Cooking with The Pioneer Woman
Wednesday, September 1, 2010 at 12:48PM As I mentioned last week, I finally got the Pioneer Woman cookbook. I've really grown to adore PW (or P-Dub, which is how I think of her in my head when I pretend we're chummy) and everything about her site: the photography, the life stories, the bits of humor, the general happy-yet-realistic approach to life. After coming a bit late to the PW party, I now very clearly get what the whole big deal was about (so much so that I didn't even bother her when I saw her in the hallway at BlogHer but I squealed and squee'd on the inside).
But back to the cookbook. I wanted it almost like I'd want a souvenir. But once I took it home and had a chance to go through it page by page (which took two or three days, thanks to little Nate), I realized something else.
I want to cook every single thing in this book.
No, really. I thought that off-handedly and then I thought, "Well, why not?" It's sort of like Julie & Julia, except without the scary French recipes, the somewhat unlikeable author (I hope, eep), and the extra-marital affair (I really hope). (Side note - did you know that Julie had an affair that was detailed in the book but left out of the film? And people already thought the "character" of Julie was unlikeable in the film; no wonder they left out the affair.)
But anyway, this is really nothing like that other than this being another woman (me) hoping to go through an entire cookbook. I'm sure many others have done it since any time there's a good blog idea, a bunch of copycats appear.
So far I've made four of the recipes in the book, so I've got a few posts to catch up on here, now! The first one up will be PW's Chicken Spaghetti. Stay tuned!
Reader Comments (3)
OOOOOhhhhh! I made her chicken spaghetti. It's awesome! You're making me hungry now.
ah-ha! the PW cookbook is going straight onto my birthday wishlist...i can't believe I didn't think to put it on there sooner!
All the recipes look so good but so bad for you! I got the book for the signing and now that the kids are in school I am going to try a few out...how have they been so far?
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