Sandra Lee Quotes

I had a really good time with Martha Stewart, who also is somebody I really admire a lot. I've learned a lot from her and I think all of America has, about attention to detail and using fresh ingredients and making things beautiful and special.

I love HGTV. I love the Food Network.

I also had a hosting position on a home and garden television show - which is a joke if you ever see my apartment.

My guilty pleasure is I like to watch a lot of HGTV. I really like watching design shows about houses, like extreme homes. Like buying a bridge and turning it into a house or something like that. I really am interested in home design or something like that... architecture.

I love to design and remodel houses, from working with the contractors to picking the colours, materials, kitchen and bathroom accessories to finally what furniture goes where.

I am not quite Martha Stewart, but I do like cooking and gardening.

I love decorating my home. I'm a gardener too, so that's usually something I have to play catch up with.

Cooking, decorating, diet/self-help and gardening books are guilty pleasures and useful time fillers.

My kitchen is my baby. I don't have kids, so cooking is sort of like my child. Renovating my kitchen has allowed me to channel my creativity the way parents work on a nursery. The centerpiece is my vintage 1950s Wedgewood stove.

Shah Rukh himself, if he wasn't an actor, would probably have liked to become an architect or interior designer. He's totally into buying property, building, and decorating.

I like interior decorating. I really like to build houses. And landscaping, I like that.

I think cookery shows have become so sophisticated, and everyone's so marvellous at it, but there are people like me who aren't into the cooking malarkey, who still don't know how to boil an egg for three minutes.

I like people to really get a feel for the house before they do anything to it.

I was at a party, and some squiggly looking dude with a bow tie came up and said, 'How'd you like to be on TV?' Turns out he was the programming guy at the Food Network. They had me come into the office, and I did a 'Ready, Set, Cook' with Emeril Lagasse, I believe.

I do house things. I paint. I do portraits. I also paint my house.

I have an expensive hobby: buying homes, redoing them, tearing them down and building them up the way they want to be built. I want to be an architect.

'My Family Recipe Rocks' is on the Live Well Network, and we go to people's homes and watch them cook.

The only pleasure in redecorating or moving house comes from stumbling across books that I'd almost forgotten I owned.

Martha Stewart's my idol.

If you look at the statistics, people spend most of their time in the kitchen. Aside from the backyard, it's one of my favorite places to renovate.

I've always been interested in DIY and home renovation - even from my first student flat. I've always left places better than when I moved in.

I remember the Food Network when it was first starting out: Emeril Lagasse and all those people who helped make it when it was on a shoestring budget. It actually encouraged me to start cooking.

I was lucky enough to have great mentors both in the culinary world and in the world of chefs who became celebrities. Bobby Flay is one of my dearest friends and a tremendous mentor for me. Mario Batali is the same way. They began doing TV a little before me and they showed me the way.

I feel fortunate to be part of the cooking community. We learn from each other.

Who doesn't want to be Martha Stewart?