Our love of The Pioneer Woman’s cooking blog is older than our own blog. Her eclectic home-style kitchen creations sang to our heart-songs, and we’d been devotees of her recipes long before Jennie received the Pioneer Woman Cookbook for Christmas in 2009. Emboldened by our friends and family’s warm reception of our young blog, and since we’d both recently read Julie and Julia, we decided we needed a project. In February of 2010, the Pioneer Woman Challenge was born. It seemed like a simple plan. 65 recipes in a little under 12 months seemed like a comfortable pace, and it was for a while. By Autumn of 2010, however, we started to feel the crunch. The last few months of the PW Challenge were a frenzied race to the finish line, and we loved every second of it. We learned to trust the Pioneer Woman and to trust each other. We also gained about ten pounds of butter weight. Read through the PW Challenge posts to relive the madness.
We took some free time we had while our baking goods are chilling to count up a few key ingredients over the last year…and the results are hilarious, and yet disturbing as well…we’ve used: 53 cups of flour 9.25 pounds …
Hello friends! Jennie and I got started cooking about an hour ago. We’ve got four more recipes to make today and then we’ll be done. Not to mention we’re hosting a Christmas party at Jennie’s house tonight, and we need to …
This.was.amazing. I would eat this every day if I could. Fact. Make some linguine… Heat up some oil and butter, PW’s fave. Add some garlic. And then, some clams…mmm…clams. And some more clam juice. And add some lemon. And add …
At November’s book club meeting, we invited our friend MMC over early to take some photos for us! They came out beautifully – here are a few of our delicious Sangria… Take some fruit. Leave out the fruits your friends …
Last weekend, we came two steps closer to completing the Pioneer Woman Challenge and spent a full day cooking up the braised beef brisket (about 4 hours) and burgundy mushrooms (9 hours). Step 1. Mix up a delicious marinade, and …
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 …