I’m wondering if I made the right decision about hair and makeup.

Butter, cream, and bacon. That’s such a great foundation right there.

I’m so boring. My idea of a great day is just to be home with absolutely nothing to do.

I’m not a chef, and I’m not an expert at anything. I’m just a mom and a wife.

I don’t like bananas. I like to drive that point home.

I didn’t even know any cowboys growing up. When my friends heard that I was marrying a cattle rancher and moving to the country, they literally could not believe it. They started calling me the Pioneer Woman as a joke.

My days are spent wrangling children, chipping dried manure from boots, washing jeans, and frying calf nuts.

I’m working on a second cookbook and am working on my love story, ‘Black Heels to Tractor Wheels.’

I think deerskin work gloves are the answer to everything. You can give them to someone who gardens or someone who works outside. And you can give them to someone who grills; they’re great for grilling. I wear them all the time, 24/7.

Oats are great – you can make meatloaf and use oats instead of bread as the binder, or you can make oatmeal cookies, my husband‘s favorite.

I’ve set aside a nice chunk of my advertising revenue each month for giveaways, like a KitchenAid mixer. I like buying them for the audience, because without the audience I wouldn’t have the blog or the revenue in the first place.

If I were a single person living in a city, I could support myself, but I probably wouldn’t have a blog, because I would have nothing to blog about.

I’m a thirty-something ranch wife, mother of four, moderately agoraphobic middle child who grew up on a golf course in the city.

I think over-seasoning it is something I tend to do. If it’s a good steak, salt, pepper, and butter are the three key ingredients. But just try not to overcook it, and you’ll be happy.

I’m a cinnamon roll evangelist.

I was the last person that any of my friends would have pictured moving to the boonies.

I’m a writer and a photographer – I’m totally aware that doesn’t always translate to TV.

I think a common misconception about a small town in rural America is that everyone believes the same way, and nothing could be further from the truth.

If you ruin the main course of a dinner party, it ain’t all that tragic. Just laugh!

I love black leggings with cowboy (I mean cowgirl!) boots, and other-slightly less trendy-things like my boys‘ Wrangler jeans and my husband‘s worn deerskin work gloves. I love most things country, because country, to me, is home.

Now I live in the middle of nowhere on a working cattle ranch.

For a while, I Photoshopped too much. When you first learn what you can do, you really go overboard sometimes.

I love nutcrackers, as I was a ballerina growing up.

Christmas and Thanksgiving are the two days of the year where we know the spurs are going to stay off the boots because the family doesn’t have to work. It’s such a nice – and rare – treat!

I want people to see how hard my husband and kids work on the ranch.

I’m working on a second cookbook and am working on my love story, ‘Black Heels to Tractor Wheels.

I’m as flawed as the next person. But maybe I inspire women because I’m an example that you should never assume that where you are in life or what you’re doing is going to remain exactly as it is forever.

I think people are drawn to ‘The Pioneer Woman,’ not because I am some fascinating person but because I present things that a lot of people can relate to.

The truth of the matter is that I live on an isolated cattle ranch in the middle of Oklahoma and that’s not going to change.

I attended college in Los Angeles and wore black pumps to work every day.