"The Pioneer Woman Cooks" news and stories

Oklahoma's Ree Drummond, author of the Pioneer Woman blog and The Pioneer Woman Cooks cookbook, has captured the top award in the 2010 "Bloggie" awards, NewsOK.com reported.

The Pioneer Woman won the 2010 Weblog of the Year award for the second year in a row. Winners were announced via Twitter (of course), and Drummond's blog also won awards for writing and design.

Ree Drummond, better known in the blogosphere as the Pioneer Woman, divulges the details and dishes of her Oklahoma cattle ranch life that she shares with her husband, the "Marlboro Man," and her four children.

Now, she's taking her frontier out of the World Wide Web into a cookbook, "The Pioneer Woman Cooks." She took a moment to talk to Slashfood about her country cooking, during one of the stops on her book tour.

Slashfood: You're known for your down-home, hearty meals. Do you seriously eat that stuff every night?
PW: Well, we don't eat chicken fried steak, mashed potatoes and gravy every night. Gravy is probably a once or twice a month thing. Generally speaking, eating on the ranch with the cowboys is more of a refueling thing and they do work hard. They get up at 5 and in the summertime, sweat ... sweat so much.

But I do eat everything in my cookbook. It's just really about portion control. I don't do the Cheesecake Factory's portions of the chicken spaghetti, for instance. The guys work too hard to really be calorie-conscious or fat-conscious so if we really need to trim it down, it's all about portion.

Read the rest of our exclusive interview with Ree Drummond after the jump.

Have you guys heard of the food blog The Pioneer Woman Cooks? I find that site, penned by Ree, totally addictive. Whenever a new post from her pops up in my Google Reader, I stop what I'm doing in order to see what she's created. She has a really quirky sense of humor, amazing photographic skills and the ability to use as much butter as Paula Dean.

In her most recent post she made a pasta primavera, photographing each step along the way (she must have incredible natural light in her kitchen, because those pics look gorgeous), including the dicing of the onion, the smashing of garlic and the whisking of the sauce.

Her archives are amazing as well. I recommend checking out her Brisket, Cinnamon Rolls and Twice Baked Potatoes.