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When I make a recipe for the first time and it's fabulous, I know I'm in trouble because I don't know exactly what I did, and I can't replicate it.

Once you have mastered a technique, you hardly need look at a recipe again and can take off on your own.

I have so many friends who don't know how to cook.

I quite enjoy cooking but I'm not consistent. I can't follow the recipe book. If something goes well, I'll never make it again, which is completely stupid. It's a one-shot kind of deal.

I almost never make stuff out of cookbooks because they're either too complicated or there's an ingredient in there that I can't find.

You don't have to stick with these recipes. They're guides. As I say, they're a way in. Have fun with them. It's an easier way to cook in a busy life, once you get the hang of it.

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

I'm not an amazing cook. But I can follow a recipe!

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.