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Forget Team Edward and Team Jacob, I’m on “Team Ree”.

Ree Drummond AKA The Pioneer Woman. She is too cool for school (literally….read on).

I’ve been following a blog for about a year now that my sister introduced me to. This is where I learned of my new idol. You can check out this super cute blog here. I SO have blog envy!

Getting back to P-dub…

The Pioneer Woman is like a quadruple threat – she can cook, she can blog, she can take amazing photos and she can home school her 4 “punks” as she calls them. Now, I have certain feelings about home schooling, but we won’t get into those here. But she makes home schooling sound “cool”.

Her recipes are so entertaining. She calls the ingredients the “cast of characters” and her step-by-step guides are hilarious and accompanied by beautiful photos.

Her story in a nutshell:

Grew up on a country club in the midwest somewhere.

Went to school at USC.

Lived in L.A. for awhile.

Wanted to move to Chicago and become an attorney, but…

Met a bonafide Cowboy one night at a bar instead.

Fell in love with said Cowboy.

Married Cowboy.

Moved to a middle-of-nowhere cattle ranch in Oklahoma.

Started to cook.

Started to blog.

Became my idol!

(Well, I might of left a few things out, but those are the main bullets.)

I told myself that I wasn’t going to buy anymore cookbooks – ANY recipe that I need is on the internet, in a magazine that I already have or on an index card in my recipe box. I’m trying to simplify, so no more cookbooks necessary. Well, I lied. I am going to get The Pioneer Woman Cooks cookbook. Actually Jay is going to get it for me for Valentine’s Day he just doesn’t know it yet.

I am so excited to try her recipes! This weekend I plan to make the quesadillas de camarones and her “favorite burger” with caramelized onions, bleu cheese and Tabasco mayo! She had me at Tabasco mayo.

I can hardly wait to get to the store and get my shrimp! Thank you PW for getting me to eat more shrimp. I have never been a huge fan of the little crustaceans, but I do eat them from time to time. Hope the quesadilla is as good as it looks! On the other hand, I’ve never met a flour tortilla and some melted cheese that I didn’t like!

Of course, I will report back and have some photos of her eats…

If you haven’t already, please check out thepioneerwoman.com.

Cowgirl up!