Make big pots of soups, stews and chilis - they stretch a buck, and you can live off them for days!

Television itself is an intimate medium. It's in your house. You're visiting with these people... Not everybody's going to like it, just like not everybody likes everybody on the playground. I mean, that's life - especially if your job is to just go out there and be yourself.

Decide what it is that you are and then stay true to that thing. My brand is based very much on how I live my day-to-day life.

Good food and a warm kitchen are what makes a house a home.

When men I have dated over the years whined about, ‘Oh, you make no time for me’ – see ya! I just dumped them. I don’t need that pressure in my life.

I think that celebrities are just people, like everybody else, and they've got the foodie bug in them too.

You do it with your own two hands, so there's a sense of pride. You really do forget all our problems, because you're focusing on the food.