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An ounce of sequins can be worth a pound of home cooking.
Sep 24, 2025
Home cooking. Where many a man thinks his wife is.
I love home cooking, and I'm not a great one for fast food.
My folks were farm people from Nebraska, so I like home cooking.
The way to a man’s heart is through his stomach.
Without ice cream there would be darkness and chaos.
Sometimes the way to a man's heart is through his talleywacker.
The way to a man's heart is through his hanky pocket with a breadknife.
Banish the onion from the kitchen and the pleasure flies with it.
My mother was a good recreational cook, but what she basically believed about cooking was that if you worked hard and prospered, someone else would do it for you.
My cooking is so bad my kids thought Thanksgiving was to commemorate Pearl Harbor.
Life is a combination of magic and pasta.
Clean living keeps me in shape. Righteous thoughts are my secret. And New Orleans home cooking.
We may live without friends; we may live without books But civilized men cannot live without cooks.
The quickest way to a man's heart is through his chest.
Cookery is not chemistry. It is an art. It requires instinct and taste rather than exact measurements.
As for butter versus margarine, I trust cows more than chemists.
No one who cooks, cooks alone. Even at her most solitary, a cook in the kitchen is surrounded by generations of cooks past, the advice and menus of cooks present, the wisdom of cookbook writers.
No one who cooks cooks alone.
A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
Cooking is at once one of the simplest and most gratifying of the arts, but to cook well one must love and respect food.
In France, cooking is a serious art form and a national sport.
The only time to eat diet food is while you're waiting for the steak to cook.
A recipe has no soul. You, as the cook, must bring soul to the recipe.
"Grandmother" doesn't mean that you have gray hair and you retire and stay home cooking cakes for your grandchildren.
Tis an ill cook that cannot lick his own fingers.
When I came back from Pakistan, I wanted to take computer classes nearby. I asked my brother. I was in my home, cooking for my family, and all our relatives and guests. But I said, "I want to live my life as a woman, but I want to study." But, he told me, "Just study at home, you don't need to go out." He said, "If you go to the courses, what will our relatives say? They will lose respect for us." They told me, "We know you're feeling different, but we cannot do anything about it."
Do you know what breakfast cereal is made of? It's made of all those little curly wooden shavings you find in pencil sharpeners!
All sorrows are less with bread.
I am actually really boring and I lead a quiet life. I love being at home, cooking for my boys, watching movies and I like nothing better than to go to bed early with a book.
The only real stumbling block is fear of failure. In cooking you've got to have a what-the-hell attitude.
One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
Life expectancy would grow by leaps and bounds if green vegetables smelled as good as bacon.
The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.
I don't like gourmet cooking or 'this' cooking or 'that' cooking. I like good cooking.
No curfew. I live in the basement. I got everything I need. Home cooking ... it's awesome.
Noncooks think it's silly to invest two hours' work in two minutes' enjoyment; but if cooking is evanescent, so is the ballet.
What I say is that, if a man really likes potatoes, he must be a pretty decent sort of fellow.
Red meat is not bad for you. Now blue-green meat, that's bad for you!
One of the very nicest things about life is the way we must regularly stop whatever it is we are doing and devote our attention to eating.
I've long believed that good food, good eating, is all about risk. Whether we're talking about unpasteurized Stilton, raw oysters or working for organized crime 'associates,' food, for me, has always been an adventure
It is odd how all men develop the notion, as they grow older, that their mothers were wonderful cooks. I have yet to meet a man who will admit that his mother was a kitchen assassin and nearly poisoned him.
Cooking is an art and patience a virtue. Careful shopping, fresh ingredients and an unhurried approach are nearly all you need. There is one more thing - love. Love for food and love for those you invite to your table. With a combination of these things you can be an artist
I don't like food that's too carefully arranged; it makes me think that the chef is spending too much time arranging and not enough time cooking. If I wanted a picture I'd buy a painting.
If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.
There's just so much love that goes into home cooking, and I think it will really help the American family overall. I'm hoping to maybe get a cookbook out one day because I've got some great family recipes.
Vegetables are a must on a diet. I suggest carrot cake, zucchini bread, and pumpkin pie.
I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food.
All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt.
Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all.