Knock You Naked Brownies (from The Pioneer Woman)

[FrankZ]

So who should I give credit to?

Me and I want royalties...

 

[Addie]

Me and I want royalties...

If I didn't know better I would think you were related to PF.

 

[PrincessFiona60]

If I didn't know better I would think you were related to PF.

A long lost brother...?

 

[buckytom]

lost brother?

i guess you didn't take him out far enough that he found his way back, huh fee?

 

[PrincessFiona60]

lost brother?

i guess you didn't take him out far enough that he found his way back, huh fee?

Separated by an entire continent...he's still lost.

 

[FrankZ]

What are we talking about again?

 

[buckytom]

getting naked and stealing precision recipes with your siblings, or something.

 

[Addie]

I am going to bed. I am tired of wiping coffee off my screen. Good night!

 

[Greg Who Cooks]

I finally got a copy of Pioneer Woman's cookbook The Pioneer Woman Cooks: recipes from an accidental country girl (by Ree Drummond) from the public library. After going through a couple dozen recipes all I can say is that I'm impressed! None of these are recipes you haven't heard before but PW has them done perfectly, with directions complete enough that only a total newbie would have any trouble following them.

Here's several of her recipes that I reviewed and want to try soon:

• BBQ Jalapeno Poppersb (jalapeno halves stuffed with cream cheese & cheddar cheese, bacon wrapped and baked)
• Pico de Gallo (her version looks good, although conventional, makes the point that tomato, onion & cilantro must be in equal parts)
• Guacamole (just avocados + pico de gallo, and don't over mash them, definitely don't process it!)
• PW's Potato Skins (almost like mine but + bacon)
• Katie's Roasted Corn Salad (just a bunch of grilled vegies, chopped, plus a dressing)
• Hot Artichoke Dip (from canned artichokes, seasoned with cayenne)
• Cinnamon Rolls (looks like a killer recipe!)
• Pizza Crust (very basic but I want to try her version)
• Potato-Leek Pizza (with bacon of course!)
• Perfect Pot Roast (very basic and conventional, but concise)
• Chicken Pot Pie (again, very basic, uses following crust)
• Perfect Pie Crust (with an egg and 1 T vinegar? I'll try it)
• Chicken Fried Steak (conventional, simple, looks delicious! egg + milk dip, seasoned flour dip, egg/milk dip again, flour dip again, pan fry them, make sauce from some drippings + milk)
• Meatloaf (she lays bacon slices over the top, then sauce & bake it)
• Twice-Baked Potatoes (I think mine are better but I wanna know, both very similar)
• Fried Chicken (again, basic and conventional, but it's simple and looks perfect)

I've looked at perhaps only one-eighth of the recipes and almost every one looks worth cooking, even the ones that resemble things I already have my own recipes for.

Her style is a bit too cutesy for me. I'm not interested in the non-cooking, biographical or philosophical stuff either. Nor the family pictures, but I am interested in the food pictures! Pure hard core food porn!

I've made up my mind that I will definitely buy my own copy of this book. It's only $16.50 at Amazon and all I need is my next coveted book to push it over the $25 free shipping threshold.

Note: Do not confuse this with The Pioneer Woman Cooks: food from my frontier which is her new book going to be released just this March 13th, Tuesday next week. Obviously I haven't reviewed it yet, but I intend to, and I bet it'll have some good recipes too!

So take that you PW scoffers! I give the book a hearty thumbs up!

 

[PrincessFiona60]

I have this cookbook.

 

[Greg Who Cooks]

I have this cookbook.

Well what do you think of it? Do you too like those recipes that I noted above?

 

[PrincessFiona60]

Read it cover to cover, gave me some good ideas and I've done a couple of the recipes.

The Hot Artichoke Dip and Marlboro Man's Favorite Sandwich. Took them to work and they went like crazy.

 

[Greg Who Cooks]

Another thing about her recipes, they're simple! Yet she's got good judgement in her ingredients, their proportions, and how they're cooked.

Like the Marlboro Man's Favorite Sandwich. (For the uninitiated, MM is her cowboy husband.) It's just butter sauteed onions, sauteed cube steak strips, Lawry's seasoned salt, lemon pepper, black pepper, Worcestershire sauce, Tabasco, and served on toasted French or deli rolls. Very simple, yet it was a big hit with your colleagues.

BTW while I didn't like the non-cooking, biographical and philosophical stuff, and could have done without the family pictures, I'm sure of PW's fans will just love that stuff! But I liked the book enough that I'm going to buy it and I'll just skip those pages. Others will surely enjoy the personal touches.

 

[Merlot]

Greg you reminded me of something (the jalapeno poppers)

I know there are several recipes floating around the net with the peppers, cheese, bacon etc... some alike, some different.

A gal I work with made some jalapeno poppers, and everyone was crazy about them. When my coworkers asked her about them she said she just thought them up one day and created the recipe. I just smiled and told her how delicious they were.

 

[PrincessFiona60]

BTW while I didn't like the non-cooking, biographical and philosophical stuff, and could have done without the family pictures, I'm sure of PW's fans will just love that stuff! But I liked the book enough that I'm going to buy it and I'll just skip those pages. Others will surely enjoy the personal touches.

I was given a hand written copy of the MM's Favorite Sandwich, attributed to PW. I liked the recipe enough that I sought out and bought her cookbook when it was published. At the time I tried the recipe, she still only had her blog.

I was very pleased with all the content of the book and I enjoyed reading about her life.

 

[bakechef]

I bought that for my mom and she loved it!

All of those recipes are also on her website. The lasagna with the Jimmy dean sausage and cheese out of a can is pretty awesome. I have upgraded the sausage to a local country sausage and the cheese to a much better parm, but it is really good. It cuts and serves nicely as well, it's my go-to lasagna, everyone really loves it.

I use an egg and vinegar in my pie crust and it works really well. I was determined to be a "pie crust purist" but when I started making it this way, I was sold.

I made the Marlboro Man's sandwich and it was quite tasty.

 

[Greg Who Cooks]

Greg you reminded me of something (the jalapeno poppers)

I know there are several recipes floating around the net with the peppers, cheese, bacon etc... some alike, some different.

A gal I work with made some jalapeno poppers, and everyone was crazy about them. When my coworkers asked her about them she said she just thought them up one day and created the recipe. I just smiled and told her how delicious they were.

Google tells me there's approx. 245,000 jalapeno poppers recipes on the Internet!

I've never had them, never heard of them, but just by reading PW's recipe I can tell for sure that I'll like them.

It's interesting, I found PW's Bacon-Wrapped Jalapeno Thingies recipe on the Internet. It's almost but not quite the same as the cookbook, and the cookbook version looks better!

She's improved them since the blog post. (blog = '07, book = '09) In the book she's added cheddar cheese and sliced green onions to the filling, and she brushes them with barbecue sauce before baking. From three ingredients to six ingredients, and worth it!!!

Funny errata on the blog post: she describes cutting a pound of bacon into thirds, but the picture shows her cutting them into fourths!

I was given a hand written copy of the MM's Favorite Sandwich, attributed to PW. I liked the recipe enough that I sought out and bought her cookbook when it was published. At the time I tried the recipe, she still only had her blog.

I was very pleased with all the content of the book and I enjoyed reading about her life.

Nice story! And I'm glad I made it clear that others will probably enjoy the non-cooking material more than I.

I bought that for my mom and she loved it!

All of those recipes are also on her website. The lasagna with the Jimmy dean sausage and cheese out of a can is pretty awesome. I have upgraded the sausage to a local country sausage and the cheese to a much better parm, but it is really good. It cuts and serves nicely as well, it's my go-to lasagna, everyone really loves it.

I use an egg and vinegar in my pie crust and it works really well. I was determined to be a "pie crust purist" but when I started making it this way, I was sold.

I made the Marlboro Man's sandwich and it was quite tasty.

Yeah, I don't know why I didn't think of looking on her website. But anyway I still want the book. I like the idea of turning through the pages and putting bookmarks into the recipes I want to try, much easier and satisfying than doing same on the computer. I've probably got thousands of Internet recipes bookmarked on my computer, but I spend too much time online and it's nice to get back to the real world.

I found her "The Best Lasagna. Ever." recipe on her site. I'm not a big lasagna fan but her recipe looks good. The book recipe is a bit different but due to the different formatting it was difficult for me to tell exactly what.

What do you say we add some bacon to that!

I didn't understand your reference to "out of a can" unless you're referring to the tomatoes.

That Jimmy Dean sausage is good, I sometimes use it too, but that's a good idea to use your local country sausage.

 

[bakechef]

Google tells me there's approx. 245,000 jalapeno poppers recipes on the Internet!

I've never had them, never heard of them, but just by reading PW's recipe I can tell for sure that I'll like them.

It's interesting, I found PW's Bacon-Wrapped Jalapeno Thingies recipe on the Internet. It's almost but not quite the same as the cookbook, and the cookbook version looks better!

She's improved them since the blog post. (blog = '07, book = '09) In the book she's added cheddar cheese and sliced green onions to the filling, and she brushes them with barbecue sauce before baking. From three ingredients to six ingredients, and worth it!!!

Funny errata on the blog post: she describes cutting a pound of bacon into thirds, but the picture shows her cutting them into fourths!

Nice story! And I'm glad I made it clear that others will probably enjoy the non-cooking material more than I.

Yeah, I don't know why I didn't think of looking on her website. But anyway I still want the book. I like the idea of turning through the pages and putting bookmarks into the recipes I want to try, much easier and satisfying than doing same on the computer. I've probably got thousands of Internet recipes bookmarked on my computer, but I spend too much time online and it's nice to get back to the real world.

I found her "The Best Lasagna. Ever." recipe on her site. I'm not a big lasagna fan but her recipe looks good. The book recipe is a bit different but due to the different formatting it was difficult for me to tell exactly what.

What do you say we add some bacon to that!

I didn't understand your reference to "out of a can" unless you're referring to the tomatoes.

That Jimmy Dean sausage is good, I sometimes use it too, but that's a good idea to use your local country sausage.

I was just referring to Kraft parm in a can, I made the lasagna to the letter the first time with the Kraft and it was great, but much better with freshly grated parm.

 

[Greg Who Cooks]

I was just referring to Kraft parm in a can, I made the lasagna to the letter the first time with the Kraft and it was great, but much better with freshly grated parm.

I've never seen Kraft Parmesan in a can. Here in L.A. I see it on supermarket shelves in a plastic bottle. Unrefrigerated. I don't see how Parmesan could be anything but mediocre if not kept refrigerated. Except a plastic product of course.

 

[bakechef]

I've never seen Kraft Parmesan in a can. Here in L.A. I see it on supermarket shelves in a plastic bottle. Unrefrigerated. I don't see how Parmesan could be anything but mediocre if not kept refrigerated. Except a plastic product of course.

I guess that now it is in a plastic container, but used to be in a cardboard container. I guess that I just got used to calling it "cheese in a can" maybe because of the shape. Now that I think of it, I am not sure where I picked up that name...

Most people don't realize it, but that stuff costs around $7 a pound, you can go to a place like Trader Joe's or a warehouse club and get much better Parmesan for that money or even a bit less. Trader Joe's own brand in a wedge or grated in a cup is cheaper per pound and so much better (not high end parm, but serviceable), I think that it is $5.99 per pound here, and you can actually taste it on your pasta!