Hello friends! We’re almost finished with the road trip with only one more day on the road! To continue where we left off, I want to tell you about Thursday, when we drove from Texas City to New Orleans. We …

When we awoke on Wednesday morning, after our 4:30 arrival, we were renewed and ready to hit the streets of San Antonio. Luckily, our hotel was mere blocks from the Riverwalk and the Alamo. We strolled the city streets to …

Our third recipe for Cucina Fresca: February was Roasted Herb Chicken. We choose to do a roast chicken because we wanted to make a roast chicken as per our goals (see number 15) and we also wanted to tackle another …

Dear Pioneer Woman, We’ve spent the last year calling you by name almost daily, believing that you are our distant aunt, cousin, sister, friend, confidante. We have loved your book with the intensity of a favorite novel; pages are splattered …

We made you an index, because we’re VERY nice and we’d like you all to check back and remember the Pioneer Woman challenge any time you want… Angel Sugar Cookies Basic Breakfast potatoes BBQ Jalapeno poppers Beans Braised Beef Brisket …

As we have already perfected the pizza dough, we weren’t worried about polishing off the potato-leek pizza or cowboy calzone. “Next pizza night” was what we said. So we waited, and waited, and that pizza night didn’t come…our busy lives …

As we wrap up the 2010 Pioneer Woman Cookbook challenge, it’s come to our attention that we neglected to blog about a few recipes along the way. We also, in some cases, forgot to take good photographs (or any at …

This is the beginning of some very delicious artichoke dip. Meanwhile, make some bacon for your potato skins. After the twice baked potato fiasco of 2010, we were wary of potato skins, but it ended OK. Also, cut up 18 …

For Thanksgiving, our friend Jen did us a huge favor and agreed to handle this flat apple pie recipe for us, while we busied ourselves with turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, prune cake and red velvet cake. Bless her heart, she …

A few weeks ago, we tackled the Pioneer Woman’s twice baked potatoes along with chicken fried steak and fried cube steak. None of these recipes fall within our normal purview, and we’ll honestly probably never make them again. But, we …