Rachel Khoo Quotes

The spirit of pickling is one of adventure and fun.

It doesn't matter how precisely the onion is cut as long as the person chewing it is happy.

Turns out, there's not a lot of information about pickles on the Internet.

I usually always cook all the chutneys that I serve in the winter.

I can make a delicious lasagna.

The Swedes prepare their food through curing, smoking, pickling and boiling. Pickling food contains digestive-system-friendly probiotics, and while boiling may not be the tastiest, it's effective without adding fat!

A dressing is not a compote A dressing is not a custard It consists of pepper and salt, Vinegar, oil and mustard.

To make a good salad is to be a brilliant diplomatist - the problem is entirely the same in both cases. To know exactly how much oil one must put with one's vinegar.

I spend more time in the kitchen than I have in the dining room, for obvious reasons, however, I just want to sit and indulge.

It will be seen in the frying of the eggs.

They kept saying 'It's sushi-grade!' And I'm like... 'Put some soy sauce on this. Get me some rice. And cook it. And then get me out of here.

You humans, always eating. I'll make you soup. You can eat it while you keep working." Myrnin set aside his book and walked into the back of the lab. "Don't use the same beaker you used for poisons!" Claire yelled after him. He waved a pale hand. "I mean it!

Cooking done with care is an act of love.

To cook is not just to prepare food for someone or to cook for yourself; it is to express your sincerity. So when you cook you should express yourself in your activity in the kitchen. You should allow yourself plenty of time.

Do not taste food while you're cooking. You may lose your nerve to serve it.

I would far prefer to have things happen as they naturally do, such as the mousse refusing to leave the mold, the potatoes sticking to the skillet, the apple charlotte slowly collapsing. One of the secrets of cooking is to learn to correct something if you can, and bear with it if you cannot.

I can make dough in a machine faster than I can make it by hand, but I want to make it by hand, because I want to remember the way it feels. It's so important for me to make it by hand - whether it's a pasta dough or a pâte brisée. You become involved in it. You become personal with it. For me it's such a wonderful way to get satisfaction and gratification when I'm cooking.

Look, when you are starting to put something together, you want the pudding to come out good. You're trying to put in the right ingredients.

The older I get, and the more I travel in particular, the less I care about what exactly is in the dish than who's cooking it and why.

When I'm in a good mood I like to cook. But I don't like saying it in public because I find myself being resentful of the idea; "Now you will make a good wife. You can cook, right?" So when people ask me I go, "No, I don't like cooking!"

Cooking is really calming. Sharing food with friends, cooking.

It is hard to imagine a civilization without onions.

Cooking is an act of love, a gift, a way of sharing with others the little secrets -- 'piccoli segreti' -- that are simmering on the burners.

Being on a soccer pitch is not the same as being in a kitchen when things are going wrong.