Banana pudding Robert Irvine would be proud of!

From an 11 year old, anyway! Cade quickly pushed me out of the way to make the pudding entirely on his own. No recipe, just a minor change to the Jell-o instant (fat-free sugar-free) banana pudding box directions.

Cade's banana pudding

1 box jell-o banana pudding (we use fat/sugar free)

1 cup skim milk

1 small container cool whip lite

nilla wafers (as many as desired)

1 banana sliced

Mix pudding and 1 c (not 2 as instructed on box) milk. Fold in thawed cool whip. Layer

nilla wafers, banana in bottom and top with 1/2 of pudding/cool whip mix. Repeat layers.

Since Cade has seen just about every episode of Cake Boss, Sweet Genius, Restaurant Impossible and Chopped, he has become quite savvy in the kitchen. He even asked if we had raspberries for a colorful garnish! :) A scrumptious comfort dessert to follow Seth's meatloaf!

Meatloaf by Seth, a family pleasing recipe

"I don't want to make meatloaf, you do it. Cook on Bro' is stupid. You do 'Cook on mama'!" and so it went, & goes, most of the time it's Seth's turn to cook. The joys of my teen in the kitchen. "Can't I just make eggs?" Said after he'd eaten about 6 already yesterday. "No Seth, you can't." :)

Anyway, once he got going he did just fine. After all it took about 5 minutes with just a few ingredients to dump, mix and put in a loaf pan. Other than the pampered chef garlic press lesson that is. Seth was ready to throw the whole clove in!

"Ewww I don't want to mix that with my hands!" All the sudden he's Mr. Sanitary. So mom got a great idea; "Let's use some of Dad's McKesson surgical gloves!" As Seth was putting them on I started singing..."throw your hands in the air like you don't care...". His response?!? "How 'bout I throw a finger in the air..." We both had a good chuckle off that one. :) As much as he complains about our Cook on 'Bro experiment, Mike and I both see evidence that Seth in particular is becoming more and more confident and comfortable in the kitchen. Easy recipes like this one help for sure.

Yep, it's a food .com recipe, #47696. Simply titled "Meatloaf". Enjoy!