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Quotes About Recipes

I love awesome mixed drinks.
~ Jonathan Krisel
Tinker wrote neatly, though his spelling was not good, Ruth's recipes would never fail for confusion between 'add sugar' and 'seethe', but Jane's writing looked like an intoxicated inky spider had staggered across the page on the way to the bar for another drink. Which it really didn't need.
~ Kerry Greenwood
Skip the Grains. Gluten—which has been shown to cause problems in the gut for some people—is also suspected to have toxic effects on the brain as well. Our diet recommendation is to stay away from gluten and grains, and to emphasize fish, vegetables, fruits, and oils. In our recipes, you'll see many options for gluten- and grain-free meals. Gluten is the most inflammatory of a group of proteins contained in all grains
~ Gerald M. Lemole
oregano on blueberries or oatmeal can give them a surprising pop of flavor. Other healthy dietary choices include:
~ Gerald M. Lemole
I'm encouraged because you pick up any food magazine and there's two or three recipes involving Indian spices.
~ Aarti Sequeira
I can make a bourbon and Coke, those types of drinks... If the ingredients are named in the drink, I can make it.
~ Rick Harrison
My grandmother was a typical farm-family mother. She would regularly prepare dinner for thirty people, and that meant something was always cooking in the kitchen. All of my grandmother's recipes went back to her grandmother.
~ Willard Scott
Cooking classes are a great way to hone your skills, learn new recipes, and meet like-minded friends. Spending time in the kitchen with people who love to cook as much as you do is fun and educational.
~ Homaro Cantu
I carry a small spiral notebook with me at all times and have been doing this for many years. There's a shoe box in my closet filled with these notebooks, each riddled with notes and impressions, ideas, schemes, and soup recipes.
~ Patrick deWitt
I'm all over the place with muffins. Carrots are great. Banana, chocolate chip, they rock, too.
~ Shawn Mendes
The biggest seller is cookbooks and the second is diet books — how not to eat what you've just learned how to cook.
~ Andy Rooney, 1982
I was a bit of an accident really - I certainly didn't set out to write a cookbook or three. I didn't have a plan. I was unemployed, writing a blog about local politics and a few recipes, and it was more successful than I could ever have imagined it to be.
~ Jack Monroe
With so many delicious varieties and flavors ranging from subtle to bold, Keebler and Carr's crackers are an unexpectedly genius way to celebrate leftovers and serve up one-of-a-kind recipes.
~ Damaris Phillips
I can cook to please people, but it's quite conventional. I make a good sponge cake. I find it hard to follow recipes.
~ Anna Chancellor
I like detective stories and spy novels, but I also like nonfiction, and of course cookbooks.
~ Paul Wahlberg
He'd noticed that sex bore some resemblance to cookery: it fascinated people, they sometimes bought books full of complicated recipes and interesting pictures, and sometimes when they were really hungry they created vast banquets in their imagination - but at the end of the day they'd settle quite happily for egg and chips. If it was well done and maybe had a slice of tomato.
~ Terry Pratchett
I have to admit that out of 10 meals, nine I have at home.
~ Antoni Porowski
A really great omelette has two whole eggs and one extra yolk, and by the way, the same thing goes for scrambled eggs. As for egg salad, here's our recipe: boil eighteen eggs, peel them, and send six of the egg whites to friends in California who persist in thinking that egg whites matter in any way. Chop the remaining twelve eggs and six yolks coarsely with a knife, and add Hellmann's mayonnaise and salt and pepper to taste.
~ Nora Ephron
Right now I am thinking of writing another cookbook. All cookbooks have a gimmick, and mine will be that it contains recipes that I have invented and named after famous people. Some of them are: Brisket of Brynner (very lean meat) Carson Casserole (it's got everything on it) Barbecued Walters Marinated Maude Roasted Rhoda King King Curry (it will feed about eight thousand people) Fricassee of Fonzi Pickled Rickles Raquel Relish Leftovers à la Gabors
~ Vincent Price
I found that the recipes in most - in all - the books I had were really not adequate. They didn't tell you enough... I won't do anything unless I'm told why I'm doing it. So I felt that we needed fuller explanations so that if you followed one of those recipes, it should turn out exactly right.
~ Julia Child
All the women in my family were superb cooks.
~ Randy Wayne White
I have a lot of fans who are in the prison system, where ramen noodles are a kind of staple. Prisoners are always sending me recipes.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
When my grandmother passed away in 2014, she left behind some recipes, but nobody stepped forward to follow in her footsteps and become pop-up cookie factories whenever the need arose.
~ Chris Morocco
I love getting cookbooks - people will give them to me, and I read them like novels and file everything away.
~ Gwyneth Paltrow