Quotes About Cooking

The hardest thing for me is restraint. I see fresh beans and ramps, and I start to quiver.

To me, cooking is man's natural activity. But I think writing is really hard. Certainly writing fiction is the hardest thing I've ever done.

Old cookbooks connect you to your past and explain the history of the world.

The history of cooking is my passion, and cooking is my passion.

I still feel that French cooking is the most important in the world, one of the few that has rules. If you follow the rules, you can do pretty well.

I love a good madeira cake. Nice and simple. The most important thing is that a cake is moist. Most people overcook cakes, which dries them out.

Salt is so, so, so important. If that's the one thing everyone remembers, every step of the way, whenever I cook, I try to incorporate salt.

Cooking used to be the one thing that kept my mind exactly where my body was. It's a sign of growing up that I can do that other ways now.

The most important thing for having a party is that the hostess is having fun. I'm very organized. I make a plan for absolutely everything. I never have anything that has to be cooked while the guests are there. The only thing I might have to do is take something out of the oven and carve it.

The only thing you can do to make catfish edible is fry them.

The only thing that counts is if you know how to prepare your ingredients. Even if with the best and freshest ingredients in the world, if your dish is tasteless or burnt, it's ruined.

It's a 12-hour cooking class for me on the set of 'Chopped.' You'd think I'd get sick of it, but it's a source of endless interest to me. The only thing I don't like about it is it's a long day and my feet hurt. Otherwise, I love it.

Lentil dhal is the only thing I can cook.

Preparing and cooking squid is easier than most fish. The only thing to remember is not to cook it for too long.

The only thing I've cooked while entertaining is stir-fry.

I do loads of one-pot things because I feel like you can't go too far wrong. And I make a lot of soups and casseroles, which is so boring, but it's the only thing I can do!

Several hundred years ago, the only thing that slave families had was cooking and their family meals.

For example, when my mother died, the people who showed up just to put an apron on to cook, people who really do the right thing, so to speak, as my momma would always say to show that they care, a sense of community that we've lost so much in our country.

shank or canned tomatoes thickened with paste for a kind of red sauce to pour over noodles.

And she saw herself cooking, baking, canning and working a little in the orchard.

I came literally to the table with a wealth of knowledge by simply understanding how food should taste.

Yield 1 main course Prep time approximately 2 minutes Processing time approximately 10 minutes Calorie Burn 172 Calories 105 Net-Calories -67 Ingredients: Olive oil cooking spray Pinch of red pepper flakes, plus more as desired ½ head cauliflower, grated on the small holes of box grater to the size of rice (about 1 cup) Kosher salt

It's the only thing sexier than a sexy woman. A sexy woman cooking fuckin' sausages.

I tell ya, my wife's a lousy cook. After dinner, I don't brush my teeth. I count them.