She's 11 and she's already taught herself how to boil an egg (a damn good soft-boiled one at that) and cook rice. I started teaching myself how to cook when I was 14 and I'm doing a commercial cooking program in post-secondary, so I've already been teaching her knife skills and some basic stuff but I haven't had many chances to actually cook with her due to living a couple hours away. I'll be home a bunch over the next month, so that's prime time to show her a few dishes.
I have a couple of ideas, like fried rice and a couple different kinds of soup, but I also want to demonstrate just how creative she can get with cooking and introduce her to food she might not otherwise try. The recipes will have to be relatively easy so I don't overload her, but I want her to have fun too! I'm willing to go out and pick up ingredients specifically for this.
red sauce can be really easy if you just do garlic, oil, and black pepper, then tomatoes, then spices, and then reduce
make your own pizza sauce and/or pasta sauce
also, a good no-rise crust is just 2 3/4 cups flour plus like 1 tsp baking powder plus 1-2tbsp oil plus water to make it soft but not sticky, knead for 5ish minutes then roll it out