Dave Myers

“The nicest thing people can say about us, is, 'I turn the telly on for half an hour and go off with me mates, having a laugh.'”

“We've done some stand-alone cookbooks that have been very successful, like 'Great Curries,' 'Perfect Pies,' 'Meat Feasts,' so why not 'Chicken & Egg?'”

“Si and I are so similar but we're so different.”

“With an old broom handle, flour, water and egg you can make the most amazing pasta.”

“We invented the Black Forest trifle. It's got all the flavours of the Black Forest Gateau but in a trifle, using chocolate custard. You've got your kirsch, your cherries, the chocolate custard, the sponge and the cream.”

“I had some prejudices and preconceptions about American culture and trash culture, but the artisan food there is not all hot dog stands.”

“I used to go fishing on Roa Island as a boy and it seemed a good idea to move there.”

“Making a big pan of soup and keeping it in the fridge is a good idea... and it's a whole lot tastier than packet and tinned soups.”

“I was quite successful as a make-up artist for 23 years, doing a lot of prosthetics.”

“When we're away filming, Si's the one who's more likely to find a club and go dancing.”

“The Mojave Desert was plus 50. Now, I've cooked duck eggs at 50 degrees celsius. You can imagine what it's like on a bike.”

“With a lot of the old school veggie recipes, and in the Seventies and Eighties, you'd go to a veggie restaurant and you got this sense of worthiness. You were presented with a plate of brown, and three forkfuls in, you might feel self-righteous, but you were bored with it.”

“I think people have at least two careers in them, so we decided to turn our hobbies of motorbikes, cooking and chatting into a living.”

“I had a bright yellow jumper that my mother knitted me and I used to call it my scrambled egg jumper.”

“My dad used to eat raw tripe soaked in malt vinegar when I was a kid.”

“At one point I'm doing belly-dancing, big mirror-ball in me belly button with couple of tassels and me head on fire and I thought, 'I could lose two stone.'”

“It was mid-life crisis time and you can't have more of a mid-life crisis than going off on a motorbike.”

“It's funny how much of the 'old times' are still rooted in modern America.”

“I've just turned 60 and, looking back, I realise all the time I spent worrying I achieved nothing.”

“Strictly' is helping me keep the weight off.”