Ree Drummond

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

“As The Pioneer Woman has grown and the revenue has grown, the prizes keep getting better, and that certainly feels good.”

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

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

“It never occurred to me that I was going to have to talk to a camera. I don't know if I can do this.”

“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'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.”

“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 don't like bananas. I like to drive that point home.”

“I'm pretty sure I could've ended up on 'Real Housewives of Orange County.' They need a fair-skinned redhead.”

“In many ways, our marriage is anything but traditional. When I started my blog in 2006, Ladd was the only one that really understood what I was doing, probably before I even understood what I was doing. He wasn't tech-savvy, but he just got it and was totally on board with it.”

“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.”

“Knowing what I'll write about and what I won't has never really been a problem. I won't write about things that bore me.”

“Ninety-five percent of the time when I run a contest I've purchased the giveaway prizes with advertising money.”

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

“I prefer cooking to baking. Baking, to me, is very precise, and it's about perfection.”

“When I was young, I wanted to be an actress. I had no idea what that meant, but I just thought it sounded fun.”

“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 cinnamon roll evangelist.”

“I'm working on a second cookbook and am working on my love story, 'Black Heels to Tractor Wheels.'”