Nina Garcia Quotes

All my family were brilliant cooks when I was growing up, but I ended up just cleaning up, so I've always lacked confidence in the kitchen.

I'm the joke of the family with cooking because I've never done it - primarily because I've been surrounded by people who are so good at it. Mum's brilliant. Boyfriends have always been good at it. I'm waiting for my inner chef to be released.

I'm a terrible cook.

I think cookery shows have become so sophisticated, and everyone's so marvellous at it, but there are people like me who aren't into the cooking malarkey, who still don't know how to boil an egg for three minutes.

I don't cook very often. Actually, I'd go further: I can't cook.

I have so many friends who don't know how to cook.

I am actually a very good cook (if I may say so myself). I just don't know that many recipes.

I'm a terrible cook but I wish I wasn't.

I turned down 'Come Dine With Me' because I can't cook.

I would love to go on 'MasterChef'. But while I really like cooking, I'm doubtful anyone would ever want to pay for what I'd cooked.

Eating ready-made meals is about being very passive, and actively cooking is something that nothing compares to.

Sorry, I'm not much of a cook.

At home in Devon, my wife Jessica does a huge proportion of the cooking - I do the basics. My timing is extremely good, particularly when it comes to vegetables, perhaps because in my work, timing is everything. I know exactly what fits into a minute when broadcasting, and I apply the same to carrots.

I cannot cook to save my life. I'm really frighteningly useless, when you get down to it.

I'm actually a good cook.

I do probably 80 or 90 per cent of the cooking at home.

I don't cook very well at all. I'm the girl that can't make scrambled eggs.

If kids can learn how to make a simple Bolognese sauce, they will never go hungry. It's pretty easy to cook pasta, but a good sauce is way more useful.

I actually struggled through teaching myself to cook because I'm completely ignorant in the kitchen. So I did really macho things like trying to make my own curry. Really hardcore stuff.

If people are made to feel uncomfortable in the kitchen, they won't go in there. That's why I think children learning to cook can be such a wonderful thing.

You wouldn't know it but I'm no good at... cooking. My chef does that.

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

I'm a really good cook. I left home to start my career at 15 - so my choices were to either learn to cook or eat Ramen noodles for the rest of my life.

I can't cook to save my life.

I do like to cook. But I only cook a few things, but those few things I do really well.