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?

Baking cookies is comforting, and cookies are the sweetest little bit of comfort food. They are very bite-sized and personal.

You don't need to be born with a silver spoon to reach for the brass ring

One of the things I do in my cookbooks is I will do a conversion from outdoor to indoor grilling so you can do it year-round.

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.

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.

As a kid, I thought John Denver was the perfect Prince Charming.

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.

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

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

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.

The full moon symbol on my calendar no longer seemed to be a period marking the end of something, but just another way of counting time.

Isn't it queer that the things we writhe over at night are seldom wicked things? Just humiliating ones.

If you let all the bad thing in life stop you

It's possible to save oneself from Satan, Father Francis, but from men—never!

The weakness of human reason appears more evidently in those who know it not than in those who know it.

A great many men's gratitude is nothing but a secret desire to hook in more valuable kindnesses hereafter.

My father was everything to me. Unlike my mother - I didn't have a special affinity with her.

We make butterflies by feeding caterpillars, not by trying to paste wings on them. Kids need to like themselves the way they are, and we can help them develop a positive self-image.

A man who will not die to save a woman is no man.

I laugh, mirthless, a mad laugh. I savor the scowl on her face, the hate in her eyes. She was like a machine; she was cold and emotionless, bound by logic alone. And I broke her.