61 Quotes by Nadiya Hussain

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    I run a tight ship. The kids are responsible for their own chores. Each morning they unload the dishwasher from the night before then collect eggs from our chickens, and I cook those while they get ready for school.

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    Sometimes when I'm making a potato salad I don't boil my own potatoes, I take them straight out of a can.

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    I feel like there's a dignity in silence and I think if I retaliate to negativity with negativity then we've evened out. And I don't need to even that out because if somebody's being negative, I need to be the better person.

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    In an average week I'll be testing recipes, doing a voice-over, filming and writing. I cram everything in Monday to Friday because I refuse to give up the weekend.

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    It's taken me three years to learn that just because I work in the food industry, it doesn't mean that I have to eat every minute of every day.

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    When I watch a TV show I wouldn't notice if someone was Muslim or wearing a hijab. It's nice to be on a show where your skin colour or religion is incidental.

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    Cod and clementine is one of the things my grandmother cooked for my mum when she was a child. Never one for waste, she'd keep the peel whenever she had a clementine, and this dish puts it to work.

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

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    Everyone says my family are so lucky to be surrounded by so many sweet treats, but to be honest, the novelty has worn off for the kids.

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