An open letter to Ree, the Pioneer Woman.
I have a serious (non-romantic) e-crush that I’m only slightly embarrassed to admit, because she’s like, soooooo out of my league. Nevertheless, I decided to write her a letter.
Dear Pioneer Woman:
So I discovered your site several months ago and am pretty much in love. (With it, I mean…not you. I’m straight.) And I can’t even tell you how many recipes I’ve printed to try out*, or how much I stinkin’ LOVE that you post about 75 pictures for every recipe. Because here’s the thing…I totally have zero confidence in my cooking. Mostly because I haven’t really done much of it, and since I didn’t show any real interest in it growing up, my mom just didn’t teach me. So I read your recipe posts, and I determine IN MY HEAD that I’m going to try them, and become an expert onion-chopper, and then…
Well, then I just don’t do it. (*Seriously, I’ve printed a TON of your recipes, and tried…none. I have a giant “L” on my forehead.)
Anyway, all this to say, someday I really WILL try out a recipe or two from your site. But in the meantime…
Can’t you just come to Santa Barbara and teach me? I’ll buy you sushi.
Or maybe you could just do a guest post on my modest little blog with its 60 hits a day (if I’m lucky). Something about how cool you think I am, and how much potential I have to be a great _______ (fill-in-the-blank) — cook? blogger? wife? mom? writer? comedian? gymnast? (Scratch that last one. I’m not flexible OR coordinated enough to do gymnastics.)
Love and excessive amounts of butter,
Tabitha
I discovered her blog about one year ago and it’s an endless inspiration for me. Mostly in photography. She is just amazing person and blogger.
Wow it sounds like I’m going to have to check her out! PS. What do you do to get blog traffic? I’m nowhere near 60 hits a day!
I have never read her blog but I will now.
I can cook and bake. Want me to come show you? I’d love to come to California? Not sure my recipes are super fancy or anything but they are yummy!
I love this! It made me laugh so hard. Let us know if/when she writes you back.
~Hanging my head in shame.~
I’m so sorry that I never taught you to cook. I’m such a play-it-by-ear person…hardly knowing what I’m doing for dinner until I start it. Please forgive me.
Give one of those recipes a try soon! Let us all know how it turns out.
Love, Mom
@nory: Yes! Come to California and teach me. Except I can’t like, pay for your travel or housing or anything. Haha…
@proofreader/Mom: HA! She will never write me back. She gets like HUNDREDS of THOUSANDS of comments/emails a day. It’s ridiculous. And don’t feel bad about not teaching me to cook; I probably would’ve been a pill about it anyway, because I really wasn’t too interested in it until just recently.
Love you!
Thanks for the advice. I’ll definitely try some of those out…err not that my main objective is to get blog traffic, but knowing my posts get read is nice
Ok. Lets be real. I looked at that site and it is absolutely INSANE. How does she do it all?! And she gives a ton of stuff away (i.e. photos, recipes, photoshop tools)!
Thanks for getting me hooked. I look forward to reading it…umm…everyday. : ) But not as much as yours, of course!
Does this mean *SNIFF! WHEEZE!* you’ve replaced me?!? Whaaaaaaaaahhhh! (She used to call daddy for cooking help)
What have I left to pine for, now that I won’t be getting those precious calls from you, like “Daddy…how do I boil water?” or “Daddy, can I get the burnt out of the pan I boiled all the water OUT of?!?”
*insert broken heart here*
“Daaaahahahahahahahaaaad!”