Description:
Breaking free from a dead-end relationship, Ree Drummond left Los Angeles and made a pit stop at home in Oklahoma on the way to a new life in Chicago. It was there she met "Marlboro Man," a fourth-generation cattle rancher with steely blue eyes and a muscular work-honed body. Drummond fell hard and fast, and suddenly she was married, living on his ranch in the middle of nowhere, and managing a brood of four young children (also known as "ranch hands"). In her folksy, wonderfully engaging voice, Drummond shares how she learned to cope with the isolation and peculiarities of ranch life, from chasing beavers out of the pond and saddling horses, to cooking for a man who believes the sun rises… and sets in a steak and baked potato. Using only simple and widely available ingredients, Drummond shares many of her satisfying and delicious recipes-both for cowboys and cowgirls-including Cowboy Calzones, Pioneer Woman's Ribeye Steaks, Cheese Grits, fresh Blackberry Cobbler, Pico de Gallo, and Iny's Prune Cake. Bursting with the colours and flavours of country life and peppered with her wonderful homespun stories, The Pioneer Woman Cooks encourages even the most harried urban cook to slow down, relish the joys of family, nature, and great food, and keep it real.
Author bio:
Ann Marie Drummond was born on January 6, 1969 in Oklahoma. She is an award winning blogger, New York Times Bestselling Author, food writer, photographer and television personality. She graduated from the University of Southern California in 1991, after studying journalism and gerontology. Drummond began blogging in May 2006, initially using the subdomain pioneerwoman.typepad.com within the Typepad blogging service. She registered her own top-level domain - thepioneerwoman.com - on October 18, 2006. Drummond writes about ranch life and homeschooling. A year after launching her blog, she posted her first recipe and a tutorial on "How to Cook a Steak". The tutorial was accompanied by 20… photos explaining the cooking process. Her stories about her husband, family, and country living, and her step-by-step cooking instructions and elaborate food photography, proved highly popular with readers. Confessions of a Pioneer Woman won honors at the Weblog Awards in 2007, 2008, 2009, and 2010. Her titles include The Pioneer Woman Cooks: Recipes from an Accidental Country Girl, Black Heels to tractor Wheels, The Pioneer Woman Cooks: Food From My Frontier and Charlie and the Christmas Kitty. Her title Charlie and the New Baby made The New York Times Best Seller List in 2014.