My 12 year old son's favorite food is pasta, so I got him a pasta maker for Christmas.
This is a really easy to use model in which you add flour and water/eggs to the machine and it mixes it for you and extrudes the dough through 1 of 8 attachments.
For our maiden voyage tonight, we decided to make penne. Once the penne was made we used it in one of his favorite recipes (penne with bacon and broccoli, tossed in a garlic cream sauce).
Tomorrow I will be making ramen with my other son.
I love the fact that both boys are interested in learning how to cook.
George