Kelli O'Hara Quotes

My favorite meal is turkey and mashed potatoes. I love Thanksgiving, it's just my favorite. I can have Thanksgiving all year round.

Turkey is fine, but if I don't have the sides, forget about it. And cornbread stuffing is at the center of my plate. I will have about six sides and then a little bit of turkey and gravy.

My most memorable meal is every Thanksgiving. I love the food: the turkey and stuffing; the sweet potatoes and rice, which come from my mother's Southern heritage; the mashed potatoes, which come from my wife's Midwestern roots; the Campbell's green-bean casserole; and of course, pumpkin pie.

When in doubt, cook a Sunday roast, get the family around you, and you'll feel fine afterwards.

My grandmother did all the cooking at Christmas. We ate fattened chicken. We would feed it even more so it would be big and fat.

My mom makes something called green pie, which I thought was a delicacy that many people only had at Thanksgiving, but it turns out it was just Jell-O with whipped cream on it. And it's delicious.

I'd rather be at home with 12 people around the table.

On Sunday night, my husband makes a five-course family dinner.

I love to cook, and I love to have all my family around the dinner table.

I'm not a big turkey fan, but my husband loves it. Thanksgiving is his favorite meal.

Homemade stuffing is my favorite thing about Thanksgiving. I wish people served it more than just once a year.

I love Thanksgiving because it's a holiday that is centered around food and family, two things that are of utmost importance to me.

My last meal on Earth? The obvious answer is a plate of my mother's scrambled eggs.

One of my favorite dishes, absolutely from my childhood, was something my grandmother made, on my mother's side. It was a shepherd's pie, and I really adored that.

Being Irish, I grew up eating a Sunday roast.

In terms of the first Christmas when I met everybody, I went over to Nick's grandfather's house where they were having the big Christmas dinner, and they have this tradition of this thing called oyster stew.

The best way to celebrate the holidays is with some delicious food.

On September twentieth every year, I got to choose my menu - meatloaf, corn niblets, and rice were followed by candles on chocolate cake with vanilla icing and a scoop of Brock-Hall ice cream.

My grandmother used to make the most incredible chicken divan, and my mom has carried out that tradition. It's my comfort food. It's amazing how you can almost taste the memories with a dish like that! And the more leftovers, the better.

I hold a mini-New Year's Eve party each year with my son Ronan, and we make pigs in a blanket. They are delicious!

There was a period when I had apple pie as a treat every day of the week. I mean, like, a family apple pie.

I would have my last meal at my home in Oxfordshire.

My mum is your archetypal Asian mum, always feeding people. If there was no food in the cupboard, she'd still manage to rustle up a feast - Bangladeshi food such as pilau rice, curry and korma.

People remember the different variations of stuffed cabbage based on their mothers and grandmothers. It's not just about food. Eating something as traditional as this is a cultural experience, one that is spiritual and nostalgic. It manages to transcend time; it's food for the soul.

Birthdays are just weird! I like to have something simple like a dinner with friends and family if possible.