646 Quotes About Cooking

Its not pretty when I cook on my own. She was smart to eat the Pop-Tarts.

Oh Oh! I just read a recipe that suggested I should NOT wash/clean the chicken before preparing it because "the splashing water can contaminate the area". Now, I *know* a Haitian did not post this tidbit, because my mother stops short of spraying the chicken with high-powered hoses filled with lemon juice and vinegar! She'd be horrified!

For years, I waded through cookbooks and other types of books, hoping to find the magic solution to the mystery that is meal planning.

I love recipes like this, reading them and making them. There’s something brilliant about a recipe that doesn’t ask too much of you; a recipe, in fact, where getting it exactly right would be exactly wrong; a recipe you can fiddle with, and tend to when you remember.

It had been illuminating to watch Carmen really dig in and cook without commercial interruption, without cameras. Her pout was gone, replaced by a look of studious concentration, and she had chopped and minced and blended spices to create amazing bursts of flavor. The sofrito she had made, saucing together onion, tomato, and garlic in olive oil, had elevated the toasted chicken into a fragrant and unforgettable dish.

Sometimes it's nice if someone says it tastes good without you having to ask every time, you get what I mean?

Separate pots of simmering French and Italian soup stocks...Bowls of various Chinese spice blends...Trimmed and marinating lamb shanks, a common ingredient in Turkish cooking...And the foundation of all Indian cuisine- toasting the starter spices!

I’ve come to appreciate cooking over the years. It’s an art, I’m convinced of it, just as noble as painting or poetry. It’s not appreciated simply because the product disappears so quickly

The taste of a meal is not determined by the face or physique of the cook. After all, a cooking pot has no eyes to admire or abhor the cook, even it has, they have been blinded by cooking.