The hardest part of cooking is shopping, and if you organize yourself and shop once a week, you're halfway there.
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Organize yourself so you aren't struggling to shop at the last minute. When you have real food, it's very easy to cook.
It's not really the life of cooking that's hard - it's what you make of it and what level you push yourself to.
I get quite lazy about cooking because when I come back from work it is the last thing I want to do, really is spend loads of time cooking.
The hardest thing about being a full time chef is leaving my work behind when I go home at night. I'll toss and turn about a menu item or forget to order produce and wake up at 4 A.M. in a cold sweat over some artichokes.
Cooking at home is easier than cooking in the restaurant because you don't have to write a menu or try to please everybody.
I feel like there's a lot of tasks in cooking that I want to master, that I want to do better.
Most cooks try to learn by making dishes. Doesn't mean you can cook. It means you can make that dish. When you can cook is when you can go to a farmers market, buy a bunch of stuff, then go home and make something without looking at a recipe. Now you're cooking.
I love to cook. It is a simple pastime.
Cooking is not difficult. Everyone has taste, even if they don't realize it. Even if you're not a great chef, there's nothing to stop you understanding the difference between what tastes good and what doesn't.
The hardest thing for a chef is to become comfortable with what you do. Not to be too neurotic and worried with what you are doing and how wrong or right you are.