The most overrated tool: a pasta maker. Why make it when you can buy it? It's a lot of work!

I like almonds as a snack - keeps your energy up but doesn't fill you up.

Anyone who tries to make brownies without butter should be arrested.

Grilled cheese and tomato soup is the ultimate comfort meal.

Creme Brulee is the ultimate 'guy' dessert. Make it and he'll follow you anywhere.

People have more fun if they don't eat so much they have to be taken home in an ambulance.

You can be miserable before you have a cookie and you can be miserable after you eat a cookie but you can't be miserable while you are eating a cookie.

Fun is the most important. If you do stuff for money, it never works out.

Food is not about impressing people. It's about making them feel comfortable.

Every once in a while, a cookbook comes along that simply knocks me out.

Instead of going out to dinner, buy good food. Cooking at home shows such affection. In a bad economy, it's more important to make yourself feel good.

Well, you know what they say in Hollywood - the most important thing is being sincere, even if you have to fake it.

He may have hair upon his chest but, sister, so has Lassie.

Intercession remains the unrivaled master in fulfilling the Great Commission.

I wish I wasn’t a girl who needed so much but a little free creature that slept in deserts and ran on clouds and lived on lilies.

When you are having trouble making a decision or are at a crossroads in your life and are confused about which path to take, cry out to God and ask for His guidance.

You spend a good deal of your life gripping a baseball, and it turns out it was the other way around all the time.

It is almost a definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain.

Everywhere your eye travels in your home, it should land on something that resonates with you.

Accidents are just from where you're looking; to the ego, it looks like it's miracles and accidents.

Excellence demands that you be better than yourself.