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.
Hello friends. Gather round. Let’s talk about some seriously delicious scones. But shh…let’s NOT talk about how much butter they contain. Pioneer Woman writes “Do not knead or press too much; you want o leave that gluten alone!” Pay no …
Pioneer Woman’s Roasted Beef Tenderloin and Olive Cheese Bread – completed 11.19.2010 Start with some meat. Sear it a little. Mix up some herbs, some oil and some bacon grease to rub on the meat. Comme ca. Cook for a …
My friend Jenn came to town for business, and a quick visit, and while she was here we tackled the following: First you have to clean the shrimp, which to me was grosser than stuffing a turkey and killing a …
Jennie and I are sitting in her dining room looking through the book and planning our cooking schedule for this coming Saturday, when we will be finishing up our PW challenge by cooking our last 4 recipes. One of these …
Step one. Meat. Lots of meat. I am not normally a meat lasagna eater, but alas, here we were. And we were too far in to make moderations now. So we went on, meat in hand. Or, in skillet. Now, …
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 …
We’ve only got 8 recipes left folks! We’re in the home stretch, now! This Saturday, we’ll knock out two more by making The Pioneer Woman’s braised beef brisket and the burgundy mushrooms. Both recipes will require an entire day of …
