Stephen Malkmus Quotes

Organizing ahead of time makes the work more enjoyable. Chefs cut up the onions and have the ingredients lined up ahead of time and have them ready to go. When everything is organized you can clean as you go and it makes everything so much easier and fun.

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

If I've gone to the market on Saturday, and I go another time on Tuesday, then I'm really prepared. I can cook a little piece of fish; I can wilt some greens with garlic; I can slice tomatoes and put a little olive oil on. It's effortless.

You've got to be in your kitchens, or it all falls apart.

Everyone could use instructions on every aspect of cooking: pantry, storage, refrigeration, cooking, what to buy. Everyone that I come into contact with could use help.

Cooking for six people every day is like having a cafe.

The mother of a family should look upon her housekeeping and the planning of meals as a scientific occupation.

I am simply not interested in the pots and pans affair, and neither can I bring myself to be interested in the same. I have such great cooks in the family that I would rather manage the other affairs and leave the kitchen to those who know it best.

Preparing food is not just about yourself and others. It is about everything!

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

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

My husband is a brilliant cook - enthusiastic and good - but he has not mastered the clearing up as you go along.

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

What feats of ingenuity have we not been forced to perform, at times, in order to meet our customers' wishes? Those only who have had charge of a large, modern kitchen can tell the tale.

Cooking is not effortless. To get a recipe that feels effortless is really hard.

Most of cooking is the labor of chopping. Give yourself a break. Pretend you're on a cooking show and have all your ingredients lined up for you.

If you could make a pudding wi' thinking o' the batter, it 'ud be easy getting dinner.

Before I was married, I had never washed one dish or seen how you fried an egg or baking a potato.

My mom is a self-taught home cook, so books that offer guidelines on how to organize menus are critical to 'cook from the book' people like her.

I feel like I can teach anyone to cook a dinner.

My daughters think I am a terrible cook, but I try really hard. I would really like to be a better cook.

Every three months, I'll say, 'Honey, I think I should learn how to cook'.

I take everything out of the fridge and see what we can make. We talk about what we could possibly create, and if there is something on the turn that we could save, we chop it up and put it in the freezer.

Cooking is one thing I would love to learn but I keep procrastinating.

We are all victims of the marketing that says cooking is hard and takes too long, but that's simply not true. Scrambled eggs take five minutes to make.