I measure in my palm and use my eyes to estimate amounts; a tablespoon is a full palm of dried spices. Rachael Ray More Quotes by Rachael Ray More Quotes From Rachael Ray You can laugh or you can cry. It is up to you which one you do. Rachael Ray cry up-to-you laughing Everybody's twelve years old in an apple orchard. Rachael Ray apples children years The most essential part of my day is a proper dinner. Rachael Ray dinner essentials I don't categorize food as bad or a guilty pleasure. Rachael Ray guilty-pleasure guilty pleasure I used to work in kitchens, doing 12 or more hours a day of physical labor, so today, eight to 12 hours of cooking, chatting or filming feels like a vacation. When I have a scheduled 'day off,' I spend several hours writing, then I clean until I crash from fatigue. I don't relax well. Rachael Ray vacation eight writing Since I never get on a scale, I have no idea how much weight I've lost! Rachael Ray weight lost ideas I do 280 episodes of TV a year, write 15 recipes for the magazine, and publish an annual book. With all of that, we try to get one weekend a month with Isaboo at our home in the Adirondacks to relax and recharge. Rachael Ray home writing book I wish I could be as thin as Jessica Simpson. I think she looks gorgeous! I have had Jessica on my show several times, and I can tell you that girl is genuine and funny with a great self-deprecating sense of humor. Rachael Ray girl funny thinking Decide what it is that you are and then stay true to that thing. My brand is based very much on how I live my day-to-day life. Rachael Ray stay-true brands inspirational I don't have to write jokes. I don't have to write insults. If you ask the man of the hour in the hot seat, my mere existence is clearly insult enough. Rachael Ray hot writing men I make a dog-friendly version of almost everything that we make for dinner. Rachael Ray dinner dog friendly You know, food is such - it's a hug for people. Rachael Ray hug knows people My husband cooks fancier food for himself than I've ever cooked on-air. I call him from the road, and he's making champagne-vanilla salmon or black-cherry pork chop. Half of me is feeling unworthy. Not only am I not a chef, I'm not a better cook than my own husband! Rachael Ray husband air feelings I live in, literally, the same home when I was swiping my first bank card and wondering if I'd have to put back the Charmin. We still don't have a dishwasher. My mom has done all these gardens so now my house looks like the garden shack in the middle of Versailles. Rachael Ray garden mom home Television itself is an intimate medium. It's in your house. You're visiting with these people... Not everybody's going to like it, just like not everybody likes everybody on the playground. I mean, that's life - especially if your job is to just go out there and be yourself. Rachael Ray being-yourself jobs mean Whatever it is you want to do, take a job in that field. You will learn by experience and, slow and steady, you'll get it done! Rachael Ray done want jobs When I do a 30-minute meal, for instance, on Food Network, that's my food you see at the end of the show and it's not perfect. And if sometimes things break or drop or the pasta hits the wall when I'm draining it, they never stop tape. They just kind of let me go with it. Rachael Ray wall perfect past You don't feel as self-conscious if your clothes fit. Rachael Ray clothes fit self When men I have dated over the years whined about, ‘Oh, you make no time for me’ – see ya! I just dumped them. I don’t need that pressure in my life. Rachael Ray men years needs I have this extraordinary life during the day, and then I get to come home to my sweet husband who loves to cook with me. I have a nice glass of wine, he has some scotch, we chat, we cook, and we hang out with the dog. I have an absolute dream life. Rachael Ray dog dream sweet
