![]() It’s an attitude that seems quaint and anachronistic, as do her pleasant good looks. She emanates a breezy, imperturbable contentment. She is forty-two years old, with startlingly white teeth, and full cheeks dimpled like thumbprint cookies. Her photos-intimate, color-saturated images of her family, the ranch animals, and the comfort food she cooks-portray a life so lush and pastoral that you want to climb right in.ĭrummond repositioned her camera in one hand while pushing her carefully curled auburn hair behind her shoulder with the other. ![]() telephoto lens, which she uses to avoid the paparazzi effect: cows and horses won’t skitter away from her, and cowboys will remain unself-consciously macho. Her camera, a Nikon D3X, is a serious instrument. “Hey, Baby!” she hollered to Todd as she snapped a few shots. Ladd and his brother, Tim, run a commercial cattle operation, and the kids were out in the pasture, on horseback, preparing to round up a herd of more than two hundred steers.ĭrummond stood on the pickup’s running board while the engine idled. Her subject was her cowboy husband, Ladd Drummond-online, she refers to him only as Marlboro Man-and her four children (two girls, Alex, thirteen, and Paige, eleven and two boys, Bryce, eight, and Todd, six). She was going to take photographs for her blog. On a chilly Tuesday morning in November, so early that the previous night’s full moon was still glowing in the dark sky, Ree Drummond, a blogger who calls herself the Pioneer Woman, drove her family’s pickup truck out to the middle of a winter-brown pasture in Osage County, Oklahoma. “I feel like no matter what I have on hand in my fridge and freezer, I can sort of turn it into whatever I want with with the different sauces and seasonings that I have,” she says.Millions of readers follow Ree Drummond as she blogs about ranch life, her children, and her husband, whom she calls Marlboro Man. Her sauce shelf also includes fish sauce and ponzu sauce. And those tie her meals together. “I have the shelf of pre-made sauce – jarred sauces – and I look for deals there, too, because sometimes you can get really good quality marinara sauce and buy several jars at once and then those lasts a long time,” she says. “I have a shelf with with all the oils and vinegars,” she says, noting that red wine vinegars and others are good to increase flavor. Other staples for Drummond add flavor to her meals. Then I’ll add a quarter of the amount of fresh parmesan or I’ll top the serving with with fresh, so it’s kind of the best of both worlds and you can make the chunk of more expensive Parmesan go farther.” Flavor adds: Sauces, oils, vinegars “And one trick I like to do - which might not be a popular tip - but if you’re making some kind of a casserole that calls for parmesan, or some kind of pasta dish, I sometimes work in pre-grated Parmesan. “You can get a good deal on a big chunk of Parmesan,” she says, as an example. “They’ll never replace fresh when you do need fresh produce,” she cautions. “But when it comes to things like soups and stews, casseroles, having frozen vegetables is the next best thing to fresh and often much less expensive.” In her fridge: Long lasting cheesesĭrummond advises keeping cheeses that stay good for a long period of time. “Frozen vegetables to me are one of the best,” Drummond says of items she stocks up on. Her freezer is home to some must-haves, too. “They last a very long time in the pantry.”ĭried and canned items can be found on “mega sale” often at supermarkets, she adds. “I love having all sorts of dried beans, dried pastas, canned tomato products from whole tomatoes to stewed tomatoes, tomato sauce,” she says. There are plenty of foods that come dried or canned that are good staples, according to Drummond. Yum:Five easy summer salads to add to your weeknight meal rotation The Batman is getting a sequel and you can watch the first one on HBO right now In her pantry: Dried and canned items ![]() So, what does she choose to keep as kitchen staples? Don't miss Amazon's huge sale on garden hoses-now up to 40% off What does it take for a developing country to transform into a developed one? | India News The Food Network star’s list runs fairly long and provides elements she can creatively combine for many different meals - a lot of it is strategic, focused on items that can go a long way when cooking on a day-to-day basis. PM Modi, Xi Jinping may meet on sidelines of SCO summit next month | India News Now, after a couple decades of country living, Drummond tells USA TODAY that she has a tried-and-true list that works for her family. India's $3 billion Predator drone deal with US at advanced stages, certain issues being sorted out: Report | India News Every chef has kitchen staples but they’re especially important for Pioneer Woman Ree Drummond who says it’s “a good distance” to a supermarket at her ranch in Oklahoma.
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