Quotes about Cooked

Unformed people delight in the gaudy and in novelty. Cooked people delight in the ordinary. Votes: 3

I love my wife dearly, and, therefore, I've never cooked a meal, romantic or otherwise, for her. Votes: 2

New-season lamb shoulder, cooked pink, is the perfect platform for a mixture of fresh and cooked herbs. Votes: 2

I love sushi. But after too much of it, it just starts to taste like a dead animal that hasn't been cooked. Votes: 2

Small okra pods have a much more attractive texture than large ones, which, when cooked, can be gloopy, stringy and totally spoil a dish. Votes: 2

My maternal grandmother made fantastic ox tongue with velvety roasted potatoes. She cooked sweet red cabbage and lovely cauliflower with butter and bread crumbs. Votes: 2

I have never really cooked, don't know how to use my dishwasher, and subsist mainly on prepared deli takeout. I don't even eat in restaurants much. Votes: 2

I'm just really waiting for the music to get cooked the right way, and once it's cooked, I'm going to serve that meal that everybody's been waiting for. Votes: 2

I come from Yorkshire in England where we like to eat chip sandwiches - white bread, butter, tomato ketchup and big fat french fries cooked in beef dripping. Votes: 2

Don't get fancy. Have you cooked an apple pie? You don't know what you did wrong? Do this: Take two or three apples. Put them on a table. Study them. Votes: 2

Food that's served at the table in a paper parcel always creates a remarkable culinary moment when opened, because the package is full of aromatic steam from the lightly cooked ingredients inside. Votes: 2

I only get fat when I eat food cooked by other chefs. At home, my wife does all the cooking. She makes simple things like soups and salads. We both like steamed tofu. Votes: 2

Most fish require a short cooking time, but cephalopods are the exception to this fishy rule. As with some cuts of larger land beasts, the longer they're cooked, the more tender they get. Votes: 2

Black glutinous rice works in both savoury and sweet dishes. It's a popular pudding rice in south-east Asia, where you'll often come across it cooked with water, coconut milk and a pandan leaf. Votes: 2

My mom cooked pot roast with noodles and frozen vegetables. Or she'd make spaghetti or hot dogs, or heat up TV dinners. Before I started modeling at age 19, I was 5'8" and weighed 165 pounds. Votes: 2

I'm particularly fond of boned chicken breasts with a little garlic under the flesh and cooked in a casserole for 40 minutes with a jar of olives, some cherry tomatoes and a spoonful of olive oil. Votes: 2

Scientists - who prefer explanations subject to laboratory tests - figure that everything we see today was as inevitable as wrinkles, once the Big Bang established physics. Stars and planets were cooked up as huge clouds of matter collapsed and coalesced. Votes: 2

My brother liked sewing and sculpting and making things, and my sister sewed and painted and cooked and baked. She's a professional baker now and makes the most gorgeous sculpture-like cakes. She's the queen of wedding cakes in the Lake Tahoe area. Votes: 2

The American people are screaming out saying it's unfair that the wealthiest, the largest corporations who can afford the best attorneys, the best accountants, take advantage of these special tax treatments that the lobbyists have, along with lawmakers, have cooked in the books here. Votes: 2

I always say, 'There's a difference between cooked food and McDonald's.' Your mom's homemade dinner - you enjoy this more than you enjoy the fast food that comes along and goes, and I strive to make homemade dinner every time I put out an album. Votes: 2

I think children learning to cook can be such a wonderful thing. It can help build confidence, make them feel good about themselves. It helped me build my ego and even start to get acceptance at school. I'd bring things to class that I'd cooked at home. Votes: 2

My husband cooks fancier food for himself than I've ever cooked on-air. I call him from the road, and he's making champagne-vanilla salmon or black-cherry pork chop. Half of me is feeling unworthy. Not only am I not a chef, I'm not a better cook than my own husband! Votes: 2

I have a Viking stove. The color is butter lemon, and I had to wait several months for it, because that color wasn't available and I really wanted butter lemon! But I don't know that it's seriously ever been cooked on. I mean, I make tea every morning. Does that count? Votes: 2

I'm an absolute connoisseur of cheeseburgers and like to think that I can detect even mere percentages of shift in fat content in ground meat in a burger and can actually name the temperature to which it was actually cooked to the degree if I'm, you know, really on my game. Votes: 2

My favorite way to cook trout is whole, bone-in, on the grill. The fish are stuffed with sliced lemons and herb sprigs, brushed with oil, and cooked over fairly hot coals until the skin is crisp and the flesh is moist and flaky. Go ahead and gild the lily by adding a sauce. Votes: 2

It's very tempting to have a nanny and live in a gated community and have a chef - I'd love to have a few dinners cooked for me. But I don't want that for my children. When they're older, if people say to them, 'Did you have a chef?' I want them to be shocked by the question. Votes: 2

One of the big questions in the climate change debate: Are humans any smarter than frogs in a pot? If you put a frog in a pot and slowly turn up the heat, it won't jump out. Instead, it will enjoy the nice warm bath until it is cooked to death. We humans seem to be doing pretty much the same thing. Votes: 2

I've cooked just about everything really. Votes: 0

Ive not cooked Christmas dinner since 1982. Votes: 0

I've not cooked Christmas dinner since 1982. Votes: 0

I like children. If they're properly cooked. Votes: 0

If you can't laugh at yourself, you're cooked! Votes: 0

Kennedy cooked the soup that Johnson had to eat. Votes: 0

The art gods cooked up something special for James Ensor. Votes: 0

Aristotle could have known so much more if he cooked. Votes: 0

Soup is never eaten as hot as it is cooked. Votes: 0

I never cooked at home - my father was the chef. Votes: 0

I played T-Mac. I cooked him. Roasted him. Wasn't even close. Votes: 0

My last comment was, though, that Congress has cooked the books. Votes: 0

Loving relatives and home-cooked meals are solid levees against a recession. Votes: 0

What could smell better than supper being cooked by someone else? Votes: 0

Females get hired along procreative lines. After 40, we're kind of cooked. Votes: 0

Well begun is not only half done, but often fully cooked. Votes: 0

When the hares have all been caught, the hunting dogs are cooked. Votes: 0

My Mom always cooked healthy. Greek food lends itself to cooking healthy. Votes: 0

Even if your goose habitually lays golden eggs, it will still be cooked. Votes: 0

Revenge, the sweetest morsel to the mouth that ever was cooked in hell. Votes: 0

I love good, fresh food cooked by someone who knows what he's doing. Votes: 0

I had a very normal childhood, and my mother cooked very normal food. Votes: 0

Fine cooking is when the things you have cooked taste as they are Votes: 0

Don't go and cook Indian food if you never cooked Indian food, you know? Votes: 0

Maybe your mind won't remember what I cooked last week, but your body will. Votes: 0

I love to cook and I've cooked a lot of Bulgarian food over the years. Votes: 0

I am a foodie, but I prefer to be at home and enjoy home-cooked food. Votes: 0

Everybody's eating all my - brownies, granola, anything you eat cooked, I can find you raw. Votes: 0

When you travel so many weeks a year, it's always nice to have a home-cooked meal. Votes: 0

The same dish cooked over and over again wears out the irksome life of the teacher. Votes: 0

My mother cooked her last Christmas standing rib roast in 1987 and died a few weeks afterward. Votes: 0

I'm very sentimental about lobsters. The last lobster I ate was the only lobster I cooked. Votes: 0

The heart is cooking a pot of food for you. Be patient until it is cooked Votes: 0

The tang of tamarind is a great way both to flavour and lighten up slow-cooked savoury dishes. Votes: 0

The trans fatty acids (found in animal products and cooked oils) are a factor in breast cancer. Votes: 0

I hate banana bread. It's too suspicious-looking. I always thought the cooked banana looked like insect legs. Votes: 0

My go-to winter recipe is beef and butternut squash stew, cooked in the slow oven all day. Votes: 0

I have cooked turkeys in my day but when Mom`s around I let her do it. Votes: 0

Here's a Thanksgiving tip. Generally, your turkey is not cooked enough if it passes you the cranberry sauce. Votes: 0

At 15, I knew someone whose mother cooked macrobiotic, so I persuaded my mother to go macrobiotic with me. Votes: 0

I hope when I'm ninety-five the only things I want are free: love, family, a good home-cooked meal. Votes: 0

People who want to rise above a well-cooked meal and a well-tailored garment, are out of their spiritual minds. Votes: 0

Almost any decent cook will make food by eye and taste. Virtually all of my family cooked that way. Votes: 0

A delicious meal cooked by a colleague for many others nourishes not only the body but also the soul. Votes: 0

[My mother] once cooked a ham and later found it in my father's shirt drawer. I am not kidding. Votes: 0

In our dreams we can have our eggs cooked exactly how we want them, but we can't eat them. Votes: 0

My mom cooked for us, and on the weekend, we always had Sunday dinner. My father liked to bake. Votes: 0

One night she told me to put out the garbage. I told her "you cooked it, you take it out". Votes: 0

An instant-read thermometer is your best bet for making sure that meat and fish are cooked to the proper temperature. Votes: 0

When you've cooked the marrow of the sun and moon, The pearl is so bright you don't worry about poverty. Votes: 0

I've never cooked. I can't do much more in the kitchen than make a cup of tea and some toast. Votes: 0

The result of my life is no more than three words: I was raw, I became cooked, I was burnt. Votes: 0

I do not understand why, when I ask for grilled lobster in a restaurant, I'm never served a cooked telephone. Votes: 0

When I was at home, I always cooked, and I usually cook over all the holidays. I always used organic. Votes: 0

We worshipped in the temple of cutthroat competition, and so some cooked the books, because the treasure is so great. Votes: 0

I cook every chance in my pot. And only when it is cooked through do I welcome it as my food. Votes: 0

I like to cook Indian food when I can. I find the process of creating a home-cooked meal to be unwinding. Votes: 0

A girl once came to my beery flat in Kensal Green, opened the blinds and cooked me breakfast. I married her. Votes: 0

I like a well-roasted rotisserie chicken and eggs cooked various ways, like sunny-side up or scrambled. It's comfort food for me. Votes: 0

In certain European cuisines, vegetables are cooked a long time. I take the term 'al dente' and use it for vegetables. Votes: 0

There is a particular hapiness in giving a man whom you like very much, good food that you have cooked yourself. Votes: 0

I have never cooked a meal in my life and always end up paying for dozens of people to eat with me. Votes: 0

To eat in the same room where food is cooked - that is the way to thank the Lord for His abundance. Votes: 0

Got to be the worst place in the world, inside a oven. You in here, you either cleaning or you getting cooked. Votes: 0

I have always thought that there is no more fruitful source of family discontent than a housewife's badly cooked dinners and untidy ways, Votes: 0

One thing that I miss because we spend a lot of time in America is English food, like cooked breakfast and Sunday dinners. Votes: 0

Family dinner in the Norman Rockwell mode had taken hold by the 1950s: Mom cooked, Dad carved, son cleared, daughter did the dishes. Votes: 0

For me, writing essays is very much about processing ideas and offering them up to the reader so that they are fully cooked. Votes: 0

There is something wrong when you wait in line thirty minutes to get a hamburger that was cooked for ninety seconds an hour ago. Votes: 0

If I have pizza or Taco Bell one day, I'll have home-cooked meals the next. I try to listen to what my body craves. Votes: 0

Kasha is the hardy starch of a Slavic winter - buckwheat, in fact - but when cooked properly, it gets a nutty, deep-brown crust. Votes: 0

Every time I get a script in my inbox, it's like a little Christmas present. It's so exciting to see what they've cooked up. Votes: 0

In the Seventies, my children played in the street, read politically incorrect stories, ate home-cooked food and occasional junk and, yes, were sometimes smacked. Votes: 0

People who have come to appreciate well-sourced and well-cooked food refuse to pay too much for food that they wouldn't want to pay anything for. Votes: 0

It is thought that potato water is unhealthy; and therefore do not boil potatoes in soup, but boil elsewhere, and add them when nearly cooked. Votes: 0

When I was a teenager, my parents made me take a part-time job at the local Black Eyed Pea, which was a home-cooked-food family restaurant. Votes: 0

When I was a child, our whole family cooked. All my cousins cooked. All my aunts and uncles cooked. It was part of our heritage. Votes: 0

Rarely do I ever think of my music as inspired but I guess it must be. Perhaps I would use the word "crockpotted" or "pressure-cooked". Votes: 0

I would love to go on 'MasterChef'. But while I really like cooking, I'm doubtful anyone would ever want to pay for what I'd cooked. Votes: 0

I went into raw vegan for a while, but I prefer cooked food, the way it smells, the way it feels going through your system. Votes: 0

Chickens are interesting individuals who have as much right not to be cooked and eaten as a dog or a cat or even a human being. Votes: 0

While I'm not a celebrity, it's such a weird concept that society has cooked up for us. Astronauts and teachers are much more amazing than actors. Votes: 0

People tend to stay at home and eat a home-cooked meal. There are three days that are really slow for restaurants - Thanksgiving, Christmas and Easter. Votes: 0

Nowadays, food needs to be healthy, local, sustainable and not filled with too much fat, salt or sugar. It should be slow-cooked and seasonal. That's my vision. Votes: 0

I've been very fortunate, because I've cooked for a lot of actors and actresses and musicians. I've cooked for presidents and I've been to the White House... Votes: 0

I'd like to cook for my granny one more time. I cooked for her a couple of times before she passed away, but I wasn't really old enough." Votes: 0

I'd like to cook for my granny one more time. I cooked for her a couple of times before she passed away, but I wasn't really old enough. Votes: 0

We picked their cotton. We cooked their food. We nursed their babies. Now we can run their cities. We can run their states. We will run the country. Votes: 0

People say fish is good for a diet. But fish should never be cooked in butter. Fish should be cooked in its natural oils - Texaco, Mobil, Exxon . Votes: 0

the ultimate in longevity is the Christmas fruitcake. It is a cake made during the holidays with fruits that make it heavier than the stove it is cooked in. Votes: 0

Bouillabaisse is only good because cooked by the French, who, if they cared to try, could produce an excellent and nutritious substitute out of cigar stumps and empty matchboxes. Votes: 0

When I was a child we were sufficiently well off for me to be a picky eater and I still cannot eat vegetables cooked in the traditional British manner. Votes: 0

It won't happen yet, Ellen mused, mashing cooked carrots for Jill's lunch. Breakups seldom do. It will unfold slowly, one little tell-tale symptom after another like some awful, hellish flower. Votes: 0

I've swallowed fish-eyes wholelike an endoscope.I once ate a trout cooked inside a dolphin. Felt like a shark eating another shark,inside the cold-blooded womb of yet another shark. Votes: 0

Flavor Five is a book with recipes using five ingredients to possibly be cooked in just five minutes. It will be very user-friendly for the home cook on the run. Votes: 0

The hibachi is coming to a city near you. I'm cooking chicken and shrimp, but if you want to throw a double team my way, filet mignon gets cooked too Votes: 0

Serve this dish with much too much wine for your guests, along with some cooked green vegetables and a huge salad. You will be famous in about half an hour. Votes: 0

She was a great cook, but she cooked more for herself than for other people, not because she was hungry but because she was comforted by the rituals of the kitchen. Votes: 0

Sookie, what have we done? And to whom?" "I killed a chicken. And I cooked it." "Sookie, Sookie. My bullshit meter is reading that as a false." -Eric Northman, Sookie Stackhouse Votes: 0

She died with a knife in her hand in her kitchen, where she had cooked for fifty years, and the death was solemnly listed in the newspaper as that of an artist. Votes: 0

I imagine the proverb about too many cooks spoiling the broth can be applied to writing as well as anything else. The poetical or literary broth is better cooked by one person. Votes: 0

In '71 or '72 I returned to New Orleans and stayed there. I started cooking Louisiana food. Of all the things I had cooked, it was the best-and it was my heritage. Votes: 0

I rarely cook traditional risotto, but I love other grains cooked similarly - barley, spelt or split wheat. I find they have more character than rice and absorb other flavours more wholeheartedly. Votes: 0

I just wanted to be an ordinary girl, married to a man who would provide me with a municipal tap, and three meals a day, while I cooked and cleaned for him. Votes: 0

Early in my life I had made a pact with myself. I would never eat anything that moved when I cooked it, excited the dog, or inflated upon impact with my teeth. Votes: 0

I have always admired the Esquimaux (Eskimos). One fine day a delicious meal is cooked for dear old mother, and then she goes walking away over the ice, and doesn't come back. Votes: 0

It can be exhausting eating a meal cooked by a man. With a woman, it's, Ho hum, pass the beans. A guy, you have to act like he just built the Taj Mahal. Votes: 0

I hate fussing about in the kitchen when I have people over to supper, so I make a rich beef stew cooked in wine with carrots, sundried tomato paste and chopped chorizo sausage. Votes: 0

I was very, very little - it was the first time I ever cooked on my own, with my mother's supervision - and I made scrambled eggs. I felt so accomplished, like magic! Votes: 0

I worked at McDonald's. I cooked. It was one of the toughest jobs I've ever had. These people earn every single penny they get. In fact, they earn way more than they get. Votes: 0

Vegetables when not sufficiently cooked are know to be so exceedingly unwholesome and indigestible, that the custom of serving them 'crisp' should be altogether disregarded when health is considered of more importance than fashion. Votes: 0

Give me a well-cooked, well-served meal, a bouquet, and a sunset, and I can do more for a man's soul than all the cant ever preached. I can even do it without a sunset! Votes: 0

From first to last it is a dish of rank materialism cleverly cooked up ... . And why is this done? For no other reason, I am sure, except to make us independent of a Creator. Votes: 0

When my mother first passed away some time ago, I didn't enjoy food anymore. I just ate to live. My mother had always cooked so well that I didn't think I could follow her. Votes: 0

Chestnuts are my favorite ingredient to use in the fall, especially for the holidays. I always find that they are meaty, hearty and have a mysterious refinement when cooked or roasted over sea salt. Votes: 0

He set fire to some potatoes, then cooked some undelivered post in the embers." - Dad "Did he now? What a strange fellow. I would have done it the other way around." - Stafford Votes: 0

The great networks are there to prove that ideas can be canned like spaghetti. If everything ends up by tasting like everything else, is that not the evidence that it has been properly cooked? Votes: 0

There were twelve dishes of lamb cooked in different rich sauces, with a monster bowl of strange oddments, which I imagine also belonged to the private life of a sheep, floating in rich gravy. Votes: 0

Out of Frederic Remington's Sundown Leflare graved on the mantel. Sundown and another mountain man cooked and ate their supper. "Then," says Remington, "they sat down with the greatest philosopher on earth - the fire." Votes: 0

...(Charles) Reich discredits reason because it has been used to justify the war in Vietnam, which is like deciding that because your mother has cooked you a few bad meals you must never eat again. Votes: 0

It's so important that you don't put the stuffing in the bird, where in order for the stuffing to get cooked you have to overcook the turkey. It's better to do it on the side. Votes: 0

I remember the excitement of finding a great pancake recipe in 'Gourmet.' It felt as if it were mine. And it was Berkeley, of course - everybody cooked together. Cooking is what one did. Votes: 0

I love my garlic press; in fact, it is probably my one true desert island gadget. But I'm happy to put it aside whenever the smell and sweet taste of slow-cooked garlic is called for. Votes: 0

I can still memory - taste the fresh buttermilk pancakes and hot buttermilk biscuits - both made with lard! - that were cooked on the top, or in the oven, of that ancient iron stove. Votes: 0

I came out wanting to be an actor. From my first view of the world, that's what I wanted to be. I'm made of 99 percent ham and 1 percent water. I was just cooked that way! Votes: 0

Obama wants to be thought of as the president who freed us from foreign oil. But if he doesn't show some political courage, he may well be remembered as the president who cooked the planet. Votes: 0