Quotes About Cooking

Sesame oil is probably my favorite condiment, period.

I cook. I did the Escoffier course in Paris when I was 21 in one of those periods when it was like a pause. I can cook anything Italian, Chinese.

No Persian meal is complete without an abundance of herbs.

It's not an accident that the best cooking in Tuscany is found at home. It's the place where Tuscans' passionate love for food meets their passionate love for family and friends.

Fish, to taste right, must swim three times — in water, in butter, and in wine.

Fish, to taste good, must swim three times in water, in butter, and in wine.

When I was trying to impress Kate I was trying to cook these amazing fancy dinners and what would happen was I would burn something, something would overspill, something would catch on fire and she would be sitting in the background trying to help, and basically taking control of the whole situation, so I was quite glad she was there at the time.

Keep an eye on the cat and another on the frying pan.

A dirty floor means a busy stove.

Tripes, poumons, coeur de porc, etc., tout cela cuit à la vapeur avec du vin de riz.

For flavor, instant sex will never supercede the stuff you have to peel and cook.

She also taught me how to pray, another discipline I didn't keep up with. In the beginning I was too busy, what with housework, cooking, and educating myself. I had little time for a god who had little time for me. As I matured, I had no use for one. Emmanuel Lévinas suggested that God left in 1941. Mine left in 1975. And in 1978, and in 1982, and in 1990.

My husband cooks fancier food for himself than I've ever cooked on-air. I call him from the road, and he's making champagne-vanilla salmon or black-cherry pork chop. Half of me is feeling unworthy. Not only am I not a chef, I'm not a better cook than my own husband!

My mom said the two most important kitchen utensils are attached to your arms... you cannot mix up meatballs with a wooden spoon, get in there, get your fingers dirty!

When I do a 30-minute meal, for instance, on Food Network, that's my food you see at the end of the show and it's not perfect. And if sometimes things break or drop or the pasta hits the wall when I'm draining it, they never stop tape. They just kind of let me go with it.

The magazine, the daytime show, we've always tried to write affordable, accessible. Those are key words for us, and I do mean us, a huge staff of people at the magazine who love to cook affordable, friendly food that helps families eat better for less.

I have this extraordinary life during the day, and then I get to come home to my sweet husband who loves to cook with me. I have a nice glass of wine, he has some scotch, we chat, we cook, and we hang out with the dog. I have an absolute dream life.

I am a very good cook." When she did cook. "Good. I like to eat." He lightly bit her palm. The too-much-air feeling in Lucy's stomach pressed upward into her heart. "What?" she asked past the constriction in her chest. "What do I like to eat?" "Yeah." "Blondes with blue eyes." Oh God. She pulled her hand from his. "Are you hungry?" His gaze lowered to her mouth. "I could eat.

Something I didn't even know was on my bucket list has been achieved. I have cooked Thanksgiving dinner with Martha Stewart. I vow to follow the gospel of her teachings and do my very best in the remarkably less glamorous kitchen of my own home... without the luxury of magically appearing prep bowls filled by a staff of sous chefs.

The vulgar boil, the learned roast, an egg.

I love a waffle but adding the sweet nutty flavour of the butternut squash makes the waffles so much more flavoursome.

Regardless of whether you prefer your waffle light golden or dark brown, it should be crisp on the outside and light and fluffy on the inside.

Scrambled eggs are so simple, but they don't wait or taste better cold!

You really get the most out of sweet corn if you pick the corn off the stalk and rush it to a pot of boiling water. The longer you wait, the more sugar you lose. But if you get it in the first half hour, that is the sweetest corn ever.