Recipe Success Quotes

If you're trying to make a recipe that you're not even going to bother tasting, you're doing something wrong.

If you think well, you cook well.

I love it when someone tries a recipe of mine and posts a picture of the finished product. Completely rewarding. It makes my day every time.

I baked the coffee cake recipe from 'The Joy of Cooking' over and over again when I was a kid.

I found that the recipes in most - in all - the books I had were really not adequate. They didn't tell you enough... I won't do anything unless I'm told why I'm doing it. So I felt that we needed fuller explanations so that if you followed one of those recipes, it should turn out exactly right.

Obviously, the easiest recipes are the most successful when it comes to the home cook, because they're not intimidated by them. If I'm doing 'Boy Meets Grill,' and I do something very simple like grilled hamburgers or steaks or chicken, those are the most sought-after recipes.

When I make a recipe for the first time and it's fabulous, I know I'm in trouble because I don't know exactly what I did, and I can't replicate it.

I've never made a meal that I wasn't able to eat, but it that doesn't mean anyone else would ever eat it, haha!

Some of the best kitchen discoveries come about through total kitchen disasters.