Quotes About Cooking

Then as now he created reality around himself, bringing order and peace to a small island of warm firelight and the simple smell of hearth bread cooking.

It was an impressive display of good food abused in the name of fashionable cooking.

That's when she discovered that Todd had improvised on the menu she had made up.

Cooking doesn't just nurture the recipient, it nurtures the chef.

You're a terrible cook, Daniel. I know, he replied, But it's the effort that counts. I hope that's not the slogan for your dental practice.

So every day, before every meal, my question is the same. What can I make with what I have?

In addition to the smells of mince and pumpkin pies, the Sage and onions of turkey stuffing, another aroma floated in the air, the very essence of Santa Claus. Years later, when I was grown up, I still remembered that marvelous fragrance and recognized it as Scotch whisky.

What do you eat?" she asked. "Mulligan stew," said Bob. "My friends and I collect scraps of food all day, and then we cook it up in a big pot and share it. It's always different, but very tasty." "Why is it called mulligan stew?" asked Stephen. "There was once a hobo named Mulligan," said Bob. "He made the first mulligan stew." "Was he a good cook?" asked Todd. "No, he was eaten by cannibals.

Boil 'em once or twice in hot water, and they'll come as fair as chicken and ham.

I wish you could have seen the kitchen when I was done: It looked like a hurricane had blown right in the door! But I cleaned it all up, and when Mother came home the whole house smelled warm and spicy, Bing Crosby was singing White Christmas on the radio, I was wearing a clean apron, and she called me her little homemaker. What would you think about tomato mincemeat cookies? I bet no one else will think of that!

Don't you just love the idea of cooking flowers? I imagine them bursting into bloom, right in the pan.

Captured by the cooking, I had a fleeting thought that I'd spent too many years trading time for money.

And I still believe, to the core of my being, that when you pay attention, cooking becomes a kind of meditation.

Now rush the eggs into a large bowl of ice water; this will keep that unattractive green ring from forming around the yolk.

Among geniuses intelligence loses its currency; they vie with each other at cooking or sex. So with immortals. When age becomes a constant, it becomes irrelevant.

Look what pressure(cooker) does to Rice. It makes the hard and tough rice go soft.

Always throw spilled salt over your left shoulder. Keep rosemary by your garden gate. Add pepper to your mashed potatoes. Plant roses and lavender, for luck. Fall in love whenever you can.

THE WOMEN FROM THE congregation might appear delicate and ladylike, but on this island strength was a necessity. Most of these women could climb onto a roof before a storm to make certain that the shutters at every window were bolted shut, they could cook over an outdoor fire, kill chickens and wild waterfowl, do what they must should the tolerance of our people fade in yet another country.

He dusted the dough with cumin and coriander and salt before he slid the loaves into the oven on flat wooden boards. Perhaps most important

She never used a cookbook again—after all, there was no point in cooking for someone who couldn't tell the difference between a gâteau au chocolat and a defrosted Sara Lee cake.

Not only will your teachers appear, but they will cook new foods for you.

When you have the best and tastiest ingredients, you can cook very simply and the food will be extraordinary because it tastes like what it is.

Laminated Lettuce ... perfect for holiday gift giving.

The most underused tool in the kitchen is the brain. I blame the food media (yes, that of which I am a part) who have lulled us into a state of recipe slavery. We don't think about recipes as much as we perform them.