"Just when your editor asks you to write a bio for your brand new web site, along creeps an invisible pole that smacks into the back of your husband’s Suburban. My husband Ken did not believe the invisible pole story. He didn't believe me when I told him it was "faux marble" either. I had painted our tile floor. He said it looked like bowling shoes."

In her new 2 1/2 minute food show, Debbie Davis shines the sunny side up on family and food with a whole lot of fun in between. In this clever concoction of what Debbie calls "a fresh recipe for greater joy", Debbie celebrates motherhood. Quite refreshing, since Debbie knows all too well how easily family life can morph into a dispersed agenda. Her show is a sweet reminder that perhaps there is a more delicious way to stay connected.

Debbie is no stranger to creating unique recipes. She is well-known in East Texas for her award winning restaurants, although she admits she once overcooked her family. One time she even grounded her daughter by taking away her alarm clock. Her daughter was like, "cool- I can oversleep for school." Debbie says all joking aside, it wasn't funny when she nearly lost her daughter. Then by the grace of God, Debbie stumbled across a simple recipe that transitioned her family. Suddenly they were having too much fun together.  "That's what a waitress told us. She said families do not have this much fun together, you cannot possibly be related." It was an epiphany.

If you ask Debbie to elaborate how she went from being a licensed private investigator, to an accomplished toy inventor, to a marketing consultant for Michaels Stores, a craft personality on Home Shopping Network, to an award winning restaurateur, and then dishing on TV, she will tell you that everything happens for a reason. She will not elaborate that her toys made the cover of catalogs or that her restaurants are 1st Place People's Choice winners. With that being said, now a little bit from Debbie on why she is so passionate about donating through this website to organizations committed to strengthening families and lifting children's spirits.

It is because I thought I was following a recipe...doing what everyone else was doing.... I thought a mother' s job was to volunteer for Noodle Night-- to help with last minute poster board projects or referee battles over the remote control. Moms held things together. What I have since discovered, is this is what rubber bands are for.

Needless to say, I am no longer ying-yanging . Such was not the case during my early cooking daze though... I was blessed with a wonderful mother who could not bake a potato. Being the eldest, I tied on an apron. Then, after my daughter was born, I started making up recipes. Money was tight. I was a single parent; had to think outside the box and create treats like Because I Said So Cookies. Chocolate chipless wonders filled with Fruit Loops instead of morsels. Who knew those mother-daughter recipes would become my "Out of the Box" food show 17 years later?

From the future I bring you the guy who still thinks our floor looks like bowling shoes. He gave up his career in his family's event-planning business in Chicago to move Marissa and me to Texas. That's where I invented a transfer system for painting furniture. That creation catapulted me in front of television cameras. I had never done TV before. Suddenly I was on QVC, HGTV, and PBS just yakking away...From there, Ken and I moved our family to a small community 100 miles east of Dallas. In 1999 we bought a burger joint, East Texas Burger Co.

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That humble eatery still makes french fries one potato at a time. A lot of historical people have dined there—including Bonnie and Clyde, (long before we owned it). We opened a second restaurant, La Waffalata. That's where I make Apricot Bread Pudding. The local CBS news station, stopped by, took a bite, and the rest is history.

So there I was, back on TV again. Being on the air locally has given me the opportunity to meet viewers up close. These wonderful people inspire me. I receive hugs and thank you's for talking about what I believe in most: You. Other families like ours, who love each other deeply even if they cannot remember why.

It is my greatest joy through laughs and great food to give back to viewers what they have given to others, and me. I once heard that the greatest way to strengthen your heart is to bend down and lift someone else up. It is my hope that Dishing With Debbie is a platform that does just this-a place where real life moms can share their stories that then become a part of you. Let's celebrate the people sitting around the table, while dishing food to go on top of it. Because quite frankly we can.

How do I know? Because I've met you—parents and grandparents, children and their stuffed animals, who have all discovered their own unique recipe for making everything more delicious. That is what is really cooking.