A cake is a very good test of an oven: if it browns too much on one side and not on the other, it's not your fault - you need to have your oven checked.

In our house, some of our favourite recipes just happen to be vegetarian, but I still enjoy meat and I believe very much in meat.

Football is becoming all about money. I would like to be in a lift with Gordon Brown and say, 'Please do something about football.'

In 35 years of being in the media, I've had all this mud flung at me many, many times. It's not the first time. It's nothing unusual. I've been through it all before and the best way to deal with it is not to read them

The chemicals in the dishwashing process tend not to be good for saucepans.

A message to the best football supporters in the world. We need a 12th man here. Where are you? Where are you? Let's be having you. Come on!

The thing I can't resist is a pork pie. That's my idea of a lovely treat.