Quotes About Cooking

There are a great many things one can learn to do without actually doing them. Grilling is not one of them.

Red Flannel Hash

We don't think about recipes as much as we perform them.

I needed her to show me how to live through sadness, how to make someone dinner. All I knew was how to be lost.

That's it? 'Damn, it smells like the fishsticks are burning and don't do that with your head, Bode?' What the fuck?

I love making Italian food. And coconut chicken.

My new companion was one of the worst cooks I have ever known. I thanked him for the meal, and since all I had to offer was some conversation, that's what we did. His name was Cullen, but he kept referring to himself as the Former House Nigger, as if it were a rank akin to general.

Once or twice a week, make a giant pot of vegetable bean soup and use that soup for several days to limit cooking chores.

The simpler the food, the harder it is to prepare it well. You want to truly taste what it is you're eating. So that goes back to the trend of fine ingredients. It's very Japanese: Preparing good ingredients very simply, without distractions from the flavor of the ingredient itself.

Southeast Asia food uses many different types of spices which are quite new to me, like the curry leaves which I saw at the Kreta Ayer wet market in Chinatown. With such spices used in cooking, this usually imparts a strong aroma to Southeast Asian food, which appeals to the senses.

My cooking philosophy, what I try to do, is to make a cuisine where the produce and the product shines, compared to some current trends that are maybe more adding additional things, like molecular cuisine, with a lot of additives and chemicals, which are now showing that they could be bad for your health.

It's wise to learn how to cook,' Kessligh fumed, 'but a meal prepared over three weeks is inedible! There is wisdom in action! So stop talking, and act!

She took a bite herself, and her eyes fell shut as a savory marriage of onion, pepper, soy and a mysterious dash of other spices awoke her taste buds. "This is marvelous. How did you make something this good in a half hour?" "Well, technically, you can reach orgasm in less than a minute, and think how wonderful that is," Marcus pointed out.

The first meal my husband ever made me was a chicken curry. I have never tasted anything so delicious in my life.

I took cooking classes when I was younger; girls weren't interested in me, and I thought I may be alone for the rest of my life.

You don't have to stick with these recipes. They're guides. As I say, they're a way in. Have fun with them. It's an easier way to cook in a busy life, once you get the hang of it.

Eating is so intimate. It's very sensual. When you invite someone to sit at your table and you want to cook for them, you're inviting a person into your life.

The first step in making rabbit stew is catching the rabbit.

I think that women just have a primeval instinct to make soup, which they will try to foist on anybody who looks like a likely candidate.

She is slicing peaches with a special fruit knife.

I can make dressing - or stuffing. Y'all call it stuffing up here, we call it dressing down there. It's really good dressing. That family recipe was passed on, and I love to make that.

My grandmother was the greatest cook in the world. She could just go in there, the whole kitchen would look like a tornado hit it and then she'd come out with the best food. Then she'd sit at the table and she wouldn't eat!

It is not necessary to have an extravagant food budget in order to serve things with variety and tastefully cooked. It is not necessary to have expensive food on the plates before they can enter the dining room as things of beauty in colour and texture. Food should be served with real care as to the colour and texture on the plates, as well as with imaginative taste. This is where artistic talent and aesthetic expression and fulfillment come in.

Men do not have to cook their food they do so for symbolic reasons to show they are men and not beasts.