Who is the Pioneer Woman?

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Why: Dani is a Mormon who lives in Idaho, so this could really mean anything:

Answer: Ree Drummond, a blogger who writes The Pioneer Woman about cooking and life in the country!

Each month, roughly 2 million women -- and her readers are mostly women -- flock to the blog to live vicariously as Drummond unspools her "how in the world did I end up here?" story of a would-be city girl who now finds herself a wife and mother of four living on a ranch in the middle of nowheresville. It is by turns hilarious, romantic, poignant -- and always illustrated by a gasp-inducing number of photographs that verge on the erotic as she chronicles her kitchen's goings-on.

Source: LA Times

The More You Know: An excerpt, from "Goat Cheese with Fresh Dill and Paprika. My Heart Sings."

Before we begin, stick the package of goat cheese in the freezer for a few minutes, just to firm it up a bit.

Begin by chopping the dill pretty finely.

You’ll find that dill is so delicate and fine anyway, you really just need to chop it normally and it will be “fine.”

Keep chopping until you have a nice pile.

(We’ll talk about this knife at another time, but I just need to point out that it is the best knife I’ve ever owned. I haven’t used another knife since I got it.)

Sorry. I like to break from the subject at hand and start talking about knives out of the blue. But back to the dill: spread it out a bit and let it dry for a couple of minutes

And just sit there and admire it. Because finely chopped dill is one of life’s great visual delights. It’s just so…mossy. Like Midsummer Night’s Dream.

I was in that ballet, by the way. And all I wanted was to wear one of the nymphs’ costumes because their tutus were covered in a sparkly, ethereal moss.

Instead, I got one of the main parts—Helena. And she wasn’t even the pretty one. She was the annoying one that Demetrius rejected in favor of Hermia. Excuse me while I go mourn the mossy tutu I never got to wear.

Okay, I’m back. Now remove the goat cheese from the freezer. It should be slightly firm.