Food Network Magazine - (11)November 2019

Find out why the Pioneer Woman,

Ree Drummond, kicks off

her day with dessert!

..

I start my day

with iced coffee.

I get jugs of

cold brew from

my restaurant

and bakery, The

Mercantile, to

drink at home

because it’s

so delicious.

I add a little cream and a little

sweetness. For breakfast I have

leftovers from yesterday’s shoot

for my new cookbook, The New

Frontier: two Key lime pie bites

and some creamy lemon pasta.

We’re shooting again today,

and if I don’t eat something

before I arrive, I’ll snack

nonstop. On normal days when

I’m working from home, I eat a

for breakfast and sometimes an

.. I nibble on a

chocolate-mint cookie, which

I used to make an icebox cake

for the cookbook.

.. I try a few forkfuls

of the egg salad I made for the

cookbook shoot today—one

version with Sriracha, one

with pesto. I made a veggie

egg salad, too, but I’m not as

interested in that one! I also

have a few bites of kung pao

cauliflower, another recipe from

the book. Let’s just call this

my second breakfast. I drink

another Diet Dr Pepper (one of

.. One more

.. I try a couple of

(egg salad), I probably take

two carby bites (icebox cake).

Someone tweeted at me a while

back asking when my low-carb

cookbook was coming out.

I said, “My low-carb cookbook

comes out October 22—

and so does my high-carb

cookbook!” Truth be told, the

new cookbook is way more

high-carb than low-carb.

.. I eat four more forkfuls

of Sriracha egg salad (it’s

sooo good) as I pose with the

cookbook team for a photo.

We’re running a story about

the making of the cookbook

in the fall issue of The Pioneer

Woman Magazine. I tell the

photographer to take as long

as he needs—I could eat this

egg salad all day!

.. Because we don’t have

a strict schedule, we all eat and

work, eat and work. I try some

of the other recipes we’re

shooting: chicken–wild rice soup,

chocolate cherry cheesecake

bites and a freshly fried

doughnut hole. I’m in heaven!

Shooting a cookbook is not

good for buttoning jeans,

though. Tomorrow I will eat

only carrot sticks.

.. We wrap the shoot

and I head home armed with

short ribs and mashed potatoes

for dinner. At the shoot I used

short ribs to make pot roast

in the Instant Pot, which took

less than an hour, and I made

mashed potatoes in a second

Instant Pot, with wilted kale

to serve alongside. Note: This

meal is just for my husband,

Ladd, and my sons. I can’t eat

.. OK, I might have

had another Key lime pie bite

snack. And a

glass of pinot

noir. It was an

indulgent day.

.

that much food

is like working in a restaurant

kitchen), and I zonk out. I

dream about shooting my

cookbook. It’s like the movie

Inception around here!

A great

podcast

“Especially true-

crime podcasts.

The Dropout,

You Must Remember

Manson and

My Favorite Murder

are recent faves.”

What Gets Ree Through the Day

Star D iary

in the know

Diet Dr Pepper

“I started

drinking

Dr Pepper when

I was pregnant.

It’s like my

lifeblood!”

Pink Grapefruit Oil-Free

Cleansing Wipes

“I love gently swiping them

under my eyes midday; they

take away any eye makeup that

has smudged or gotten flaky.”

$8; neutrogena.com

Pomegranate

Lip Balm

“I go for something

very moisturizing

and lightly tinted.

This one checks

both boxes!”

$3.50;

burtsbees.com

Check out

Ree’s latest

cookbook,

The New

Frontier ($30,

HarperCollins).

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30 FOOD NETWORK MAGAZINE ●NOVEMBER 2019