Kids Cooking: Recipes to Get You Started February 1, 2012, 12:37 pm In today's Dining section I write about my determination to have my two sons, ages 10 and 14, cook dinner for the family once a week. One of the biggest obstacles to overcome is deciding what to make. After months of practice, we still do not have a systematic way of doing this, but here are some recipes that worked: Sam made Nancy Silverton's lentils with balsamic-marinated chicken and an olive-oil fried egg. The pho recipe was a mixture of several I saw on the Web, but I used as my base this one from The Runaway Spoon. The duck breast with orange apricot sauce is from The New York Times Magazine a decade ago. Amazing what I save. It calls for grilled fruit, too, but Sam skipped that and it was still delicious. What are some recipes your kids cook?