Best Dishes Quotes to Inspire, Uplift & Motivate You Every Day

“I love cooking Italian food. My dad is Italian, although my dishes also have my mum's German-Polish influence.”

“I've used soap dishes as ashtrays in the best hotels in the world.”

“I like introducing people to new dishes and new flavors.”

“I love making dishes that my mother used to make.”

“There are some surprising stories behind the dishes that hold a special place in our hearts.”

“I don't question the importance of learning how to cook at school. It's vital that children know how to create a few dishes to sustain themselves in later life, but that's different from the emotional, nurturing environment of the home kitchen with Mum.”

“I don't like to cook by recipe. I like being original, trying out ideas, putting together my own dishes.”

“We Chinese use a lot of ginger and green onions to flavor dishes but not to overpower them. Westerners have this misconception that we eat the ginger and green onion, but we leave those on the plate.”

“One of the nicest things about taking your kids to a restaurant - Thai or Chinese for example - is having all the dishes in the middle of the table so that you can try a little bit of everything.”

“I am a gourmet. I cannot stay away from my favorite dishes.”

“Some of the best dishes I can remember are from my childhood. Sometimes, whenever I want to feel like a kid again, I just whip them up for the family.”

“Over the years, I've found myself drawn more and more to simpler meals, to dishes that are focused, and to experiences that strip away the excess.”

“I've always had a great work ethic, even when I was washing dishes.”

“I am very precise about what food I like. I'm very much a nursery-food person, and really hate chichi dishes.”

“While growing up in Scotland, which has a large Indian population, I would end up eating a lot of Indian dishes. So, it is familiar to me.”

“I love a good set of basic white dishes.”

“I'm always looking for new ways to create flavorful veggie dishes for my family.”

“I was washing dishes at Del Frisco's Grille and busing tables at a Tex-Mex place and writing songs the whole time. I did a lot of my writing at those jobs, thinking up melodies in my head.”

“I think when dishes have a certain amount of acidity, really they are very alive. And I love things that are alive.”

“I'm meticulous about tasting everything at the restaurant, so I taste all the preparations before lunch and dinner. That means tasting around 50 dishes twice. There are times when I think I can't taste another thing.”

“Eating vegetarian doesn't mean you have to eat boring, humdrum dishes.”

“Pressure is an emotional paralysis. It's hard enough to do the dishes when you're feeling pressured, let alone make a movie.”

“Even though I'm big on recipes, I love to make up my own dishes and when you take a risk in the kitchen, you learn a lot about food!”

“I love dishes and house things so I kind of lost it a little bit on the house ware. One-thousand thread-count sheets, that's what I indulged in.”

“I've never washed dishes in my life.”

“Why are fish unsustainable? Because they're popular. What makes restaurants work? Popular dishes that people come back for.”

“I learned that you don't take dishes from the table to the dishwasher; you have to rinse them first. I think that's stupid because I don't go out in the back yard and hose off before taking a shower.”

“I'd be washing my dishes listening to Yiddish, I went to sleep listening to Yiddish and woke up listening to Yiddish. It was so important for me to know the language really well.”

“Sometimes you need to give dishes a nap.”

“I love the food of Karnataka and all the side dishes I make at home are recipes I learnt here.”

“I'm friends with Igor Yanovsky from when we played together at PSG and he suggested a few Russian dishes to me. I really love borsch!”

“Most of the time, I grill over high heat. I like things to move fast. I like the sound and smell of a very hot fire. I gravitate towards dishes that you can get on and off the grill as quickly as possible. After a while, you'll know without thinking about it how hot the fire is.”

“The best relationships are when you both want to make each other happy - you buy the groceries, I do the dishes.”

“I guess our two favorite family dishes are stroganoff and caramel flan.”

“I love Alain de Botton and listen to his little 'School of Life' YouTube vids as I do the dishes.”

“I'm not the most handy - I got a maximum of five dishes that I can make.”

“All of my dishes kind of have the same thing going on - I'm always going to give you the same things that I grew up with or that my mom used to make. I'm not going to use nitrogen in my tacos.”

“My flight time is important to me; I actually prefer a longer flight to a short one. That way I have time to read a book, watch movies, and think about new dishes.”

“I was very impressed with the street food of Singapore. I was very impressed with the dishes that they did.”

“I wash my own dishes; I do my own laundry. I'm not a glamorous person at all, not at all.”

“To keep my son healthy, I throw secret veggies into his favorite dishes.”

“Whether you're pulling inspiration from restaurants, or simply tweaking the dishes you already like, it's important to change up your rotation, even if it's only every once in a while.”

“The tang of tamarind is a great way both to flavour and lighten up slow-cooked savoury dishes.”

“Guys should be doing laundry, doing dishes.”

“I love learning how to make new dishes.”

“My mother never threw anything out. If there was a sliver of a tomato, it was in the refridge. I would come in with my friends, and Mom would say, 'Want something to eat?' In 20 minutes, there was four, five dishes to eat.”

“I'm a pasta girl, and I like dishes that are easy, one-pot dishes that are really quick.”

“I was 18 when I first started working at a restaurant. I was a dishwasher. I only got the job because I wanted to go to Ibiza for vacation, and washing dishes was the only job I could find.”

“I've put my whole heart into cooking dishes that I am passionate about on 'Girl Meets Farm', and this has been met with such great support from the whole team and the Food Network and now our viewers.”

“In order to make young people go for millet dishes, perhaps calling the dishes by their generic name without prefixing the millet name could be tried out.”

“I don't have a dishwasher, and I hate washing dishes.”

“These songs are old friends I have entertained myself with when I'm washing the dishes, driving to the store and walking down the aisles. The ones that you sing when you're driving in the car and as a singer you always go back to them.”

“For me, brunch is such a versatile meal since you can play on both the sweet and savory in your dishes.”

“My kitchen has a wood-burning oven, a large worktable, and windows all around, including one above the sink. I think whoever is washing the dishes needs to have a lot of beauty around.”

“All my dishes are engineered.”

“To wash dishes is not the same as a guy running a numerically-controlled machine. That guy running a numerically-controlled machine is going to get a higher level of pay because his training is higher, and he should get a higher level of pay.”

“I am a huge fan of so many Indian regions and dishes, but if I had to pick one, as simple as it is, 'dal' will always have my heart.”

“I'd be willing to do anything. I'm not precious. I'd wash dishes.”

“I find myself dreaming of doing normal things - like staying home and washing dishes.”

“When I met my husband, I refused to invite him home for Passover because I was embarrassed my mother might serve all the catered dishes in the wrong order.”

“Really, I don't know what I'd do with myself if I retire. Wash dishes?”

“I don't like when people put their dishes in the dishwasher without scrubbing them properly because it comes out with those little white dots and then you can't get those out. And you have to rewash them.”

“I don't think of myself as a fast reader. I just read a lot. When someone else might think, 'I might do the dishes,' I don't. But then the dishes multiply.”

“My writing process is a mix of research, personal experiences, washing the dishes, raising kids while thinking - then writing.”

“Call me tacky, but I love the union of sweet and sour, even in some now-unloved Oriental dishes incorporating pineapple and ketchup.”

“My mother cleaned houses. I washed dishes.”

“My success rate is about 80 percent. Two of ten dishes won't work.”

“Almonds can be used in sweet and savory dishes very easily.”

“How we feel about ourselves as we read the newspaper, set the table, wash the dishes, recycle the trash and wash our clothes... is essential to our overall happiness and well-being.”

“My kids, they're like nine or ten years old right now so you give 'em responsibilities just to keep them up on things. It ain't just all about getting on the skateboard or putting your Heelys on, and swimming in the pool all the time. You gotta do stuff like wash dishes, take the trash out, feed the dog.”

“I had my first French meal and I never got over it. It was just marvelous. We had oysters and a lovely dry white wine. And then we had one of those lovely scalloped dishes and the lovely, creamery buttery sauce. Then we had a roast duck and I don't know what else.”

“I do the laundry. I do the shopping. I do the dishes.”

“Greek yogurt with some olive oil stirred in can transform many dishes.”

“One of my favorite dishes is this alfredo I make, and I make the sauce from scratch. I love making everything from scratch.”

“A steak is a steak, so I tried to experiment with different side dishes, such as truffle croquettes, and unusual condiments, but I learned that people don't want you to change the steakhouse.”

“I love meals where you have maybe 10 side dishes spread on the table. People get their plate and they can then pick what they want to eat.”

“I do the dishes every night - other people volunteer, but I like the way I do it.”

“What people eat is not well documented. Food writers prefer to focus on fashionable, expensive restaurants whose creative dishes reflect little of what most people are eating.”

“Once you start thinking of different dishes in terms of how they're heated, you quickly realize that the key to successfully pulling off a big meal is to diversify. If you plan on five casseroles and a turkey, you're gonna run out of oven space. Don't do it!”

“When I venture out to eat, I like to go to places with food that I don't know how to make. So my favorites are Japanese and Indian. Indian food has so much layering of flavor, and the dishes go together so harmoniously.”

“I live by myself. I come in the door, I can throw my stuff on the floor. I can leave the dishes.”