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Last month I had the privilege of finally meeting her in San Francisco during Blogherfood. She is even more wonderful, gracious, and genuine than I could have imagined. So it was with much anticipation I looked forward to her cookbook being released tomorrow. And fortunately for me as an attendee of the conference I was able to receive a preview copy.
In her cookbook “The Pioneer Woman Cooks: Recipes from an Accidental Country Girl
One cannot help but imagine being transported to Ree’s Ranch when preparing and eating these dishes. Every dish has detailed step-by-step photos (tons of photos!) and instructions making it virtually impossible for home cooks to fail. The recipes are not hard to execute and many of the ingredients are items likely in your home already.
Earlier in the week I prepared Skillet Cornbread from her cookbook and it was wonderful! The recipe can be found here. Coincidentally, tomorrow is my birthday which is the official release date of Ree’s cookbook. As a pre-birthday celebration, yesterday my husband with the help of my daughters (who know how to operate my Kitchenaid) surprised me by baking Ree’s French Breakfast Puffs out of her cookbook. To some, this would not seem like a big deal, but for me it is totally a big deal! Just as an FYI, my husband does not cook or bake. You could imagine my shock when the kids brought a plate of muffins to my bed and he explained they baked these for me. They were a huge hit in our family!! If Rob can bake these, anyone can bake and cook out of this cookbook. Thank God Ree included lots of pictures to help him! On a funny note, Rob documented the whole process with my camera while I was sleeping. (Notice the kids birthday candle?!)
This cookbook is a gift of love.. from her family to yours. I would highly recommend this cookbook for anyone who loves real home cooking like chicken fried steak, buttermilk biscuits and red velvet cake. Her photos, story-telling, and recipes will make this cookbook a treasured piece in your kitchen. Get your Holiday shopping done early and order a few copies now! Perfect timing for Christmas presents!
For 1 lucky person, I am giving away a SIGNED COPY of “The Pioneer Woman Cooks: Recipes from an Accidental Country Girl
Contest is now closed. Thanks to everyone who entered.
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I love the photo of you two! You are both gorgeous! My hubs loves my homemade mac and cheese! It is comforting!
Alice, what a great giveaway!! Happy almost birthday!
Oops Almost forgot about my fav. homestyle dish… Definitely lasagna. Is that homestyle? Well, in my house it is… I love how easy it is to make and how little preparation needs to go into such a delicious dish. I absolutely love good lasagna!
Also, I love Ree not only because she’s amazing, but because she in truly inspirational as are all of the food bloggers that I meet on a daily basis. Ree not only is a mom, but she’s an amazing photographer, great writer, and manages to do so much!
She’s totally awesome!
Yum… the breakfast sounds wonderful! So sweet of them to prepare it for you and document the process. Sounds like a great cookbook. Can’t wait to get my hands on a copy of it.
I am a huge fan of cornbread… that skillet cornbread sounds great!
What a wonderful giveaway!!
The Pioneer Woman is really inspiring to me as a food/lifestyle blogger. She’s proof positive that you can find success in this world!
My favorite home-style dish would have to be a good Mac & Cheese dish. Nothing better!
Skillet cornbread is my absolute favorite comfort food! I make it for my family when we have chicken noodle soup – it’s perfect together
Fabulous giveaway – Ree’s stories always make me laugh! Best comfort food for me is roast chicken and vegetables with a hunk of delicious bread. Perfection.
I have tried so many recipes from THE PIONEER WOMAN and nothing dissapoints me. I LOVE her apple pie!!!! Oh my I could go on and on…..
i love ree because she always seems so positive and upbeat. My fave comfort food would have to be homemade mac & cheese.
I’ve just been introduced to The Pioneer Woman but she speaks my language.
As for my favorite home-style dish it would have to be homestyle yeast rolls w/ beef stew.
I love Ree’s recipes! I’m still learning to cook a great many things and her recipes are detailed, funny and so delicious. her pico de gallo guacamole is the only guac I’ve ever liked.
Julia
Great review and I love the picture of you two.
Happy Birthday!
I love good old chicken fried steak with cream gravy and maybe a few buttermilk biscuits, to round it all out. I’m not afraid of fat, no sir!!
PW is one of the first blogs I check each morning. She’s coming to Denver next Monday and I can’t wait!
Favorite home style dish– baked mac and cheese, beef stew, chicken noodle soup, homemade turkey stuffing…so many!
This is a GREAT giveaway!
My favorite home-style dish is the chicken and dumplings my grandmother has made my family exactly twice (they made quite the impression), but after I made Ree’s mac and cheese last week I might have to change my mind!
Excellent review, I look forward to adding this cookbook to my collection (regardless of the outcome of the giveaway
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I love Ree’s cooking and photography and how down to earth she is with millions of fans. I have made some of her recipes, but my fave is the “Crash Hot Potatoes” that my 3 year old calls ‘Run Over Potatoes’. Yum.
Oh, I love Ree, too! She’s just so REAL…don’t we all feel like we are her best friend?!? Love a copy, although I’ll be running to buy one even if I don’t win.
Just made her chicken parm this past weekend for my husband’s birthday and we think it was one of the best incarnations of that recipe ever!
Love PW and everything she writes – she and her contributors even make the Homeschooling section a good ‘read’ for those of us without kids.
i have been looking forward to the release for so long! i love everything i have made from her site. my favorite would def have to be the chocolate cake. best cake i’ve ever had!
I love her recipes, and the pictures she posts for them. I love her mashed potatoe recipe, and oh the blackberry cobbler with the biscuit topping is sooo good! Yum. I bet her cookbook is going to be great!
My favorite homestyle dish is Chicken Pot Pie. Mmm.
I love Ree for her candidness about things I’m not willing to say.
I love Ree because her recipes are REAL! They aren’t overdone. Also, I swear my boyfriend is dating me because of some recipes I cooked for his birthday. They are still our favorites!
I love reading Ree’s site — so many pretty pictures and she seems so fun. I love fresh baked bread.
I love Ree because of the copious amounts of pictures she puts with her recipes……or any post for that matter. She spoiled me for all other cooking blog posts.
Ree is so great! All that she does is amazing and I recently made her steak with bleu cheese onion sauce and my husband flipped. It is a comfort food I look forward to making again and again. She does really know what men like to eat
That is so darn cute that your husband and kids baked for you. I can see why it was a big deal. It’s always nice when your loved ones do something they know you’ll love
I love Ree! Mostly because she is randomly adorable and titles her giveaway endings with “weiners!”
I love Ree’s crazy stories and her photography section!
I LOVE the pioneer woman! I need this cookbook! My favorite down home food has to be mac and cheese!
I have yet to discover my favorite home-style dish. I am too busy trying new recipes always. It doesn’t seem like I cook the samething twice. I love Ree! She will be at a book signing close to my home, but I have to work and can not sneak away!
I love Ree for the same reasons you do – she is real! Mistakes and all make it onto her blog. I love it!
My favorite home cooked meal is Fettuccine Alfredo. Ree’s recipe is awesome! I always knew there was a missing link when I would make mine at home, but she said to add a little nutmeg and all the sudden I had this million dollar dish on my hands. I love Ree because I really feel like we are just the best of friends that have never met. My boyfriend left for Marine Corps OCS this past summer, right before I discovered who the Pioneer Woman was. Her blog gave me comfort everyday while he was away and on the upside, once he came back, I had a plethora of awesome recipes to try out on him! Thanks Ree!
I love, love, love Pioneer Woman. Her writing style gives me permission to share random tangents in my own blog and I absolutely love how she writes like she’s cooking WITH you, not at you. Personal, witty, unabashedly feminine, she just lets it flow. Not to mention the gorgeous pictures and inspiring recipes…
As for my own favorite comfort food, I’d have to go with my mom’s chicken pot pie. I haven’t blogged about it yet because I haven’t been able to duplicate it!
My favorite homestyle dish is meatloaf. It is so good, and savory. Fills me up. I love ree too because her type of cooking is homestyle and not gourmet or extra fancy.
I absolutely adore every element of Ree’s blogging. I was drawn in by the photography and stayed for the food! Tasty Kitchen is a great addition as well, I love recipe compilation sites. My favorite home-cooked treat would probably have to be apple pie. Mmmmm… Time to work on my pie crust skills…
Ree is the reason why I started cooking and baking after 14 years of marriage where cooking was a dirty word~! : ) I came across her blog through a friend, who was also venturing out in the blog world. Before then, I had never even read a blog.
Her simple directions and very detailed pictures made me think that even I could try a hand at it and thus started my journey of love of cooking and baking. Many many recipes later, with happy and full stomachs, my family and I are grateful for Ree and her willingness to share and encourage.
It is through PW, by the way, is how I have stumbled onto your site and I am loving it! Many of your recipes have already been added to my cooking/baking repertoire and I am looking forward to more!
Thanks for this opportunity to thank and acknowledge you and Ree’s contribution to a newfound love for me!
I love Ree because she’s REAL!! She never sugarcoats anything on her various websites – she tells it like it is and is a beautiful person. She loves life and can teach us all that valuable lesson (and more)!
I love love love Ree’s recipes.
I have yet to make one of her recipes my family did not love. Even my youngest son aka Mr. Picky. 
so far my favorite is her truffles, and her pico de gayo recipe. She is the best. Also I happened to find your blog through hers!
The Pioneer Woman is fantastic! I love her take on the wild country and seeing into her life, from the comfort of my city apartment.
My favorite homestyle dish would definitely be pretty much any berry crisp… yum. Maybe with a little vanilla ice cream.
My mom used to make homemade macaroni & cheese every Halloween. I try to keep that tradition going but of course it’s never as good as hers. It’s SO good!
(I also can’t recreate her apple crisp or her meatloaf or her Yorhshire pudding…dangit. At least I keep trying!)
I love Ree too…because she has pictures of how she cooks…and her witty commentary =o)
I’ve been reading Pioneer Woman since near the beginning of her blogging career. Ree makes me laugh on many days when I don’t feel much like laughing.
I think homemade soups and stews are my favorite meals especially in the winter. Paired with homemade bread fresh out of the oven and life is good.
My comfort dish has got to be tomatoes and egg stir fried together with green onions and a touch of sugar. Classic chinese dish and oh so simple but GOOD!
Ree makes me laugh, and her food is always something that I can make. And one of my favorite home cooked dishes is cornbread. Looking forward to your post tomorrow!
I love Ree too! I would love her signed copy of the book. I love all the detail she puts into each recipe and the pictures.
I’d been hearing about the Pioneer Woman’s blog for YEARS and I never understood:
1. Why people were so in to it
2. That it was just one woman who seemed to be a pro at so many things.
That was because I never actually bothered to visit. That all changed about 2 months ago when I got into Food Blogs and all of a sudden I found myself having the same deep crush on Ree that everyone else has had for years. I feel so stupid for not having visited her world sooner! You described her perfectly when calling her your coach who just wants to see you succeed. She is a true treasure! Thank you for the opportunity to win her book here
I adore Pioneer Woman! I just made her garlicky roasted potatos and they were so delish!
While I was able to attend BlogHer Food as well, I didn’t get an opportunity to meet Ree personally. However, her spirit and determination were infectious and I was smitten!
My favorite homestyle meal is vegetarian lasagna, packed full of seasonal veggies!
Love, Love, Love Ree and her world! I had tears in my eyes from laughter as she described her Ice Cream damaged lip-poor thing! It just sounded like something I would do. She is definitely girlfriend forever material! And her Bacon Wrapped Jalapeno thingies-heaven!
I love reading the Pioneer Woman- she makes me laugh out loud daily and her photos are beautiful.
I was planning on buying this, but would LOVE to win it! Every one of Ree’s recipes that I’ve tried has been great – especially her meatballs and mashed potatoes.
I love good country cooking. One of my favorite recipes is one I have for Chili, and it is a staple in out house in the colder months. It is not a very hot chili, but mild and very flavorful. I had not heard of Ree before this, but is sounds like she makes the kind of foods I grew up on and have such fond memories of.
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