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Quotes About Cooking

Oregano is the spice of life.
~ Henry Tillman
And while other passions in your life may at some point begin to bank their fires, the shared happiness of good homemade food can last as long as we do.
~ Marcella Hazan
The best food I've ever eaten in my life has come from the poorest communities.
~ Jamie Oliver
I can't cook to save my life but I can bake a flour-less chocolate-hazelnut tort with a spicy caramel sauce.
~ Anna Kendrick
In normal life, 'simplicity' is synonymous with 'easy to do,' but when a chef uses the word, it means 'takes a lifetime to learn.'
~ Bill Buford
I'm no cook. When I want lemon on chicken, I spray it with Pledge.
~ Joan Rivers
I would definitely make eggs for the rest of my life if I could.
~ John Hodgman
It was lovely to be cooking with actual food. There's something so grounding about it. It's not that I was doing any magic, beyond the magic it is to take big flat mushrooms and raw potatoes and turn them into something totally delicious. I was just making dinner. But I wonder how much of cooking for someone else is magic anyway, more than I know about. I think it might all be.
~ Jo Walton
I got to help make dinner. You can't imagine the pleasure of wiping mushrooms and grating cheese when you haven't had a chance to do it for a long time. Then eating food you have cooked, or help cook, always tastes so much better. Auntie
~ Jo Walton
Very good. Couldn't be better. We'll put some ginger in the good lady's gravy.
~ Joan Aiken
I'll tell you something about tough things. They just about kill you, but if you decide to keep working at them, you'll find the way through. On the Food Network they have these shows where cooks have to put a meal together with all these weird ingredients. That's a lot like my life-dealing with things you wouldn't think ever go together. But a good cook can make the best meal out of the craziest combinations.
~ Joan Bauer
COOK'S TIP: Bake every day. If you have to leave town fast, you'll always have something good to eat in the car.
~ Joan Bauer
Cooking is about life. It gives us what we need to keep going, and it gives us something to share with other people.
~ Joan Bauer
It might take so.e time to get used to cooking with a stupid, dead fish looking on. Close To Famous
~ Joan Bauer
Soon the cottage was filled with the familiar, homely smell of frying onions. It escaped from the stove, crept through the kitchen, sniffed along the bottom of the closed front room door and wound its way stealthily up the crooked staircase, even under the door of Anna's bedroom. But even this, the most delicious, hungry-making smell in the world, was unable to rouse her.
~ Joan G. Robinson
I like to hang out with my friends. I love music. I like to go to the movies. I like to eat. I like to cook.
~ Joan Jett
And this young man, where is he?" "He had to go to his aunt's house." "Why? He didn't like the cooking here?
~ Joann Sfar
Do you know our chicken schedule? Because we have a chicken schedule. We eat fried chicken on Mondays, roasted chicken on Wednesdays, and barbecued chicken breasts on Fridays. It never varies.
~ Ann Napolitano
1 pound fresh lump crabmeat, drained 1 teaspoon Dijon mustard 6 tablespoons mayonnaise 1 large egg, beaten 1?4 cup finely minced onion 2 tablespoons finely chopped flat-leaf parsley 1 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce 1?4 teaspoon hot sauce (or to taste) 2 teaspoons fresh lemon juice 1 teaspoon Old Bay Seasoning
~ Ann Vanderhoof
Hot sauce For the grits 1 cup milk 2 cups water 3?4 cup quick-cooking grits 1?4 teaspoon salt 1?2–3?4 cup grated cheddar cheese
~ Ann Vanderhoof
completely. Meanwhile, bring another pan of salted water to the boil and blanch the broccoli for 1 minute, drain and pat completely dry with kitchen paper.
~ Anna Clark
Weißt du...Deine Toast, die waren absolut phantastisch...
~ Anna Gavalda
Camille didn't know how to cook, so she had stopped in at Goubetzkoï's and bought an assortment of tarama , salmon, marinated fish and onion chutneys. They filled all the great-uncle's little bowls with painstaking care, and to reheat the blinis on the hot plate they fashioned an ingenious sort of toaster from an old lid and some tinfoil.
~ Anna Gavalda
Mrs. Beale made this. I can't cook." Lucifer took another mouthful and shrugged. "Cooking isn't that difficult." Then he looked up and wondered if a grown man had ever been beaten to death with a soup spoon.
~ Anne Bishop