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If you don’t read the Pioneer Woman blog, you are really missing out! She’s fantastic! As a blogger, she is who I aspire to be when I grow up. Ha ha! She has amazing recipes, great photos, and her writing style is hilarious! She just came out with a new cookbook and it’s pretty awesome!


She had a book signing in OKC and Jennifer and I thought we would get there right on time, have our books signed by PW and be on our merry little way. Not so much! The line was forever! Apparently, everyone in OKC is a PW fan.

Here is a recipe for Pear Crisp from the PW web-site. I’m not really a big fan of fruit desserts, but this was pretty good. Jeremy didn’t love it, but Matt and Jennifer had some and they liked it. It’s worth a try and it’s definitely worth checking out the PW site.

Pear Crisp

Filling Ingredients:
4 whole (to 5) Large Pears (Bosc Work Well)
⅔ cups Sugar
¼ teaspoons Salt

Topping Ingredients:
1-½ cup All-purpose Flour
⅓ cups Sugar
⅓ cups Firmly Packed Brown Sugar
½ teaspoons Cinnamon
½ cups Pecans, Very Finely Chopped
1 stick Butter, Melted

Preparation Instructions:

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

Peel, core, and dice pears. Place into a bowl and stir together with 2/3 cup sugar and 1/4 teaspoon salt. Set aside.

In a separate bowl, combine flour, sugar, brown sugar, cinnamon, and pecans. Stir together.

Drizzle melted butter gradually, stirring with a fork as you go until all combined.

Pour pears into a baking dish; top with crumb topping.

Bake at 350 degrees for 30 minutes.

Place pan on top rack of oven for an additional 10 minutes, or until topping is golden brown.

Serve warm with vanilla ice cream

The vanilla ice cream is a must! It's even good the next day after it's been warmed in the oven for a few minutes. PW has great step-by-step instructions with photos!

And just because it's been a while since I put some Win and Ivy pics on- here you go! They desparetely need a haircut!

Even if you don't love the Pear Crisp, I know you'll love the Pioneer Woman!