Hank's Summer Hobby: Cooking

With the kids out of school and all of their friends gone for the summer, I was facing a barrage of "I'm bored!" and desire to play video games 24/7. So I instituted summer rules. Three days a week are "electronics" days. The other four days of week offer instrument practice (guitar, piano, or violin), swimming, exercising with Mom at the gym, reading, and a hobby of each kid's choice. Hank chose cooking, so in the two weeks before we left on our travels, he planned, shopped for, cooked, plated, and served dinner twice (once each week). He seems to really enjoy cooking, and he's a lot of fun to have in the kitchen!

Here are a couple of pictures...

Meal #2: Frito pie, fresh green beans, and sliced apples.  (Meal #1 was hotdogs, green beans, and grapes.  I didn't get a picture of it, but the hotdogs were really good--I think BallPark all beef?)

Then he enjoyed his two "hobby assignment" meals so much that he woke up on Saturday morning and made (without a recipe) nutella pastries!  He used packaged croissant dough, put a spoon of nutella in each, folded and sealed, baked, then sprinkled with powdered sugar.  They were fantastic!

I ran to get the camera, yelling "FOOD PORN!" but he really didn't appreciate that.