Paul Hollywood Quotes

Childhood smells of perfume and brownies.

I have memories of my grandfather Kirkman making mashed potatoes that were so good because they tasted like a bowl of butter. I love my mom's brownies. My favorite thing about both of those recipes is that someone else made them for me.

I love making down-home Southern cooking, and just chilling out and having cakes and pies and baking stuff, you know. I'm a pretty simple girl.

I'm not advocating we should all be back in the kitchen and cooking all the time, because life's too short and we've got more interesting things to do. But to rediscover the intense pleasure of making a cake and putting it down on the table is ridiculously satisfying, out of all proportion to the work.

Smell is so powerful, you know. My grannies would both bake things like shortbreads and cookies. I think whenever I smell those kinds of things it really takes me back to my childhood.

I used to love Danish. My father used to make a Boston cream pie. You never see that anymore.

I baked the coffee cake recipe from 'The Joy of Cooking' over and over again when I was a kid.

My mom used to bake so much when I was a child, and I have a big sweet tooth.

I was raised by a gaggle of women who all loved to bake. Dessert always existed after any savory meal. I was raised with cookies on the plate, brownies in a Tupperware container, and so on.

When I was a kid, I couldn't see life outside ramen noodles and Kool-Aid.

Whenever I have even a spare second, I'm in the kitchen whipping up a batch of cookies. I make a mean batch of chocolate chippers.

Most of us have fond memories of food from our childhood. Whether it was our mom's homemade lasagna or a memorable chocolate birthday cake, food has a way of transporting us back to the past.

Sometimes I think that the one thing I love most about being an adult is the right to buy candy whenever and wherever I want.

Call me All-American, but I love Ham and Cheese sandwiches. And not just any old ham and cheese sandwich... My mother's is the best. I've tried many times to make these sandwiches on my own, but it's never the same.

Nobody cooks anymore. To me, to watch your parents cook, and to have a house that smells warm and delicious, is a very vital memory that I think kids don't really have anymore.

I think I grew up with the idea that there was something comforting about preparing food.

As a little girl, I remember always wanting my grandmother to make blackberry cobbler for me. I'm obsessed with it.

Cooking certain dishes, like roast pork, reminds me of my mother.

Everyone has a favourite cake, pastry, pudding or pie from when they were kids.

The most beautiful thing in the world is my grandmother's apple pie.

My mom, she cooks the best pound cakes in the world.

I do really good banana bread. And I make a chocolate cake with fudge icing that's bloody delicious.

There is so much more than ingredients that go into home cooking. A home-cooked meal includes so much love and recipes that have been passed down through generations, and that is what I truly appreciate.

I believe with baking there is a certain nostalgic fix.

I grew up to the smell of doughnuts, scones, pies, and bread.