I'm a thirty-something ranch wife, mother of four, moderately agoraphobic middle child who grew up on a golf course in the city.
My days are spent wrangling children, chipping dried manure from boots, washing jeans, and frying calf nuts.
I created 'Dinner: Impossible' with a guy named Bryan O'Reilly and I shot the pilot as a 30 minute show and we sold it.
If two people share one, their destinies become intertwined. They'll remain a part of each other's lives no matter what.
If you don't take care of this the most magnificent machine that you will ever be given...where are you going to live?
We are slow to believe that which if believed would hurt our feelings.
Only those who attempt the absurd will achieve the impossible. I think it's in my basement... let me go upstairs and check.
I'm in the kitchen five days a week, no matter what, and one or two of those days I'm on the line. Not because I have to be, but because I want to be.
I don't feel like a 40-year-old. I feel more like four 10-year-olds, each pulling in a different direction.
No rules. Don't be afraid to do whatever you want. Cooking doesn't have to have rules. I don't like it that way.
We can survive as a population only if we conserve, develop sustainably, and protect the world's resources.
We in the west are seen as godless, as greedy and as uncaring about the suffering of those in the developing world.
We often plough so much energy into the big picture, we forget the pixels.
I think it's very expensive to not eat healthy. Eating healthy is the only affordable option we have left.
Even before the earthquake in Haiti, only half the country's population had a source of safe drinking water.
Not only does the summer bring warm weather and tons of summer activities, but it also yields a fresh crop of increasingly useful avocados!
Chocolate is one of the world's most beloved discoveries, and when we need a quick boost of energy and endorphins, chocolate is the go-to treat.
Cooking turkey every year doesn't have to be monotonous - I want people to always mix it up using different spices and preparations.
As an adopted person, once you find out about that 'other' side of yourself, it's almost like you find out who you really are.
My father loved to take us on historical vacations, and you should have seen the stares we received in East Berlin.
While keeping active is a major aspect of staying fit, what you use for fuel definitely factors in.
