My advice: write down everything you eat. It's amazing what that "self honesty" can do for you. (Do you really want to have to confess that doughnut? I thought not.)

Recipe writers hate to write about heat. They despise it. Because there aren't proper words for communicating what should be done with it.

I'm grateful my teenaged daughter is healthy and well and for the work I do to make a living.

I'm loyal and very good about giving people opportunities.

Wine is like women. It tempts you; it comforts you; it confuses you and can even turn on you when you least expect it. It can be your friend one day and your enemy the next.

I do know I'm a control freak.

Unless your kid is Pele Jr., they're not going to be able to feed themselves from soccer. If your kid knows how to play soccer, but not make dinner, you have done them a disservice.