Drummond - The pioneer woman cooks: a Dinnertime

1. 
   Breakfast for Dinner
2. 
   Salad for Dinner
3. 
   Soup for Dinner
4. 
   Freezer Food
5. 
   16-Minute Meals
6. 
   Pasta Pronto
7. 
   Comfort Classics
8. 
   New Favorites
9. 
   Veggie Sides
10. 
    Starchy Sides
11. 
    Quick Desserts

Matt BallAustralia HarperCollins Publishers Australia Pty. Ltd. Level 13, 201 Elizabeth Street Sydney, NSW 2000, Australia www.harpercollins.com.au Canada HarperCollins Canada 2 Bloor Street East - 20th Floor Toronto, ON M4W 1A8, Canada www.harpercollins.ca New Zealand HarperCollins Publishers New Zealand Unit D1, 63 Apollo Drive Rosedale 0632 Auckland, New Zealand www.harpercollins.co.nz United Kingdom HarperCollins Publishers Ltd. 1 London Bridge Street London SE1 9GF, UK www.harpercollins.co.uk United States HarperCollins Publishers Inc. 195 Broadway New York, NY 10007 www.harpercollins.com The Pioneer Woman Cooks: Recipes from an Accidental Country Girl The Pioneer Woman Cooks: Food from My Frontier The Pioneer Woman Cooks: A Year of Holidays The Pioneer Woman: Black Heels to Tractor WheelsA Love StoryCharlie the Ranch DogCharlie and the Christmas KittyCharlie Goes to SchoolCharlie and the New BabyCharlie Plays Ball THE PIONEER WOMAN COOKS: DINNERTIME. Copyright 2015 by Ree Drummond.

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TO MY FAMILY. Youre my favorite. (If youre reading this for the first time, youre in college. (If youre reading this for the first time, youre in college.

Our dinnertime isnt the same without you!)

Dinnertime is my life.Dinnertime is my religion.Theres no time like dinnertime.Dinnertime... because youre worth it! I could go on and on! The truth is, in case you havent gleaned this already, I love dinnertime. Its the time of day when the work, school, and grind are coming to a close and you can reward your loved ones (and yourself!) for a job well done. Its the time of day when you gather around the dining room table (or the kitchen table... or the patio table... or, heck, the coffee table!) and enjoy delicious food while touching base with one another about how your respective days have shaped up.

Dinnertime also happens to be the one time of day that home cooks struggle with the most! I mean, we can always rustle up some eggs for breakfast. Slap together a sandwich for lunch. Snack on fruits and nuts and Twinkies and raw vegetables all day long. But when it comes to churning out dinner several nights a week, Ive learned through the years that I just cant fake it till I make it, or things start to get boring and lifeless really fast. Matt Ball (Did I just say Twinkies out loud? Oops.) Anyway, thats why I was so very excited to write this cookbook: Ive determined that as a wife, mother, woman, and citizen of this planet, all I really want and need on a daily basis is something to make for dinner tonight. Tonight. Not a party Im having next summer.

Not a luncheon Im hosting next millennium. Not a dinner Im hosting on the eve of my babys graduation from college. Not a cocktail hour Im hosting on the fifth of never. But dinner. Tonight. Tonight, tonight, tonight! Because before long, and I literally mean here in about two hours, my family members are going to be banging their forks on the table and looking at me with longing (read: ravenous) eyes, and the only way Im going to be able to get them out of my hair (and okay, spend some quality time with the cuties), will be to whip up something simple, scrumptious, and absolutely satisfying.

In this cookbook, I show you how to attack the greatest meal of the day, using lots of different angles to suit whats going on in your life on any given evening. I kick things off with Breakfast for Dinner, highlighting some of my familys favorite brinner recipes. (Who says you cant eat pancakes for supper?) Main-dish salads and soups are some of my girls favorite dinners, so youll have plenty of those to add to your arsenal. Also, because life is crazy and unpredictable, Ive found that having ready-to-go meals and recipe components in the freezer has been a lifesaver through my years of raising kids, so the Freezer Food section is chock-full of my favorites!