I am hosting a dinner party and you are invited! There is also a really cool prize involved with this dinner party. You are going to want it – I promise!!
As much as I’d love to have each and every one of you over to my house for dinner – wouldn’t that be fun!? – it’s just not possible.
So I’d like to invite you to a virtual dinner party. And you get to help plan the menu.
The only requirement is that the recipe has to come from Pioneer Woman. You do know Pioneer Woman, don’t you?
Pioneer Woman is a ROCK STAR blogger. This woman gets thousands of comments on her posts, was recently featured in People Magazine, the Bonnie Hunt show and just came out with her own cookbook! She is my idol!
Over the last few years of blogging I have tried lots of her recipes. I have yet to find one that disappoints.
This past week I was in an apple mood so I baked up her Apple Cake in an Iron Skillet. I love cooking anything in my cast iron skillet!
It was yummy and delicious and perfect with a scoop of vanilla ice cream, just like Pioneer Woman promised. As good as the cake was I must admit my favorite Pioneer Woman apple dessert is her Apple Dumplings - oh my gosh!! They are amazing!
To join my dinner party all you have to do is let me know what your favorite Pioneer Woman recipe is. Just leave a comment to let me know. If you haven’t made any Pioneer Woman recipes yet go on over and pay her a visit and look through her recipe archives. You’ll be drooling soon. Then come back and leave a comment and let me know which one you are going to try!
I can’t wait to see what some of your favorites are.
Now to the prize part. With the help of random.org, one of you will be selected to receive a FREE copy of Pioneer Woman’s new cookbook!!
Of course, the cookbook is full of amazing Pioneer Woman photography. Step by step photos of her amazing food. Many of my favorite PW recipes are in the book as well as several new ones I am looking forward to trying. I think the first one on the To Try list will be the Breakfast Bowls – what a fun way to serve breakfast and clean out your frig!!
So just leave a comment sharing your favorite PW recipe and keep your fingers crossed. To earn an extra entry, just blog about my dinner party or share it on Facebook. Come back and leave another comment with the link to your post!
Here are some of our family PW favorites!
Can’t wait to hear your favorites!
This giveaway is open until Friday, Nov.13, midnight PST.
How can you NOT love her Chocolate Sheet Cake? It is so good, I have a hard time sharing it. We also really like the Yogurt-Marmalade Cake. Much better than it sounds, really. And the Blackberry Cobbler, part 2. Sounds like I should bring dessert, huh?
Everyone also really enjoys Chicken Spaghetti, Bacon Wrapper Jalapenos, MM’s Favorite Sandwich, and so many more. PW has so many wonderful recipes and they are a good mixture of down-home recipes and things you would make for a special night with company. I can always find something great at PW Cooks.
Thanks so much!!
I just made her pumpkin muffins last night…they are SO yummy!!!
I love PW’s recipes. My favorite would have to be the Apple Dumplings and the Chicken Spaghetti. Both are the ultimate comfort food!
My favorite is her caramel apple pie. So delicious!
My daughter makes her apple dumplings and they are the BEST and so easy!! We also like Pastor Ryans Monkey bread too!
Wonderful contest…hard to pick my favorite one…there are sooooooo many!!!
The last few weeks I have made her jalepeno bacon thingies
a number of times and they are always a big hit! But you know I like the Crash Hot Potatoes too! Then there is….
Her tre leches cake…is SO yummy! And the photos that show it step by step are AMAZING!
I have made several of her recipes but the one I have memorized now is her mashed potatoes. SO good and they come out perfectly every time.
I love them all!!!
Simple yet wonderful
Smashed Potatoes
I just made her “Coffee Cake, Literally” last night and almost fell to the floor when I took the first bite, it was incredible!!
Oooo! My family loves her Crash Hot Potatoes. I make them everytime we have Honey-Barbecue wings, which I do in a skillet now. It’s a favorite meal.
I think the Apple recipes look awesome!! Gotta make them now. Thanks for all your great recipes. My family loves your sharing them.
Thanks for the great giveaway opportunity!
Julie
I’ve been dying to try those apple dumplings
I personally love her baked fudge and her dump cake!
Her Pot Roast recipe from the website is absolutely the BEST!
The bacon-wrapped crackers are yummy!!!
Thanks for the chance to win!
Crash Hot Potatoes! We love these! I add a sprinkle of parm cheese on top. Soooo good!
I think our favorite is the apple pie!
I became aware of the Pioneer Woman site through, Your Homebased Mom. (thank you) The recipe I have made the most has to be Hot Crash Potatoes! They have now become a favorite of one of my daughters and my sister loves them too. So many options……..not enough time!
I’ve made the apple cake in a skillet too, my kids loved to help with this recipe and it was super easy and a lot of fun. We also like the chicken tenders recipe.
I’m so excited for this cookbook!
Oh my, so many wonderful choices! Everythign I have made from PW is fantastic. The two PW recipes I make every week are crash hot potatoes and The Bread aka Pastor Ryan bread. YUM! As always, fabulous give away.
yummy!! We love her roasted red pepper pasta sauce and the recipe for braised chicken~
I love her Pasta Carbonara and her flashback 1981- Holiday Bacon Appetizers those little guys one me a prize at our friends’ Halloween party this year.
I love everything I make from her.
Everything of hers is great! I think one of my favorites is Penne a la Betsy I made the other night!
Love the corn and wild rice casserole also a cabbage and noodle asian salad makes a huge amount great for our block party though.
mmm I am getting hungry
I love Pioneer Woman’s Marinated Flank Steak. It’s wonderful! I just met
Ree (P/W) at the Tattered Cover in Denver. She’s very nice!
This summer I served the Crash Box potatoes to my family. They loved them and started making them at their own homes. We probably made them an average of twice a week all summer!
I’d love to come to the dinner party!
I’m going to have to try the “Coffee Cake, Literally!” My mouth was seriously watering just reading about it. I love all the photos of each step too! For someone who’s more visual like me, as opposed to saavy in the kitchen, it really helps! 
In our house, it’s all about the Stuffed Mushrooms, baby! Oh, and I just saw her Decadent Hot Chocolate recipe and am seriously intrigued.
I’m getting ready to make the Peanut Butter Pie for a dinner party next weekend. I can hardly wait!
I’ve made the Steak Salad from the Pioneer Woman website before….and my husband loves the dressing……it’s made with ginger and it’s perfect for summer. I was just at her page the other day and am set to make the Beef with Broccoli – - much more healthy than my local Chinese take-out.
I love her chicken spaghetti recipe — yummy! What a great giveaway!
Our family favorite from Pioneer Woman is her Crash Hot Potatoes. We make them all the time! But there are so many others I love too….it’s so hard to pick one!
Love it! I love her pasta – so this the dish for me.
I love her Hot Crash Potatoes. I make them 2-3 times a month.
We love the Crash Hot Potatoes. The new cookbook is on my “Things I Would Like” list. Looking forward to trying more yummy recipes.
I agree with you: the apple dumplings. I was actually just looking at that recipe again yesterday as I have a bunch of apple from the orchard that I need to do something with. P.S. I think you are great too! Just made your dulce de leche with apples. So good.
We have to pick one! Mine would be steak bites!
How could I not have tried her recipes? They ALL sound so good! I’ve got some apples just waiting to be used and I’m going to have to try those yummy apple dumplings ~ today!!! Sounds like I need to try her potatoes too, in all their varieties! Hmmm, how do I choose what to make for dinner tonight? Thanks Leigh Anne, for sharing!
Her Texas Sheet Cake is amazing! That is the only recipe of hers I have actually made. I have a list of others I want to make. I would love to come to your dinner party and I’ll make the cake!
Our favorite is Marlboro Man’s Favorite Sandwich. Yummy, yummy! I could eat one right now!
I recently made her Strawberry Shortcake Cake and it was to-die-for. My entire family was raving and all I did was follow her simple instructions. The cake was gorgeous and delicious like all of her other recipes. She’s definitely my idol, too!
I’ve been meaning to try her spaghetti bolognese for weeks. I finally have some ground meat in the freezer, so hopefully I’ll get around to it soon. I heart Pioneer Woman’s site, and now you have me craving those dumplings. MMM.
PW Chicken Parmigiana, a family favorite. YUM!
I too love the Pioneer woman, and was disappointed that I didn’t go see her when she visited SLC.
Like many, I have made and LOVE the crash hot potatoes. What’s great about them is that you can tweak it so many yummy ways. I haven’t made her chocolate sheet cake yet only because I don’t have a sheet cake pan. But, I’m thinking I’m going to have to figure out a way around that because I just can’t wait any longer to have some! Ree is going to be in NY in December, and I have been wondering how I’m going to hold out until then to buy her book so she can sign it! Hope I win, but I know whoever wins will enjoy her book! Thanks for the dinner invite!
Since I am in charge of bringing a pie for Thanksgiving dessert (one of many desserts laid out that day!), I think I will try the Caramel Pumpkin Gingersnap Cheesecake (So There) recipe. Sounds delish and a good break from the standard pumpkin pie!
Also- I will post this dinner party on both Face Book and my Blog.
Thank you for a great and fun idea!
Jenn
I love so many of her recipes. (And yours too!) Some of our favorites are peach crisp with maple cream sauce, baked lemon pasta, and her apple pie.
I absolutely adore the Poineer Woman! My favorite is the recipe for pan-seared mushrooms (Pastor Ryan)… yum. I am addicted to great mushrooms (and luckily have a local organic source!) and make them as a side at least 3 times a week.
I am also quite the cookbook collectore – so this one would be a great addition to my collection
I have to give a thumbs up to Pioneer Woman’s “Chocolate Waffle Cookies”. Anyone who loves chocolate and likes things easy, this is the perfect pair. She mentions she gives them to neighborhood kids–are you kidding me. I don’t even have any leftover to give out!! They disappear quite quickly. Also, love her pumpkin muffins as well.
Have a good day.
SPICY MAC & CHEESE!!!! Yumyumyumyum!! It’s just too good not to gobble it all up. Love PW! I hope I win! =)