It's called growing up.

It happens to all of us.

Anonymous wrote:No respect for a woman who used to be a vegetarian, met a man and is now a cattle ranchers wife. Way to stick to your principles.

No respect for a woman who used to be a vegetarian, met a man and is now a cattle ranchers wife. Way to stick to your principles.

Her pecan pie recipe is really good.

Anonymous wrote:Also can't stand Nicole's voice on "Rehab Addict"!

Same here! I know it's regional, so I apologize, but I just can't listen to her!

Anonymous wrote:There have been posts about her here in the past. There were allegations that she started a blog and ripped off a friend's recipes.

Her recipes are really bad. They are for people who don't know how to assemble a sandwich.

Oh God, the crazy Pioneer hater is going to find this thread.

I've been a blog follower of hers for years. I was excited to hear she got a show. I found I hate her voice and her makeup on the show just turns me off. I was still ok with it, just didn't watch it but every once in a while. Then I heard she basically paid to have the show produced, which really aggravated me. It was self promotion (which she's queen of) vs someone acknowledging "talent" and granting her a show. Clearly the family has money because the Lodge reno and now that building in town. Again, fine, whatever. Around this time I started getting really aggravated with the appearance that she does all this stuff when she has to have a staff. I mean, homeschooling and cookbook "writing" and book tours and recording shows and kids sports and on and on. I feel she misrepresents herself. Then the cookware/kitchenware line. The dishes aren't bad and some of the items are cute, I like the mixing bowl. I never go to WalMart but I had to go recently and perused her cookware. The enameled stuff is decent but the non-stick stuff is CRAP. Considering how she preaches the quality of cookware on her show and how much she loves her pans, to put her name on that is just BS, but hey, it's money. Then the WalMart commercial aired and that was the last straw for me. I haven't been to her site, watched her show, nothing.

I still want that batter bowl, though.

Doesn't she have someone else write her blog?

Really?

The lowest common denominator isn't reading her blog or watching her show.

Her cooking isn't sophisticated but it's certainly not awful or bad. My guess is that the typical follower is a middle aged white woman from a middle class to upper middle class background who lives in the Midwest or the South. And her family are active ranchers. Let's not resort to hyperbole here.

Anonymous wrote:It is the American dream - pretending to be about rugged individualism, yet actually about crass conformity and pandering to the lowest common denominator.

I don't care for Pioneer Woman's recipes but the allegation is not quite fair.

Her recipes are primarily from church cookbooks and Junior league cookbooks and family recipe boxes and she's pretty upfront about their sources from the handful of times I've read her blog. None of them can really be considered "trademarked" recipes.

Anonymous wrote:There have been posts about her here in the past. There were allegations that she started a blog and ripped off a friend's recipes.

Her recipes are really bad. They are for people who don't know how to assemble a sandwich.

She made chicken soup one day & took it up to the lodge & gave her kids a homeschool lesson

There have been posts about her here in the past. There were allegations that she started a blog and ripped off a friend's recipes.

Her recipes are really bad. They are for people who don't know how to assemble a sandwich.

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Did you see the ep in which she assembled turkey, ham, and cheese sandwiches to take to football practice?

Wait wait wait! What was in them? How do you make them? What if I want a pickle on the side?

NP here. The sandwiches were so gross--there was some sauce with mayo, raw chopped onion, maybe ketchup, all mixed up. I was thinking my kids would never eat that, and she was making 120 of them for elementary kids football practice!

She is the worst cook. From her show, it looks like Paula Deen level unhealthy with none of the flavor. Just a lot of margarine, butter, and mayonnaise put in everything, with terrible flavor combinations.

Of course, this is justified because you get to be privy to exciting life on a farm in Oklahoma. Gee whiz! What a fantasy.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
Did you see the ep in which she assembled turkey, ham, and cheese sandwiches to take to football practice?

Wait wait wait! What was in them? How do you make them? What if I want a pickle on the side?

NP here. The sandwiches were so gross--there was some sauce with mayo, raw chopped onion, maybe ketchup, all mixed up. I was thinking my kids would never eat that, and she was making 120 of them for elementary kids football practice!

She has that flyover country accent.

It is the American dream - pretending to be about rugged individualism, yet actually about crass conformity and pandering to the lowest common denominator.