I don't cook 'concepts. ' I use my head, but I cook from the heart, I cook for flavor.
I'm a rather crude cook.
When I cook him dinner and I burn it black, he better say hmmm, I like it like that.
I like to cook simple things, like vegetable egg-white omelets; roast chicken; sauteed chicken breast with curry powder; and Greek salad. Just things that are fresh and healthy and fast and easy, because I have such a crazy schedule.
I don't cook. My mother didn't cook. My daughter doesn't cook.
In my memoir, I wanted to introduce American women to Iranian women and our lives. I'm not from the highest echelons of society, nor the lowest. I'm a woman who is a lawyer, who is a professor at a university, who won the Nobel Peace Prize. At the same time, I cook. And even when I'm about to go to prison, one of the first things I do is to make enough food and put it in the fridge for my family.
It's very meditative to watch Food Network shows. I mean, you might be taking notes, but you're probably not. It's meditative to watch someone cook, just like it is to watch your mother cook, or anyone cook.
It was so hot today that Burger King was singing, "if you want it your way, cook it yourself. "
Don't take a butcher's advice on how to cook meat. If he knew, he'd be a chef.
I love to cook comfort food. I'll make fish and vegetables or meat and vegetables and potatoes or rice. The ritual of it is fun for me, and the creativity of it.