Simple Ingredients Quotes

Usually before matches I eat plain pasta with a little bit olive oil, salt, pepper and chicken.

I just like to have cereal in the morning, but it'll be those cluster things - it's a bit random - and through the day, I like just pasta, plain pasta with a bit of sauce on it, never too much in case I get a bad belly... and jelly just before I go on for a bit of energy!

Simple ingredients prepared in a simple way - that's the best way to take your everyday cooking to a higher level.

Dinner is usually just pasta with mushrooms.

The magazine, the daytime show, we've always tried to write affordable, accessible. Those are key words for us, and I do mean us, a huge staff of people at the magazine who love to cook affordable, friendly food that helps families eat better for less.

I had an excellent repast - the best repast possible - which consisted simply of boiled eggs and bread and butter. It was the quality of these simple ingredients that made the occasion memorable. The eggs were so good that I am ashamed to say how many of them I consumed ....It might seem that an egg which has succeeded in being fresh has done all that can be reasonably expected of it.

Italian food is all about ingredients and it's not fussy and it's not fancy.

For me, whether it's in a book or on T.V., a recipe has to be simple. I have a short attention span, so to open a cookbook and see a recipe that goes on for three to four pages, well, I've lost interest.

One day, the people who work in my kitchen stir-fried chopped Napa cabbage to serve with some meat or fish for their own dinner. I got to thinking: 'What if the cabbage was the most important thing on the plate?'

I've always joked that my food memoirs will be titled 'Brutta ma Buona,' the phrase Italians use to describe food that's delicious but rustic-looking at best: ugly but good.

Read labels in your favorite products. Look for short lists of simple, less-processed ingredients with names you recognize as food. If you find some of the same ingredients in your cereal as your shampoo, maybe it's time to switch to something simpler.

Food should be simple; it shouldn't be complicated, even down to making Knorr gravy: a Knorr stock cube and water, bit of parsley at the end, little bit of olive oil. It's about making the food deliciously tasty.

I'm a carb queen. I'll always order macaroni and cheese, but I don't want it to be fancy. I want it to be as close to Kraft Services as it can possibly get!

Simple ingredients, treated with respect... put them together and you will always have a great dish.

It's a challenge to demonstrate that you can prepare some really interesting food with humble ingredients.

There's nothing more marvelously wintery than orange root veg mash; some butter is all it needs.

Our food style is no fuss - no jus or froth - hearty food like your mum might cook for you, and seasonal.

When I was a kid and my mom made tomato soup, she would cut buttered toast into squares and float them on top of each bowl.

It's a comfort to always find pasta in the cupboard and garlic and parsley in the garden.

I always try and have a snack before an event - usually a small bowl of chickpea pasta, which is quick to make and delicious with just salt and pepper and a little bit of butter.

My goal is to make Italian food clean and accessible and beautiful and tasty, with simple ingredients that people can find at a local grocery store, because people don't want to go to a gourmet shop in search of items that will sit in their pantry for years after they use just a teaspoon or pinch of them.

My favourite dinner is a cup of tea and a ham sandwich with English mustard.

The strands of spaghetti were vital, almost alive in my mouth, and the olive oil was singing with flavor. It was hard to imagine that four simple ingredients [olive oil, pasta, garlic and cheese] could marry so perfectly.

Everyone's favorite breakfast dish can be prepared in a moment's time with just a few ingredients and minimum effort.

I like to cook with the philosophy of using great ingredients and not altering them too much.