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Quotes About Cooking

All recipes are spells and all cooks are witches.
~ Kirsten Miller
Hunger is the best cook.
~ Carlo Collodi
LEE'S BREAD DIPPING SAUCE ½ teaspoon crushed red pepper 1 teaspoon ground black pepper 1 teaspoon dried oregano 1 teaspoon dried rosemary 1 teaspoon dried basil 1 teaspoon dried parsley 1 teaspoon garlic powder ½ teaspoon salt ¼ cup really good quality extra-virgin olive oil Mix all the ingredients except the olive oil. Put in a shallow pan or bowl. Pour olive oil over the spices. Serve with Italian or French bread. (You can add more oil if needed.)
~ Carol J. Perry
pizza-scented candles.
~ Carol J. Perry
ginger pancakes with orange sauce.
~ Carol J. Perry
If at first you don't fricassee, Fry, fry a hen!
~ Carol Ryrie Brink
I can't cook. I use a smoke alarm as a timer.
~ Carol Siskind
Kuru fasulyeleri ateÅŸe koydum. Onlar? y?karken, "Bugün zengin insanlar gibiyim," dedim. "Fasulye haz?rl?yorum.
~ Caroline Maria De Jesus
How about I burn us some dinner before my shift starts.
~ Carrie Jones
Going round and around inside a dryer can be fatal, whereas pasta is rarely fatal. Unless Isabelle makes it.
~ Cassandra Clare
If you knew how to cook, maybe I would eat," Jace muttered. Isabelle froze, her spoon poised dangerously. "What did you say?" Jace edged toward the fridge. "I said I'm going to look for a snack to eat." That's what I thought you said." Isabelle turned her attention to the soup.
~ Cassandra Clare
Kissing don't last: cookery do !
~ George Meredith
If the fire was too hot, you could hardly keep the pudding from scorching by tossing a handful of raisins in the pot.
~ George R.R. Martin
A crisp roast chicken would set the world aright.
~ George R.R. Martin
I know that eggs do well to stay out of frying pans.
~ George R.R. Martin
Ce n'est pas possible d'éplucher des pommes de terre et de gratter des carottes en combinaison.
~ Georges Simenon
oregano on blueberries or oatmeal can give them a surprising pop of flavor. Other healthy dietary choices include:
~ Gerald M. Lemole
Fat gives things flavor.
~ Julia Child
You can't make souffle rise twice.
~ Alice Roosevelt Longworth
When compelled to cook, I produce a meal that would make a sword swallower gag.
~ Russell Baker
Worry never climbed a hill, worry never paid a bill, Worry never dried a tear, worry never calmed a fear, Worry never darned a heel, worry never cooked a meal, It never led a horse to water, nor ever did a thing it "oughter."
~ Anonymous
One day, after I mistakenly added five garlic cloves to the pesto I'd prepared, rather than the one clove the recipe called for, Sylvia announced that the baby was kicking mightily, and what a strange and wondrous thing it is to put your hand on your wife's belly and feel your child moving like an agitated Mexican jumping bean.
~ J. Maarten Troost
Ehric frowned as he peeled a Post-It note off the package. Preheat to three seventy-five. His brother went to the wall ovens and began pushing buttons. Convection? Doesn't say. Damn it. Under and other circumstances, Assail would have found it impossible to believe that Ecale was wasting his meager urge to speak on cooking. But Marisol and her grandmother had changed everything ... for the short time they had been here.
~ J. R. Ward
You need more sleep." "Skillet, pan." "What?" "You know, the skillet says the pan's the same deal." He thought a moment. "I believe that's the pot calling the kettle black." "Whatever, kitchen stuff can't talk anyway.
~ J.D. Robb