Mike D Quotes

I just never saw my mother in any other room but the kitchen. There were always pots going.

Cooking is the showy side of domesticity.

I could lie and say my wife cooks for me, but she doesn't. My wife has never learnt cooking but she has great cooks at home.

I cook every day. If I don't cook, they don't eat. Who's going to do it? I'm their mother!

I do cook whenever the time permits. But my daughter Isha is a much better cook than I am.

I love cooking. There is nothing I like better than going home and cooking my family a nice meal. Anything with pasta! Pasta with butter! I have a good repertoire, and I can do quite a few different dishes. Sometimes they work out and sometimes not.

It's important to show that fathers do cook for their children. Mine sure did.

Recipes are overrated.

At home in Devon, my wife Jessica does a huge proportion of the cooking - I do the basics. My timing is extremely good, particularly when it comes to vegetables, perhaps because in my work, timing is everything. I know exactly what fits into a minute when broadcasting, and I apply the same to carrots.

I still don't know how to cook and that's just unacceptable.

I don't cook, but I would love to learn.

My husband is the chef of the family; he's a brilliant cook. Actually, it makes you quite lazy when you have somebody that's so good at cooking under the same roof. It's all beans or spaghetti when I'm left to run it.

I do most of the cooking. I'm kind of domestic, untidily so.

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

I don't cook - I can cook - but I'm not very good. I like being asked over for dinner, because she can't cook either. We would starve if it weren't for modern technology. I know how to work a microwave, but love home cooked meals.

I grew up watching my mom cook.

My wife and I like to cook, so we actually prepare our own meals often and can hold our own in the kitchen.

When I left restaurants, I had to learn to be a home cook.

I'd like to see kids learning to cook and families sitting down to dinner together.

I'm afraid sometimes I cram too much into my schedule. And I'm not very domesticated. I'm absolutely hopeless in the kitchen.

Neither me or my wife are any good at cooking.

I'm so thankful that Mum taught me to cook, because not every day is a takeaway day.

Like most housewives, I don't cook unless I have company.

I really would like to help people get back into the kitchen.

I think I should learn French and be a better cook - basic, really good life stuff.