Quotes About Recipe

It was in 'Esquire' in the 1970s that I first learned Nora Ephron's recipe for borscht - certainly an editorial first for that manly magazine.

I'm publicist, patron of nine charities, creative director, food consultant, recipe developer - and mum.

There are so many things that come into writing a recipe, and it's really important if you're writing for home cooks to be cooking like you are at home.

My parents would always have us, as many times as we could, sit together for dinner and talk about what was happening in our lives, and so we created a great recipe where I could be completely honest with my mother and to an extent my father, being an attorney.

Don't let the secret recipe die with the inventor.

If there were some recipe that would make all of our children really sane and civic-minded and hugely intelligent, I think we'd probably all do it. But I don't know that there is a recipe for creating that.

I love cooking. I like to make lasagna - it's authentic Italian-style. I also do a great chicken recipe for a barbecue.

My son loves my carbonara. I've tried to master that recipe - it's very simple but very delicate. Once prepared it must be eaten quickly.

Whether you're on a diet, or you're looking for a go-to one bowl dinner recipe, salads should be thought of as crowd-pleasers, not a dreaded component of a meal.

People are always asking me for my favorite recipe, and I have to say, 'I don't really have one.'

I always feel like a script is a recipe, and then you bring the elements into the recipe, and you cook with it.

Writing with a film in mind - writing like a screenplay - is a sureshot recipe for disaster.

No one gave me a recipe for how to create company culture. I wish I had had one.

The holy grail of recipe developing is the recipe that turns out so much more impressive than you would expect from the effort it took to produce.

Generally, if you're a baker who's still learning the ropes, substitutions can be risky. It's always best to make a recipe the first time as written, and only after that initial success should you make substitutions.

The first recipe I made was a disaster. I'd been chopping and pressing dates to create a raw brownie, and I thought it would work even better if I blended them in a food processor. So I went and bought one specially. When my boyfriend at the time came over to try the results, he took one bite and spat it out - I'd left the plastic on the blades.

I understand the frustration provoked by our broken immigration system. But 50 state immigration policies are just a recipe for more chaos.

When you taste something delicious, ask for the recipe! Or offer to trade a recipe!

I've never taken a cooking class. I've never gone to a cooking show. I've never read a recipe in my life.

Cooking is not effortless. To get a recipe that feels effortless is really hard.

I do think there is continuing sense in people buying recipe books from somebody they trust.

I did not develop a recipe for my mothers biryani. I tried, and I failed, and so I made my own.

I am very new to cooking. At school, our home economics lessons were very poor. We were told to pick a recipe and then cook it. So no actual teaching involved then.

The best thing is when you make something up, and then someone asks for the recipe.