About this title: 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 ...
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: William Morrow Cookbooks
Date Published: 2009
ISBN-13:9780061658198ISBN:0061658197
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: William Morrow Cookbooks
Date Published: 2009
ISBN-13:9780061658198ISBN:0061658197
Description: New in new dust jacket. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 256 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. UPGRADE TO EXPEDITED SHIPPING. Brand New hardcover with dust jacket. Excellent condition. Fully and beautifully illustrated. Nice tight bright book. Text is clean and unmarked. No remainder marks. Your order processed and shipped promptly with a tracking number in the US. read more
"This cookbook is a boatload of fun. The story of how a big city woman became a country girl, serving hearty food to ranchers, is interesting in its own right. The variety of pictures that portray life on a ranch--having little to do with the recipes--adds a very nice context against which to look at the recipes. Just so, photos of the Pioneer woman, the ranchers, the kids, the dogs, and the horses. One minor thing that reminds me of growing up in central Illinois. Our three meals were breakfast, dinner, and supper. No such term as lunch! And that is the rubric used on the ranch--making me enjoy this a tad more.
But, it's the recipes that are central here.
In the morning. Egg in the hole. When I was a kid, we used to eat a variant of this. Simple to make and tasty! Sliced bread, butter (the author loves cooking with butter-this is not a healthy cooking cookbook), eggs, salt, and pepper. Pretty simple ingredients. And a simple recipe. Hole out the bread. Brown one side in butter. Crack an egg in the middle, and go from there. End result? Tasty. Another breakfast treat: basic breakfast potatoes. Red potatoes, onion, vegetable oil, salt, and pepper (the author likes to add bacon fat; although that adds a lot of taste, I'd leave it out!). I've just bought the potatoes and intend to make this over the next couple days.
Some dinner (or lunch, if you prefer) recipes that are likely to tempt me to make them. Chili, cube steak hearty sandwich, macaroni and cheese.
Supper (or dinner, if you prefer). Some illustrative dishes that look delicious: Chicken spaghetti, chicken-fried steak, a very nice recipe for meatloaf (too many slices of bacon for me, although it adds a delightful element to the dish), and linguine with clam sauce. One exquisite side dish-burgundy mushrooms. Ingredients include mushrooms, butter (of course!), Worcestershire sauce, burgundy wine, pepper, bouillon cubes (chicken and beef), dill weed, garlic powder, and pepper. The last part of the book? Desserts. Once more, hearty.
So, in the final analysis, a fun cookbook! I have tried one recipe and will try a few more. There are a lot that I won't try, simply because I want to keep fat and cholesterol down. But for those who like hearty dishes, this would be a useful source of recipes."
"This cookbook is like no other in my cupboard... which is both a good thing and a bad thing. I've only recently started reading her blog recently, and knowing that she has a blog, I'm a little disappointed at how few recipes are in the book. She had soo many recipes w/ pictures taken at her disposal, so I expected more recipes (especially considering how big the book is). So that's the bad, but there is good! I love having step-by-step instructions for each of the recipes. And I love knowing that none of the pictures were taken by a professional photographer and that the food wasn't artistically enhanced by someone. Ree Drummond took all the pictures and made all the food, so it's possible for an actual human being to make the food look the way she does! I also like the set-up, having the different recipes organized by what meal you would typically eat it at (although I wouldn't eat any of these for lunch). The best though, is seeing her sense of humor come out in the recipes. This cookbook is fun to just read through, even if you don't have time to make any of the recipes right then."
"I love Ree's blog. I've been reading it for over two years now and go there almost daily. I really had high hopes for this cookbook and pre-ordered it months ago. Yesterday the package came and I was so excited. I read through the whole book in one sitting. The book is colorful and the pictures are beautiful, BUT - most of it is already on her blog. I was hoping for all new recipes and pictures, but time and time again I would turn the page and see a recipe or pictures that are already on her blog. There are some new recipes, but not many. For a recipe book it doesn't have very many recipes. I think that this book would be great introduction for someone that knows nothing about Ree or her life, but for me it was a letdown."
"I love Ree Drummond. I have since the first time I stumbled across PW a couple years back, before she started getting noticed BIG time. I love her honesty, her spirit, her eye for goodness. And bless the gal, she can cook, and she loves sushi...my soul sister! LOL! If you're familiar with her site, the book will be familiar, very familiar. If you've never been to the PW site, get on over there! You don't know what you're missing! These are only PART of the recipes! These are GOOD, but there are more GOOD ones on here site too. This isn't serious fancy cooking, but this is good, solid, ranch food a working man can work off of! Or a woman working with 4 little ranch hands and a team of cowboys. Isn't she the skinniest little thing? LOL! I'd have bought this, but winning it through Goodreads was even better!"
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