You don't need to be born with a silver spoon to reach for the brass ring
Baking cookies is comforting, and cookies are the sweetest little bit of comfort food. They are very bite-sized and personal.
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My secret to survival has been embracing life's challenges and not letting them dictate my frame of mind or determine my fate... Learning to stand strong in the face of challenge and adversity is the only way to get through the tough times.
Sure, you can mix the flour, baking soda, salt, shortening, and the whole nine yards, but why wouldn't you just pull out a box of Bisquick?
Give yourself permission to get the most out of your life. If you're spending all your time scrubbing corners with a toothbrush, you're kind of missing the point. Taking shortcuts doesn't mean shortcutting the end result.
Baking is how you start kids at cooking in the kitchen. It's fun whether it's baking bread or cookies. With baking, you have to be exact when it comes to ingredients.
How do I cope with stress? I clean and organize.
If we want to truly live, at some point, we find the dark facts of psychic life demand our full attention.
It's really easy to figure out why I love what I love, the holidays and food. I know the difference between having them and not having them.
My audience knows me, and I wear beautiful clothes as a badge of honor. They remember where I came from.
Why I have had such a huge career and why I have sold over four million books, is that people can do what I share with them to do.
Different types of chicken come at different price points. Filets are going to be more expensive. If it's bone-in and skin-on it's going to be less expensive.
I didn’t even cry, I was stunned. You know, and that’s just how fast life turns. It turns on a dime.
I don't think there are any footsteps to be walked in. No one else has taken things that you can buy at the grocery store and put them together. I hope that I have a career as long as Julia Child.
I can certainly be part of the socialite group and walk those carpets every day, but I choose not to because I prefer to be grounded. You can't be at home and on the red carpet.
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.
Baking is how you start kids at cooking in the kitchen.
I always buy the smaller turkeys. On the pre-baste put pats of butter on the meat under the skin, put the skin back on, put a bunch of seasoning on the top, call it a day, put it in the oven. With a 10 - 12 pound turkey you are done in a couple of hours.
Yes, I love white, and I'd wear it all the time if I could. Some people think I have an issue with cleanliness, but to me it's just so pretty.
Lack of sleep makes me less productive. I need a good seven or eight hours a night.
Instead of doing cinnamon, nutmeg, and all those baking spices I'll have one spice that's for sweets, and that's pumpkin pie spice.
If you've attended the Cordon Bleu, you would know that no woman is supposed to be a chef - only men.
I'm not sure that some of the food purists are in touch with what really goes on in American households.
I think women today are so overwhelmed and overtaxed.
