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

EVOO is extra-virgin olive oil. I first coined 'EVOO' on my cooking show because saying 'extra virgin olive oil' over and over was wordy, and I'm an impatient girl - that's why I make 30-minute meals!

I live in, literally, the same home when I was swiping my first bank card and wondering if I'd have to put back the Charmin. We still don't have a dishwasher. My mom has done all these gardens so now my house looks like the garden shack in the middle of Versailles.

It only looks like I get to eat a lot of food on TV. I really just get the one bite and the crew and guests eat everything else.

I used to work in kitchens, doing 12 or more hours a day of physical labor, so today, eight to 12 hours of cooking, chatting or filming feels like a vacation. When I have a scheduled 'day off,' I spend several hours writing, then I clean until I crash from fatigue. I don't relax well.

I like feeling like an ox at the end of the day. I like working hard.

I do know what my first meal in the next world would be Spaghetti Aglio e Olio, heavy on everything.