How do I cope with stress? I clean and organize.

When I'm really stressed out, I go to church. I light candles and sit and pray. And I'll ask myself, What's the lesson? Why am I going through this? There's got to be a reason I'm here. What am I supposed to learn?

Baking is how you start kids at cooking in the kitchen.

I like doing food as a focal point on my table. It is not like going out and buying flowers or candles, which are expensive.

If we want to truly live, at some point, we find the dark facts of psychic life demand our full attention.

Seventy percent store-bought, ready-made plus 30 percent fresh allows you to take 100 percent of the credit.

I'm the only girl on The Food Network who grills - I have two bestselling grilling books. I try to really focus on what men and women can do outside together out on the grill. I think it's really fun to have men and women out there together, having fun, working and enjoying themselves.