Cooking with Pioneer Woman: Weekly Update

Again, behind on the weekly update thing.  Biweekly title just isn’t as interesting though.  I keep recycling all my favorites (tomato soup, pizza, chicken pot pie, mocha brownies) and slacking on trying new stuff.  But this week I found a lady through PW that cooked the entire cookbook and it got me a little pumped. 

I never really meant to cook through the whole thing but why stop now?  Plus?  After I tweeted about it, PW offered to send me a copy of her next cookbook so I could get a head start.  OMG!

 

That tweet could have been a whole PW Update post on its own, but how about I share a few recipe results too?

Apple Pie (cookbook only)

This was very close to a #fail.  My pie crust was so flaky that when I folded the pie crust up onto the apples, it creased, split and started spilling the yummy cinnamon and sugar sauce everywhere.  You might be able to tell in the picture where I had tried to scoop the sauce up after trying to repair the crust.  But, it never seemed to stick and I had juice everywhere on the pan and it was burnt.  In really good news, the apple pie itself was salvageable, albeit arguably less juicy.  We plopped some ice cream on it and called it good.  Her pie crust recipe is just to die for so you know…pie crust…ice cream…can’t be too bad.

French Breakfast Puffs

These came out to perfection.  Perfection!  I felt like they were just the right consistency as if everything in the baking world timed and heated correctly to come together and make this cinnamon muffin.  I felt like I was eating something straight from the Starbucks baked goods shelf.  Score!  It was perfect as a coffee cake.

Not Your Granny’s Mac and Cheese

I made this to take to a cook-out.  We also had jalapeno poppers to take and while I wanted to try the mac and cheese in the cookbook, I just felt like the Mexican flair to this mac and cheese from her site fit better.  Well, when I started cooking it, I knew if nothing else, this would be a pretty dish.

And then I dumped the pepperjack cheese in and all my doubts began to melt away quite literally

And the finished product did not disappoint

It was yummy!

All these will be on my make-again list!

So…have you bought her cookbook yet?