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10-Year-Old Chef Shares Meals For Father's Day: 'Just Spending Time Is The Best Thing'
Photo and reporting by
CBS News New York
A 10-year-old in Livingston, New Jersey planned his dad a full day of meals for Father's Day: blueberry crumble for breakfast, skillet meatballs with garlic bread for dinner, and a note slipped under the cake.
No grown-up in sight
Neither parent shows up in this one, not in the kitchen, not in a quote. The whole day, start to finish, is the kid's plan.
Why we picked this one
That's three separate meals, not a pancake and a hug. Somebody let a 10-year-old run a stove all day without turning it into a lesson about knife safety, and the kid used the freedom to hide a note under a cake instead of just serving it.
Guests coming over? Hand the kid the menu, not the recipe card. They plan every course, shop for it, cook it start to finish. You set the table and stay out of the kitchen.
Read the full story at
CBS News New York
Where it happened:
Livingston, NJ
Father's Day at your house is probably a tie he won't wear or a card he'll lose by July. What's stopping the whole menu?