Lela Rose Quotes

The wisest advice I ever received regarding the kitchen came from my mother: 'Do the dishes while you're cooking.'

You have to be disciplined about being in the kitchen.

I make more meals than most men do in a week.

We have Sunday morning breakfast before church. I don't do the dishes, but I do cook. I'm the griller.

I don't do dishes, and I don't cook, either! Everything else, I can do!

I cook healthy meals all the time. That's really important to me.

I do all the cooking at home and love it.

My mum was slightly disgruntled with cooking and being in the kitchen.

The washing of dishes does seem to me the most absurd and unsatisfactory business that I ever undertook. If, when once washed, they would remain clean for ever and ever (which they ought in all reason to do, considering how much trouble it is), there would be less occasion to grumble; but no sooner is it done, than it requires to be done again. On the whole, I have come to the resolution not to use more than one dish at each meal.

At the beginning of every week, I like to sit down and figure out what I'm going to make. I probably try at least two new recipes a week. But I have my standbys - jambalaya, meatloaf and mashed potatoes.

I've always enjoyed doing dishes. Maybe it was the fashionable yellow gloves that I loved so much. It's weird, I know, but I find cleaning cathartic.

I'm a mum. Cooking is something I have to do. It's something I like to do.

When I'm not working, I would kill to have some sort of creative outlet other than, say, a coloring book. And when I'm working, I want to do all those things I was griping about - you know, make a turkey-and-cheese sandwich, put it in a zip-top bag, and stick it in a lunch box right now!

I'm the kind of girl who thinks about what she's gonna cook for dinner when she's finishing her lunch.

Organize yourself so you aren't struggling to shop at the last minute. When you have real food, it's very easy to cook.

I use those medical gloves that fit very tightly and are disposable for all chopping - peppers, onions, garlic, etc. Very Lady Macbeth, I think.

I can make eggs. I can do a quesadilla. But the last thing I want to do when I come home is cook and clean up dishes. I'm not that domestic a girl.

I do a lot of cooking; we eat a lot of fish, but I try not to make fattening things.

If I'm alone, I tend to cook for myself. I do a pretty good job of preparing healthful foods. My go-to is everything in a bowl like quinoa, avocado. Later in the day, scrambled eggs. I'm not a gourmet chef. I cook in bulk very well.

I'm really a cook. I used to be the opposite - I used to go out a lot - but now I primarily cook.

'Never do the dishes without music,' my brother Mark once advised me - the same brother who once ate a spoonful of refrigerated dog food to escape his turn at the kitchen sink. And really, it may be the most sensible advice I've been given.

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

I found that preparation is everything when you cook.

Cooking, I never do at home.

I like a very clean kitchen, and when I'm cooking, I try to clean as I go.