Kerri's Reviews > The Pioneer Woman Cooks: Recipes from an Accidental Country Girl

This book was my first exposure to Pioneer Woman, other than stumbling on her blog a few times. I will say this: don't pick her book up expecting to go on a diet. She makes good, hearty meals for hard working ranchers and a family full of growing kids, so if you're looking for salad recipes this is not the place to start.

The grouping of this book was great -- I found it very easy to find a recipe for whatever my purposes were, and I enjoyed that her penchant for photography shone through, weaving recipes with her family and life story pictures. My only complaint (if you can call it that) is her "butter and grease" heavy mentality, that hearkens to a somewhat untrained Paula Deen attitude.

The photos in this book are worth the read by themselves - she takes each recipe and breaks it down step by step into pictures so that you would have to be a trained ape to screw it up. Delicious food, beautiful scenery, and a lifestyle that I covet keep me coming back to PW's writing. Julia Child she is not, but intriguing and "cooking for the real person" types recipes are what you will find here.