In "The Pioneer Woman Cooks: Recipes from an Accidental Country Girl,"
Ree Drummond provides step by step recipes in categories like Starters
(appetizers), In the Morning (breakfast), Dinner (lunch), Supper (dinner),
and Sweets (dessert). There are also bonus sections like Sunday Dinner and
Cowboy Dinner Party.
The book is full of colorful photographs, and starts off with an introduction
where Drummond tells her story of becoming a country girl and learning southern
cooking. Having graduated from a college in L.A., she goes back home with plans
to fly to Chicago and start law school. However, her plans are disturbed when
she meets Marlboro Man--the character to become her husband and a true cowboy -
in an eatery one day. From then on, it's marriage, four kids, country life, and
a long immersion into southern cooking. Throughout the recipes, Drummond includes
pictures of her family and her country life.
The recipes themselves are delicious: roasted corn salad, morning cinnamon
rolls, sour cream pancakes, buttermilk biscuits, onion rings, meatloaf, fried
chicken, spicy pulled pork, flat apple pie, chocolate sheet cake, blackberry
cobbler, and etc. Those familiar with Drummond's blog--which she briefly
mentions in the book--may have known Ree's kitchen style, but for me it was
a discovery. We were especially impressed by the fact that for each recipe,
Drummond actually provides pictures of each step to supplement the text.
As a beginning cook, we found this very helpful.
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