good suggestions (and sorry for taking a while to get back here!)

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