I tend to spend most of my blogtime reading work-related blogs. In fact, if I hadn’t stumbled across Confessions of a Pioneer Woman because I marked Cooking as a topic in StumbleUpon, I would never have run across this woman’s personal blog. But I sure am glad I did.

First of all, as you all know, I’m a terrible cook. So, I’m always on the lookout for sites that help me deal with that problem. When a recipe for a steak sandwich showed up after I clicked the Stumble button, and there were pictures for every single step of the process…I mean every one…I was elated. I soon discovered that she is a master of photographing the steps involved in cooking whatever dish she is posting about. (She is also a master of photographing all kinds of other interesting stuff, as well).

Although I might have signed up to receive her feed based on the recipes alone, I know the real tipping point came when I started reading her non-recipe posts. Oh man, that gal is some kind of funny. She’s a straight-shooting woman who once was a valley-girl type, and who is now a marlboro man’s wife, living on a real working cowboy ranch. Her take on life on a ranch is amazingly funny.

If you like recipes with pics of the process, subscribe to her blog.

If you like funny women, subscribe to her blog.

If you just want to be occasionally entertained, subscribe to her blog.

Thanks for making me laugh, Pioneer Woman, and for helping me cook a little bit better.

(from Smash Mouth. "AllStar" Astro Lounge. Interscope Records, 1999.)

Posted on May 27th, 2007 by DazzlinDonna
Filed under: Stumbles