Todd English Quotes

For my kids, I cook everything. We have dinner every night, pretty much, just the four of us: my husband and me and our two kids.

I think you owe it to your kids to teach them how to cook - you know, self-survival.

Both of my parents worked, so it was my way of helping around the house by making dinner for my family. I fell in love with it.

I love every minute in the kitchen with my kids, even the mess (I've learned to embrace it!). I find that in the car on the way home from school, I often get one-word answers when I ask about their day. But when we're cooking, I get in-depth stories.

I have very good executives and great children. They're very good.

My kids are always in the kitchen with me - I bring them to the bakery and let them decorate cakes, and they also try to help me and my wife, Lisa, cook dinner at night.

I'm great at telling stories with the kids. I do all my different accents. We make our own stories up all the time, the four of us, me and Hannah and the kids.

I really want be of great value for the team.

I love food. I'm not a great cook, but I love to cook, and I like how different it is from writing.

The focus of our family life was homework and what was for dinner; getting to ballet rehearsal and getting my brother to soccer.

My kids always joked that I spent more time cooking the birds' food than I have cooking for them. And it's probably true.

Look at cookbooks with your kids and ask them what sounds good.

Family involvement is a valuable thing and playing together actively can be the '90s version of it. Instead of just watching, you can do it together... something we don't spend enough time on. We can motivate and excite each other about fitness.

My kids always say to me, 'Can we watch TV?' I say, 'Absolutely!' because then I can get something done. But then they say, and I wait for it, 'But can you watch with us?' My moment of freedom vanishes. So not only do I not think TV's that great and I hate sitting in front of it, but I have to with them.

For a dude, I think I do cook. I'm a stay-at-home parent a lot of the time.

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.

Preparing food is one of life's great joys, but a lot of times, parents ask their kids if they want to cook with them and then tell them to go peel a bag of potatoes. That's not cooking - that's working!

I think it's important that kids have responsibilities and understand the value of things, but I think it's great I get to travel the world with my daughter.

My ex-husband and I, even though we're not together, we are 100 percent together in raising our kid. We communicate a lot and where I drop the ball and need him to pick it up or vice versa, he's there.

Cooking is an important part of a good, stable family life. I like to get the family together; there's a huge nurturing element in it.

My sister would say I'm a feeder because I like cooking for people.

I did want to share with you one of the greatest lessons I've learned over the years cooking for my kids - there is enormous value in bringing children into the kitchen.

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

It's nice to have a pause to parent and to be more present at home, teaching them how to drive cars and navigate boys and all this sort of thing.

I love cooking for myself and cooking for my family.