#p

I measure everything, because I always think that if I've spent so much time making sure this recipe was exactly the way I want it, why would I want to throw things into a pot? ↗

— Ina Garten

#because #everything #exactly #i #i always

When a government goes to war, particularly a democracy, it is the most solemn and awesome responsibility of our leaders - to decide to send our kids to go off and kill and die for us. ↗

— Joe Wilson

#awesome responsibility #decide #democracy #die #go

I've lived in the Hamptons since 1978, when I first bought my store Barefoot Contessa. ↗

— Ina Garten

#bought #first #hamptons #i #lived

I've taught myself how to use good, fresh ingredients and to prepare them as simply as possible by cooking only to enhance their intrinsic flavors. ↗

— Ina Garten

#enhance #flavors #fresh #fresh ingredients #good

If it's a cocktail party, I generally make five or six different things, and I try to choose recipes that feel like a meal: a chicken thing, a fish or shrimp thing, maybe two vegetable things, and I think it's fun to end the cocktail party with a sweet thing. ↗

— Ina Garten

#choose #cocktail #different #different things #end

As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others. ↗

— Bill Gates

#century #empower #into #leaders #look

My extravagance is my garden - it's the first thing I look at every morning when I wake up. It gives me so much pleasure. ↗

— Ina Garten

#extravagance #first #first thing #garden #gives

My favorite fall or winter lunch is big steaming bowls of soup. I usually invite people for around 12:30 and have two hearty soups like shrimp corn chowder and lentil sausage soup, which can be made a day or two ahead. ↗

— Ina Garten

#around #big #bowls #corn #day

Take one flower that you like and get lots of them. And don't try to 'arrange' them. It's surprisingly hard to do a flower arrangement the way a florist does one. Instead, bunch them all together or put them in a series of small vases all down the table. ↗

— Ina Garten

#arrangement #bunch #does #down #florist

The dirty little secret is that I grew up in a household where there were no carbohydrates allowed, ever. No cookies, no bread, no potatoes, no rice. My mother was very extreme in terms of what she served. Since I left home more than 40 years ago, I've been making it right for myself. ↗

— Ina Garten

#allowed #been #bread #carbohydrates #cookies