Simple Recipe Quotes

Your classic guacamole is just avocados, lime juice, and salt.

A box of spaghetti can take seven minutes to cook, and you can make a sauce at that time with perhaps garlic, olive oil, and zucchini. Then you've got yourself a complete meal. The whole thing shouldn't take more than half an hour.

The best thing I can make is a peanut butter-and-jelly sandwich.

The only thing I can cook is Welsh rarebit.

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.

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.

Pesto is such a great standard. It's so simple to make and always tastes good.

Sometimes when I'm making a potato salad I don't boil my own potatoes, I take them straight out of a can.

My cooking style is really simple. Not a lot of ingredients, but all good quality, so you don't have to do that much to them.

First of all, for me the secret is in the ingredients. You don't need to start spending fortunes on organic foods and start becoming way over budget. The better the ingredient, the littler that needs doing to it.

Casseroles are one-pot-wonders!

There is only one recipe for a best seller and it is a very simple one. You have to get the reader to turn over the page.

A juicy chicken breast can be the perfect accompaniment to a classic Caesar salad or a club sandwich. It's also easy to cook, and can be as simple as dressing it with a few spices and popping in the oven.

My idea of baking is buying a ready-make cake mix and throwing in an egg.

I made lemon spaghetti in an early season of 'Everyday Italian,' and to this day people still come up to me and say they love it. It's very, very simple. Basically, you cook the pasta and mix together Parmesan cheese, olive oil, lemon juice and zest and pour it over the pasta.

Pot Noodles are my true love because I don't have to cook them. I have a ritual: take one pot noodle, add a teaspoon of chilli flakes and half of salt, plus all the seasoning it comes with.

I make a big pot of pasta with vegetables, and I stretch it out for the week.

One of my favorites is chilaquiles. It's corn tortilla chips in a simple, brothy tomato sauce with a little chile for heat. It's wonderfully homey. It has irresistible crispy bits and I love to eat it. And you can play around with it - add chicken, sliced red onions, or all these different things that can easily dress it up.

The best - and most popular - recipe I've ever written has three ingredients: buttermilk, chicken, and salt.

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

I do the meatball recipe a lot. I think the army stew probably too. It's the most useful dish because it was born out of necessity and poverty and any idiot can make it in 20 minutes on a hot plate. It's cheap and uses readily available commercial ingredients. And it's delicious. It should be the great American dish - perfect late-night stoner dorm food for college kids on a budget.

I'm all about the crockpot.

Soup is really easy to make: you can take basil, celery, acorn squash and boil them and then put them in the blender with sea salt. It's delicious and only takes about 15 minutes. You can make it the night before. It's kind of like making baby puree, and there are a ton of super easy recipes.

A burger is something anyone can do, just follow the rules.

Romesco with asparagus is simple and brilliant.