Laurie Colwin Quotes

I love home cooking, and I'm not a great one for fast food.

At home, my food is just sort of comfort food. It's not super fancy, but it's certainly tasty.

I like simple home-cooked food.

At home I keep things simple with fish, pasta and soups and am often preparing stuff for the family.

I love being at home and cooking and baking.

I have memories of my grandfather Kirkman making mashed potatoes that were so good because they tasted like a bowl of butter. I love my mom's brownies. My favorite thing about both of those recipes is that someone else made them for me.

My mom was a great cook and great baker all her life.

I always say the best Thai restaurant in Dubai is my home.

I'm a big cook and prefer to make meals at home when I can. I'm either cooking, or we're going to a drive-through somewhere. I'm really proud of my homemade sweet potato pie. At Thanksgiving I make five of them because they go quick.

There's just so much love that goes into home cooking, and I think it will really help the American family overall. I'm hoping to maybe get a cookbook out one day because I've got some great family recipes.

I believe with baking there is a certain nostalgic fix.

All of my dishes kind of have the same thing going on - I'm always going to give you the same things that I grew up with or that my mom used to make. I'm not going to use nitrogen in my tacos.

My folks were farm people from Nebraska, so I like home cooking.

I was raised on T.V. dinners because in those days, they were considered a well-balanced meal. And when I was sick, my mother fed me beef-barley soup and peanut butter sandwiches. That's about it for childhood food memories.

I like spaghetti bolognese, I like baked beans on toast. I hate French food. I hate fancy food.

I'm not advocating we should all be back in the kitchen and cooking all the time, because life's too short and we've got more interesting things to do. But to rediscover the intense pleasure of making a cake and putting it down on the table is ridiculously satisfying, out of all proportion to the work.

Instead of going out to dinner, buy good food. Cooking at home shows such affection. In a bad economy, it's more important to make yourself feel good.

You know, nobody can ever cook as good as your mama.

I'm a carb queen. I'll always order macaroni and cheese, but I don't want it to be fancy. I want it to be as close to Kraft Services as it can possibly get!

We make authentic Maharashtrian food at home. My mother supervises the preparation and the menu every day. She has been doing this since before I was born. I absolutely love the mutton sukka that she makes.

I need my fill of Indian home cooking.

When I'm on tour, I'm in really good shape. When I get home, I cook, I eat, I get fat and happy.

There is nothing like a good old recipe. If it has lasted, then it is good.

I love being at home and creating in the kitchen.

I love cooking, and I can make real good rajma chawal. It is a time consuming process and only for the consumption of a select few very special people. Also, I can make delicious mutton biryani, but I must confess I have stolen the recipe from my mother.