Getting into the habit of switching a timer on will, I promise, save you from any number of kitchen disasters.

I found in my whole career the best thing that can happen to you is that you hear what people want.

In 35 years of being in the media, I've had all this mud flung at me many, many times. It's not the first time. It's nothing unusual. I've been through it all before and the best way to deal with it is not to read them.

Food is for eating, and good food is to be enjoyed... I think food is, actually, very beautiful in itself.

There are people who claim to be instinctive cooks, who never follow recipes or weigh anything at all. All I can say is they're not very fussy about what they eat. For me, cooking is an exact art and not some casual game.

Although a food processor is not an absolutely essential piece of equipment, because you can certainly chop, grate, slice, knead and mix everything by hand, it does do all these things very quickly and efficiently and saves you time and energy.

The chemicals in the dishwashing process tend not to be good for saucepans.

Good kitchen equipment is expensive, but most items last a lifetime and will pay for themselves over and over again.

Getting into the habit of switching a timer on will, I promise, save you from any number of kitchen disasters.

I sometimes think the chef end of cooking is not the real end of cooking. Cooking is all about homes and gardens, it doesn't happen in restaurants.

A measuring jug is also vital when cooking rice, as this is always measured by volume rather than by weight.

There are three reasons why this book came into being. First, throughout the 33 years I've been writing recipes - although I'm not vegetarian myself - I have greatly enjoyed creating vegetarian recipes, and cooking and serving them at home.

Remember, it's very simple to have an oven tested professionally, and it only takes about five minutes.

I have always read all the latest cookery books and magazines, from all over the world.

But quite honestly I can't help being a passionate football supporter. If that's my sin, I'm guilty.

Memories are fallible and a timer can save a lot of hard work from going out of the window.

A cake is a very good test of an oven: if it browns too much on one side and not on the other, it's not your fault - you need to have your oven checked.

A cake is a very good test of an oven if it browns too much on one side and not on the other its not your fault you need to have your oven checked.

Are you kidding? I'm a terrible cook, but John is a really great one. Literally, I never cook. The whole time we were dating, I prepared two officially romantic meals. Both of them were such disasters that he begs me never to go into the kitchen again.

There was a tsunami and there are terrible natural disasters, all of this because of too little Torah study.

We must expect reverses, even defeats. They are sent to teach us wisdom and prudence, to call forth greater energies, and to prevent our falling into greater disasters.

The miserable failures of capitalist economies in the Great Depression were root causes of worldwide social and political disasters.

Did you know that the word "tsunami," which is now being used worldwide, is a Japanese word? This is indicative of the extent to which Japan has been subject to frequent tsunami disasters in the past.

Farms and ranches contend with much more than quarterly reports and profit margins - the weather can wreak havoc on their quality of life and economic viability. When natural disasters strike, we must do all we can to assist the backbone of our economy.

It's very difficult to ignore humanitarian disasters. The royalties from my albums continue to support my charity work.

These days, it's really been uninteresting except when disasters occur.

The formula for achieving a successful relationship is simple: you should treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.

Our agricultural economy in the Hudson Valley continues to face historically low prices and producer income, as well as losses due to weather and other disasters.

The environmental movement, like all political processes, reacts best to disasters. But these are very slow, very gradual disasters in the making.

I tell you, the difference for me is between being victimized, terrorized, numbed by reading about different disasters, or reducing the anxiety by getting up and doing something about it, at whatever level.

We had had several mine disasters where workers, some of the workers were rescued. It was, you know, who was lucky and who weren't. Some would find the air pockets But, in this one, bam, it was just, everybody was gone and it greatly depressed the state.

But I warn my colleagues that we will fail in our efforts to protect the homeland if we do not take additional steps to avoid a trade-off between protecting ourselves against terrorists attacks and preparing for and responding to natural disasters.

There is a huge responsibility on all of us to get England through. It would be one of the biggest disasters in sports history if we blew it and we must make sure it does not happen.

In a world full of competing emergencies and disasters, it really helps if there is an international locomotive that can help us bring attention - help us bring resources.

People who live through transplants or disasters like Sept. 11 are survivors.

Global interdependence today means that economic disasters in developing countries could create a backlash on developed countries.

Getting into the habit of switching a timer on will, I promise, save you from any number of kitchen disasters.

There is a growing feeling that perhaps Texas is really another country, a place where the skies, the disasters, the diamonds, the politicians, the women, the fortunes, the football players and the murders are all bigger than anywhere else.

Mr. Speaker, from hurricanes and floods in Latin America to earthquakes in Asia, natural disasters are increasingly becoming a regular feature of life for large numbers of people around the globe.

There also is the plight that comes from natural disasters; these natural disasters could be alleviated or dealt with; we only need some time to do it.

The biggest stories in 2005 were the national disasters.

My friends, as I have discovered myself, there are no disasters, only opportunities. And, indeed, opportunities for fresh disasters.

Crime is only the worst example, but it is a paradigm for other Labour policy disasters. No one tells the voters that crime is falling: let them stay scared senseless.

My heart goes out to victims and survivors of the Hurricane Katrina tragedy and to their families. This disaster will go down in history books as one of the largest natural disasters in U.S. history.

The great secret of a successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.

But by showing us live coverage of every bad thing happening everywhere in the world, cable news makes life seem like it's just an endless string of disasters - when, for most people in most places today, life is fairly good.

The garden is growth and change and that means loss as well as constant new treasures to make up for a few disasters.

As Mayor of San Francisco, I will work hard to ensure that, in the event of natural or man-made disasters, San Franciscans are prepared and our City is protected.

I've produced more pilots than United Airlines, and they've all been disasters. Every audition I ever took in my life I lost.