Pioneer Woman Challenge: 2010

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.

If you’d like to see the mayhem unfolding, check out all the PW Challenge Posts here.

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 …

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So in case you haven’t gathered yet, MAC is GF (gluten free.) Because of this fact, she couldn’t come over to bake with us, but we had video-conference with her. First, we had to make a red velvet cake for …

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Things we learned while making PW’s chicken fried steak and fried cube steak: 1. It is extremely difficult to find 3 pounds of cube steak in any grocery store in L.A. I went to at least 3 before I found …

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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 …

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Amidst the burrito/breakfast bowl craziness, Jennie managed to whip up this delicious little PW recipe for us. They were a major hit and we can not wait to make them again. Admittedly, since I didn’t help much in this process, …

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On Halloween, because we don’t know how to relax, we decided to cap off a weekend of craft nights, cross-town moves, and costume parties by inviting a couple (or four) friends over for some Pioneer Woman breakfast recipes. On the …

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Short, sweet. Just like the cookies. Please notice the number of egg shells: two. Please note the yolks: three. Magic, I tell you, Magic!

Start with some butter. Two sticks, to be exact. Mmmmm, buttah. You add some chocolate, and you stir that all together. Meet Heaven. You have some flour over here, and some eggs. You add the delicious chocolatey butter to the …

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