Keira Knightley receives cooking lessons from mother

Highlights

• Atonement star Keira Knightley wants to improve her culinary skills and has turned to her mother for guidance.
• The 27-year-old actress, who recently got engaged to musician James Righton, is starting with the basic rules in the kitchen, reported Femalefirst online.
• "I am an alright cook. Not brilliant, but alright. My mum's a really good cook, but we had a really small kitchen, so she could never actually teach me any of the stuff that she made. But now she is starting to," Knightley said.
• "I have gotten really good recipes, which are excellent. I am good at, like, a one-pot dish. It is the timing. I always walk away at a wrong point. And then everything burns! But stews and curries, I am good at that," she added.
• Knightley also said that she does not have many celebrity friends, whom she could call during a crisis.
• "I don't have celebrity friends like that. I mean, I have ones that I would kind of call up to say, 'Hello, how are you? How is everything going?' But no, my friends are not actors," she said.