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I only ever baked because it helped with my anxiety.
When I am scared, I push myself and get the best out of myself.
I jumped off a 30ft diving board for a dare once and it wasn't fun.
My mum was slightly disgruntled with cooking and being in the kitchen.
When I'm trying to get bread to prove, I am itching; I am so impatient.
When you are one of six, your brothers and sisters become your best mates.
I bottled up all my emotions and forced myself to grow up faster than I needed to.
I am as average as they get - there is nothing special about me. I'm just getting by.
Give me buttered white bread with Marmite crisps and salad cream and I'm a happy girl.
I didn't know my husband, and then we had two children, and then I fell in love with him.
I really want my daughter to see that she can go out to work, but equally I want my sons to see it.
We have this rule in our marriage, there's no such thing as 50/50. Somebody is always putting in more.
Sometimes when I'm making a potato salad I don't boil my own potatoes, I take them straight out of a can.
Being a parent you want to be strong for your kids and ninety percent of being a parent is not telling the truth.
We live in a world where we often get told what we should and shouldn't do. I don't think we should worry so much.
Traditionally baklava is made by using honey - but I'm making it extra sweet and extra sticky by using golden syrup.
Nut butters are so versatile, especially peanut, and whenever I run out, I just make my own. It's cheaper and easier.
When I get back from a mid-morning stroll, I'll do some writing then I'll typically spend the day testing new recipes.
Most summers we went to Bangladesh and stayed in Grandad's village, filled with relatives. I'm one of 67 grandchildren.
The longest I've gone without a panic attack is about two months. Even then I can feel it bubbling away under the surface.
My dad's an amazing photographer, and he loves a Sunday market. So the house was full of all the stuff he'd buy, and frame.
There's nothing wrong with using frozen and canned food. There's nothing in this series I'm ashamed of. It's the way I cook.
I'm a morning person so I like to be up by 6 am to wash and pray before the sun rises, and then have a tea at the kitchen table.
I am not the kind of person who narrates every aspect of my life on social media; it's about posting things that are important to me.
I'm forever making it out like I have got it all together and I know what I'm doing. The truth is I haven't got a clue what I'm doing.
But I understand the importance of being a brown, Muslim woman of faith who is in the public eye, because there aren't that many of us.
Everyone says my family are so lucky to be surrounded by so many sweet treats, but to be honest, the novelty has worn off for the kids.
Growing up, I didn't see that many Muslims on TV and we don't see many now. But essentially I am a mother and that's the job I know best.
If we behave like the kitchen is for adults, they become more wary of it and reluctant to go in it because it feels like it's a grown-up space.
It's taken me three years to learn that just because I work in the food industry, it doesn't mean that I have to eat every minute of every day.
Once you've had a panic attack you live in fear that another one is going to come. From the second it's gone, every moment every day is about the next one.
When I watch a TV show I wouldn't notice if someone was Muslim or wearing a hijab. It's nice to be on a show where your skin colour or religion is incidental.
Arranged marriages get a bad reputation. Do they always work? No, but that's true of all marriages. As long as you aren't forced, who cares how you get together?
I think I would have appreciated being at home with my kids a little bit more. Raising a child, surely that in itself is the biggest thing we're ever going to do?
Sometimes my feelings need to come out of my mouth and my head so the universe can have them. That's what the universe is there for: to take my bad thoughts away.
In an average week I'll be testing recipes, doing a voice-over, filming and writing. I cram everything in Monday to Friday because I refuse to give up the weekend.
My grandmother spent a lot of time with us when we were growing up. She did the school runs and fed us when my mum was busy. To be with her was to really be at home.
I had an arranged marriage, and learnt you have to persevere and remember we are all human and all have faults. Obviously my husband Abdal has more faults than I do!
The only reason we had an oven at home was because it came attached to the cooker. Mum would keep her frying pans in there and anything else that would fit. Storage was its only use.
For me, it's important to instil in my children that they can do whatever they like, that no matter what their religion and colour, they can achieve what they want through hard work.
Pot Noodles are my true love because I don't have to cook them. I have a ritual: take one pot noodle, add a teaspoon of chilli flakes and half of salt, plus all the seasoning it comes with.
Cod and clementine is one of the things my grandmother cooked for my mum when she was a child. Never one for waste, she'd keep the peel whenever she had a clementine, and this dish puts it to work.
What's happened to society is we've become really pretentious. But there was a time in my life where I really had to choose between boiling potatoes and paying my gas bill, so I'd buy a can of potatoes.
I take everything out of the fridge and see what we can make. We talk about what we could possibly create, and if there is something on the turn that we could save, we chop it up and put it in the freezer.
Saying it out loud as a child is scary, but saying I felt unstable out loud as an adult with children was really scary. The fear of losing your children stops you from saying anything. It's a never-ending battle.
I run a tight ship. The kids are responsible for their own chores. Each morning they unload the dishwasher from the night before then collect eggs from our chickens, and I cook those while they get ready for school.
Growing up in Luton, we'd always eat on a cloth, placed on the floor of the living room, with no TV allowed. There were no chairs back in Bangladesh and Dad wanted to keep the tradition, so we never owned a dining table.
Brexit makes me uncomfortable. It feels like we're in no-man's-land, and it doesn't feel safe. People who voted to leave did so because of the scaremongering. It was all about immigration, but immigration is a great thing.
I spent a lot of time with extended family when I was young. Every weekend, Dad would buy half a sheep and Mum would cook for about 50 people, and we would all eat on the couch, in the kitchen, spilling out into the garden.
I do identify as a Muslim and I do identify as a Bangladeshi girl, I identify as British, as well, and a woman and I'm a woman of colour, and why am I ashamed of that? And I used to not want to talk about it. But that is me.