It wasnt until I was a sophomore in high school that I asked Mama if I could come into the kitchen and have her teach me how to cook something. Well, I wasnt in there five minutes before she said, OK, honey, you have to go now. I made her so nervous she was about ready to throw up. So I really didnt have an interest in being in the kitchen until after I was married, when I was 18. It didnt take me long to realize that Mama was not going to show up at my house every day and cook.

There's not one food that causes diabetes.What causes Type II diabetes is being overweight... I've just come to grips, over the past four or five months, with my diabetes.

Of course, I will continue to share my favorite Southern recipes, just like my mama, grandmother and family shared with me over the years. And now, I'll be adding a little bit of a lighter touch to some of these wonderful dishes.

I don't care what the haters and naysayers say. If they make jokes about me, I'll laugh because they'll probably be funny.

You know, nobody can ever cook as good as your mama.

Change doesn’t happen overnight. It starts with the desire, then one small step in the right direction.

Chicken breast is the driest, [most] tasteless part of the chicken as far as I'm concerned.