Recipes Quotes - Page 3

Once you have mastered a technique, you barely have to look at a recipe again

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

I'm a cook, and I'm like, "a dash of this, a pinch of that." I cook with a lot of passion and instinct. So that's the hardest thing - to put an actual recipe together.

I had these recipes that say do this, do that. Who MAKES these rules?

I don't copy recipes without trying them out. I don't reprint without trying them again.

The recipe for great art has always been misery and a good bowel movement.

Your recipe, darling, is so tasty, and you sure can stir your pot.

A mixture of admiration and pity is one of the surest recipes for affection.

Some of the recipes in the book have evolved for us. Many haven't.

A recipe is not meant to be followed exactly - it is a canvas on which you can embroider.

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

I was once married to a woman who could eat anything and tell you what was in it: the most complicated recipes. Her memory of taste - now that's what I call memory!

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

It's a recipe for disaster.

Google 'broccoli casserole' and make the first recipe you find. I guarantee it will be disappointing.

The Pigtronix Envelope Phaser pedal is a definite 'must have' for your Funk recipe cookbook......it adds definite Funkaliciousness to your WOO stew.

Always look for the best ingredients, treat the food you cook with respect, always read the entire recipe first, be organized, and have fun.

Historical determinism is a recipe for political quietism.

You don't have to stick with these recipes. They're guides. As I say, they're a way in. Have fun with them. It's an easier way to cook in a busy life, once you get the hang of it.

I didn't want to do just another set of recipes. I think that's useless.

Recipes are not assembly manuals. Recipes are guides and suggestions for a process that is infinitely nuanced. Recipes are sheet music.

Time is the missing ingredient in our recipes-and in our lives.

. . . planning a brilliant menu and preparing it beautifully doesn't guarantee a recipe for success.

That said, there are certainly still cooks out there who make fantastic historical cornbreads, though the old recipes have often been changed to include modern techniques and ingredients.

I'm really a scientist. I follow recipes exactly - until I decide not to. And then I'll follow something else exactly. I may decide I could turn this peach tart into a plum tart, but if I'm following a recipe, I follow it exactly.