Let me start off this post by saying I LOVE the Pioneer Women Ree Drummond and her whole family dynamic and story. I think she's an amazing cook, mother and wife, I honestly do not know how she does it all. I saw a lot of people hating on her in the comment section of the Food Network website. People feel empowered to be vicious while sitting behind the safety of their computer screens. I think some of it is people are JEALOUS of her. I find myself feeling the same way at times. She has turned a food blog into major success with cookbook deals and touring the country with her family at book signings. I will say this, she does have an advantage over us ordinary working wives/housewives. Even before she started her blog she was married to a wealthy rancher living in a nice house with a to die for kitchen. She has a degree in journalism so she knows how to captivate an audience. She also has photography skills and I am sure a quite expensive camera to photograph her masterpieces. Now, she is big enough she has contributors to her website, a camera crew on stand-by for her cooking show and probably a photographer to document her every step in the kitchen. Again...NOT knocking her! If I were her I would do the same, and she is obviously very intelligent to get herself where she is today. That does NOT happen by accident people. Trust me I know.
I have been a self-employed business owner for over decade and I am only 34, I can tell you success in most cases doesn't just "happen". It is worked for, it is strategically planned and I can tell you that I must not be that smart or I would be there too.
I troll a lot of popular and successful blog sites and I have seen in most cases the person running them has capital, photography or journalism skills. I am just a regular old work from home housewife. I run 2 businesses and have a 4 year old daughter. I do not have a fancy camera, a degree, or big kitchen with fancy culinary gadgets to boot. What I do have is a love, no obsession with cooking. To me, it's like art in a skillet. You have to constantly try, fail, succeed. Not every dish I cook is a winner and I won't pretend to be a master at it. If you are this level with your culinary skills, you have come to the right place. If you are one of the culinary snobs who despises Ree Drummond for having a show and like to cook with fancy gadgets and ingredients that the average person has never heard of then go find some fancy cuisine blog. This ain't it.
I hope to represent the majority of women who are working, work at home or stay at home who didn't go to culinary school, love to cook, love to feed their family good home cooked meals rather than take out. I represent those on a budget. Those with hand me down skillets, but also those who choose to rise above the ordinary hamburger helper meals and still stay on a budget.
On a side note, if you want me to tell you what wine to pair with your dinner. Well my answer is anything Bota Box or Black Box makes lol, good bang for your buck!
With that said, I am busy as hell I don't have time for daily posts. Sometimes I might go a week, but with my schedule it's the best I can do. My photos are crappy and I rarely measure seasonings. But bear with me, have fun and explore your love for cooking.
Youins come back now ya hear!
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