Nina Dobrev Quotes

Recipes are overrated.

I love cooking and baking.

I grew up watching my mom cook.

I read recipes the same way I read science fiction. I get to the end and say to myself "well, that's not going to happen

Cooking classes are a great way to hone your skills, learn new recipes, and meet like-minded friends. Spending time in the kitchen with people who love to cook as much as you do is fun and educational.

I will pursue my passion of cooking every day until my hands fall off and I lose all sense of smell and taste.

My mom taught me how to make grilled chicken, and I bake, too.

I've got around 400 cookbooks.

Baking is how you start kids at cooking in the kitchen. It's fun whether it's baking bread or cookies. With baking, you have to be exact when it comes to ingredients.

Many of my friends are chefs, and I learnt to cook watching them.

If you're cooking and not making mistakes, you're not playing outside your safety zone. I don't expect it all to be good. I have fat dogs because I scrap that stuff out the back door.

I do like to cook; I'm sort of a mad scientist in the kitchen.

Once you know the fundamentals of cooking, then you don't need to follow a recipe - you just know what herbs go well or what meats, or what combination of what goes together, and then you can just branch out from there. But if there's something specific that I want to make, I work on the recipe and tweak it to my own.

I've been my mom's kitchen helper since I was a little kid.

As I grew steadily more comfortable in the kitchen, I found that, much like gardening, most cooking manages to be agreeably absorbing without being too demanding intellectually. It leaves plenty of mental space for daydreaming and reflection.

If you want to be a home cook, just have fun with it. Pick up a couple cookbooks. You're gonna make some mistakes; just go in and try it.

I'm not much of a chef, so people keep buying me cookery books to broaden my culinary horizons, but I've not got far past shepherd's pie yet.

My mother makes marvelous meals.

My mother was creative in the kitchen.

I love cooking shows! I'm not a bad cook myself, but I must say that I admire the creativity of those young chefs. It makes me jealous... and hungry.

My grandchildren love cooking, and it doesn't have to be sweet things.

I could not be more thrilled to be writing about the recipes I love and think are essential to any novice home cook, professional, and somewhere in between.

Everything I touched in the kitchen turned out crappy, no matter how closely I followed the recipe or copied the cooking show.

The art of cooking is among the most intimate things that we can do for another.

Baking is how you start kids at cooking in the kitchen.