Family Meal Quotes

When I was growing up, we always had a big family dinner at around noon on Sunday. I still love that whenever it is possible to gather the family together.

We have got too many kids around the house to have a romantic meal at home. But Danielle is a fantastic cook. She does a brilliant lasagne, great roasts and a great chilli dish. She knows the way to my heart.

There's still nothing like a home-cooked meal. Absolutely not.

I'd love to give my girls a traditional Thanksgiving with turkey and all that jazz, but we've raised them to love Tuscan food so much that they don't care for it. My favorite is a nice polenta with beef stew and broccoli rabe on the side.

Sitting down to a meal with an Indian family is different from sitting down to a meal with a British family.

For our first date, I made Ryan Hamburger Helper, which is basically what I grew up on. I make my own version of it now, with macaroni and cheese and hamburger meat. And the kids - it's their favorite dinner.

Some days I'll cook, and then some days my wife will cook. For me, obviously on Sundays a lot of times we do the sauce and the meatballs and pasta, the whole thing.

And hie him home, at evening's close, To sweet repast and calm repose.

Anytime I prepare a meal for my family, I am putting all of my time, effort, energy, and love into it.

There's something magical that happens when people eat from the same pot. The family meal is really the nursery of democracy. It's where we learn to share; it's where we learn to argue without offending. It's just too critical to let go, as we've been so blithely doing.

For a two-job working family, a pressure cooker gets a meal on the table in seven to 15 minutes, start to finish.

My mom cooked for us, and on the weekend, we always had Sunday dinner. My father liked to bake.

I cook at home all the time and really enjoy it. It's fun family time and we all chip in and help out. We do a lot with our outdoor grill, a lot of chicken or shrimp, and every meal includes veggies.

I will be up at 8 A.M. making spaghetti bolognese for Peter and Sophia's evening meal if I'm working that day. I may not get back for the evening, and I worry if I don't do that, then they won't eat anything.

North of England, you're brought up on fish and chips. Friday or Saturdays every week, it was a treat.

I learned to cook when I was ten, and I could cook a whole meal for my family by thirteen - and I'm talking the chapatis as well.

On Sunday night, my husband makes a five-course family dinner.

Spaghetti is love.

So when I do Chinese cooking, I mix everything together, then the kids have to eat their vegetables. They won't have the patience to pick them out.

If you have some potatoes, green beans and cauliflower, you have a heck of a dish that can feed an entire family.

When you're a restaurant critic, you're not home at night, so breakfast became really important for us.

The family meal is really the nursery of democracy. It's where we learn to share; it's where we learn to argue without offending. It's just too critical to let go, as we've been so blithely doing.

I make Eric pick up from this little local place in Nashville that has really good honey whole wheat bread. It's near where he works out in the morning, so I make him pick up a loaf, and the kids eat it, too. I'll just keep passing out toast all morning. The kids just walk around with crumbs everywhere; we don't care.

You can wine and dine all around the globe but the joy of coming back home to a meal cooked by your mom is pure bliss.

When I was, like, 10, I cooked a three-course meal for my family.