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.
Rachael RayI do sit-ups and push-ups at home, and that's about it. I have a gym card, but I never go there. It's a front. I pay for the membership every couple of years, thinking I'll be embarrassed enough to go. But every time I go, there's like people twice my age that look twice as good!
Rachael RayI work too much to be an appropriate parent. I feel like a bad mom to my dog [Isaboo, a pit bull] some days because Iโm just not here enough. I just feel like I would do a bad job if I took the time to literally give birth to a kid right now and try and juggle everything Iโm doing.
Rachael RayWhen men I have dated over the years whined about, โOh, you make no time for meโ โ see ya! I just dumped them. I donโt need that pressure in my life.
Rachael RayIf you're preparing a dinner for friends or a holiday dinner, make sure to only prepare recipes you are comfortable with and have cooked before. Cooking for others is not the time to try out a recipe for the first time. You end up spending all your time in the kitchen instead of enjoying your company.
Rachael RayI was always a person on my mother's hip in the kitchen. My mom really wanted her kids at her side as much as possible, and she worked in restaurants for over fifty years. And my grandfather had ten children, and he grew and prepared most of the food. My grandmother, on my mother's side, was the family seamstress and the baker. So my mom, the eldest child, was always in the kitchen with my grandpa and I was always in the production and restaurant kitchens and our own kitchen with my mom. And it's just something that has always spoken to me.
Rachael Ray