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“Everything is tested in my little kitchen. The recipes are mine and that's really important to me. When I do a cookery show I know these recipes really well, because every recipe I've ever published has been tested by my kids.”
“I didn't know my husband, and then we had two children, and then I fell in love with him.”
“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.”
“When I'm trying to get bread to prove, I am itching; I am so impatient.”
“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.”
“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!”
“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.”
“When you are one of six, your brothers and sisters become your best mates.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Being a parent you want to be strong for your kids and ninety percent of being a parent is not telling the truth.”
“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.”
“We have this rule in our marriage, there's no such thing as 50/50. Somebody is always putting in more.”
“The longest I've gone without a panic attack is about two months. Even then I can feel it bubbling away under the surface.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Traditionally baklava is made by using honey - but I'm making it extra sweet and extra sticky by using golden syrup.”
“I only ever baked because it helped with my anxiety.”