Quotes About Recipes

Recipes tell you nothing. Learning techniques is the key.

I've read hundreds of cookbooks. Most of those cookbooks don't even tell you how to get a steak ready, how to bake biscuits or an apple pie.

You can cook a limited number of sous vide recipes in a beer cooler, but if the person you're buying for wants to start cooking like the pros, they'll need a dedicated circulator that's designed to maintain the temperature of a water bath to within one degree.

All our science is just a cookery book, with an orthodox theory of cooking that nobody's allowed to question, and a list of recipes that mustn't be added to except by special permission from the head cook.

I was a pretty good physicist in my time. Too good-good enough to realize that all our science is just a cookery book, with an orthodox theory of cooking that nobody's allowed to question, and a list of recipes that mustn't be added to except by special permission from the head cook.

Brussels sprouts are misunderstood - probably because most people don't know how to cook them properly.

Remember that all your favourite meals can be made healthier, because the simple fact is, you can never go wrong with protein and veg!

I am a cookbook fanatic.

It was improv that really helped me start coming up with recipes and just believe in my instincts. That's why the first recipe I made up was 'I Ain't Chicken Chicken' because I finally felt bold and fearless in the kitchen, which was an entirely new feeling for me.

I tested a lot of old cornbread recipes and most of them were bland or tough.

Everything is tested in my little kitchen. The recipes are mine and that's really important to me. When I do a cookery show I know these recipes really well, because every recipe I've ever published has been tested by my kids.

Almost everyone who loves to cook has at least one recipe handed down to them from a member of their family or community, and those kinds of recipes represent generations of cooking, testing, adjusting and evolving, so you know they're killer.

When I get back from a mid-morning stroll, I'll do some writing then I'll typically spend the day testing new recipes.

In my South, the most treasured things passed down from generation to generation are the family recipes.

I don't trust people who cook from recipes," said the stranger, as if he hadn't heard him. "So whom do you trust?" asked Morini. "People who eat when they're hungry, I guess," said the stranger.

I don't trust people who cook from recipes," said the stranger, as if he hadn't heard him. "So whom do you trust?" asked Morini. "People who eat when they're hungry, I guess," said the stranger. Then

This reminds me: Are you going to eat the placenta?" Renée asked Harper. "I understand that's a thing now. We stocked a pregnancy guide at the bookstore with a whole chapter of placenta recipes in the back. Omelets and pasta sauces and so on." "No, I don't think so," Harper said. "Dining on the placenta smacks of cannibalism, and I was hoping for a more dignified apocalypse." "Rabbit

Baking isLife. So when you describe what you're making, you must describe life. Do you see? It's not just recipes.

I love the Food Network.

I really like cooking according to the season. I like to get creative with what's fresh.

As parents are usually working, they haven't time to teach children about cooking, and it's a wilderness. They should be given healthy recipes - some standbys so that when they leave home, they don't live on junk.

My mother is teaching me Indian recipes. I'll go to the market, get everything fresh, have a glass of red wine, and just do it. I find it really therapeutic.

I love cooking with wine.

In the 80s, mum used to make a beautiful beef in red wine sauce, which I thought very exotic. And an incredible chilli con carne, with baked beans so it wasn't too spicy for us. Later, when I asked for the recipes, she said: 'I don't know - they were Colman's or Schwartz's packet mixes.' It completely ruined it for me.