Eva Longoria’s character on “Desperate Housewives” may not strike as domestic, but the actress says she tries to cook every day in real life and shares her kitchen skills in a new cookbook.

Called “Eva’s Kitchen: Cooking with Love for Family and Friends,” the cookbook includes family recipes and the 36-year-old actress’s specialties such as chicken tortilla soup.

Longoria said compiling the dishes into cookbook recipes, though, was at times challenging.

“I’m a natural cooker, and I cook by instinct so if I want salt I’ll put salt and if I don’t I don’t, so I felt really bad telling people to put, you know, a quarter-cup of cheese if they didn’t want it, you know, I’m like, ‘Or not! You don’t have to!’” she said. “I just felt really bossy so that was really hard for me because I always find cooking so natural.”

Longoria, who filed for divorce from San Antonio Spurs basketball player Tony Parker last year, says she would like to write another cookbook in the future to include the rest of her recipes.

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