"The Pioneer Woman" - Ree Drummond

Frauiest frau who ever fraued.

And her husband Ladd is hot as fuck.

I want to blow him in his pickup truck behind the bushes on his ranch.

Who cares? Her husband has a big dick.

Ladd is a sexy mofo

I want to see Ladd and Cowboy Josh getting it on in the barn...

Well, this thread certainly went a different way, lol.

Ladd makes Mama's mussy wet.

She homeschools. So she's a Fundie Frau to boot.

[quote]Frauiest frau who ever fraued.

Yeah I don't get the appeal, I've caught a few episodes of the show and decided it was not for me.

One of her sons is obviously gay.

I can't believe that she actually went to USC.

She's much more cultured than one would think. She loves New York and LA, she loves Mediterranean and Middle Eastern food, she loves lattes and mochas and she also loves her liquor!

Sadly, having gotten married to a cowboy in Oklahoma, she has completely reverted back to type.

She didn't marry some poncy, gay intellectual like another celebrity chef we could name. She married "all man".

R7, they live in fucking Pawhuska, Oklahoma. No way in hell a sane person would send their kids to public school in a backward community like that, unless they wanted to spend their time deprogramming them when they got home every day.

I think it's more than that, R12.

From what I have seen of the show, her ranch is like a million miles from any sort of civilization.

Who in their right mind would want their kids to travel so far to school every day, never mind that you'd have to drive them or pick them up if the school bus isn't running. Fuck that.

Homeschool it is.

If you had Ladd's big dick between your legs every night, you wouldn't be able to walk the kids to the bus stop either.

Cowboy Josh is smiling at Ladd...

No, R11 what she married was all cash. MILLIONS of it.

People who live way out in Bumfuck don't walk their kids to the bus stop.

[quote]One of her sons is obviously gay.

Yup. There are gonna be a lot of happy farmhands when that kid figures it out and starts hanging around that giant knothole in the side of the barn.

Ree calls her husband "Marlboro Man."

She even wrote a book called "From Black Heels to Wagon Wheels."

You people think I home school my kids? You really are idiots.

[quote]People who live way out in Bumfuck don't walk their kids to the bus stop.

Ma wouldn't walk us to school either. Obviously she had the same syndrome as Ree.

Her recipes are a government plot to kill off people before they can collect SS!

One of her basset hounds died today. Very sad.

Was it Charlie, R23???

I love Charlie. She always feeds him scraps from her cooking. How sad.

But that poor dog was old as hell.

She even wrote a book about Charlie...

She doesn't homeschool, she hires private tutors. This is well known.

Yes, it was Charlie who died. R24 They still have a slightly younger basset, Walter. I think her basset cookie jar and salt and pepper shakers are adorable...

[quote]Yup. There are gonna be a lot of happy farmhands when that kid figures it out and starts hanging around that giant knothole in the side of the barn.

I wonder if Ladd would be one of the first in line. He seems the type.

She's from Oklahoma, fyi. The city slicker turns farm gal is just a bit overhyped.

So she's about 20 minutes from downtown?

R29, very true. Her father was an orthopedic surgeon, I believe. She grew up a country club frau. And the Drummonds are worth millions. Even as the daughter of a doctor, she definitely married up.

I don't really care for her, but it's that sad Charlie died.

Which of the sons is obviously gay?

Who's going to be the first DL'er to patronize her new store, "The Merc?"

I can't believe that Walmart is okay with her having her own store like that, unless she has to give them a percentage of the profits. It's bizarre, really. I wonder how much business she really gets there. Are people traveling to bumfuck OK to shop at her store when they could just go to their local Walmart?

Ugly ass kids look like her

At USC she was in Pi Phi, one of the top four sororities (along with Kappa, Theta, and DG) for snotty rich bitches. She lays the aw-shucks farm-wife schtick on thick.

She's laughing all the way to the bank

She married "all man".

Is he some kind of detergent based superhero, like Tide Boy and Oxyclean Woman?

Oxycontin

Little known secret: Ladd likes anal and getting rimmed.

Cowboy Josh is hung like a MULE!

I don't see why her affluent upbringing is such a sore spot for some people. She's never pretended to be poor. It's clear from their home that they're not.

My bf and I have been joking about Cowboy Josh forever - he is fucking either her or that freak-show Lad.. And he is a little "touched" mentally anyway. She is an LA girl - now fat and frumpy but not at all an Oklahoma chick at all. I like her; she is entertaining in general. Her kids are sort of annoying.

What the fuck is so "pioneer" about her show anyway?

"Cowboy Josh is hung like a MULE!"

He'd better be with that punim.

Pioneer

Like she's hauling her own water and cooking over an open fire.

R41 It's no secret to me.

Just make her quit that stupid grinning!!!!

Seriously tho, why is she considered a "pioneer"?

R50, it's branding. It's not literal. Calm down.

[quote]She even wrote a book called "From Black Heels to Wagon Wheels."

Tractor wheels.

r51, so it's complete bullshit, thanks, that's what I wanted to know.

Did you think she rode out west in a covered wagon?

She lives a very opulent life for a "pioneer"; I am guessing that the livestock business is a lucrative one. That said, Oklahoma is one of the ugliest states in the union. I had the misfortune of driving through it quite a bit for work. There is a reason why they gave that shit away...

You bitches just wish you were me!

She has never pretended to be poor but she has sure tried to play the busy little housewife cookin' and cleanin' thing.

She was raised Episcopalian, she can't be all that conservative.

You know, I sort of have an admire/despise thing for women like Ree. She's a "5" on her best day, yet she oozes confidence. Somehow this "5" with the endless grin managed to snag a horse-hung hottie who is also a multi-millionaire. And despite the fact that she is as opposite of a pioneer woman as one could be, aside from the remote location of her home, she has managed to dazzle America with her gimmick and become rich and famous on her own. There are die-hard fans of hers that collect her Pioneer Woman line of merchandise. What a nice hand she was dealt.

While Ree's style of cooking is not to my taste, she is far from the most odious Food Network personality.

I would gladly spend a day on her ranch before I would set foot near a diner, drive-in, or dive with that no talent ass-clown Guy Fieri.

Why have a couple posters kept saying this woman's husband has a big dick? Just because you like to pretend he does or is there something I'm missing?

Can we get a vpl pic of Ladd? I need evidence

I could believe she hires tutors, not personally homeschools her kids. Her family will all be dead of heart attacks at an early age with the ton of butter she puts into everything. My sister's husband cannot stand her voice and leaves the room if she is on the TV. I find most of her dishes pretty gross.

R59 - your post is genius pertaining to Ree. Totally agree with it all except for Ladd being a hottie. He just does zero for me, although I too think that he is horse hung. I can't imagine him with tiny meat. That said, I'm a top and don't find his look very appealing at all.

She is sponsored by land o lakes butter.

I don't understand the hate for her or her family.

I just gave my very elderly grandma, who was recovering from a hospital stay, a huge Pioneer Woman cookbook. The reaction I got from my sick grandma is one I will never forget and thank Pioneer Woman for making this woman so happy. She is a huge fan.

I don't think anyone is really hating on her R65. She just seems to have an unusually charmed life. It's like for some people it just falls into their laps.

To be fair she was probably a lot hotter before she became the Pioneer Woman and gained 60 lbs. The whole family eats three course meals of comfort food morning, noon and night. I'm amazed that her kids aren't all 300 lbs with child onset T2D. It ain't over yet though. Obesity is coming for that whole clan, mark my words.

Some bloggers don't like her because she lifts recipes from church/women's club cookbooks. When she first hit it big a few years ago, satire blogs such as The Marlboro Woman (now offline) and Pie Near Woman started calling her out for plagiarism.

Oh, puh--leeze. There is no such thing as "owning" a recipe. Every single thing that's every been made is on-line in a million variations.

I have only seen a few episodes of this show, but in the ones I did see, she never tried to claim that the recipes were her creations. As a matter of fact, in one episode, she clearly states that she is re-creating a dinner that her daughters enjoyed on a family vacation. For that meal, she made I believe it was filets, with lemon broccolini and lobster mac&cheese.

Also, Ree in high school, she was cute...

R67, they work on a ranch, I highly doubt they will gain weight unless they move out to city.

I really want to see Cowboy Josh and Ladd hook up.

Damn, daddy!

I can't tell if Ladd has a bulge or not.

Anyone?

They're actually cute together...

Her recipes are the worst on the food network, yet they are the most prolific. When Ina and Gilda don't offer a recipe, given the choice between Ree and Guy Fieri, I will go straight to Guy.

I went to Guy Fieri's restaurant in NYC two years ago and it was horrible. The service, the food, the management...everything was terrible. I don't know how that place stays in business.

As bad as Jamie's Italian?

So who's going to rushing off to Pawhuska to be the first to try Ree's new deli?

I don't understand the photo in R70.

1) When was she in high school? Because that photo looks like it was taken in the 1970's. The pose and hair though look straight out of the 1950's.

2) Did she think she was a unicorn? That's the only thing that would make the eye shadow and blush make sense. That or she was going for the Rainbow Bright look.

3) She wasn't cute.

She graduated in 1987, and per her blog, that pic was a high school pic. But yeah, that hair was more 70's than 80's. The makeup is definitely 80's though.

20 minutes outside of a city is more "outskirts" than rural.

Her land is really pretty and reminds me of O Pioneers!

Ree has a disabled brother.

Her Restaurant Style Salsa is to die for.

So is Ree the only DL-approved frau of recent? Actually has there ever been a DL-approved frau??

I'd like to know how far it is from their house (and "the lodge") to Pawhuska, because they seem to be going back and forth constantly, yet Ree is always saying that she has to do her shopping in bulk for weeks at a time.

[quote]So is Ree the only DL-approved frau of recent?

She's only DL-approved because her husband has a big dick. If she were married to Donald Trump, DL would be throwing her more shade than a palm tree.

So...why is she ALWAYS grinning?

Because she goes around with a vibrator up her cooch.

What is "Jamie's Italian," R77?

[quote]So...why is she ALWAYS grinning?

Have you not read ANY of the posts on this thread?

One more time for those who are a bit slow on the uptake.

HER. HUSBAND. HAS. A. BIG. DICK.

There are no women around the ranch, so Ree has no competition. She pretty much has Ladd as her sex slave.

[quote] So...why is she ALWAYS grinning?

For the same reason all these other fraus are grinning.

They're all getting dicked down by Ladd!

It's a redneck potluck, y'all!

Damn, daddy!

[quote]they work on a ranch, I highly doubt they will gain weight unless they move out to city

LOL, you think those kids WORK? Like....physical labor? Oh my sides. No, honey. Those are rich kids. They only make a big phony show of acting like ranch hands when the cameras are rolling.

Damn, R94. He is so fucking ugly.

Oh, Pawhuska is only 3-4,000 people. Yeah, she's more rural than I originally thought.

I get that distinct impression too, R95. They're definitely not poor.

They may live on a ranch, but did you notice that the "lodge" is apart from their main house.

They have an entire building JUST for dining! That's pretty damned cool.

I think that the "lodge" is used for entertaining. It seems that's where all the family gatherings and holidays are spent.

Yikes, she looked 40 something in HS.

Also who believes Ladd or those kids or any of these people actually work the ranch themselves??? That's all for show on the show. They are multi, multi millionaires. A ranch like that would take up about 500,000 acres of land. (watch the film Giant). It's probably been decades since they got their hands dirty other than for the show. I'm sure Ree never goes near cooking or cleaning in RL and has a full staff, probably illegals that are scared to death of that powerful family.

If they really got their hands dirty they would know to show them washing their shit covered hands when they come into the house instead of going to eat immediately.

Ree is actually quite pretty.

She seems to have gained a bit of weight from all that butter!

[quote]She seems to have gained a bit of weight from all the carbs!

Fixed it for you.

The Drummonds also own this "Mercantile" building in downtown Pawhuska, and they gave it a complete refurbishment. Four floors, each with a separate function.

That must have cost them close to a million bucks.

Mercantile gallery...

Mercantile home furnishings...

Mercantile coffee shop...

Don't think for one minute that the Drummonds are just some humble Okies. They're loaded.

Her store looks fun.

Considering how rural she is, I give her props for creating an internet community.

Little country store...

She's the Ina of Oklahoma.

[quote]Little country store...

...or Restoration Hardware outlet store. Who can tell the difference?

rural my ass. You think she doesnt fly all over the country, maybe the world plugging her books and her show and her blogs. Her family regularly stays in NYC. You think she stays in a fleebag or in the best hotel in NYC? My guess is she and maybe her entire family probably spend less time in OK than they do every place else.

Also her father is a successful orthopedic surgeon. That is one of the most lucrative kinds of surgery. She comes from big money and went to even bigger money. The only part of Ladd that she wanted hung was his bank account. I think she is actually Ladd's beard. I think if he was straight he would have married a much prettier woman. It's not like her personality seems all that sparkling that any guy would want her for that either.

You're an idiot, R110.

R110 has his/her nose bent out of shape for some reason.

Why is R110 an idiot, R111?

Ladd stays with me because I let him perform anal on me any time he wants it.

Momma at R114, I think you meant to say you let him perform it on us any time he wants.

Bullshit, R114 and R115.

Ladd is the one who loves anal! And I'm the cowboy that gives it to him!

Ladd is hot, there is no denying it

She is well over 200 lbs

Ladd is not hot, R117. Not even DL Hot, really. He's funny-looking at best.

What part aren't you getting R119? He IS hot because he has a huge dick! That's all you need around here!!!

Of course.

He has some appeal for sure - but hot he is not. Well.....actually he is. Ladd is such a tough call. I think that the combination of his big dick, masculine to death demeanor and rough and tumble sensibility pretty much makes up for his lack of heat otherwise. Yeah, he's hot.

Only on this board would a poster be this upset over Ree Drummond. She has done very well for a woman with a blog. She could have just lived off of her husband's money but decided to create a small empire for herself. And??? There are actually successful people in the world, what exactly is your problem? Some of these posts reek of envy.

[quote]Some of these posts reek of envy.

As well as new heights in bad taste in men.

I really like her. Some of recipes are bland or butter-logged but many had some good tips and some are not half bad. Her take on mashed potatoes for instance are the best that I have ever prepared (add cream cheese and mash on low heat to keep moist and creamy vs. mealy). I never follow any recipe by the book anyway (I have been a decent cook for years), but she has some nice tips here and there. She seems to be a genuinely nice person and is not nearly as self-important as Ina whose boring, flavorless, Jewish cooking is "safe" at best but rarely the show-stoppers that she touts them to be.

Here's a recipe of hers I really like. I've made it a few times. One of you queens posted it here sometime last year, and while I almost never make things like casseroles, something about this one drew me in. And I love it. I use mozzarella instead of cheddar.

I made it once with Mexican spices and cotija cheese, but I liked the original better.

I wouldn't call Ina's cooking "boring" or "flavorless," r125. You might want to use a little more salt when you cook.

And "Jewish"? Besides smoked salmon and a Friday night chicken dinner, what are you talking about?

R127 - A "little" salt is one thing - her recipes often call for enough to lead to "table salt bloat" and I am 6'1" and 175. It is insane that I can see a slight bloat the day after if I use her recommended amounts of sodium chloride. I think that she usually provides some very basic recipes that are a good jumping off point (her wild mushroom lasagna is quite delicious but better when spruced up), and her catering tips are very helpful (yes, I do own two of her cookbooks that were gifts). That said, she is so self-congratulatory for her use of salt and pepper (yawn.....) and her hate of cilantro (she substitutes parsley - really??????). Yes, her recipes are simple and basic - and boring. All of this is perfectly fine and she does give a great framework for a novice chef. She rarely inspires me at all though.

I never understand why people say Ina is "self-important," or a "snob." I think people project that on her.

I gave up cable when Ina's was the last show worth watching on FN, so I have never actually seen an episode of Pioneer Woman. I always enjoyed watching Ina cook because it was a lot like the way I cook, though my cooking is more focused on Italian food. I never found her recipes boring. Simple and basic, maybe, to me, but also welcoming and delicious and very identifiable with.

Ina is not a snob - she just believes in using the finest quality ingredients as do I. But she is very, very full of herself and her cooking skills - constantly demanding that her mousy, annoying husband Jeffrey praise her every boring creation and also insistent that her guests o-o-h and a-a-h over her every throw together meal on the go. Self confidence is healthy, but she takes it too far to the point of being laughable. She isn't creating anything very difficult.....EVER.

Some people don't have access to "the best." Some people can't blow an entire week's grocery budget on random ingredients for one dish. I am referring to the core group of people who like Ree Drummond and Paula Deen. They are the vast majority of this country.

Butter, onions and salt in everything she cooks. Yuck!

What kind of cooking do you like, R133?

Ree is the only person I've ever run across who actively detests bananas.

Ladd's brother Tim is kind of hot -- and his wife is definitely hotter than Ree.

I don't like bananas. I can chew them, but I have to drink lots of water if I'm going to swallow.

Ladd and Timm can die, and their DL bitches can, too.

Ladd is ugly as sin

The daughters are pretty and tall

r126, I think that recipe is why a lot of people don't like Ree. If you were a child from a middle class family growing up in the 1970s, you were fed Sour Cream Noodle Bake at least once a week. You don't need to be shown how to cook it because you learned it from your mother by osmosis.

And yes, Ina is a snob. When you do shows like fixing dinner for friends in Paris and then trying to recreate that dinner in the US, that's just being a snob. And a lazy cunt as well.

r132, those racists can keep Paula Deen. They are probably the same deplorables who voted for Trump.

Ina's husband doesn't have a big dick. Matter of fact, it's quite microscopic. That's why Ina eats. And eats. And eats. She has to get satisfaction from something.

Oh for fucks sake give it a rest r142. It's just tedious. Not everything has to be referenced to Trump. And believe it it not there are some people on lower incomes who didn't vote for him.

Well R141 I was from a middle class family and I grew up in the 70's in Pennsylvania...I have never heard of sour cream noodle bake until you mentioned it in this thread.

And I agree 144, I'm so tired of the Trump obsession on DL, every thread has to devolve into a Trump rant, it's ruining this place.

[quote]And yes, Ina is a snob. When you do shows like fixing dinner for friends in Paris and then trying to recreate that dinner in the US, that's just being a snob.

Maybe learn the definition of snob?

[quote]I was from a middle class family and I grew up in the 70's in Pennsylvania...I have never heard of sour cream noodle bake until you mentioned it in this thread.

I'm sorry your parents hated you so much. Did they not celebrate your birthday either?

I guess it's because I've lived in the Midwest most of my life, but Ladd does nothing for me. There are tons and tons of much hotter beefy cowboy types out here. Mainly, they're the ACTUAL cowboy types -- Ladd really looks like a guy who toodles around doing what he wants to do while everyone else does what NEEDS to be done.

He and the whole family look exactly like every other bunch of redneck rich assholes who control entire towns and counties. These are the kind of people who keep red states red. You can't be on this thread drooling over Ladd and praising Ree for being such a good little businesswoman, and then go to a political thread complaining about the rural assholes who have undue control over the entire country.

But R148.... HE HAS A HUGE DICK!!!!

As for her recipes, I tried a few back when a friend of mine was obsessed with her blog. They weren't good. The mac & cheese was terrible. I may have grown up in the Midwest but I don't think I had the kind of Midwestern cooking she's known for; my mother's family was German and my father's was hillbilly, so we ate beans, chitlins, chicken livers, along with schnitzel, hot potato salad, stuff like that. Maybe I'm just not the demographic for Pioneer Woman recipes.

That said, she's probably also responsible for the trend of food blogs taking four thousand photos of the process and captioning them with "YUM YUM" or "I LOVE SALT" before you can actually get to the recipe. I hate that.

Ladd is no gentleman. He doesn't take his hat off indoors.

He also doesn't take his shit covered boots off when he fucks you either! But then again, his cock is so big he's fucking you from outside the door!!!!

Cowboy Josh, is that you at R152?

The little kid in the hat looks "special".

That huge Mercantile store is an expensive folly for her. It might make enough money to cover the costs, but it won't ever turn much of a profit.

Paula Dean has a successful restaurant and store in the middle of Savannah, but it's in a tourist town with lots of visitors. Ain't nobody going to dusty Pawhuska, except those those who live in the area, and they don't have the money to buy "art" or overpriced furnishings.

Pawhuska might be able to attract tourists, R155.

It's in Osage County, of the "August in Osage County" fame, so there may be more foot traffic in that town than you think.

R156 Yes, I'm sure all of the local motels are hanging out "Meryl Streep Slept Here" banners.

I have noticed that Ladd's clothes are always clean and immaculately pressed. Does he ever get a stain on his clothes?

R158 he's got a whole team of ranch hands to do the dirty work. Like it was said above, he's a typical rich redneck who toodles around playing Rancher while a bunch of underpaid cowboys are out breaking their backs for him.

Ree probably has his perfectly spotlessly starched cowboy costume duds laid out on a sofa in the enormous master closet every morning, and extras ready in case he does get a stain or break a sweat.

The whole pioneer thing is a fun dress up game for them. Tiring yourself with unpleasant work is for the staff. Anything is super fun if you're rich!

Ladd ain't go no hair on this forearms, so he ain't a real cowboy and may not be a real man.

Somehow I don't see people saying "Hey, let's go to Pawhuska on our next vacation."

As for the size of Ladd or Jeffery's dicks, you all do realize that you are all just guessing. Jeffery might be hung like a bull as I've found many Jewish men are and Ladd might need a microscope to find his to take a leak.

I've never found any of Ree's dishes worth trying as many are Mexican or South West flavored, I can't take anything spicy and I detest cilantro. To me it tastes like soap. I can take or leave bananas.

As for Ina, while I was always a decent cook who basically cooked by instinct I never made anything too great. Ina's was one of the first cooking shows I ever saw when I finally got FN about 12 years ago. I tried some of her more complex dishes and they came out perfect. For the first time in my life I felt like I was really cooking. When I can afford it I get the good olive oil and the good cinnamon, vanilla, etc. when I can't the recipes still come out wonderfully. I also learned a lot from Alton and Good Eats and believe it or not Rachel's 30 minute meals, but the most from Ina. It's hard to remember seeing her current show how good her show used to be. Oh and I learned a lot from PBS hosts like Lidia (yes I know she's a greedy bitch who kept a slave) and from Jacques Pépin and some of the other PBS hosts whom I can't remember right now. Oh and I also was successful with a few of the recipes from Anne Burrell when she had that show, except I would use much less than the handfuls of salt she would throw into everything. You can do the same with Ina's or anyone's recipe. Use what amount of salt you think is best. You can always add more. You can't take it back out. That old throw in a potato trick doesn't really work. You just end up with a too salty potato.

I get the bloating too but mostly on the rare occasions I order in Chinese food. I tried telling them to use less salt and soy sauce but the food ended up tasting bland. It's not cheap so I want it to taste good. I only order it a couple of times a year so I figure what the hell, I'll have bloated ankles for a day or two. I found that drinking a lot of water just makes it worse as the water is retained.

I've posted this before. Not once have I ever been even close to successful in trying to cook Chinese food myself. It might be healthier but it tastes nothing like the Chinese take out, not even simple lo mein.

[quote]constantly demanding that her mousy, annoying husband Jeffrey praise her every boring creation and also insistent that her guests o-o-h and a-a-h over her every throw together meal on the go. Self confidence is healthy, but she takes it too far

OMG, if you think Ina fishes for compliments you've never watched the Pioneer Woman interact with her kids. She literally begs them for their love and approval by force feeding them gobs of fattening comfort foods.

This is typical:

Ree: "Since it's your birthday, I made your favorite, Bryce. And I did something a little different this time and added some fresh pineapple. What do you think? Good huh? Bet you weren't expecting to have THIS treat today were you? Isn't it amazing? Does it taste much different than the last time I made it? It's better with the pineapple, right? Here, have a second piece. I made it special just for you so you can have as much as you like. It's really good, isn't it? I'm a great Mom....right, Bryce? None of your friends have Moms who cook like this, huh? I'm the best Mom in the whole world, aren't I, Bryce?.....AREN'T I?"

Bryce: "STFU mom. I don't give a flying fuck about your stupid dump cake. I just want to hang out with my friends."

Bryce is a ugly little fucker

Y'all are just jealous that i'm getting dicked down by a hot daddy!

Welcome to my frontier. And my back tier, too!

Ina is a bitch. First, she didn't make up the name Barefoot Contessa. She bought a store that was already named that. Then she sold the business to a couple of her employees but after a few years refused to lease the building to them, so they had to go out of business.

[quote]First, she didn't make up the name Barefoot Contessa. She bought a store that was already named that.

Do you think ANYONE didn't already know that?

I don't think of these shows (Pioneer Woman and Barefoot Contessa) as real cooking shows. Ree does very basic recipes out of church cookbooks that have been around forever, and Ina barely cooks anymore (the Queen of cheese platters). They're lifestyle shows. People tune in to see stuff from the ranch/Hamptons, their husbands, their kitchens/homes, etc. Maybe they'll try a recipe at some point but that's not why they're watching.

R167 That's exactly what people don't get about Real Housewives of Beverly Hills. It's become a lifestyle show, very unlike the other franchises. People who watch it want to see the mansions and luxurious trips...not to see two rachet hoes snatching out each other's weaves or a trashy guidette turning over tables on people.

Ina got me to buy All-Clad.

Re: the High School photo, girls in the 80s wore their makeup and hair differently and as a consequence, looked a lot older than high school girls in subsequent decades did.

"I have noticed that Ladd's clothes are always clean and immaculately pressed. Does he ever get a stain on his clothes?"

Yes, he does.

Ree's appearance has really gone downhill this season. She's gotten older and heavier and hasn't done anything to freshen up her looks.

She cranks out new episodes of Pioneer Woman pretty much year-round. I only recall a couple weeks in the past year where they aired a repeat on a Saturday morning. Does she ever take a break? She must bring in big ratings for them to spend so much money on her show.

And now, how 'bout an exciting Oklahoma rancher murder mystery:

[quote]Ree's appearance has really gone downhill this season. She's gotten older and heavier and hasn't done anything to freshen up her looks.

So you're saying that Ladd may be looking for a bit on the side?

She never tried to be sexy to begin with. To me, she is just fine - sort of a large, earthy, Amazonian woman who seems both sweet and earnest. Why dis her? She is very authentic and seemingly friendly. Ina was a fat cow since day one and everyone seems to adore her. I always imagined her reenacting the scene in "Polyester" where Divine slices a small piece of a large cake and then eats the whole cake leaving the small sliver... Ina eats small dinner servings just to dive into a vat of dessert on every episode.

The mercantile store is clearly a pet project. Even if it's a money pit they'll never notice.

My bet is that the Ina hater is the Experienced Baker!!! And we all know who that is!!!

Ree does wear a good-lookin' pair of shit kickers

R177, I don't know who the Experienced Baker is, except the Experienced Baker. So, no, we don't all know who that is.

The Experienced Baker was wonderful, but you bitches ran her off.

It was well known that the Experienced Baker lives in Las Vegas and works/worked as a hotel maid.

Don't ruin everything with that shit, asshole.

Sorry if you don't like the truth but it already infested this thread.

Do you think if I bought a few wifebeaters and mailed them to Ree she would have Ladd wear them on tv?

I made one of the comments about Ina and I have never heard of the poster that you mentioned. I have only been to Las Vegas for a few very bad vacations and I can't bake to save my life nor do I even try. There is a haughtiness to Contessa that rubs plenty of people the wrong way - certainly not just one.

[quote]Pawhuska might be able to attract tourists, [R155]. It's in Osage County, of the "August in Osage County" fame, so there may be more foot traffic in that town than you think.

Honey, have you ever been to Oklahoma? This is not going to happen. It's not like women taking a "Sex and the City" tour of Manhattan. There's nothing in or near Pawhuska.

Agree with R186. That "vanity project" phony retail store will be closed within a year.

She did an episode last year where her friends taste-tested some of the recipes for the new cafe at the Merc. Of course, they were typical country dishes like chicken salad, chocolate pie and such. In one chicken salad she added grapes, and in another she added curry powder. I guess curried chicken salad is still an adventurous thing in Pawhuska.

I can just hear those country fraus now: "This chicken salad tastes like something you'd eat in Africa. I don't like it."

R188 Wait until they taste the chocolate pie.

She recently lost her beloved basset hound Charlie. Also, her brother Doug lost his 20 year old son a few days ago.

[quote]She recently lost her beloved basset hound Charlie. Also, her brother Doug lost his 20 year old son a few days ago.

Where did you hear this? Nothing in the news that I can find.

I saw one of her videos on Facebook, in which she explained how to make an ice cream cake out of store-bought ice cream and store-bought (Sara Lee) frozen pound cake.

I almost choked when it was referred to as a "recipe."

[quote]There's nothing in or near Pawhuska.

That's why she needs to merchandise on what she's got. If she set up a big chair and had Ladd sit in it, she could do like Macys does with Santa Claus and have people come to sit on his lap. Except she could charge for people to sit on Ladd's lap and have their picture taken.

It's very interesting to read the comments on some of her recipe posts. Someone said curry powder wasn't to their taste in one and thanked her for introducing them to gruyere cheese in another! She really knows her audience.

[quote]She really knows her audience.

Ree's audience is like Celia Weston's character in Junebug. Country women who wear denim shirts that are appliqued with cardinals and bluebirds.

The chocolate silk pie that won her taste test contains raw eggs, so I expect to hear stories of mass salmonella poisoning and explosive diarrhea at the Mercantile cafe.

Y'all are just jealous that Ladd likes to fuck me in the ass.

Welcome to my frontier!

Ree and Ladd's daughters are amazons, and Bryce has caught up with them. In a new episode, she cooked for his birthday and he's taller than her and has this deep voice similar to his father's.

Their eldest daughter Alex went away to college last year. I wonder if she's livin' it up?

There was an episode from a few years ago where Cowboy Josh (who's partially deaf, btw) took their daughter Alex out for a day of ranching, and he's clearly not wearing any underwear because you can make out dick and balls. This is him on the right from that episode, VPL included...

The fraus love Ladd's ass

Ladd's ass

I always got the impression that Cowboy Josh had a thing for the Drummond girls.

He seems kind of pervy.

Here he is with Paige...

R199, Well, she's at Texas A&M, and I'm pretty sure she pledged Tri Delt (I saw it on her FB page), so the answer would be a resounding "YES!".

Josh is married to a heavyset woman and is stepfather to her two kids, and they not long ago had one of their own. They live on a house on the property, not too far from the Drummond's house.

Sadly, all of the Drummond kids were hit with the ugly stick. They look like the kids at my school who always had purple medicine around their mouths.

God, I remember that purple medicine on some kids. What was that for anyway, some kind of fungus or something?

[r204] Does anybody on DL care about sororities?

Was the medicine genetian violet? Used for cold sores and thrush

My god - young kids get thrush? I honestly have only heard about it in AIDS patients. I know the candida causes yeast infections in other areas, but back when I used to hear about oral thrush it was pretty much relegated to chemo and AIDS.

R210 kids with poor hygiene who eat too many yeasty foods get thrush

I have never heard of "the purple medicine around the mouth." WTF are you talking about?

Back in the day some kids would show up with this purple medicine around their mouths. I don't know what it was for. I do know being told to not get close to these kids or ever eat anything from them so I knew it wasn't good. I knew it wasn't from eating grape Popsicles.

At least she's had black people on her show. You never see minorities on Giada's show (or Ina's).

Part of her poem to her man:

I met you in a bar • I really liked your hair. • It was like salt n’ pepper • Your eyes laid my soul bare.

You made my hiney tingle • I think, by accident. • Then I went to the rest room • And you got up n’ went

[quote]You never see minorities on Giada's show (or Ina's).

Excuse me?

[quote] You made my hiney tingle

Told you she likes anal!

^I meant people of color.

She met Ladd in a bar? I'm assuming it was a singles bar. I don't picture him as the type.

Ladd had his black college friend over once, and they sometimes feature their Hispanic ranch hands.

Ree always makes Mexican food for the ranch hands, which I find borderline racist.

You know, Ree, maybe those Mexican ranch hands would like a nice quiche or duck confit for lunch instead of refried beans and chimichangas.

I'm pretty sure Ree has no idea how to make duck confit.

How is that racist R221? Get the fuck off this thread! Shit stirring bitch!

Ree always makes Tex-Mex, usually for her family.

If she's making authentic Mexican food, no it is not racist. If she's melting Velveeta over Tostitos and Rotel tomatoes, it's a hate crime.

[quote]At least she's had black people on her show. You never see minorities on Giada's show (or Ina's).

They are flown in like mail order brides.

Shame they can't do the cooking, too.

I hate Ree because she's a lifestyle blogger posing as someone who can make good food. Of the few recipes that are palatable, about half I have tried don't work.

Maybe you're just a shitty cook R226

Smells like Trump Spirit on this thread.

^Please don't drag him into this, yet ANOTHER thread.

[quote] Ladd had his black college friend over once

I saw that episode, too.

This is why I don't mind Ree and Ladd. They're not your stereotypical Okies. Ladd went to Arizona State and Ree went to USC, so at least they're educated. He also became good friends with a black guy, which is not exactly what you might expect of an Oklahoma cowboy/rancher.

As for Ree's cooking Mexican food, you have to watch the show to know that it's her favorite type of food. She's constantly making quesadillas, tacos, enchiladas, and refried beans - for her friends AND her family.

I watch this show a lot, so I've gotten to know her habits. She has this weird obsession with pico de gallo, which she makes on a regular basis, and she said it's "always in the fridge," like a condiment.

Whoever accused her of just cooking Mexican food for her Mexican ranch hands, is being ridiculous.

[quote]>Ladd had his black college friend over once

[quote]I saw that episode, too. This is why I don't mind Ree and Ladd.

Yes, when a white TV personality has a token black friend show up once, that proves he's good people.

[quote] Yes, when a white TV personality has a token black friend show up once, that proves he's good people.

No, it doesn't automatically make him a good person, but it at least shows that he's open minded.

Also, the guy wasn't a "token" friend. Ladd had TWO college buddies over at the ranch that weekend - one was white, one was black. They were just old college friends who stayed over and hung out with him.

I don't know why people like you just talk out of your ass, when you clearly don't know what you're talking about. You just want to attack.

And you know they were good college buddies HOW, exactly?

This is scripted television, R232. Even if that was a good college friend, he wasn't brought on just because he happened to be a good college friend. Multiple people working on the show vetted the idea, scripted it, chose what to say, what recipes to make, how to present the whole scenario. And I guaran-damn-tee you that producers did it as an old-fashioned bit of virtue signalling, and you bought it.

The whole topic of "well at least you see some Latino employees and one black guy, unlike those fancy rich white bitches" was only brought up on this thread as race-baiting anyway. But yeah, I don't like seeing black people used as fucking props on a shitty cooking show, and I'M the racist.

You are a complete fucking idiot R233.

Can you imagine a video with Ladd and Josh going at it?

Why does every show have to be a rainbow, R233? That isn't real life for most people. We stick to our own--all of us. Humans are tribal in nature when you get down to it. To deny that basic fact is just naive and silly.

How do you get up in the morning, R233, with the entire universe weighing on your shoulders the way it does?

R233 cannot see the possibility that a white person may not, against everything r233 knows to be true, be racist. Black friend? You have no proof they're friends. Have black friend on the show? Tokenism and virtue signalling.

Not even the slightest hint of a possibility that a white guy and a black guy were friends in college. Nope, couldn't ever happen. Not possible.

R233 I agree with r234, you are a complete fucking idiot.

Her voice grates.

This is Ree's idea of Mexican food.

This is as racist as Sandra Lee's Kwanzaa cake.

It's just her version (or one of her versions) of an enchilada. So what? All ethnic food morphs into something different in the US based on available ingredients, short cuts in preparation and different taste preferences.

R240 you're full of shit.

Tokenism or not (which is all speculation), they include visible minorities in a non-offensive way. Unlike, say, Paula Deen, or 99% of the media. It's not something to attack them over.

Unless you're an avocational "racist!" shrieker like r240, the enchilada is obviously not an expression of racism. But Ree, how hard is it, really, to make your own salsa?

Nothing about making mexican food is "hard" R244. But it IS time consuming.

Not having to eat salsa from a jar is worth your "high value" time, R245.

No it isn't R246. I hire people to do menial tasks. I get my salsa and guac from a local Mexican restaurant. I also hire people to clean my house and cut the grass. For home repairs I hire a handyman. I'd rather pay someone to do all the things I hate doing.

[quote] But Ree, how hard is it, really, to make your own salsa?

Again, Ree is not a salsa person. She is a PICO person, and she keeps her fridge stocked with pico de gallo, the year round.

And she does make it fresh from scratch.

Well, pico = salsa where I live.

My brother, who hates Mexican food, says it's all the same shitty ingredients, just folded in different ways.

[quote] My brother, who hates Mexican food, says it's all the same shitty ingredients, just folded in different ways.

Ding ding ding!!! And we've made billions of dollars doing it!

R249 and that my dears, is the "I'm not a racist" ignorance-based casual racism we've been talking about. You get a gold sta.... no you get a white star.

R252 In what country, or part of this country, is pico de gallo not a salsa?

It's a form of salsa, but it's also its own thing. Just like Tex-mex is its own (sometimes terrible) cuisine distrint from Mexican food, and Mexican=Latin American but not all Latin Americans are Mexican.

Shut up already about the fuckin' pico de gallo!

Let's get back to Cowboy Josh's bulge please

Ree has 6 different versions of queso on the Food network site. It's the same Velveeta-based recipe with a different ingredient in each, like canned enchilada sauce, or a chipotle pepper mixed in. I guess all her family does is sit around and eat queso and rice krispie treats.

She disgusts me.

R252

RACISM :

a belief or doctrine that inherent differences among the various human racial groups determine cultural or individual achievement, usually involving the idea that one's own race is superior and has the right to dominate others or that a particular racial group is inferior to the others. 2. a policy, system of government, etc., based upon or fostering such a doctrine; discrimination. 3. hatred or intolerance of another race or other races.

Please explain how you get racism from pico vs salsa? I'm truly curious as to how you can come up with such a claim.

Ladd's ass looks pretty flat to me.

This show is racist. If she's a pioneer woman where are the Indians?

R258 it just comes from that attitude of "well where I'm from, we call it ALL salsa. My lumped-in definition of some other culture's weird gloop as one monolithic and easily defined stereotype is sufficient and I don't need to or care to learn beyond that. Why do THOSE PEOPLE insist on making it so complicated? As the only important race, I've done enough to be generous and inclusive by just acknowledging them."

R261 I'm not the poster who raised the vexed question of salsa but I am very curious as to how you can possibly parlay someone saying pico de gallo is salsa - WHICH IT IS - into being racism. You're a presumptuous moron.

Seriously, you don't know that pico is a type of salsa?

All of her children are ugly and annoying as fuck. Other than that, I like her show. Also, her husband is NOT all that either.

Her friend Hyacinth as a hint of shadiness in her. Whenever she's in the show I can sense it.

What, like she comes from a family of cattle rustlers or something?

Pioneer Woman my ass.

[quote]Unlike, say, Paula Deen, or 99% of the media.

Actually Paula Deen had far more black guests than most of the white-hosted FN shows. She was also (unfortunately) responsible for getting the Neelys their own show.

Neelys? Neely O'Hara?

Downlow with the Neely's, R268.

They're divorced now.

Did you mean Down Home, r269? (No snark -- thought you might be giving some shade...) Innerestin' link here:

Ree basically took Sandra Lee's place, and filled that "semi-homemade" void.

The only difference is that Ree knows how to cook, and she does it more often than Sandra did.

R271 Yeah, but she's not banging a governor.

Actually Sandra Lee could cook if the show required it. She had a restaurant makeover show where she took high end dishes from restaurants and remade them at home. It was a lot better food than anything Ree turns out.

Ree is strictly a home cook--a good one--but still a home cook.

A few years ago, she was on the first live Thanksgiving special that the Food network did. She was standoffish towards the other hosts and you could tell that Bobby Flay and Sunny Anderson did not care for her. Ina Garten, who did the live special the following year, had a much better rapport with the other network talent. She has a reputation for being stuck-up.

Ree isn't bad at all. I rarely decide to follow any of her recipes - but some are quite good. Her take on pot roasts (Italian Drip Beef) was excellent. I don't know this demographic of food sensibility very well - and she does some wonderful things with simple, country fare. When she starts using the squirt mayonnaise and the bottled marinara I start to glaze over. I mean, we don't need a tv show to teach us how to be a lazy cook. That said, I do keep Dukes and Hellman's in the fridge and on rare occasions - Trader Joe's bottled marinara in the cabinet. That squirt bottle that she uses gives me an eye tick though..

I just caught an episode where Ree mentioned that her family regularly takes vacation trips to Vail, Colorado.

Isn't that expensive?

They certainly don't look like "pioneer" people in this photo...

These days a huge rancher like her husband and his family are billionaires. They can own over a million acres. A vacation like that is pocket change for them. These people don't own a farm with a few cows and a bull. They own a fucking corporation. Believe me there is nothing pioneer about that ugly family. None of them have ever done a day's work when the cameras aren't rolling.

The husband isn't ugly, and the youngest son (Todd) looks the least like her.

BOTH of her sons look a bit Down Syndrome to me. The girls are boyish but normal. Yeah, I'm thinking that they have more money than God.. NOT pioneer - more like Ina..

[quote] BOTH of her sons look a bit Down Syndrome to me.

Ree's brother is mentally disabled, fyi.

Not sure if it's Down's, though.

R275 makes Ree Drummond seem like a dream.

For that matter, R275 is such a self-regarding twat she makes Fannie Craddock look like a dream.

I hope it was a parody post. Because otherwise this thing needs to get her head out of her ass and her eyes off her mirror.

Ree's sons look perfectly normal. Bryce looks just like her in the face, but the older he gets the more he looks (and sounds) like his dad. The two girls are super tall (taller than Ree and almost as tall as Ladd, if not his height). Ree has another older brother who is tall and also pretty hot if I remember correctly. He's the only one of her immediate family who's never appeared on her show. Camera shy or family drama?

What was self-regarding about R275's post??? self-re·gard - regard or consideration for oneself; self-respect. conceit; vanity..

Horchen! Alle diese Frauen!

Ina loves Paris and Ree loves a cow killer. I choose Ina.

But I do have to say, that Ina's food seems complicated. .

Pie Near Woman has a video:

Racist????? Give me a fucking break.

R285, Ina's food is "complicated"??? Most of her recipes have about 5 ingredients...

Ree's recipes are actually more complicated than Ina's. Ina's recipes use expensive ingredients so you just think they're more complex.

R289 - agreed. I would not call either cook complex at all. Ina's food tends to be very basic (and at times almost boring) but she does use high quality ingredients. Ree often uses very "Walmart" level components and at times will throw in items such as jarred marinara sauce or pre-seasoned items. That said, her recipes are often actually more complex than most of Ina's.

I think the Walmart-level may reflect her audience. She's in one of the square states in the middle, that will be the most easily available to her audience.

She would've married Denzel if she hadn't have met Ladd

You liked it so much, R292, you posted it twice.

It was a whoopsie in the other thread.

This is complex for me, but it looks good. Strolling through a outdoor market, buying cheese, gourmet crackers, fruit and wine is completely doable and enjoyable and up my alley. If in Paris, even better.

I would not be caught dead buying food in wal mart. Hate the Ree. People who have to buy at Wal mart live in "food deserts." Give these people a local farmer's market and Trader Joe's, they would dump wal mart so fast and you all know it.

R295, you sound bougie

You could probably eat for a month on what one of Ina's recipes costs. Ree's for the most part are more affordable. Also where Ina supposedly shops probably charges 4 times the amount you can get the same for at a supermarket. It's like the Greenmarkets in NYC, most of their produce isn't even organic. It was just picked closer to purchase. I'd rather get organic at my local food coop or the supermarkets which are carrying more and more organic foods every day than an arm and a leg for not as healthy freshly picked non organic food at the oh so trendy greenmarkets. But tell that to the rich morons who rush to these markets every weekend.

I always laugh when Ina goes shopping for cheese in the Hamptons. She strolls into those cheese shops and buys huge wedges of expensive cheese like she's picking up a package of Kraft cheddar at the Piggly Wiggly. When you factor in Hamptons' prices, she's easily dropping $200 for a cheese course.

Yeah R298, exactly. Imagine being that rich that you can do that without blinking an eye. Hell, I feel like crying every time something in the supermarket goes up 29 cents. Almost 50 million people in this country, many of them children and the elderly are going hungry and there are plenty of others like Ina that can easily put out hundreds for a snack plate. Look at some restaurants in NYC and LA that cost several hundred for one lousy meal of tiny trendy portions, more if you order booze. In NYC in some cases the rich literally step over the homeless on their way into these restaurants.

The truth is the Ree is eating insanely expensive food privately.

She is getting richer pushing kraft cheese and wal mart on to the American people.

Eating Parisian grapes, cheese and wine is better for the world and democracy than walmart.

Ree actually consumes the most choice cuts of filet mignon on a daily basis I would imagine. The best are in or around Kansas City (I am sure that they breed cattle that is similar) and I would gander that she and her equally millionaire hubby eat only the best. I do guess that she cooks quite a bit though - there are no fucking restaurants to speak of anywhere near her multi million dollar ranch. She seems to be generally rather authentic. Just like Ina motoring around the Hamptons to spend $300 on cheese and $120 on locally grown wild mushrooms (that Lane Bryant girl can eat..). They both seem authentic to me.

Exactly, R301.

I don't know why people are comparing Ree to Ina. That's apples and oranges.

Both live in very different places, and they have very different backgrounds. Yet they both seem authentic.

Ina does fine for the Hamptons, and Ree does fine for Oklahoma. It doesn't have to be either / or.

That said, they're both probably filthy rich. It's just that one flaunts it a bit more.

I've only watched a few episodes because I can't stand her. She comes across as ridiculously smug to me. "I'm such a perfect wife/mother/homemaker! Look at me!"

[quote]Ina does fine for the Hamptons, and Ree does fine for Oklahoma. It doesn't have to be either / or.

Yes, it does.

Ina and Jeffrey are mega-wealthy. I think their net worth is around $500 million.

The Drummonds are very wealthy, too. Their ranch is one of the largest in the country. I'd put them at around $50 million, but they could be worth much more now that Ree is raking in the dough.

Ina's net worth is listed online as $40M. I made her mac and cheese and don't recall it using anything out of the ordinary. Besides, there's always Aldi, Trader Joe's and Costco for ingredients.

I've always wondered what Jeffrey was doing in the military, which was not an occupation for the cool kids those days. Particularly well-educated, Jewish cool kids.

[quote] I've always wondered what Jeffrey was doing in the military

Hot young soldier cock, of course.

Yes, R308. That has to be it. Because there was otherwise no hot young cock in DC at that time.

I'm guessing the Merc is a vehicle for writing off shopping trips.

Oh and Ree, if you're serving chicken-fried steak, please don't call it a deli. "Pretentious take on a truckstop" will do quite nicely.

Would you like some $70 Pioneer Woman jeans?

[quote]Eating Parisian grapes

Goober

Parisian grapes? You know that any grapes grown near Paris are for wine, right? They're not dessert grapes.

She makes a mean buffalo chip pie.

Damn! We missed it!

[quote]Visiting The Merc on Thursday, January 5th, 12th or 19th? Well, we've got a little fun side trip for ya! After eating and shopping, Ree & Ladd invite you to drop by The Lodge on Drummond Ranch. The Lodge is the Drummond's guest house, and also serves as the production location for her Food Network show! Feel free to walk through, snap photos, and take a peek at the place where all the cooking happens.

[quote] She makes a mean buffalo chip pie.

Just be happy you don't have to clean up the toilet bowl after she makes her "buffalo chip pie."

I have to scrub that thing down for hours!

Bet that's true R310. Buying trips to London, Paris, Rome, Milan.

She's laughing all the way to the bank!

Someone call the Merc and see if they sell Goober

Ree is getting fatter.

The recently showed the grand opening of the Merc. She had a nice sized crowd of fans who drove in from other red states. I wonder how dead it is now though?

You got to see a whole other side of Ree, and it wasn't the fake plastered on smile we usually see. She was kind of bitchy and bossy on the grand opening episode. It's clear that she's just another mean old Trump-loving country girl.

I should go to OKH for the summer

The locals hate them deeply

I can't tell if Lad is old or just pale

Ree's hubby looks like Mike Pence

The Drummond family owns land the size of Connecticut. I want them in me deeply.One after another

She's gotten so fat

She is a grinning idiot!!

The Marlboro Man is no longer smokin'. Looks like your average paunchy 50 year old white dude with hairloss.

Say what you will about Sandra Lee, at least she's self-made. She may have gotten her initial start by inventing some chintzy decorating tool she hawked on QVC, but she did it herself.

And she's more fun than Ree, and less flatulent than Ina.

Sandy doesn't cook. She assembles frankenfood.

[quote]Sandy doesn't cook. She assembles frankenfood.

She's a generous barmaid and a fun drunk. She's your crazy aunt who you love.

Ladd has spent way too much time in the sun

[quote] She was kind of bitchy and bossy on the grand opening episode.

You can tell that her sister-in-law Missy (Ladd's brother's wife) and her "best friend" Hyacinth despise Ree.

They put on polite smiles, and they humor her when she puts them on camera, but all I can see is their seething hatred towards her.

Hyacinth has major resting bitch face.

She's always creeped me out. Slightly crazy eyes with that smile. Same with Ina. Something's just a little off, or maybe just the way they telegraph on tv. Which reminds me, I went to see a taping of "The Chew" last fall, and in person, each one of the "hosts" looks so different. Carla is stunning, but on tv she looks very sharp and angular. Clinton looks about the same. He's very tall and came across as nice. Daphne Oz looked over it. Over it. A little surly when the cameras were off. Looked like she just wanted to get off the show as soon as something else comes along. Most surprisingly, Michael Symon, who looks a little odd on the show, is hot and sexy as fuck up close. And he knows it.

Celebrity Wife Swap - Ina to Ladd and Ree to Jeffrey for a week. Imagine that.

I'm pretty sure Jeffrey would prefer he got saddled with Ladd!

Yeah, her sister-in-law Missy can't stand her.

They recently had an episode with a joint birthday party for their two sons, which included a shooting contest. Missy's son was much hotter and he won the shooting contest.

It's interesting that Missy and her hubby have a nicer home than Ree, even though Ree is far wealthier than her in-laws.

Do we actually know what Ree's house looks like? Haven't we only seen the inside of her taping house?

R341 We mostly see "the lodge," but there have also been episodes in her actual residence.

Aunt Sandy's gonna be on "Celebrity Family Feud" this summer ... with Kimber, Brycer, and Danielle!

Unfortunately, I know someone who was a staffer on Sandy's old [italic]Semi-Homemade[/italic] magazine, and she says she was a raging prima-donna cunt. This person never had to deal with her directly, but she was apparently impossible to please, would call up the editor at all hours cursing and screaming, etc. Maybe she's mellowed?

[quote] she was apparently impossible to please, would call up the editor at all hours cursing and screaming, etc.

That was just "the bottle" talking...

I betcha Ree has a big ol' red smelly bush

Missy's pussy stinks!

I have it on good authority that Hyacinth is a mean drunk, and that she and her husband haven't slept in the same bed in years!

Honey, I could tell you some stories... lets just say - he has a wandering eye.

bump

She's an entitled, programmed Cunt. She's annoying as hell!

In the next 3-6 years, wave when you pass one of her boys on the street in WEHO or Chelsea.

How hot was Ladd when he was in his 20s? I want pictures.

I like how she steals recipes and then copyrights them.

Food network has her on marathon all morning. It's actually good fun tv for a slow sunday

I've been watching it too, R354. lol

I loved her spinach artichoke dip recipe, as well as her beef and snow peas recipe. They made me so hungry!

[quote] In the next 3-6 years, wave when you pass one of her boys on the street in WEHO or Chelsea.

You don't have to wait. You can find Ladd cruising the streets of Tulsa for blond twinks. Sometimes, he'll bring along cowboy Josh, and they'll spit roast their tricks.

Ree always says that Ladd loves a good spit roast.

I just saw an episode this morning where she had a few cowboys help her taste-test some food she prepared. Anyone know who Cowboy Johnny is? He's hot.

I watched it, R356. He’s kinda cute.

I like her. She’s seems nice. Apparently, she’s very funny and animated off camera but on camera, she’s robotic they say.

R356 I've been trying to find out who he is and can't find anything on the internet. There were a couple shots of what appears to be a GREAT ass on him! Any luck finding out who he is?

She’s stunningly unattractive.

R359 please post a pic of yourself so we can judge YOU. Grow TFU

r360 There was nothing un-grown up about what R359 said. You may not have liked it, but "Grow TFU" is hardly a logical response.

I know one of the Drummond family members (a first cousin of Ladd). The Drummond family is one of the largest land owners in the USA. They are extremely wealthy. My acquaintance is very nice.

Thanks to the DLer who bumped this fun thread. Ree can come across as a bit smug and entitled, like a behavior-modified Martha Stewart (complete with invisible hired help). Her branding makes sense, because some rural/suburban Americans like to style themselves as living a "pioneer" life.

And then there's their Mercantile, which I find kind of touching. Yes, it may not be much of a money-maker -- in fact, it feels more like a love offering to the local community (no snark).

Her show has kind of run its course. She keeps recycling the same recipes with minor changes. Sometimes I think her family sits around and eats queso and chocolate bark all day long.

Well she is R360.

lol R364, i was thinking the same thing.

she has totally run out of ideas, and she's making shit up now to keep the show going.

i think it's time to put the pioneer woman out to pasture.

It's the phony shit about the show I can't stand. Yes, she and the family are in the billionaire range. So why the pretense that she does everything herself, the shopping, cooking, cleaning, laundry and that the actual family lifts even one finger to do the dirty work of the ranch. No one in that family or their kids as lifted a finger in generations. They are one of the richest families in America. The only time any of them have ever stepped foot in a supermarket was filming scenes for the show.

One thing I like about FN's The Kitchen. When one of the hosts is asked if they did this or that themselves, usually some kind of prep work. They say no. It was done by the staff in the back. No pretense. They also don't pretend the studio is there home, a la Valerie B, complete with fake doorbell sounds. Then we have Ina and her "friends" who happen to stop by or Jeffery who happens to be home just when a chicken comes out of the oven.

The old shows like Emeril, or Sara Moulton or even Rachel Ray didn't pretend they were at home or cooking for friends or any bullshit. They just stood there and taught viewers how to cook something.

"Unexpected detail emerges about 'Pioneer Woman' Ree Drummond's obscene income"

"The Pioneer Woman" Ree Drummond is one of the biggest landowners in the United States according to a new report.

The Food Network star's family reportedly owns 433,000 acres of land, making her the 23rd largest land owner in the country. Because of their large ownership, the Drummond family has received a massive payout from the government in rent.

Well, according to the Land Report, her family has made over $23.9 million over the last decade from the Bureau of Land Management because they allow wild horses and burros on their land.

Of course, that's not her family's only lucrative source of income. The Drummonds also run a highly successful cattle company, while Ree herself has seen incredible success through her blog and Food Network program, which is one of the network's most highly-rated shows. Her personal net worth is estimated to be around $8 million."

[quote]They also don't pretend the studio is there home, a la Valerie B, complete with fake doorbell sounds.

Are you sure Valerie doesn't film in her own home?

I'm not sure the Drummond family would ever be able to sell that land, which makes the land value meaningless. How many people would want to spend millions of dollars on land in the middle of Nowhere, OK?

Developers, when the coasts start to flood from sea level rise and we have to go further inland.

The Drummonds' OK property, regardless of the million of acres they own: the lack of trees, as far as the eye can see, would alone drive me insane.

If she’s a pioneer, I’m Mother Theresa.

Hubby is too rural for my taste. I like urbane men.

I always wondered why it seems like Ree looks like she's driving forever just to make her "deliveries" to family and friends, not to mention just to get home from the Lodge.

Come to think of it, now it makes sense why her kids are home-schooled. It's like they own their own state!

I don't care what you bitches think, the Drummond land is beautiful, and I could live and die there... no problem.

She's starting to enter Wynonna Judd territory with that long, stringy orange mop.

433,000 acres is 676 square miles.

Just to put it in perspective, the state of Rhode Island is 1,212 square miles.

So they basically own land that is half the size of the state of Rhode Island.

That's fucking incredible.

How did they acquire all of that land? Was someone back in the family tree a zillionaire or what?

The "Great Oklahoma Land Rush," maybe R377?

Although I don't think they were granted THAT much land.

I bet she has chronic diarrhea. And frequently breaks noxious wind.

Shut up, Ina at R379.

We all know that's YOU.

Ina knows all the right people. She supports the arts and is socially viable. This Drumond woman looks like she makes her own clothes with as much elan as she does her horrible food. I can't see the doors of the Hamptons opening to welcome such a creature.

Agree, her restaurant-style salsa is terrific!

This Drummond creature has the look of a 'special' person. One could imagine her on the back of a chuck wagon.

Her entire family looks "Special." Like too much inbreeding.

Her brother is mentally retarded, so the gene does run in her family. She's always making him Rice Krispie treats on the show, which I find offensive.

I thought it had been decided that she was alright?

She's from California and she home-schooled her kids because the ig'nants in the state were too jesus-freaky to provide a competent education?

Her hubby went to school in Az and has a diverse group of friends.

I've seen some of the dishes and stuff that's being sold and some of them are quite bright and colorful and nice.

💁🏼

When did I start looking like a dried apple doll?

Her recipes don’t even work! She’s not a caterer or a trained cook or even a food writer. She’s a mommy blogger and she really doesn’t very know food.

Her husband is worth it.

[quote]She's from California

Where on earth did you get that idea? While she went to USC, she was born and raised in Bartlesville, Oklahoma.

You don't need to be a particularly great cook or designer or house flipper, or whatever, but if you're catering to that smalltown, family-oriented, quasi-religious audience, you can easily land your own show on HGTV or Food Network. It seems that they've been really going after that particular demographic lately. Once that trend goes away, so will her show.

Ree is not some rare progressive living in the middle of Oklahoma, like some of you are trying to make us believe. She's a Republican, just like the rest of her family and friends. They're always filming her family going to church. Do the math.

There are several episodes where the camera catches Ladd's Wrangler bulge while he's man-handling the cattle. I'm surprised there aren't more screen grabs posted here. The salsa recipe cracks me up. I was improvising years ago with canned tomatoes, lime, onion and cilantro. It's almost EXACTLY what's in her recipe. I think she stole it from me!

[quote]Her personal net worth is estimated to be around $8 million."

That must be a typo @ R368. Every third DLer is worth 8 million. Heck, I have that much in my retirement savings.

Ree must be worth 8 "BILLION".

[quote] She's a Republican, just like the rest of her family and friends. They're always filming her family going to church

I hate to break it to you, but Democrats go to church, too.

[quote]I hate to break it to you, but Democrats go to church, too.

The Church of Satan, maybe.

I feel pico de gallo has too many tomatoes, just way too many!

I have NO proof of this, but I have heard repeatedly that she and Ladd are actually quite progressive. I know, it sounds crazy - but I really have heard this several times. They can't fly that flag due to their audience.

I hope that's true but I seriously doubt it. They are 1%, the richest in their town and "Christian" and live in a deep red state. I really doubt it.

I just caught an episode where Ree made her Oklahoma version of Vietnamese Pho at home.

She assembled the ingredients of a Top Ramen package of noodles with the seasoning (I fucking kid you not), sliced beef, soy, fish sauce, sriracha, kale, red onions, grated ginger, and a squeeze of lime. Then you pour hot water from a kettle on top, wait a few minutes, and voila! Pho.

It. Was. Horrifying.

She has surpassed Sandra Lee in the semi-homemade world of crap.

Really? Making ramen soup from scratch is not that difficult, actually. It's a really good recipe.

The hard part is finding the damn noodles. Real, noodles, not the packaged ramen crap.

It's vegetarian, too.

Well, Pho is different from ramen soup, R401.

Ree got the flavors right, with the exception of the kale.

I guess if you can't find fresh ramen noodles where you live, packaged is your only alternative. The soup base is acceptable too, but I think that's where she could have put in more work.

Pho broth is complex, but it's basically a beef broth with roasted ginger, onions, and spices. She could have easily done that to make a more authentic broth.

The noodles are just your standard packaged vermicelli noodles, blanched in hot water for a minute.

Aside from that, the red/white onions and lime are correct for pho. However, they also use bean sprouts, green onions and basil as the vegetables.

Then top it off with chicken or beef.

The hardest part about pho is the broth, and that's where she could have improvised.

Using ramen noodles and the seasoning packet is just lazy.