Improvisational Cooking Quotes

I'm not a particularly good cook. Part of it is that it is the kind of cooking anybody could do if they bothered. It's improvisational. I cook with whatever I have laying around.

If you could make a pudding wi' thinking o' the batter, it 'ud be easy getting dinner.

Cooking is an observation-based process that you can't do if you're so completely focused on a recipe.

It turns out that Molly wasn't her mother's daughter in that respect. Charity was like the MacGuyver of the kitchen. She could whip up a five-course meal for twelve from an egg, two spaghetti noodles, some household chemicals, and a stick of chewing gum. Molly ... Molly once burned my egg. My boiled egg. I don't know how.

I never learned to cook, so I've got no rules. I'll put things together just because I think they belong together.

My cooking is incredibly haphazard, but I've never pretended it was anything else.

My dishes tend to have a very carefree style: what's ripe at the farmers market or what's in my fridge, even if I'm cleaning out my fridge. It tends to be a very improvisational style. I major in salads, but a loose definition of salad; it can have a real robust skirt steak on top of it off the grill or quinoa or buckwheat or sprouted almond.

I never really cook from recipes. But the worst is when something turns out great and I can't figure out how to make it again!

I love to cook. My dad's a really excellent cook and his style is: Look in the fridge and make whatever there is with whatever ingredients you have and I like cooking like that, too.