The major ingredient of any recipe for fear is the unknown.
I tested a lot of old cornbread recipes and most of them were bland or tough.
Sometimes. . . it takes me an entire day to write a recipe, to communicate it correctly. It's really like writing a little short story.
Of course, I will continue to share my favorite Southern recipes, just like my mama, grandmother and family shared with me over the years. And now, I'll be adding a little bit of a lighter touch to some of these wonderful dishes.
Recipe for a long life: Only smoke while awake. Only run when being chased.
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.
There is only one recipe for a best seller and it is a very simple one. You have to get the reader to turn over the page.
You may say, "Oh, no. You can't touch a traditional recipe. " But we ask: why can't you? Back in 1350, a vinaigrette was a stew, so we ask, why not? This can be applied to any kind of cooking, and that's the shocking part of it. It kind of bends all the traditions. It's a good thing.
I hate the opera. I think I must have a tin ear. No matter how hard I concentrate it still sounds like a bunch of Italian chefs screaming risotto recipes at each other.
Negotiating sugar trade in bilateral free trade agreements is a recipe for disaster for the U. S. sugar industry, and it is unnecessary.
An awful lot of people think it's easy to lift recipes out.
I already enjoy cooking. I like different flavors and putting different things together and really like taking normal recipes to a higher level.
I think the best shortcut is to choose really simple recipes. Because I think you can make simple recipes that are as delicious as complicated ones.
- I'm so busy doing what I must do that I don't have time for what I ought to do. . . and I never get a chance to do what I want to do! - Son, that's universal. The way to keep that recipe from killing you is occasionally to do what you want to do anyhow.
Time is the missing ingredient in our recipes-and in our lives.
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.
Whats more important than recipes is how we think about food, and a good cookbook should open up a new way of doing just that.
Somehow, when everything is too easy it's not necessarily the right recipe for success
I'm not very good with drink recipes. If I'm entertaining, I like to come up with a house drink for the evening, one thing I'll make for the whole evening of the whole month.
The recipe for great art has always been misery and a good bowel movement.