Quotes About Cooking

Pressure cookers are relatively inexpensive, they're in every kitchen store, your grandma probably had one, but a lot of people don't. A pressure cooker is interesting because by pressurizing the vessel, you're able to cook much hotter than the boiling point of water, and still have water be present.

The thing about being at home versus being out in the world working is, it's a whole different vibe. When I'm home with my kids and partner, I will cook - even though she's a very good cook. She's learned over the years. We started with basics, you know, how to saute onions, how to saute mushrooms.

My whole family cooks and I'm in charge of setting the vibes.

Green vegetables are something that fascinate chefs; the ability to keep vegetables green. How do we keep them green? What makes them green? Why are they green? And then that sort of army green. Why do they go from bright vibrant electric green to army green, and how can we avoid that?

I could make a martyrly claim to having been the victim of childhood enslavement when I report that I started regularly cooking with my mother at a hot stove when I was five. But the truth is I wanted to cook. Cooking meant being near food.

We are all victims of the marketing that says cooking is hard and takes too long, but that's simply not true. Scrambled eggs take five minutes to make.

Our down time at home consists of hikes and video games and trying to cook - because we are awful at it.

You'll move from big brother to the adult world faster by cooking food for your younger siblings while your peers are playing video games.

I'm sitting there for hours editing the vids myself. But I have a PR company and a management company. I use some editors for some of the cooking videos because they can be so long.

When I was younger, my dad taught me how to cook. He's a genius in the kitchen. I went to Vietnam with my parents, and I went on a cooking course with him.

I cook Italian, Thai and Vietnamese, I've always liked to cook.

I love roast dinners, simple avocado salads, spicy Vietnamese papaya salad, all fish and seafood, a good steak.

I think in the end there are only 20 or 30 tenets of basic cooking. It's going at perhaps the same issue from different angles, from different points of view, from different presentation styles, that really makes things sink in and become embedded.

The stew had been made with chunks of beef, potatoes, and turnips simmered in burgundy wine until they melted at the lightest pressure of the tongue. There was a salad of crisp lettuce greens and chopped mint leaves, and wedges of cottage bread, the interior laced with holes to catch every drop of salted butter.

John had a photographic memory...this wasn't smart, exactly, but it could pass for smart. Smart was about intuition, and John had that too. Smart was: you didn't exert effort but you knew the answer anyways. You thought about it, yes, but the answer came via a different route. Smart was: you always had access to that different route. The answer came in the back door while you were cooking or even while you slept.

If I was an eccentric old spinster in a Merchant Ivory movie, I'd want to share my lovely cottage with Holly and that's the truth. I'd do the cooking and leave the decorating to her, and we'd be inseparable.

Grandma said that a skillet's good for three things: frying chicken, baking corn bread, and going upside an obstinate man's head.

medium heat. Stir constantly until mixture boils. Continue to cook and stir for 1 minute after mixture starts boiling. Stir in the milk. Heat, but do not boil. Remove from heat and add

How do you make a sausage roll? ... Roll it down a hill!

In the quiet of the kitchen my mind wanders. Fried chicken and potato salad. What's this man trying to re-create? A picnic? An outing? A meal his grandma made? A chess pie is old school. It's basically a pecan pie without the pecans. Syrupy sweet. I think about the memories he must have about this meal. Innocent. Pure. Happy.

Some innkeepers, such as Mine Host of the Tabard, provided meals. More humble landlords expected their guests to prepare their own, bringing in the raw ingredients and using the cooking facilities on the premises.

ginger would have been far more widely used.

Pastees', or pies, were the fast food of the day, sold on the streets, popular with people who had no cooking facilities at home, which would be the mass of Londoners and other town dwellers.

Make sure to marry a man who puts his pizza rolls into the oven, not the microwave, Laura told her, smiling at Will. He knows good things take a little more time.